ASC to Check Watkins, Union
Bv Karl Koch
The All Student Council last night adopted a resolution to investigate the adequacy of Watkins Memorial Hospital and the policy of Lawrence Memorial Hospital on admitting KU students.
The resolution to investigate Watkins spurred debate on whether students are qualified to investigate hospital operation.
The ASC also decided to investigate the operation of the Kansas Union as it affects students.
MICHAEL THOMAS. Kansas City, Mo., senior, introduced the resolution. He said its purpose was to answer questions in the students' minds.
Hollace Cross, Kansas City, Mo. junior, said:
To back Thomas' move, some council members brought up incidents which they said they had heard about Watkins.
"We thought a boy who lives next door to me, Dennis Weiss (Franklin Square, N.Y., freshman) had appendicitis. We called Watkins but didn't get an answer. We tried again and finally got someone. Forty-five minutes later we got the guy over to Watkins in our own car."
Phyllis Wertzberger, Lawrence senior, said in defense of the hospital that it was "in no way inadequate."
ANOTHER COUNCIL member replied that this was not Watkins' fault since they do not have an ambulance.
She said, "It's bad to stick our nose into something we know nothing about. Students don't know enough to investigate to the hospital." (Miss Wertzberger works at Watkins.)
THOMAS SAID that he has "heard that Lawrence Memorial Hospital is reluctant to admit KU students. I've also heard students say "I wouldn't go to Watkins if I had a heart attack in front of it.' Students don't know about Watkins."
Thomas said after the meeting that he thought "several members of the
ASC misinterpreted my reasoning behind this resolution. This was by no means a condemnation of the hospital."
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In a telephone interview today, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, head of the University Health service, said the only thing that can be criticized about Watkins is its lack of space.
"This hospital has been accredited by the Joint Commission of Accredi-tations since that group's beginning in 1941. It is a United States Agency, and a hospital must meet very high requirements to be accredited by it."
Dr. Canuteson said he is not too perturbed by the ASC's plan, and that "Watkins is not afraid of an investigation."
AWS Gets $2400
The All Student Council last night appropriated the All Women Students $2,400, and raised the combined pep clubs' budget from $373 to $457.
Considerable debate preceded both appropriations.
THE ORIGINAL recommendation for the AWS was $1,800. Last night, the Finance and Auditing committee of the ASC recommended $2,400. The Chancellor's granting $1,100 in additional funds last week made the extra grant possible.
After the $2,400 was appropriated to the AWS, another motion introduced by Jay Deane, Kansas City junior, asked that the combined pep clubs' appropriations be increased by $200 to give them a total of $573.
A MOTION to grant a additional $84 to the pep clubs passed and the Council moved on to discuss its own budget.
A total of $2,395 was approved for the ASC itself. The contingency fund, reduced by $84 taken out for the pep clubs, was left at $331.45.
Daily Hansan
59th Year No.39
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Wednesday, November 8, 1961
KU Will Drop Renters Proved Discriminatory
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has announced that if students "acting in good faith," are refused off-campus housing, the University will remove discriminatory renters from KU's housing list.
The Chancellor pointed out he was acting on a report made to him by the deans of students, men, and women, and the director of dormitories.
THE REPORT, which was read to the University Senate yesterday, requests:
- A permanent off-campus housing committee be appointed. The committee will consist of deans of students, men and women and the director of dormitories.
THE CHANCELLOR said the committee plans to inform apartment owners of the new policies. Anyone who wishes listing in the future will "be made aware of this policy statement and their agreement to it will be obtained before a listing is made."
The Chancellor said in a statement released today the University will act if it finds that a student has been treated unfairly in contacts with property owners or has been refused a room because of nationality, color or faith.
(The complete text of the Chancellor's statement is on page 10.)
The statement pointed out that a student seeking accommodation must be acting in good faith.
- An executive secretary be selected and appointed by the Chan-
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"The University is not interested in 'test cases, checks or traps,'" the Chancellor said. "Our responsibility as we see it is to the student who wants and needs housing."
celler to carry out the policies of the committee.
- The dean of women continue to approve all housing for undergraduate women.
- The off-campus housing committee operate according to the procedures outlined in the Chancellor's statement.
"AT THE PRESENT time," the Chancellor said, "the University does not have the resources to provide an executive secretary for this important group."
He added that due to a lack of administrative personnel the "resources" would not be available in the near future.
"I shall make every effort to develop the resources necessary within our present financing," he added.
He said the University will assume that all apartment owners who do not notify the housing office cancelling the listing of their apartments will rent to any student "on the basis of individual merit."
Because most students are settled for the school year, the statement said, "no University housing poll will be made at this time.
The Chancellor said University
News of Education
Madison, Wis.—(UPI)—The Wisconsin General Assembly today considered a bill requiring all state high schools to teach a course called "Americanism vs. Communism." The course would emphasize the "danvers of communism, the ways to fight communism, the evils of communism, the fallacies of communism and the false doctrines of communism."
officials will continue to direct students to vacate rooms if the students and their guests do not honor University regulations.
"In these cases students may be asked to move to supervised housing where it will be possible to guide their activities," he said.
Mayor To Speak At CRC Meeting
Lawrence Mayor Ted Kennedy will speak to the Civil Rights Council at 8 p.m. today in the Kansas Union. The public is invited.
UP Still Leading
A check at 10 o'clock this morning by election committee members showed that the University Party is still maintaining a lead over Vox Populi in the closed primary election.
Voting has picked up since yesterday. Richard Harper, Prairie Village senior and elections chairman, said he is expecting a total vote of about 1800 at the end of today's voting.
The 10 a.m. totals were:
10 a.m. totals were:
VOX UP
401 498
tal party votes cast: 889
Total party votes cast: 889.
Total votes cast, including freshman ballots: 944.
Weather
Generally fair today, tonight and tomorrow. Little temperature change. Highs today and tomorrow 50 to 53. Lows tonight lower 30%.
John Ise, in Fine Form, Flays John Birch Society
By Martha Moser
John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, says the John Birch Society is a hate group.
In his characteristic tongue-in-cheek manner, Prof. Ise spent 45 minutes last night comparing the John Birch Society to totalitarian groups. His 150-person audience at the Presidential Forum laughed and applauded continuously.
HE SAID THE John Birch Society resembles totalitarian groups in that "both are opposed to everything that is civilized."
"You can't define fascism so I wouldn't want to say that is exactly what the Society is.
"I think a good way to analyze the Birchers would be to note some of the things they hate and some of the things they love, if anything.
"I GATHER THAT they don't like communism. And I agree with them here. This may be the last point of agreement. But the difference is that I think I know what communism is and they don't."
"Then they hate many of the churches, especially those in which Christianity is taught.
Prof. Ise continued:
"I think they hate economics, too, but they can't hate that too much because economics, after all, is tied in with business a little."
"And they hate liberalism. I gather from the Kansan. A liberal is one who has an open mind and is willing to accept most anything from any direction. Of course, the Birchers don't like that. They don't like people with open minds. The open mind, you understand, is hard to control.
HE SAID THE BIRCH Society does not like democracy, education, civil rights, and collective bargaining.
"They hate social security and I gather they don't like the income tax.
"THEY DON'T LIKE the U.N. The U.N. was put in there by the Russians if I understand them correctly. It's changed since then, you know, cause the Russians don't like the U.N. anymore.
"But," Prof. Ise went on, "they do love some things and we might note them. In the first place they love the memory of Sen. McCarthy. And they like Sen. "Miocene" Goldwater, although he isn't 100 per cent good, you understand. ("Miocene" refers to a geological age
John Ise
approximately 50 million years ago.)
"They like Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. I notice they like Batista. And if Hitler were here, I'm pretty sure they'd like him."
He said that these loves and hates added up to the fact that the Birchers are a brand of Fascism.
"HITLER ALSO HATED most of these things. He hated communism and socialism and education. He hated the churches, civil rights, labor unions and certainly had no use for the League of Nations, the U.N. of that time.
"Hitler loved Mussolini and the other dictators."
Prof. Ise explained that the Birchers want power.
"THEY'D LIKE TO control this country," the retired professor said, "and they'll work hard to do it. They're unselfish, mind you. They're sincere. I think the Birchers are sincere in wanting to do something for the country—especially themselves."
But Prof. Ise does not fear the John Birch Society.
"One or two or three reactionary societies might not be too bad because they will remind us of how thankful we should be that we don't have them running the country.
"IS OUR POLITICAL situation so poor to call for this Society's radical reaction? Now, there's no excuse for any such organization at the present time. It isn't like Hitler in Germany when the German economy just refused to operate. There is no such excuse here because, since Mr. Kennedy is in, we no longer have a depression."
Speaking about the Birch Society, Prof. Ise said he did not know how such a mass of misinformation could get so far.
"LET'S LOOK AT A few things," Prof. Ise said. He held up the booklet, "An American Businessman Looks at Communism." written by Fred C. Koch, a Wichita member of the John Birch Society.
"There is communism everywhere," Prof. Ise read from the booklet. He slammed the desk with the book. "They say the greatest threat is from internal communism.
"Well, we have figures on that," he said. "The last estimate I've seen is 20,000 Communists in the United States. Also in this country there are a million insane people. I don't know what proportion 20,000 is of one million—you can figure that out.
"BUT IT ISN'T SO very many really. I think we should be proud (Continued on page 9)