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Thursday, July 27, 1972
University Summer Kansan
It Is Finished
With this editorial I will officially complete my duties as editor of the Kansan and have far better knowledge, look back in, evaluate we have and have not done this summer.
One of our reporters took an informal, man-on-the-street poll Wednesday. Most of the students he talked to said they read the Kansan three or four times a week. Since this was the first summer in his district since a week, it's gratifying to know that people have made the effort to read us, even if they didn't always like what we did.
According to the poll, some liked the editorial page best, but others thought we should eliminate the editorial comment and use more Associated Press news instead. Some students even suggested that using names was better than international news, more important than reading what was happening on campus and in Lawrence. I don't agree, Marshall McLuhan's "global village" theory notwithstanding. I think it's important to know what is happening here, at home, where we are. It is vital, too, to know of other peoples and places and events with which we interact, in Afghanistan that the Kansan uses only national and international news, a sad day has arrived.
One student said he thought the Kansan's weak point was in having students write the stories. It's rather difficult for a student newspaper, which supposedly reports student news and serves its readers, not to use stories written by students. That reader should realize, however, that not all those who worked on the Kansan this summer were kids fresh from the sticks. A number were people coming back to school to work for a master's degree after working from one
year to 20 as journalists. Some of the reporters and staff members who return this fall will have worked on the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Hutchinson News and other papers throughout Kansas and the United States. We take ourselves seriously, sometimes too seriously, and work as much as any professional newspaper staff in producing our product. We are very sensitive to our readers' reactions. For example, some mild criticism in one editorial produced a "we don't talk to Kansan reporters." response in one department. Why? What if a nasty article was printed about us on the front page?" This person couldn't understand that the place for editorialization and opinion was in the editorsial and therefore on the editorial page. We have striven to remove bias from all the other stories we have stricken lines as corny as "a good time was had by all," and "the pretty, petite blond woman with shapely legs." Each is an insidious form of editorialization, of the reporter making a judgment for the reader, that should be absent in news stories.
We know we have not always succeeded, but the pressure, the amount of time and other factors have sometimes stood in the way of producing the quality paper we wanted. The Kansan has carried the personality of all those working on it. It has been a summer rich with experiences, and we have made our share of changes in the Kansan, as the editors before and the editors to come. We hope you have enjoyed the Kansan as much as we have.
Rita E. Haugh
1st Student Paper in 1874
Editor
BY MARTIN HAN
Kengan Staff Writer
By MARY PITMAN
Kenyon Staff Writer
The student press has rolled at the University of Kansas since 1874, when the Observer of the student paper, was first published.
Activities at the University of Kansas have been recorded and investigated by nalithas, although the range of activities has conspicuously varied.
What was considered northern? The Nature, sponsored by the Natural History Society at KU, might not be inaugurated at all to the present day.
The Observer of Nature was devoted to the top priority events in the chlorophyll and zoological studies, and also carried some general news.
Keen competition was intertwined with the KU student press in the three decades following the publication of the Observer.
FIFTEENteen in a 30-year span, variously fouriered, and often became defunct. The greatest longevity was achieved by the courtier which successfully offered him from 1882-1895. The Kansas University weekly rated a close second in life-endurance from ending in 1947.
In 1904, the present Kansan was first published as a semi-weekly. In 1878, three different papers had ivailed each other for the attention of a student. In 1894, became a more unified student voice in the University, and began education on a daily basis in 92.
English Second Language In Eskimo Grade Schools
NUAPITCHUK Alaska — a native school children in the first two grades are learning their lessons in Eskimo while English is taught.
At Nunapituchk in south-
western Alaska, Sophie Parks,
22. keeps the children busy with
living at home.
The language they sneak at home.
Mary Elizabeth Paralsa, an English teacher from Michigan, is the counterpart in the bilingual education program and believes the children learn more quickly by learning their lessons in Exkimo.
"They are doing much better as far as concept development is
concerned," she said. "They are learning more than they possible could in English alone."
The Eskimo-English program was introduced in seven village schools last year and it has won many awards. The Federation of Natives (AFN)
AFN officials would like to see the program extended to hundreds of grade children who are being taught only in the English language.
The AFN leaders believe the English-only classes retard the learning of native speakers to the breakdown of the strong social ties of Alaska's remote villages.
The student journalists at KU have included, among their ranks, the children of prominent Kansasans. The Kansas press. The KU student press has also nurtured many successful Kansasans, newpeople, as well as people who made a contribution for themselves in other fields.
Fraternity conflicts sometimes spurred the KU student press in different directions, personal jealousies as well as jealousies between literary societies and universities; the student press and sometimes contributed to the downfall of a particular paper.
CALDER Pickett, professor of journalism, has been with anglophone news media than anyone else, commented on some of the changes in the past 20 years.
Pickett said the current paper was much larger in size and correspondingly broader in the range of topics covered. He noted that he had been unable to changes in the student population of the University.
Pickett said that the Kansan from the early 1930s thorndust flight had news Student journalists have been consistently "alert to the dangers."
He said that, contrary to what most people seem to think, students in the 1950s were acclaimed for their exams even partly controversial.
But, the appearance of the present Kansan is a switch and an improvement over Kansan of the past, plained that the current Kansan sought more general new and was better about probing for
"It was always a good paper, though," Pickett said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- During a 40-year federal experiment, a group of syphilis victims was denied proper medical treatment for their disease. Some participants died as a result, but survivors now are receiving the U.S. Public Health Services (PHS) said.
The experiment, conducted by the PHS, was designed to determine through autopsies the role of phosphilipase does to the human body.
Of about 600 Alabama black men who originally took part in the study, 200 or so were allowed to suffer the disease and its side effects. A group of men after penicillin was discovered as a cure for syphilis. Treatment then probably could have saved thousands of participants. PHS officials said.
Syphilis Untreated In Experiment
THEY CONTEND that survivals of the experiment are now too low to be added that PHS doctors were giving the men through physical examination and were treating them for whatever other ailments and needs.
Syphilis is a highly contagious infection spread through sexual contact. If left untreated it can cause blindness, deafness, and nerve damage to the central nervous system, insanity, heart disease and death.
Members of Congress reacted with shocked disbelief Tuesday by the Senate for PHS syphilis experimentation on human gutsinea pigs had taken place.
Of the 601 original participants in the study, one-third showed no signs having syphilis; the others had the disease. According to PHS data, half the men with syphilis were given the arsenic-contaminated water; the other half, about 200 men, received no treatment for syphilis.
Men were persuaded to participate by promises of free transportation to and from hospitals, free hot lunches, free medical treatment for ailments other than syphilis and free
Sen. William Proxmire,Sen. William Proxmire, appropiations subcommitted which oversee PHS budgets, called the study "a moral and ethical guide."
SEVENTY-FOUR of the untreated syphilis were still alive last January.
THE SYSPHILI experiment,
called the Tuskegee Study, began in 1932 in Tuskegee, Ala. an area known for its war crimes in the nation at that time.
In 1969, the PHS's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, which has been in charge of the hepatitis B virus records of 276 syphilis, both treated and untreated, who participated in the experiment.
When the study began, the discovery of penicillin as a cure was delayed. It was away and the general availability of the drug was 15 years away. Treatment in the 1930s consisted primarily of doses of arsenic and mercury.
Dentist Wanted For Bangladesh
One man can take care of a lot of people," said Dr. Barry Simmons, a boyish-looking 35-year-old American who rode a Russian helicopter to the south Bangladesh island of Bhola last month to set up a charity clinic.
NEW DELHI (AP) - Wanted: Dentist for clinic in Bariallah Bangladesh. No competition, no fees, but more than a million
Included in the helicopter were 35,000 toothbrushes and $4,000 worth of dental equipment—most of which he found to be useless because Bimmer has no electricity and his diesel generator was lost. Simmons wrote in a letter to The Associated Press
Finally, however, "the clinic is finished and in operation, and I find no shortage of patients," he wrote.
Simmons said Sweden's Save the Children Fund has taken over sponsorship of his clinic, and he does not want to close up shop when people are sick.
"I need to find a dentist to volunteer for two months after I leave." Simmons wrote.
Bhola is an egg-shaped island in the Bay of Bengal below south-central Bangladesh and in the middle of the country's cyclone alley. Bhola lost 200,000 people in November 1970, during a storm and tidal wave.
"This place is good for one's ego when you think that there is one dentist here for every two million people," Simmons wrote.
- young toothbrushes and dental care to a nation whose 75 million people brush their teeth with sticks or their fingers, stan-
"I can teach the kids good dental health and I hope they can stick to it," Simmons said in a Daoca hotel room interview in May. He was waiting for Bangladesh government approval to begin his study there, but in the summer to bring deristry to those, who don't have it.
He obtained approval for his project after a lobbying campaign—"They thought they needed other things worse, but I convinced them this is as important as any," he said, then ran into a transportation snag.
A visit to Russian officials staying in his hotel in the capital city got him a helicopter.
In past summers Simmons has worked in Israeli desert bomb shelters and in Palästinian refuge camps. Usually he pays his own way, but the toothbrushes for Bangladesh were provided by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in his home town.
MIAMI (AP) -- A Miami home for unwed mothers has gone out of business and its founding president says the pill, liberalized abortion laws and changes in the moral climate have eliminated the need for its services.
Moral Climate' Closes Unwed Mothers Home
"And our experience in Miami has been no different than that elsewhere in the United States." he added.
"We begin noticing a decline about two years ago and the need for us has simply evapated." Michael Shores of the new museum is quoted.
The Critention home in Miami is one of 47 throughout the United States. The home careed for young women from the sixth month of their life.
The pill and changing abortion laws are most often cited for a decline in unmarried pregnancies, Shores said, but he said another phenomenon had developed among women who do give birth out of wedlock.
He said more and more illegitimate pregnancies are being accepted by the families involved, consequently the need to seek
"There has never been much demand among blacks for our service," he said.
In 1808, Shores said, the Crittenden homes became the first charitable non-profit organization to be chartered by Congress. At the time, they were about 700.
"They have taken care of their own. Now, the whites are doing it,
too."
The first Crittenton home was established by a New York City
musician, Charles Crittenton, in 1882.
Seminar Set For African Leaders
A seminar for future leaders of Africa will be held in Lawrence, beginning Aug. 11.
Louise Keto, former advisor ... the Foreign Study Office of the University of Nigeria, she was arranging the seminar for the African students, who come from such nations as Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Kenya in
Under the auspices of the African-American institute who was appointed to lead very seriously as program officer, the African students travel in the form of small groups.
learn at close hand about the operation of the U.S. government.
Lawrence was chosen for the final, conclusive seminar of the summer because of its central location in the U.S. Keto said.
It found that seven men had died as a direct result of syphilis. Another 154 died of heart failure, but CDC officials said they could not determine how many of those deaths were caused by the new mumps additional deaths may have been linked to the disease.
PHIS officials responsible for initiating the Tuskegee Study and current PHIS officials said they did not know their identity. But the current official said in a statement that some PHIS study may have been a moral study.
Keto explained that Will Lawrence the African student cumulative effects of the summer and discuss what they had learned.
"I THINK a definite moral problem existed when the study was undertaken, a more serious one," he wrote in the post-war years when personities had not been to them men, and a moral problem still exists," said Dr. J. D. Millar, chief of the venerable disease branch of the Army.
Keto said that the seminar in Lawrence would feature two speakers from  Governor Jeff O'Reilly of Brand Robert Podcast Calvin Williams.
"But the study began when attitudes were much different on treatment and experimentation," she said. "I think we have with our current knowledge of
mistake.
treatment and the disease and the revolutionary change in approach to human experimental medicine program would be undertaken.
The CDC cannot now treat the 74 survivors because of their skin damage and side effects of massive penicillin therapy constitute too great a risk to the individuals, paralleling a syphilic condition is dormant.
However, he added, there was a point when the men could have been treated with some measure of success.
Opening ceremonies will be held Aug 26 for the 16-day summer games in which 10,000 players will compete in 21 sports.
MUNICH, Germany (AP)—Organizers of the biggest and costliest Summer Olympics have exactly one month to solve the problem. There are five days of test competitions last week at the games complex.
Problems Still Remain For Summer Olympics
The Olympic budget is $612 million, four times that of the 1968 Mexico City Games.
Two million spectators will
watch the world premiere of
dreams of millions more will watch
competitions via the world's
largest television hookup, games
THE "MORE breakdowns now, the better," said president Willard Dinkley. He was organizing Committee before the start last Wednesday of the West Coast Conference.
And the Olympic test competitors in track and field, swimming, rowing, gymnastics, cycling and fencing did pinpoint technological and organizational aspects of which appear easily soluble.
But complaints about scoreboard malfunctions and cramped living conditions in the Olympic village appear minor compared to that posed by the architectural focal point of the stadium, a raised roof, draped over the Olympic stadium, and two nearby arenas.
One newspaper called the 80,000 capacity Olympic Stadium 'Germany's biggest frying pan,' after athletes competing in torrid heat complained about erratic air conditions apparently caused by
Long jumpers such as Heide Rosendahl also complained of being knocked off balance in a jump from the teet-like stadium roof
DISTANCE star Hararai Northern Morocco is far away from the track nearly caused him to abandon the 5,000-meter race, which he won in the slowest lap of the world.
Athletes and sweltering solar magnifying mounted the steel and sponglass roof, which cost are estimated $22 million.
Another problem exposed during the trials was that of the hammer throw area. One competitor flipped the 16-pound ball
onto the track three times,
narrowly missing a runner on one
occasion.
"THERE Is nothing to do but stop running events while the hammer competition is in progress," one official com-
won the West German eights title there.
In contrast to the Olympic Stadium, other sports installations seem to be unimaginable by the few complains heard.
For example, the $20 million rowing facility, an artificial lake scoped out by forests, beckoned by forestists, drew the praise of American oarsmen who
The Olympic Village, with its strictly stregteed women's compound, opens its doors to national teams next Tuesday. Tullis completed installation of muffers on ventilation and refrigeration systems, which caused complaints of noise during the test
Finishing touch to landings "Olympic Park" will be complete with the public being excluded from the grassy, hilly area until
Poor People's Leader Predicts Their Success
"All indications are that Resurrection City III will be a success for the community, but we'll have to reserve judgment until the culmination of the project." The Chief provider director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's poor people's city.
"There have been a lot of poor people and affluent alike that are being told that they have been doing, and most of them have responded favorably,"
Shirley Hail, a participant in the city commented, "People have been nice to us. They come by and really want to know what it is like to be poor and what kind of problems we have, and we tell
One plaza resident who was walking through the park observing the activities said, "We expected there'd be trouble, but we didn't. We were down here, down here. Everyone is in good spirits and having fun."
Wednesday, other
weeks.
to the group about various
problems of the poor, ways to
cope with them and organizations
Tuesday's activities included discussions by a Welfare Rights Organization spokesman on the importance of staff organization and the problems it faces. A spokesman from New York State said in a notification about various forms of insurance. An SCLC spokesman estimated that about 200 people were affected.
Today various political can-
didates will be in the park
speaking to the poor people and
answering questions on issues
and platform promises.
A large activity period and song-
fest is planned for tonight.
Observers and participants agreed that crowds had been favorable to the city's activities. A large crowd was expected for the conclusion of the annual Abernathy's muech on Saturday
Readers Respond
To the Editor:
An article was published in the July 18 issue of the Kansas conference a shooting incident, a video showing the statement is made as follows, "The Traffic and Security office was not notified until noon Thursday."
The dispatcher at 801 was notified at once after completion of the initial medical treatment of Thomas, and he was dispatched to the hospital, as required by law. The Traffic and Security office was notified immediately. Thomas was present at the hospital very shortly afterward.
The statement is untrue and should be corrected promptly.
Director.
Student health service