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Thursday, July 6, 1972
University Summer Kansan
Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
Convention Benefits
The Kansan is fortunate in having received credentials for the Democratic National Convention. Bob Litchfield will enrich his education by attending important events, including workshops, will be detailed coverage of the Kansas delegation from your campus newspaper.
Litchfield has spent several weeks preparing himself for the convention. He has talked to party leaders and delegates alike. We hope this preparation will serve him well in writing clear, concise and interesting stories.
—Rita E. Haugh Editor
Term Paper Business
About 300 university and college newspapers were given credentials for the convention. Papers were chosen on the basis of frequency of publication, readership and quality. The Kansan is one of the few papers in Kansas and the only paper in Lawrence that will have a correspondent at the convention. Next week, when you want to read about the Kansas delegation, pick up a Kansan!
Recently the University of Wisconsin held up the grades, transcripts and in some cases the degrees of 600 students who allegedly submitted as their own work term papers purchased from a commercial firm. A few days earlier UCLA announced that two seniors about to graduate had been dismissed by buying and turning over their reports. The universities around the state have taken disciplinary action against students who tried to pass off as their own work papers written by others.
The manufacture of term papers to order has become a big business. Undergraduates pay about $4 a page for reports; a doctoral thesis can run $10 a page. One Los Angeles outfit told The Times that in the first four months of its operations it sold 4,000 reports to area college students. Another group franchises in 50 cities expects to do between $5 and $10 million in business this year. Many of the ghostwriting outfits guarantee a minimum "B" grade on their products, though apparently they don't guarantee uniqueness of product; Harvard a while
ago summarily dismissed two students
who were handed in identical papers to the
museum.
The marketing of pirated reports goes on openly, indeed flauntingly. The California Legislature has passed a bill outlawing the sale of term papers, and in other states injunctions against the practice have been sought. This kind of legal action will probably drive underground what is now allowance board. There exists a substantial market for phony papers, and a morality to support the traffic, and whenever that happens law alone can't eliminate the problem.
Probably college cheating has gone on since there first were colleges, though we doubt if ever on such a grandiose, flagrant or costly scale. What all this says about the honesty of some of today's students is too obvious to require comment. The most fitting response is contemptible, and the only fitting response is for universities to throw them out whenever they are caught in their deceits.
—Reprinted from the Los Angeles Times
From 1946 to 1950, the Liberator was a former banker in a lawsuit on the possession of a library valued, at the time, between $100,000 and $200,000.
Historical Feature
Ralph Ellis, a scientist whose main interest was birds, had signed a document on Mr. 3.16's trip to California library to KU. He died of pneumonia after going duck hunting in California in 1945.
The library, which had about
6,000 volumes of books, ships and
aerials to the university in 1945 for a three-year loan.
Ellis was then a free Ellis
on the campus see after
after the library's arrival, and
Ellis unpacked some of the crates
The library contained the Gould collection, considered one of the finest in the world. Drawings on manuscripts letters from the collection were expected to be used by the librarians when the library was opened for research.
KU Went to Court to Get Books
The case was appealed to the Douglas County district court, where Judge Hugh Means ruled April 23, 1947, that the document would have been signed on May 31 he rued Ellis knew what he was doing when he signed the document with KU officials, and decided the agreement, though not a will, was signed. The judge gave to give ELU title to the volumes.
THE COURT struggle over possession of the library, chronicled in Kansas morgue book *The KU* in Douglas County probate court, Judge Frank Gray ruled Ellis was mentally incompetent at the time he signed the conviction, putting KU the library on his death.
KU attorneys, who believed the document was a will, appealed to the state supreme court. Their appeal received much attention that Mrs. Ellis might be able to gain possession of the library by giving it back to the expense involved in housing the
library in Strong Hall.
ATTERNEYS FOR Mrs. Ellis presented new evidence to prove Ellis was not mentally competent and did not have property on the date he signed the document. They also cited a Kansas court ruling that a wife was legally required to marry her husband before he can will away more than half his property and said Mrs. Ellis was not informed of the time she the property was given away.
On Oct. 10, 1949, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled 4-2, with one judge being appointed to KU and the Board of Regents. The court held that the agreement and testamentary disposition prepared our lawyers in the dean of the Law School, was a valid contract, that Ellis was mentally competent and that Mrs. Ellis was informed of her property rights.
**WHERE LELIS'** interest in birds when she was a student at Raymond Hall, who was then at the University of California, and which was a professor of zoology at
Ellis wrote "The Mammalia of the Ruby Mountain Region of and studied birds of the Seven Devil Mountains west central Idaho. His collection was considered the best private natural history library in North America."
"Mr. Ellis wrote me a letter
a stung that he intends to set up
me and his ideas for suggestions.
Imen asked for suggestions. I men-
tended to the University of Kansas, Hali said.
ELLIS HAD A mental illness commitment order in California at the time he signed the order. He also introduced witnesses who said in
April 19, 1950, the Douglas County probate court ruled that office equipment belonging to Ellis and a few books designated part of a family library were to be set aside under an provision of statutory law.
"Six months later he phoned and asked if that offer still stood. He didn't, but I referred. He explained about the library. At that time Chancellor Malott was in New York and he told him that Mr. Ellis there," he
Nov. 1944, Ellis went on a rampage and caused considerable damage to the house and furnishings.
Mrs. Ellis petitioned for a hearing, but the state supreme court found that Finding a suitable definition of "library" sent the University and College Press to reconsider.
Mrs. Ellis' attorneys said police were called to quell the attackers who deliberately threw an axe at one of the policemen before he was subdued and confined to a hospital. Mrs. Ellis was "a sane man with
abnormal intervals" who knew what he was doing on May 3, 1945. Attorneys said Ellis was dangerous to the life and safety of his wife, whom she times to destroy the library, himself, his wife and his mother. Ellis was 40 at the time of his death and his wife was 27. While the library was inaccessible to the public and to the contestants.
KUMC Trains GP's for Kansas
By SHARYN BALLARD
The University of Kansas Medical Center has established a de facto policy to encourage attempts to encourage more doctors to become general practitioners.
"We have to train our general practitioners and get them to stay in Kansas," Dr. Jack Walker, director of family practice department at the Kansas University Medical Center, the prescribed as the doctor for the family doctors in Kansas.
toward specialization narrowing down the field.
"There got to be so much new knowledge that one person couldn't begin to know all of it. Therefore, we began the trend."
In the past five years, only about one per cent of the graduates at KUMC have gone into family practice. Walker said.
"AT THE END of World WAR II, here there came a tremendous bleed in the government began to pour out money to fund these researches. It was gained about antibodies, heart surgery, transplants, and organ transplantation."
Other reasons for the lack of family practitioners, Walker continued, is that the hours are difficult and the pay is usually not
"Ten years ago we found ourselves with the medicine problems and the medical problems. We are having problems delivering this medical care because the generalists are not aware of the important and poor areas." Walker said.
as great as in the specialist salary range.
Walker also said though this problem of the lack of family doctors was nationwide, it was especially evident in the midwestern states, where much of population lived in rural areas.
"There are several reasons doctors begin specializing. Forty years ago more than half of the people who worked here were headed for family service."
This image is changing, though, especially in the last five years, Walker pointed out. The
"THE FAMILY doctor must have a good broad education, which is probably harder to do because of the lack of continued. "Another thing that sometimes holds a doctor back from general practice is the great priority that is placed on the doctor by intellectual achievement."
RECOGNIZING THIS PROBLEM, KUMU OPENed the department of family practice last October to accept new permanent members July 17.
The building was recently acquired by the Kansas University Endowment Association and was opened by Dr. Kenneth Conway, Convalescent Hospital.
In about 10,000 square feet, the department will develop a model of a hospital where physicians create the image of facility in which young physician might
NEWARK, N.J. (AP)—William wore the Nike Air Zoom Force 2 when Aaron Besson schored us it to store fish tanks. Raymond Launder finds a great place to store fish tanks in Newark.
"I get a lot of pleasure out of it," he said. "I have police radio, television, cooking facilities, a facility, and canned food storage."
Bomb Shelters Get New Uses
"I sleep here in the summer,
it's cooler. When I come home in
the evening I spend about three
or four hours here, cooking sun-
They all have found a new use
for an old fad, the fallout abetter.
Lauer, however, uses his regularly.
Some persons who built the shelters were reluctant to talk about them. Others said their shelters were sealed several years ago.
Ten years later, a spot check of most of the shelters have been converted to wine cellars, dens tool shops or children's play areas.
government programs, mainly aid to those over 65 years of age under the Medicare program. Quickly, they realized that there were no doctors in the rural and urban areas where many of the aged lived.
The public also began to feel the lack of family doctors as family practitioners' appointmen ts filled to the brim. Walker, said.
The Westfield resident called it "a home away from home."
Dr. Aaron Bernstein built his 144-square-foot shelter beneath the patio. "It hasn't been functioning for a long time," Mrs. Bernstein said. "There there but no blankets or pillows because of the dampness.
per and relaxing. My wife uses the main kitchen."
Most shellmen were built during the era of the Cuban missile crisis 10 years ago this autumn. Contractors did a booming business but as the urgency of protection so did the fallout shelter trade.
Kenneth LaTourette, the state Civil Defense operations officer, said the state organization had not kept records of construction of fallout shelters and did not know how many had actually been built.
Walker explained that one of the biggest medical problems facing doctors. Medical students from all over the United States are trained in Kansas, and after attending college they which have more promising aspects.
"It's marvelous for keeping or marinated leek," she said "but we don't keep beautiful. And we still have emergency nations and wa-
In addition to hike, Mrs. Weiss, of Short Hills, keeps food in her shelter, connected to the hakee. The teacher also has used it as a guest room.
Distributed by the Los Angeles Times SYNDICATE
"Most of all the students themselves had a change of attitude. I think it was actually an outgrowth of the normal thing to come from their anxieties. Medical students now appear to place high values in service to humanity and loss in money and profit."
SOME OF THE students will wish to reach those who are not in order to receive medical services. Walker said, "Many individuals as part of the family."
"We hope to present all available information on alcoholism and drug addiction." Walker said.
"Special efforts must be made by the Kansas Medical Society, the Kansas legislature, and local medical organizations these family doctors in Kansas. A new resurgence of family physicians won't solve all of the rural health problems of Kansas, but they can make the right direction," Walker said.
The family practice department is planning to set up a teaching program in alcoholism and drug addiction.
About 20 to 25 per cent of the about 20 students at KU have experienced practice. Walker said. There are 117 of these generalists' training programs throughout the country, majority of these are in medical schools.
"Alcoholism and drug add-
cid problems in our country today;
let doctors, as a group, know
very little about the treatment,"
WALKER HAS requested a government grant for the project to hire staff for the teaching program and to set up a library.
In Congress, meanwhile, many approached his concept with applause for the design. The House displayed the most inter-
in March 1971 came Nixon's plan to revamp the executive branch as "a natural comple- proposal for revenue sharing."
WASHINGTON (AP)—Nearly three years after President Nixon planted seeds of his new Fed Reserve bank, the harvest from Capitol Hill.
New Federalism Withers
Depending on willingness of Democratic hands, he may get involved in a form, two prize crops in an election year. But most of his 18-month贮 bid to reshap the executive branch is lying on the table.
"After a third of a century of power flowing from the people and the states to Washington," Nixon told the nation on Aug. 8, 1969, "it is time for a New Federalism in which power funds and utility will flow from Washington to the states and to the people."
NIXON EXPANDED on his plans when he told the nation's leaders that a new strategy involved reforming the government's structure by pruning out those programs that have failed or that have outlived their
With this first formal reference to his New Federalism concept, Nixon urged welfare reforms and tax increases, but also imposed tax revenues with the states.
est in Nixon's ideas. But trouble developed in the Senate.
THE N.W.B. I, officially the first House bill introduced when the new Congress met in 1971, contained essentially the same welfare reform calls with some changes to calls. The House passed it in June 1971.
For instance, over conservation suppressed housing in House April 1987. The family assistance bill. The measure died in the Senate ad-hoc hearing.
A year later, the Senate Finance Committee, with its own version, scrapped key features of the proposed scheme on a sharply different approach.
The arguments were not so much about the need for reform, but that the system wasn't working. The controversy centered on how the system worked.
Nixon's plugs in early days of New Federalism formation were for abolishing what he called "the principle of the dependent children program" and for launching "in its place a new system that for the first time would insure a minimum income family with dependent children."
CONFLICT developed in Congress. The House-passed administration plan would guarantee a health care plan of four, with benefits for the "working poor." But the Senate approved the welfare plan for families with
Griff and the Unicorn
Nixon maintained that revenue sharing would bring a new sense of accountability to government.
'IT CONTAINS potentially the
giving event, program ever
enacted on June 10,
John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin,
ranking Republican on the House
"Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff."
Opponents of revenue-sharing legislation described it as dealing with a fiscal aliment by recommending an overdose of spend-
Republicans said they remained hopeful the major conflicts could be resolved so some will die. Republicans say they be sent to Nixon this year.
states and local governments over the span of five years.
dependent children, stressing tough work requirements for heads of families.
After twice passing Nixon's welfare reform plan, the House improve its funding. The House passed it June 22, and the Senate is expected to go along with this administration, to share some $30 billion with
As a member of an organization outside the university, the United States has a long history of primary allegiance, Riegel and his military science colleagues were a less than free group. In practice this meant that voting members of university companies would be instructed by an outside agency on how to vote, and Riegel and company would have to follow those orders—on pain of court this is the suppression, not prevalence, of academic freedom.
Readers Respond
What is at issue is whether or not universities will permit outside agencies, whether the General Motors, to control curricula, to nominate and appoint professors and to demand primary allegiance in a case of academic freedom is not, as academic freedom is not, as
Academic Freedom...
In part, faculty tenure is constructed to protect against abuse and discrimination. Riedel. Aside from protecting faculty, agains' political leadership free from outside control, to enable them, without pressure or threats from outside agencies, the faculty must free individuales, answerable only to their own consciences as such individuals and community members.
I one am not sorry to see ROTC Director Philip Rieble leave the faculty of the University of Kansas. His presence on campus, and that of the entire ROTC program, assures the academic freedom that he admirably supports.
To the Editor:
It is most ironic and sad that I am not a student of the irony—that Philip Ridley retires with the observation: "We have proved that academic freedom is possible only in University of Kansas," because, now, in severing his ties with the Army, his is first eligible to be a university community.
Riedel would have us believe, whether or not ROTC courses shall carry credit at KU. No matter what, the promise of promised by moving ROTC off campus, without university support, where students are free to involve themselves with ROTC and other extra-curricular activity.
David M. Katzman Assistant Professor of History
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