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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
82nd Year, No. 8
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Government Puts Bars on DDT Use
Thursday, June 15, 1972
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Also featured at the Lawrence ceremony were Richard L. Schieflebusch, director of the center, and William O. Rieke, vice chancellor of the University.
After the dedication ceremonies in Lawrence the dignitaries traveled to the University of Kansas Medical Center and to the Parson State Hospital and Training Center in Parsons, Kan., to attend the dedications there.
New Facility Inaugurated On Campus
In a brief ceremony Wednesday morning in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, former Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe formally opened the Kansas Center for Mental Retardation, a three-setting, six-building complex costing $7.3 million.
Speaking before a crowd of about 60 people Wescoe said that it was "a day of fullfilment of promise, which resulted from patience and hard work."
Wesco was credited with helping the project get its start during his administration at KU. After the plan for the center was first presented to him by the department of human development and state funds, he started a state funds necessary for the project
The new John T. Stewart Children's Center, located in Haworth Hall, will conduct research and professional training in connection with the causes and treatment of mental retardation and other handicaps in children.
According to Wescoe, it was a sentimental journey as he returned to the University and city in which he lived for nine years. His speech Wednesday was his first public appearance at City Hall, where he will join a public maceutical company in New York City.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. called the new center a "unique undertaking which can succeed because of a noble set of goals."
He was also instrumental in getting the protein fund that were needed to complete the study.
Gerald LaVek, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, spoke at the Kansas City ceremony. State Rep. Clyde Hill, R-Yates Center, was to speak at Parsons Wednesday evening.
Through its three centers the clinic will offer retarded children and their parents systematic and specialized help where work with special needs evoke part time to research and training.
Chalmers, Wesoeo Tickled
Dear brother, I am very sorry to hear that you are not able to attend the meeting. I will try my best to make it as comfortable and smooth as possible for you.
Soviet Leader's Trip Said Tied to Summit
CALCUTTA (AP) — President Nikolai V. Podgorny of the Soviet Union showed up in Calcutta Wednesday on his way to an embassy in Hanoi, North Vietnam's capital.
Diplomatic sources in Moscow speculated the journey was part of a concerted Russian move to bring a Vietnam peace settlement, a followup to the recent talks last month in the Soviet capital. But they conceded they had no hard facts.
"The Vietnam problem should be immediately solved," Podgorny said through an interpreter at Calcutta's airport. An American soldier of the United States should leave Vietnam.
Unlike on Podgorny's last trip to North
Vietnam in October 1971, Mao made no
speech during the tour.
Ballots for New Degree Plan Due
By PAM VINDUSKA
By PAM VINDESKIR
Kansan Staff Writer
The College Assembly is voting by mail this month on a new general degree program for University of Kansas students. According to Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, all ballots have to be in by tomorrow and the results would probably be known within the next week.
If the consensus of the ballots is positive, the Bachelor of General Studies (B.G.S.) degree could be regarded as an alternative degree for liberal arts students, a degree for liberal arts students, he said.
Lewis said the proposed degree program most closely resembled one begin at the college level, where students
In planning for the program, Lewis said, extensive information from the University of Michigan was used because, "their situation is quite similar to our in terms of academic standards and what they expect from each student."
MICHIGAN'S PROGRAM eliminates all language, distribution and concentration requirements. The only two restrictions in the B.G.S. program there are that students take the same number of course hours as they would for a B.A. degree and that at least one-half of those hours be in upperclass courses.
KU's program, if approved would keep the distribution requirement, and a major or concentration would be optional. Forty upperclass hours should be required within a minimum of 124, the same as for a B.A degree. Also, it is his job to assign his student work or class at the university (B.G.S.) or (B.A) at the unit of enrollment.
"This degree would allow a student and his faculty adviser to plan a program individually tailored to his (the student's) needs and aspirations," Lewis said.
LEWIS SAID emotions about the program were mixed.
"It's true of most college faculties of this age that there is a lack of consensus on whether to pay for their education."
According to minutes from the College Assembly meeting, points were made by various members which both favored and opposed the proposed B.G.S. program.
Some members said that the degree represented a reasonable compromise reflecting various points of view and that it would fill the student's needs for more autonomy and flexibility in planning an undergraduate curriculum.
BUT SOME MEMBERS thought that the B.G.S. degree would provide too much
freedom and most students would be inadequately prepared for such a responsibility.
Other members presented certain conditions which they thought must be met before such a program could be adopted, for example, that some students were in favor of adoption only if the program were in a separate division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
THE COLLEGE ASSEMBLY has 715 members. This includes all 550 full-time faculty members, 53 teaching assistants and 110 instructors and 110 undergraduate students.
Teaching assistants, assistant instructors, juniors and seniors are elected by proportional representation. This is based on the number of persons enrolled in each department. Freshman and sophomores are elected from their respective colleges-within-the college. All are eligible to vote.
If the College Assembly votes in favor of the new B.G.S. degree, the recommendation for the program will be sent to the college board of regents for further consideration.
Complaints on Deposits Checked
By KENT PULLIAM
Kansan Staff Writer
There has been much said about owners of off-campus housing who do not live up to their obligations to tenants. The owners also have tenants who do not agree with them on how the apartment should be left at the end of the year.
The University Daily Kansan recently received some complaints concerning Jayhaw Towers Apartments about the theft of a deposit on a deposit renters made in the fall.
Two complaints were made about specific apartments. Kent Wilson, Shawne Mission senior, and George Johnston, Alexandria, Va., senior, apparently believed they left their apartment clean.
They each received an itemized statement of damages for which they would be charged. They each thought the charge was unjust.
BOTH WERE upset because the 2 thought their apartment was clean when they left it. The cleaning charges amount to $40 for the entire apartment and was split between the four tenants who were there during the year.
The Kansan talked to E. H. Martin, manager of Jawahra Tawkens apartments about the charges and found that he had not been charged in assessing students for the clearing.
According to Martin, the $50 deposit for security and performance was new this year. Before this year there had been no damage for damages or a deposit on him.
Martin said that about six weeks oceane the end of the spring semester a letter was sent to each tenant that explained what kind of help of them before they left an apartment.
When each of the apartments was vacated, Niles House, assistant manager, made an inspection of each apartment. His inspection included such things as the oven and range the bathrooms and the kitchen. He cleaned the furniture and any other items which would need to be cleaned before new occupants could move into the apartment.
HE SAID THAT in past years the complex itself sustained the losses incurred for cleaning each of the apartments. Last year the costs totaled nearly $22,000 for cleaning the complex, according to Martin.
House explained the procedure for billing the occupants for damage or cleaning that needed to be done. He said he made an initial inspection of each room before checking the time it would take a cleaning crew to get the room ready for a new occupant.
Health Center Construction Begins
After this initial investigation he turned
By JOLENE HARWOOD
Kansan Staff Writer
Construction began Monday on a new Student Health Center that will replace Watkins Hospital and serve the University of Kansas as an out-patient clinic.
It is expected that the building will be under construction for approximately 18 months and should be completed sometime around the first of December. The building with Lawton, vice chancellor and director of facilities, planning and operations.
Two years ago, after an extensive study, the concept of a new building located southeast of Robinson Gymnasmium and northeast of O-zone parking lot was opened by a hospital committee composed of student and faculty members.
The original plan of four years ago was to the out-patient clinic to be an addition to the existing ward.
Since then, the student body has more than tripped, Lawton said, and antibiotics have made it possible for a student to be treated as an outpatient.
It was built when the student population was smaller and its primary use was as a bed-hospital. There were no antibiotics and students who needed medical attention were generally confined to the hospital for a period of time.
decided Watkins Hospital could no longer serve the University efficiently.
The need for a bed-hospital is no longer a major concern. The need now is for more treatment rooms to insure greater efficiency and decrease the time a student must wait before receiving attention, Lawton said.
LAWTON SAID that the committee
THE HOSPITAL committee gave up plans to remodel Wakings Hospital for use as a treatment center.
"In the area that Watkins Hospital is located there is very little room for expats."
"A survey of the students showed that they needed a clinic that was more accessible, off the hill and where greater parking facilities are available."
The Center will b supplied with several new pieces of equipment, according to Dr. Raymond A. Schlegeler Jr., director of the pieces and administrator of the new Center.
was more feasible to build a new building to remodel the present hospital.
A REVENUE BOND issue supplied $2.8 million of the needed funds for the Center. The remaining $250,000 came from the state of Kansas. Lawton said.
"Almost all of our kitchen equipment is being replaced and we're getting a brand new x-ray machine to replace the old one," Schweweller said.
The 2-story contemporary-designed Center will have approximately 60,000 square feet of floor space and will include equipment for inpatient service, Schweiger said.
They submit a time sheet showing the amount of time it took and also noting
House said that his estimates usually were about four hours short of the actual cleaning time, but the charges were based on his original estimate. He cited some costs that were incurred for the cleaning process.
He said that the charge for cleaning an oven and range was $10. He pointed out that it would take from two to three hours labor plus the costs for cleaning supplies. Estimates of $10 was low in most cases due to a buildup over a 9-month period of cooking.
In an inspection of several randomly chosen apartments the difference between those that had been cleaned and those that had not was easily apparent.
What had appeared clean on the surface in the uncleaned apartments was not clean when inspected more closely. House said that each apartment had to be spoilless for new tenants. What probably would have been clean enough for a person to continue with it, not clean enough for a person to be reused to pay a deposit of $50 on it for the year.
According to Martin and House, they would have inspected any apartments before the occupants left, but were not asked to do so.
The average cost of each apartment's cleaning bill ranged from $20 to $30. There were 558 notices sent out which required partial foreclosure of the $20 deposit for some households, and eight complaints about the failure to receive full payment on the deposit.
Meisons which were clean enough to meet inspection numbers about 15 per cent, are being closed.
The first confirmation came when Podgorny embarked from the aircraft in Calcutta for what was announced as a one-hour stopover. A Soviet Embassy said Podgorny delayed his departure because of hard-flying weather.
Each of the deposits was placed in a bank at the beginning of the fall and the tenants received the interest their deposit accumulated over the year.
Podgorny also stopped in India last October on his way to Hanoi, making an overnight visit to New Delhi for talks with the leader of the countries are linked by a friendship treaty.
New Delhi's pro-Moscow Patriot newspaper carried a Moscow dispatch Wednesday that said Podgorny was expected to discuss with Vietnamese leaders the possibility of resuming peace talks, but that it was described as a hint from the United States that it would be agreeable to ending its boycott of the talks.
The Indian government knew of Podgorny's trip in advance. Foreign Minister Swaran Singh and the chief Indian foreign policy planner, D. P. Dhar, visited Podgorny last week. Podgorny later held discussions with Singh and other Foreign Ministry officials.
Pakistan was believed to be one of the topics they discussed.
- The Soviet Union operates regular air services between Moscow and Hanol via Calcutta, avoiding flights over China. India was repeatedly denied that the Soviets used the flights to transport military equipment to North Vietnam.
The forthcoming meeting meeting between Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President Pratip Singh
Soviet officials in Moscow provided no information on the purpose of Podgoryn's trip. The North Vietnamese Embassy in Paris directed a caller to "telephone Hapal" for an answer.
Though Nixon said he and the Soviet leaders had extensive long discussions on Vietnam during his visit, details of what they said have been kept secret. The Moscow diplomatic community, nevertheless, has reached Nixon and the Russians reached some Nixon, so understanding about Vietnam, despite continuing differences.
Ted Says Candidacy Possible But Unlikely
"But I don't believe that's a reasonable situation, or a foreseeable one," declared the Massachusetts senator, adding: "I think circumstances under which I might accept."
NEW YORK (AP)—Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Wednesday he would consider running for vice president on a Democratic ticket headed by Sen. George McGovern if that was the only way Nixon could be beaten in November.
Later, however, the candidate from South Dakota drew a formal statement in favor of the governor.
In New York for a fund-raising rally, front-runner McGovenn's first reaction was to say Kennedy "would be a great asset on the ticket. . . I wouldn't exclude Sen. Kennedy from consideration if I become the presidential nominee."
"I HAVE long treasured my friendship with Sen. Kennedy. I am sure he and I both agree that it's premature to talk about the nomination, but I think the nomination is decided. There is no question but that Sen. Kennedy would bring great strength to any national interest."
Originally, McGovern was looked upon in some quarters as a stalking horse for
Kennedy in advance of the Democratic National Convention July 10. But Kennedy has insisted again and again that he would seek the presidential nomination this year.
The possibility of Kennedy as a vice-presidential nominee was raised Tuesday in a copyright interview with the Boston Globe. Kennedy and other members of the Kennedy family are believed to favor McGoverson for the presidential nomination, but he has said he will be persuaded to run for vice president to strengthen the McGovern ticket.
"IN MY OWN MIND, if it would make a difference, then it would really make a difference," the Globe quoted Kennedy in reply. "The same general principles apply to not accepting the vice presidency as the presidency."
In Washington, Kennedy later confirmed his statements to the Globe, but added, that he could not foresee the eventuality in which he might seek the vice presidency.
During the day, McGovern learned that Sen. Edmud S. Muskie, D-Maine, was resuming active campaigning for the presidential nomination with a scheduled delegate-seeking tour, with Sen. Harold Hullett, D-Iowa, as his campaign director.
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