Thursday, March 9.1972
University Daily Kansan
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Kansan Photo by MARC MAY
Women Present Skit in Front of Strong
In celebration of International Women's Day, these five KU women staged a cheerful performance Wednesday in front Strong Hall.
satirized certain female stereotypes and paraded with a banner proclaiming International Women's Day.
Natural Childbirth Replacing Drugs
By JUDY HENRY
Kansan Staff Writer
Natural childbirth has been a trend that has periodically surged to popularity in the last few hundred years.
Before the age of drugs, natural childbirth was the only means of giving birth. When drugs became available, women were overseated to eliminate their popularity has run in cycles.
Today the principle of natural childbirth is to educate women about themselves so they are not afraid and can cooperate with the mother. The aim of education involves more than just giving birth with a minimum amount or lack of anesthetic. It is based on reducing fear, and the pain is reduced or eliminated by learning the process and relaxing.
NATURAL CHILDBIRTH'S recent popularity began after World War II when Granty Ready Leather Without Pear, Dr. Lawrence French, French physician, added to the trend when he introduced a natural childbirth technique based on Pavlion conditioning and led.
Lamaze's method is concerned with teaching the prospective mother the physical changes she undergoes during pregnancy and the birth process. Combined with musculature training, Lamaze special breathing techniques for use during delivery, the idea is to allow the childbirth with knowledge. This way a woman will be relaxed and can help in the delivery of her baby.
D R. R A Y M O N D SCHWEGLER, director of the Health Service and an obstetrician-nygeologist, said the study shows the natural childbirth had a great deal of merit for two reasons.
Schweiger said through care, education, pregnant women's misunderstandings about myths and old wives' tales many women afraid of childbirth, and therefore education was vital. Conversing with a woman to relax her so she could be more effective than using forceps to deliver a baby, he said.
He also favors natural childbirth because of natural drugs because are difficult to heseal, he said. He said that when women were heavily drugged, babies were less likely to survive.
was a danger of brain damage. He said a minimum amount of drugs was necessary because the brain induced a state of semi-hypoxia.
NATURAL CHILDBIRTH is not hypnosis, although sometimes hypnosis has been used. Schwegler said.
Schweiger said an important part of childbirth is the rapport between the doctor, which resulted in confidence and cooperation in the delivery.
Discussing the process during delivery, he said, "It is important to down at the proper time and down at the proper time. It saves an endless number of hours."
Schweigler said one problem of natural birthchild was the time necessary to spend in instruction with each patient.
Natural childbirth does not involve just the woman but her husband as well. He must help his wife and remind him to relax. Although the woman can educate her husband, a doctor must spend time with her to ensure the woman who chooses to have her baby by natural childbirth.
MANY ADVOCATES of the university to the husband be present in the delivery room Dr. Kermit Krankenhaus of the University of Kansas Medical Center, said the Medical Center would allow husbands in the hospital to arrive.
Schweiger said he didn't like husbands in the delivery room because he never knew how they might react, especially if an infant was in charge. He also said the process was safer with few persons in the room with fewer persons in the room.
Krantz and Schweger both said natural childbirth was not for all women. They agreed that some women were not mentally capable of giving birth according to they would not be safe candidates for natural childbirth.
MRS. GORTON, Krantz's nurse, said the medical Center has periodically offered natural birth courses for the last 13 years, and expects parents to expect parents began six weeks before the baby was due. The nurses worked individually to prepare the newborn to childbirth, she said, and the Medical Center used qualified Lamaze instructors. She said the course basically consisted of a 20-minute teaching parents about themselves.
Several instruction books, mainly discussing the Lamaze
method, have been written about natural childbirth techniques. According to the books, one advantage of natural childbirth is that the woman supposedly becomes so conditioned by and breathing techniques that drugs are unnecessary.
"I wouldn't exactly call it a
labor room," she said. "You've heard of women in the labor room who really scream.
Part of the method is to keep you
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She recommended that women not begin natural childbirth courses until they were eight months pregnant. The reason, she said, was more recent and the women did not tire of doing the exercises.
KU faculty, staff, students and their immediate families who wish to take the SUA summer flights to Europe must submit a downpayment before March 13. The flights will go to Paris and Luxembourg.
Sachem Circle
JUDY KROEGER, Lawrence resident, is one of the many women who have had a child by natural birthbirth. Since her daughter was born 15 months ago, she has been assigned classes in natural birthbirth for the Free University. Although she is not a qualified Lamaze instructor, she teaches because of her experience, she said. She believes that women needed their doctor; permission to participate.
The advocates say that there is nothing wrong with asking for drugs if they are needed. Schweiger said that in some circumstances it was necessary to give the child of the mother and the child
Chamber Choir Concert
The KU Chamber Choir, composed of select students from six choral organizations at KU, will present its annual second semester concert on March 19. The concert, conducted by James Ralston, director of the Activities, will be presented at 3:50 p.m. in swarthout Recital Hall.
KROGEER SAID her inter-
in natural childbirth began when
her sister had a baby by natural
childbirth. She wasn't worried,
because she had been pre-
pared with films and reading
material.
Candidates for membership in Sachem Circle of Oicronim Delta Kappa will be considered after March 13. Sachem is a national honorary organization for senior men which stresses character, academic achievement and service to the University.
"You can do it entirely on your own," she said.
She said the books were self-
explanatory and the class periods
were spent in discussing the
material.
Women Present Petition For Birth Control Clinic
A petition with 1,720 signatures urging the establishment of a birth control clinic at Watkins Memorial Hospital in New York was presented Tuesday afternoon by William M. Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, by nine representatives of the Health Care Task Force.
The petition asks that counseling and education on birth control methods, physical examinations, the use of contraceptives or reproductive devices be made available to women students.
Lominska, Sayville,
N.Y., sophomore and spokesman
for the group, told halffour
of the students who had started
two weeks ago.
"We're not a small group of radical women," she said. "The petition was signed by women in the field, and the members from the University,
"The clinic would free women from the burden of unwanted children by providing a means to avoid it."
He said the petition was very impressive and great use would be made of it.
The women asked Balfour to sign the petition, but he declined. Balfour said later that, as a general rule, he could not sign.
"The health service has been providing these services but on an unevenly basis. Consequently, there were times when the staff would say, "I am an important service that students would like to have for." It is important we know what it means."
"This doesn't mean that I don't agree with the demands," he said.
"The task force has been working in the last few weeks to make these services available on a regular basis and have gone into action now." Way it takes time and patience, we are going to get there."
Survey Questions Students, Faculty To Improve Feedback's Utility, Use
The petition will be presented to Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of health services at the University Hospital with the task force, Balfour said.
By STEVE CRAIG
Kennan Staff Writer
The MU Curriculum and Instructional Survey, which publishes a Feedback each week on research in extensive revision to improve the questionnaire, methods of data collection and the methods which information is gathered in Feedback, Dennis Embry, Lawrence senior and survey science staff, at MU.
Two Films of the Russian Revolution
Eisenstein's Oktober 7:30, 75'
With this revision the survey should become a more accurate tool to diagnose the instructor's teaching ability. Embrue said.
FILM SOCIETY
Pudovkin's Storm over Asia 9:30,75
He said the goal of the new survey was to provide students with information that would enable them to choose courses and instructors best fit their personal wants and needs. The survey also would also provide instructors with information about their interests and how they might be improved.
Embry though the old survey had its limitations.
"THE OLD survey was too long and forced everyone that participated into the same definition of what good teaching
March 9, Woodruff Double Bill, $1.00
is; it had no flexibility," he said. "It did its job well at the time, but we learned quite a lot since we knew what to improve." he said.
To meet the suggestions, criticisms of the survey and to provide a better service to faculty and students. Embym distributed questionnaires to over 2,100 students in randomly selected classes. Through the questionnaire, the staff hopes to increase participation. Feedback booklet. A questionnaire was also sent to all faculty members to get opinions about teaching in general and the use of computers. Survey in particular. The survey staff hopes to incorporate the responses of both students and teachers in the redesigned questionnaire.
THE FORMAT of the revised questionnaire was divided into two general areas, an evaluative section and a diagnostic section. The evaluative section contains 22 assessments designed to get student feedback from the instructor, his teaching techniques, the class discussions.
the goals of the course, the texts and related matters.
KU FILM SOCIETY Second Revised Schedule
The material which appears in Feedback will primarily be from the responses to the questions in this section, Embry said.
are sent to the instructor, the departmental chairman, and the school dean. The instructor now results published in Feedback results published in Feedback
The diagnostic section of the questionnaire would be optional in each class, he said, and was able to observe how the instructor. The staff hoped this section would pinpoint both the specific strengths and weaknesses of the instructor's teachings and the courses and the course in general.
"If the University takes it upon itself to say these courses are good, and you must take them, then the students have a right to choose the course and instruct that test suits them," he said.
THE RESULTS of the survey
Embry thinks all courses required by the university should also make the survey mandatory. Students assembled each semester in Feedback.
MARCH 9: 7:30 OCTOBER (1927, Russian) Dir. Sergi Ewenstein
9:00 STORM OVER ASIA (1929, Russian) Dir. V. Pudovkin
MARCH 14: 7:30 BLOOD OF CONDOOR (1970, Argentine)
Wooldry
9:00 A documentary of American genocide, by means of sterilization of South American Indians and the people's war for self-preservation
MARCH 16: 7:30 IMMORTAL STORY (1967, British) Dir. Dyche
9:00 ANA GATHA OF MOREAU (1952, Japanese) Dir. Josef von Sternberg
MARCH 18: 7:30 DOMEN IN REVOLT (1971, American)
Wooldry
9:00 Dir. Dyche and Warhol. A ballet film from the studio that brought you TRASH, (special admission, $1.00)
APRIL 4: 7:30 KOSNA (1963, Swedish) Dir. Ingar Bergman, with Liv Uliman and Bibi Anderson
APRIL 5: 7:30 Collection of Experimental Films, Cybernetic and Computer Generated
APRIL 11: 7:30 PORTRAIT OF JASON (1966, American) Dir. Tanner
APRIL 13: 7:30 JULES AND JIM (1963, French) Dir. Wooddry
APRIL 24: 7:30 Francois Truffaut, with Jean Moreau and Oscar Werner
APRIL 24: 7:30 Collection of Experimental Film, Part 2
Wooldry
9:00 Film from the Dadaists and Surrealists
Single Admission, 75c, Double Bill, $10.00. Still the Best Film Bargain in Town—Less than 23c per Film with Membership.
SEASON TICKETS, 15.00. This Schedule is Incomplete—More Films will Be Booked for May.
Hurry! Deadline For Photo Contest Is 5 p.m. This Friday
Turn in Prints at SUA Office, Union
THE SOPHOMORE CLASS LECTURE SERIES
presents
SENATOR BIRCH BAYH of Indiana
Speaking on
"The Future of the American Political System"
Tuesday, March 14 8:00 p.m.
at the Kansas Union Ballroom
SENATOR BAYH—Considered one of the U.S. Senate's constitutional authorities and a leader in the passage of the 28th amendment lowering the voting age to 18.
Currently working for a constitutional amendment to provide equal rights for men and women. Concerned about the nation's needs in dealing with pollution, poverty, education, and health care.
ADMISSION 50°
Tickets Free to Sophomore with Class Cards Advanced Tickets will be Sold at the Information Booth on Jayhawk Blvd.