Schwegler Pleased with $1,500 for Methadone Clinic
Dr. Raymond Schweigler, director of Health Services said Saturday he was very pleased the Student Senate allocated $1,300 for a new clinic to be held at Maintenance Clinic last Wednesday night.
"We get no support from the community," he said. "All financial support comes from patients or students on the hill."
The Methadone Clinic, initiated last January at the request of patients, treats
Schweiger said that the addicts couldn't possibly earn the money to support their habit and that some addicts needed up to $200 a day to buy heroin.
"In a practical way," Schlegel said, "these people gain support from the community. They either steal from the community, push drugs in the community
or practice prostitution "
SCHWEGLER ESTIMATED that they have treated 25 adducts so far.
"The number varies from day to day. We don't treat them all at once and some of them have different weights."
"We have had only one KU student so far," he said.
The clinic is under the auspices of the Department of Health, Education and
Health.
Only three doctors in the clinic are allowed to administer the treatment Solution.
The methadone tablets are put in glasses of orange juice. Schwegler said they had to watch the patients carefully so that they didn't do something like hide the tablets under their tongues and take them home to inject into their bloodstream later.
Methadone, when injected, can produce a high, he said.
He said there had been cases where an addict took the orange juice with the methadone out of the clinic and injected the entire solution into his bloodstream.
THE TABLETS themselves cost only 10 cents each, said Schweigler. The cost of the treatment comes from lab work and personnel.
Schweigler said he thought the methadone treatment was a good one and that it was fairly easy chemically to remove someone from the habit.
"You can't really cure them," he said.
Massive psychiatrine care is included in the training.
"The success of psychiatric care depends on the personality of the doctor, rather than on the medical training."
Lawrence has no similar facilities for methadone treatment.
factors. There is no magic in this treatment," said Schweiger.
Schweiger said that it was illegal for an individual doctor to administer methadone to addicts, although methadone was used for other medicinal purposes.
There are three persons in the city jail receiving treatment now. Schweizer said
receiving treatment now, Schwegler said. SCHWEIGEL SAID the Lawrence jail was in such bad shape and so overcrowded that it had no real symptom and vomitting was a nuisance.
Most people, he said, hear about the clinic by word of mouth. Headquarters are based in New York.
At the request of the city police and with the full knowledge of the sheriff's office, the city police will review the information.
methadone treatment to the people in jail who needed it.
Most of the patient are of college age. They have treated only one girl, Schwegler aster.
"As I see them coming and going," she said, "I notice some favorable changes."
Schweigler said that Dr. Margaret E. Haggan, one of the doctors administering the treatment, was quite proud of some of her patients. Some of them have gone back to school, he said, and some of them have found good jobs.
"When they first come in they look filthy, they have long hair and they wear dark glasses. Pretty soon, the glasses come off. They gradually begin to look better and better. Some of them like brisk college students by the time they can
get off the treatment.
"WHETHER OR NOT the community likes it," he said, "the methadone treatment is worthwhile and it is getting pushers off the streets."
Reactions, at least from the audible portion of the student body, have been
Bshegler said he hope not to use up the full appreciation from the students in the class.
They are willing to pay for what they believe in. I think they do a very well done job.
"It's good for the addict to pay part of the load," he said. "We ask him to pay $2.00 each time that he comes in. These people have to face reality sometimes, and they should try to do everything they can to help themselves."
82nd Year. No. 74
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Monday, January 31, 1972
Baby Jayhawk Likes Her Job
Buildup North of Saigon
See Page 6
South Viets Hit Tanks; New Offensive Expected
SAIGON (AP)—The South Vietnamese military command announced Monday that its bombers had destroyed three aircraft in South Vietnam's central philippines.
The command said the North Vietnamese tanks, of an undetermined type, were spotted Sunday by South Vietnamese observation planes in the region where the frontiers of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos converge.
about 300 miles north of Saigon.
A large North Vietnamese buildup is reported in the region, and U. S. officials anticipate an offensive there within the next month. By official count, the South Vietnamese command now mows grass and defends buildings and trucks in the region during the last week.
The second successive day of fighting was reported along the dermalized zone, with a concentration on the top.
Muskie Delegates Favored Among Arizona Democrats
In the cities, New York Mayor John V. Lindsay and Sen. George S. McGovern of South Dakota showed strength and cumulated more delegates than Musketeer.
They will battle the Maine senator for control of the state's 25 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Fla., next August.
PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP)—Sen. Edmund S. Muskhe is havemered from a vote of 35,000 Arizona Democrats as their favorite for the presidential nomination, but the vote in urban areas cut his share of delegates to the state convention.
Arizona Democrats voted Saturday to select 10 delegates to a state convention.
mortar attacks in South Vietnam.
Muskie won 38 per cent of the delegates, Lindsay 24 per cent and McGovern 20 per cent. Uncommitted delegates, favored by backers of Sens. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., and Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., won 17 per cent.
Dolf M. Droge, Southeast Asia Expert
Speaker at Kansas Day dinner
When the complicated count was completed Sunday, Muskie had 189 delegates, Lindsay 118, and McGovern 102, with 85 uncommitted.
Registered Democrats choose among about 1,690 candidates for seats in the state legislature. Twenty percent of the candidates were committed to Muskie, one-third were uncommitted, and another third were divided between Lindsay, Warren and eight other possible candidate candidates.
Kansan Staff Photo by TOM THRONE
Four civilians were reported killed and 22 wounded in a seven round mortar barrage that hit Cal Lay in the Mekong delta 50 miles southwest of Saigon.
U. S. military sources said thousands of Hanoi troops, including a reserve division normally held in North Vietnam, were on the move across the demilitarized zone and southern Laos toward South Vietnam's northern and western frontiers.
North Vietnamese forces bombarded South Vietnamese forces guarding the demilitarized zone with more than 200 rockets and mortars Saturday in the city of Saigon, where a frontier since last fall. Four ground clashes were reported over the weekend.
The Saigon command claimed 54 North Vietnamese troops killed in the fighting along the zone. Nine South Vietnamese men killed and 22 wounded.
Scores of U. S. B52 heavy bombers, small tactical fight-bombers and gunships were trying to slow the movement of North Vietnamese troops and supplies southward. The bombers dropped between 700 and 900 tons of bomb along South Vietnam's border with Laos and inside the southern half of the DMZ.
Many senior U. S. officials say the Communists' main target may be Kontum, a provincial capital of 30,000 in South Vietnam's central highlands,
The sources disclosed that the North Vietnamese 308th Division, normally held in reserve, has been on the move through the southern pamhandle of Laos, to the border region, where the frontiers of Laos and Cambodia join South Vietnam.
U. S. military sources said one regiment of the North Vietnamese 324B Division had moved south across the DMZ in recent weeks, while units of another division, not identified, were reported to have moved into the A Shau valley and the Khe Sinh area, the northwestern quadrant of South Vietnam adjacent to the Laotian border.
Aftermath of Gas Explosion Leaves Battenfeld Kitchen in Shambles
Explosion Damages Two Buildings
By ANN McKINNEY Kansan Staff Writer
An explosion in a utility tunnel damaged two buildings on the east side of the campus early Sunday morning. Harry Buchholz, director of the physical plant said the explosion was caused by a gas leak in one of the pipes in the tunnel between Battenfield Scholarship Hall and Sorague An墥ments.
No one was injured, but the tunnel and the two buildings at its ends were damaged by the blast. A bole was also blown in the parking lot between the buildings.
The entire north wall of the kitchen of Battenfeild was blown inward and the basement of the apartment building was flooded by broken water and steam pipes.
The cost of the damage has not yet been estimated, Buhlohl said. The company which insures the buildings has given its release for repairs to start immediately.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, estimated the damaged at $10,000, but he added, no firm estimate would be available until later this week.
Joel Green, Rapid City, S. D. sophomore, was the only person in the kitchen when the explosion occurred. He was cooking breakfast for the men of the
"I heard a rumbling noise, then I looked toward the wall and the whole wall was covered in dust."
He said he was knocked down of the shock and snailled "lots of smoke and blood" in front of him.
Buchholz said there were some minor fires in the buildings but "nothing of any consequence." Firemen from the reference Fire Department put out the fires.
extinguisher so he left the building.
The buildings' utilities were turned off after the explosion. They were expected to be unaffected.
A special meeting of the All Scholarship Hall Council was held Sunday afternoon. Jan Crawford, Salina senior, president of the council said representatives from the other seven scholarship halls decided to distribute the 80 men and the housemother to the 20 women among the halls for two meals a day until Battelfeld's kitchen could be repaired.
An 'Owl' Looks at Vietnam War
By RON WOMBLE Kansan Staff Writer
Drogge, a member of Henry Kissinger's staff, examined the war from a cultural angle. He said that most of what had been said by hawks and doves about the war not even represented" because Americans had not understood the war or the Vietnamese people.
He characterized the Vietnamese as "working pessimists" and Americans as "eternal optimists". He said this difference had caused much of the lack of understanding between the Vietnamese and the Americans.
Droge described the history of Vietnam and gave an account of the life of Ho Chi Minh who, he said, had a "ratt ink" quality. He said that Vietnam had been united for only 62 years of its 2,500-year rule and that rule had come from the south.
The only political tradition in South Vietnam is village governments,
according to Drogue, and for that reason there "2,300 separate Vietnamese."
Drogé divided Vietnam into northern, central and southern sections. He said the three groups had never gotten along with each other.
"The common ideal of the mountain people (central Vietnam)," he said, "is to live in a mountain."
Droge attacked the reasoning of the hawks and the doves on the war. He said the hawks' reasoning was faulty because only one million of the 19 million North Vietnamese were actually Communists and a full-scale attack on North Vietnam would only hurt the non-Communists while the Communist leaders to slip into China.
The doves, on the other hand, advocate immediate withdrawal. Droge disagreed with this plan because he said it would be more effective if the doves took over a war of American had conducted.
Droge defended President Nixon's plan of Vietnamization and gradual withdrawal of troops when he had taken almost complete control of the war in its early stages and gradual withdrawal of troops had allowed the Vietnamization of the reality for their defense.
"Mediocracy is a protection" for the South Vietnamese, according to Droge.
He cited assignments of village leaders as examples of what could happen to them.
"Setting a date to end the war would gut Vietnamization," he said.
Drogue defended the 1970 invasion of
Brazil because it **protected**
Vietnamization.
The doves lengthened the war," according to *Droge*, because the North Vietnamese waited for them to pressure the government into total withdrawal.
According to Droge, the North Vietnamese knew what total withdrawal of U. S. troops would do to Vietnamization and that the United States would be pressured to be so.
Droge ended his speech with a plea for national concern for prisoners of war. To end the evening he produced a guitar and wrote the poem "The entitled 'Don't Forget the Eagles.'"
"The strikes into Cambodia ruined our campus credentials," he said, "but prevented a strike against Vietnamization."
KU Student Wounded; Robbed
A Kansas University student lost his wallet and received a knife wound Thursday night when he was robbed by two men with a firearm in X-zone and the Kansas Union.
Richard Tripp, Salina senior, told police that two men stopped him in the tunnel at 7:30 p.m. and demanded money.
Police said both men were armed, one with a 45-caliber silver pistol of a military type. The second man on the left hand with an knife hunted.
Tripp said after the men took his wallet, which contained $23 and several credit cards, he followed them into X-Zone and S-zone where he lost sight of them. He said he saw a 1953 or 1954 Mercury leave S-zone.
Police said Tripp was taken to Watkins Hospital by Robert S. Yori, Pittsburgh graduate student, and the nurses she were required for Tripp's hand.
Police described the assailants as Negro males about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing about 150 pounds.