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and MIKE MOFFET Kansan Staff Writers
Tonight a new Student Senate and its new presiding officer, President David Will will set the stage for another round of student governance at the University of Kansas
Miller, elected by a slim plurality from the minority of students who voted, will begin a year-long association with the new college in be will a year in which his ideas and hopes be brought to bear on a widely diverse and loosely coalesced group of senators.
Miller, it is expected, will face the usual criticisms of student government—lack of faculty support, lack of preparation with petty, insignificant issues or with national issues which the students are not afraid to affect. The indifference of some senators and the whole question of how much power the senate should have in deciding matters.
WITH THE ADOPTION of the Senate Code in 1969, KU became one of the first schools in the nation to establish such a detailed structure for University governors. The Senate Code has served as the model for similar documents throughout the country.
The first government at KU was provided by the Faculty Constitution, which required Ernest H. Lindley was named chancellor and understanding that he would abolish the constitution. Apparently, the constitution numberless as a result of a long list of amendments.
The Faculty Senate Code was written to
replace the constitution. This Code was similar to the constitution but it gave greater legislative powers to members of the faculty with tenure.
IN 1965 THE Faculty Senate decided to update or rewrite the Faculty Code to incorporate many factions of the University in its governance.
After eleven months of debate the present code was enacted in a student referendum. The code was endorsed by a 20-to-1 margin.
A great deal of student participation to the formulation of the new code afforded unprecedented student participation in the new governmental structure.
Thus it stands now, in 1971, a new president and a new Senate preparing to work within the rest of the structure, the University Senate and the Faculty Senate. The Senate, he said, would for the presidency, said he had no reservations about working with the new Senate.
"Sometimes it can be frustrating," he said, "but I think there are a lot of senators who are sincerely interested in student affairs. But I think we have a successful year."
MILLER's OPTIMISM about student government at KU wasn't consistent with the views of a president, or with the opinions of four other student body presidents in the Big Ten.
"In the first place," Ebert said, "a group of 90 student samples, even fewer than in the image, under the gaze of representation, to prelude it is acting on the part of the teacher."
"IN THE SPRING the students elect officers, then they politicize one. 1 don't vote."
Ebert, outspoken and critical, said he could find little evidence to support the continuation of the Student Senate. And continuation, he said, was part of the problem.
"Students have ideas about improving their education. They need to feel that they can speak out and act, I don't think the students are ready." Issues that ask a difference to students.
The student body presidents at Kansas State University also recognized a problem with repressiveness in their student governments, but they were quick to place part of the blame on students.
R. D. Harmon, the K-State president who has oversaided over a 45-month Senate, Senate, Senate would be more representative if they were elected from living groups rather than from being elected to office.
"STUDENTS DON'T associate with colleges like they do with living groups," he said. "Living groups have a lot to do with how students feel about issues. Since we don't have our students live off-camps, I think it's a problem that needs to be investigated."
But Harmon, who was elected this spring for the state senate, confronted the Senate entirely. He said communication between students and their elected officials was one source of the election's success.
"We have representation on all committees and everyone supposedly has a voice," he said, "but senators have a voice, relating back to their constituency."
Bill Moffitt, head of OU's student and so student congressman, said students and teachers were at a loss.
Ninety-nine is just not enough to make student government work the way it should.
"IN GENERAL congressmen are not representative," he said, "but then a lot of students aren't vocal. It's hard to know who's going to vote. And a lot of congressmen just don't get it."
"It's a problem common to all governmental structures. The students need to become more active and someone needs to help them.
For Steve Tiwald, University or Newarka, student body president, he asked a problem. He said he thought the present Student was functioned better than in the past.
But Miller, who was Senate treasurer during the recent election, said lack of representativeness can constitute ericistism because he thought it adequately represents a school or department.
"The majority of the senators are interested enough an get involved in issues," he said. "We have many complaints about the law and the system. We'll always face these criticisms."
HE, LINK HARMON at K.Satea, said the team was able to find students who could represent themselves and that some living group represents "probably be a move in the right direc-
Miller also refused to join other critics who say student governments lack enough power to make a forceful impression on an academic community.
"I don't think student government here is too much under the control of the administration," he said, "although I would like to see the Senate deal with more academic questions. But here we face University precedents in favor of faculties
publishers. But Elbert, Tiwal and Moffitt, who have been in president's chairs for a year, say the question of student governance power is a crucial one.
EBERT SAID KU was no different from student governments across the country that "have a history of being almost idolous." Thus, he said, the Senate must address soils entirely and try to integrate man-made resources into the process of making decisions.
"There shouldn't be a Student Senate."
he said "The business of the student body should be conducted by mass meetings. Those who cared would be for it. The Senate should serve only as the ad-hoc arm. Even if the idea failed we wouldn't be that far behind where we are now."
NU's Steve Tiwald favored a student union with the Senate serving in an administrative capacity. He envisioned student volunteers who would organize elections and elections and collective bargaining power which would protect student rights.
"TO BE MORE powerful we have to be unionized," he said. We can't now bargain with the administration or faculty. We don't have any bargain with."
B Mattiff at OU likewise favored a student union, if it could be funded. He said a union would have to be financed by the university's independent student from university and state control.
"A union can't be effective when ad-ministrators can he the purse strings," he said. "The people who work with us sort of tax. Unless student government can extend it, it can be effective only within our community."
Paul Peters, University of Missouri student body president, said he had long recognized the representation and student power of his students but he said that a new governmental system at MU, initiated last year and still in transitional phase, would eliminate them.
UNDER THE NEW system, the government at MU is structured under a faculty-student-administration advisory council. A campus-wide committee, counselor and chancellor, is the top agency. Petersen, and lesser委员会 report to it.
Since there is equal representation on the troop committee, the students possess an equal share.
Under this plan, Peters said, "the administration, which can not vet committee action, will administer policy, not
"It gives the students more power," he said. "Before all we could did was yell our brains out."
But the new plan was pushed. Peter
involvement as to gain more promote student
involvement as to gain more promotion.
"A SURVEY SHIWED a general lack of identity with the campus. Students had negative connotations about the university because they take over fully next year, we think students will be more active and, as a result, are represented properly on the committee."
All of the presidents thought their government organizations limited themselves properly to campaign and outreach, effect, although they said they thought stands on national issues, without spoon-feed or proportionate amount of time, were desired.
Tiwald said: "We don't limit ourselves to one area. Although we take stands on the war, the war and other issues, the major of our work centers on the campus."
MILLER, TOO, said he thought it was a mistake for the Senate to get too involved in national issues which were "frustrating them" with because we can't affect them.
He said he thought that it had been a problem in the past, but that senators now were concentrating on local and campus problems.
Ebert, however, said the Senate had wasted too much time creating differences between the parties in Congress.
"The Senate hasn't addressed them to the students and their needs," he said. "It needs to take advantage of the opportunity that we have now, and on campus. Up to now it hasn't."
Kansan Photo by ROBERT BURTCH
Ellsworth Hall Library Opens
. new facility is culmination of four years of work by residents
Dorm Library Expanding
The Ellsworth Hall Library is now open 76 hours each week, from one to five each afternoon and each evening from six to midnight. In addition, it is open on Tuesday and Sunday mornings from nine to noon.
Staffing of the facility is done voluntarily by residents of the hall. More than 25 students have taken two-hour shifts, and others have volunteered to work as teachers in high culture and education chairmen.
The library is in three parts: an office, the library proper and a music history-language laboratory complex. There are shelves of books although currently the library only has about 200 volumes.
Sinatra Says He's Quitting
PALM SPRINGS, Calif.
(UPI)—Frank Sinatra
announced Tuesday he is retiring
from show business.
The singer, a stormy and controversial performer for 30 years, said he had no plans for the new season, television or recording activities.
He also indicated he might enjoy doing some teaching.
Sinatra, who has an apartment in New York and a home in Beverly Hills, spends most of his time this desert community on the francher's a golf course. His mother, Mrs Anthony Sinatra, lives with him.
"I're retiring from public life," scribna told his family in a letter, sent to some friends. The same person decided was final and included participation in political matters as well as the entertainment field.
Sinatra, 55, said he hoped to spend more time with his family, close friends, and perhaps "writing a little bit."
The actor-singer remains on fire from the injuries he sustained in Nancy, and offspring, Nancy Jr., who recently was married at his desert home, Frank Jr., and Jorge.
The equipment for the music history-language lab project has not yet arrived. When it does, Miss Haugh said, there will be tapes of the required listening for our history courses and tapes for a language training courses. These will be heard on eight tape players.
presentation of synchronized slide-tape programs. Initial plans for the programs. Miss Hughaugh teaches courses in lectures and an art and architecture series to coordinate western Civilization readings
The idea of the library was originated by Joel Llangavart, a 1970 graduate, and former Culture and Education chairman.
There is also a rear-view projection screen in the listening room, which will allow the
Addiction . . .
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"They've been offering to help me in any way they can," Nice said.
IGNORANCE OF methadone's affects on heroin addicts has been a problem for community acceptance of methadone
Wichita clinic director Dr. Stan Mosier said, "Methadone is not the final answer, but it is an aid."
Physician response to the use of methadone has been cautious but favorable.
**Writing in 'Rehabilitation the Narcotic Addict'**, a 1967 report Dr. Joyce Loynson, a founder of Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, one of the first methadone explained methadone's effects.
"It seems to work. On balance, machine maintenance has worked well, but we need to rehabilitating efforts) to get adducts off the streets and back into work."
OTHER KANSAS methadone clinic directors have echoed Mosier's belief that methadone is useful in rehabilitating heroin addicts.
rehearses off her feet — we get back on her feet — and she gets back on her feet — Schweiger said Myrna Hendrickx, assistant director of the Kansas City methadone clinic, pointed to her work in the methadone use of methadone: its legality (addicts do not have to maintain methadone); its cheapness ($1 or $2 per day as compared to the $160 to $200 daily habits of her clients); its freedom to lead normal lives; and its lack of the harm
"Methadone, as administered in the maintenance program, does not produce euphoria, sedation or distortion of consciousness and can alert and functionally normal. All of the patients have been stabilized on methadone without difficulty and without demand for care. Their interests have turned from drugs to other problems."
SIE ALSO POINTED out that drip dosages of methadone block the action of agent heroin injections. Patients were received, methadone, if they attempt to use heroin while on the medication, a "high" from heroin injections.
"No facilities" is the situation of the Vitae Arts School of Fine Arts. Lack of classroom, studio and display space is affecting the work of students and faculty in the school.
The three departments within the division, the department of design, the department of sculpture and occupational therapy, and the number of buildings both on and off campus. These facilities include areas such as the Library, Sadler House, Wesley Foundation building, Oread Hall, Memorial Hall, and the third floor of Strong Hall.
By CAROLYN ROTHERY Kansan Staff Writer
None of these facilities used by visual arts classes were designed for use by these types of activities and all were designed to serve some other purpose previously.
A visual arts building, designed and offered for the activities that the division offers is needed. John M. McKay, associate dean of Visual Arts, said recently.
Whatever methadone's detriments are, doctors and patients seem to agree that its use has caused a surge in drug rehabilitation.
Activities Hurt by Lack of Space
"Methadone has been one of the biggest steps ahead in drug treatment in the past five years," Nice said.
The division faces many of the problems of other segments of the university, but the situation is drastic in the arts.
Architects Discuss
The Associated Student Chapters of the American Institute of Architects met Tuesday in Kansas Union. Computer appraisal and architecture and architecture and psychology were discussed. The meeting included chapters on Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Lack of space leads to problems, the biggest of which is a decrease in offerings to the students who are enrolled in the various studies of visual arts and applications on the number of students which can be enlisted in their courses.
The limit to the number of students that can be enrolled in the division has already been reached. Because of a lack of studio space and the number of students attending individual classes, the size of the school has increased. McKay said that about 50 or 60 students wishing to enroll in art classes for the first time this fall had to take courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from Transfer into the School of Fine Arts, an art semester. They could not be admitted first semester because of the lack of space.
"For the number of students and the kind of space that is available, it is a disaster," McKay said.
Computers
McKay said there were about 759 undergraduate in the three subdivisions and about 30 graduate studies in the department this fall.
Peter G. Thompson, chairman of the department of painting and sculpture, said the problems with space and overcrowding were getting worse.
Various types of projects are bigger in size, with work being done on three-dimensional objects such as sculptures, and there is not enough paper for students to work on such projects.
Studio space is at a premium, he said. In his department, about one half of the senior students have to rent space for studios in the community.
Having students do work in or at campus, space decreases compared to classroom. Students use the visual arts division. Not only students and faculty separated because of their roles, they
"The facilities offered are based on needs of ten years ago. Studio space is at a
premium.'
space across the campus, but students do not get a chance to share the experiences with other students because they use other work or their techniques.
"This is bad because usually the best of students take their work to other locations." Thompson said, "hurting people by changing their chance to see these works."
The design department faces the same shortage of office space for
faculty, and the library for the department was integrated into some of this office space so that its former room be used for more classroom
This year the visual arts department gained some more classrooms. One, a graphics classroom in Lindley annex, was without furniture and equipment for more than a month after classes were completed for photography classes was acquired and occupational therapy department expanded on a limited scale this year.
The visual arts division received a $5,000 grant to bring guest lecturers and visiting artists to the campus this year.
Thompson said that having these guests had underlined the lack of facilities of the department, because there was no place available in which workers could talk or critique work for any more than a few people at a time.
Thompson said the new art gallery in the Kansas Union was sorely needed. "Such a gallery gives students a chance to see what their instructors and other staff do," he would like to see a gallery for students built near their work areas," he said.
The various department heads and McKay appeared before hearings of the University Planning Board last spring, and presented their problems.
"The Planning Board, a submission of the University Senate, has spent the last two years studying the academic and physical needs of the University, which enable us report and recommendations each time this semester," McKay said.
He said that he had heard that visual arts' needs are high on the list" of Thompson's priorities. Thompson said the board seemed very receptive to the reports of the departing directors.
When the Planning Board releases a report, the recommendations will have to be reviewed by the Board of Regents and must then be sent to the Legislature for approval. MAIN
"If all the ideas are put into an accepted budget of the Legislature for the University, it will probably he 10 years old and I do about a new building," he said.
Wesbeth Hall, the humanities building on which construction is to begin this spring, will not contain any facilities or visual art classes, McKay said.
A strong case for selective cation care is being built because the access enrollment and no room to put students. Thompson said he understood the
"The new
In the meantime, the University wide problems of low increases in faculty salaries and the inability to budget equipment expenditures for maintaining existing programs is affecting a large portion. Added to this, the lack of space for art classes, and the need for a specially designed building becomes apparent
for visual arts classes.
University was considering the alternative of selective admission for visual arts students.
humanities building will not contain any facilities or rooms for visual arts classes."
Screening already takes place for out-of-state entrants and transfer students. Freshmen from Kansas must be admitted to all schools under the Kansas State Board of Regents, but out-of-state students must face stair entrance requirements when entering as freshmen. Transfer students must present a portfolio of college courses prior to examination by faculty team before being accepted.
Space limitations have made it necessary not to allow special students to enroll in visual art classes. Special students are required to pursue a special line of study and are not required degrees and are not required to follow regular courses of study. Students who are not enrolled in the visual arts classes must attend special Art Arts cannot take visual arts courses.
KU Med Center to Host 2nd Research Convention
KANSAS CITY, KM — Medical students at the University of Kansas Medical Center will host the second annual Midwest College Convention, Thursday through Saturday. Twenty medical schools will be represented and 37 will be appointed to position by students will be presented
Dr. Andre F. Courand, 1950 recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for his pioneering work in cardiac surgery in keynote speaker at the conference "Planning Applied Physiological Research in Cardio-pulmonary. An Account of a Scientific Triage" on the scientific session at 12:30 p.m. Friday, in Wahl-Hall West Auditorium at the Medical Center of Washington, address Friday evening at Royal Restaurant in Kansas City, Mo. will be "How Can a Retired Medical Scientist Serve the Generation of Investigators?"
Cournard is professor of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Emma University, New York City.
Thirteen papers will be presented by KU students at the conference which will serve as a workshop on research methods in Research Day. The papers will be
judged for research awards to be given at a student recognition day on May 16.
Lawrence Townsite Set in 1855
The American Federation of Clinical Research is supporting this year's conference as it did last year at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Medical schools represented at this year's conference are the universities of Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Chicago, Louisville, Minnesota, Illinois and Indiana, and Washington, St. Louis, Wayne State and Michigan State universities.
West of the townsite a hill that Robinson named Gredon rooftop 200 feet east of the river. He suggested that it would provide a good location for a university.
The township of Lawrence was selected by Charles Robinson and Charles Branscomb in the summer of 1853. It is located at 95 degrees, 57 minutes, 30 seconds latitude, 14 minutes, 80 seconds longitude.
Librarians
Kansan Photo by DAVID HENRY
An emphasis on communication and mass information is a major concern of the librarian of today, said Norman Clark, head of the department of librarianship and director of the graduate and
professional program at Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia. Librarianship is changing in that it now includes government documents, microfilm copies, music, art and reproductions rather than just books and printed media. Clark was on campus Monday to interview students interested in working towards a degree of master of librarianship.