Daily hansan
61st Year, No. 67
Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, Jan. 8, 1964
UNUSUAL FINAL-While most students are studying their textbooks and writing last minute term papers, the eight students in the Television Production class are setting up their tests in Hoch Auditorium. Each student produces and
directs a 15 minute documentary or dramatic excerpt as a final and helps classmates by shooting productions. The finals begin Thursday night on a closed circuit and one production will be presented each night.
LBJ Proposes Expenditures Cut In State of Union Message
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson today announced a suprise slash in federal spending below current levels. He also ordered a cutback in nuclear production in a dramatic bid to end the provocative and wasteful arms race.
Johnson proposed spending $97.9 billion in fiscal 1965-A cut of $500 million from the $98.4 billion budgeted by President Kennedy for the current year. He said this would mean a deficit of $4.9 billion, far below previous expectations.
IN HIS first State of the Union message to Congress, the President also challenged Russia to follow his lead in ordering a 25 per cent reduction in output of enriched uranium—an atomic explosive—and closing down four plutonium piles.
He said such action by Russia coupled with new disarmament proposals this country will advance at Geneva, would be an important step toward arms control and "our ultimate goal...a world without war, a world made safe for diversity."
The 2,852-word address, shortest State of the Union message since Franklin D. Roosevelt's in 1934, was televised and broadcast to the nation.
He also called for reform of "our tangled transportation and transit policies," the "most effective, efficient foreign aid program ever" and more homes, schools, libraries and hospitals than ever were authorized in any previous session of Congress.
CN THE domestic front, Johnson declared "unconditional war on poverty" and urged the lawmakers to make the second session of the 88th Congress the best in history by cutting taxes, passing civil rights legislation and providing medical care for the aged.
Then, obviously mindful of the approaching national political conventions and the election campaign. Johnson told the lawmakers: "It can be done by this summer."
IN CALLING FOR approval of the $11 billion tax cut bill by the end of January, Johnson urged Congress to lower the basic withholding rate from 15 to 14 per cent to give wage earners an estimated $200 million a month in added buying power.
"That tax bill has been thoroughly discussed for a year," the President said. "Now we need action
The new budget clearly allows it. Our taxpayers surely deserve it. Our economy strongly demands it."
He said that while more than 70 million Americans had jobs in 1963, "we will soon need more than 75 million." Likewise, he said, the nation's output of goods and services hit a rate of $600 billion last year but "it easily could and should be still $30 billion higher."
IN ADVANCE of going before Congress, the President met with newsmen in the rose garden outside his office and held a briefing on the message, stressing its budget aspects.
He said the defense department, for example, had asked for new spending funds for military functions totaling $59.3 billion but that this had been reduced by $9.563
billion to a total of $49.737 billion in military functions expenditures for the 1965 fiscal year.
Added to this would be $1 billion in proposed new spending for military assistance—a reduction of $290 million from the department's requests—contributing to an over-all defense budget in the neighborhood of $51 billion.
Cloudy skies and northerly winds of 25 to 35 miles per hour will drop temperatures into the lower 40's today in the Lawrence area. The weather bureau said brief rains will possibly turn into snow. Temperatures during the night should fall to 15 or 20. Thursday will be partly cloudy and colder with a high near 30.
Weather
Plan for Stop Week Defeated by ASC
The All Student Council last night defeated a resolution proposing a "stop week" before final examinations, but did not drop the matter entirely.
John Stuckey, Pittsburg senior and ASC chairman, invited council members interested in the idea to meet with University officials to devise a plan.
LITTLE WAS said against the merits of a "stop week," proposed by Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika junior, but several councilmen criticized the resolution for not offering a definite plan for its creation. They argued that the ASC should have a specific plan before it submits a resolution to the University Senate, a faculty group which approves and revises the KU calendar.
"It would be much better to come up with a specific plan," Jim Cline, Rockford, Ill., junior, said. "I move we defeat this resolution and try to work out something definite to bring back to the council."
A student member of the University's calendar committee said a "stop week" would have to be created by taking away vacation days, class days or off periods, such as rush, orientation and enrollment. George Barisas, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said KU schedules about two weeks of classes above the requirement of the accrediting organization.
"THIS IS meant to be a time for students to end the routine of taking tests and writing term papers and begin preparation for their examinations," Bgoya said. "If students and their professors desire to have classes that week or if students request that their professors conduct review sessions, that would be acceptable."
Related Story on Page 12
Bob Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, continued his attack on actions of Reuben McCornack, student body president, by introducing legislation to correct "unfair" conduct toward minority party ASC members.
Stewart submitted amendments to an ASC bill regulating delegations to student conferences. They were automatically referred to the Committee on Committees and legislation.
SEVERAL WEEKS ago, Stewart, the only University Party delegate from KU to the Big Eight Student Government Conference, criticized McCornack, Abilene senior, for unfairly appointing delegates, not orientating delegates on issues to be discussed or giving them time for preparation and running a candidate for a BESGA office without getting prior approval from the ASC.
The amendments Stewart proposed would require the ASC to decide beforehand who shall run for conference offices and the student body president to notify the council of what offices will be open for election. Other provisions would require that within two days after the appointment of conference delegates is announced, the ASC secretary must prepare pre-conference information for these delegates and the student body president must hold orientation sessions.
In other action, the ASC rescinded a bill passed in 1959 requiring all student organizations to file copies of their constitutions with the council, created a committee to keep the ASC book of legislation up to date and approved resolutions adopted last month by the Conference on Higher Education in Kansas. One of the resolutions passed by the student group then backed the proposal by Henry Bubb, chairman of the State Board of Regents, in his request for an increase in the sales tax to be spent for Kansas colleges.
Defeated was a constitutional amendment that would have required all ASC business to be approved by a majority of the elected membership, instead of a majority of the members present. It was submitted by Peggy Conner, Sacramento, Calif., senior.
New Mental Health Image at KU
(This is the first of a two part series.)
Mental health at KU isn't what it used to be!
According to Dr. Sidney O. Schroeder, director of the Mental Health Clinic at Watkins hospital, students who seek aid for mental problems at the clinic are not thought to be "crazy," as they might have once been in the public's eye.
"PROBLEMS FACING students who come to see us run the gamut of mental illnesses," Dr. Schroeder said, "but most of students' problems are situational, problems generally centered on studies or boygirl relationships. They can be worked out in a relatively short time—about ten interviews."
"There is no completely satisfactory definition of mental health," Dr. Schroeder said. "The ability to assume a maximum of personal responsibility, to follow one's own bents without engaging in destructive or self-de-tructive behavior, to mind one's own business, be civil to one's neighbors, pay one's bills, and keep out of the hands of the police," he said, might be a definition of mental health. "For college students, the ability to maintain a decent academic record could be added to the above definition."
Dr. Schroeder said "The definition which I like best is the shortest one. 'Mental health is the ability to love and be loved and to work.' This has been attributed to Freud, whether rightly so or not I am not sure. It conveys almost a religious feeling and yet Freud has been accused, and not without reason, of being opposed to all forms of organized religion."
"It is not adjustment under any and all circumstances, freedom from tension and dissatisfaction, conformity, constant happiness, a lessening of accomplishment and creativity, the absence of personal idiosyncrasies, the undermining of authority, or opposition to religious values," he said.
"SOME THINGS that mental health is not should be mentioned," Dr. Schroeder said.
Mental illness is harder to define than mental health the doctor said "I will make no attempt to define it except to say it is the condition which exists when mental health is not present." He said the line between mental health and illness is broad and vague in the present state of knowledge.
"SOME OF THE signs of mental illness are the inability to concentrate, unreasonable fears, excessive irritability, continual tired feeling
"Other signs are frequent crying spells without apparent reason, feeling everybody is against one, unrealistic feelings of being mistreated, over activity or conversely, under activity, bizarre mannerisms and speech, hallucinations and delusional thinking. The last signs are generally evidence of the more serious disorders." Dr. Schroeder said.
without evidence of physical illness, fear of crowds, inability to be alone, loss of interest in life and people, persistent insomnia and undue sensitivity to criticism.
"At one time or another," he said, "everyone of us will manifest some signs of mental illness. Persistence of such signs or undue frequency of occurrence indicate help should be sought."
"ACCORDING TO those with most experience in the field, about 10 percent of students in most universities should seek some form of assistance for mental or emotional problems during any given school year," Dr. Schroeder said.
Last year a few more than 200 KU students consulted the Mental Health Clinic staff on the third floor of Watkins Memorial hospital, about 3 per cent of the student body.
"Although we have no figures, I am reasonably certain at least another 3 per cent of the student body
sought help from resources available to them other than the Mental Health Clinic," Dr. Schroeder said.
STUDENTS WHO wish to consult with the clinic's psychiatrist, Dr. Schroeder, its two psychologists or two senior residents from the Menninger Foundation, need only to go to or call its office for an appointment.
"Except for those with major mental illnesses, students have to get here on their own." Dr. Schroeder said. Last year 30 per cent of the students who sought aid went to the clinic on their own. Thirty per cent were referred by other staff members of the Student Health service, usually doctors. Twenty-seven per cent were faculty referred, 8 per cent were referred by family or friends, 3 per cent were referred by their family physician, 1 per cent was referred by the Guidance Bureau and 1 per cent was referred by miscellaneous individuals.
"U-why it is best for the students to take the initiative in contacting the Mental Health Clinic." Dr. Schroeder said. "Information from referring sources is helpful and appreciated, but with only an occasional exception, the students should feel under no outside compulsion, to come to the clinic."