Doctors Want to Inform Campus Smokers
Editor's note: Kansan reporter Clare Casey interviewed various campus smokers and authorities to determine their response to a warning by the American Cancer Society of a higher mortality rate among smokers than non-smokers. The article was published in Wednesday's Kansan.
To smoke, or not to smoke? . .
this is the question.
How to stop smoking is a question which most smokers will ask themselves at one time or another. Whether an answer is found, and whether an answer is put to effective use is another matter.
DOCTORS at KU feel there are ways to help the smoker "break the habit." Dr. M. Erik Wright, director of the clinical psychology program, and Dr. Ralph Canuteson, director of the student health service at Watkins Memorial Hospital, said the University should place notices on all cigarette vending machines on campus and in the Kansas Union where cigarettes may be purchased across the counter.
"I am in favor of placing the notices to inform the students of the possible damage to health that may result from cigarettes," Dr. Wright said. "I do not see that any harm can be done by doing this. No one will be told what he can or cannot do, but he is simply being informed in clear medical terms of the hazards. It would be the same as a lable on a bottle of poison."
Dr. Canuteson said he agreed fully with Dr. Wright, but added: "I do not feel the campaign would have any effect unless the students were behind it. Putting the notices up must come from the students and not from the administration."
DR. CANUTESON said he would like to see the All Student Council form a committee to look into the matter. An ASC committee could work with the administration, and look into the effects that notices have had at other schools.
"I do not think the student will pay any attention to the signs on the machines unless he is
FATAL PUFF? Mike Barnes, Hutchinson senior, says he will continue to "smoke that cigarette." Barnes describes himself as a heavy smoker.
Dr. Wright expressed the hope that possibly the signs might be put up on an experimental basis.
thoroughly informed on the hazards beforehand." Dr. Canteleson said.
"EVEN IF ONLY 10 percent of the students decided to quit." Wright said, "the signs would be successful."
Kevin Remick, KU concessions manager said he could not be sure as to how the cigarette sales would be affected by the notices. He said he felt that the students should be surveyed to get their reactions.
Remick said there are about 18 cigarette machines on campus which seal about 1,200 packs of cigarettes a week.
"THE PROFIT FROM the machines goes to the Student Union," Remick said, "but the amount of money we get is minor. In the end, we make about one-half-cent on each pack."
"We find that most people will not read a sign on the machines." Remick said. "Incidentally, cigarette companies have reported that sales
have risen over the last three month period."
Although no survey has been conducted, three students offered these opinions:
Larry Wisler, Topeka freshman, a non-smoker, said: "I would not think the signs would have any effect. The smoker has been told all his life about the hazards involved, and he will not change now."
VERNON VOORHEEES, Kansas City senior, a smoker said: "The signs will probably get nasty remarks written on them unless they are accredited by a recognized organization. Actually, I think everyone realizes opinions have been given for and against the effects smoking has on health."
Pat Wyles, Fort Monroe, Virginia, junior, who considers herself an out-and-off smoker said: "I think the idea of having the notices is great. I find myself considering whether or not I should buy the cigarettes, and this would remind me that they are leading me on the road to bad health."
Daily Hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
61st Year. No. 56
Final Three Are Chosen At Potpourri
The final three winners were chosen last night in the last session of the Speech I Potpourri.
As in the other session, the students in Speech I acted as judges for the event. They voted by ballot and turned in evaluation sheets to be used for research purposes.
Last night's winners were: Mike Grady, Leawood freshman; Yvonne Sutter, Leawood freshman; and Richard Hawkins, Chillicothe, Mo. freshman.
GRADY spoke on "The Forgotten Fundamental," describing a way for students to apply rapid reading to their studies. He said developing the correct attitude, power of concentration, and eye movement were the most important factors.
She said all services are spoken in Greek and all songs sung in Greek.
Miss Sutter gave her speech on "The Greek Orthodox Church." She explained the early origins of the church in this country, and how it came to spring up outside of Greece. She described the arrangement and floor plan of the church and most of the important altar equipment.
HAWKINS EXPLAINED a primitive form of capital punishment, "Crucifixion." In detail he gave the former uses for this type of punishment. He said it was used as a humiliating form of death, fit only for the lowest of criminals. It was developed by the Romans and was not a symbol before the death of Jesus Christ.
The other purpose of the device was to deter crime. Those put to death in this manner were to be examples for others. The slow death and grotesque wounds suffered by the criminals were to be incentive for others not to commit similar crimes.
Hawkins said the victims died from suffocation since the whole body weight pulled down on the wrists.
All three winners were given goldbanded gavels, as were the winners the previous night.
Immediately before the winners were announced, E. C. Buchler, director of Speech I and forensics, explained that the Speech I requirement for underclassmen was initiated in 1946 at a meeting of the University Senate.
Prof. Buehler will retire this spring and this will be the next to the last time he will participate in the program he helped start 17 years ago.
ON STAGE, PLEASE—Cheri Olsen, Hinsdale, Ill., freshman, slips into her ballet slippers for Tau Sigma dance concert held at Central Junior High School last night. (See page 7 for pictures and story)
Morality Forms Base Of Nation's Politics
Errol E. Harris, professor of philosophy, said last night that the primary reaction to the world predicament for a civilized state should be a moral one.
Prof. Harris made this statement at the latest of his lectures on the "Philosophy of War and Peace."
Balanced deterrence and arms control should be secondary reactions to the world predicament, he said.
"THE TWO expedients of balanced deterrance and arms control have turned out," Prof. Harris said, "to be illusory, and for this reason it is immoral to attempt to persuade people that their security depends upon them."
Friday, December 6, 1963
The ultimate foundation of politics for a civilized nation is morality; the moral climate and moral tradition of a people is its civilization measure, Prof. Harris said.
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Clerical Mistake Voids Re-Seating
TOPEKA, Kan.—(UPI)—The State Supreme Court today declared unconstitutional the 1963 reapportionment of the Kansas senate because of a clerical error that accidentally disenfranchised the community of Leawood.
The court also held that the law allowing 20 extra seats in the State House of Representatives was unconstitutional. The court said the other 105 House seats, representing one legislator for each county, was in accordance with the constitution.
THE HIGH COURT recommended that Gov. John Anderson call a special session of the legislature following the budget session, beginning in January, so a new reapportionment law can be enacted.
The court said the 20 extra seats in the House were unconstitutional because "the statistics show on their face an inequality so glaring that it repels any presumption that there exists a fair approximation" of what is required by the Constitution. The extra seats were granted to the more populous counties in 1961.
The court said the Senate bill was unconstitutional because it omitted, by typographical error, the city of Leawood.
"The enrolled bill signed by the Governor," the Court said, "was not the bill passed by the legislature and was not made into law in the form and manner prescribed by the Constitution.
"The COURTS have no right to correct errors made in an enrolled bill but will ordinarily take the bill as they find it, and if not constitutionally enacted, will declare it void," the Court's decision said.
The Court said that to correct the omission would be to "transcend the judicial function."
The error omitting Leawood, in suburban Kansas City, occurred when the reapportionment bill passed by the legislature was being typed into legal form for signature by the Governor.
The 1963 law was a result of court orders to reapportion the Senate on the basis of population. The order stemmed from a suit filed by a group of Kansas newspapermen.
The 40 new district boundaries would have become effective June 1, 1964, the next general election year for senators.
Weather
Temperatures will range in the lower 30s tonight, turning colder tomorrow. Partly cloudy skies are expected tomorrow with a chance for brief showers. High tomorrow in the 50s.
Morse to View Foreign Policy
Sen, Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) will speak to KU students and faculty on "Foreign Policy Under the New President" at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium.
Sen. Morse, a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, is chairman of that committee's subcommittee on Latin American Affairs. He is also chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Education and serves on the Labor and Public Welfare, Small Business, and the District of Columbia committees.
Sen. Morse stirred up a controversy in 1952 when he resigned from the Republican party after having served as a Republican senator from 1944. After a brief period as an independent he joined the Democratic party in 1955 and has been relected twice since then on the Democratic ticket. He gave his reason for the switch as a disillusionment with the prospects for liberalism in the Republican party.
Morse was born near Madison, Wis. on October 20, 1900.
An honor student in high school, Morse later attended the University of Wisconsin. Active in debate and student government, he got his first taste of politics campaigning for Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette
He received a Ph.B degree in 1923 and an M.A. degree in 1924 from Wisconsin.
In 1924 he married Mildred Downie, a childhood friend. The Morses settled in Minneapolis where he taught at the University of Minnesota, while attending law school. In 1923 he received his LLB. degree from Minnesota. He also holds a JD, degree from Columbia University. His doctoral dissertation on the American grand jury system has become a standard work on the subject.
Morse was appointed assistant professor of law at the University of Oregon Law School. Two years
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