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and editor of a collection of his writings on peace, called the file "nonsense," but declined additional comment.
AN FBI SPOKESMAN said the agency was not required to "justify or explain" its actions beyond what was contained in the file.
The file, opened in 1932, contains newspaper clippings as well as anonymous notes alleging Einstein's Communist ties. In one memo, an informant told the FBI that Einstein had invented a robot that could "read the human mind."
The bureau later learned that either the informant or the purported victim of the mind-control device had spent two years in a mental institution.
Another informant claimed in 1951 that
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THE FBI'S FILE also details Einstein's efforts to curb nuclear proliferation and ease the threat of annihilation by nuclear war.
Einstein had framed Bruno Hauptmann, who was convicted and electructed for kidnapping aviator Charles Lindbergh's son in 1932.
One accusation on file was from a person who claimed to have met Einstein through an acquaintance, who in turn asserted that the scientist was taking control of the Hollywood star who had taken to have taken a job at a Los Angeles hotel, but Einstein never took a room there, the FBI found.
too much.
"It would make a wonderful absurdist drama," Schwartz said, adding that most of the investigations into Einstein were ordered by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Schwartz, who has written an article in the current issue of The Nation magazine based on the FBI file, said he requested the material in 1980. It took until April for the bureau to remove information considered too sensitive to release
THE FILE ALSO included a letter from a German woman who asserted Einstein was a Communist. The FBI found the claim was based on the fact that the scientist refused to stand during the playing of the German national anthem. Einstein's parents were Jews and his property was confiscated by the Nazis in 1934, when he was stripped of German citizenship.
who will John Shattuck, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said the Einstein file was a “particularly shocking example of a long train of political surveillance by the Hoover FBI.”
No injuries in Oliver Hall fire
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
About 650 students in Oliver Hall were routed from their rooms early this morning after a brief fire started in the basement of the building.
aest of the students quietly waited outside for about an hour before they were allowed back into the building. Some of the students had carried their pillows outside with them.
Maj. Dan Morrow of the Lawrence Fire Department said that the fire began at 1:26 a.m. in some cardboard boxes in the basement.
No one was injured in the fire. Morrow said. The extent of the fire's damage had not been determined by authorities.
determined by authorities.
Morrow said he did not know how the fire started. The KU police department will investigate the cause of the blaze, he said.
KU police said that the fire had been extinguished by the time firefighters arrived. Firefighters checked the building on their arrival for signs of any further fire danger.
About 12 firefighters from two engine companies and one ladder company responded to the fire. Morrow said that smoke had spread through the basement and through the first floor by the time firefighters arrived.
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Hunnel decided that after raising six children, she was ready to do something for herself. She is one of many housewives who have decided to hang up her apron and pursue a second career.
"My older ones were finished with school so I set out to do what I postponed for many years," she said. "When I was younger, I didn't have enough confidence in school and my first — that in itself was quite an undertaking. Now, when I look back, I think I did it backwards."
After his two children had grown and left home, Ernie Dowdie, also decided he wanted to change careers and add a degree in economics to the degree he has in engineering. Because he didn't have to work to support his children, he decided to return to school.
decide to return to college.
THE 55-YEAR-OLD widower quit his job and moved to Lawrence from Overland Park to become a "born again liberal arts student."
"I was never the type to let my beard grow and to put on my overalls and go buggin' around the country on a motorcycle," he said.
While many are changing careers, others are coming back to school because of the economy and because of new technological developments that have changed the working world.
"I think there are more older students, because they are influenced by technological developments and the economic situation," said Lorna Zimmer, director of the School Center. "Also many stay in school because they don't have jobs. They just enroll and keep job-hunting."
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Census figures show that 41 percent of older
people graduate level courses.
students take graduate level courses.
Mariane Fletcher, a 31-year old junior from
Overland Park, said, "After working in the real world a number of years, I realized the importance of having a degree to pursue a career. I think it is especially critical for women in this day — especially if one wants to get ahead."
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INDA SCOTT, a 40-year-old Prairie Village
senior, also mentioned that more career options
existed for women in today's job market than
when she was attending a country school.
While all students share common problems of teachers, homework and exams, the non/traditional students also experience some additional pressures.
additional pressure. Because many of these students are married and have young children, they must balance a busy home life while attending school full time.
"It sometimes gets hairy when my 14-year-old needs help with his homework, and my younger one wants attention and I have homework due. Husbands also tend to think the child said Sorry, he is short-tempered at times. Especially when it seems like everyone expects something of me.
"There are a lot of stresses in maintaining the home and caring for the children and in keeping ties with other family members and friends. As the saying goes, "To have a friend you must be a friend." You have to work on all these skills and at the same time do homework."
MANY OF THE non-traditional students commute to school and lose valuable study time. They are also put into an uneasy position of depending on a car and good weather to get to class.
"You must have effective use of your time and
determine what is priority between your personal life and school. At first everything is priority. But you must realize you can't do it all. You must initialize your own system of time management." Flechet said.
manage the support of the older students also would like more support and understanding from the faculty.
"I don't feel faculty support the non-traditionals, because they are not given extra time consideration. I'm not real sure that they should, but want to do that on multiple times in extra support," Scott said.
Some older students have discovered that teachers have been intimidated by them.
teachers na-na, I have had some teachers who have been intimidated, and I have also been able to intimidate some. In the end he got even on the final, because I made him look bad once." laughed Dowdle. "Now I'm a little better at keeping my mouth shut."
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ALTHOUGH OLDER students have unique problems, some said, they do think that they have one advantage in studying.
"I think we might do better only because the older students probably realize what a privilege it is to be back," Fletcher said. "We don't sit in class because mom and dad want us to go. We may have a greater motivation which can translate into higher grades."
One problem the non-traditional students didn't encounter, they said, was a gap between them and the traditional 18- to 22-year-old college students.
college students in no gap, although our lifestyles are very different away from school, when we are all here in school for the common purpose to learn and achieve." Fletcher said.
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"To tell you the truth," he said, "I could be a little busier than I am and like it."
THE OVERAUNDANCE of family practice physicians, which includes internal medicine, is the area of most concern within the Lawrence medical community.
Lee Bittenbender, a Lawrence dermatologist, said, "If we in primary care, family practice or internal medicine, I would have serious reservations about coming to Lawrence at this time.
time.
"Previously, Lawrence was underserved. But now it looks to me like we may be oversupplied in those areas. There have been about 14 people in primary care who have come to Lawrence in the last seven years."
"The history of Lawrence is that the physicians in the community feel that a new physician coming into the community will stave," he said, "but that has not happened to date."
laboratories.
But Donald W. Hatton, a physician in internal medicine, said the influx of physicians had not created an excess number of family practice physicians.
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Some specialists have said that they were overworked and could use some help.
ORCHARD SAID. "What has happened is that I am so busy with emergency problems and surgery that I have limited my practice to not optical examinations on young people, until we get another doctor in town, I won't be able to change that."
Many physicians think Lawrence is undergoing a change from a rural to an urban
community, which encourages specialists and sub-specialists to open practices.
sub-specialists to open practice Sub-specialists include physicians such as neurologists, pulmonary specialists and oncologists, or cancer specialists.
Hatton said, "The story I heard years ago was that the family practitioners really didn't want specialists to come into this town. This was known as a general practice town."
HATTON SAID HE thought that idea was no longer prominent, but said he thought some family practitioners in Lawrence still held to the idea of Lawrence being a town of general practitioners.
practitioners. "When they have a surgical problem, rather than use the surgical people in town, they send them to Kansas City," he said.
them to Kansas City. Hatton said in order to recruit specialists to be the community would have to supply them with the equipment they would need to establish their practices.
to establish their practices. "If a kidney doctor were to come into town, we really do not have the capabilities to do kidney dialysis," he said.
LAWRENCE APPEARS to have shed its image as a difficult town for young physicians to start practices, the physicians said.
start practises, then
43 Laureate physicians interviewed, 33 of them are undergraduates at the University of Kansas, or graduates at the Med Center.
Joan Brunfeldt, internal medicine physician, said, "People really like Lawrence. If they have family ties in Kansas at all, they would probably prefer to come to Lawrence than most Kansas towns."
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