Page 2 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 28, 1955 Students Can Get Gripes Aired Already this semester, students are beginning to complain about the University Health Service, spreading stories of erroneous diagnoses. So far, however, the All Student Council Hospital Liaison Committee has not received one documented complaint on which to act. The committee was established by the ASC last spring specifically to receive complaints about the health service, investigate them, and turn them over to Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, health service director. The committee, first under the chairmanship of George Sheldon, Salina junior, and now headed by Victor E. Viola, Abilene senior, meets with Dr. Canuteson and members of the hospital staff monthly. Committee members have asked, through ASC and the campus political parties, for specific complaints, documented with names and dates. They have not yet received any. "If our service were really so poor, I think students would stop coming here," Dr. Canuteson said. Last school year, with enrollment at 6,812, the hospital handled 47,420 clinical cases. That is more than six calls for each student. Besides handling cases at the hospital, the health service provides general service such as X-raying food handlers at all organized houses and setting up first aid stations for athletic events. Watkins Memorial Hospital is the only hospital in Lawrence, which has a doctor on call at all times. "I think we run a good health service." Dr. Canuteson said, adding that he would welcome suggestions for improvement, presented through the liaison committee. That is what the committee is for. Students who run down the hospital should refrain from speaking, or present their complaint to the ASC committee. —Larry Heil Western Civ Still Presents Problem Has the University really solved the Western Civilization problem, or has the administration neatly side-stepped the issue? The appointment of full-time faculty members to lead special discussion groups in the program is a step forward to be sure, but does it really reach the roots of the problem? Something is drastically wrong at a state university when every semester individuals amass a small fortune sellingcrib notes,outline series,and giving a lecture series at $7 per person that "guarantees you to pass Western Civilization or your money back." What kind of a course is it where some students can go to these lectures and come out of the course with a C or a D, and in some instances an A or B, while other students, lacking guidance and supervision, bury themselves in a wilderness of facts and flunk the course. It is the students who are putting the work into the course who are flunking it in many cases. As members of the younger generation we aren't suposed to be right very often, but it is conceivable that perhaps the students here are right and the administration wrong in regards to the question of Western Civilization. No course on the campus arouses more wide-spread antagonism among the students. The course could be one of the most valuable in the school. To fulfill this, however, it would have to be made into a regular required five hour course with a good lecture series. For better results the course should be required during the junior or senior year, after the student has had time to acquire some background. It is not right for a student to pay extra money into a course in order to pass it, and something seems to be wrong when these notes and lectures are so accurate in predicting the questions on the test. It's time the administration admitted someone made a mistake when the Western Civilization course was started and it is time to make sweeping changes in the series and drop the halfway measures which have been taken to date. John McMillion There have been complaints about the reserve book system at Watkins Library, but a check of the facts reveals that there is little about which to grumble. ReserveBookSystem Better Than It Seems Most complaints have centered about the fact that reserve books may be checked out for only two hours. The fact is that reserve books may be taken from the library overnight and over the weekend. After 8:30 p.m. Sunday through Friday they may be checked out overnight. Robert L. Quinsey, assistant director, said that, effective now, reserve books checked out at 11 a.m. Saturday are not due until 9 a.m. Monday. "The period of time for which students may check out reserve books is restricted in order to give all students a fair chance to obtain books in great demand." Mr. Quinsey said. "On the surface," he said, "it would seem that the two-hour limit is an injustice. Actually the student gets the benefit of the clock. If a student checks out a book at one minute past the hour, he gets to keep the book a full two hours plus the fraction of an hour." Reserve books may be taken out of the library, but the card must be renewed every two hours. Fines for the late return of reserve books are heavy and are intended to deter students from unfairly depriving other students of a chance to study something which he may be assigned in a class. There are, however, some things in the reserve system that might profit by change. Why are some of the little-used books placed on reserve? It seems that a screening of the books now on reserve would benefit both the library and students who must use the books. This would be helpful especially to graduate students who do most of their work from the stacks in the library. A great deal could be done to help matters in the library if students had more respect for library property. Mr. Quinsey said one of the card files has been put behind the reserve counter because books on the shelves had disappeared. Perhaps students can do as much as the library to assure smoother operation of library facilities. -Ted Blankenship SouthMustTakeLead The admittance of three Negro youths to the University of North Carolina last week is indicative of the progress that has been made in recent years in securing Negro rights in the South. But in the case of the three, the first negroes to be admitted to the undergraduate school of the 166-year-old institution, is hardly one to justify untempered joy. The youths, ranging in age from 16 to 18, were enrolled only after Federal judges refused to stay an order directing the school to admit them. Thus the university seems to have lined up in the ranks of the diehards bent upon preserving segregation in the South. The South has come a long way on the road to racial equality. The institutions of higher learning there have a moral responsibility to help lead it the rest of the way. Boston University News Texans Beat Big Drum Jim Mullin, Texas graduate now at Harvard, calls our attention to a most flabby editorial in The Harvard Crimson: "The Band . . . will attempt to regain a long-treasured title when it unveils 74-bv-24 inches of new monster bass drum which replaces the long-time Band Trademark which passed on last winter. Band members are confident that it is indeed the largest playable bass drum in the world; the slightly larger instrument owned by The University of Texas is out of the running, they assert—it is capable of only an occasional flabby thud." The gentlemen of Harvard must come to Texas sometime to hear this most flabby thud. For this thud, flabby as it is, may be heard a reliable thousand yards, or roughly the width of Massachusetts. Daily Texan Who's To Run Nation In Crisis? WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower's illness has raised an ancient question: Who runs the government when the President is ill? By UNITED PRESS The Constitution provides that the powers of the President "shall devolve" on the Vice-President in case of the Chief Executive's death, resignation, or "inability to discharge" the powers and duties of his office. But no legal body ever has decided what constitutes "mability" to handle the Presidency, nor who should be in charge a President is in such a state. It was disclosed yesterday by White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty that the problem of finding someone to make decisions for the President, if it becomes necessary, is under consideration. Hagerty has asked Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers for an opinion on "any action that might be necessary at any time for any delegation of powers" by the President, and "if any are permitted." Thus far in American history only two Presidents—James A. Garfield and Woodrow Wilson—have been unable to discharge their official duties for considerable periods of time. President Garfield was disabled July 2, 1881, when he was shot by an assassin. He died the following Sept. 19, Wilson collapsed Sept. 26, 1919, while on a speaking tour defending the Versailles treaty. He did not recover sufficiently to call his cabinet until the following April. ...Letters .. Editor: Well, what crusade will you embark upon after you get movie censorship in Kansas and the Legion of Deceney in Hollywood abolished, Harry? Will you be pushing a bill to legalize prostitution, maybe. . . ? It won't be long before the youth of this state will be dissatisfied with getting their kicks second-hand from the movies, you know. Besides, such a bill would put us in the same class with Mexico and France and the Roman Empire—during its decline. Good luck in your most worthy endeavors. Harry. John Waite Bowers College sophomore The lowest elevation in the United States is Death Valley at 275 feet below sea level. Sympathy Sent To Ike Prominent persons made these comments on President Eisenhower's illness: Queen Elizabeth: "I am deeply concerned to hear of your illness. My husband and I send our warmest good wishes for your speedy recovery." Soviet Premier Bulganin: "I deeply regret from the bottom of my heart the news of your illness, and sincerely wish you as speedy a recovery as possible." A Vatican spokesman for Pope Pius Plus II: "He prayed for the precious life of this man, who lived for world peace among all men." Adlai Stevenson: "The news of his heart attack is very distressing . . I'm sure all Americans, regardless of political and other differences, share my anxiety and earnestly pray for his speedy and total recovery." Soviet President Voroshilov: "I was very sorry to hear of your illness. I sincerely wish you a speedy recovery." Jack Kroll, director of the CIO political action committee, a longtime political foe of the President: "We join with the rest of the nation in putting aside politics and expressing our heartfelt wishes for the good health and speedy recovery of the President." —K-State Collegian Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a German chemist, discovered uranium in 1789. UNIVERSITY Daily Hansan post office uses a list of branch NEWS DEPARTMENT University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251 Ad Room, KU 376 Member of the Inland Daily Press association, Associated Collegiate Press association, vertising service, 420 Madison area, N.Y. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year (add $1 a semester if in law- yers' office). 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