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Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1970
University Daily Kansan
Plan for New Hospital To Go to Legislature
Watkins Hospital is now understaffed and inadequate for the needs of KU students, according to Dr. Raymond A. Schwegler, director of the hospital, but a remedy to the situation may be in the offing soon.
It takes approximately one doctor for every 1,000 students to handle the student health care center efficiently, Schwegler said Tuesday. Watkins now employs 11 doctors, three of them part-time. The building is also inadequate to fulfill the needs of the students.
When the state legislature meets in Topeka next January, plans for a new hospital will be put up for approval. This is the last hurdle that the plans will have to go over before actual construction can begin. The plans have already been approved by all of the KU planning boards,
The Department of French at KU is implementing a number of experimental courses designed to increase student interest in learning the language.
French Dept. Uses Teams In Teaching
The experimental courses are being taught by a team of teachers—two or three for each five-hour section. The idea is that if the student cannot understand what one teacher is trying to do he may consult another one. Team teaching also gives each teacher more time to prepare his lesson.
The student has a choice of laboratories. He may attend the regular lab, which has been shortened to a 40-minute session. Every fourth session, a film strip, slides or a movie will be shown. He may opt to attend a lecture concerning France instead of the lab if he had made arrangements with his instructor.
and the federal arrangements were made and approved.
"The HUD Agency is favorably disposed of our plans and will back us," said Schwegler.
The conversation lab is designed to teach students the vocabulary used in daily activities. During the next session they will apply what has been learned to a practical situation.
In the technical research and science lab the student will be provided an opportunity to earn money by translating articles and papers from French to English. Anyone desiring this type of translation should contact the French Department.
If the plans are approved in January, actual construction, according to law, must begin within the year. Schwegler said that the hospital board members are now active in designing the architectural plans.
During the semester a number of lectures in French will be sponsored. Enrollment in the labs will be Wednesday and Thursday in Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
The site for the new hospital will be on the practice fields located behind Watkins. Schwegler said he felt that this site would be advantageous because additions to the hospital could be made easily and the students would have access to parking that would not require a special permit. The budget for the new building is set at $3.5 million and the minimum construction time will be two years.
Lawrence High School Principal William Medley said Monday that the meeting held Friday afternoon to reinstate students who left school or were suspended last week "did not accomplish its goals."
To facilitate service to students this year, the business offices, on the third floor of Watkins, will be moved to a mobile unit located between Watkins and Watson Library. Schweger said this arrangement would make room for two more doctors offices and would help control and move the anticipated student traffic.
Medley read a policy statement at the meeting which had been formulated Friday morning by a representative group of parents and students along with Medley and Carl Knox, superintendent of schools.
LHS Principal Says Meeting Did Not Accomplish Objectives
"The meeting was planned to allow everyone to get his complaints off his chest at once," Medley said. After reading the statement establishing guidelines for orderly operation of the school, students and parents were to be divided into groups to discuss individual complaints which would be presented later by a group leader, Medley continued.
The administration, he said,
"did not intend to throw the
meeting into open discussion,
because we felt it would be reduced
to the level of name calling and
accusation. However, we were
unable to confine the group reporting
to the discussion leaders
and that is just what happened."
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Medley indicated that the administration felt the troubles had been caused by a small minority of students, and that the established procedures concerning suspension would be continued.
"The meeting did serve one purpose in that it provided for the reentry of students who left
school during the trouble," Medley said.
However, some of the parents were dissatisfied with the results.
"This was the true democratic process. They gave us 30 minutes to solve the whole problem and three minutes to decide on it," one parent remarked.
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