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County Health Care Facilities Said to Be Adequate
By RICH DWYER
Korean Staff Writer
There is a growing concern for more adequate medical care across the nation. In many areas of the United States today, health care programs are not meeting the demands of the populace. In many cases they are to poor facilities and insufficient funding.
A recent survey was done on Douglass County's health care programs. According to the survey, Douglas County, with a population of 57,000, has relatively adequate facilities. Within the county are hospitals and two mental health clinics.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital provides 170 adult and pediatric beds, with an additional 31 bassinets for infants. Approximately 121 beds conform to state regulations for acceptable square footage and meets with acceptable plumbing facilities.
LICENSED BY THE Kansas State Health Department, the hospital has modern equipment. Charles Dernison, president of more extensive programs in neighboring City City and Topena, Lawrence Memorial does not have extensive library access.
The hospital is divided into 14 departments, including inhalation therapy, physical therapy and electrocardiogram staff member for every 2.4 patients.
Hospitalization costs at Lawrence Memorial are relatively low. In 1970, a patient paid $8.18 a day for room and laundry. The national average a day was $81.01.
Hospitalization costs have risen slightly this year.
"THE RISING COST in hospital operations is due to increased services offered by the hospital and a substantial number of out-patients." Denismon said.
He said that the city tax revenue is allocated for future hospital expansions and capital improvements. Aside from tax revenue, the hospital is self-supporting. The hospital offers training programs for local high school students, practical nursing students at Haskell Indian Junior College, and students of physical therapy
and engineering at the University of Kansas, Dennison said.
IN CONTRAST, THE other hospital in Douglas County, Watkins Memorial Hospital, is experiencing difficulty in operating with existing facilities.
Watkins Memorial serves only the KU community, which is approximately 18,000 people. Schweiger said that ideally there should be one physician per 1,000 students. Consequently, there is a need for six additional doctors.
Raymond Schwegler, hospital administrator, said that the hospital is so overcrowded that "every bathroom is full."
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Even though Schweiger jokingly referred to the overcrowded situation, it is a real problem. A new hospital will be completed by 1973, however, which will not be this problem. The new facility will have twice the area of the present structure.
The hospital now has 32 beds and a staff of 13 physicians, including one psychiatrist, two social workers and three psychologists. The entire医院 staff includes 129 employees.
hospitalization at a rate of $15 a day. This rate is feasible due to student fees. These fees will provide financing for the construction of the new hospital. In addition, the institution receives $1,000 annually from the University of Kansas Endowment Association.
In accordance with a community effort, Watkins Memorial has methadone, mental health and tuberculosis clinics.
"The hospital has a tremendous flow of out-patients and manages to provide extensive services to over 1,200 students each year," Schwegler said.
IN CONNECTION WITH the KU Student
Health Service, the Mental Health Clinic provides services and consultations to the
S. O. Schroeder, clinic director, said that service priorities of the clinic are:
1. To intervene quickly and effectively when acute mental and or emotional stress occurs.
2. To provide supportive treatment to students needing continuing psychiatric care.
3. To help students who may be function adequately but who can use treatment to relieve symptoms and-or to their own effectiveness as individuals.
4. To refer those students who require services not available in the Mental Health Clinic and Student Health Service to apply for these services, or where these needed services are available.
5. To render appropriate indirect services to groups and individuals in the university community who do not need or choose to seek direct clinical services.
"WE DEFINE indirect services by our staff as any professional work activity
which does not involve direct clinical work with individuals or groups who are identified as patients.
"These services include, among other things, consultation with faculty or administration in regard to mental health or psychological aspects of administrative staff and students and meeting with non-patient groups as consultants or resource persons."
The Mental Health Clinic's staff is composed of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and psychiatric social workers. During the 1970-71 academic year, 50 students from the Mental Health Psychiatric residents of the Meninger School of Psychology usually receive part of their clinical training in their second or third year of residency at the clinic. KU students from the School of Social Welfare can receive field work training at the clinic
SCHROEDER SAID that the Mental Health Clinic served more students during the 1950-71 year than it had during any other period, and that twenty-six patients made a total of 4.192
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Monday, November 8. 1971
Evaluation Begins
Parking Stickers To Go on Sale When Possible
Amchitka Blast Believed A Success by Scientists
AMCHITK ISLAND, Alaska (AP)—Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) scientists began Sunday analyzing data from a new nuclear explosion. The AEC also started
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The nearly five-megaton explosion occurred a fraction of a second after its 4-year lifespan.
work to restore this remote island to its natural state.
By JOHN GOODRICK Kansan Staff Writer
Amchitka Test Is Felt By KU's Seismograph
At 4:08:55 p.m. Saturday the ground in Lawrence moved five thousandths of a millimeter from the underground excavation site to the Amchitka island off the coast of Alaska.
Peoples said that because of the sensitivity of the instruments the exact travel time could be measured to one tenth of a second.
The explosion of the bomb on Amchitka took place at 4 p.m. and the travel time for the seismic waves was roughly 8 hours. The explosion to James Professors, professor of geology
Peoples had earlier estimated the explosion would be recorded on the Richter scale at a magnitude of 6.5 for the body wave. The actual wave measurement was probably lower because of hardness of the rock in the Aleutian islands. Peoples said his estimates were
Peoples said he had to "laugh at alarmists" who predicted everything from tidal waves to the breaking off of California from the coast. He said there was the possibility of danger but that the chances of anything were remote.
"The results helped us learn a whole lot about earthquakes and how the earth earth."
made by scaling up similar recordings from the Nevada test site where the researchers conducted their research.
The vibrations, Peoples said, were a "signature" of the explosion. Unlike most meteorites, magnitude that large, relatively weak, and hard to record. On KU's machine, Peoples said the surface waves didn't show up on the first graph produced by the machine.
Peoples said the Richter scale, from 1 to 10, is logarithmic. An increase of one earthquake has a logarithmic release of the previous number. Peoples said the fact that the scale is logarithmic multiplies the effect of the difference of 5 from 6.5 from 6.5, from the actual recorded value of 7.0.
The seismograph in Lindley Hall, Peoples said, magnifies the ground movement of a 50-mm biggest jump on the graph was about 60 mm which represented the maximum ground movement of five thousands of a meter. People's said the movement could not be measured.
AEC Chairman James R. Schlesinger announced it was apparently a successful test of the Spartan antiballistic missile warhead.
Maj. Gen. Edward Giller, the AEC's assistant general manager for military application, said he was satisfied that agreements for the weapon had been met.
The AEC has another partially dug bomb shaft on Amchitka, but officials said the commission had no plans at this time for further tests on the island, which was one of the most important testers—the 80-kilon "Longshad" in 1985 and the one-megan "Milow" in 1969.
"IM CONFIDENT from the data we
have at that test won't be
necessary," he said.
Despite predictions by opponents of the test that the explosion might cause environmental damage, there were no destructive earthquake or seismic sea waves and no radiation leakage into the atmosphere.
AEC OFFICIALS said scores of monitoring devices on the island, some of which rung the 6,000-foot shaft into which the antenna was lowered, detected no trace of radiation.
The AEC said it may be months before scientists fully analyze data from films taken of instrumental panels and recorders.
"We have conducted the test with complete safety," said Schlesinger, who brought his wife and two of their eight sons to Amchitka as a show of confidence.
The area of the island at ground zero was covered with debris. A large, corrugated metal-sided building and instrument stored there never, although the building sagged slightly.
About 200 yards from ground zero, a small ridge-like hill was cracked severely.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Kansan Staff Photo by HANK YOUNG
William Buckley, spokesman for American conservatives, addressed a Chamber of Commerce luncheon of 600 persons Friday in Nixon and the United Nations. See story on Page 2.
Three Faculty Receive HOPE Award
Bremner, Schultz, Knapper honor by seniors . . .
Kansan Staff Photo by HANK YOUNG
HOPE Award Honors 3 Faculty For Ability, Willingness to Educate
By DIANE CARR
Kansan Staff Writer
The senior class announced the three recipients of the 1971 HOPE Award Saturday during half-time ceremonies of the KU-Colorado game.
The faculty members honored by the senior class were John B. Bremner, associate professor of journalism, Arnose F. Knapper, associate professor of business and Elizabeth Schultz, assistant professor of english.
The purpose of the HOPE (Honor the Outstanding Progressive Educators) Award is to give students the opportunity to make the most of their teachers who are outstanding in their field.
THE HOPE AWARD is the only award given to a member of the faculty by KU students in the department of teachers, were awarded for the award by the fall enrollment. During the semester two votes were taken by the senior class and individual interviews were conducted by the HOPE Award Committee. The results are combined to choose the recipients of the award.
The HOPE Award was founded by the class of 1959 through a $2,500 endowment. The annual award is the interest drawn from the fund for that year.
The finalists were chosen because of their willingness to help students, excellence in their field of education and ability to stimulate the student, said Herk Russell, Iola senior, and chairman of the HOPE Award committee.
This year three awards were given in advance of one so that the professional staff could participate.
BREMNER WAS born in Brisbane, Australia. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy at Propaganda Fide University in Rome in 1941 and his doctorate in philosophy at Harvard in 1964 he received his doctorate at the University of Iowa, where he taught for
seven years before coming to KU.
Bremner does not think that grades and finals are important. His classes are small so that it is easy to personally evaluate his student's ability and progress, he said.
Bremner heads the journalism graduate school and is dean's representative and chairman of the University Daily Kansan Board.
grading process. This change would have to begin a graded school level, not at level level.
Miss Schultz received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in Massachusetts and her master's degree from the University of Michigan.
KNAPPER RECEIVED his bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Iowa. He came to KU in 1967. Knapper said that he does not consider himself to be a teacher, he said he feels that he helps students to learn rather than simply teach them.
Miss Schultz said she thought that there should be a sweeping change of the whole
THE OTHER finalists included Kenneth Armitage, professor of biology; Norman Forer, assistant professor of social welfare; Don W. Green, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering; Robert W. McColl, associate professor of anthropology; Peter Moos, professor of anthropology and East Asian studies; Jeanne Stump, instructor of art history; and Flora Wyatt, teaching education in education.
Law Students Recommend Withdrawal from Senate
BY ROBIN GROOM Kansan Staff Writer
An ad hoc committee of Law School that was set up to investigate the funding of the Law School by the Student Senate and that convened a senate at a law school meeting Friday.
"We found that the Student Senate is not serving our interests," said Dennis Harris, co-chairman of the committee and treasurer of the Student Bar Association.
Harris and David Dysart, co-chairman of the committee and a former ombudsman for the University, presented the following information on a chart of the faculty. (See below.) School: KU Laws receive $380, the National Environmental Law fund
receives $1,025, the Legal Aid fund
receives $2,300 and the Law Review
receives $2,000. The total amount of $6,858
is the Law School from the activity
for funds.
The Law School's present enrollment of 70 students pays $1,260 to the senate in lieu of the average salary.
Of the $11,280, $5,595 goes to the athletic department, the University Theatre, the Kansan, the Student Senate, the Concert Hall, and other organizations outside the Law School.
Another chart showed that 38.52 per cent of the activity fee goes to the athletic department. In other words, $4,470.19 from it helps to subsidize the athletic department.
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