Health, Housing and Security Make Records Inevitable
Editor's Note: This is the last of a three part series that deals with the confidentiality of student records kept by the University.
By MARY WARD
Kongan Stuff Writer
The University is a community in itself. The University is involved with, among other things, the health, housing, security and counseling needs of its students. Along with the services provided come the inevitable records.
Martha Ward, assistant to the dean of women, said the records are needed for writing recommendations and for use in individual counseling. She said it was the case that information like the names and addresses of relatives for emergency situations.
The personnel offices such as the offices of the deans of women and men keep more records on how information is gathered. Records include information about student housing, disciplinary problems, correspondence the office might have with students, and sometimes information gathered in counseling.
MRS. WARD said that a student can
know about everything in her file. Most letters of reference written by dean of women staff members are also kept in this file.
The dean of women's staff has access to the files. University residence hall directors are considered as part of the staff. Greek scholarship chairmen receive their degrees in their house because the students give them permission to release these grades.
Records involving disciplinary matters now are usually destroyed within a year
matters now are usually destroyed within an hour. Mrs. Ward said she thought the confidentiality of records was an important issue. She said it was vital to be able to assure students of confidentiality, particularly a student would come in to be counseled.
CLARK COAN, dean of foreign students, said that his office was required by the United States Immigration Bureau to keep information on students' visas, their sources of financial support and their class schedules.
Foreign students receive student visas and they must take a full course of study or require a foreign study abroad.
Bureau says that foreign students must have permission to work, and if a foreign student wants to work for the University, a visa of foreign students office must approve.
Coan said all of the folders are confidential and a student has to release information before it can be given out. Sometimes the government of a student's school asks for the signature of an individual student. Coan said if that government had given the student some kind of financial aid they would send the grades if the student had signed a form which gave them the permission to do so. Sometimes cases they would talk to the student first.
THE MEDICAL RECORDS of students are only open to the student, the doctors at Watkins and nurses and technicians under appropriate circumstances. Dr. Raymond Schwegel, Jr., director of the health service, said the people that were hired are medical students. They are old they will be fired if they give any information to an unauthorized person.
A student must sign a release form before his chart, which is his medical
record, is given out. If the patient's chart has an entry that he might not want released, Schweiger said he would talk to him before the chart was released. He cited the example of a patient who had signed a release for an insurance company to have his information realized that his chart included information of a mental disorder he had experienced.
SCHWEGLER SAID a student's parents did not have access to information about their daughter or son's medical record. But, for example, when a student can no longer be responsible for himself or if he required on a single person under 21, the patient weger said they usually could persuade students to tell their relatives themselves. Personnel offices receive lists of who is in the hospital. The lists state conditions but give no specific information. The patient who calls who calls kind of night of a patient had personal offices are sometimes needed to locate relatives or friends of patients.
Schweigler said occasionally a psychotic accuses people in the health service of being underage.
received very little criticism for giving out too much information. Once the records of a student were subpoenaed and they had to answer those records but this is unusual.
THE GUIDANCE BUREAU keeps two kinds of information. The ACT scores of all entering students are kept in its files. Etsy, the online marketplace for bureau, said these scores were used when it would be useful in counseling students who come in. A student has access to his scores. The other kind of information is received in individual counseling with a student.
Collister said, "If a student comes over on the suggestion of a staff member, we never release the information that we get but we might help the referrer understand what is happening. We would be happy to help him sort out his information but we do not add any of ours."
A student can have information release, but Collister said they would not allow someone to go through a student's folder. A teacher should pass through his folder without some guidance.
COLLISTER SAID, "We retain information so as not to prevent people from knowing what is in there but to be sure that the information they get is understandable to them."
The bureau will not release old information on a student to someone even if that student requests it. Collister and this was because people change. The information gathered on someone in his or her college may be correct five years after he graduated. Collister and they would be happy to help someone update the information.
Some of the information is used for research but the researcher must have the background necessary to do the work he proposes to do. He must also obtain the permission of every individual who would be involved.
COLLISER SAID there was a non-confidential file with some statistics such as the ACT scores but it did not have names or student numbers.
He said the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct has not affected the procedure of the Bureau except in the area of research. It is now very
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82nd Year, No.39
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
244 Praise Kansan; Rip Senate Cut
"Therefore, we request complete refunding of that portion of our activity fee allocated formerly to the UDK subscriptions."
A group of KU students worked from 11 p.m. to 1:15 this morning gathering signatures for a letter which censures the Student Senate's action which cut off activity fee money for the University Daily Kansan.
First the letter was voted on and approved by an unanimous vote of the third floor of Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall, Joseph R. Pearson's apartment, theska sophomore and president of the house.
2 Sought In Incident At Ellsworth
Copies of the letter were printed and the movement spread through the hall. Fatty Sullivan, Jacksonville, ILL., freshman, and several other students were recruited and the students went to at least four other residence halls.
"We wanted students to know what is going on," Cooper said.
They gathered 244 signatures at the late hour from KU residence halls, and said they met very few people who opposed the policy they called the response overwhelming.
The letter, written by Greg Cooper, Stafford freshman, and Bill McMurry, Saint Joseph, Mo., senior, says: "We of JRH Residence Hall would like to take advantage of our reputation among college newspapers. As constituents, we appreciate the quality of this fine newspaper more than our nonrepresentative student senators, who have, contrary to the well-being of this community, contributed funds from the operating budget of the UDK.
"It is impossible for us to condone such rash actions on the part of our senators. Lacking good reasons, and in a power play, the Senators have once again demonstrated the credibility gap which exists between them and those they are supposed to be representing. We definitely need the UDK, if for no other reason than because of the actions of our infamous Senate to us unsuspecting students.
Option 1st Choice 2nd Choice 3rd Choice
Option 1st Choice 2nd Choice 3rd Choice
A 921 511 434
B 754 592 260
C 546 262 289
D 74 207 253
E 28 81 66
F 225 550 362
G 347 554 529
H 306 114 313
Vote Breakdown
Friday, October 22, 1971
Senate Meeting Called; Kansan Cut on Agenda
David Bartel, Kansan hero, directed his staff to work as if there would
By ERIC KRAMER
Kansan Staff Writer
Student Body President Dave Miller has called a special meeting of the Student Senate to consider restoring funds to the University Daliy Kansan.
The Senate voted Wednesday night to cut off all funds for the Kansan until the University Daily Kansan Board composition was changed to conform to a plan the Senate voted for last spring. The Senate vote last spring was not binding because Charles Oldfather, University Attorney, said a change in the board would be to be approved by both the Senate and the faculty of the School of Journalism.
John B. Breemer, chairman of the Kansas board, has said that the board should provide oversight.
“This is to inform you I have called a special meeting of the Student Senate for Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1971, at 6:30 p.m in the Kansas Room of the Student Union. The only item on the agenda is my request to reconsider the freeze on the University Daily Kansan subscription account as well as the regular enrollment. Please inform the Student Executive Committee and the Student Senate.”
In a memorandum to R. L. Bailey,
chairman of the Student Senate Executive
Committee, Mr. Bailey wrote:
be a Kansan Monday until the board meets.
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At the meeting it was argued that the journalism faculty would agree to a new board with a student majority if the proposal were made.
North College, Susan Goering;
Nunemaker College, Patrik Newstrom;
Pearson College, Heather McCallugh;
College College, Joseph Cullough;
Oliver College, John Beasner and Pat Otto.
The Kansan budget for this year calls for $90,000 from advertising revenues and $40,000 from the Senate. The Kansan is expected to have a $20,000 deficit which may require a reserve fund, according to figures disclosed at a recent Kansan board meeting.
Brenner said that Thursday the reserve fund would contain $6,000 at the end of the year if both the advertising revenues and the sales from the Senate came in as was expected.
The money which was to be given to the Kansan by the Senate was part of an expected $254,000 which will be collected this year from student activity fees.
In races for College-within-theCollege Student Senate seats left open by the Senate last spring these candidates were elected:
Senators Elected
Status Quo Number One In Activity Fee Question
Bv ROBIN GROOM
and ERICKRAMER Kansan Staff Writers
The fee option poll taken Wednesday and Thursday seems to favor the present
Option A, the present system, receives 921 most preferred votes. Option B, which would cut funding for student responses, received 745 most preferred votes.
The poll, held during freshman elections, asked students to choose their first, second and third choices from a list of eight options.
There were 3,447 fee option polls turned in at the booth votes, according to David Miller. Student Body President. This is a program that allows students' campus student body of 18,518 students.
Tuck Duncan, advisor to the Elections Committee, said the complete election results were needed for each student to complete interpretation and analysis of the election poll.
The alternatives on the ballot were:
A. Continuation of the present $24-a-year student activity fee to be allocated by the Student Senate for: Student Senate, Kansan subscriptions, athletic admissions, subsidies, University Theatre, Concert Hall, intramurals and student organizations.
B. An $18-a-year student activity fee to be allocated by the Student Senate for:
Student Senate, Kansan subscriptions,
admissions subsides, University Thesis Course, University Film Series and intramurals, but not student organizations.
C. A $12-a-year student activity fee to be allocated by the Student Senate for: Student Senate, Kansan subscriptions, student organizations, University Theatre, Concert Course, University Film Series, and University Music Admissions subsidies are not included.
D. A $6-a-year student activity fee to be
allocated by the Student Senate for:
Student Senate and Kansan subscriptions.
It does not include athletic admission
subsides, 'University Theatre, Concert
Course, University Film Series,
intramurals or student organizations.
E. A $30-a-year student activity fee to be allocated by the Student Senate for: Student Senate, but does not include Kansas subscriptions, athletic admission Concert Course, University Film Series, intramurals or student organizations.
F. A $12-a-year student activity fee to be allocated by the Student Senate for: Student Senate, Kansan subscriptions and student organizations. An additional $18 activity ticket would be made available to students who need funds for athletic admission subsidies, University Theater, Concert Course, University Film Series and intramurals.
G. A $6-a-year student activity fee to be
allocated by the Student Senate for:
1. The College of Education.
An $18 activity ticket would be mage available to the students to provide funds for: athletic admission subsidies, University Theatre, Concert Course, University Film Series and intramurals. H. No activity fee.
The results of the poll will go to the Finance and Auditing Committee and the Student Senate for review and further action. Miller thought the inclement weather was partly responsible for the small voter turnout on the fee survey.
He said on Wednesday that lack of interest on this issue would be an indication to him that students were satisfied with the status quo.
In the freshman class elections Rick McLaughlin, Dallas freshman, won the presidential race. He ran as a candidate of the CBS Coalition and received 217 votes. Rick McLaughlin and Populli Party received 215 votes. There were six candidates and 650 were counted.
Scott McFadden, an independent, was elected freshman class vice-president
Court Nominees Surprise; Mitchell Letter Slaps Bar
The President described both Powell, and Rehnquist, 47, as judicial cons-
tultors.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lewis F. Powell, a soft-spoken Virginia trial lawyer, and William F. Rehquist, an assistant U.S. attorney general, were President Nixon's surprise nominations Thursday night for the Supreme Court.
Nixon's announcement brought the Justice Department's uneasy alliance with the American Bar Association (ABA) on court nominees to an explosive end.
He reiterated his often-stated view that
the "balance of power" in American society was turning against "the peace forces," and indicated that Powell and Rehnquist would work to correct the shift. Senate hearings on the appointments are expected to begin in about 10 days.
Minutes after the Nixon address, the White House released a letter by Atty. Gen. John Mitchell directed to the ABA which said: "The events of the past week have made it clear" that there was no practical way to avoid "unauthorized disclosure of the names submitted and the advice of your committee."
'Creative Sense of Community' Important for Forer
Editor's Note: This is the second in a
interviews with the 10 HOPE
affirmers.
By JOHN BAILEY
Kansan Staff Writer
Forer also said that teaching was probably the most advantageous way of finding oneself, that it was financially easier than practicing the arts, the most rewarding.
Norman Forer, assistant professor of Social Welfare, views teaching as "a very exciting way of establishing a creative community around important social issues."
"The University is a comfortable place to grow old in, graciously." Forer said, and he wrote.
One of the things Foster likes most about the University of Kansas is the atmosphere he finds within the School of Engineering, and said he had complete academic freedom.
FORER SAID he had found no evidence of backstabbing, careerism at the expense of one's colleagues, or attempting to make it as a one man show.
"Within the School of Social Welfare, there is no intellectual competition," Forer said, "only intellectual support." Forer said he thought the conditions he faced in college would therefore warre were the result of a healthy atmosphere on the part of the carmus as a whole.
"I've never experienced an atmophere that's as warm, and friendly and helpful as this one."
"THE TRADITIONAL grading system is the main barrier to effective learning," Forer said. "The students have been programmed to view the classroom as a factory for grades rather than a place of learning."
He said that under the traditional grading system, the student becomes a mimic, capable of catering only to what he considers to be the whims of the professor.
Forer sees a growing alienation between the students of today and the society they will enter upon leaving school. He thinks students are alienated by the mature of a generation who do not know the bureaucratized, impersonal organization in which the ways to create one's own life
Forer said that one of the problems contributing to this alienation was that students didn't have a sense of national history. He said that earlier schooling had built false images of this country's institutions and that the students had been led to believe that the country's government knew them, when they came to the University, then they had facts concerning the national history and purpose and they felt alienated.
become fewer and fewer.
ANOTHER CHANGE Forer said he had seen in students their acceptance of their limitations. He said that today's students were more willing to try to solve one issue at a time and that they had realized the unreality of instant solutions
Facer does not see the major problem facing the University of Kansas as a financial one. Finances have always been a problem for nonprofit organizations, he said.
"I see the problem of the University, as a public institution, becoming a political people," Forest *Nor*enacademic people, outside government, possessive and make political rather than
academic demands on the school."
Forer plans to stay at the University of Kansas for a while. He would like to devote himself to research, creative writing, and, most of all, to teaching.
FORER SAID he thought the main
reason to teach is to teach,
but what is it he paid to do?
Forer said instructors and students be colleagues in the pursuit of knowledge.
Forer received a B.A. degree in English
Forer is not a friend of traditional finals. "As traditionally oriented, they are an instrument for the creation of mass paranoma," he said. "Students surrender a sense of self, a trust of their own judgment, even a respect for self in order to fulfill a moral more often than not, makes no sense to them in terms of their own self-development.
"A FINAL SHOULD be a learning experience. Learning, by its very nature, has to be derived from the mutual consent of the instructor and the student. Finals that are derived out of this mutual consent can be given in the type I and my class get engaged in."
In 1961, Forer began working in a sheltered workshop training the mentally retarded. While there, he attended Seton Hall University in New Jersey where he received an M.A. degree in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling.
from Queens College in 1948. He began graduate work at Columbia University but dropped out to become a machinist in a factory. While in the factory, he became involved in the labor movement where he worked in negotiations and social service.
AFTER RECEIVING his degree, he worked as the director of a training program for female narcotics addicts. He was also responsible for duty with the Anti-Poverty program.
While on duty with the Anti-Poverty Program, he taught classes in sociology at the Middlesex County Community College. In 1968, he was offered the position of extension associate for the training programs for poor people offered by the University. In 1969, he was hired at the School of Urban Science at Shaw University in North Carolina for one year before coming to the University of Kansas in 1970.
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Norman Forer