THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Indians Resent Columbus Day
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No.31
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Tuesday, October 12, 1971
Duncan Photographs On Display in Union
A student passes in front of a photograph of Pablo Picasso which is a collection by David Douglas Duncan, currently on display at the Kansas Union. The photograph is part of
Vern Miller Has Not Contacted Gaslight Since He Threatened It
By LARRY CHRIST
Kansan Staff Writer
Although Atty. Gen. Vern Miller announced recently that he was “contemplating action” to close the Gaslight, 1241 Oread SL., little action has occurred since that threat and Reggie Scarburgh, the tavern has not been notified by Miller.
"We know only what we have read in the papers," Scaribrough and Monday, "He has been to many conferences."
Miller announced his intentions the day following his Sept. 24 drug raid in Lawrence. He said he would follow any law that would limit the flow of drugs in this area.
A sign posted in front of the Gaslight asks that no motorcycles be parked in front of the tavern. But this, according to Scarbrough, was placed at the request of local health department officials and not because of the attorney general.
"THEY ONLY SUGGESTED that we keep the cycles from parking there," he said. "They were obstacles to trucks delivering food and beer inside."
Scarrbaugh said he felt Miller's suggested intentions to close the Gaslight
"We've always had someone on the floor trying to keep out drugs long before Miller was born."
Scarrab said he occasionally heard certain customers attempting to buy or sell drugs. These persons, he believed, were agents of Miller trying to get evidence for possible arrests of drug violators.
"We have no great amount of drug traffic," he said.
Liquor Watch Has Helped, Says Miller
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Atty. Gen. Vern Miller said that publicity about his crackdown on drinking on state property at college football games has had a beneficial effect in enforcing the law, even if there haven't been any arrests.
Still, Scarbrough admitted he felt threatened by the attorney general's remarks, and said he wasn't sure what theiller could take to close the Gaslight.
Although opened for business only a month, the New Haven, occupying the old Rock Chalk Cafe building at 618 W. 12th St., was filled by Miller for drug law violators.
Miller said Monday he was not aware of any arrests at all resulting from surveillance he ordered at state college football games, but said, "I feel it's helped. At least they're not as flagrant about it."
"We know we're being watched—by his (Miller's) own admission," said John Pitt, manager and owner of the new business. "But we don't feel any apprehension. Our traffic in customers is even slow right now."
"If everyone is aware that per-
missiveness is not prevalent, it's a great da-
ment to have.
PITT SAID THAT he, on his own initiative, met with Miller shortly after the New Haven opened. He declined to elaborate on what was discussed.
Virgil Cooper, according to Pitt, still owns the building and equipment, as he did during the Rock Chalk Cate years. But, he has seen a different from the Rock Chalk operation.
The opening of the New Haven was the first business to open at that location since the Rock Chalk Cafe was closed in the Spring of 1971. Since that time, however, samples were unsuccessfully made to reopen and cate under different management.
Beer Application by Union On Commission Agenda
By ERICKRAMER
and BARBARA SPURLOCK Kansan Staff Writers
The Lawrence City Commission will consider whether to issue a cereal malt beverage license to the Kansas Union at its regular meeting at 2 p.m. today.
The license was considered at last week's meeting, but the commission deferred it until this week part because the city attorney wasn't present, and because some commissioners thought it should be made of Regents should make the decision.
The regents did not take an official stand on the issue during their Sept. 17 meeting.
The commission will also discuss its written response to the Meninger report. The commission's response was released Thursday. The Meninger report was prepared in June after the Meninger report and community relations related in Lawrence...
Although most of the commission's response was general, two of the proposals were included in the 1972 budget. These are the hiring of a full-time police-community relations officer and an additional staff member for the city's human resources department. The rest of the recommendations in the Meminger report were budgeted. City officials have had budgets that tax on increases for the lack of funding.
SOME OF THE OTHER things the Menninger study points out as necessary and recommendations are (1) curtailing the tensions between police and minority groups
in Lawrence by establishing recreational activities together on a voluntary basis; (2) police-citizen patrols in which a citizen would accompany officers in a squar car as an observer; (3) the establishment of a police patrol with a patrolmen with their individual districts better; (4) a continuation of attempts to improve relations between the police department and Haskell Indian Junior college and (5) construction of low-income buildings.
Jon A. Blubaugh of the KU department of continuing education is preparing a proposal for a racial awareness program in Lawrence. Buford Watson, city attorney, said he would not approve the program if it were not similar to the Meininger proposals.
Other than discussing the response to the Menninger program, and considering the
beer license application, the commission will:
—Present service awards to employees with 10 and 25 years of service.
- Consider proclaiming. Nov. 8-14 "Youth Appreciation Week."
- -CONSIDER several proposed no-parking zones.
- Consider a proposal to create duplex-
zoning in Lawrence.
—Consider several zoning changes.
Olin Petefish, attorney for the Union,
said he contended that the commission
should issue the license if the Union met
the requirements. He said he thought the
Union would only sell canned beer in
eating areas.
Under Kansas law, cereal malt beverage licenses are issued by cities. An applicant can file a court appeal if he is refused a license, Petefish said.
Agnew Visits Turkey; U.S. Targets Bombed
ANKARA (AP) - Bombs hurled at two American targets marked the beginning Monday. Vice-President Sprot T. Foster, 33da, died in Iraq on Tuesday and Greece. The bombs exploded inistanba, 220 miles northwest of berea, a few hours before Ameera's plane landed.
U. S. officials in Istanbul said an attempt
Sadat Visits Moscow For Peace Plan Talk
MOSCOW (AP)—President Anwar Salaf of Sudan fleed to Moscow Monday to decide-with the Kremlin's help-on a plan for U.S. proposal for peace in the Middle East.
Forty-eight ours of intensive discussion with the top Soviet leadership has been scheduled, but Satad postponed Monday night's talks in the Kremlin until be could confer with Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad.
According to Egypt's official Middle East news agency, Sadat delayed the first session with Communist party leader Leond I. Brezhnev, President Nikolai V. Podoryadin and Premier Alexei K. Kosygin in a meeting with interim Middle East agreement with Riad.
Egyptian Embassy officials said: "The negotiations will start at 10 o'clock the next day."
Apparently Sadat wants to formulate his own opinion of the six-point proposal put forward last week by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but he sits down with the Kremlin leaders.
The Russians made it clear that they expected definite progress from the talks.
Preparatory sessions for the talks have already been held by Sadat's war minister, Mohammed Almed Sadek, who arrived here last Friday.
There have been no official reports on their discussions, but it was widely believed Sadek was shopping for more military hardware to counter a possible U.S. decision to resume arms shipments to Israel.
Riad met with Rogers for more than an hour in New York last Friday to discuss the U.S. plan for an interim settlement. The Egyptian foreign minister, and presumably his government, has strong reservations about such an agreement, even if it means the opening of the blocked Size Canal.
Riad has stressed that he fears a temporary solution might well turn into a permanent situation, without settling the long crisis with a true peace agreement.
was made to throw a bomb over the force of the U.S. Consulate General grounds, but the device fell short and exploded, causing no damage. The second bomb blew up the car of Ken汀 Reith, a U.S. cultural attraction. The car was parked in front of his home.
The Consulate was closed for Columbus Day. Turkey's martial law government ordered the nation's press to print no stories of the explosions.
Agnew said in an arrival statement that the U.S. commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—of which Turkey is a stand on a foundation of bedrock."
Agnew was met at the airport by Premier Nihat Erim. They rode the 20 miles into city along a highway cleared of traffic and lined by clusters of Turks.
AGNEW TOLD Eirm that "the link our two countries have shared in NATO for more than a decade remains vital, not only because of the security but also to the peace of the world."
On the flight from Washington, the vice-president voiced opposition to any congressional bung on military aid to the last and longest stop on his current trip.
He said Congress would be "impairing and impeding" a foreign policy jeopardized by the war.
Agnew is to spend two days conferring with Erim and other officials of the Turkish coalition government, which faces a possible crisis over conservative resistance to political reform moves the premiere advocates.
The vice-president flies Wednesday to Iran to represent the United States at the 2,500th anniversary celebration of the Persian monarchy.
Identity, Relations Affect Mental Balance of Students
By ANN CONNER Kansan Staff Writer
At the University of Kansas, approximately one in every 25 students visits the Mental Health Service each school year with problems ranging from minor to moderate adjustment and no psychiatric illness to severe psychoneuroses and suicide attempts.
In a recent series of interviews with local mental health professionals, the most characteristic causes of mental health problems in the college age group mentioned were establishment of self-identity and of interpersonal relationships.
A typical case might be that of a college senior who打瞅了 a test in the last course and then learned it was in his major, he had not studied for the test because he realized a week before that he was no longer interested in the subject. He spent all hundred hours and dollars to learn.
Not only was he uninterested in what he was supposed to be doing, he was also not sure what he would rather do. Too depressed to go home, he wandered into a local bar and gets drunk as quickly as possible, but not before he sees his girl come in with another guy. The next day he watches at 1 p.m. and realizes he has slept in a job interview that morning. A sense of physical overcomes him as he slouches into a chair and begins to doubt that such a world can be real.
OR CONSIDER the case of a young wife,
21 and already worried because she and
her husband fight much more often than
before. She discovers she is pregnant
before the couple can support a child either emotionally or financially. Too afraid to tell her husband, she waits until almost time for him to come home, shakily writes a short note signed "with love," leaves it on his chair, and goes into the room where she stares blankly for several minutes at a bottle of sleeping pills.
Are these people mentally ill? Their peculiar cases are hypothetical but real. Can they disrupt the mental balance of people in the 18 to 25 age range. Unlike physical health
"What someone may define as emotional illness, someone else may say is just doing their own thing."
problems, mental health problems are not as easily defined. There are usually no specific laboratory tests to be performed and the standards to identify a particular disease.
"We work more with a continuum from health to disease and there is no really clear dividing line," said Dr. Donald K. Roberts of Kansas Medical Center psychiatrist.
"With physical health it is a continuum, but there are specific guidelines to define the disease. What someone may define as their own illness may also say is just doing their own thing."
BRADA SAID most mental illness was an exaggeration of normal behavior. The difference, he suggested, was one of quantity, not quality.
"Most emotional problems are simply the extremes quantitatively of ordinary behavior." Bruda said. "There are some who are averse to being successfully get depressed. But at some other time they might have a very severe depression. It's a real issue."
Dr. Sydney Schroeder, director of the KU Mental Health Service, said recent studies showed that approximately 10 per cent of all college students need some help, although only 4 per cent of the KU Medical School had the mental Health Clinic last year.
"It possible to be effective as a student and still be severely crippled psychologically in other ways," he said. "Some students that we consider rather ill are functioning very effectively (in school work)."
Schroeder said college students were usually receptive to mental health care and did not worry as much about the stress ofigma of seeking help with mental problems.
"T'S KIND OF frightening for a lot of people to acknowledge severe problems," in their attitudes toward mental health, the lack of empathy and having a lot of resistance. The situation hasn't changed much in the last five years but it did rare change from World War II
"Before World War II, it was really a stigma to be considered emotionally ill."
Since then, the stigma has been removed. The old idea was that you had to be raving crazy. It was thought you didn't need help and then you went to a hospital and then they just put you away."
In the 1970-71 school year, the percentage of total attendance at the KU Mental Health Clinic (bcl class was: seniors, 27 per cent; juniors, 20 per cent; sophomores, 18 per cent; freshmen, 13 per cent; students, 18 per cent, and others 4 per cent.
Schroeder considers college students to be more willing and cooperative patients
"They (college students) expect more and usually they can get more out of it. They are not as successful a group is a particularly good group to get results from. They are not set yet in their life style; they are still more available for change since they are in a period of change
SOME TYPES of mental health problems are more frequent than others at
"They're getting ready to make a vocational choice and beginning to decide what life style they are going to adopt. There is also a struggle to establish a sexual identity. All of these problems present themselves in different ways."
"There are enough married students now that we see quite a few marriage problems as well as study difficulties, and there are lots of kids that are kind of outcasts. We've been met on best stages of growing up and establishing their final identity," he said.
In 1970, the psychiatric clinic handled
In the general public, the same problems are most frequent in the 18 to 30 age group. Brada said the Medical Center's psychiatric clinic in Kansas City served a wide cross-section of the population and included economic levels as well as those on welfare.
about 20,000 outpatient visits and revisits plus over 600 impatiens.
"Most of the problems we see from 18 through the 20s are related to marriage and family and other situations of men in relationship with another person," Brada said.
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