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Wednesday, December 6, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Family Planning Pushed
By PAT BREITENSTEIN Kansan Staff Writer
A program of family planning education could become part of the curriculums of Kansas high schools if two bills recommended for passage by an interim legislative health committee are approved by the Kansas legislature.
The interim committee, headed by Sen. Ross Doyne, R-Concordia, recommended passage of the bills after a series of committees and gave the need for better family planning education.
One of the bills would authorize local school boards to contract with county health departments to supply contraception and birth control information, desiring it. The other bill would authorize the state board of health to provide funds for family planning programs to any agency, public or private, that is engaged in providing information, procedures and summits.
IN AN INTERVIEW WEDNAY, Doyen said the purpose of the bills was to get contraception and family planning information to people who needed it.
He said the hearings found that in some areas of Kansas this type of information was difficult to obtain. The hearings also undersigned about general disease and pregnancy.
Many young women haven't any knowledge about syphilis or gonorrhea, he said. He studied a study of 20 women in which 13 were infected with syphilis, but were unaware of this condition.
He said this did not mean that any group of 20 women would reveal the same statistics, but it did show there was a lack of education in this area.
Doyen stressed the educational aspect of these programs, and said that they were not meant to be a substitute for a teacher.
"THEE JUST should be someone to explain these facts," he said.
Doyen said the program would be handled by qualified people. The Board of Education could have a health department nurse come in and teach classes we have classes a half day each week, he said.
Doyen said he thought there would be opposition to the bills in the legislature. It was too much of a threat.
He also said he realized there would be public opposition to such a program. "Sure there will be public opposition. There is opposition to any change." he said.
"When asked about the effect of possible compromises, Doyen said it was impossible to predict what would happen in the legislature.
DR. DALLE CLINTON of the Douglas County Health Dept. said that information about contraception should be taught on a regular basis and there were no laws to prevent this now.
He questioned the need for new state programs and said there was a danger in
College Awards Seniors, Sophs For Achievement
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences presented awards to three seniors and 24 sophomores Monday for academic excellence at the University of Kansas.
Seniors receiving the Paul B. Lawson Award for high academic achievement were: Am C. Bolinger, Kansas City, Kan., and Paul B. Campbell, Boston, Mass.; and Paul C. Shellit, Wichita state
The Lawson award was established in memory of Paul B. Lawson, a former dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and is presented annually to the student or students who have achieved the highest standing after three years in the College.
Sophomores receiving the Veta B. Lear Award for academic excellence were: Paul Arnold, Leavenworth sophomore; Christine Davis, Leawood sophomore; Elizabeth Dillon, Hutchinson sophomore; Barbara Dohnal, Omaha, Neb., sophomore; Deborah Drummond, Overland Park sophomore; Patrick Gorman, Prairie Village Stephen Gagnon, Zurich sophomore; Patrick Gorman, Prairie Village Stephen Gagnon, Gruffield Lawrence sophomore; Deborah Guy overland sophomore; Toby Hartong, Leawood sophomore; Patricia Hermann, Leavenworth sophomore; and Patricia Hirsch, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore.
Other recipients of the Lear award were:
John Hoffman, Parsons sophomore; Daniel Logan, Topea sophomore; John McNeil, Manhattan sophomore; Eric Meyer, Marion sophomore; John W. Nitcher, Lawrence sophomore; Richard Paxson, Baxter Springs sophomore; Charles Ruder, Ruder Ruder, Hays sophomore; Beverly Sigal sophomore; Mark Sinning, Holton sophomore; Gary L. Taylor, Topea sophomore; and Joel Wallman, Prairie Village sophomore.
SAB Requests Official Status
The School of Education's Student Advisory Board (SAB) decided Tuesday to recommend to the school's ad hoc code revisions committee that SAB be recognized as the school's official student organization.
SAB expects to present the recommendation Dec. 13 to the code revisions committee, which is a temporary group organized to modernize the school's code.
"We want to be recognized as the official voice of the students," said Steve Corder, Oklahoma City senior, and SAB member, "and we would like to have 50 per cent of the total representation on all policy-making boards in the school of education."
such bills because the legislature could make compromises that would weaken the bill and might limit the ability of the health department in the area of family planning education.
Clinton objected to calling these programs family planning and said that they should be called 'contraception' programs. He said that people already knew how to plan families, now they needed to know how to prevent them.
Clinton said there was little that could be done about the problem of venereal disease. The county health department now treats about 60 cases each month.
CARL KNOX, superintendent of schools in Lawrence, said he thought that family planning was an appropriate area for various aspects of the school curriculum. However, he said he didn't think it was necessary for the state to operate in this
Knox said the legislature was a state body and perhaps was not as aware of the problems of education as were the local boards.
He said the local district staffs could determine whether this type of a program should operate in a public health or public school area.
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