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University Daily Kansan, March 29, 1982
Sects reflect discontent with traditional healing
By TOM HUTTON Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Most medical sects, which flourished in the 1800s, have faded into obscurity. However, the non-traditional practices of a few have evolved into accepted medical techniques, Robert Hudson, chairman of the University's medical department at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said Saturday.
"These cults came as a result of poor confidence in the accepted practices of medicine," Hudson said. "They can come at any time and any place when people lose faith in the science of medicine.
In 1836, there were 27 groups in the United States that Hudson termed secs because of their beliefs in non-traditional medicine.
Two of these sects, osteopathy and chiropractic, advocated curing all of the body's problems through spinal manipulation. Both of these sects have little use in common with their early predecessors Hudson said.
OSTEPATHY, WHICH began in Kirksville, Mo., in 1874, has evolved completely away from its sect status, Hudson said.
No longer does osteopathy place all of its healing powers in manipulation, Hudson said. Instead, this sect has grown with the discoveries of germs and other medical breakthroughs to a place in the medical profession.
"Today," Hudson said, "the teaching in osteopathic schools differs little from the curriculum in modern medical schools."
Osteopaths now practice alongside traditional medical doctors, Hudson said, although the osteopaths have traditionally been outnumbered.
In 1920, when osteopathy was just beginning to lay aside its beliefs in
manipulation, there were 5,000 licensed osteopaths compared with 145,000 medical doctors, Hudson said. The gap has widened even more by 1972, when there were 15,000 osteopaths and 356,000 medical doctors.
ALTHOUGH THEY share similar beliefs about the role of the spine in human health problems, chiropractic therapists are often called on to course of development, Hudson said.
Often in the 1920s, Hudson said, the country doctor was replaced by a blacksmith or an ice-wagon driver who worked at the six-month schiropractic school.
These schools, whose most stringent requirements were strong hands and arms, produced thousands of graduates who excelled by the guidance of the human body, Hudson said.
Chiropractic schools continued to ignore scientific breakthroughs until about 10 years ago. Hudson said.
Chiropractors now are trying to expand their range of services through lobbying efforts on the floors of state hospitals. A primary goal of modern chiropractors has been to persuade states to allow them to administer injections and draw blood. So far, however, they have been successful most states.
Chiropractors have seen the process that osteopathy has gone through," Hudson said. "They're trying to emulate it with the rate of suc-
WHILE OSTEOPATHY and chirurphic have evolved into the 20th century, many other medical sects have focused on the scientific explosions of the late 1800s.
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Chairman sought to run BOCO elections
By ANN LOWRY Staff Reporter
The Student Senate's failure to appoint an election committee chairman and to start organizing the Board of Class Officers elections this spring forced BOCO members to call for action, the members said yesterday.
It it took a meeting Friday between Chris Mehl, senior class president, and David Adkins, student body president, to straighten things out.
Adkins had not appointed an elections chairman and said he was not concerned about BOCO's elections as of Friday afternoon.
Mehi said Adkins promised he would appoint an election chairman early this week and would help BOCO with elections.
HE SAID that BOCO elections were comparatively simple and should be run by BOCO itself because Senate and BoCo elections had been scheduled at different times of the year for the past two Senate administrations.
"BOCO elections are not a concern, so far as appointing someone," Adkins said Friday.
Mehl said that according to the rules and regulations, BOCO paid for the elections and the Senate was supposed to run them, so that BOCO members could not be accused of conflict of interest.
"There are only 16 members of BOCO. It would look pretty much inside if we ran the elections, " Meh said. "We were worried. We ran 'gunning again, and a lot were worried.'"
The Senate's rules and regulations also stipulate that the student body
president shall appoint the elections committee chairman with the approval of the Senate within four weeks after the election. A member of the committee has passed addins took office.
Three candidates for elections chairman had appeared before the Student Senate executive committee Feb. 17, but Adkins said, "SutdEx was not encouraged by the results of our interviewing some of the candidates.
"Their (Studex's) recommendation was to solicit more candidates."
ADKINS SAID he was looking for a Greek-nonGreek, male-female combination to act as co-chairmen for the committee. He said he would like to find people willing to stick with the job for several years.
He said running this year's BOCO elections could be good practice for the
Students' ideas will go to Legislature
ASK members will set up tables in front of Wescoc Hall and the Kansas Union on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, with inquiries about issues affecting students and postcards for students to fill out.
The Associated Students of Kansas will conduct a statewide postcard drive to send students' opinions to legislators. The coordinated coordinator of the event, said Friday.
The ASK members will also distribute the cards to student organizations and housing.
Maps of legislative districts and lists of legislators will also be at the tables,
"The intent is to let the legislators know the students care," John Keighley, KU ASK campus director, said. Keighley said this was one of the students' last chances to influence legislators' actions on issues concerning students before this legislative session ends.
so students can find out who their representatives are.
Keightley stressed that budget issues were important because the Senate Ways and Means Committee's budget appropriations were "dollar for dollar, the same as the governor's"—in other words, very tight for KU.
"It will only take two minutes at the most for every student who cares about the future of KU to write these postcards," Keightley said.
chairmen to prepare to run the Senate's elections next fall.
Last year, controversies hampered both BOCO and Senate's elections, Adkins said.
Members of coalitions accused opponents of ripping down posters.
STUDENTS LIVING off campus complained that ballot boxes were not conveniently located for them and that the students living in Greek houses and University housing had an unfair advantage.
BOCO elections will go on this spring, however. Students must file applications for candidacy by April 6. Elections will be April 21 and 22.
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