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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, December 10, 1968
Help Watkins today
Editor's Note: Watkins Hospital needs your help. The following letter, addressed to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, asks that the addition to the hospital, which has been needed and requested for the past ten years, be financed as soon as possible.
the past ten years, be financially abused.
This letter is intended to show the student's deep concern for the future of student health care at KU. To show you care, either sign this letter or compose your own and send it to the Chancellor.
To mail the letter, either slip it into an
envelope or fold it and address it on the back. The letter can be mailed on campus without postage by dropping them into the "Campus Mail Out" box in the front entrance of Flint Hall or other oncampus mail boxes or by bringing them into the Daily Kansan office.
Address to: Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe Strong Hall University of Kansas
--let her cry 'it out,' but you can't. Something should be said about the back-up group. The San Francisco Bridge shows it is a capable band playing equally well on material by Buffy Sainte-Marie or Mick Jagger or Lennon-McCarthy.
Chanceellor W. Clarke Wescoe Strong Hall University of Kansas
Dear Chancellor Wescoe:
Complaining about Watkins Hospital has become a perennial pastime at the University of Kansas.
And as Watkins' director, Dr. Raymond Schwegler, has said himself, most of the complaints about long waits in the hospital corridors and crowded conditions are well-founded.
There are many different facets of Watkins needing improvements from the condition and size of the building itself to the need for more and better paid staff physicians. Understandably these improvements cannot be made overnight. The private institutional status of Watkins adds to the complications of financing these improvements.
But Dr. Schwegler has pointed out time and time again the urgency for the construction of an addition to Watkins. Despite the special problems of financial arrangements of such an addition, it would seem logical that this project should receive top priority.
It seems inconsistent that a university which prides itself on excellence, from its fields of athletic competition to its classrooms and laboratories of learning and research, could have the blemish of inadequate student health care on its record. Only the efforts of Dr. Raymond Schwegler and his staff, working under adverse conditions, have kept the student health center at a serviceable level.
As a concerned KU student, I urge you, as Chancellor and as a concerned physician, to exert all possible energies and influence to make the proposed addition to the hospital a reality.
Sincerely yours,
WHERE EAGLES DARE, by Alistair MacLean (Crest, 75 cents)—A new one from one of the best writers of high adventure, whose stories of the sea, war, spies, high mountains and all that are consistently good reading. The story here is about eight Allied agents, seven men and a woman (gotta have a woman for movie purposes) who parachute behind enemy lines in wartime Germany. They're there to rescue an American general from the Nazis. You'll be seeing this one with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood.
SLIDE, CHARLIE BROWN! SLIDE!' by Charles M. Schulz (Crest, 50 cents) - A new Peanuts title, the 18th in paperback. And, as usual, worth looking at, even though you'll remember most of these if you're a committed partisan of Charlie Brown. And that, perhaps, is the reason for looking at it, because you will remember these strips.
Paperbacks
OUR OWN WORST ENEMY,
by William J. Lederer (Crest, 95
cents) -Lederer takes everybody
to task again in this one. A great
amount of his attack is based
upon American policy in South
Vietnam. He is convinced that
our policy has gone completely
astray, and he suggests that this
is because the American people
are often wrong in their attitudes toward much of the world.
Much of what he says will not be
too surprising; all one must do is
read the front page to become
frustrated about the war and our
South Vietnamese ally.
JANUS ISLAND, by Sloan Wilson (Crest, 95 cents)—A recent one by the man who burst into popularity more than a decade ago with "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit." Wilson is still occupied with the theme of success, his story this time being about a man named Ben Powers, 45, whose marriage is collapsing, whose career likewise, and who tries to solve his problems in the company of a younger woman. Not much here to cause comment, but the story line carries the reader right along.
LEMON IN THE BASKET, by Charlotte Armstrong (Crest, 60 cents)—A real thriller by one of the best mystery writers in the land. Her story is about a wealthy family that has hidden within it a streak of madness, and about the resultant evil. Miss Armstrong's great ability has been to create tension out of the comparatively simple situation, and she does it again.
And now into Adventureland with Gold Medal Books, and some light reading for the long months ahead, when all of you will have all kinds of time for light reading, providing you suspend all other important activities:
First we have Evan Tanner back, that James Bond-type agent. His assignment in Lawrence Block's HERE COMES A HERO (Gold Medal, 60 cents) is to rescue a dame named Phaedra (Phaedra?) Harrow from a slave ring in Afghanistan. Problem for
On another channel we have a western, by J. C. Sheers, called FIRE IN HIS HAND (Gold Medal, 60 cents). This has a hero who lost his left hand in the Civil War, and out west he has to manipulate that gun with hook and right hand. Think about that for awhile, and wonder who can play the part.
Tanner is that Phaedra loves what she's doing.
Letter to the Editor BB tickets
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The shortage of student basketball tickets has been a problem of growing concern at the University of Kansas. In view of the recent proposals for additional allotment of student tickets, members of Sachem Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa have taken a stand for passage of the resolution.
To the Editor:
In a recent meeting Sachem members approved the idea of allotting 500 additional student tickets. Sachem also feels that the University should undertake investigation of a program that would expand the number of student tickets to 50% of the maximum seating capacity of Allen Field House.
We feel that these proposals are fair in every respect to both the University and its students.
Sincerely
Sachem Circle of ODK
the rock hound Sexy Sandy Gurley
By WILL HARDESTY
America's new angry young wild woman has been captured and while she was trying to tear up her cage and after killing two men, a microphone was thrust through the bars (a Freudian act which set her off again) and she recorded the album bearing her name—SANDY GURLEY by Sandy Gurley and The San Francisco Bridge on Tower.
The album shows she has as big a voice as Sophie Tucker. Miss Gurley seems to want to sing and talk with the simmering sexiness of Nance Sinatra, and to sing and be as hard and cold and mean as Janis Joplin.
It seems Miss Gurley tries to come on like a female Lenny Bruce. The liner notes, written by her, say, "My Dad says to stay straight and never stay out late or all the boys will be grabbing me. I know I'm a handful, but I'm not a damn fool, 'cause I want to see what I can see." As the pictures on the front and back of the book (and the plunging V-neckline she is wearing) show, she is a handful.
Strangely enough, the first song on the album is entitled "Handful." In it, the words say she is a handful of trouble but her voice is giving another meaning to the word. The next song is called "If You Wanna Ride on My Train." (Yep, you really did read right. Guess what this song implies.) "You oughta ride on may caboose, boy. Yeah. You wanna ride on my train, baby? Well, come on. Ride my train." And to close out the side, she drips venom in "Mind Pucker" when she says, "You're a real mind pucker, baby. Just get outta my life."
The way she sings you almost afraid to listen. She sounds so bitter against men. Hate fairly runs out of your speakers. You almost want to apologize to the record. You'd kind of like to take her in your arms, tell her all men aren't bad, try to comfort her and let her cry it out, but you're afraid she'd go for your throat.
Two songs on the album show she can be fairly happy and sing prettily and without spite, and these songs come off well. However, it is too bad when a whole album can be boiled down to one good single.
'Don't expect any miracles.'
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