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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 9, 1968
Tomorrow, show concern
Watkins Hospital needs a new wing desperately.
This is far from being fresh news—ten years ago, the former director of Watkins, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, requested the additional wing because of the growing enrollment and shrinking capabilities to handle student patients in a building designed to service less than 5,000.
Dr. Raymond Schwegler, present director of Watkins, has continued to request funds for the wing every year since then.
The condition of Watkins has long been a standby for Kansan editorial editors. It's something inherited by the incoming editor each semester along with a desk and typewriter.
But editorial comment has a limited sphere of influence. And so do angry letters protesting the condition of the hospital penned by students and printed on the editorial page.
However, student pressure can weigh heavily on the possibilities for a new wing, Dr. Schwegler has said.
The hospital desperately needs office space and examining rooms. Since Watkins handles 95,000 student outpatients a year and since patients cannot be examined in the open corridors, this is probably one of the most urgent needs of the hospital, overshadowed perhaps only by the need for more doctors.
But Schwegler said that even if he is able to secure more physicians, he would not have room for more than two added to the present staff of
eight. And even now, the offices on third floor are actually patient rooms.
Now Watkins is asking for $250,000 added to the $250,000 appropriated by the legislature this fall. Much of this has been used for revisions in the present hospital structure.
The second quarter of a million would have to be raised by the issuing of bonds, Schwegler said.
At the present time, an architect is working on plans for a new wing. After the plans are finished, the Chancellor, the finance officers of KU and finally the Board of Regents will have to determine whether to issue the bonds for the funds.
Tomorrow the editorial page of the Kansan will contain a form letter addressed to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe. The letter will request that the administration of KU give top priority to a new wing for Watkins and that they use all possible speed and influence to see that that project is completed.
Hopefully the letter will indicate the deep concern of students about the condition of Watkins and student health care here.
Your signature as a KU student can mean a lot. Almost every student on this campus has at one time or another complained about Watkins. This is a chance to do more than complain.
Sign your name tomorrow or compose your own letter. Show your personal concern for adequate health care at KU.
Alison Steimel
Alison Steinner
Editorial Editor
Letter to the Editor
Charges Kansan 'irresponsible'
To the Editor:
"Muckraking," "sensationalism," and "yellow journalism" are terms usually associated with newspaper writing of the late 19th century. Did Wednesday's UDK article on Junior Riggins perhaps revive those buried characteristics?
Regardless of the extent of Riggins' guilt in the unfortunate affair, the article should not have been printed. Since no action is going to be taken by either of the parties involved, the publication will serve only as a detriment to both the whole football team and the University as a whole.
The responsibility of the free press is to print news, but part of this "responsibility" should be the ability to distinguish between important events and a sensationalized story, especially when top ranking brass on the UDK staff gave their word to Coach Pepper Rodgers that the story would not appear in print. Is personal integrity so low these days that it can be sacrificed for the sadistic satisfaction which can be derived from a juicy front-page story?
The fact that 2,200 students were excused from classes Thursday to attend the Principal Counselor-freshman conference is a more important and worthwhile topic for a front page article than the incident which appeared there. But then maybe we're just loyal KU football fans who don't like to see insignificant incidents played up to the extent that they might jeopardize someone's future or the feelings, both locally and nationally, towards our team.
Marilyn Buller
Lawrence junior
Linda Phelps
Hinsdale, Ill., junior
Pam Snook
Amarillo, Tex., junior
To the Editor:
Permit me to answer Mr. Lagios' letter in today's (Dec. 4) UDK.
Both "New Politics" and McCarthyism" are evil.
I never wanted to call Bobby Kennedy a fascist. I do not consider him to be one. He did work for Sen. Joe McCarthy however, and the Sen. was a fascist. What does this mean? To me it means that Bobby Kennedy's liberalism was only skin deep. I don't accept the liberal credentials of anyone who would work with a fascist, a totalitarian, or a racist. Perhaps this is because I am a Jew and I realize these evil forces have done to my people.
One point I was trying to show was how much Bobby has changed. He was anything but a liberal when he worked for Sen. McCarthy. Under Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson he was a hawk. And after he entered the Senate he became a dove. I don't think it would have been a distortion to say that Bobby Kennedy might have changed radically had he been elected President.
In his letter Mr. Lagios asked what actions do I claim Bobby Kennedy unfit to be Attorney General. The actions I was referring to were "Government by Feud" and bugging.
I mentioned Joe Pool in order to show what Sen. Joe McCarthy was like. I do not claim that Bobby Kennedy or any Kennedy ever worked for Joe Pool.
By the way, bugging was much more widespread than you realize. I recall having a friend from CORE at my house who refused to phone his headquarters from our house because or wire tapping. He felt that my father, who has a sensitive position in the defense structure of this country, might get in trouble because he had a worker from CORE at his house. This happened in the capital of the United States when Bobby Kennedy was Attorney General.
I stated that Sen. Eugene McCarthy was a "nothing," and I'll stick to that statement. Sen. McCarthy's main campaign aim was to bring about a de-escalation of the war in Vietnam. If anything, the war will be escalated because of Sen. McCarthy's
stupid mistakes during the campaign. Here are the mistakes:
1) Failure to endorse Bobby Kennedy.
2) Failure to control personal anger during campaign.
3) Failure to endorse Hubert Humphrey vigorously after convention.
If Sen. McCarthy had endorsed Kennedy, Kennedy might have been able to stop the Humphrey drive to capture the nomination. The defeat Kennedy suffered in Oregon put him in his political coffin and his inability to capture a majority of the vote in California nailed the top down. (This fact has been overlooked in light of the assassination of Kennedy in Los Angeles. Kennedy needed at least $50\%$ of the vote to remain in contention, but he failed even to come close.) McCarthy destroyed the only man strong enough to stop Humphrey.
Sen. McCarthy permitted his personal anger to show after Bobby Kennedy accused him of having a poor civil rights record. Whether the charge was true or false Sen. McCarthy should not have gotten mad in public. His anger gained him nothing. In fact, it hurt him dearly. One of the reasons many supporters of Bobby Kennedy refused to endorse Sen. McCarthy after the assassination in Los Angeles was because they felt that Sen. McCarthy was a vain and little man. Sen. McCarthy's public show of anger helped create this image.
The headline on the lead editorial on the same page with Mr. Lagios' letter is as follows: "Hawk'in cabinet?" The hawk may be appointed by President Nixon. Had Sen. McCarthy vigorously endorsed Vice President Humphrey immediately after the convention Nixon would probably not be President-elect, and the UDK would not have to worry about hawks in the cabinet.
I hope that I've answered some of Mr. Lagios' questions. Sincerely
Jonathan Jordan
Freshman, Washington, D.C.
"Some days I should never leave my jeep!"
the rock hound
Ivory: ability to sing
By WILL HARDESTY
IVORY by Ivory on Tetragrammaton displays a group of three individuals-Christine Christman, Mike McCauley and Kenny Thomure. Ivory is an interesting new group with a unique sound capable of making lots of music.
One of their songs, called "Free and Easy," is indicative of the group's sound. The song starts out sounding like a jazz trio in a small, intimate night-club. Chris sings and sounds like the kind of songbird used to singing in smoky rooms over the clink of glasses and relaxed, slightly bored conversation and receiving the smattering of polite applause the patrons of high-class nightclubs are wont to throw at performers. Then, the song gets heavier and turns into hard jazz-rock replete and complete with feedback, etc.
Ivory has a quality which has been found lacking in many of the albums being produced currently—the ability to sing.
The group also has the unique ability to combine the "jazz trio sound" with the "hard rock sound" to make a unique, musical and superior product. The more you hear them, the more you hear in their music.
MAKEBA!-Miriam Makeba's latest on Reprise—could easily be boring to the average listener —if it is sung entirely in Bantu, an African language.
Other than that, it is a decent album. Miss Makeba's voice is tremendous, plus the fact she also sings the harmony parts on the album. The liner notes do a fair, though overly black-hawkish, job of explaining what some of the songs are about. There are drums, horns and guitars backing her up. Purely on the sounds of
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THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY: A MESSAGE FOR AN AGE OF ANXIETY, by Alan W. Watts (Vintage, $1.45)—A thought-provoking little volume in which the writer suggests that utopias and panaceas and solutions may be foolish, that we are never going to achieve a state of permanence and security, and that an awareness of insecurity is a necessary component of living. Though that sounds somber, the point of view may be one that deserves powerful consideration
the album, it is good. But American sing along fans will have big problems with this one.
It's not that Them's new album, TIME OUT! TIME IN FOR THEM on Tower is bad. It's just that it's . . . well, disappointing.
One expects something superior from the group which wrote such a giant song in rock music as "Gloria." However, there is nothing on this album which will bring any more accolades to the group.
In fact, there is nothing at all spectacular on the album. Rock groups have been experimenting and developing and producing many new sounds in the last six months or year, but this album has not followed or gone beyond that progression. There is nothing new on this album. There is nothing that has not been done before by other groups. No new effects. No spectacular new use of instruments. New new lyrics filled with insight. There's nothing on this album a hundred other rock groups couldn't do or haven't done. The album has a bad case of the blahs.
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