Beer in the Union still wishful thinkina
KU students will apparently have a long wait before they can sip a brew in the Kansas Union.
But the issue, while seven years old, is not yet dead.
Recently the Board of Regents and the Council of Presidents indicated a willingness to study the pros and cons of beer sales on state campuses.
The basic argument for sale of beer on campus centers around a Kansas law which makes possession of intoxicating beverages on state property illegal. At the same time, however, the law says 3.2 per cent beer is not intoxicating, thereby permitting its presence on campus.
The request. Bickford said, was made of Emory Lindquist, president of Wichita State, late in October. When the results of the survey are in, the Council is expected to study them and to make recommendations to the Board of Regents.
Meanwhile, a student-faculty subcommittee, set up by the Union Operating Board at KU to study the matter of beer sales on campus, has become almost inactive. But before retiring, at least temporarily, the subcommittee planned to interview students to
Max Bickford, executive secretary for the Regents, said the Council of Presidents had requested Wichita State University, another state institution interested in serving beer on campus, to conduct a survey of the beer policies of Big Eight and Big Ten schools.
get their reaction to the proposal of campus beer sales.
According to William Balfour, dean of students affairs, 249 students were interviewed. Of these, Balfour said, 159 favored the sale of beer in the Union, while 90 were opposed.
Whether the subcommittee will function further is questionable. One committee member, Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, said he has not heard from, or about, the subcommittee this semester.
Persons involved in the study of beer on campus say many questions must be considered in making a decision. These include the legality of beer sales by the state; the question of whether the union director is eligible for a cereal beverage license and whether it is "desirable" for the state of Kansas to sell beer to students.
Perhaps the most realistic appraisal of the entire issue was made by Bickford in September of 1967 when the issue was hot. At that time the Regents' executive secretary predicted the sale of beer in the Kansas Union was "a long ways away."
Sherman Parks, an assistant attorney general for Kansas, said the "beer on campus" question was a policy matter for the Board of Regents.
Now, more than a year later, a draught of beer in the Kansas Union appears to be just that—a long ways away.
79th Year. No. 53 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Thurs., Dec. 5, 1968
Restored arm healing
By JOE NAAS Kansan Staff Writer
After he has recovered from this surgery, Brian will begin a physical therapy and exercise program, his mother said.
KANSAS CITY—Nine weeks ago Brian King's left arm was severed in a mowing machine accident on his uncle's farm.
That night a surgical team at the University of Kansas Medical Center re-implanted the 11-year-old boy's limb.
The latest report from doctors is that Brian will regain full use of the arm if his condition continues to progress as well as it has.
"I think the people at KU Medical Center are wonderful," said his mother, Mrs. Charles King Jr., at their home in Westwood. "I'm really amazed at what they did for Brian."
Brian said he is back in school and doing fine. "I'm righthanded, so I can still write," he said.
The cast will remain on for another two to four weeks. Then doctors expect to perform plastic surgery on the wound.
If anything, school is more pleasant now because of the way he is being treated, Brian said.
"I get to sit where I want—right by a window. And everytime I drop my pencil there's a couple of kids picking it up for me."
Brian is now treated as an out-patient at KU Medical Center. He goes in each Monday for examinations and treatment.
Since then Brian has had skin grafting done to replace infected areas of skin near the wound. But there have been no serious complications.
A spokesman for the surgical team that operated on Brian said at that time, "the first hurdle has been cleared—the arm is reimplanted and living."
However, Brian has no feeling in them. The feeling might be restored in future surgery, when doctors will attempt to connect a nerve which was bypassed in the emergency surgery.
He was dimissed from the Medical Center Nov. 6, exactly one month after the accident.
Brian's arm and shoulder are covered by a cast while the bone mends so he cannot move his arm. He can wiggle his fingers.
Mrs. King said Brian has already healed mentally.
"I'm really amazed at him. He has a wonderful attitude," she said.
Brian still can clearly recall the accident.
"I was climbing on my uncle's tractor when my shoelaces got caught in the power starter," he said. "It threw me down to the ground in front of the mower the tractor was pulling."
After the mower passed over Brian, his uncle, Robert Smth. rushed him to Miami County Hospital in Paola.
Then Brian and the limb, packed in ice and preserving fluids, were sent to the KU Medical Center.
Helen Sims, director of information at the Medical Center, said "the re-implantation performed that night is regarded as unusual surgery."
The re-implantation of Brian's arm was not the first successful operation of its kind. The most recent case in the Midwest involved Bob Swaffer, an Oklahoma State University basketball player whose right arm was
She said it was the only successful case of a limb being restored at the Medical Center in the 15 years she has worked there.
severed in a clothes dryer. He now has partial use of the arm.
Mrs. King said Brian is bothered because he can't participate in sports with his friends.
"But he knows he'll be able to play again. He's got too much spirit to be kept from it," she said.
Brian said he has already found a few substitutes for sports.
"Now I just read books and watch television, heat my sister up or play with my brother," he said.
Some of Brian's spare time is also taken up by his new girlfriend, whose identity he refused to reveal.
On the mend
Eleven-year-old Brian King, whose severed left arm was re-implanted in an operation at the KU Medical Center, playfully shakes a fist at his little sister. Brian, whose arm was severed Oct. 6 when he fell into the path of a mowing machine is expected to regain full use of the limb. The massive cast covering his arm and chest will be removed in two to four weeks.
Holiday here for Wescoes
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, whose nine-year administration ends with Commencement exercises in June, plans to spend his last Christmas at the University of Kansas quietly, with his family at their home on Lillac Lane.
The Wescoes have three children, but none live at home. Barbara, 23, teaches in Johnson County, Kansas. Bill, 22, attends graduate school at the University of Indiana. And Dave, 14, goes to a military academy, Shattuck School, in Faribault, Minn.
"This has been the first time they (the family) have been so scattered," said Francis Heller, dean of faculties and close associate of Chancellor Wescow. Last year Bill was at KU and Dave was going to school in Lawrence.
The entire family originally planned to go to Spicer, Minn., the location of the Wescoe summer home, for Christmas, Barbara Wescoe said. The Chancellor and Mrs. Wescoe spent Thanksgiving there alone this year. Mrs. Wescoe spends every summer from June to August there, and usually takes Dave with her. Then the Chancellor joins them during his summer vacation in August.
Barbara said her parents spent Thanksgiving Day with Dave, who has less than 24 hours vacation from the military academy.
The family spent Christmas in Minnesota last year, but they usually stay at the University Miss Wescoe said when the football team received its invitation to play Penn State at the Orange Bowl in Miami, the family decided to stay in Lawrence again.
The Wescoes will leave Lawrence for Miami the day after Christmas, and return sometime after the first of the year, she said.
Names are same
Among the international student body, Chen is the surname of 12 of 707 or 1.7 percent compared to the 0.84 percent for Smith and Johnson.
Other most frequently-occurring foreign names are Lee, 9; Petal and Lin, 7 each; and Chan, 5.
In the entire student body you must get to 90 to keep up with the Joneses. Next is Brown with 81.