Tuesday, October 29. 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Mental health clinic aids the unstable
By FRED PARRIS Kansan Staff Writer
Although she is desperately eager to be with people, Beth, a blonde KU coed, sits alone in her room. She is chronically depressed. She can see no meaning in her life.
Beth's problem is not uncommon. Last year, more than 600 KU students sought help at the KU mental health clinic for the same sort of disturbance.
The clinic, a part of the Student Health service, is located behind Watkins hospital. Open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., it also offers 24-hour-a-day help by telephone through the hospital switchboard.
Dr. Sydney O. Schroeder, clinic director, says the clinic is
staffed by a psychiatrist, two clinical psychologists, and a social worker and is bolstered by three part-time psychiatric residents from the Meninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka.
Of the 600 students served by the clinic last year, 40 per cent sought help on their own. Another 40 per cent were referred by Watkins physicians, with the remainder being referred by faculty members, friends, and in a few cases, by local law enforcement agencies.
Although group therapy, medication and short term hospitalization in Watkins are sometimes used, clinical psychotherapy is the most common treatment employed. Schroeder said.
"Psychotherapy is a technical term for talking about your feelings with a professional," he
"Some students come in to see us just one or two times, while others have weekly sessions throughout the entire school year."
said.
After the first four visits, a moderate charge which takes the student's financial condition into consideration is assessed. Schroeder said.
"No student is turned away because he is unable to pay," he said.
Records of student treatment are kept strictly confidential.
"Anyone wanting to find out about a patient must have either a release signed by the patient or a special court order. And court orders are very, very rare," the doctor said.
Staff members have refused to see government agents who have
tried to obtain information without releases. Schroeder added.
Far more important than government business are the student's problems, Schroeder said. Depression, feelings of unbearable pressure and lack of motivation are sometimes symptoms of more serious disturbances.
"It is this deeper 'something' which we try to deal with during therapy," he explained.
Schroeder said questions of personality and sex bother many students. Some worry about latent homosexuality and sexual inadequacies, while others are disturbed by their interpersonal relationships.
"Sex plays a vital role' in everyone's inner life and it must be considered frankly and realistically," he explained.
"While there is still some apprehension around campus about mental illness and its treatment, most students recognize that mental health care is a normal and necessary facet of civilized life."
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Richard M. Nixon pleaded Monday with the nation's voters for "more than a plurality of popular support." His former boss, Dwight D. Eisenhower, agreed that "the size of the victory will be of great importance to the future of our country."
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Hubert H. Humphrey contended, however, that defeat—"the worst defeat they have had since Harry Truman"—awaited Nixon and the Republican party.
Meantime, there were predictions from Gov. Harold E. Hughes of Iowa that Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy would soon endorse Humphrey. McCarthy has refused so far to back the vice president.
A McCarthy aide said Monday night that the Minnesota Democrat will issue a statement Tuesday giving qualified support to Humphrey. He said the support "will be a matter of degree and extent."
Nixon, campaigning in New York and Pennsylvania, told an Albany audience he would need "more than a plurality of popular support" to heal deep national ruptures.
"Violence and fear are becoming the hallmarks of our national life." Nixon said.
In a letter to Nixon, Eisenhower expressed his regret that his health had prevented him from campaigning for Nixon. He said he hoped for a big Republican victory.
"A strong, clear mandate hopefully including a Republican Congress" would enable Nixon to "deal with dissension and lawlessness at home" as well as with Vietnam and other problems, the former president said.
Third party candidate George C. Wallace attacked the news media and public opinion polls during a speech to 3,000 persons in Hannibal, Mo.
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Predicting he would win the election, Wallace said. "One reason we are going to win it is that the people of this country are tired of a few anarchists running it."
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A rock the size of a fist struck the platform from which Wallace spoke.
Curtis E. LeMay, Wallace's running mate, said in Des Moines that the nation has drifted so close to socialism and communism that if a conservative administration is not elected Nov. 5 "we may not ever get another chance." LeMay charged, too, that the Johnson administration has "forbidden" U.S. military forces to win the war in Vietnam.
Cadets see missile fired
As a Minuteman III missile roared from its underground launching silo Thursday at Cape Kennedy, 32 KU Air Force ROTC cadets watched from a spectator's blockhouse.
The cadets did not see much of the flight because of an overcast sky into which the missile disappeared 30 seconds after lift-off. The projectile was topped by three dummy warheads as it hurtled down the Atlantic Test Range. The three-warhead concept is designed to nullify enemy missile defenses.
The tour included all unclassified areas at the John F. Kennedy Space Center and the Air Force Eastern Missile Test Range adjacent to Cape Kennedy.
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This was the third time the Cape Kennedy visit had been planned. The other two trips were cancelled by aircraft shortages at Forbes AFB, their departure points. The second shortage was caused by the Pueblo crisis last spring.
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The group also saw the Apollo 8 spacecraft which is being prepared for its December flight.
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