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Wednesday, August 21, 1974
University Daily Kansan
More Men, Money Needed, Say KU, Local Police
By SHARON WALSH Kansan Staff Reporter
Both University of Kansas and Lawrence police forces could use more men, force spokesmen said recently but the money for the additions just isn't available.
The KU security force handed a total of 1,553 criminal reports in 1973, according to Capt. Ellison, head of campus security. Of these reports, 625 were part I offenses under the state criminal code, which includes criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and vehicle theft.
The department also handled 834 non-criminal reports and 219 accident reports.
Ellison said the KU security force, like many university forces, was not adequately staffed. The state provides funds for 20 security personnel. Housing funds provide for five and parking services for six.
The 1972 Uniform Crime Service Report listed two law enforcement officials for one thousand population as the national police officer and six officers with 1.6 officers for each thousand students.
"As universities expand their programs to become more relevant, they open up to a wider variety of people, and, therefore, to a wider variety of crimes and crime victims," he said. "The university is not a closed community as it once was."
Ellison said many universities were experiencing increases in crime rate. The crime rate at KU was up 8.1 per cent for the first four months of 1974.
This increase began in April 1970, when Lawrence voters raised the sales tax one-half cent in order to strengthen the fire and police departments.
The Lawrence police force is also under the national average, with 1.07 officers for each hundred population.
has had a 22.2 per cent increase in its police force over the past four years, which brings its arrest rate up to 65 per cent.
Richard Stanxiv, Lawrence police chief,
said, "We are still somewhat understaffed.
We could always use more men
somewhere."
The crime rate for Lawrence during the first five months of 1974 was 11.8 per cent
higher than the 1973 rate. Lt. Vernarrell of the Lawrence police department said the crime rates for cities the size of New York are an average of 17 per cent across the nation.
Suburban areas such as Lawrence have surpassed the big city areas as leaders in the national crime rate, Harrell said. Although crime in many suburban areas is higher than in cities of more than one million population have shown an increase of only 2 per cent.
"maybe in a year or two we will see a crime decrease in Lawrence," Harrell said, "especially if we can keep the number of police units we now have on the street."
said. "Cases that occur geographically on campuses aren't necessarily limited to the campus."
Both Harrell and Ellison mentioned the importance of a daily functional relationship among the University, Lawrence and Douglas County police forces.
Neither police force expects funding for additional staff members in the near future. Although KU requested an increase from 1971 to 1977, the staff has remained the same.
City Commissioner Nancy Hambleton recently raised the issue of cutting the budget, but she had no answer later, however that she would want the cut only if Lawrence "could get service as good as the City."
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Last week city commissioners approved a preliminary budget proposal for 1975, which did not change the allotment for police personnel.
"Police departments are always in need of larger staffs to service the people properly as the population grows," Ellison said.
By LARRY GREWACH Kansan Staff Reporter
Audio Reader provides a tremendous opportunity for expanded programming to the physically handicapped, according to its new director, Rose Hurwitz.
Audio Reader is a radio service for the blind at the University of Kansas.
"It is available to anyone who is unable to read because of a physical disability," Hurwitz said recently. "The service is free. The receiver is loaned at no charge."
Hurwitz became director of Audio Reader July 1. Before that she was community activist.
"I'm very excited about it. It's a real challenge for me," she said. "I hope to do some innovative programming here and I am ready." She responded response from the community to help us."
HURWITZ SAID that Audio Reader was on the air seven days a week. The Topeka, Kansas City and Lawrence newspapers are read in the morning and in the evening. Short stories and novels are read during the day.
In addition, Hurwitz said, Audio Reader has several other features: the Kitchen Sink, which presents the "lighter Side of the News" at noon, and the National Public Radio series "All Things Considered" and "The Class Collection of radio programs from the 1930s.
Audio Reader was the idea of an anonymous KU contributor, according to Hurwit. She said the contributor presented the idea to Dick Wright, station manager of KANU, and bought the equipment and transmitter.
"We cooperate with the Lawrence force on daily investigations and patrol." Ellison
Hurwitz said that when when Audio Reader went on the air on Oct. 11, 1971, it was the first video conference event.
Fish and Hurwitz are the only full time sufferer consequently getting according to Hurwitz.
TOM FISH, assistant director of Audio Reader, said that from its inception, the service relied primarily on private contributions. But on July 1, Audio Reader came under the University's funding, a move that Fish said was "a major step forward." Now private contributions are a secondary source of income for Audio Reader.
Hurwitz said that a student could receive up to two hours of credit for work at Audio
"Volunteer Clearinghouse has been very helpful," she said, "and occasionally when things have been really tough, I just got on to it." She thought, thought would make good readers for us.
One of the readers, Sally M. Ewing, 703 N. Washington Ave., Audio Reading until its beginning.
said, "I see it being any disturbance that
causes her to cope with the work in which he lives."
"They had been on the air just a week when I started in October 1791," Ewing said. "I had lost my husband in February and felt that if I could do something to help someone else it would be beneficial to both of us."
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Mentally . . .
Both men said that mental illness was related in many ways to physical illness.
Shoulberg said, "I see mental illness as being on a continuum. The great insight of modern psychiatry is that we're more human than anything else."
"We've far too long dealt with a mind-body dualism," Shoulber said.
Souberg said he thought more students should visit the clinic. He said the clinic offered an opportunity for a student to find out about his life without a heavy financial burden.
A student can recognize mental illness in himself. Bins said, by "anything that makes me feel unwell."
The first four visits to the clinic are paid by a student's health fee, and if more visits are needed, the student and therapist work out a fee from $3 to $15 a sessions.
He said he found college students the most exciting age group to work with because they were more open to change and were not enough to internalize the treatment.
"They're a real challenge because they are gifted intellectually and in terms of language."
"No one is ever turned away because of the inability to pay a fee." Shoubler said.
A prescription for mental health, Binns said, begins with balanced nutrition, a reasonable amount of sleep and a good organization of activities. Having good personal relationships, interests and goals helps you make a fulfilling and satisfying life, he said.
"There is no one path in life that's right for everyone." Bibs said. "The question is whether the path the person has chosen is趋向 to himself and those around him."
Ewing said *Audio Reader* subscribers liked light reading, short stories and popular novels. She said that although she is not a mailer, she has gotten calls from subscribers.
of the compliments, well, they make your day. It's very good to hear them."
"The person who is handicapped will get someone to call me," she said. "And some
Hurwitz said Audio Reader was a growing program. She said they got requests for her data.
The youngest reader for Audio Reader is 16-year-old Nancy Frindel, daughter of Robot
Nancy and Robot Frank.
Kansan Staff Photo by DEBBIE GUMP
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"We have about 40 local receivers in the Lawrence area," she said. "The rest of our listeners are spread all points beyond. We have a lot of people in Kansas City, and we have people in Topeka and many other small towns in Missouri and Kansas."
Josephine Bridges, Wakarusa Manor,
she said she listened to all the Audio Reader
programs and liked them all. She said she
had had her receiver for about two months.
Nancy reads about an hour at a time, several times a week.
A FORMER LISTENER, George Hofer,
Manuel he had bead a receive
(or swipe his hand)
"Iused to enjoy the way they put the news out," Hofer said. "The news was about all I really enjoyed because they had so much high class stuff."
Hurwitz said she would like to see expanded programming for Audio Reader
"I'm thinking in terms of information that's valuable to everyone, such as County officials, law enforcement and marketing," Hurwitz said. "A lot of people have seeing-eye dogs and consequently, visits with the veterinarian on the care and handling of animals would be valuable."
"It's a marvelous opportunity to have this service and it's good to know you can contribute in some small way to make handcappet people's lives a little easier."
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