Page 6 Universitv Daily Kansan, August 19, 1982
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Comanche the most famous survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn, stands on the fifth floor of the Museum of Natural History.
Horse symbolizes tragic battle preserved in Dyche Museum
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
Comarche stands silently in the KU Museum of Natural History, surrounded by thick panes of glass. Inside the glass enclosure the air is kept dust free, cool and humidified; precautions done to preserve him for many centuries to come.
"Comanche brings the battle, and that was in it, into 3-D reality. He is a tangible piece of history," said J. Rogers, a teacher at Haskell Indian Junior College. Rogers has for the last 25 years studied the period of Indian history when Indians fought against the expanding United States.
Custer led five companies of the U.S. 7th Cavalry, more than 200 men and their mounts, into the Little Bighorn Valley in central Wyoming June 25, 1876. They attacked a large group of Indian warriors, perhaps as many as
Almost 107 years ago, the horse stood severely wounded amid the corpses of Gen. George A. Custer and about 200 men of the cavalry. Cavarly and at least 30 Indian warriors.
"When the remnants of the 7th Cavalry arrived at Little Bighorn two days later, they found Custer and all his men dead, and then they saw poor Camanche, wounded but still alive," Rogers said. "These men were physically exhausted from two days of fighting and emotionally distraught from the loss of their friends and fellow soldiers.
4,000. All the men, including Gen. Custer, were killed by the Indians. The mount of Custer's men were either killed or wounded by the Indians, every mount except Manchez.
"They used Comanche as a rallying point."
After Little Bighorn, Comanche recovered from his wounds. Military orders forbade anyone from riding or working Comanche for the rest of his life, and he was to be paraded riderless with the 7th Cavalry.
The Battle of Little Bighorn, Rogers said, was a major turning point in the conflict between the Indians and the United States during the 1800s.
"It was a passionate point in history. The Indians won a major battle, yet it
Watkins offers students health service
By MARK SMITH Staff Reporter
New students will find that KU's student health service gives more than treatment for stomach aches, scrapes and bruises.
Watkins Hospital is a fully accredited and staffed hospital, complete with equipment found in large hospitals around the country.
Watkins provides a full range of services to students including allergys shots, X-rays, blood tests, in-patient care and a full-time pharmacy.
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THIS SEMESTER, STUDENTS will pay $15 toward the student health service from their general fees. Consequently, any out-patient treatment, excluding medication and X-rays, is considered prepaid and not subject to additional charge. The business office said that X-rays could cost $25-$50, depending on the number of X-takes taken and what part of the body is examined.
"Any student who has paid his student health fee is entitled to treatment at the hospital," said Martin Wollmann, director of student health services.
For students requiring in-patient care, Watkins has a 35-bed capacity. Wollman said that though in-patient service was not normally provided, students who really needed treatment would be admitted.
An overnight stay at Watkins costs students $23. According to the business office, during semester breaks and other periods when school is not in session, the rooms cost as much as Lawn Memorial Hospital does, at $89 a night.
Watkins is also equipped with a pharmacy that fills 60,000 to 65,000 prescriptions a year, said John Baughman, a staff pharmacist. He said that the pharmacy was specifically for KU students, faculty and staff members.
THE PHARMACY SELLS medicine at prices approximately 15 percent lower than retail pharmacies, Baughman said. The reason for the lower rates, he said, was that the hospital buys pharmaceuticals from a contractor licensed by the state of Kansas to sell medication to state institutions.
"The absence of a wholesaler or intermediary helps avoid the higher costs."
Most of the prescriptions filled every year are for cold or flu symptoms, he
Wollman said that the most common groups of illness treated at the hospital were pneumonia, bronchitis, and tuberculosis.
"These include flu, intestinal and respiratory viruses, general aching and itch."
Another service that is used often at the hospital is the allergy clinic. Jodi Woods, a registered nurse who works in the clinic, said that it was especially busy during the late spring and summer months. The staff sometimes treats as many as 80 students a day. The hospital immunized students against allergies that they were treated for by their home allergists.
WOLLMANN SAID THAT students with no previous history of allergies could have an allergy diagnosis. In order to test them to determine specific types of allergies.
watkins also has a 24-hour emergency room, staffed by registered nurses, with a physician on call at all times. Wollmann said that the emergency room received 700-900 visits every month.
A mental health clinic is located on the second floor of the hospital, staffed by one psychiatrist and two clinical psychologists. A student may visit the clinic four times during his course of study at KU, at no charge other than the student health fee. After that, a fee is charged according to the financial resources of the student, according to an official hospital pamphlet.
Watkins has nine full-time physicians on the staff, including general practitioners, a gynecologist, three internists, two medical specialists and one psychiatrist.
Wollmann said that in addition to an astate and intelligent staff of doctors, the hospital had a score of crackerjack nurses. Some nurses have had the training needed to be nurse clinicians, aiding doctors in their treatment of patients.
DOCTORS in their treatment of patients
"IT IS NOT A QUALITATIVE compromise," he said. "It helps us handle our great volume."
Watkins does handle a large volume of patients, with close to 425 out-patient visits a day, which can result in long wait times at the waiting room, said Wollmann.
Wollmann said that students could assist the hospital in its enormous volume.
"Patients, instead of just being patients, can become participants as well." Wollmann said.
Wollmann said that students should be more informed about their health and be aware of misconceptions concerning diseases such as mononucleosis and strep throat and words such as flu and epidemic.
caused them, in part, to lose the war." Rogers said.
"It will save you time and save us time as well," he said.
Regular hospital hours are 8 a.m. to
11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-
Friday. The hospital is open from 8 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through closed
Sundays. Nurses are on duty 24 hours,
and a doctor is on call at all
times during off hours.
"The 7th Cavalry was devastated," he said. "They lost almost half of their men."
"We will never understand everything that happened day."
Rogers said all the conclusions drawn by historians, political analysts and social anthropologists were still mostly conjecture.
But Comanche is real and well documented. Records are available of his purchase by the Army. It is known that he was the mount of Capt. Myles Keogh, who was in charge of the approximately 70 men of Company I. There are scars on Comanche from wounds he suffered at Little Bighorn.
When Comanche died in 1898 at Fort Riley, the army asked L.L. Dyche, the first curator of the Museum of Natural History, to preserve Comanche. When Dyche had completed the job, he asked the Army whether they would like to donate Comanche to the University of Kansas or whether they wanted to pick up the $400 map for mounting the horse's remains.
The Army decided to give Comanche a good home at KU. They did not want to risk damaging him when the 7th突击师 came from duty station to duty station.
Over the years, several groups. Including the Custer Battlefield National Monument and the Army, have tried to take Comanche. But the firm backing of Chancellorsville W. W. Mancke and Franklin Murphy kept Mancke at KNU.
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The greatest losses of the battle were suffered by the Army, and Comanche was a memorial to the soldiers who died. The military tragedy shook the spirit of the American people as they were celebrating 100 years as a nation. The Indian victory at Little Bighorn spawned fierce anti-Indian sentiment that proved fatal to the people who originally inhabited North America.
A varnished wooden plaque in front of the brown mustang echoes those sentiments: "Comanche stands here as a symbol of the conflict between the United States Army and the Indian tribes of the Great Plains that resulted from the government's policy of confinement of Indians on reservations and extermination of those Indians who refused to be confined."
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