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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 30, 1965
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Clinic. an Answer
Watkins hospital needs a new clinical wing, designed by skilled medical architects who know the fastest ways to move the greatest number of patients through the examining rooms, out of the hospital and back to their activities on the campus.
On the hospital's west side is an unused area of land. An addition could be built there to provide adequate space for doctor's offices, and waiting rooms.
To cut down on unnecessary movement by patients and hospital staff, all records could be kept here. If office space were provided, more room in the basement of the hospital could be devoted to storage area for food and other hospital supplies.
A pharmacy could be constructed in a central area of the clinical wing which would allow room for storage of all medicine. Medicine would always be on hand for the pharmacist and would cut down on the amount of time needed to fill prescriptions. A wider area for receiving prescriptions could be provided to allow more students to be served at the same time.
IF THE PHARMACY were moved to a new back wing, the laboratory could be enlarged to provide more space for the six laboratory technicians.
The clinical psychology wing could also be moved. This would also provide more beds for those patients who must be hospitalized. Last year only about 1,000 patients were kept in the hospital. If the mental health area could be moved to another location, the number of beds available would be nearly sufficient. One floor of the clinical wing could also be used for hospital beds.
The nurses' quarters in the back are not used to capacity. Most of the nurses are married. This building might be converted to a mental health wing.
Of course, Watkins by itself could not handle an epidemic; few hospitals could. Arrangements would be made at the dormitories for patients to stay in specified areas with doctors making calls on them there.
At the present, however, the hospital has an ample supply of vaccine to ward off an influenza epidemic. The problem is to get students through the hospital rapidly and administer these precautionary measures to avoid epidemics.
A HOSPITAL COSTS approximately $26 a square foot to build. Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of the hospital, has estimated than an endowment of approximately half a million dollars is needed. He feels the federal government will match this amount if it is contributed.
Endowments at other universities have been used to build such wings to their hospitals.
There are few factors so determinant of success at the University as that of health. Our students and faculty must have adequate facilities at their disposal. That was Mrs. Jabez B. Watkins desire when she donated this hospital.
Watkins hospital has been included in the ten year building program announced in 1962. How long can we afford to wait. Planning for a new addition must begin before the situation becomes unmanageable.
On the Side—
Hurrah Kahuna!!
Janet Hamilton
Concern for student individuality has been termed as one of the prime concerns of the administration. I'm glad.
(I certainly would like for the chancellor to know me—I think he does.)
We hear about student mental maladies such as losing ones identity, and, presumably this could happen were the students recognized by numbers only.
Concern for the human properties of us students should be maintained and I feel they are being as much as possible.
However, let's look at "the other side of the coin." (Very trite phrase as an old English teacher of mine once stamped across my high school themes.)
ITWOULD BE IMPRACTICAL and possibly impossible to enroll, grade, expel and to do all the other things done to students without using the number-punch card system—there are simply too many of us.
I am told that KU has a mild-mannered, pastel-shaded computer for just this purpose. But have any of you ever met the computer face to face (or face to memory bank as the case might be)?
How must this computer feel being referred to constantly as 7040? Where is the concern for his individuality?
I am also told, by reliable sources, that Oreadians are offered a course called, Introduction to Computers I. (I plan to enroll in it just as soon as I can work it into my schedule, too!)
HOPEFULLY, EVERY STUDENT enrolled in Intro. to Comp. I is allowed to stop by 7040's room in Summerfield and say hello.
I trust the statisticians in Summerfield have given 7040 a more human sounding moniker than just plain 7040. Something like Ella, or Fenwick or even Big Kahuna.
Hopefully, the administration will go all the way in its individuality—togetherness campaign and recognize 7040 as an individual. Benefits thus reaped would be of incalculable value to student morale. At last they could become familiar with that gently whirring thinker who has so much to say about their college careers.
ENROLLMENT WOULDN'T HAVE that certain coldness it has, grade reports (God bless 'em) would be more personal if signed by Big Kahuna, and expelled students would at least have someone to take their wrath out on.
Let's make it a point to stop by the computer center and meet Big Kahuna—a friend to all students. Make him feel at home.
Let last year's student directory foul-up serve as a warning Big Kahuna may be fed up with our haughty attitude toward him.
— Eric Johnson 72-545
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Bibler is Back
Richard Bibler,1950 KU graduate and most successful college cartoonist in the country, is coming back home for KU's centennial year.
Or at least Bibler's brainchild, The Little Man on the Campus, is.
Bibler's now famous cartoon,LMOC,first appeared in the University Daily Kansan in the late 1940's,but was dropped from the UDK several years ago. It is now syndicated in more than 800 college newspapers.
A year ago, Bibler sent the UDK a cartoon of the Little Man on the Campus with a tear in his eye. Bibler said he was weeping because of his exclusion from the Kansan.
The cartoon will start appearing in the UDK in about two weeks.
Bibler said he was overjoyed at "coming back home" to the first paper that ever carried his cartoon.
It is particularly fitting to rejoin the UDK. Bibler said, because the inspiration for some of his more famous characters came from real-life KU officials. His evil Professor Snarf, for instance, was inspired by a journalism professor, who is reputedly as tough now as he was in the 1940's.
Underdevelopment
Melvin Tells Mama
Dear Mom.
I am having a great time at KU! Gee, it is really neat. I am a little worried though. A man in Topeka has this paper and it tells about all the commies and leftists that are on campus and golly, I'm worried. I think some of the people around me are commies.
There is my Western Civ. teacher. He said he was a National Socialist. I believe that anything that has to do with socialism is a cover-up for Communism. He also wears this funny toothbrush moustache and talks with a foreign accent. He's probably not just a commie, but a foreign commie too.
My roommate is a Democrat. Now I know there is nothing wrong with Democrats, but this guy goes around talking about the East. Says he comes from New Jersey, but I don't know. The other day he was reading this book—had a picture that he folded out and he kept turning it over so he could see it better. He let me see it and gosh, it was just IMMORAL. I've heard commies were immoral, so, he must be a commie too.
My psychology teacher wears this red tie to class every day and he has this strange look. He is always talking about this guy named Pavlov. It sounds pretty fishy to me. Another thing, he had a beard like Lenin. He's a red too. I can just tell!
So tar, the only person I know that is probably not a commie is my girl friend, Wilma Jean Sue. Yesterday, she asked me to take her to this lecture about Viet Nam. She said I'd better keep up my grades or I might have to go over there. Well, I mean, that's just not American—thinking I wouldn't want to fight. I want you to know I told her right there that I wanted to blow up Viet Nam and all those foreign hot-beds and all them foreigners.
Love, Melvin
— Terry Joslin
BOOK REVIEWS
There's a new set of books for your little brothers and sisters—not, we hope, for you. Even you freshmen. It's from New American Library, it's called Signet Key, and the books cost, generally speaking, 50 cents. There'll be books of both fiction and non-fiction: sports, space, biography, animals, science, romance, nurses, mysteries, all that kind of thing. Age level—well, around 10 to 14.
The first group of books should be appearing. These include a mystery called "Spiderweb for Two," by Elizabeth Enright; adventure called "Islands in the Sky," by Arthur C. Clarke; a biography, "John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Man of Courage," by Flora Strousse (not one of the current exposes); a submarine tale called "The Silent Service," by William C. Chambliss; a racing tale, "Challenger," by Mickey Thompson; "Masquerade Nurse," by Jane Converse; romantic yarms, "First Dates and Other Disasters," edited by Arthur Unger; a story of rural Dixie, "South Town," by Lorenz Graham; sports, "Big Swat," by D. H. Francis, and more racing, "Stock Car Racer," by Caarv Jackson.
These are generally high caliber low caliber stuff. Not trash, that is, and not exactly classic. Probably, as a matter of fact, tasteful for most young readers. And thoughts for Christmas for those of you on tight budgets (as who isn't?)
THE RECTOR OF JUSTIN, by Louis Auchincloss (Signet, 75 cents).
One of the big paperback announcements of recent years was Signet's acquisition of "The Rector of Justin," the recent best-seller that has kicked off an amazing surge of Auchincloss reprints. Yet it does not seem to be the kind of book to start that kind of furor
"Low-keyed" might sum it up. "The Rector of Justin" is about the headmaster and founder of a fashionable boys' school in New England. The story is told by the various people who knew him or loved him or hated him.