Freshmen OK abortion
Model Senate meets
By GARY MURRELL
A bill to legalize abortion and to eliminate the population explosion in the United States was recommended Saturday by the Fifth Annual KU-Y Model Freshman Senate.
This measure, with five others representing the suggestions of KU freshmen, will be submitted in a report to Kansas and national government leaders.
The Senate was composed of 60 Republicans and 40 Democrats who were divided according to sections of the country—Midwest, South, East, etc.-rather than states.
FOR NEARLY five hours, 53 student senators, barely a quorum, met in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room, which was filled with cigarette smoke and flaring tempers.
Touching off debate was the controversial birth control bill which eventually ended in a floor fight with a coalition of Democrats and Republicans supporting it.
Acting as majority floor leader, Myrl Duncan, Paola, introduced the measure, identified as Senate Bill 17.
"This bill was written to curb the rising birth rate in the United States, to make available contraceptives and to legalize abortion," he said.
proposed and passed. When finally adopted by a simple majority roll call vote, the bill read this way:
Section 1. The birth control pill may be obtained under the supervision of a physician or by anyone at a clinic where one will be instructed in its proper use.
Section 2. Abortions will be legal under the following circumstances:
a. in case of statutory or forcible rape.
b. when the birth of the baby would be detrimental to the health of the mother.
c. in case the possibility of a deformed child being born.
IN ADDITION, an amendment proposing a third section to more clearly define terms of the bill was introduced by Steve Haynes, Emporia, and passed by the Senate:
Section 3. All of these stipulations may be followed provided that;
a all pills and information are distributed by a licensed practicing physician.
b. all abortions shall be approved by a licensed practicing surgeon.
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS passed by the Senate were; to promote closer union with Canada; to create a commission on ambassadors; to prohibit political use of union dues; to consider
systematic collection of war debts; to eliminate sympathy strikes against government-owned installations.
Dave Nutt, Baldwin, who acted as president of the Senate during the Friday and Saturday sessions, expressed his views concerning the model senate:
"It gives students the opportunity to express themselves on vital issues of the day. Although students seem to follow party lines when voting, I think they have been able to state their views well as a group."
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Daily Kansan Monday, December 12, 1966
BRITISH COLLEGE GROWTH
LONDON — (UPI)— Britain's universities, like their American counterparts, are suffering growing pains. Fulltime staff has increased nearly 50 per cent and students more than 30 per cent between 1960 and 1965.
The greatest increase is in the number of students studying the arts and social sciences, less so in medicine, dentistry, agriculture and veterinary science.
All former campers and counselors are cordially invited to the Kamaji Movies. Cottonwood Room—Kansas Union 3:30 p.m., Wed., Dec.14
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Bandit gets more than he asks for
FLINT, Mich.—(UPI)—"I want exactly $3,000," said the bandit to savings and loan association manager William Lovelace.
asked. "No, just stuff it in the sack," the bandit replied.
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Lovelace did and the robber fled with $4,579.
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I know how busy you are—studying, going to class, helping old grads find their dentures after Homecoming—but, hark, the Yuletide is almost upon us and it's time we turned our thoughts to Christmas shopping.
We'll start with the hardest gift problem of all: what to give the man who has everything. Well sir, here are some things I'll bet he doesn't have: 1) A dentist's chair. 2) A Mach number. 3) A street map of Perth, Australia. 4) Fifty pounds of chicken fat. 5) A pack of Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades.
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Here's some water
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And here's a rock.
Around the clock.
Norma was so moved, she seized the rock, smashed the bottle, and plunged the jagged edge into my sternum.
Here now is a lovely gift for an American History major—a bronze statuette of Millard Fillmore with a clock in the stomach. (Mr. Fillmore, incidentally, was the only American president with a clock in his stomach. James K. Polk had a stem-winder in his head and William Henry Harrison chimed the quarter-hour, but only Mr. Fillmore of all our chief executives had a clock in his stomach. Franklin Pierce had a sweep second hand and Zachary Taylor had 17 jewels and Martin Van Buren ticked but, I repeat, Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Fillmore alone had a clock in his stomach. Moreover, Mr. Fillmore was the first president with power steering. No wonder they called him "Old Hickory!")
But I digress. Returning to Christmas gifts, here's one that's sure to please—a gift certificate from the American Society of Chiropractors. Accompanying each certificate is this fetching little poem:
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year,
Loyous sacro-iliac!
Joyous sukata date.
May your sweet forever chime.
May your spine forever shine.
Blessings on your aching back!
May your lumbar ne'er grow number,
May your tenants use these
May your backbone never dislodge.
May your backbone neer distag
May your caudal never dawdle,
Joyeux Noel! Heureux massage!
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© 1966 Max Shulman
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