Officers Attend Police Seminar
By Ernie Ballweg
About 250 law enforcement officers from Kansas and western Missouri attending an all-day conference on crime and related police problems held yesterday in the Kansas Union, listened as Kansas Attorney General Robert Londerholm indicated the possibility of establishing a Kansas Police Training Academy.
The program, which featured several speakers on various areas of the law, was jointly sponsored by the Kansas-Missouri Chapter of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Academy Associates and the KU Governmental Research Center.
IN A SHORT ADDRESS, Londerholm stated, "Good government and good law enforcement are inseparable." He added that today's law enforcement officers must be of good quality because they are continually dealing with people who are under a certain amount of stress. They must also be able to get facts and information in a clear and proper manner, he said.
Londerholm said that there are three essential things for the successful operation of law enforcement agencies. These are:
1. Are there enough law officers available? 2. Is there adequate compensation for the skill which is required? 3. Is there adequate training available for law officers?
"The increasing burden on law enforcement officers makes it necessary to consider matters of training and education in this area," Londerholm said, "and a training academy provided by the state would offer a possible solution."
Earlier in the program, Inspector Jerome J. Daunt, Chief of the Uniform Crime Reporting Section of the FBI in Washington, D.C., spoke on firearm controls and the retention of the death penalty.
DAUNT EXPRESSED the need for firearm control laws in every community. He said that he felt the inability to find access to a gun would prevent a large number of "impulse killings," which he said usually arose over ridiculous arguments or other "stupid" motives.
"It is a proven fact," Daunt said, "that guns are seven times more deadly than any other weapon with the exception of explosives. This fact in itself is ample evidence that the restriction of firearms would greatly reduce the number of impulse killings."
Daunt said that in 1964, there were 9300 killings in the United States. Of these, 55 per cent were accomplished by the use of a gun. He added that during the same year in England, which has restrictive firearm laws, the number of killings with a gun were only 10 per cent.
IN NEW YORK CITY in 1964, Daunt said that figures show that of 636 murders, only 29 per cent were done with a gun. The same year in Dallas, Tex., 80 per cent of 110 killings were done through the use of firearms. He added that New York City has firearm restriction laws while Dallas does not.
The need for the death penalty was also expressed by Daunt. "The threat of punishment deters a great deal of criminal action, as self-preservation is the strongest human feeling," he said.
Daunt said that of the 1500 "felony murders" committed in the United States in 1964, only about one per cent of the convicted or 15 were executed. He added that less than one-half of those charged with murder are ever convicted.
FOLLOWING THE TALK by Daunt, Special Agent A. A. Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) spoke on burglary and the disposal of stolen property. Dewey said that over 70 per cent of the burglary cases in the United States remain unsolved. He added that cooperation and communication between officers was the most important thing in solving a burglary.
Daily hansan
62nd Year, No.131
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Friday, May 7, 1965
NEW GYMNASIH—Warm weather brings increased activity to the site of KU's new gymnasium, south of Summerfield Hall. The building is scheduled to be completed next year.
—Photo by Eric Johnson
Architect Seeks Master Plan; Urges Building Discussion
Bernard Frazier, professor of architecture, said today that his aims in proposing a 60-day moratorium on the construction of new Fraser Hall are identical with those of the administration.
Prof. Frazier, who yesterday proposed the 60-day moratorium on new Fraser construction for the purpose of studying proposals for incorporating old Fraser into an overall master plan for the campus, said that his statement was not a statement of non-support for the administration.
"The need for a campus plan is a long recognized need. The aims of the administration are identical with ours--we all want
the finest possible situation." Prof. Frazier said.
Weather
Thunderstorms are forecast for 50 per cent of this area tonight. Partly cloudy hot and humid weather will prevail through tomorrow. The low tonight will be near 70 degrees, the weather bureau predicted.
"A SURVEY OF THIS last half century of pot luck in campus planning has proved to us that it is time to stop—to stop before we put our uncertain foot forward again!" Frazier said.
in proposing the 60-day moratorium on construction yesterday, Prof. Frazier also presented a master plan for future campus construction. He stressed that his was not the only conceivable plan. The 60-day period would be used to get advice from "area planners, campus planners, and architects."
IN HIS STATEMENT today from Oklahoma City, Okla., where he is working on the sculpture for the new federal office building. Prof. Frazier quoted a recent speech by President Johnson.
"But beauty is not simply a matter of trees and parks. The attractiveness of our cities depends on the design and architecture of buildings. . . ."
Prof. Frazier expressed the fear that Kansas would lose its young
people unless something was done to show them that we believe in the education we are giving them.
"UNLESS WE BELIEVE in the education we are giving our youth and act according to our beliefs, we shall lose them. We shall lose them either to the prevailing mediocrity or to the siren's call that somewhere else, not Kansas, offers more to their future," Frazier said.
"It has been said that the University holds the key to the future; for the youth gathers there to add those areas of practical learning which they will take away to form the future. For a moment, we at the University hold the future in our hands — there is no more important trust," Frazier said.
"OUR STUDENTS come with that wealth of idealism only youth can maintain. They come with hungry eyes. To sponsor less than excellence before those eyes is to destroy part of the future." Frazier continued.
KU Hospital Director Given College Health Award
By Mary Hodson
Dr. Ralph Canuteson, director of the KU student health service, has been given the 1965 Hitchcock Award by the American College Health Association for his outstanding contributions in the field of college and world health.
The award was established in honor of Dr. Edward J. Hitchcock Jr., who was the director of the nation's first student health service established at Amherst College in Massachusetts. This is the fourth year the award has been given by the College Health Association.
Reviewing the history of student health services, Dr. Canuteson said during the 1860's when Dr. Hitchcock was at Amherst, the president of the college pointed out to him that many students were dropping out of college because of ill health. At this time, exercise was used to cure all ills.
In 1928 Dr. Canuteson came to KU as the first full time director of the student health service here.
"THE FRESIDENT of the school gave Dr. Hitchcock the job of starting a student health program." Dr. Canuteson said, "At first the doctor added hygiene lectures to the curriculum. Soon there was a physical examination for athletes. Care for injured athletes and for the sick came next.
"This was the extent of student health services until World War I, when the draft figures showed the deplorable state of health of the men trying to enlist," Dr. Canuteon said. "Afterwards there was a great emphasis on the student health movement."
Looking back over the history of student health services at KU, Dr. Canuteson said there was no place for the student to go if he was sick before 1906. With smallpox and other epidemics going around the campus, 200 volunteer students began giving $1.50 apiece, to be used in case of illness so a nurse could be hired to take care of the sick.
DR. CANUTESON told a story that had circulated during this time of epidemics. A fraternity man, the story said, contracted smallpox and was taken around to the area hospitals but none would accept him. Some friends placed him in a row boat and took him to a small island on the Kaw river, where he somehow survived.
The story was found to be untrue after a letter reached the hospital many years later from the fraternity man. He did have smallpox, but he was taken to a home where people had already had it and were immune.
"Finally in 1908, the university recognized the need for a student health service." Dr. Camuteson said. "The governing body of the university took over and since then there has been a health fee."
At first there was a part-time doctor and a nurse, Dr. Canuteson said. The university rented a vacant house and set up a hospital. Three houses of this type were set up before Watkins hospital was constructed.
AS THE YEARS PASSED, Dr. Canuteson said two doctors from Lawrence came on campus every day for two hours to treat students at the temporary hospital. There was one clinic nurse and several floor nurses to take care of some 3,000 students enrolled in KU at this time.
Ernest H. Lindley, then chancellor, appointed a committee to review health services. As a result, two full-time doctors were appointed. Dr. Canuteson assumed
his position as director of student health and as a physician, and Dr. Rachael Sparks, his assistant, took care of women patients.
In 1931 Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins donated money to build Watkins hospital in memory of her husband, Jabez Watkins.
"By December of that same year," Dr. Canuteson said, "the hospital was completed. It was good looking, well built and useful as it is now.
"KU HAD ONE of the first mental health departments in the nation," the director said. "Dr. E. T. Gibson, from the KU Medical Center, used to come over every Wednesday afternoon. Using my business office he saw three or four patients every visit."
In 1947 KU had its first full time psychiatrist. The department increased as two clinical psychologists and a part-time psychiatric worker were employed.
One of the problems confronting Watkins Hospital, Dr. Carnteson said, is student attitude. Students seem to have the iden, he said, that the hospital is not fully accredited. Watkins hospital, however, has been fully accredited since 1933, when it was given accreditation by the American College of Surgeons.
This Association was later joined by the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association. They now make the Joint Committee on accrediting of hospitals. Selected members of these organizations go over all the records, facilities, staff, operating room and every other phase of hospital life every three years.
"STUDENTS THINK that because a doctor works at Watkins hospital, he is not good enough to go out into practice." Dr. Canutson said. "Each doctor here is more of a specialist in the diseases of the college age group than the average practitioner," he explained. "We act in the field of medicine for college students such as a surgeon specializes in surgery or a psychiatrist works with emotional problems."
Every year we have seen between 70 to 75 per cent of all the students enrolled for that year come to the hospital for medical needs," Dr. Canuteson said. "If this many come to us, we can't be as bad as some say."