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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
86th Year, No. 87
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
WEATHER: COOLER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Details on Page 4
Friday, February 25,1966
Questions given to Surface
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
HIT 'EM AGAIN—A crowd gathered in front of Flint Hall today for a 10-minute pep rally. Students had the opportunity to "smash Nebraska" by attacking a wrecked
car with sledge hammers, but the first blow was dealt by Ted Owens (above) head basketball coach. After that, students, including a few girls, smashed the car.
Schwegler: influenza not serious on Hill
By Linda Sleffel
The number of possible cases of Asian influenza reported at KU is "not alarming at all," Dr. Raymond Schwegler, acting director of Watkins Hospital, said yesterday.
Six patients have respiratory infections which may be flu, but they cannot be positively diagnosed for some time. The number is not disquieting when compared to the number of students, Dr. Schwegler said.
ABOUT 250 STUDENTS received free flu shots yesterday in the hospital and the clinic in the Kansas Union. This brings the number of shots given this week to more than 1400.
Dr. Schwegler said about 5000 new students were given shots last fall, and estimated half of KU's 13,500 students have received the shots since September.
There will probably be no more flu shot clinics, Dr. Schwegler said, since the number of persons coming to them has dwindled. The staff can be put to better advantage by giving shots only in the hospital, he added.
patient recovers, the infection is influenza.
A RESPIRATORY INFECTION cannot be proved to be flu until the patient recovers and a blood count is taken to determine antibody levels. If the number of antibodies is greater after the
Inability to make a positive diagnosis makes little difference to the patient, Dr. Schwegler said, since there is no specific treatment for flu.
The sudden increase in hospital admissions this week is due only partially to possible flu cases, he said. Six of the 26 patients now in the hospital may have flu. Several patients are still recovering from an auto accident last weekend. Until this week, admissions had been "remarkably low," perhaps because of the warm weather, Dr. Schwegler said.
Queries ask stand on sex, drinking, politics
By Eric Morgenthaler
Provost James R. Surface today met with nine students representing four campus organizations and accepted their list of 24 questions on administration policy.
"I will be happy to start and do what I can by next Tuesday," said Surface, referring to the date set for the students' acceptance of his answers.
"WE MAY HAVE to have further meetings. I can't say whether I can have all the answers by next Tuesday," he added.
The spokesman for the student group, Jim Masters, Mission graduate student, told Provost Surface that there was a sense of immediacy in the questions.
"We have tried to ask questions about University policy as it exists today. Most of the questions
Text of SDS questionnaire on page 3.
concern areas that the administration makes decisions about every day," he said.
Provost Surface asked the students whether they were representatives of an organization or just a group of students.
"Both," Masters replied.
STUDENTS PRESENT included members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Student Labor Organization, the Young Americans for Freedom, and the Committee to End the War in Viet Nam.
Provost Surface said that he interpreted the five-minute meeting as a sign of student concern.
"If there is any confusion on administration policy, of course we want to clarify to the extent we can; if so, I hold this as a good thing for the University," he said.
After the meeting, Masters said that he thinks Provost Surface will have answers to most of the questions on Tuesday.
"I THINK HE will answer them once he reads the questions and sees how easy they really are." Masters said. "This is really just a take-home hour exam on University policy."
The questionnaire was completed at 1:15 a.m. today by a group of four students working at the SDS House, 1212 Ohio.
Work begins on addition for stadium
Work began this week on the east-side expansion of Memorial Stadium. The expansion should be completed in time for the home opener against Texas Tech, Sept. 17, Wade Stinson, athletic director, said.
STUDENT OPINION
The 6.500 seat addition will increase the stadium's capacity to 50,400.
'Hyde Park forum' soon
The M. W. Watson Inc. of Topeka submitted the low bid of $517,500 on Feb. 17.
KU students will soon get a chance to express their opinions in a forum sponsored by the Student Union Activities (SUA) Forum Committee. It will be a forum patterned after the University of Nebraska Hyde Park Forum, not a bitch-in.
OPEN DISCUSSION will be the rule for the forum, and it is hoped to attract all students, not just those with radical ideas, Jennifer Speer, Wichita sophomore and chairman of the SUA Forums Committee, said.
The forum, to be scheduled in the next two weeks, will be held in the Hawk's Nest of the Kansas Union.
The discussion will last tentatively from 3 to
5 p.m. The format will consist of a 10 minute speech, to be followed by a five minute question and answer period.
Any opinion may be expressed, Barb Dewey, Lincoln, Nebr., freshman and organizer of the forum said.
THE IDEA was first formed early last fall. After attending a meeting with members of student union activities boards from other schools, the KU committee decided to bring a debate forum to KU.
The idea was used as a platform in the recent KU campus election. However, the SUA Forum Committee has been responsible for all organization of the forum, Miss Speer said.
—Photo by Max Greif
Photo by Max Grelf BEST DRESSED — Parmelee Bates, New York City sophomore, was named KU's Best Dressed Girl. Please turn to the story on page 4.
RUSSIA WANTS LINE TO WEST
MOSCOW—(UPI)—The Soviet Union wants to keep a peace line open to the West, but is not prepared to move toward any meaningful negotiations of world problems while the Viet Nam war continues.
This was the major impression here after three days of policy discussions between British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin.
The Soviet leader indicated to Wilson that Russia wanted a communication channel to the West to prevent international tensions from getting out of hand. But beyond this, there was no inclination on the part of the Kremlin to make any major moves or conclude any solid agreements.
While the Viet Nam conflict rages, Soviet officials have left little doubt that there is not much chance of doing business with the West, and particularly the United States.