Wednesday, April 17, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Elevator sticks, 21 coeds sit, wait
Twenty-one Hashinger residents spent an unusual and unpleasant 40 minutes last night after their evening meal.
The women left the second floor cafeteria on one of the hall elevators and had almost reached the fourth floor when the elevator stopped.
The resident director, Mrs. John Bryant, was notified and called a maintenance man. Mrs. Bryant's husband tried to open the door but didn't have the elevator key.
Another Hashinger resident, safe on the outside, tried to get the door open and was rewarded with a caught finger.
ASC Blood Drive sets low goal for upcoming visit
Fearing apathy once again, the ASC Blood Drive, which will be from April 23-25 in the south lounge of the Kansas Union, is aiming at a very low quota of 600 donors.
Sadly enough, KU, the largest school in Kansas, has percentagewise the worst turnout of donors. Kansas State, for example, generally has 1,000-1,500 donors ever drive.
KU did do better than expected last semester with 525 donors.
Hours for the drive are from 11 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and from 9 a.m.-3:15 p.m. Thursday.
The only requirements for donors are that they be at least 18 years old, if under 21 have written parental consent and weigh more than 110 pounds.
Several Hashinger women gathered on the fourth floor and yelled to the women in the elevator. One resident asked how long they had been in there. "Don't worry about how long we've been in here," a captive answered. "Just get us out."
The automatic alarm bell rang during the whole time the residents were confined on the elevator. About 30 minutes after the elevator had stopped, the maintenance man arrived to get the door open.
Orville Flory, the maintenance man, said the elevator has a weight limit of 2,500 pounds and was probably overloaded.
As the rescued women walked out of the fourth floor lobby, one seventh floor resident turned to another, patted her on the back and said, "Let's walk up!"
$50,000 given to loan fund
Receipt of a bequest of $50,000 from the estate of the late Nettie Murray was announced today by Irvin E. Youngberg, executive secretary of the Kansas University Endowment Association.
This increased the principal of the Nettie Murray Medical Student Loan Fund at the University of Kansas to $100,000.
Miss Murray and her late sister, Mrs. Olive Wilson, made original gifts of $50,000 each to the Endowment Association in 1955. Each requested that her gift be anonymous during her lifetime. Mrs. Wilson died Feb. 15, 1956, and Miss Murray on June 8, 1966.
No answer yet from LBJ about Velvel's lawsuit
Lawrence Velvel, KU assistant professor of law, who filed suit in U.S. District Court in Topeka April 3 against President Lyndon B. Johnson, Dean Rusk, secretary of state, and Clark Clifford, secretary of defense, said Tuesday the defendants have not replied to charges.
Velvel alleges the defendants have unlawfully exceeded and are continuing to exceed their Constitutional authority by conducting a war in Vietnam without legal authorization from Congress.
Thus, he claims the war in unconstitutional and represents a flagrant executive usurpation of Congress' power to declare war as set down by Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution—"Congress shall have the power to declare war."
The KU law professor said the U.S. government has 60 days after the suit was filed to reply to the charges, and as yet, he said, "Nothing has happened." He said he anticipates the executive will probably wait another month to reply to the charges.
"However, the parties charged have received notice of the lawsuit," Velvet said, "but I've received no word from the defendants yet."
Velvel's requests are that the "court issue a declaratory judgment that defendants have acted unconstitutionally by carrying on the Vietnamese war without a Congressional declaration of limited or general war." The plaintiff also asks in the suit filed that the court should "issue an order requiring defendants to either obtain a Congressional declaration . . . or discontinue fighting in Vietnam."
Hospital equipment ready for disaster
A 200-bed emergency hospital with a possible short-wave radio hookup with ambulances could be set up in Oliver Hall basement in case of atomic attack, tornadoes or other disasters.
The short-wave project is being contemplated and drugs for a federally funded "package" hospital have already arrived at KU. Other supplies including an operating table, x-ray equipment and a portable power generator capable of sustaining a hospital for one month will arrive soon and be stored in Oliver basement, Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of Watkins Hospital and custodian for the new hospital told the Kansan, Tuesday.
The "package" hospitals are placed outside major cities for emergency relief, Schwegler said.
He emphasized that this is not a hospital to relieve crowded hospital conditions at Watkins.
In an emergency, Lawrence Memorial Hospital and Watkins Hospital would normally be unable to absorb 200 more patients, "the new hospital will enable us to," said Schwegler.
While the new hospital facilities are to be used by both the
student and Lawrence community, the students will profit most because of the proximity. The staffing would be shared by both local doctors and doctors from Watkins, Schwegler said.
The contemplated short-wave radio network would be of chief interest to KU students as it would be monitored at Watkins and would enable doctors to keep in touch with ambulance attendants when transferring a patient to the KU Medical Center.
English faculty writes for two publications
Two members of the KU English faculty have had contributions published in journals.
Edgar Wolfe, associate professor, has a poem, "Meade County Spring," in the spring issue of the South Dakota Review. Jean Gagen, professor, has a review of Selma Zebouni's "Dryden: a Study in Heroic Characterization" in Modern Philology.
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