KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
78th Year, No.94
A student newspaper serving KU LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Monday, March 11, 1968
Cars must be 'screened', Lawton says
Fining system 'adequate'
By Carla Rupp Kansan Staff Reporter
The current system of parking fines at KU appears to be adequate, and only the Kansas Board of Regents can set the amounts of the fines assessed by Kansas state educational institutions, Keith Lawton, chairman of the KU Parking, Traffic and Safety Board, said Friday.
Lawton said he does not favor raising parking fines, as was reported last Wednesday. He said he would not advocate such a proposal without the approval of his committee, in any case.
"Fines must be significant enough to be effective," he said, "and at this time they seem to be adequate in doing the job."
Lawton said the whole idea of traffic and parking regulations is aimed towards helping the student—"the most important person at the university"—obtain an education on an orderly campus.
Lawton said the university exists for only one purpose—the broad academic mission—and those in charge must get the students and faculty together. In the process of obtaining an education, the student must walk between buildings, he said. "If automobiles get in the student's way, the orderly process of his education would be interrupted.
Physician waves goodbye to Watkins' vintage chairs
By Sandy Zahradnik Kansan Staff Reporter
Until six months ago, a 19-year-old student sitting in a Watkins Hospital waiting room would have been the same age as the chair.
Those wooden chairs—one indication of how little some Watkins facilities have changed since 1949 —only recently were replaced, according to a staff physician.
"And they're installing a new X-ray machine." Dr. Bell added.
Dr. Bertha E. Bell, who came to Watkins in 1949, said the only significant changes since then have been the improved quality of medicine and an increase in the number of student patients.
Dr. Bell left Watkins in 1951 to go into private practice in Wichita, returned in 1964 and recognized the chairs.
"When I came back in '64 the physical plant was the same—it had the same equipment as when I left," she said.
The quality of medicine is still excellent and improved drugs make treatment easier. Dr. Bell said, but "it's amazing that we do as good a job as we do with the crowded conditions we work in."
She said students get good care at the hospital, but it's "nervewracking" for the small staff of doctors to try to work with so many people in such a small space.
--tween buildings, he said. "If automobiles get in the student's way, the orderly process of his education would be interrupted.
WHAT'S INSIDE
A prison guard at the Oregon State Penitentiary was captured by rioting prisoners Saturday. He tells the story, Page 4.
KU finally played basketball Saturday. Page 7.
KU swim team takes Big Eight championship. Page 8.
The New York Times anu Newsweek magazine condemn the administration's present policy in Vietnam. Page 11.
Dean Rusk must answer to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today for the administration's Vietnam policy. Page 16.
--tween buildings, he said. "If automobiles get in the student's way, the orderly process of his education would be interrupted.
"You can't even walk down the halls straight, because you have to zig-zag between people," she said.
Back in 1949 a doctor on night call could expect to get at least six hours' sleep. Now he can't even count on one, Dr. Bell said. There aren't many hours of the day or night when facilities aren't available for sick students, she said.
"Students are still as cooperative as ever," she said. "They don't complain when they have to wait to see a doctor, because they realize we're doing the best we can."
Student-doctor relationships haven't changed much in 20 years, Dr Bell said.
It's common now, she said, for doctors to put in overtime hours, whereas they never used to in the past.
"We've got just about all we can handle now," she said.
"If the 7,982 registered student cars, all the faculty and staff cars, and all the Lawrence traffic were given free access to campus, there would be bumper-to-bumper traffic and too much confusion," Lawton said. "The student who must get to his classes on time would be restricted."
Since September 1962, a traffic control program at KU has limited campus traffic from 7 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Monday through Friday to faculty members and students with on-campus permits, visitors, and persons making business calls.
The five control stations, part of the control program which cost approximately $30,000 to initiate, either refuse or admit cars to Jayhawk Blvd.
In a Daily Kansan interview prior to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's September 1961, convocation address, he said, "The principal reason for the control is to make the main streets on the campus safe for the walking students." Wescoe said in his address the program would "allow the campus to be a limited access area during classroom hours."
Lawton said there are two ways to help the students and overcome the tremendous traffic problem at KU.
"The first way is to limit automobile traffic during classroom hours on Jayhawk Blvd. so students are physically able to get to their classes without the danger and problem of traffic impeding them," Lawton said.
See Fining System, page 16
Jean-Luc Godard and Richard MacCann, associate professor of radio-TV and film, discuss film techniques at an informal party honoring the French film director. See related story, page 14.
French film director gives introvert image
By Bob Butler Kansan Staff Reporter
Everything was in place: the tinted glasses, the 5 o'clock shadow, the balding forehead and the long, wispy hair.
And behind it all was the enigmatic mind that for nine years has kept Jean-Luc Godard a major figure in European cinema and a constant nemesis to those who try to analyze him.
Perhaps Goddard's most unusual quality is his quiet, emotionless manner. One might expect from the man who directed such films as "Breathless" and "A Woman is a Woman" an eager, extroverted personality. Goddard won't fit in that mold. He has been described as having two hobbies: film-making and silence.
Silence marks Sunday vigils
PROTESTING COMMUNISM IN AMERICA
A silent birthday party, celebrating the first anniversary of the Silent Vigil for Peace in Vietnam, was held Sunday in Lawrence's South Park.
At noon, as church-goers drove down Massachusetts St., 100 people stood in line. In the next half-hour, the line had stretched to 156 people, plus babies. As the line broke up at 12:30 p.m., participants expressed surprise at the large turnout.
One man said it felt good to stand with others who shared his opposition to the Vietnam war. His friend nodded, saying he hoped this meant a permanent increase in Vigil-keepers.
"It looks like it might be a good spring," he added.
Down the street on the other side, another_Vigil was in progress: "Silent Vigil Against Communism in America."
Lawrence resident Don Speakman, his wife and two sons have kept their own Vigil for three Sundays, and plan to do so indefinitely.
Speakman said his family was not protesting the vigil across the
See Silence, page 16
After last night's Midwest premiere of his latest film, "La Chinoise," Godard submitted to the questioning of the Kansas City Star's film critic and members of the radio-television-film, speech and drama and English departments. With his elbow on the table and his head propped up by a fist he quietly and unemotionally answered questions about the film, which concerned the activities and idealogical struggles of a Communist cell of young Frenchmen.
See Godard, page 3
KU budget approved
KU's $33,655,088 educational and operating budget for fiscal 1969 was approved Friday by the Kansas Legislature. The new figure is 11.1 per cent more than the current KU budget of $30,318,319, making it a record.
The $33.6 million is made up of $19,684,016 from state funds. The remainder will come from student fees and sponsored research, Ray Nichols, KU's vice-chancellor of finance, said.
Nichols said the new budget See KU Budget, page 3