AWS wants soph closing abolished
By Sandy Zahradnik Kansan Staff Reporter
Closing hours for sophomore women may be abolished.
In the third of a series of meetings to revise regulations, the Associated Women Students (AWS) forum and council recommended that sophomore women be exempt from security hours.
This recommendation will be discussed by the Council on Student Affairs (COSA), and if passed, will go to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe for final consideration.
Sue Menke, AWS president, will present the motion and the reasoning behind it to COSA March 19, provided AWS has finished discussing regulation revisions.
Needing a two-thirds majority, the motion was defeated on the first ballot by one vote. A compromise proposal, that second semester sophomores have no closing, was voted down.
On the second ballot, the motion was passed. 32 to 13.
Miss Menke thinks a preliminary questionnaire, distributed by
AWS in February, might "get in the way" at the COSA meeting because the questionnaires did not indicate that a majority of KU coeds were unhappy with security hours. After the first meeting Feb. 29, AWS representatives went back to their living groups and polled the residents personally at floor and house meetings.
"The lack of interest in the questionnaire showed a lack of responsibility on the part of women students," Miss Menke said. "It showed that women didn't care that much about their regulations until the question was brought before them."
Exception one establishes a 1 a.m. closing until the first day of fall semester classes instead of the day before.
In two previous meetings, AWS changed exceptions one and two under part "A" of "Security Hours."
Exception two establishes a 1 a.m. closing from the first day fall semester classes end instead of the first day of finals, and from the day spring semester finals begin through Commencement.
U. S. losses in Vietnam pass Korean casualties
SAIGON—(UPI) U.S. casualties in the Vietnam War have surpassed the total of Americans killed and wounded in the Korean war, official reports showed Friday.
Student injured
Joe Wilder, Abilene junior, fell from a third-story window at Watkins Hospital Thursday night, breaking his back.
He was taken to the KU Medical Center in Kansas City where he underwent surgery this morning. He was in the recovery room at noon today, medical center officials said.
Wilder, of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, was taken to Watkins after he fell from a chair earlier.
U. S. casualties in Vietnam since Jan. 1, 1961, reached 136,993 Friday, the official reports showed. The figure is 80 above the casualty toll for the entire Korean War.
The breakdown of dead and wounded showed, however, a far greater number of U.S. troops were killed in the Korean conflict.
The official reports came only one day after the U.S. command announced that 542 Americans were killed last week in Vietnam —one less than the highest number of deaths for any previous week.
In the week ended Feb. 17, a record 543 Americans died in action in Vietnam.
See U.S. Losses, page 16
As of Friday, 19,313 American servicemen had been killed in
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Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of the Student Health Service, agrees with Wescoe about the impossibility of treating dependents, but he does think it would be a good idea.
Watkins can help only students
The University would be accommodating a community the size of Lawrence, he said.
Dependents won't get care
By Sandy Zahradnik Kansan Staff Reporter
Whether or not Watkins Hospital gets its new $500,000 wing there is no room for dependents of married KU students.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, in an interview earlier this week, discounted the value of the All Student Council (ASC) proposal—formally presented to the chancellor March 4—that Watkins be opened to the husbands, wives, and children of married students.
He said the hospital could not possibly accommodate the tremendous number of patients the proposal would allow for.
Considering the present 15,000 student enrollment at KU, and adding one dependent to each student, Wescoe said, "the University would need a 200-bed hospital to treat this number."
their own doctors or doctors downtown,or go to the Lawrence Memorial Hospital emergency room for medical treatment.
Dependents must now go to
Schwegler fears the downtown doctors can be of little help, "because they are as crowded as we are."
"Pressure must come from you as students," he said at an ASC meeting, "if you want us to care for wives and children."
With the staff and space available now in the 44-bed hospital, it's physically impossible, Schwegler said.
Rick Vonende, vice-chairman of ASC and chairman of the committee on committees, said ASC really didn't expect the proposal to succeed.
"We hoped this plea for medical care for dependents, coupled with the crowded conditions at Watkins, would arouse interest in the problems at Watkins," he said.
Wescoe did say, however, expansion of the hospital is feasible.
A planning committee is working on a hospital wing which will extend southwest from the present two-wing building, forming a "Y." This committee is determining the kind and amount of space the hospital needs.
Ambassador will speak Saturday
The ambassador to the United States from Ghana will speak at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Kansas Union, the KU African Students' Club announced Thursday.
Ebenezer Moses Debrah, ambassador from the West African nation, is expected to discuss Ghanian affairs, George Kuria, Nakuru, Kenya, senior and president of the African Club, said.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy skies today with warm temperatures.
Possible parking fine illegality new question to student leaders
Four KU student leaders said Thursday they had not questioned the constitutionality of the University's right to fine students for parking violations until learning of a University of Arizona case ruling that only courts may levy fines.
Kansan photo by Moe Behravesh
Swimmers in the Big Eight swimming and diving championships had no doubts where the meet was located. Against the south wall of the Robinson Gymnasium swimming pool was a mockup of a proposed mosaic to be placed on the wall—the gift of the Class of '66. See swim meet story on page 7.
IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING...
An Arizona county superior court judge recently found unconstitutional the University of Arizona's levying of student parking fines. Although the situation at AU appears similar to that at KU, University officials believe KU's traffic and ticket policy has a solid legal base.
Lawrence Velvet, assistant professor of law, said it was difficult to predict the outcome of the parking fines question at KU because courts differ in their decisions.
Kansas courts would not have to follow the Arizona precedent.
Kyle Craig, president of the KU student body, felt a fining system is necessary. However, he said, the KU system is an excessive strain on the student's budget.
"It's time they examined this system from the student's point of view," Craig said. "If it were examined in a court of law, it would be more in the students interest.
"KU tries to encourage the use of the library and other University facilities. Of course no one will use the facilities if they can't park anywhere near them, especially if it is bad weather," he said.
Craig said he has talked to Wescoe about fining systems KU could adopt. All systems discussed eliminated the escalation of fines. The systems discussed were a set fine of $2 per ticket, a penalty fine for tickets paid late, and a system calling for a fine of $3 for
See Parking fines, page 16
University says no to a frosh fund-raising raffle
The University Events Committee has vetoed a raffle which was planned by the freshman class congress to raise funds for Project Concern.
The congress voted to co-sponsor the raffle with the junior class in its meeting last week. The raffle prize would have been two tickets for a trip to Nassau over spring break.
Bill Ebert, Topeka freshman and class president, said the class was informed it is illegal to conduct a raffle in Kansas, so the University could not allow the class to sponsor one.
checked with Milton Allen, city attorney, about the legality of conducting a raffle in Lawrence. He told the class it could sponsor the raffle.
Allen said he told the class that raffles are considered lotteries under Kansas law and lotteries are illegal in Kansas.
"I told them I wouldn't take any action, however," Allen said,
"unless a complaint was filed."
Ebert said the class congress will decide on a different fund-raising project in its meeting Wednesday.
Project Concern supports a pediatrics clinic in Vietnam.