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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 7, 1968
Crowded Watkins must get new wing
Watkins Hospital, under-staffed and overcrowded to the point that each doctor must help about 35 or more patients per day, is still waiting for the remaining $250,000 to pay for its badly needed new wing.
Meanwhile, KU building and expansion continues in other areas.
Scheduled for completion by the fall of this year is a two-story, 4,000-square-foot addition to GSP which will provide extra space for kitchen and serving-line areas.
A 100-foot lighted and heated corridor, partly underground, will connect GSP and Corbin halls.
The $235,000 which will finance this addition was recently authorized by the Board of Regents.
At Watkins, eight examining rooms are being used to examine an average of 250-285 patients per day. Doctors now stand outside examining rooms and wait five minutes for patients to dress and undress. At 250 patients per day between eight doctors the wasted time has been estimated at 156 doctor-days by Dr. Raymond Schwegler, Health Service Director. With more examining rooms, doctors would be able to rotate from room to room, examining one patient
while another was dressing or undressing, and eliminating this wasted time.
A new wing could help alleviate this problem.
A new wing could help alleviate this problem.
In the office, when a nurse pulls out a drawer from a file cabinet, all other activity must stop in that area due to the cramped space for the thousands of medical records.
In the laboratories, things are so crowded technicians must clear equipment from a work area to make room for another test, then set up the original test equipment again. These test areas should be organized to allow a clear area for chemistries and bacteriologies.
A new wing could help alleviate this problem.
Again we have a case where the need behind the residence hall addition is not in question but we do seriously question its priority over a new hospital wing.
We wish it could go without saying that KU administrators should put first things first.
— John Hill
Assistant Editorial Editor
From other campuses
Figures on Vietnam war
1. As of Dec. 15, 1967, we had dropped 1,713,841 tons of bombs on Vietnam.
These are the facts as released by the United States Department of Defense February 1, 1968:
2. In all of World War II, we dropped 1,554,463 tons of bombs on Europe and North Africa.
3. In the Pacific Theatre of
World War II, we dropped 592,781 tons of bombs.
4. In 1967 alone, we dropped approximately 650,000 tons of bombs on Vietnam.
We have thus made Vietnam the most bombed land per square inch since the world began. Yet still we have suffered;
"Same Old Story—We Escalate, We Don't Seem To Get Anywhere, And We Can't Get Out"
1. As of Jan. 19, 1968, 16,459 Americans killed in action.
1. 102,197 Americans wounded.
2. 968 Americans missing.
4. 3,191 Americans killed, apart from combat.
Furthermore, we have lost:
2. 1,667 planes in ground action and accidents.
1. As of Jan. 16, 1968, 1,501 planes in combat.
We do not offer explanations for these figures. That is up to you.
— "The Kentucky Kernel" University of Kentucky
Paperbacks
The Arden Shakespeare paperbacks are an attractive and sturdy new line from Vintage Giants, selling for $1.95 each. The editor is A. R. Humphreys, and the edition goes back 60 years. It has been re-edited and revised, and there are introductions, appendices, textual criticism and annotation. The type is large, and the format is attractive. Titles new on the market include "King Henry IV, Part I," "King Henry IV, Part II," "Measure for Measure," "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Othello."
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Some new Peanuts paperbacks by Charles M. Schulz. They are LET'S FACE IT, CHARLIE BROWN, HERE COMES SNOOPY, and WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, CHARLIE BROWN? Now is it really necessary that anybody provide a critical summary?
Record review
'First Edition'-out; Vanilla Fudge'melts
By Will Hardesty
Let me tell you about two musical mistakes.
First, there's THE FIRST EDITION by The First Edition (Reprise, R 6276, RS 6276).
Somehow, you know from the first, this album is going to be something less than great. Side one starts off with some really corny newsroom sounds, followed by a shout of "Roll 'em! Roll the presses." More corn, etc., until finally the newsboy cries, "Get your first edition."
It's a poor start and doesn't get any better. The group must have musical talent, but it doesn't shine through in this record. All of the group were members of The New Christy Minstrels, and this might be the problem—rock isn't their bag. They are trying too hard to sound like a bona fide rock group, and not worrying about having something to say. They sound strained and unoriginal.
The lyrics are bad. They sound, in part, like the "see-the-moon-in-June-you-goon" type, and, in part, like they were written by a high schooler dabbling in free and blank verse. Each song sounds just like the one before it. Even the orchestral backup sounds a little shaky.
The only redeeming parts of this album are two songs, "Shadow in the Corner of Your Mind" and "Marcia: 2 A.M." These two songs are good because they sound sort of Associationish.
The other mistake, THE BEAT GOES ON Atco, is done by a group which had a fine first album out—Vanilla Fudge.
This album purports to be a short, musically-oriented history of the world. The whole album sounds like an introduction and build-up to a point which the album will make, but you just listen and listen and listen and there's no point.
Side one has numerous short cuts from various songs, from "Old Black Joe" to "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." These cuts make the record sound something like a stereo demonstration record everything, including the kitchen sink, is there, but for no particular reason.
This is an album you will listen to once—and then once more in a year or so.
Throughout "The Beat," you keep hearing these funny little extraneous sounds which makes you think the master tapes weren't edited before the record was cut.
The best part of the album, or maybe the least bad part of it, is a collage or recordings of famous voices out of the past. It is very anti-war, and it's interesting to hear the people on it.
Perhaps the best way to describe this dissapointing second attempt from a good group is to quote my roommate. When I told him I wanted to listen to the record, he offered to give it to me, sight unheard, for 25 cents. I said I'd listen first. He still has the album.
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