Watkins lacks sufficient space
By Sandy Zahradnik Kansan Staff Reporter
Watkins Hospital is serving often inadequately—15,000 people in a building designed in 1931 to serve 4,000.
The waiting rooms, which are merely the hospital corridors lined with chairs, are often filled to and beyond capacity.
There are eight examining rooms nine if a nurses' station is moved to a linen closet—but there should be 20 examining rooms if the too-small staff is to be used efficiently.
"We can't examine people on the front lawn," Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of the Student Health Service, said. "And that's about the only place we haven't used."
"That and the attic. We tried that, but it has too many steam pipes, it's hard to get to, and it's poorly lighted."
Some help may be coming. Since about 1958, Schwegler has been asking for a new wing on the hospital to take care of KU's burgeoning enrollment.
He may get it.
A preliminary planning committee, consisting of the campus architectural service and the hospital building committee, is investigating the kinds, amounts, and sizes of space needed in a new wing.
After this pre-planning has determined the space needs, the results will be turned over to the state architect to be converted into blueprints for the building.
If, that is, someone comes up with some money.
The Legislature two years ago appropriated $250,000 to build a new wing, but that's only half enough. Schweglier estimates the cost of a new wing at $35 a square foot, or about $500,000 if he gets the space he needs.
When the Legislature appropriated the $250,000, officials expected matching federal funds to be available under the federal Hill-Burton law, but the law gives money only for public institutions. Watkins, which admits only students with a few exceptions—retired faculty and staff for one—didn't qualify.
Now, officials say they don't know where the money might come from, but the search is continuing. Meanwhile, the $250,000 is still waiting to be spent.
The planning committee has a lot to look at, including the problems listed above.
For example, 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, Schwegler said. At 250 patients per day between eight doc-
See Watkins, page 13
Judges named for Int'l Festival
Names of the five judges for the 15th annual International Festival were announced by Festival chairman Everold Hosein, California, Trinidad, junior.
Judges will be R. H. Reney, Mayor of Lawrence; Jed Davis, head of the KU drama department; Ardon Booth, manager of KLWN radio station; Alexander Boyle, professor of design, and John Hoppe, Ottawa senior and chairman of Student Union Activities.
The judges will award two trophies to the national groups having the best exhibit and performance at the Festival, March
'End the war if elected. Nixon says
"I pledge to you the new leadership will end the war and win the peace in the Pacific," Nixon said.
HAMPTON, N.H. - (UPI) - Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon today promised to "end the war" in Vietnam if elected president.
The Republican presidential candidate, in an address to about 200 people in this seacoast community, said the Johnson administration had "wasted the nation's military power by using it so gradually. "If it had used at the start the power it is using now, the war would be over," Nixon said.
Nixon was in New Hampshire in a quest for votes in the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary March 12.
Nixon, while not spelling out how he would end the war, said the nation has never seen "so much power used so ineffectively."
The former vice president also warned that the Soviet Union has rapidly overtaken the United States in strategic capabilities during the administrations of Johnson and the late President John F. Kennedy.
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The U.S. Weather Bureau reports clear to partly cloudy skies tonight and Wednesday. The low tonight will be in the lower 30's.
31 on the second floor of the Kansas Union. Names of the winning groups will be added to the list of previous winners, engraved on a trophy in the office of Clark Coan, dean of foreign students and sponsor of the Festival.
So far 15 national groups have indicated they will participate in the Festival—Arab Nations, China, India, Iran, Israel, Korea, Africa, Nepal, Latin America, Pakistan, Philippine Islands, Scandinavia, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela.
"This year the entertainment will be more professional," said Hosein. "We'll have a faster-paced program and more rehearsals."
The World University Service (WUS) will set up a food and gift bazaar to earn money for lodging, medical and school facilities for needy students overseas.
Hosein said the Festival is a good opportunity for American students to become acquainted with the cultures of some of the 88 foreign nations represented on the KU campus. The exhibits open at 6 p.m. and the program begins at 8 p.m. Both are free and open to the public.
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The controversy about attend-
The 10:30 closing on Mondays is for the convenience of the hall officials, most of whom are at the floor meetings between 10:30 and 11:30. Mrs. Ricks explained.
The Dean of Women's office has ruled that whether or not freshmen women attend floor meetings, they must be in their halls by 10:30 on Monday nights.
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Hitt said he thought the system under which all students enrolled at the Kansas Union was inadequate, because students could not
Hitt to announce plans for fall's enrollment
"As long as I have been here, girls have been encouraged to attend floor meetings. And I'm sure they'll be encouraged to attend in the future," Mrs. Ricks said.
Enrollment plans for next fall will be announced next week, James K. Hitt, registrar, said Monday.
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Hitt said he preferred to wait until then so he could tell the new enrollment procedure in a "campus-wide" announcement.
Under the present enrollment system, all students in the Colleges-within-the-College were pre-enrolled for the fail semester. This semester, all freshmen and seniors were pre-enrolled.
The pre-enrollment system used this spring has received much criticism from KU instructors, charging it "just took more time and didn't do any good."
Hitt admitted the KU English Department was having more problems with pre-enrollment than other departments, because students there "tend to change back and forth into courses so much."
Some did,some didn't attend floor meetings
get the classes they wanted or needed.
By Joanna Wiebe Kansan Staff Reporter
Gerhard Zuther, associate professor of English, said the system used this spring "increased the instructors' workload before the actual enrollment began."
Freshman women don't have to attend floor meetings, but floor presidents were told Monday night not to bring the subject up for discussion, a Gertrude Sellards Pearson (GSP) floor president said.
The president said Mrs. Frances Ricks, assistant dean of women and adviser to the hall, told GSP's All Hall Council the meetings were not compulsory, but ordered the floor presidents not to make many announcements to that effect unless asked directly.
Attendance at Monday night's floor meetings apparently was not significantly less than usual.
"I don't know whether they will or not," Mrs. Ricks said. "If the girls want to, they will be taking them to the councils for permission to distribute in the halls."
Mrs. Ricks said she told the women who passed out the leaflets to take them to the All Hall Council if they still wanted to distribute the leaflets.
ance at floor meetings began Saturday and Sunday when leaflets were passed out by the Independent Student Party saying attendance was not compulsory.
"The leaflets were collected because the girls who passed them out decided they didn't like their names on them. They were in no way forced to pick up the leaflets."
Mrs. Ricks today denied making a phone call ordering the collection of the leaflets.
Mrs. Ricks called the attendance "about normal."
A freshman in Oliver said, "We all came to see if it was true or not that we didn't have to come."
"We had to run a re-enrollment process after pre-enrollment," Zuther said. "We changed students' classes after the semester started because of enrollment mix-ups, and we are sure they were annoyed. Students could not have been very happy about having their classes unsettled with one-eighth of the semester gone," he said.
Whatever system Hitt announces Monday will probably be an extension of the present preenrollment plan, rather than a return to the old plan where all students enrolled within three days at the Kansas Union.
Lecture is tonight
A specialist in classical studies and humanities will analyze the love poems of Albius T bullulus, ancient Roman poet, in the sixth Humanities Series Lecture at 8 tonight in the University Theatre.
Robert B. Palmer, professor of classical languages and literature at Scripps College, Claremont, Calif., will speak on "Alienation and the Religion of Love; Tibullus and the Love Elegy."
Palmer, who has been on the Scripps College faculty since 1949, has published several books and articles on Greek and Roman comedy and satire and Carolingian and post-Carolingian literature.
"Not only is pre-enrollment an attempt at guaranteeing students the courses they want, but through pre-enrollment a student can specify what time he wants a course, as well as the course itself." Hitt said. He added this was still not a guarantee the student would get his preference.
Margery Wilson, assistant instructor of English, said the system used this spring was fine with her and seemed a little less hectic than before.
Chris Suggs, assistant instructor of English, referring to students in the Colleges-within-the-College, said an instructor who teaches a class which has been together the previous semester has problems.
"Students in these classes often have ideas they formed together, and the new instructor must try to 're-mold' them," Suggs said.
Suggs also said if a student pre- enrolled and got an "Incomplete" or an "F" in his English I class, he might go on to English II before the department could catch it.
James Mariani, assistant instructor of English, said instructors could have trouble dispelling prejudices formed during the first semester because the class had been together so long. Other-
See Hitt, page 14
BULLETIN
The "Temptations," a nationally known singing group, will be at KU April 20.
The group is being sponsored by Student Union Activities (SUA) and will appear at 8 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Randy Corbitt, a spokesman for SUA, said the "Temptations" will have other acts with them, but he said he did not know yet who they would be.