Wednesday, February 21, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Watkins will treat bad trip' sufferers
By Susan Brandmeyer Kansan Staff Reporter
Students on a bum trip, do not be afraid to seek medical help!
Watkins Memorial Hospital offers aid to students on a bad trip with psychedelic drugs. No reports will be given to police and no student's medical record will be released without permission.
Dr. Raymond Schwegler, health service director, says he does not attempt to find out who is selling the drugs, in fact, he is glad if student users never tell him where they obtained their high. He has never had any drug investigators ask him where students obtain psychedelic drugs.
Schwegler said his staff is interested only in helping the student back to normal.
"Users of LSD and other psychedelic drugs causing psychotic reactions are not sinners, they're sick," Schwegler said. "It's the same with individuals who are drunk. Such patients are frightened and need help."
Students who have come to Watkins on an LSD high have been properly treated without any trouble, Schwegler said. A drug antidote may be administered and verbal support is always essential. Drug users on a
bad trip become psychotic and conversation may prevent anxiety from overcoming the patient and causing a suicide attempt.
If ever back to normal again, the patient may need physiiatric help. Even as long as two years after a single dose of LSD, users have completely disassociated — seen people with three heads, buildings fading in and out, Schwegler said.
STP, a newer hallucinogen considered more powerful than LSD, presents special problems for the user on a bad trip.
"Clinically it is difficult to tell if a patient is on LSD or STP. Tranquilizers, sedatives and other depressants which usually act as an antidote for LSD accentuate the bad effects of STP." Schwegler said. "Therefore, it is essential patients level with their doctor to obtain the correct treatment."
Although it is impossible to estimate the number of psychedelic drug users in this area, Schwegler believes the number is fairly low.
"I couldn't tell if 2 per cent or 50 per cent of the students are taking such drugs," he said. "But I suspect it's not 50 per cent or we would see more problems."
Barker says student power is weakened by diversity
Brian Barker, Virginia Water, England, graduate student and student - body vice - president, spoke on student power at KU during the All Student Council (ASC) meeting Tuesday night.
"The student power at KU is weakened by diversity," he said. "There are many student groups, all of which claim some part of the student allegiance."
Barker said the problems of the ASC center around the poor public image of the group and the amount of power which has slipped from the group's grasp.
Barker also listed some current problems the ASC faces.
"The administration has been around longer and consequently knows more, has more experience and is a better arguer than we. Therefore, when we go to them with a bill, we have to know what we want and it has to be researched well."
Barker also said the ASC needed to follow through on its ideas. He cited the library hours controversy at the first of the school year as an example of when the ASC acted, but didn't follow through.
He also said the members should be better leaders and get better publicity for their actions.
Gerald M. Carney
Music professor to head KMEA
Gerald M. Carney, professor of music education at KU, is the new president-elect of the Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA). He will assume the presidency after a meeting of the 1,200-member organization at KU in 1969.
Carney, a member of the KMEA board of directors, was elected at their annual meeting last week in Wichita.
He has been a member of the KU faculty since 1945. Carney is associate director of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, which enrolls more than 2,000 high school students for six-week summer programs and also is conductor of the camp symphony orchestra.
Concert tonight
Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will conduct the Little Symphony at 8 p.m. Feb. 21 in Sworthhout Recital Hall
Karel Blaas, a member of the music staff since 1949, will be featured as a viola soloist in Vaughn William's "Suite for Viola and Chamber Orchestra."
Admission to the concert is free.
Want a private phone installed in your residence hall room?
Snarls end when halls get phones
Just tell your residence hall director. The director will write a letter to the dean of men or women. After the letter is okayed by the dean, it will be sent to J. J. Wilson, KU housing director. Wilson will write a letter to the telephone company. The student requesting the telephone will receive a copy of this letter from Wilson's office. He must take the letter to the telephone company office to make arrangements for installation and sign a paper agreeing to pay all the expenses for the telephone.
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This procedure, which can take as long as three or four weeks, will probably be terminated in the fall of 1969 when KU plans to install telephones in all residence hall rooms.
"The cost of installing telephones in all dormitory rooms will be paid by the University," Ray Nichols, vice-chancellor for finance, said.
"However, each student will pay about $2.50 a month to cover the cost of phones," Nichols said. "This will be added to the student's yearly dormitory fee." Over a nine-month period, this
adds up to about $25 per academic year.
Presently, there are 233 telephones in the nine residence halls. Of these phones, 124 are on the University exchange and are used by hall counselors, officers and floor presidents. KU pays for these phones. The other 109 telephones are on the Viking exchange and are private phones, paid for by the student.
Nichols said KU's nine residence halls have room for 4,700 students. There are 2,350 rooms and a phone will be installed in each of them. Students will have a phone in their rooms whether or not they want it.
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