University Daily Kansan Thursday. March 22. 1962
University Party Presents Platform
(Editor's Note: This is the complete text of the University Party platform for the Spring elections as approved by the party Tuesday, March 20 1962. The platform was then sent to a writing committee for stylistic changes.
The University Party believes that student government at the University of Kansas progresses only through positive and practical suggestions for its improvement.
The University Party also believes that such progress is beneficial to the student body as a whole and that it may be best promulgated through efficient party action.
With these views in mind, the University Party presents the following platform.
I. HUMAN RIGHTS
The University Party, realizing that the problem of human rights is a present and pertinent problem upon the campus of the University of Kansas, believes that a student has a right to be judged according to individual merit and that discrimination based on categorical definitions infringes upon the freedom of the individual.
The University Party also believes that to force an organization to choose an individual because of his or her membership in a certain category is to deny that organization the right to choose its members on the basis of individual merit.
Because the question of human rights is an individual one, the University Party believes that the problem can best be solved by the elimination of prejudice in individual attitudes.
We feel that this should be accomplished through support of the Human Rights Committee of the All Student Council.
II. CLASS FUNDS
The University Party realizing that class spirit has been woefully lacking at the University of Kansas due primarily to the lack of funds available for class functions and projects, advocates the creation by the All Student Council of a fund to be divided equally among the four classes of the University to finance said functions and projects.
III. ASC FUNDS
The University Party recognizing the present and future expansion of the scope of student government activities, proposes that new sources of revenue be investigated and exploited by the All Student Council.
IV. DIRECT PRIMARIES
In accordance with democratic principles, the University Party proposes that elections be held under the "direct primary" system so that any candidate who so wishes may run for office. The system of uncontested primaries now in use by one campus political party denies the student, who so desires, the right to run as a candidate in the primary and further denies the student voter his right to choose from a fair and ample sampling of the candidates of his party.
V. PERMANENT QUALIFICATIONS BOARD
Recognizing that the effectiveness of student government depends upon the efficient functioning of the committees of the ASC, the University Party advocates the establishment of a bi-partisan Qualifications Board. The Party proposes that the ASC establish such a board on a permanent basis to control appointments to ASC committees, making selections on the basis of qualifications rather than on political affiliation. Since all committees should have some experienced members at all times, there should be overlapping terms of office for members of these committees. The Party proposes to amend ASC Bill No. 3 to accomplish this.
The University Party realizing that the Freshman Orientation program is a significant service to the new student, recommends the following additions or changes in order to implement a more positive program for the future.
- An orientation lecture by the President of the Student Body on the structure, operation, and powers of the All Student Council.
- A pamphlet on the same subject (i.e. student government) and election procedures should be distributed to all entering students.
- Student leaders in other activities should present a brief summary of the opportunities their organizations offer to students of the University of Kansas.
Russia May Develop New Nuclear Weapon
LONDON — (UPI) — Lord Schackleton told the House of Lords yesterday that the Soviet Union may be developing a 500-megaton nuclear weapon which could be exploded in space.
The 51-year-old Labor MP said Soviet development of such a weapon was conceivable, "although it would be very difficult to make it clean enough not to finish off a large part of the world and not only her enemy."
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KU will provide information concerning recent developments in pharmacy for druggists of the state next month when the school of pharmacy makes it biannual circuit.
LAW DAY SPEAKER — Thurman W. Arnold, author and former assistant attorney general, will speak on "Economic Folklore of 1962" at the Judge Nelson Timothy Stephens lecture at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Fraser Theater.
This extension work will be done at Concordia, April 18; Dodge City, April 19; Wichita, April 20, and Kansas City, April 23.
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More than 150 pharmacists from Kansas, western Missouri, southern Nebraska and northern Oklahoma are expected to hear these traveling educational programs.
Lecturers at all four schools will be Edward E. Smissman, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry; Raymond E. Hopponen, associate professor of pharmacy; Duane G. Wenzel, professor of pharmacology, and Mathias P. Mertes, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry
Sponsors are the KU School of Pharmacy, the Kansas Pharmaceutical Association, the Kansas State Board of Pharmacy and the University Extension.
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Two medical scientists take a highly critical view of the ever-increasing superabundance of pills and other medications said to lessen illness, improve health and prolong life.
Scientists Explain Hullabaloo on Pills
Too many people, including physicians, are being kidded and are kidding themselves, said Drs. Mindel C. Sheps and Alvin P. Shapiro of the University of Pittsburgh in addressing doctors through a technical organ of the American Heart Association.
FOR INSTANCE. there is the national hullabaloo over cholesterol blood levels, they continued. The scientific evidence that lowering these levels will slow artery-hardening is all circumstantial. Leading scientific authorities hedge their recommendations with many ifs and buts.
"The adoption of therapeutic measures and of medical theories on the basis of poorly documented evidence or no evidence at all is of course not a new phenomenon," they said. "The process is, however, out of keeping with our aspiration to make the practice of medicine a rational, scientific endeavor."
Yet anti-cholesterol drugs are multiplying wildly and additional choices for cholesterol lowering are unsaturated fats and low calorie liquid diets. The result is "we have become a 'fat conscious' people" and egg and milk producers suffer.
THERE HAS been a "drug explosion" over the past decade or so, and "for the critically minded physician there is cause for bewilderment." After 15 years of widespread use there still is medical argument over the effectiveness of drugs which keep the blood in a non-coagulant state.
"Hypotensive drugs hailed five years ago are discarded as newer and seemingly more potent ones are introduced with the same fanfare," they continued. "Through various media the physician is adjured to
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tranquilize and to reassure, or, alternatively, to exercise and motivate his cardiac patient, while particularly disturbing to him are the occasions when treatment of one symptom results in a new set of side effects requiring additional medications."
FURTIERMORE, there has been no real improvement in mortality statistics for artery-heart diseases despite the multiplication of drugs for their treatment, they said.
In their view, the medical profession should be much more critical of new drugs. As it is now these "new remedies are adopted rapidly and apparently widely at times in the face of poor or inadequate evidence. Many of these remedies, helpful or not, are not innocuous but produce unpleasant side effects, toxicity and sometimes even death.
"Individually or collectively, the members of the medical profession must accept their responsibility for therapy," they said. "In the short term a great deal might be accomplished if we took seriously a variant of the war-time admonition: 'Is this prescription really necessary?' In the long term, we need to take the initiative to ensure that the control of therapy will remain where it belongs—in the hands of scientific, objective and conscientious physicians."
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