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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 22,1964
Around the Campus Jeffrey Elected Alumni Head
Balfour S. Jeffrey, president of the Kansas Power and Light Company, Topeka, will serve a one-year term as president of the KU Alumni Association, effective in June.
Vice President for the 1964-65 year will be Charles E. Spahr of Shaker Heights, Ohio, president of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio.
Jeffrey and Spahr were selected by the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association, who in turn are elected by vote of the nearly 20,000 members.
Faculty Exchanges Planned
KU will join six other United States schools with Latin American area programs in a committee that plans faculty interchanges.
John Augelli, professor of geography and chairman of the KU Latin American area program, will represent KU at a meeting of the Management Committee of the U.S.-Latin American Faculty Interchange Program scheduled next November in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
The committee consists of representatives of leading U.S. schools, including Columbia, Stanford, Cornell and the University of California at Los Angeles. They are participants in the faculty exchange agreement, which is supported by the Ford Foundation and administered by the Foreign Area Fellowship Program.
Speech Winners Chosen
Eight KU students have become finalists in the Speech I potpourri.
The students are: Roland (Rolly) Reeb, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, "The Fascinating World of One-Sided Surfaces." Cecily Pitts, Merriam freshman, "Quack Magic." Dan Clothier, Wichita sophomore, "Testing for College Entrance." Kirsten J. Norberg, Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Mo., "Water Safety: Red Cross and Common Sense." Paul A. Hodge III, Coffeyville sophomore, "Some New Developments in Medicine on Alcoholism." Sheila Reynolds, Hutchinson sophomore, "The Big Dipper." Glenn Pierce, Derby freshman, "Positive Control." Barbara Lee, Prairie Village sophomore, "The Skills of the Surgeon."
DuBois Last AUFS Speaker
Victor Du Bois, an expert on the French-influenced areas of West Africa, will be the last American Universities Field Staff speaker at KU this year.
Dr. Du Bois will speak to 15 KU student and faculty groups and he will speak once at Lawrence High School during his April 23-May 1 visit at KU.
Dr. Du Bois holds the B.S. degree in anthropology from Northwestern University and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. He has been with the AUFS since 1962.
Two Win Scholarships
The KU Class of 1913 scholarships covering University fees have been awarded to KU seniors Hilda Gibson, Lawrence, and Jack Croughan, Novato, Calif.
Miss Gibson is a French and sociology major at KU. She has been president of Mortar Board, member of La Confrerie and Pi Delta Phi French honorary societies, and she has held a National Science Foundation undergraduate research grant.
She has been active in Associated Women Students, the KU-Y, the Dean's Advisory Council, and she was chosen outstanding member of Delta Gamma social sorority.
Croughan, a chemistry major, has held research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Kansas Heart Association, and he has been a consistent honor roll student.
He has held a scholarship hall award and has been president of Pearson Hall two terms and a member of the hall judiciary council. He is a member of Sachem senior men's honorary society, the All Student Council and he has been vice moderator of the Westminster Center. He has held several scholarships at KU.
Combined Concert Sunday
KU musical organizations and choirs of the two Lawrence junior high schools will combine to present the monumental "War Requiem" by Benjamin Britten in Hoch Auditorium at 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Clayton H. Krehbiel, professor of choral music, will conduct the 300-voice University Chorus, the 80-voice Concert Choir, the combined choirs of Central and West Junior Highs, the University symphony orchestra, and a chamber orchestra.
Soloists will be KU faculty members: Mrs. Miriam Stewart Hamilton, soprano; Reinhold Schmidt, bass-baritone; and Edward Sooter, tenor. Richard Gayhart will be the organist.
George Weldon has coached the West juniors and Sheila Brown is the director of the Central choir.
Benjamin Britten, the composer, chose as his text poems by Wilfred Owen, a British soldier killed just one week before the end of World War I. The first performance was for the dedication of the rebuilt St. Michael's Cathedral of Coventry, England, in 1962.
Critics have described Britten's "protest against the destruction of life" as a musical, poetic, and philosophical masterpiece.
There is no charge for the program.
Doctors Strike For Free Choice
Editor's note: One of the doctor's complaints that led to their strike against the new Belgian health law was that they would be regimented in the manner of British physicians who operate under a national health plan. The following dispatch describes the differences between the British and Belgian systems and explains the operation of the plan in Britain.
LONDON—(UPI)A major difference between the British national health plan and the Belgian law that caused the doctor's strike is the matter of free choice.
In Britain doctors either may or may not enlist in the national health program. Under the Belgian law doctors must join.
The British National Health Service ((NHS) was first proposed during Sir Winston Churchill's wartime coalition government but was put into effect by the postwar Labor government in 1948.
TODAY'S BRITONS regard it not as a charity but a right. It is regularly used by approximately 95 per cent of the population and served by all but about three per cent of the nation's doctors.
Doctors are not without some strong criticisms of the program. Most frequently put forward is a complaint that they must work too hard for too little money and that the availability of free service crowds their offices with too many people with minor complaints who would not see a doctor if it cost them money. It is argued that this diminishes the chances of a doctor giving all patients the best possible care.
Each British citizen pays for the service through direct and general taxation. A deduction of 12 shillings a week (1.68)—partly matched by employers on a sliding scale—is made from each pay packet under the government's national insurance program. Of this sum two shillings, ten penny (40 cents) is specifically for the NHS. The balance helps finance such things as pensions, unemployment benefits and the like.
THEERE ALSO ARE some moderate charges for medication. They include such fees as two shillings (28 cents) for each prescription, one pound ($2.80) for dental treatment, and from two pounds ($5.60) to about four pounds, six shillings ($12.04) for dentures. A patient who prefers to be treated by a private doctor must pay for his own drugs but is eligible to go to a NHS hospital for free treatment.
Students Plan-
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THERE ARE ABOUT 40 students in the French language program, she said.
"We will attend classes at the Sorbonne in Paris for six weeks," Miss Nelson explained. "During that time the girls will live in 'girl's housing' and the boys, in a monastery."
"The approximate cost of the foreign language institute is $830 for out-of-state students and $750 for residents. This covers board, room, tuition, and travel allowance.
"Any other expenditures, books, trips, and tours, must be extra. We get six hours credit for the summer course, or the equivalent of French 3 and 4."
P-T-P WILL SPONSOR flights to and from Europe, working in connection with national People-to-People, which has two overseas travel programs.
KU's People-to-People is also sponsoring its American Students Abroad program this year.
One of the P-t-P programs gives students a chartered flight to Europe, requiring that they attend an orientation program in Washington before leaving for Brussels.
The Student Ambassador program, also under the P-t-P American Students Abroad program, gives students the opportunity to stay in private homes while touring Europe. The "student ambassadors" are required to stay in homes in at least three different countries.
The ambassador program requires a six-week orientation program, 10 to 15 hours of a foreign language, the recommendation of the chairman of the university P-t-P chapter and membership in the college P-t-P program.
Finally, there are the independent travelers. These students have made various plans for their European tour, from first class jet flights to ships.
These students will get around Europe on bikes, motorcycles, and in rented cars.
Contrary to some conceptions of the British national health scheme both doctors and patients have the right of staying outside the service, or combining it with private treatment. Patients may choose their doctors.
tists' wages went up from an average 2,400 pounds ($6,720) to 2,740 pounds ($7,570).
Doctors, in addition to having the choice of enlisting in NHS or not, can practice under NHS and have private paying patients. Many do. It is estimated there are only about 500 to 600 doctors in Britain who have remained entirely out of NHS.
BY BRITISH, although not by American standards or those of some other Western countries, doctors are relatively well paid under the NHS. Those in general practice were given a 14 per cent pay boost last year, or an increase from 2,425 pounds ($6,750) on the average to 2,765 pounds ($7,642) annually. Den-
The NHS provides complete family doctor and dental service plus the services of surgeons and other specialists in NHS hospitals. Ambulance service is included and there is a special nursing service for home patients.
The annual cost of the program is roughly 3.75 per cent of Britain's gross national product or nearly $2 billion. It represents about $40 for each man, woman and child in the country. In the tax breakdown, roughly 72 per cent comes from the federal treasury, four per cent from local government taxes, five per cent from superannuation schemes and the balance from the token payments made for drugs, etc.
A general practitioner is allowed a maximum of 3,500 patients and is paid a basic 18 shillings ($2.52) per year for each. The British Medical Association has estimated that the average number of patients per doctor is 2,200.
To encourage a buildup of a doctor's practice, each doctor is paid a 12 shilling ($1.68) bonus for each patient on his list between the numbers 500 and 1,501.
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