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University Heads Focus on Health
Student health services do and should have responsibilities far beyond serving the students, but limited finances limit the functions, four university administrators told the annual meeting of the American College Health Association yesterday at the University of Kansas.
The four administrators were Dean W. W. Malott, of Cornell University and former KU chancellor; Elmer F. Ellis, of the University of Missouri; Leland D. Traywick of Southwest Missouri State College Springfield, and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
NONE OF THE health services at four schools had enough personnel to give physical examinations to anyone but students.
Only at Southwest Missouri State could the faculty and staff be treated, except for emergencies, and that on an out-patient basis.
Malott said Cornell has a University Health Service, with not only the standard clinical services, but responsibility for some health teaching, radiological safety, environmental health and research.
"I have a strong interest in the quality of this service and at Cornell the director reports directly to me," he said.
At Kansas the health service is responsible to the Chancellor while at Missouri the director reports to the dean for extra-divisional activities.
CHANCELLOR WESCOE said the health service should not be a formal school, but indirectly it should foster health education because every visit to a physician should be a learning experience for the patient.
Dr. Ellis, responsible for campuses at Columbia and Rolla, explained that the scope and function of a health service would vary with proximity to a school of medicine and the percentage of the student body living at home.
Dr. Traywick, whose student body includes many living at home or commuting, spoke of the values of integrating the services of local physicians into the health service.
"IN THE FUTURE the problems of mental health will probably present the greatest area of growth in university health services," Chancellor Wescoe said. "And this area of activity promises the greatest future benefits."
Dr. Ellis added, "Since psychiatric consultation was added to the University of Missouri health service, the incidence of suicide in the student body has dropped many-fold."
Over 350 girls from 17 Kansas high schools will be here Saturday for the Women's Recreation Association's High School Sports Day.
Sports Day to Draw High School Girls
Women physical education teachers from the high schools have also been invited.
Instructional clinics on archery, badminton, bowling, softball, swimming, tennis and volleyball will begin at 9 a.m.
The afternoon will be devoted to various sports activities with teams from the various schools competing in softball, swimming and volleyball.
A basic problem in mental health of students is in communication, according to Mr. Malott. "We've got to orient our faculty and staff and students so that everyone knows that at the health service there is a sympathetic person who is ready to listen and help."
The ACHA is meeting this week in Kansas City, but delegates met yesterday afternoon and evening in Lawrence with the conference general chairman, Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director if the KU health service.
Mail Census 1970 Possibility
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The government is considering taking a "do-it-yourself" census in 1970. It would rely on mail-in question-naires rather than the traditional personal interviews by census takers.
The proposed new system of taking the nation's head count was disclosed in a Budget Bureau pamphlet on cost reduction.
THERE IS GROWING Congressional sentiment for trying the mail census despite the fact that the appointment of census takers has long been a patronage plum for House members and Senators.
Census director Richard M. Scammon favors the use of mail. "I'm not positive," he said today, "but I believe we can get a better product for less money."
For conducting the traditional door-to-door count, census enumerators have been paid between $1.50 to $1.80 an hour or a lump sum of $150 depending on the area in which they work.
Eut Scammon noted that in 1960, only one-fifth of the 185,000 census takers were recommended by their Congressmen. The others had to be recruited.
THE COST OF the 1960 census was about $100 million and Scammon believes that a saving of $15 million could be achieved by the mail system.
A bill is pending in the House which would allow the Census Bureau to try the mail operation in other federal censuses between now and 1970.
SHOULD THE HEAD of a household fail to return his questionnaire, a census enumerator would be dispatched to obtain the information in the customary style.
If passed, the Census Bureau and the Post Office Department would cooperate in drawing up a sample mail list. Scammon envisions mailing questionnaires to most areas of the country except where illiteracy is high or there are a great number of transients.
There would be no special penalties assessed for those failing to mail in their forms other than those that now prevail: failure to give information to a census taker, a $100 fine and/or 60 days in jail; giving a false answer, $500 fine and/or one year in prison.
"Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergmann, will be shown at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday in Fraser Theater.
Bogart, Bergmann Star in 'Casablanca'
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The SUA film, winner of three academy awards, is the story of refugees fleeing from Nazi Europe to North Africa. Claude Raines, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet co-star in the film.
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller said last night that President Kennedy's European nuclear defense policy will lead to "chaos." Rockefeller proposed, instead, one of his own.
Rocky Criticizes Nuclear 'Chaos'
Rockefeller, who many believe will race Kennedy in 1904 as the Republican presidential candidate, urged the United States to help Europe create a nuclear arsenal and strategy that can be coordinated with our own.
He called for "a North Atlantic political arrangement within which nuclear weapons can be controlled and deployed for the common good of all free peoples."
SUCH AN ARRANGEMENT, he said, could be achieved through creation of a "genuine political partnership of strong and independent nations committed to sharing agreed nuclear responsibilities for the common defense of the Atlantic area."
The GOP governor said the Kennedy administration "has talked a great deal about partnership, but it is treating our friends of the Atlantic Alliance as dependent allies rather than independent partners.
"The administration in its policies and actions has, in fact, been extremely ambivalent; in the economic field, it has talked of equal partnership, of the importance of European integration and of common European action, but in the nuclear field, it has discouraged the emergence of any European identity."
Rockefeller, in a dinner address to the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA), said:
"TODAY, THE SOVIET nuclear arsenal has grown to the point at which it threatens the very existence of every country in the West. Europe is now strong enough in the face of this challenge to want to assume a greater degree of self-reliance.
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International Club Plans Tearoom Gathering
The International Club's social gathering this Saturday will be different, according to Sami Aiffy, president of the International Club
Affy said the Saturday meeting will be surprising to the club members. "Such a meeting has never been arranged in the past," he said.
The meeting will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Castle Tea Room, 1307 Massachusetts St.
Music from different lands and refreshments will be the feature of the evening.
Members and guests are requested to bring their musical instruments to the meeting.
Admission will be free to members and their dates. There will be a $1 fee for nonmembers.
Activities of the club for the remainder of the semester will include a panel discussion at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 4, in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union; election of the '63 fall semester officers and dancing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11, in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union,
and a farewell picnic on Saturday, May 18. The place and time of the picnic will be announced later.
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