See for yourself . . .
The mysterious land of Oz has answered the equally mysterious question of the Jayhawker yearbook. The first edition of the '70 Jayhawker will be distributed beginning today in the Strong Hall rotunda.
New facilities considered
Watkins found inadequate
Factors under consideration by the Student Senate Health Committee and the University Planning Board regarding the possible construction of a new hospital for the University of Kansas have been outlined by Brad Smoot, Sterling sophomore and committee member.
The committee is considering the following:
- The traffic flow to the health center, both by vehicles and pedestrians.
- Whether students go the the hospital from class or from their residences.
- The expansion of the campus and campus building.
- The types of illnesses or injuries with which students go to the hospital.
- The location of the living areas.
- In December the subcommittee submitted the statement to Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr;
- The availability of parking and emergency access for students. Construction costs at various locations.
"In view of (1) the Report of the Student Senate Committee on Health, (2) the recommendations of Dr. Raymond A. Schwegler, director of Watkins Hospital, and (3) the findings of the previous University Planning Council, the University Planning Board finds that the physical plant of the Student Health Service is notably inadequate and that there is an urgent need for a major capital outlay for student health facilities."
The health committee report included the following statements:
- The physician-student ratio is 1:2,000 when it should be 1:1,-000 according to the American College Health Association.
- Waiting area for Watkins is in hallways when there should be rooms capable of handling 50-100 persons.
- The present physical plant was designed in 1930 and does not conform to the current standards of hygiene and safety.
- There is insufficient space for laboratories, X-ray facilities and food production.
Laird advocates funds for building of missile installation in Missouri
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The administration asked a sharply divided Congress Tuesday for money to thicken its planned shield against a Soviet nuclear strike by adding a new antiballistic missile installation in Missouri.
It also proposed to begin
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broadening the controversial system to guard the population against a potential Red Chinese threat, but ran into firm opposition from key Senate supporters.
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, contending the $1.5 billion request was the minimum necessary to protect the nation, asked for authority to construct a new ABM site to guard a Minuteman silo field located at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., and to increase the number of missile interceptors for two sites Congress authorized last year-at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., and at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D.
Kansas City junior. Martha Fankhouser, Lyons sophomore, Smoot and Schwegler.
- Inadequate parking exists for the patients and staff, and emergency and delivery vehicle access is needed.
The report also included two possible long-range solutions. One was the addition of a new wing to the existing hospital structure and the second was construction of a new hospital.
The purpose of the interceptor increase would be to protect the offensive missiles in these three areas from the possibility of a Soviet attempt to knock them out and destroy the backbone of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Smoot also said the subcommittee and the health committee along with Schwegler were looking for possible sites for a new hospital.
Members of the Student Senate Health Committee are David Blahna, St. Louis Park, Minn., graduate student and chairman of the committee, Frank Bangs, Wichita junior, Susie Bocell,
Court favors pay television
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for establishment of the nation's first permanent pay-television system by leaving an appeals court ruling allowing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to license such operations.
Pay television, strongly opposed by many movie owners, has never been offered on a nationwide basis. But the Zenith Radio Corp., which conducted an experiment with pay-TV during the mid-1950s in Hartford, Conn., hailed the Supreme Court's action as "a victory for freedom of choice for the TV-viewing public..." Zenith can develop of a subscription television system.
An FCC spokesman said the regulatory agency had received no applications for permission to begin pay-television operations immediately and that it would be at least several months before the commission agreed on the technical requirements pay-TV stations will have to meet.
Under pay television, a viewer pays a fee for any program he chooses to watch.
DON'T CALL MARIA
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Historians say that of the first settlers of the small community along the Los Angeles River in 1781, which later became the West's greatest city, only five were women—and four of them were named Marla.