Saturday, June 16, 1973
THE SUMMER DAILY
Page Five
Commitment raises rights issues
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Hutchinson agrees that the present civil
commitment statute fails to provide the
courts with a legal definition of mental
illness. "I don't really have a serious dif-
ficulty working with our present code,"
Hutchinson says, but remarks that in case
a patient requests a jury trial on his com-
mitment, "I'd like to be able to define
mental illness for the jury."
A COMMISSION appointed by the state
legislature is in the process of drafting a
new mental health statute. The proposed
code would extend the generally accepted
requirement that the patient be "danger-
ous to himself or other" to justify commit-
ment.
The commission's draft would also au-
thorize hospitalization of a "person who is
mentally'ill and as a result of that mental
illness is unable to provide for his basic
physical needs and has overtly demon-
strated that inability."
However, the new code "isn't very help-
ful to me," Hutchinson says, since it, like
the present statute, fails to define men-
tal illness.
TEMPORARY COMMITMENT, Hutch-
inson says, "has always been a problem
acid will always be a problem. We want to
treat the patient if he needs treatment,
but we want to protect his civil rights."
"Is society going to say, 'We're going to
care for an individual against his will?' If
so, the rest is mechanics.
"But if a person has the mental illness
and you don't provide for that, eventually
the society. will protect itself."
HUTCHINSON claims although people
today are "much more tolerant than 20
years ago" toward mental illness, many
are still frightened and prejudiced against
the mentally ill.
Hutchinson says he and his office take
pains to inform candidates for commit-
ment of their legal rights and to provide
early hearings for temporarily committed
patients.
However, he admits that temporary
commitment will continue to be a prob-
lem even under liberal interpretation be-
cause it involves "depriving a person of
his liberty."
IS INVOLUNTARY commitment neces-
sary at all? "In my opinion, with ade-
quate psycho-social services there is nev-
er a need to commit anyone, no matter
how dangerous they are," says local psy-
chiatrist Richard Kunnes. "Hospitals be-
come a dumping grounds."
Unfortunately, community mental health
services are not adequate, he says.
Washtenaw County has one of the best
mental health services in the state, but
they're still grossly inadequate."
Kunnes attributes most mental illness to
the "social, economic and political" en-
vironment of the patient. He claims coun-
ty mental health agencies tend to treat pa-
tients' "alleged craziness as a medical
problem" rather than trying to alleviate
the problem situation.
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Watergate affair" as his topic for
the commencement at St. Olaf's
College in Minnesota.
THE MAIN speaker at Harvard
University's commencement was
a young man who had been
arrested and suspended from the
school in 1969 for participating
in campus disorders.
The speaker, John Hook III, a
business graduate, denounced the
Nixon administration and "the
gray men whose main pursuit has
been more power." He said the
Watergate scandal "marks the
bottom of a long decline in the
integrity and competence of the
American government."
One of the few "counter" com-
mencements in the country took
place at the University of Michi-
gan Medical School, where stu-
dents dissatisfied with the offi-
cial speaker invited activist Dr.
Benjamin Spock to address them.
The official speaker was actor
Robert Young, television's Dr.
Marcus Welby.
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amounted to a carnival for its
2,500 graduating seniors last
weekend. Commencement day
was a colorful event with hun-
dreds of balloons and banners,
hot-dog stands and bands play-
ing everything from rock and
jazz to semiclassical music.
Mamie Eisenhower College in
Seneca Falls, N.Y., didn't have
a speaker either but it hadn't
been planned that way. Editor
Norman Cousins got his dates
mixed up and went off for a
round of golf instead of showing
up at commencement. He real-
lized his mistake too late, but
promised to send every gradu-
ate a copy of the speech he had
intended to make.
AT ST. PETER'S College in
Jersey City, N.J., the speaker
was Bill Bradley, former Rhodes
scholar and intellectual forward
of the championship New York
Knickerbockers basketball team.
The crowd, parents and students
alike, greeted him with the chant
that became synonymous with the
Knicks' style of playing: "Dee-
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Football contribution to com-
mencement rhetoric was Miami
Dolphin Coach Don Shula who
told graduates at John Carroll
University that "after God and
family, winning is the most im-
portant thing."
Barnard College, the woman's
institution associated with Co-
lumbia University, invited folk-
singer Pete Seeger to its coin-
mencement. Instead of speaking,
he led the audience in a song-
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LADY BIRD JOHNSON stood
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