Saturday, June 16, 1973 THE SUMMER DAILY Page Five Commitment raises rights issues (continued from Page 1) 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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DOUBLE FEATURE! "THE NIFTIEST CHASE SEQUENCE SINCE SILENT FILMS!"PaulD.ZimmermanNewsweek (Continued from Page 3) 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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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- fense, Dee-fense!" 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- fest. LADY BIRD JOHNSON stood in for her late husband at gradu- ation ceremonies at the Univer- sity of Virginia, and personally handed out degrees to its law school graduates. RELIABLE ABORTION SERVICE Clinic in Mich-1 to 24 week pregnancies terminated, byli- censed obstetrician qvnecolo- gist. Quick services will be ar- ranged. Low rates. CALL COLLECT (216) 281-606 24 HOUR SERVICE must g (Continued from Page 1) those which it rejected - 17 ur- ban areas in Indiana, Massachu- setts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. The other states will be covered by later EPA proposals. The plan approved for New York City included restrictions on taxi cruising in portions of midtown Manhattan, and thrice- yearly exhaust inspection for cabs; tolls on all East River and Harlem River bridges to encour- age people to use car pools and mass transit; an end to on-street parking in Manhattan and reduc- tions in off-street parking; re- strictions on daytime deliveries to stores, factories and business- es; and stores and offices will be asked to stagger their working hours to lessen rush h n n r crushes. The northern New Jersey plan involves retrofitting certain ve- hicles with catalytic converters, converting certain highway lanes to exchisive tise by buses and cariools, a ban on daylight deliv- ery, and a freeze on the gasoline supply-keeping it at this vear's level. UNDER A coirt order issed last J-nuary, EPA mist either anorove state ptays or impose plans of its own by next Aug. 15, for aehievir the air quality standaris i 37 Urban areas. 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