University Daily Kansan
Friday, December 5, 1975
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Married students face hardships
Married students at the University of Kansas lead dead lives. Combining their lives as students and householders, they say, isn't easy but is rewarding.
Time is the major problem for most married students.
Jose Leanos, Lawrence junior, said it was hard for him and his wife to get together on weekends. He said they sometimes had dinner visits with friends so he could study.
Leanos works full time and attends KU part time.
Dunne Reece, Shawnee junior, said his family severely limited his study time. He has two young sons and a working wife. He has two young pressures were often overbearing.
He recalled a particularly trying week he went through recently. He said he worked on the day he was around midnight, all week long. His wife worked on Saturday and he had to attend Naval Air Reserve training. The children attended with a baby sitter for the sixth day that week.
Reece and his wife went out on Saturday night to have some time together, but he left the house at 8 o'clock.
the boys with a sitter again made him feel guilty.
Debbie Gudenkau, Merriam junior, said it was sometimes hard to share her time with the class.
"I can't say,'Bob, go home-I have to study," she said.
Some married students said they thought they were missing out on part of college life because it was so expensive.
Joe Laing, Overland Park graduate student, said, "There are meetings, seminars and learning programs I can't advantage of because I have to go home."
Gudenkauf agreed. She said she missed going to the good campus movies and theatre.
Going back to school is usually a family decision for married students.
Janet Lee, Lawrence graduate student, said of her decision to return to school after seven years, "It was easy to decide. It seemed like the ideal time."
She and her husband moved to Lawrence from California so he could get his doctorate.
It was easy for Gudenkau, too. She said that when she was married a little more
than a year ago, part of the understanding
that she was that she would continue her education.
Family and household chores have to be rearranged when one member decides to go back to school. When the wife is the student, husbands take over many household chores, like grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, vacuuming or cooking. Each family had its own labor, but all the students said they needed the cooperation of their families to study.
Students with children found that finding babybatters was another major problem. Reece said that students who commute to school have classes, and leave their children.
It's expensive, too. Reece said 'it cost him $1100 a year for babesitting'
Most students interviewed said they thought there were more disadvantages than advantages.
There were 5,050 married students enrolled at Lawrence last fall, out of a total enrollment of 29,395, according to Gary L. Thompson, assistant registrar. That was 24.3 per cent of the students. He said the 1975 figures weren't available yet.
The 1974 annual report of the University said that 4.3 per cent of the freshmen were married, 7.5 per cent of the sophomores, 12.8 per cent of the juniors, 22.2 per cent of the seniors and 36.1 per cent of fifth-year students.
Students can save up to 10 per cent on their food bills by purchasing store brand items rather than name brand products, such as Cafe Rio and Rusty's Hillcrest food store, 990 lowa.
Dykes meets public today
The meeting is open to anyone who wants to attend. Shankel said yesterday.
An open meeting will be conducted this afternoon at 1 with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice president of the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
"The Invitation is to all students, faculty and staff at the University of Kansas, plus others from across the nation."
Grocers recommend store brands
"Store brand items are an opportunity for a good quality product," Meyer said yesterday, "and it's a way to save money." Meyer said Rusty's offers four store brand products: Good Value, Rainbow, First Pick and IGA. First Pick and IGA are
Earlier this year, there was an open meeting, but it was poorly attended.
Shankel said he hoped this meeting would be attended by more people.
comparable to nationally known brands, he said. Good Value and Rainbow are of a similar nature.
Larry Leinette, assistant manager of
alley's Gibbon Discount Foods, 3252 low,
Nashville, TN 37218.
"Some items are the same in quality,"
Linwetter said, "and they are cheaper."
"Store brands are always cheaper," Strohbein said. "They're hard to buy, though, because you aren't familiar with the name."
Carol Bonne Strobbbeen, director of the Consumer Protection Association, said the problem with buying store brand products getting used to unfamiliar brand name.
Strohbeln said dry milk, peanut butter and sugar were a few examples of store brand items whose quality was the same but the price was cheaper.
Some students buy products regardless of their brand.
According to Leinwetter, there is usually a savings of two or three cents on store brand items. But, he said, it depended on the item.
Margaret DeCoursey, Shawnee Mission junior, said, "I just buy whatever is the cheapest and pay little attention to the brand."
Morgan said that all SCORMEBE programs were coordinated by students. He said that Hogan made final decisions on financial and other important matters, but that the students had a good deal to do with decisions.
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However, Janel Helsol, Wichita sapomore, said she bought many store items.
Black engineers . . .
cooperative program with Haskell Indian Junior College. She said that the relatively small number of non-black minorities the team contributed to their low representation here.
Recruiting is handled entirely by students, Morgan said. Gene McGaugh, Kansas City graduate student, visits all Kansas City high schools and other area schools, and is sometimes accompanied by an undergraduate.
Dexter Morgan, acting president of SCORMEBAN, said all minorities were actively recruited, but for some reason not, non-black minorities was more difficult.
One summer program was established to introduce NSF* to engineering to impact research.
tributed $17,000. Funds are also solicited from private individuals and foundations.
According to the COREMee pamphlet, summer programs help high school and other incoming students adapt to a major change in curriculum or overcome poor high school preparation.
Another role of the students is to solicit contributions from corporations. Morgan said that these contributions were used by IBM Corp. in their contributors listed in a SCMMREME pamphlet include Procter & Gamble Manufacturing, IBM Corp., Dow Chemical and 10 oil companies. From 1971 to 1975, industrial corporations contributed $78,000 to the IBM Corp. and $22,000 contributed $22,000, and the Kansas University Endowment Association con-
The main objective of SCoRMRE is obtaining and keeping minority students in the school, Morgan said, and the committee acknowledged that it would beplementing this goal. He said that the organization made up the difference between the financial aid office's assistance and the actual needs.
Students are also placed in summer jobs with companies that recruit here. Morgan said that SCMREME didn't guarantee this service as part of its program, but that "most people who have wanted a summer job have got a summer job."
Other means of keeping the students in the school include tutoring, counseling and the buddy system, Morgan said. Older students pair up with younger ones and help out with any problems they might have, he
The SCrMMEE pamphlet states that the organization's programs have received attention from other universities and that SCrMMEE's founder was invited twice to describe the organization at conferences held by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Freidman and NYC...
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as you try to do more and more through the political mechanism. You are putting a bigger and bigger strain on government, thereby destroying freedom and self-governance on the one hand, as well as creating this kind of financial crisis."15
Freidman was asked what could be done to help the nation's poor, since heavy public borrowing to aid them is damaging to a city's financial condition.
He said, "We must find out what is making people poor and eliminate those things. For example, nothing has done more to make people poor in this country than the minimum wage law," he said. "What we want is a minimum wage employer to hire someone who is not worth whatever the minimum wage rate is at the present time.
"This has created much unemployment. Why is it that we have thirty per cent to forty per cent unemployment among teen-age blacks?"
At least half of that can be attributed directly to the minimum wage law, according
A second concern we'd hope to create poor
factors in the design of these products.
education system has been a complete and utter failure, especially in meeting the needs of students.
Freidman said that the third element that was contributing greatly to the poverty problem was public housing, urban renewal and slum-creating problems.
He quoted a colleague of his as saying, "How can we expect our children to get decent standards of behavior and performance when we take all of the poor
people, all of the broken families, and lump them into a single house?
"What we need to do is provide youngsters with an environment where they can gain some instincts of responsibility and respect for others." Instead, we just do the opposite.
"The first step," Freidman said, "must be to look for the sources of these problems, and in the main, I think that governmental policies are the biggest problems of poverty, not solving them."
Halls closed
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Summerfield Hall and Robinson Natatorium will also be heated during the vacation because intersession courses will be in those buildings, he said.
Both Watson and Spencer libraries will remain heated during the vacation, because the buildings are used extensively during the vacation, he said.
Those buildings in which research experiments and live animals could be harmed by lower temperatures would be heated, Lucas said.
Responses to the Task Force's recommendations will come from the department level, Lucas said. Consequently, the department will develop its own program.
Lucas wouldn't make an estimate of how much the University expected to save by shutting down some buildings and partially shutting down others.
"I'm hoping we save a considerable amount," he said.
"Anything is better than nothing."
"I think they are just as good," she said, but "don't cost quite as much as nationally known restaurants."
Jane Burke, Storm Lake, Iowa, senior, said store brand items were cheaper in many instances but people had to watch what they bought.
"in some cases," she said, "you lose
work by saving a few cents, which is
hardly worth it."
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