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Monday, July 16.1973
University Daily Kansan
Student Parents Face Child Care. Studv Problems
By CAROL GWINN
Tots Often Need Surrogate Parents When the Real Ones Are at School.
BY CHRIS GWINN
Kansas Staff Writer
Some students at KU who are also parents say they have had to resolve the guilt feelings involved in leaving children in order to attend school. Two student parents and two faculty members are entitled to fulfill themselves in work and study independent of the home.
Bonnie Reynolds, Lawrence graduate student, and Nancy Harper, Wichita graduate student, said that although they felt some guilt about leaving their children with a babysitter or in a child care center, she was best for their children and themselves.
Reynolds said that although her son asked her not to leave during the day, she knew that getting an education was what she needs to do.
Reynolds said she wanted to teach Spanish in a college when she completed her requirements for a doctorate in three or four years. She said that by that time her children would be in school all day and not require, the care they did as babies.
Reynolds, who is director of the Lawrence Host Family Program, said she began looking in December for someone to care for her children when she returned to school for the spring semester. She had contacted them and but she said she was not happy with them.
Her daughter was in kindergarten all morning until Revoldois was able to find a
She said that although nursery schools were expensive, especially for a college student, they were worth it. She estimated the cost at about $20 to $25 a week. Harper, whose daughter is in a child care center, spends $100 a month for the service.
"Very respectable grandmother types" are available for babysitting through agencies in Wichita, Harper said, but in the case of a hard-to-find fortune to make a dawntime babysitter.
Harper has employed others for the care of her children since they were born, the first one seven years ago. Harper moved to Lawrence from Wichita and that said finding someone to care for her children here much more difficult than in Wichita.
babysitter to come to her home. Next year she plans to enroll her son in a nursery school.
"If you find a good babybabystar, you don't let anyone know," she said.
Her five-year-old is now in the Hilltop Day Care Center, where she said was convenient because of its location.
"They basically think the way I do. Their philosophy of raising children is the same as our own."
"There's a good degree of warmth. It's like one big family." she added.
For the child who lives in a neighborhood where there are few children, a day care center offers the opportunity to make many friends. Harper said.
Harper said that studying was a difficult problem when interruptions occurred every day.
five minutes. She said that even when the children are asleep parents had to do laundry and other chores that they couldn't do while the children were awake.
She said she and her husband, Jerry,
wanted to take student, takes turns going the
library. She
"My teachers have usually been pretty understanding."
"I don't know if you can count the crisis of taking kids to the emergency room of the hospital when you've got a term paper due the next day," she said.
The KU Information Center in 105 Strong Hall has posted lists of available nursery plants. (Lisa Lankford)
The list, compiled by Alice Petti,
demonstrates child care services
of staff training and elegance.
Also posted are the following suggestions for evaluating a day care center. Check:
—Amount of structure in the program.
—Staff-child ratio.
—Training, experience and qualities of the staff.
Winn Introduces Bill To Preserve Prairie
- Start attitudes toward racial differences, sex roles and religious practices.
- set furniture for all indoor activities
- play equipment (both indoor and outdoor)
- Materials suitable for creative experiences, including crafts, music and dance.
—Academically oriented facilities.
U. S. Rep. Larry Winn Jr. has announced he reintroduced legislation for the establishment of a Tallgrass Prairie National Park in Kansas.
- Academically oriented facilities.
- Amount of parent involvement
- Number of males on the staff.
Winn is fighting for the maximum 60,000 acres for the park. He said he was willing to compromise because not all of the land need be owned by the Federal Government.
Winn's legislation authorizes the Secretary of Interior to purchase the necessary land in Kansas that would preserve representative portions of the tallgrass prairie and native wildlife. He said that the secretary would provide the Secretary to provide trailways and roadways adequate to insure public use and enjoyment of the park.
Drumbeats Bring Color African Rhythms to KU
"It's outdoor music," says William Sch-
lumberger, assistant professor of music edu-
cation.
Rhythms of native Africa have been added to the everyday sounds of Jayhawk Boulevard since students in a music education music therapy seminar on African drumming from Ghana have begun to practice outside.
Schmidt teaches the four-week seminar which includes music teachers, music education majors and music therapy majors.
Instruments the class uses include the axetse, a rattle made with gourds and
beads, the kagam, the kidd, and the atsime
vu, the five-foot tail master drum.
Two drums, the krobota and the krobe, are designated male and female because one is tuned lower than the other, Scmidt said. All the instruments were made by hand in Ghana. The music the class plays comes from the Ewe, Akan and Aga tribes.
Besides playing the drums, the class sings along on some songs and improvises some rhythms.
The most important aspect of Ghana
drum music is its complementary parts,
such as the bass.
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'Mud Creek' Praised for Bash at Potters
C. S.GROOM
Kansan Staff Write
Ever been so immersed in music that you didn't care what you were doing or what was going on? Yes! Last time I saw Mud Creek, the band.
The brother of the "girl across the hall" was in the band, and I was going to hear it. I had already prepared what I was going to do. I had planned that probably just produce noise. I was going to tell my friend, "They're pretty good." I was going to say that when it turned out to be noise, we all sat.
The concert, sponsored by the Student Union Activities, was held at Potters' Lake. The first piece Mud Creek played was "Sugar Magnolia," a Grateful Dead song.
They were really good! I couldn't believe it. After they played "Watch Her Ride," by Jefferson Airplane, the band treated the band to a classic version of "Orange Blossom Special."
Who was that guy who played the fiddle so fast? It was Brent Wren, Teopaji, korean, who plays guitar, piano, violin and studies musical chemistry.
Who was that girl singing? She sounded like Grace Slick merged with Linda Ron-
stadt—but no, she is unique. She's got it!
She was Sara Sacra. Lade. Mohe. freshman.
The other members of the band are Rick Sanchez, Lawrence sophomore, playing guitar; Mike Mertz, Sahina junior, on bass; Jeff Shiffman, Lawrence sophomore, bass guitar.
"We're a lacob class, Just trying to control insanity," said Hoad. "Mud Creek's vision is a good time for Mud Creek and their audience. It's all a matter of audiences. Sometimes it's neat to play weird things and jolt people—totally people don't hear too often." Hoad has written a jazz-influenced piece, "Dirty Sorts," which uses tonalities. "We've learned acra," it's given me a lot of experience for a career. I like to see people enjoy music.
"Usually when you're playing, you're listening very closely thinking about what you're seeing and the audience. Potters makes me nervous. You're playing for your peers there and you know they're listening. Potters has a good skill for 'play cause they listen,' Saara said.
Hoad said the band had seen a lot of weird rumors at some of the fraternity parties.
Alcoholism Hits Youth, AA Reports
The Los Angeles Times
By MARZA Z. TROUT
At a recent meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous in California's San Fernando Valley, one of the members was honored on the anniversary of an AA event signifying one year of sobriety.
the Alcoholism Sa. 'y Action project of Los Angeles county.
NOT ACCORDING to officials in AA, drug and prevention groups and government agencies.
He was 11 years old.
SOUTHERBY, WdO works on alcohol related projects with the U.S. Department of Education.
At the same meeting, a 10-year-old boy
washed and had been sober for one month.
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BUT THE NUMBER of young people drinking to excess, mixing alcohol with drugs and suffering from alcoholism is climbing at an alarming rate.
These youngsters are part of a growing number of child and teenage alcoholics estimated at 7,500 in the Los Angeles area and 450,000 in the nation.
Alcoholics Anonymous particularly has felt this increase. Currently there are 25 meetings that are "young people oriented," and so far there were 12 and five years ago, none.
True, generations of teen-agers have been drinking alcohol, and it is not unusual for teen-agers to steal some of their parents' liquor supply for a weekend party.
Dr. Morrisr Chafetz, the government's top alcohol expert as Director of the National Institute on Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse, an age-identification alcoholics could not be determined.
"We have a younger age level in AA here in southern California than anywhere in the nation and also the fastest growth," said an Appalachian spokesman. "The median age is about 31."
"BUT IT IS A far more serious problem than we ever imagined," he said. "It is not uncommon to see severe alcohol problems in kids 9, 10, 12 years old."
He noted an evolution in national drinking habits:
"The whole pop wine market (apple wine,
strawberry wine) is not the alcohol
beverage choice of adults but appeals to the
young adult in liquor stores)
cannot keep enough in stock.
June, sober now for 11 months, sat in a
"... it is a far more serious problem than we ever imagined. It is not uncommon to see severe alcohol problems in kids 9, 10, 12 years old."
National statistics indicated 7 out of 10 youngsters had their first taste of alcohol by age 14, and 87 per cent have tasted alcohol by age 16.
—Dr. Morris Chafetz
mother to a party and, like many child alcoholics, was handed her first drink by an adult, who thought it was funny to see such a small girl drunk.
JUNE, 14, HAD her first drink when she was 8 years old. She accompanied her
room at the meeting house of her AA chapter, of which she is secretary and, chain smoking a pack of cigarettes, recalled her past several years.
"I was drinking slee gin and taking pills regularly when I was nine," she said, adding she got the barbiturates from a friend whose mother worked in a pharmacy.
"Booze was simple to buy," she said. "You just wait outside a liquor store and see a nice older gentleman or a young guy and you notice a six-pack—a six-pack because you are having a party."
"MY MOTHER IS an alcoholic. I was 5 years old and taking care of her, and I never broke the glass."
She spoke in an offhand, distracted manner;
She discounted the argument that liquor is hard for minors to obtain.
"I WOULD drink to get drunk, mostly on
“IWAKED”节课 I knew I had a problem, but I
didn't want I knew to identify myself as an
angry kid. I didn't want I didn't be what my mother was."
"Church" is the local AA meeting and Mary, (not her real name), has to lie about her destination because her mother, a drinking alcoholic, does not believe in AA.
Today, June and her mother live together and attend the same AA meeting.
"I never had to wait long."
Another young member is not so lucky, Mary, 12, leaves her Los Angeles home each Sunday morning and tells her mother she is going to church.
Parents also often approve of their teenagers drinking because they figure if their children are drinking alcohol, they won't take other drugs. Southerly said.
courses for Los Angeles city schools, knows of many instances where parents give up their jobs to attend school.
Authorities agree teen-age drinking fulfills some desire youths have to emulate adults. They see their parents drink and see it as socially acceptable.
They may drink without their parents' permission or, in many cases, teen-agers drink alcohol with their parents' permission and approval.
He told of one 15-year-old girl whose parents let her drink regularly in front of them because they said they would rather she drank in front of them than behind their
While people generally think marjiana and drugs are the primary problem with heroin use in Canada, President's Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse listed alcohol as the No. 1 most serious risk to health.
"Many parents don't realize the problems of"
"their children," said Norman Southernby, with
health task force said alcohol-related arrests of youthe had increased 700 per cent since the lockdown.
"PARENTS WHO learn their children are not using the so-called other drugs but the ones they need to take."
A COUNCIL report said arrests for alcohol-related crimes surpassed arrests for other drug offenses in East Los Angeles in 1972.
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Many authorities say the answer lies in the schools and in educating the children to take responsibility.
"It seems when you introduce a solution, you usually produce other problems. We don't have any special software." The issue is not for any governmental agency to tell people they should or should not drink, but to say, "If you're going to use this drug, or any others, you have a license."
But Chafetz said he is not a believer in solutions.
"The proper use of alcohol, if one chooses to drink, is as an adjunct instead of a focus of whatever activity one is doing. In America if we say we're going to party, we think of the alcohol of the party, the drinking.
"WE HAVE NOT grabbed hold of the fact that young people seem to have a social consciousness that we have lost somewhere along the line in the older generation.
"People in America are never going to come to grips with the drug problems of young people until they take a long, hard fight. They use it, and misuse, alcohol themselves."
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"Our first bash was a Halloween dance at Hashinger and it was pretty much a disaster." Hard to believe his tusk, but he did look like the basket though, and that was really encouraged."
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When asked if they had any plans for a record, the band answered mysteriously, in unison, with low gurgling voices, "Record in what?"
Hoffman said, "From then on we played at clubs and on people's laws. There was a certain group of people who would follow us all around and get smashed the all time."
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"There was this one where all the girls
were playing, pig head before we could
start playing."
"That's what we are now," Sacra said. "We're a drinkin' band!"
It all started "long ago in the days of old." Hoffman said, "at the KU midwiments Arts and Crafts town, we went together and then we both went home to our respective towns. But then in summer '71 we met again at the KU summer session. We met again at Ling and we got together a a band."
Fall, '72. Rick Sanchez was playing his guitar in the stairwell at Hassinger Hall. This blond chick, Sara Sacra, comes along and bids, hey, can we jam with guitar and flute? When the band was looking for innovations, they interviewed Sacra.
The interview "scared me,nec," Sacra said. The room was all dark except for one room.
"Never take Sara seriously." Hoad said.
What ever they call themselves, they're good people.
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