University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Thursday, July 16, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 157 USPS 650-640
Displaced homemakers seek skills, jobs
By CONNIE SCHALLAU Staff Reporter
A woman may be happily married one day and a displaced homemaker the next, Andrea D. Welborn of the Lawrence Displaced Homemakers Program told the Lawrence chapter of the National Organization of Women Tuesday night.
Welborn and Ramona Carlin, former wife of John Carlin and now a program coordinator and job developer for the Topeka Displaced Children's address that she called about the program's functions and who it serves.
Welborn defined what a displaced homemaker was:
"A DISPLAYED HOMEMAKER can be a woman who had worked in her home and a man who had worked in her home."
then one day finds that through death, disability or divorce she is forced into the labor market."
She also said that a man could be a displaced homemaker, but that in two years of funding, no men have approached the Displaced Homemaker in Lawrence, which is located at 13th and 14th.
Welborn said that the program is called *Displaced*. Homeless women, a name emblazoned on women's bags, women to legislation.
"Being a displaced homemaker is a negative experience," she said. "'Displaced homemaker'
One of the important functions of the program is to build up a woman's self-esteem, she said.
"When your emotional and financial support has disappeared, your self-esteem suffers. Has it ever been that you have
THE LAWRENCE PROGRAM also helps prepare the woman for a job. However, it is not a doctor.
"Instead, we try to give the women access to job information in the community." Welborn ushers on.
The Lawrence program offers individual and group career counseling. In the past year, it had five series of workshops of eight sessions each. The workshops series included sessions on legal rights, finances, stress management and career exploration.
Carlin said that the Topека program differed from the Lawrence program because it emphasized job development and placement more than the Lawrence program.
However, Carlin and Welborn said that both groups will probably have contact with more than one of them.
Carlin also said that there are about 2,500 women in Shawnee County who are eligible for a health insurance plan.
From November to May, she had been a displaced homemaker who had done volunteer work.
Carlin, who had been married to the governor for 18 years before they were divorced in November, said that she was not an expert in the field because she had only started her job in mid-May.
"Since I'm a fairly new ex-dispaced homemaker myself, I'm not an expert in the field," Carlin said. "But that never stopped me before."
Carlin said that the typical displaced homemaker in Shawnee County was a white female between the ages of 40 and 54. She had been married 20 years and divorced for less than
a year. She also had little or no job training or experience.
One of the biggest problems that a displaced homemaker faces in looking for a job is age.
"I've talked to employers about setting up job programs and I've asked them if they would be willing to hire an older woman." Carlin said. "They've said, 'Yes.' Then I ask how old a woman they would take and they say, 'Maybe someone as old as 30.'
"I'M TALKING ABOUT jobs for women who are in their late 40s and 50s," she said. "The average age of a widow in Shawnee County is 56."
Some of the women that she has come in contact with have never even signed a check,
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Jim LaPoint, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation and the other co-director of the clinic, watch carefully as the children play soccer at the Sports Skills and Fitness school.
Sport camp develops skills, attitudes
By LINDALANG
Staff Reporter
"Blue shirts,are you ready?
"Katie! Go Scott. We're looking for an opening. Somebody help out."
The soccer teacher ran the length of the field, shouting instructions to his grade school and junior high school age students;
One of the students chasing the ball fell down, and the instructor called to him make sure he landed.
THE SCENE WAS the Sports Skills and Fitness School, a day camp at Robinson Center sponsored by the KU department of health, education and recreation, for children ages 8-13.
The school, which began July 6 and will end July 31, is a noncompetitive skills clinic designed to help children master the fun-based tennis, swimming, soccer and gymnastics.
Leon Greene, associate director of health, physical education and recreation and co-director of the school, said the emphasis was on increasing fitness, not on winning or losing.
"We are finding that kids are going through the educational process without gaining skills
The school lasts from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday. After 20 minutes of nonstop aerobic activity, during which the students run, jump and sit-ups, and push-ups.
"The skills and fitness school is designed to help counteract that trend."
they receive instruction in soccer, gymnastics,
tennis and swimming.
Greene teaches tennis. Jim LaPoint, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation and the other co-director of the clinic, teaches soccer. Mary Gillard teaches gymnastics in health, physical education and recreation, teaches gymnastics. All three teach swimming.
DURING THE LAST two weeks of school, students will play racquetball instead of tennis and play soccer instead of soccer. Speedball is similar to soccer; expert players may use their hands to field the ball.
"You've always got to be on the move," Mrs. Grant, a 22-year participant in the clinic, said. "It makes me proud."
Patty jenkins, a 10-year-old participant, agreed the clinic was fun.
GREENE AND LaPPOINT agreed that about half the children in the clinic had average or above average skills and the other half had below average skills.
"I also think it's a lot of work," she said.
La Poide said the interview work.
"The basic components of each skill, once mastered, would lead to what we call a mature movement," Greene said.
He had instructors to keep us busy. "We try to develop a very positive role model for kids to see," he said. "We don't just sit under the tree with the cooler."
For example, tennis can be broken down into working with gripping the racket, practicing the forearm stroke and coordinating foot, arm and shoulder movements.
They try to improve their students' skills by engaging in activities of each skill into its basic components.
Greene said at the beginning of the clinic, there were three or four students in the swimming classes who would not set foot in the water. Based on past experience, he thought that by the end of the clinic, they would be able to swim across the pool.
"If the most of the cases like that can be corrected if you know what you're doing," he said.
"The feedback that we got last year from teachers in the school year was that kids had developed a better attitude toward sports," he said. "A lot of parents commented that the youngsters seemed more lively. They felt better."
Both LaPoint and Greene said they thought that as children with behavioral problems in their clinics developed better sports skills, the behavioral problems disappeared.
LaPoint said he thought the clinic had a good influence on the students who participated.
"It helps me look at teaching in a more creative way," he said. "It's an opportunity for keep in touch with kids who are learning basic skills and think about methods of instruction.
"We really have no maximum," LaPointe said. "As the program expands, we can add student teaching assistants to the program. We can grow. We're self-sustaining program."
LaPoint said he as well as the students benefited from the class.
"One criticism of high education is we lose the opportunity one was for me to keep in touch. It look forward."
THE SCHOOL HAS 60 students this summer compared to 40 last season. The cost is $120.
Police trace leads in KU kidnappings
By CHRISTODD
Staff Reporter
Last week's sighting near Omaha, Neb., of a van similar to the one used in the abduction of two high school music campers in Lawrence has been reported. In the case, according to Lawrence police,
Lyle Sutton, Lawrence police detective, said yesterday that FBI officials traced down the owners of the van to McCook, Neb. early this week. The officers failed to fit the description of the suspects.
THE TWO VICTIMS, Patti Knorp, 16, of Omaha, and Janine Jernigan, 15, of Ralston, Neb., were attending KU's Midwestern Music and Art Camp when they said they were surrounded near 23rd and Iowa streets, forced into a van and taken to the outskirts of Des Moines, Iowa, by a religious group comprised of seven men and three women. After refusing to
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"We're still investigating the abduction in Lawrence and the FBI is investigating in Omaha and Des Moines," Sutton said. "Until somebody locates the van or they come up with some information, we'll just keep checking on various leads as we get them."
Sutton also said the religious groups reported to have been in Lawrence in the past month probably were not involved in the abduction. He said that detectives had been checking out the religious groups and that none of the groups seemed to fit the description of the suspects.
John L. Evans, assistant FBI agent in charge of Johnbaska and Iowa, confirmed the information about the van, which was described as being white with an orange stripe. He also said that FBI agents were continuing to investigate leads on religious groups throughout the Midwest.
By TIM ELMER
Because of a dramatic increase in the number of litigation cases directed at Kansas Regents institutions, the Regents of Regents last week approved funds in its fiscal 1983 budget requests for two additional attorneys, Bill Kauffman, Regents staff attorney, said Tuesday.
"I would conservatively say that the volume of litigation directed at the Regents institutions has easily increased by 100 percent in the last 18 months." Kauffman said.
The seven Kansas Regents institutions are now represented by five attorneys. Two attorneys are at the University of Kansas, one at Kansas State University, one at the University of Kansas Medical School and one in the Board of Regents Office in Toekee.
Kauffman, whose office is in Topeka, represents Pittsburgh State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, the the Board of Institutes at Salina and the Board of Regents.
VICKIE THOMAS, general counsel of the University of Kansas, said that litigation cases in her office had definitely increased by at least 100 percent in the last 18 months.
Regents add attorneys; legal action increasing
Kaufman said the increased work load could
primarily attribute to personal increase
will result in higher productivity.
"I am finding there is an increased willingness to litigate in even smaller regional universities," he said. "A couple of years ago, I would say those institutions were much less prone to litigation than they are now. I am not necessarily saying that it is indicative of bad management but of a greater willingness on the part of people to slug everything out in court."
convert to the group's religious beliefs, the girls were freed near Des Moines.
Commission's vote on Bluffs revives controversy
By MARC HERZFELD
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence city commissioners, who are already being sued by Bluffs area property owners because of a reasoning decision last year, may find themselves in court again because of Tuesday night's City Commission decision to rescind a building permit in the same area.
Richard L. Zinn, attorney for Blufs developer Duane Schumle, said yesterday that he would consider suing the city because of the action, which would delay Blufs development indefinitely. Schwada had planned to build quadraplexes on the property.
"We believe that the city commission was acting not only improperly, but also illegally," Zim said.
THE BLUFFS AREA, a hilly neighborhood
north of the intersection of Sixth and Iowa streets, has been the center of controversy since last year, when the area was reopened from single-family to multi-family use.
However, the Commission has added two members since last year, Nancy Shontz and Tom E. Gleason. They proved to be the deciding factor in the 3-2 vote to deny the developer a final plat of a one-acre lot. A plat is a legal description of a plot of land.
Fifteen Blufs property owners are now using the city because of that reasoning decision.
The denial of the final plat stalls construction on the site, at the southwest corner of Fifth and Calle Del Rey.
The reasoning decision would allow duplexes and quadraplexes to be built on properties in the BLDG.
MAYOR MARCI FRANCEISO, who voted against the final plat, said that the commissioners did not want to prevent the development of the area.
"Our concerns were not with construction on the Bluffs, but rather with the procedure," Francisco said. "Our objection was that the land was not platted properly."
Francisco, Shontz and Gleason said that the plat was illegal and the lawrence-Douglas County Planning Staff had given Schwab a building permit before it legally should have.
Gleason said that the developer needed to give the planning staff a comprehensive plan for drainage and traffic patterns before any development could be allowed.
However, Commissioner Barkley Clark said the Commission's action could have a negative effect.
"YOU'RE GOING to see a lot of discouraged developers." Clark said. "You're also going to see a real slowdown of new development in Lawrence."
Garner Stoll, city planning director, said that Schwada's planned construction of 20 housing units was consistent with the city's comprehensive plan for development.
The attorney for the Bluffs landowners, Robert Freilich, said that although the development agreed with the overall city plan, it conflicted with the neighborhood plan.
"The purpose of this subdivision is to allow for the development of 10 townhouses. That is clearly in violation of the Pinckney Neighborhood Plan," Frellich said.
"Obviously, it's part of a series of developments," Francisco said.
Francisco said that the individual lot was only the start of more construction on the property by SCHOLAR.
Zinn said that Schwada had not decided yet to reapply for commission in court or reapply for a building permit.
Because of the heavy work load, the five attorneys now representing the Regents institutions cannot adequately cope with the increased litigation, Kauffman said.
"By comparison, if you look at the University of California system, I believe it has roughly a staff of 25 to 30 attorneys," he said. "The Kansas law requires that the same enrollment as the California system."
If the governor and the Kansas Legislature approve funds for the additional attorneys, he said, one attorney will be added to the staff of two at KU and one would serve as Kauffman's assistant in the Board of Regents office in Topeka. Kauffman said the Legislature had already approved funds for a part-time clerk in his office.
Kauffman said he had spent at least 70 percent of his time with matters relating to Pittsburgh State University and the labor relations situation there.
The faculty at Pittsburgh State University is the only faculty of the Regents institutions that is accredited by the AACSB.
Much of Kauffman's time is spent negotiating with the union, he said.
"We reached agreements in 1978 and 1979, but except for those two agreements the years have been filled with quite a bit of strife in terms of the successes and the resulting litigation," Kaufman said.
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Weather
Skies will be mostly clear today with a high of 89. Winds will be out of the north at 5 to 10 mph, according to the KU Weather Service.
It will be clear to partly cloudy tonight with a low of 70. There will be decreasing humidity.
Tomorrow will be sunny with a high in the low $9s.