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Thursday, April 6, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Photo by RICHARD GUSTIN
Children Experiment at Yellow Brick Road School
Darrel Kippeer, instructor, public schools are outdated.
Free School Provides Alternative
By LEONARD GROTTA
Korean Staff Weiter
For the 50 students of the Yellow Brick Road School, going to school isn't merely learning how to read, write, multiply and divide. It also includes learning things such as drama yoga, art, gardening politics, poetry, ecology, and rock music.
The Yellow Brick Road School opened in Lawrence in September 1971 after about a year of research. The school was Donna Morris, with the help of Vandana Lovett, was largely responsible for conceptualizing the community free-school and the support to make it an actuality.
According to Darryl Klipstur, one of the nine paid teachers who operate the school, the Yellow Brick Road came about because
Instead of spending six hours a day sitting through a teacher's agenda, Yellow Brick Road takes their own and then carry it out.
Handling the recycling of waste paper and establishing neighborhood waste collection centers around Lawrence are some of the changes being made by Reclamation Center to achieve parity between costs and revenue and recycle more waste, Gary Jacobs. Prairie Village of the center, said Wednesday.
Diversification, New Pick-up Centers Could Cut Waste Reclamation Costs
Jacobs said that the establishment of several neighborhood waste collection centers be beneficial to many reasons. It would eliminate the problem of a waste pile-up and reduce the amount of waste Jacobs said, and it would also be more convenient for residents and students to bring their waste to the facility.
Jacobs said that the convenience of the neighborhood centers would also produce more waste to be recycled.
Persons bringing trash to the centers would be required to sort the waste into aluminum, tin, glass, white glass, brown glass and glass. Jacobs said. This would eliminate 75 per cent of processing costs, he said, because sorting the waste, now handled on a hand, incurs three-fourths of the center's processing expenses.
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Kansan Staff Writer
"THIS PAST semester there has been a collection center at the university where we have been able to bring their cans and bottles," Jacobs said. "And we are finding that a lot of people are interested in taking part in school who wouldn't have ordinarily taken it down to the center under Memorial Hall."
Jacobs said that the establishment of collection centers would probably cut processing costs in half as the number of centers increased and the number of centers increased and became closer together.
THE COST of hiring a truck driver to pick up waste at the dump, gas and mileage on the truck, by the driver, is more than justified by the labor saved in the main center, Jacobs said.
"We would not only like to triumphe or triplequae the number of cups and bottles that we are now making, but we also want to include of the other materials within the
"Because of this, children are not really in contact with the world. They live in an in- environment where they act on action-poor environment."
"WHAT I'VE found," Klippester said in an interview Wednesday. "I had a friend of mine dated in the sense that they are based upon a 19th century idea of learning, and I think their emphasis is primarily upon learning bits and pieces of information."
For the Yellow Brick Road, the question is what is important to do, rather than what is important to learn, he said.
spectrum of the total solid waste produced in Lawrence," Jacobs said.
"What we are hoping to do is get into the newspaper and cardboard business," Jacobs said.
Jacobs said that he hoped a company would agree to pick up the waste paper at a central point where the paper would be collected and hauled from each of neighborhood collection centers.
JACOBS SAID that the income of the center generally was about $20,000, while the average of 10 tons of glass collected each month. $140 a month for the average of 10 tons of steel consumed per month, and return bottles and aluminum. Jacobs said that the average expenditures each month were
"SINCE PAPER has a very low processing cost, and current prices show that newspaper is almost worth the same per ton as behind him 30 per cent, it will bring us more economic interest," Jacobs said.
Presently, the Reelamation Center is subsidized by the Student Senate and the Kansas Union Concessions. Jacobs said.
The actual operation of the center is subsidized by the Union Concessions. Jacobs said this month, in addition to monthly, depending on expenses and income from sale of materials, Jacobs said. This money is used for maintaining equipment, sorting the waste, paying the gas on the U-Haul truck to take the materials to Kansas City (the city of the truck) or the center staff or driver drivers
Jacobs said that the athletic corporation was not pleased with the presence of the Reclamation Society, because of the pile-up of trash.
Jacobs said that the center would have to be moved from the University of Pennsylvania new location in Lawrence about June 1 because of pressure from the KU Athletic Corporation and its successors, which controls the space.
of a lack of alternatives to the public school system.
The Kansas Union Concessions would like to use the space for something else, Jacobs said.
JACOBS SAID that the center will ask the Senate for rent for the new building (the Memorial $1,000 as a cushion for salaries for people working at the center and for equipment to make the building work better). The bins for glass instead of the barrels now used. Jacobs said that the center would no longer have any financial aid from the Union.
JACBOS SAID that there was a certain interest the director's directive director's job could be split and shared by a number of people. Jacbos thought it was more important to be effective and the director's salary could be diverted to other
Presently, the director's job is to promote the center within the community. Jacobs said. If the center was built underway they would diminish or eliminate that function of the handling publicity, Jacobs said.
JACORS SAID that he had received figures of the volume of trash refuse produced each week by Blackman, coordinator for the Committee. Jacobs said that he would measure the amount determining the reclamation potential of Lawrence and would aid in projecting the goals of the city.
"Public Schools, for the most part, have just become places to put children." Klipster said. "The teachers of the YBR don't go to school a place. Rather, it is viewed in terms of an experience."
BLACKMAN SAID that the city of Lawrence picked up 500 tons of each week. The character is weak. The municipal refuse, based on
Jacobs said that the director's job would be eliminated.
federal government correlation of studies done on municipalities, showed that this city could be broken down into cities could be broken down into cities
Anywhere from 16 to 20 per cent of the refuse consists of glass, plastic and cardboard quantities of both. Blackman said. Between 45 and 60 per cent consists of waste paper, including 25 per cent newspaper, he said.
Jacobs said that the center was recycling on one potential $80 to 720 tons of glass and metal a month. He started by storing the system he hoped the center would be able to recycle as much as 50 per cent of the glass and metal in the facility.
JACOBS SAID that the JACOBS would be regarded as a stop-gap measure because it could never be really efficient in recycling
He said that a city-operated processing system at the site of a facility in a large mechanically sort a major part of solid waste for recycling, would reduce the amount of waste.
He said that a mandatory collection of refuse where residents would be required to take bottles might also be desirable.
"Because we regard the Reclamation Center as a stopgap measure, we hope to move to a more established of a highly efficient and economically utilized system." Jacobsa said.
"If recycling was clearly profitable, you wouldn't have any problem recycling wastes," Jacobs said.
Mexican Students Solicit Letters Favoring Bovcott
Members of the Association of the American Students (A.M.S.) working with Robert Greave, a representative of the United States in the 1930s.
They are soliciting letters from KU students to Kansas Senators against the National Labor Relations Board's attempted injunction of the union's boycott, a legal action by the secretary of A.M.A.S. A, said Wednesday.
The YBR school consists of two schools, one for 15 children between the ages three and six and an elementary school of about 15 students betwe
The farm workers contend the Republican dominated labor commission was instigating the reason to destroy the workers' cause
She said the United Farm Workers were boycotting firms who sold produce which was not under union contract. The National Information Board is seeking an injunction prohibiting this action.
workers' effort to unionize, she said. If unionized, they could work on the union and programs of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare on housing, public health and international programs, Gutterze said.
The second is an ultra-modern approach to housing the polar bear that was designed by Architecture 28 students in conjunction with Robert R. Patterson, vertebrate preparator of mammals at the museum.
A. M.A.S. is working with the few workers by writing letters and sending them to the Kansas Union Thursday and Friday. A.M.A.S. will inform students about the importance of suggestions for letters, she said
Two new exhibits recently opened at the KU Museum of Natural History. One, an exhibit of vertebrate skeletons, gives the public a comparison of modern day vertebrate structures with extinct fossil structures.
Natural History Exhibits
Professor Howard Sherman, a self-styled socialist from the University of California, will speak on "Democracy under Capitalism and Socialism: A Western Marxist's View," at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Big Eight Room.
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The organization has also assisted help from various campuses and organizations. So far, the response has been good,
Applications are now being accepted for the annual Delta Delta Delta service projects scholarships for full-time undergraduate women. The applications for the two $250 scholarships are available at the dean of women's office and at the Office of Student Financial Aid in Strong Hall. Applications must be returned by May 1.
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Greaves has talked to several classes in political science and social welfare on the subject, she said.
Socialist to Speak
THE SCHOOL is funded from two sources. Part of the money to cover salaries, rent and equipment from the University of Kansas. The remaining funds are from the students' tuition. Tuition for the pre-school half-day sessions is $28 per student. Full-day students $40 per session, $60 a month.
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"Of course there are ex- cretions to this," Kippster said. She had never lived in the school, we won't reject anyone. Some parents have rejected more than one child enrolled and can't remember what worked something out."
About 40 to 50 per cent of the childrens' parents are connected to the University in some way, he
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The Yellow Brick Road is "approved" by the state of Kansas. Approvalalls one category of students to school staff members, there are too many restrictions in the regulations for accreditation of the regulations for accredited schools.
The Yellow Brick Road has no designated director. Carol Klinkneth acts as a coordinatort secretary for the school and ensures financial aspects of tuition, taxes and supply purchases.
One concern often expressed about progressive, non-directive education of the free school children is that not be as proficient as their public school counterparts in reading, writing and mathematics.
"I'm sure that the students are picking these things up as fast if not faster than if they were in a school," Klippar resounded.
Pompon Squad Chosen at KU
ANOTHER MAJOR problem encountered by the YBR has been that of the duality between structure and non-structure.
The students play a large role in directing their own education. They pick their own textbooks from the Curriculum Library in their room, and they are pursuing areas of interest on their own by using programmed
One important advantage in favor of the free school is that children are learning because they have to, not because they have to, he said.
A squad of 10 pompons girls, eight regulars and two newcomers, were Wednesday night from 22 finalists in Allen Field House, according to Sue Tagg. Sioux Iowa senior and KU pompon girl.
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The regular squad consists of Jo Ann Staaugaard, Hacktettown, N.J. junior. Liz Phillips, Ulysses Cohen, Hickory, Park freshman. Charlotte Wiegers, Mission sophomore; Penny Perme, Mission freshman; Cheryl Williams, Kansas City, Kan.; Gail Gatt, Lawrence sophomore, and Rosalina Fells, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore. Alternates are Pam Kidd, Melody Boyd, Olate freshman.
In Kippers' opinion, one very valuable aspect of the free school movement is that it functions as a 'gendered garden model for the public schools.' He attributes many of the innovative changes that have taken place in Britain to the past few years to the inspiration provided by free
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