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KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
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Vol. 95, No. 127 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, April 9,1985
University budget
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - The Ka approved a fiscal year seven Board of Regent reduces the increase Regents and Gov. John
The House approves budget recommended by proposed smaller or proposed last month by
The $645 million ap will be returned to expected to reject the schools' proposed by Committee. The Senate conference committee of both chambers to re the budget.
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Helen Rhea, also known as "Mom" at the Sigma Nu fraternity, 1502 Sigma Nu Place, is surrounded by her biggest fans at KU. Rhea, who has been housemother for two years, says she loves her job.
By MICHELLE T. J Staff Reporter
A new director of to succeed J. Will year after 30 years Kenneth L. Stone residence hills Tennessee Knoxvill replace Wilson, the announced yesterday;
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By MICHELLE Staff Reporter
House mothers like job of being 'mom' to many
"Years and 80-pound cat." Lawrence resides banks of the K. he to have to
By PATRICIA SKALLA Staff Reporter
This may sound like every kid's dream mother, but "dictating college students' lives" is more common known as house mothers — are supposed to do.
Everyone calls her mom. But she doesn't make you eat your brussels sprouts, wash behind your ears or give you a curfew.
According to Helen Rhea, house mother at Sigma Nu Fraternity, 1501 Sigma Nu Place, a house mother's main duty is to plan healthy meals and make sure they are prepared properly. But thinking about food all the time is not the only thing she does.
Rhea entertained the national grand chapter when the Sigma Nus celebrated their centennial this year. She also helped create a series of hostels for the various functions at the university.
"I think the boys want someone who loves them and will do something for them, like sew on their buttons and mend their jeans," she said.
ELSIE ESCHEHHEIMER, house mother for 14 years at the Sigma Chi Fraternity, 1439 Tennessee St., said she thought the men of Sigma Chi needed someone like her.
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and a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, Gower Place, said her house mom did more than plan meals. The house mother supervises the staff, manages all house expenses and helps the women. Whenever they need it.
Carrie Frizell, Maple Hill sophomore
"She's what keeps the house running in a lot of ways," Frizel said. "She does so much for the house. I don't think people realize that."
DAVE SCHERMACHER. Overland Park senior and a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, said he thought house mothers were necessary. He said he knew of some chapters that did not have house mothers, and their officers were forced to plan and direct meals.
Most of the KU house mothers interviewed said they had been married before, had had children and knew how to manage a household. But each has had a different career. For example, Rhea was a homemaker, Eschenheimer was vice president for her husband's company and Ann Howard, the house mother for Kappa Kappa Gamma, sold real estate.
SCOTT HARTMAN, adviser to the Interfraternity Council, said each fraternity and sorority could choose the qualifications for their house directors, including experience, education, personality and age. But the Organizations and Activities Center takes applications for house mothers and makes them available to the sororities and fraternities.
Fraternities and sororites usually look for someone who can set an example of maturity and give guidance to the
members because of their own past experiences, he said.
Schermacher said Sigma Nm members took part in the selection process so they can select a house mother with whom they will feel comfortable.
Although house dads aren't an unheard of phenomenon, Frizzell said men usually didn't have the desire or experience necessary to manage a household.
Bright was the house director while he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta house in the fall of 1946. He said the
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responsibility fell his way when his house mother's husband came back from World War II, took his wife with him and left Bright the oldest member of the house and its obvious choice for successor.
He said a committee had taken care of planning the meals, but he had been responsible for the members of the house kitchen and his friends, and he would never do it.
"I didn't want the job. I didn't want the responsibility." he said
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Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
the dcam across from Brownsville Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in hopes of catching a 60-pound trophy and perchus a few minutes of fame.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop, Second Avenue, east cash from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85 pound catfish would be about 10 ounces, 400 crunch. Bightly fattered fishbites.
The lure of landing a big one drew lawrence residents Jim Russell and Michael McFarlane.
Sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this can't another talk about the big one that you're talking about.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged into the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said Judy Higgins, the店's owner.
cause it is their nature to swim upstream and the dam blocks their path.
But many years ago, fishermen dove into the water with large hooks lashed to their wrists to try to snare the big catfish, also known flatheads, he said.
"I didn't do it," Higgins said. "I didn't want to fish with no nisf in the water. They have rough teeth like a man's wiskers. They an tear a man's hide off."
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 651. E) 23rd St., said the catfish were large because they were old and could find plenty of food in the Kaw to eat, such as small fish, frogs, crawdads and snakes.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Judy Higgins said. "But they didn't."
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Jim Russell, Lawrence resident, baits his hook in hope of catching something to fill the frying pan. He was fishing Easter day on the Kaw River dam across from the Bowersock Mills and Power Co., Sixth and New York streets. Russell never caught the big one. He had to settle for a lot of nibbles and a five-inch channel catfish, which he tossed back.
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Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt deployment of Soviet triple-warhead SS-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe.
Gorbachev said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of Perry's 2 and cruise missiles in western Europe.
BUT THE WHITE HOUSE quickly dismissed the move as "not enough." citing a 10-1 Soviet superiority in medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
The deployment of 572 medium-range U.S. missiles in five European nations began in late 1983 as part of a 1979 NATO plan to counter the SS-20s. The United States said the Soviets had 414 SS-20s operational, two-thirds of them aimed at western Europe.
Tass said yesterday that U.S. officials used "stale arguments" of Soviet missile superiority to reject Gorbachev's proposal and support the invasion in other nuclear warheads. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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