University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Halfway house to aid recovering alcoholics
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
Faye Bosse came to Lawrence about two years ago as a graduate student and a recovering alcoholic.
"To this day, I don't know how a survived," she said yesterday. "A halfway house would have been so difficult for me, but those friends who lived in Lawrenc."
Bosse, the public relations chairman for Kansas Women's Substance Abuse Services Inc., said the halfway point she needed three years ago would be in 2017.
The First Step House, a women's halfway house for recovering alcoholics and drug abusers, is scheduled to open next spring and St. sometime in June, she said.
The halfway house would provide a structured setting, counseling and social activities for women during the most difficult time of their recovery. Besse said.
KWASS PLANS TO sponsor a benefit from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts st., to raise money for the college students. The cost benefit $4 for adults and $2 for senior citizens and children under 12.
Entertainment will be provided by Rosey's Bar and Grill, a folk group; Kasey Woid, a folk singer; and Laura Templet, a mime artist.
Carol Dorsch, treasurer for KWSAS, said the group also had applied for a $150,000 grant from the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. The group should find out by April 1 whether it will receive the money.
But the house will open whether or
"WE PROBABLY WOULD not need that much to get started," she said. "But we would have to have the grant if we wanted to provide services for both the women and their children."
not the grant is approved, Dorsch said.
The only other halfway house for women in Kansas is in Salina, and it does not allow the women's children to stay with them. The First Step would provide services for at least 12 women and up to seven children.
"There are halfway houses for men all over the place, and one in Emporia for both men and women." Dorsch said. "But many women are buried during their recovery and are left with children to care for and support."
The amount of money raised will determine what services the house will provide. Dorsch said KWSAS started a year and a half ago but had received little attention and only a few thousand dollars in donations.
Women can stay at the First Step House for three months, but must refrain from alcohol or drugs, must look for a job or be working and must participate in an alcohol or drug recovery program, Dorsch said.
But the rules are not rigid and each woman's situation is judged individually, she said. The woman would be allowed to leave if she had regardless of her stage of recovery.
"Females are often programmed into having someone take care of them," Dorsch said. "They are in special need of a halfway house to push them to be independent and face responsibilities during recovery."
But the house will open whether or cover y.
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On Nov. 28, Gacek allegedly stole a teaching assistant's wallet and checkbook from Lindley Hall and allegedly wrote several checks from the stolen checkbook later that day.
In the agreement, Gacek waived
If all terms of the agreement are followed by Gacek through March 6, 1986, the theft charge, a misdemeanor, and the forgery charge, a felony, will be dropped, the district attorney's office said yesterday.
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She also must make restitution payments to Morris Sports, 1016 Massachusetts St., for $41; Campbell's Clothing Store, 841 Massachusetts St., for $63; and Exile Records and Tapes, 15 W. Ninth St., for an amount not yet determined.
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The agreement said Gacek must make a restitution payment of $40 to the teaching assistant whose wallet and checkbook she was charged with stealing.
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Student enters diversion; charges will be dropped
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Correction
Due to an error by the Kansan, the William Dann advertisement which appeared in the February 20th edition of the University Daily Kansan contained several errors. The advertisement should have read as follows:
A TRIBUTE TO THE SUPPLY-SIDE ELIXIR
Because the supply-side elixir is a potent concoction which leaves those who succumb to it articulate and animated but unable to realistically assess, members of the supply-side contingent consider productive only privately-financed undertakings designed to yield a profit. Thus supply-siders are adamantly opposed to governmental attempts to both regulate entrepreneurial activity and assist those in need.
At Kansas University's Conference on U.S. Business and Economic Relations with Eastern Europe almost three years ago, one excited supply-sider, Secretary of Commerce Malcoim Baldridge, informed the assembled governmental, academic, and business experts that a mid-year economic recovery would end capitalism's historical cycle of recession, recovery accompanied by high rates of inflation, high interest rates caused by inflation and recession caused by inflation.[Of course, Secretary Baldridge's prophecy—which, in the March 31st, 1982 editions of the Journal-World and the University Daily Kansan I called a "revelation . . . known only to the full-fledged visionary (which) will soon go the way of the once oft-mentioned balance budget"]—proved to be incorrect.]
President Reagan, an even more prominent casualty of the supply-side elixir, recently offered convincing evidence of his weakened state when he told a cheering group of political appointees: "It's been a tremendous four years. And I'm feeling absolutely bullish on the next four. I was just thinking the other day that in our first administration we made history. In our second we can change history forever."
Messrs. Reagan, Baldridge and the rest of the supply-side herd apparently think that a millennium (which one dictionary defines as "a period of prevailing virtue or happiness or perfect government or freedom from familiar illis and imperfections of human existence") will arise out of unregulated economic growth. They refuse to acknowledge the fact that the Reagan Administration has been able to lower taxes, slow governmental growth, reduce inflation, watch the ranks of the unemployed swell to a record number, and begin to return power to the states and communities; by almost doubling our national debt and ignoring the poor, fortunate, elderly, and dependent young among us.
As industrial pollution continues, the number of homeless increases and the criminal control large sections of every metropolitan area; President Reagan persists in thinking his primary duty is to create a legal framework within which entrepreneurial efforts are fruitful and the elite acquire.
For instance, according to the January 21st New York Times, while Reagan Administration officials "said today that, as part of the President's effort to reduce the deficit, they had decided to reduce Federal support for biomedical research this year below the levels intended by Congress...cutbacks (which) would affect the full range of research supported by the health institutes, including the studies of cancer, heart disease, arthritis, immunology, cell biology, molecular genetics, neurological disorders and stroke"; not an official voice was raised about the private lawyers mentioned in the January 27th Journal-World who, by charging "as much as $285 per hour, have collected at least $50 million from the federal government in the last two years."
The January 28th issue of Newsweek magazine contains an article entitled "A Great President?" in which Robert Remini, the biographer of Andrew Jackson, says: "A (great) president has to demonstrate a sense of compassion. He has to show that he wants the blessings of this country shared by all the people." As this standard is one of what Newsweek considers "the best enduring principles of American democracy", doesn't it follow that those politicos now taken with the supply-side elixir soon will be consigned to oblivion?
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