CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 5, 1985
Page 7
Campus snow meets its foe
By JOHN RODRIGUEZ Staff Reporter
In their battle against snow on campus walks and streets, facilities operations workers have used six tons of salt and 50 tons of sand this year, Dick Bivens, associate director of housekeeping_and landscaping for facilities operations, said yesterday.
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Five large snowfalls this year have taxed the equipment, manpower and resources of the landscape department, which coordinates campus snow removal efforts. Bivens said.
As of 3 p.m. yesterday, 22.1 inches of snow had fallen in Lawrence this year, said Penny McMaster at the KU Weather Service.
Because of the snow, Bivens said, more salt had to be ordered yesterday from salt mines in Salina. Also, the harsh weather caused some mechanical problems in some of the vehicles, he said.
YESTERDAY, SNOW PLOWS started clearing campus streets at 6 a.m., Bivens said.
He said the 28 landscape workers understood their duties and assignments, and were "more than up to the task." Facilities through equipment to handle a snowfall of six to eight inches. Bivens said.
"The trick is to get started early," he said, in order to stay a step ahead of the snow.
Facilities operations workers concentrated on clearing off the streets, sidewalks and parking lots around Allen Field House for last night's Kansas-Colorado basketball game, Bivens said.
The landscape department provides equipment such as dump trucks, snow blowers and tractors, he said. Workers from other departments help out when snow conditions worsen.
HE SAID THE department did not receive many complaints because most people realized the
Don Heim, a facilities operations employee, tosses a shovel run, snow from a sidewalk between Wescoe and Malott halls. Each winter the facilities operations employees are faced with the task of making the campus safe after heavy snowfalls.
constant snowy weather hampered cleanup efforts. Specific complaints, such as a request to clear handicapped parking lots, are taken care of as soon as possible, Bivens said.
But Bivens said, "There's always something to be done."
Because their work is never quite finished, landscape department workers have worked long hours. The long shifts, "get to you after a white," said Terry Krugger. He worked seven years. At times in January, Unfried said, he worked 1B- to 24-hour jobs.
Also, cars without snow tires that block traffic make his job harder, he said.
When plowing streets, Unfried said he often heard people complain, "How come you haven't come by already?"
These complaints don't bother him, he said, but people walking in the street instead of on the swept sidewalks were a problem.
Unfred said he thought Lawrence should have a snow ordinance so people would be fined for traffic with their parked cars.
Grant aids study of black women
Staff Reporter
By BETH REITER Staff Reporter
A research grant has made possible the study of some members of society who are often overlooked in history books - black women.
Karlin Kohrs Campbell, the chairman of interdisciplinary studies, said yesterday she was using a $21,500 grant from the Kansas Committee for the Humanities to find and preserve materials documenting the history of Afro-American women's clubs in Kansas.
Campbell, who is also a professor of communication studies, has focused her research on two clubs — the Kansas Association of Colored Women and Girls' Club, and Link's Inc. Both clubs still have chapters in Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City, Kan.
Campbell and two historians working with her, Marilyn Brady and Deborah Dandridge, have visited women to ask them about their families and about their experiences in the clubs.
Some women told about experiences in the 1900s. Some also recounted what they knew about their mothers' experiences.
"THEY'RE PEOPLE WHO make you want to be a woman." Campbell said.
The first club, the Coterie Club in Topeka, was formed in 1889, according to available records.
The members met to sew, hear lectures, read books, and learn about etiquette and child care. But besides learning about household tasks, the club members discussed the problem of segregation and other social issues.
After family and religion, these clubs often became the black woman's third priority. Campbell said.
A condition of Campbell's grant requires her to make the history of the club members known to the communities in which the clubs met.
Campbell wrote a script for a television documentary to be shown this spring on Topeka station KTWU. Channel 11. The documentary shows women talking about their memories of club activities, including the Miss Bronze America program in Wichita during the 1950s and 1960s.
CAMPBELL SAID SHE had to gain the trust of the women before asking to see family albums or other records.
Brady, a graduate student in history, said she wanted to uncover the history of some of the women and see that it was recorded.
"Many women don't think their history is important," Campbell said.
"I saw what a gap there was in our knowledge of black women," Brady said. "I want to see people like the ones we've studied in American history."
Members of the clubs have donated photographs, art and club records to Campbell, who wants to preserve the history of club women will not be lost.
The women remained in the clubs to express their strengths and abilities and to learn from each other, Campbell said.
"In these organizations, they were their own bosses," she said.
One of the prominent club women in Kansas in the 1920s was Beatrice Childs from Kansas City, Kan. She reorganized clubs throughout the state and started junior clubs for girls.
Marie Fines, who belonged to the Kansas Association of Colored Women's Clubs in Wichita in the 1920s, wrote the song for the national association.
TV reporter files suit against Topeka station
By United Press International
Mary Loftus Freeman, now employed as a reporter and anchorwoman for a competing Topeka television station, filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court in Topeka. She is seeking at least $10,000 damages for each of five counts alleged and at least $10,000 in punitive damages from each defendant named.
TOPEKA — A television news reporter has filed a civil rights lawsuit against her former employer, saying the station fired her from a news anchor position because she was a woman and had just had a baby.
The discrimination lawsuit was filed against the Kansas State Network, its Topea station, KSNT-TV, where Loftus worked; former KSNT station manager Dave Anderson; and a news director Al Sandubrae. Loftus uses her maiden name in her profession.
HER LAWSUIT ALLEGES that KSN discriminated against her by paying her less than her male co-anchor and establishing terms of employment for which at least one other male anchor was not subject. The second woman she said she was fired because she is a woman and because of her pregnancy
She alleges the defendants intentionally inflicted emotional distress
Loftus filed a discrimination complaint in August 1983 with the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights, which has yet to make a decision in the case. Her attorney, Gary Sebelius, said the complaint broader range of allegations against KSN than did the discrimination complaint.
upon her, engaged in fraud and tried to interfere with her professional future by coercing her into signing a contract aimed at preventing her from working as a news reporter in one year after her dismissal.
In February 1983, she was asked and eventually agreed to sign a contract with a clause restricting her future employment if her job was ever terminated. While she was told the clause was non-negotiable, at least one other employee in an anchor position was told a similar clause in his contract was negotiable, the lawsuit said.
THE LAWSUIT STATES that in November 1982, Loftus told her supervisors she was pregnant, but would return to work after her baby was born. She was assured by Sandubra and other supervisors that she could return to work, the lawsuit said.
On June 7, 1983, Loftus gave birth to a son. Three hours after returning home with her baby from the hospital on June 10, Loftus was visited by Robertson and Sandubrae, who told her she was fired, the lawsuit said.
Last Tuesday, Watkins Hospital released a malaria patient after six days. R.W. McClure, chief of staff at the hospital, said the student had contracted the disease in a foreign country during Christmas break.
Watkins treats one for malaria
Sometimes, between treating students for common colds, broken legs and raucetball injuries, doctors at Watkins Hospital get to take a shot at a more exotic problem — malaria.
McClure said a study done two years ago indicated that five to 10 malaria cases a year were treated with antiviral statistics are unavailable, he said.
He declined to reveal the student's name or country.
The student received two doses of anti-malarial medication and showed no signs of the illness by the second day. But the student was kept in the hospital four more days for observation, he said.
McClure said malaria, characterized by cycles of chills, fever and sweating, was not a contagious disease. The bite of the Anopheles mosquito, which does not live in the United States, transmits the disease.
Outbreaks of malaria usually are limited to tropical areas in South and Central America, Africa and Asia.
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