University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 3, 1992
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Senate coalitions pledge support for day care
By Jay Williams
Kansan staff writer
In her office at Hilltop Child Development Center, Joan Reiber, director of the center, takes out two notebooks filled with names of children and their families.
The names belong to children who are waiting to get into the day care center. About 225 children of KU students, staff and faculty are on the list.
"We have a full ship." Reiber said.
she said.
Because the center is at its capacity of 139 children, families have to undergo a waiting period that lasts between six months and a year to get into Hiltop. It is the only day care center on the KU campus and the only nationally accredited day care center in Lawrence.
"I feel frustrated I can't meet the needs of everybody who needs help."
Child care is a major problem for non-traditional students, Reiber said. It is one of the issues affecting non-traditional students that Vision and Unless, the two coaliations in this year's Student Senate elections, say that they want to address.
"I feel frustrated I can't meet the needs of everybody who needs help."
Reiber said she would like Senate and the University of Kansas to pay for some of the expansion.
Hilltop's current location, east of Hilltop Hall, is not equipped for infants.
Currently, Senate gives Hilltop $13,000 to help needy students pay for child care. Parents pay 96 percent of all operating expenditures.
Reiber said that her number-one goal for Hilltop was to develop a second location for infants.
Increasing care fees is not an option for facilitating expansion, she said, since many parents have limited
incomes and pay for child care with their scholarship money.
Joan Reiber
director, Hilltop Child Development Center
Reiber said people at the University had not taken child care seriously in the past, so she was happy that both coalitions had made it a campaign issue.
Both coalitions said that they supported Hilltop expansion, but campaign fliers for both coalitions do not say anything about expanding the center.
Lance Wright, Vision vice-presidential candidate, said the coalition was looking toward creating a restricted fee, as part of the student activity fee, that would go directly toward expansion.
"If we get into office, we will spend the summer working out the details," he said.
Wright, also a social welfare senator, is a member of Senate's Child Care Committee.
Marian Taylor, Unless non-traditional Senate candidate and a member of the committee, said the coalition wanted Hilltop to expand into another location. She said the coalition would like to use empty residence hall space for the second site.
"We have seen a reduction in students living in the dorms," said Taylor, also president of OAKS, a non-traditional student group. "We should put the space to good use."
She said she had a special interest in Hilltop because her daughter attends the center.
Child care is just one non-traditional issue that Unless will address during its campaign, she said.
The Unless platform says it will reaportion Senate seats to more closely reflect the fact that non-traditional students constitute about 30 percent of the student body. Senate has
one seat for non-traditional students.
Taylor said she would like non-traditional students to receive five seats, the same number apportioned to off-campus senators.
"Child care and commuter issues are not necessarily represented by traditional students," she said.
Wright said that while he would like more non-traditional representation, reapportionment would cause segregation between non-traditional and traditional students.
"We'd like to realize their experience and relate it to other students," he said. "But I think it is dangerous to first stress that they are non-traditional students. They are a part of schools."
Instead of reappointment, Wright said, Senate should make non-traditional students feel more comfortable and willing to run for seats reserved for academic schools.
Sands may file rights complaint with commission
Former KU running back considers action after Dillons shopping incident
By Jerry Schmidt
Kansan sportswriter
Former Kansas running back Tony Sands may file a complaint with the Kansas Human Rights Commission, stemming from an incident at a Lawrence grocery store.
Sands said he planned to contact the commission to file an official com-
He filed a harassment complaint with Lawrence police Tuesday because of an incident at Dillons, 1015 W. 23rd St.
He said he went to an aisle to look for a box of cereal for his son and noticed an employee following him.
Sands said he was followed by an employee while he, his son and his wife, returned to the compound.
After the incident, Sands went to the law enforcement center and filed the complaint.
According to the report, Sands asked the employee if he was following him, and the employee said, "Should I be?"
Sands said he wanted to file the grievance with the rights commission because he thought the incident had been racially motivated.
Sands said African Americans were treated differently when they walked in
"I just don't want anybody else to be followed or discriminated against because of a negative stereotype," he violates a person's human rights.
"We can walk inside a store and be pointed out as stealing something," he said. "It's just not right. It's embarrassing."
Ken Keefer, public relations and advertising manager at Dillons headquarters in Hutchinson, said his company had received the on-incentive (or legal) reassignment.
"Since he has filed complaint with the police, it has become a legal issue."
"We can walk inside a store and be pointed out as stealing something. It's just not right."
Tony Sands
Former KUrunning back
he said. "We choose not to comment on situations like that."
Brandon Myers, chief legal counsel for the commission in Topeka, said Sands must file an official complaint with the commission within six months of the incident if he thought he was discriminated against on the basis of the Kansas Act Against Discrimination, which includes race. After an investigation, one of seven governor-appointed commissioners would oversee the ruling.
"We would take statements from the people involved," Myers said. "One commissioner is assigned to each file and would be responsible for making the decision after the investigation as to probable cause or no probable cause."
Myers said if probable cause was found, his staff would be required to mediate the case. If mediation fails, a public hearing would be conducted.
"That is the hardest part," the 1991 Big Eight Conference's Offensive Player of the Year said. "I even knew a few of the people that work in there because they are college students."
Sands said that he skipped at the dinner often and that the incident left him.
Former governor Carlin speaks on Clinton's plans
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Former governor John Carlin speaks to KU students and Lawrence residents about Bill Clinton.
By Andy Taylor Kansan staff writer
Students attending colleges and universities during the 1990s could expect changes in federal assistance if Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton is elected president, former Kansas Gov. John Carlil said at a Clinton rally last night.
Twenty people attended the rally, which was sponsored by Students for Clinton at the International Room at the Kansas Union.
Carlin said Clinton, a Democrat, advocated that the federal government should help any student who asks for federal assistance but that the student should repay it from either deductions in income or through public service.
"Citizen is saying that the government should guarantee every individual the opportunity to get an education," he said. "In return, the individual has the responsibility to pay it back through a program that would pay it directly back — similar to an income tax."
"What Clinton is saying, that if you don't pay back the assistance in dollars, you would pay it back through public service."
Carlin said the public service would be a paid occupation that would last two years. He also said the current federal student loan programs were not feasible because of the high rates of deficient loans.
Carlin, who served as Kansas governor from 1797 to 1897, said he and Clinton worked together on the National Governors Association during their gubernatorial stints. Carlin served as chairperson from 1984-85, and Clinton was chairperson from 1986-87.
this year because of a strong anti-Washington feeling, and I don't see any compelling need to choose someone from Washington. With Bush committed to Dan Quayle, this would be an excellent time for Clinton to receive some credit."
Carlin, who is stumping for Clinton across northeast Kansas before the April 7 primary, spoke on a variety of campaign topics:
On Jerry Brown's efforts to lead the Democratic Party — "Jerry Brown is a very creative, thought-provoking individual. But he is not one to show a great deal of patience to stick to an issue."
■ On the candidacy of independent candidate H. Ross Perot — "Ross Perot is at his peak, and he has nowhere to go but down. If he were to take office in January, he would have both parties in Congress fighting against him. He would have no allies."
- On choosing a fellow governor for the vice presidency - "It's going to be more challenging than usual
"This political season has a high anti-incumbency feeling in the area," he said. "People feel that George Bush has had four years to do his job and lead the country. We feel that he has not been able to use his position for the benefit of the country and that people won't reward that kind of performance with another four years."
Murder suspect arrested
He ended up getting arrested for the 1989 murder of a Lawrence woman.
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"It's pretty funny, really, because what happened was, he was one of the first guys to walk up to them," said another detective who asked not to be. "He asked if he could be in the lineup, and our guys said, 'Uh, yeah, get it.'"
Walker is charged in the death of Tamara C. Baker, 25, of Lawrence. Her body was found April 17, 1990, in a wooded area in Lawrence.
Tyrone Walker quickly volunteered when New York detectives went to a homeless shelter and offered $10 to anyone who would appear in a lineau
A New York detective recognized Walker from a photograph that Lawrence police had sent to the 79th precinct in Brooklyn. Plainclothes detective George DiGiovanni arrested Walker Tuesday on first-degree murder charges.
Baker was last seen on the night of Oct. 31. She was carrying her television set. She told her ex-husband that she hoped to trade the television for food.
Police believe she was killed on either Oct 31 or Nov. 1, 1989.
Walker and Baker met when they both appeared in Douglas County District Court on Oct. 23, 1989. Police said that the man was also arrested because they were both crack cocaine users.
Three Lawrence detectives made two trips to New York to look for Walker after he was charged on May 25, 1991. They spent a total of 20 days there. Police have not revealed how Walker was linked to the death.
The Lawrence detectives made a number of contacts and eventually learned that Walker was staying at the homeless shelter in Brooklyn, Lawrence police Lt. Mike Hall said yesterday.
Sgt. Kevin Harmon said yesterday in a telephone interview from New York that Walker had been arrested and was fighting extradition.
Walker will not return to Lawrence with police today. Harmon said.
He declined to comment further on the case until after he returned to Lawrence.
Kansan staff writer Michelle Betts contributed information to this story.