University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 4, 1992
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University to end funding for Wildcare on June 17
By Ben Grove Special to the Kansar
The University of Kansas has decided to cut financing to the Wildcare program, which has taken in sick, injured and orphaned wild animals from the Lawrence community since 1979.
Effective June 17, the program will test its financing and its space in Malawi.
Officials with Wildcare said they would attempt to continue the program with volunteer labor and publications under the name Wildcare Inc.
Nancy Schwartting, director of Wildcaird, said the program was negotiating to secure a new operating space, but would not say with whom.
A news conference about the future of the program is scheduled for 9 a.m. today on the steps of the Natural History Museum.
Wildcare draws its finances from KU's animal care unit, which could no longer afford the program, said Jaimin Shanan, director of the anti-carcinology care unit.
Bresnahan said the Wildcare financing was needed to ensure adequate financing of the University laboratory animal care and use program.
Wildcare never has had a set budget,
but the program last year was allocated
$8,200 for supplies and expenses and
Plans to eliminate the program have been in the works since January.
$42,000 for a veterinarian and several part-time staff members, Bresnanahan said.
"We've hit some very hard times here," Bresnahan said. "The animal care unit can no longer afford to maintain the personnel line in order to support the program."
He said the animal care unit's budg-
get had been cut by 2 percent last year.
Schwarting said she worried about how the uncertainty of a new Wildcare Inc. facility and the lack of paid staff would effect the program's future.
In order to survive the transition, Wildcare Inc. will have to greatly increase its public donations and its number of volunteers, she said.
Schwarting said Wildcare Inc. would look more to corporations for supply and money donations. She estimated that Wildcare Inc. would need $24,000 to $25,000 worth of donations a year to operate.
Some former and current Wildcare staff said they were frustrated with the way the program had been run and the lack of survival separate from the University.
"There have been some problems that got the program to where it is today," said Amy Albright, a paid Wildcare staff worker.
the program for 10 years before she quit last year, said she was frustrated with management problems in the program.
Kennedy also said she knew the program stretched the budget.
"We had a hard time handling work in the clinic with the University," she said. "We were really pushing it. Taking in very young, injured, sick animals is not something you can do just because you're motivated. I put 10 years of my life into it. I chose the name Wildcare. If there's anyone who wants to see the program succeed, it's me."
Christy Kennedy, who worked for
The transition date falls during Wildcare's busiest season. Schwarting said that at least 50 percent of the animals brought to Wildcare came between May 15 and August 15.
"This is very,very bad timing." Schwarting said.
Albright said that during this time of year, Wildcare took in as many as 25 animals a day.
Still, as the transition nears, Schwarting said she remained optimistic about the future of running the program separate from the University.
"We'll be replacing paid positions with volunteers and purchased supplies with donated," she said. "We will succeed if we can continue to rely on public support."
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NEW ORLEANS — The city put a mask on its troubles last night as hundreds of thousands of revelers jammed the streets in a bawdy Mardi Gras celebration, unimped by controversy concerning an anti-discrimination ordinance.
The ordinance, which could force elite, century-old parade clubs to integrate and admit women bitterly divided city leaders this year and gave rise to fears that racial tension might ruin the annual celebration.
"Unity, baby, Unity. They'll get together." New Orleans-born Lillian Davis said when asked about the controversy.
But police reported no problems among the racially mixed crowds of tourists who were oblivious to the controversy and locals who didn't care.
"I haven't seen any problems at all."
"I think everyone's hardened."
Davis was watching the parade of the mostly black, all-male Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club. Standing next to her was Tommie Rogers of Baton Rouge.
The celebration's final hours were centered in the city's French Quarter, where crowds jammed shoulder to shoulder to drink before the midnight start of Lent. Mardi Gras — Fat Tuesday in French — is the climax of several days of revelry and is widely celebrated in Roman Catholic countries.
Revelry masks Mardi Gras blues
Early-morning sunshine gave way to clouds and a threat of rain, but the holiday remained dry into the night.
Lt. Sam Fradella, a police representative, said arrests for this Mardi Gras season appeared to be down, though he couldn't provide specific numbers.
There were, however, pointed reminders of the controversy that many fear will flare again.
Someone draped a French Quarter balcony in black and hung a sign from the railing that said "Thank You For sending Mardi Gards, Dorothy Mae Taylor."
Taylor is a City Councilwoman and the new law's author.
In protest of the law, a 135-year-old group known as Mistick Krewe of Comus refused to hold its parade, traditionally the final procession on Tuesday. Another parade was canceled last Thursday.
Another tradition altered by the dispute: Rex, King of Carnival, toasted his queen at a reviewing stand in front of a ritzy hotel instead of at the exclusive Boston Club. Club members refused to play host this year because of the law, even though it doesn't take effect until next year.
The law would deny parade permits and other services to private clubs
But harmony was the order of the day yesterday as Mayor Sidney Barthelemy, who is black, delivered the traditional "Hail Rex" toast to the ceremonial monarch.
Thousands of revelers started early They included clinartist Pete Fountain, whose Half Fast Walking Club started down Washington Avenue at 7:30 a.m.
proven to exclude people on the basis of race, gender, religion, nationality or sexual orientation. It is especially irksome to secretive old-line krewes, the elite groups which stage many of the celebration's most elaborate parades, because they issue invitation-only memberships which are reserved for men from the city' solidest families.
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Two independent polls taken in January showed that a vast majority of whites and a small majority of blacks opposed the ordinance, but many black leaders mounted a campaign supporting it. At least two council members say they want to repeal the law and bitter fights are expected.
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