Tuesday, July 1, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 9
Summer volunteers bring cafe jubilation
Julie Numrich, Student Executive Committee Chairwoman, prepares scrambled eggs for customers at the Jubilee Cafe. The cafe is open from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. every Tuesday and Friday. Photo by Joseph Griffin/KANSAN
By Liz Wristen
Kansan Staff Writer
The smell of scrambled eggs and blueberry pancakes drift through the brick walls of the Jubilee Cafe.
The cafe is full of customers eating eggs cooked-to-order, hash browns, pancakes and biscuits with gravy. Glasses are filled with orange juice and coffee faster than the beverages can be made. Extra helpings are available, and everything is offered at no charge.
The Jubilee Cafe, located at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St., is open Tuesday and Friday mornings from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. for anyone who needs a free meal. The cafe serves many homeless people, and the service is run by volunteers and church coordinators.
Volunteers include members of Student Senate and other KU students.
Senate has been working with the Jubilee program for the past few years as a way to provide service to the Lawrence community. This is the first time that Senate members have continued to volunteer for the cafe during the summer.
"It's a unique program, and it stresses dignity," said Chris Hess, co-director of the Center for Community Outreach.
"This program is a chance for volunteers to wait on the customers and then have the opportunity to eat with them. It really gets you to see their humanity."
The cafe opened Oct. 14, 1994 with the help of two social workers and a few volunteers who were interested in opening a restaurant for the homeless. They had attended a meeting
given by a chaplain who started a similar cafe in Iowa.
The meeting also was attended by Joe Alford, the Episcopal Chaplain of Canterbury House. Canterbury House is a campus ministry program associated with the Trinity Episcopal Church consisting of four students. The students, along with Senate members and other volunteers, run the cafe twice a week.
Clark Keffer, a church volunteer and member of the campus ministry program, has volunteered since the cafe's opening in 1994 and has only missed three mornings.
"I was interested in the program, and I had the time to do it," Keffer said. "I started volunteering because I decided that I should get out and do more with the community."
The program began with a $500 grant from the Episcopal Diocese and, originally, only was open for service on Tuesday mornings.
Since then, the University of Kansas Fraternity and Sorority Foundation donated $4,000 to the program with the stipulation that the cafe would open for a second day each week. The cafe began opening on Friday mornings on April 10.
During the regular school year, customers are waited on by volunteers. A smaller number of volunteers help during the summer, and customers go through a line to pick up their food, said Erika Nutt, social welfare senator and co-director of CCO. For this reason, the cafe takes on the nickname "Jubilee Cafeteria" during the summer.
Students who are interested in volunteering at the Jubilee Cafe may contact the Center for Community Outreach at 864-4073.
KU drinking survey on tap
Data would be drawn from student queries
By Graham K. Johnson
Kansan staff writer
A proposed campus-wide student survey on alcohol use will give educators needed fresh data in their efforts to prevent alcohol related problems, University of Kansas educators said.
The survey was requested by Chancellor Robert Hemenway in late Spring 1998. Julie Francis, health educator with the student health services department, said that the survey would focus on alcohol use. The survey will take place sometime late in the fall semester.
Deb Teeter, director of institutional research and planning, said that survey specifics would not be determined until a committee meets later this month.
Although there is speculation that recent problems with underage drinking—such as last April's alco
hol-related death of Overland Park freshman Lisa Rosel. spurred the decision, Francis said administrators and educators needed fresh data
"Right now our statistics are so old that we don't even use them," Francis said.
An example is the alcohol-use program that Francis created for the New Student Orientation Making Smart Choices program, which states that about two-thirds of college students nationwide do not drink alcohol.
The statement may be misinterpreted to apply directly to the University of Kansas.
Candy Reeves, Lenexa freshman, attended yesterday's session. She said she was happy that so many students did not drink, but had thought the figure applied directly to the University.
Francis said that health educators tried to point out that the two-tirds figure, which comes from the 1995 College National Health Risk Behavior Survey, was a national average. She said the figure included low-to-moderate alcohol users, defined as those who do not drink five or more drinks in a row.
Francis said that she did not like using the figure because of the definitions and because it was not specific to the University, but had no choice because the most recent University alcohol-use survey was six years old. Francis said that using national figures was preferable to using old data when convincing students that drinking was unnecessary.
"The perception is huge that most people here drink all of the time," Francis said. "It's important for people to realize that they don't and that you don't need to in order to fit in that situation."
Francis said the programs incorporate recent incidents, including an alcohol-related death, to illustrate that they could happen here. She said such incidents may have contributed to the approval of a new survey, which her department had been seeking for a long time.
Hemenway, who approved the proposed study, said that up-to-date data was necessary for informed decision making.
"We're a major education and research institution, and if we can't do the kind of research that is necessary to make good policy decisions then how can we expect anyone else to," he said.
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