CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday January28, 1993
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CAMPUS BRIEFS
Class to check campus buildings for accessibility to handicapped
Walking through a doorway isn't hard, but wheeling through one can be difficult.
walking through a doorway isn't hard, but wheeling through one can be difficult. Students in one of Glen White's Human Development and Family Life classes will be looking at doorways and other inconveniences campus buildings present for people with a disability. White, assistant professor of HDFla and a wheelchair-user himself, said the students in HDFLa 437, Independent Living and People with Disabilities, would be examining campus buildings to see how they measure up to handicap accessibility standards. The results will be filed with the University of Kansas as part of its voluntary survey of how campus buildings meet accessibility needs. White said.
The students will meet today with Bob Turvey, associate director to the student assistance center and discuss what to look for in meeting requirements. White said. Students will measure standards like door weight, doorknob type and the slope of a threshold or floor, Turvey said. White said students would probably start their study in the Dole Human Development Center because it was designed for people with disabilities.
A plan to update campus buildings to new Americans with Disabilities Act requirements was finished last July, Turvey said.
Turvey said the students' findings would be evaluated and the priority of projects for improved accessibility would be set for late this spring or early summer.
Three KU students to compete for national Truman scholarship
Three KU students are finalists in the national competition for Truman scholarships available to students planning careers in public service.
Margaret Chu Hu, Manhattan senior majoring in women's studies and Chinese; Kathryn Price, Wichita junior majoring in political science; and Marc S. Wilson, Hiawatha senior majoring in political science and African studies, will be interviewed Feb. 10 in Kansas City, Mo., by regional panels for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, Washington D.C.
They are among about 200 finalists competing for scholarships established by Congress as a memorial to President Harry S. Truman. Scholar ship winners receive up to $3,000 for their senior year and up to $27,000 for graduate study. Winners will be announced in late March. Up to 85 scholarships will be awarded, with at least one given in each of the fifty states. The Truman foundation's board of trustees selects recipients based on the regional panelists' recommendations.
Competing students must be enrolled full time, be in the upper fourth of their class and have grade point averages of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. Criteria for evaluating nominees include leadership abilities, suitability of graduate study plans, writing and analytic skills, academic performance and previous public or community service.
Student faces court appearance in false fire alarms case at Oliver
A University of Kansas student accused of setting off false fire alarms in Oliver Hall last November filed a motion of diversion Tuesday in Douglas County District Court.
The motion, filed by Thomas Gerber, St. Louis freshman, was continued. His next appearance will be Monday, according to court records.
Oliver was the site of eight false fire alarms with in a few week period last November. Calls to CrimeStoppers and talking with residents of Oliver led to the arrests of two students, KU police Lt. John Mullens said.
No charges have been filed against the other student.
Watkins Health Center sponsors seminar on rape at universities
Watkins Memorial Health Center is sponsoring a seminar on dealing with rape at 11 a.m. today at Watkins' first floor conference room.
Julie Huntingstser, health educator at Watkins, said Watkins was sponsoring the seminar so people would know that rape happens at the University.
"Students tend to think it is going on somewhere else," she said.
Huntsinger said she wanted to give people general information about rape, provide support for survivors of rape and encourage friends of rape victims to help the victims.
"Mainly, I hope to let people know there are precautions they can take to avoid being a victim," Huntsinger said.
Campus briefs compiled by Kansas staff reporters
Vicki Bode, Mark Klefer and Tracel Carl
GMAT teacher skips his own classes
Course instructor disappears after 6 of 12 sessions
By Will Lewis
Kansan staff writer
For $295 each, the eight students in Eric Moss' GMAT preparation course expected to be ready for the Jan. 16 test.
But they were in for a surprise when their instructor, Moss, director of The Competitive Edge, skipped the last six of 12 Graduate Management Admission Test class sessions.
"We all waited at Fraser, and he never showed up," said Kurt Rhoden, Kansas
"I'm not upset that I lost the money, I'm upset that I didn't get taught," he said.
Moss, who also taught preparation courses for the Law School Admissions Test and the Graduate Record Examination, scheduled the 12 GMAT classes to run from Dec. 5 to Jan. 12.
Citv. Kan., senior.
But after Dec. 22, he never showed for the classes.
Rhoden, along with other students in the class, unsuccessfully tried to contact Moss by telephone and by going to his home.
"We knocked on his door, and nobody answered," Rhoden said. "He must have had some problems, and he couldn't face them."
Now, the inside of Moss' house at 2018 W. Seventh St, appears bare. A green broom rests outside the front door, and mail fills the mailbox.
Tony Holliday, a neighbor, said he saw Moss fill A-I-Haul and drive off. Moss' lordlord has been at the house frequently in the past week, he said.
Rhoden said he planned to press charges against Moss.
Jason Yutesler, Olathe senior, said he was forced to study on his own after Moss had left.
"If I had wanted to study on my own I wouldn't have paid for the prep course," he said.
Yutesler said he has made an appointment for next week with the University's Legal Services for Students for legal advice.
Jo Hardesty, director of the service, said that the students had a claimbecause they did not get what they paid for.
To reserve a room in Fraser or any of the University's academic buildings, the nurpose must be somehow related with the University, said Kathryn Healy, director of reservations on campus.
Moss was not affiliated with KU.
"As far as I know, he was a student who needed to take the GRE himself and realized there was nothing available at KU, so he started this business," she said.
Sheri Blessing, assistant director of testing, said Moss started his own business a couple of years ago.
Blessing said that anyone could order study materials for tests such as the GMAT and start a business.
Mark Mathis, manager of Kaplan Test Prep, said students should look into tutoring organizations before shelling out lots of money.
"My only advice is that students should ask many questions about any test preparation company," Mathis said.
Rachel G. Thompson / KANSAN
Martial movements
Peyton Robinson, assistant instructor of KU's Tae Kwon Do club, sweats it out with other martial arts students during a session in 207 Robinson Center. The club meets Wednesday evenings.
Students help homeless kids
Social welfare grads, seniors work for credit
By Terrilyn McCormick
Typically, a student's day consists of reading textbooks, listening to professors and going to classes.
But for five KU students, their schedules include finding housing, getting utilities turned on and locating food for homeless children.
The students work at St. Vincent's Family Service Center, 3039 Troyce, Kansas City, Mo., as part of their practicum in the school of social welfare. St. Vincent's is a day care center that specializes in helping homeless and "at risk" children.
All social welfare seniors and graduate students, about 300 in all, must spend three days a week doing hands-on social work as part of a practicum. Seniors spend a year on a practicum, and graduate students spend two years.
The practicum allows students to practice skills and apply theories that they learn in class, said Edith Black, assistant dean of the school of social welfare.
Alecia Holder, Cincinnati graduate student, said she learned more at St. Vincent's
than she did in any classroom.
At the center, the students work with extremely violent or withdrawn children. During the first semester, each student identified eight to 10 children, age three to five, who exhibited abnormal behavior.
"We are trying to start earlier with the kids because they have a better chance making it through school, the sooner the problem is identified." Holder said.
After a child has been identified and analyzed, the students try to contact the care giver and suggest ways to improve the child's situation, said Kim Jacobs, field instructor at the center.
"We have to ask why the child is behaving this way," Holder said. "It might be just the fact they aren't getting fed. Then we try to fix the problem."
A child's behavior is often only a small concern to a parent who cannot provide a home or food for a child. Holder said.
The students spend a lot of their time on the phone locating housing, furniture and food.
"We get a lot of clients where the mom is a
Renee Knoeber / KANSAN
Aelia Holder, Cincinnati graduate student, styles Lynisha Hahn's hair while Sara Rutan, Springfield, Mo., graduate student organizes the paperwork for a social welfare case.
drug addict," said Sara Rutan, Springfield, Mo., graduate student. "It is really frustrating when we get them a bed or couch because they don't have one, and then they sell it to have a good time."
University Relations director dies at 53
Robin Eversole praised by friends, colleagues
Kansan staff writer
Bv Frank McClearv
Robin Eversole, director of University Relations for the past 14 years, died Tuesday from cancer at her Lawrence home. She was 53.
Chancellor Gene Budig said in a news release that Eversole, a 20-year employee at University Relations, was a trusted advocate of the University.
"Her actions were always professional and effective." Budig said. "K1 is in her debt."
Ms. Eversole was responsible for supervising the writing of news releases and the editing, writing and designing of University brochures, catalogs, calendars and posters. She also added in arranging special events.
Ms. Eversole was graduated from the University of Oregon with a bachelor's degree in English in 1963. She came to the University of Kansas in 1968 and received a Master's degree in teaching in 1970. She joined University Relations in 1973 and served as a catalog editor from 1974 to 1975. In 1976 she became publications editor.
She was born September 2,1930, in Los Angeles, the daughter of John Miller and Evelyn Lee Bruce Little.
In 1977, while serving as the director of publications, Ms. Evasole was one of three employees who received awards for the catalogs, admissions literature and sports programs produced by the University Relations division of publications.
She became the department's director in September 1978, after serving as acting director for three months.
Tom Hutton, acting director of public relations, described Ms. Eversole as a "real breath of knowledge as well as energy.
"I felt very privileged to work with her," he said.
Karla Carney, associate director for communication services at University Relations, said that Ms. Eversole was well-respected among her colleagues. She showed support for people working and supporting a family. Carney said.
"She was a great person," she said.
Jeamot Seymour, who said she had known Ms. Eversole for almost 20 years, described her as a wonderfully strong person.
"She was a leader," she said. "She wanted the best for all the people she worked with."
the best for all the people she worked with.
Services for Ms. Eversole will be 11 a.m.
tomorrow at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011
Vermont St. Cremation is planned with
innervation at Pioneer Cemetery in
Lawrence.
Ms. Eversole is survived by a daughter, Laura Rolander, Falls Church, Va.; a son, David Richard Eversole, Aurora, Mo.; and a brother, John Little, Toloca Lake, Calif.
Board of Regents Regents defend increase
Committee asks why out-of-state tuition hike equals in-state
Ben Grove
Kansan staff writer
Regent John Montgomery, Junction City, outlined the Regents' proposed budget for a Kansas Senate Ways and Means subcommittee.
The Board of Regents and Chancellor Gene Budig yesterday defended the Regents budget request that includes an 8-percent tuition increase for non-residents — the same increase proposed for in-state students.
"We were beginning to really feel the tension of that we backed off a bit," Montgomery said. "I'm not saying that we might not go back to that next year."
Several members of the committee asked why out-of-state students were not facing higher tuition increases than in-state students, as they have in the past.
In recent years, KU's out-of-state tuition has gone up at least 10 percent or more a year.
But out-of-state tuition, at $2,895 is still lower than four of KU's five peer institutions. Only Oklahoma has a lower tuition than KU, at $2,487.
The Regents have proposed that 2 percent of the 8-percent tuition increase be used for student financial aid programs, including graduate student fellowships and minority scholarships.
State Sen. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park, said he was concerned about giving non-residents scholarship money that came in part from instate student tuition increases.
Budig said out-of-state students were valuable to the University and that competitive out-of-state tuition rates encouraged a more diverse student population.
"This becomes a very good thing in terms of attracting able students and keeping them in this region," Budig said.
Regents representatives and members of the Senate subcommittee on Regents system-wide issues also discussed the universities' program review efforts and the Regents proposal for faculty salary increases and an increase in faculty retirement plans.
Montgomery also told the committee that in the next few years, 12th grade enrollments in Kansas would increase 20 percent.
He reminded the committee that the Regents universities were open-admissions schools so they could not control their enrollments. Montgomery said the Regents needed to find ways to funnel more of the state's students into community colleges and vocational technical schools.