UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Tuesday. February 8. 1994
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Lawrence businesses try to accommodate students
By Cheryl Cadue Kansan staff writer
Many Lawrence business owners and managers say they are doing their best to keep their stores open and cater to the hours kept by KU students.
Leslie Johnson, owner of The Loft, 742 Massachusetts St., said even though her store closes at 5:30 p.m. like most downtown stores, she received a large amount of student business. The Loft is open from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. everyday except Thursday, when it is open until 8 p.m., and Sunday, when it is open from 1 to 5 p.m.
"I know our hours are not handy for those students who work after 3 p.m." Johnson said. "I'd be willing to stay open longer until about 6 or 7 p.m. if more downtown businesses did. So many businesses close at 5:30, and there's not enough stores open to bring people downtown."
Janice Toebben, senior vice president in the office of retail banking for Mercantile Bank, 900 Massachusetts St., said the bank was working on extending hours for customers. The bank is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Friday and from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
"I would like to be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. because availability is awful important, especially in Lawrence," Toeben said. "Here we have people who commute to work and students who might not get to the bank before it closes."
Teresa Smith, branch manager for Bank IV, 900 Ohio St., said Bank IV's hours were accommodating to customers because the
bank's drive-thru did the bulk of its business, and 24-hour automated teller machines were available to people after the lobby closed. The bank is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
"We have to close at some point for security reasons, and we have better hours than, I think, anywhere else," Smith said. "We could be open 24 hours a day, and that still wouldn't be long enough for some people."
Bill Reynolds, postmaster, said the post office accommodated a majority of its customers. The post office is open from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
"The post office offers the best combination of maximum availability of hours while still meeting operating standards." Reynolds said.
Reynolds said contract stations in places like the Kansas Union also can better accommodate students who might not get to the main post office before it closed.
Phil Bappie, assistant manger of Wal-Mart Discount Cities, 3300 Iowa St., said Wal-Mart had increased the store's hours to accommodate students and other customers. Wal-Mart is open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday-Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.
"The store always seems to be busy with students from when we open until we close, and we do appreciate their business." Bapke said. "In any university town, Wal-Mart tries to accommodate students and stay open later."
Bappie said Wal-Mart could increasestore hours in the future if competition increased in its area.
Students' daily lives clash with office hours
Some sympathetic instructors adjust scheduled meetings
By Angelina Lopez Kansan staff writer
When Isidro Rivera was a working college student, his biggest hassle was making it to his professors' offices during their office hours.
"I'd run to their offices during the short breaks I would have, but there would always be two students in line in front of me," he said.
Now as an assistant professor of Spanish, Rivera said he tried to keep his office hours flexible for those students whose other commitments, like work, made his regular office hours difficult to attend.
Professors realize that the happy-go-lucky college student is an image of the past. Students in the '90s are working to avoid huge college loan debts and pay for rent and other living expenses. Many professors are making adjustments to help students deal with this reality.
"It's up to a student to keep me informed when he or she is having a problem," Rivera said. "If they come to me in advance, we can work things out."
Laura Morgan, assistant director of the Student Assistance Center, said that the earlier a student would inform a teacher of difficulties that might arise because of his or her work schedule, the more understanding the professor would be when a problem arises.
"A student's fear of explaining his situation to a professor leads to avoidance, which only hurts the student in the long run." Morgan said.
Kirk McClure, associate professor of urban planning, said working students who had needed help had approached him with different attitudes.
"Some act as if we are obligated to accommodate them," he said. "Others are simply seeking assistance. They run the gamut."
Marilyn Carlson, coordinator of the Kansas Algebra Program, said that if a student came to her with a crisis, she would listen and try to be fair.
"But if a person chooses to be a student and chooses to be an employee, they have to meet the expectations of both roles," she said.
Carlson said one of her expectations for Math 101 students was that they attend class.
"If you mislead students by allowing them to believe class attendance isn't required, then you're setting them up for failure," she said.
In the fall of 1989, when the math department had no attendance policy for Math 101 students, Carlson said only 6 percent of students in Math 101 made an A, and 36 percent failed or withdrew. In the fall of 1993, with more structured classes and required homework assignments, 19 percent of students received an A, and 21 percent withdrew or failed.
Tom Tuozzo, assistant professor of philosophy, said that once his students had made a commitment to coming to class, he could be more flexible in other areas. For example, he said he understood that working students didn't always have access to readings on reserve. He said he made the readings available in his office, which would allow students to photocopy the readings and avoid long lines at Watson Library.
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