CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, December 5, 1983
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Games provide fun, medals
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
David Eilenberger bent over to allow the official to place the gold medal around his neck. As he straightened up, the crowd began to applaud wildly. The crowd turned his neck, he clipped his hands over his head and grinned.
"I come every year," he said. "I've been bowling for six years because it is fun. Also, I have won a lot."
Eilenberger stepped down from the platform and proudly showed off the gold medal, which he had received for placing first in his division of men's bowling in the Indoor Special Olympics.
Ellenberger, 19, of Shawnee, was one of 1,500 athletes from eastern Kansas to compete at this weekend's Special Olympics conducted on campus and at various sites throughout Lawrence. He and his teammates from Faith Village, a home for the handicapped in Kansas City, Kan., traveled to Lawrence to compete in the volleyball, swimming, gymnastics, skating and bowling competitions.
The games — specifically geared for the mentally handicapped — keep getting bigger each year, said Lynn Gleun, an area coordinator from Almost 200 Lawnville athletes competed in the Games this year.
EVERYONE COMES OUT a winner, Glenn said.
"It is a chance for kids to go out and compete. They have been told that they can 'do it and often their parents are ashamed of them," she said. "Here they can show people that they can do it."
Most people think of the track and field events associated with the summer Special Olympics, she said. They do not realize that competition has been expanded to include basketball, gymnastics and even cheerleading.
"This is a real big relief to them," she said. "They were up and dressed at 3 this morning. And after the games, you hear the medals clanking in the halls and they wear the ribbons until they are in shreds."
BUT THE COMPETITION is only a small part of the weekend, Glenn said. "The whole thing is a learning experience. They go to a motel where all the doors look the same. They have to find their way around and eat their meals on a plate. It teaches them a lot of socialization skills."
As handicapped people participate in Special Olympics, many of them become interested in sports. Those interested in baseball read more about such things as batting averages and earned run averages.
Friday was the first day of competition. That evening, the annual victory banquet and dance took place in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
"The mentally retarded love to dance." Glenn said. "There are a lot of little romances. This is the chance for the boyfriends and the girlfriends
to get to see each other, but also for the friends too."
LAWRENCE HAS BEEN host to the games for two years, said Chris Hawne, Lawrence special populations coordinator. In 1981, the state Special Olympics committee decided to divide the state in half so athletes would not have to travel as far, and winter weather would not hamper the games.
Hahn st stood at the main counter of the bowling alley and looked over the alleys. All of them were in use and Special Olympians who were all morning milled around in their bowling shoes, waiting their turn to bowl.
"They really get off on this. That is why they come," he said.
LIKE OTHER ATHLETES, Special Olympians train for their event, said Bill Higgins, assistant coach for the team that will embark on development Center team from Manhattan.
"We practice at the end of every day. Sometimes we practice bowling, sometimes volleyball," he said. "We have to work on specific problems like some of them are afraid of the ball. When they don't want to pass the ball up."
Still, it is just like coaching any other team. The difference, he said, is that his players have to be given instructions over and over again.
"You have to tell them things more than a normal person, but you can't go in thinking that they are low-level or handicapped. And if they do something good, you have to go absolutely crazy," Higgins said.
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Backers of halfway house ask for aid
Representatives of a group that wants to start a halfway house in northeast Kanaas for women recovering from alcohol or drug-abuse problems asked Saturday for support representing Douglas County residents.
Russell Getter, KU associate professor of political science and president of Kansas Women's Substance Abuse Service, told the legislators that the State Department has hired Kansas for an existing house to be turned into the halfway house.
The local legislators met with various groups yesterday and Saturday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., to hear the group's proposals for the next session of the Kansas Legislature, which begins in January.
PENNY GOLTULA. A consultant to the group, said that almost all halfway houses in the state were for men and women. Halfway houses had room for only 34 women.
The resulting shortage could be lessened by starting another halfway house in or near Lawrence, she said. It would primarily serve a seven-county area of northeast Kansas, although it would be open to the rest of the state.
Getter said, "This is good business for the state. The money invested in this will be returned many, many times before the spectrum, it's the right thing to do."
The residents of the house would have already been through some sort of acute treatment, such as detoxification
or hospital treatment. Getter said that acute treatment is recognized by most professionals as accounting for only 10 percent of a patient's recovery.
THE LOCAL LEGISLATORS also heard from several groups relating to the University Tom Swearingen, president of the KU Classified Senate, that morale among classified employees was low for a variety of reasons.
He asked that merit pay for classified employees be financed at 3.5 percent of the total pool of KU classified employee wages, and said that continued evaluations without resultant merit pay hurt morale.
"The evaluation system is a great waste of time." Swearingen said. "I don't think that you can really justify that waste of time."
Swearingen's other concerns were health insurance and retirement benefits. He reiterated his proposal for "cafeteria-style benefits," which
would allow employees to choose some fringe benefits and reject others.
HE ALSO RAISED the possibility of a class-action suit to allow classified employees to use the retirement system used by most University faculty, instead of the current state system.
Swearing named the current classified employees' system "discriminatory and liable to legal action" because the state paid a higher percentage of matching funds for faculty retirement and because the classified employees' plan produced a lower yield and was not a tax shelter.
The legislators heard from Chris Edmonds, KU representative to the Associated Students of Kansas. He said ASK's top priority would be ensuring that training of scholarships for students who intended to teach in Kansas schools.
The scholarship would be in the form of a loan to the student of from $1,000 to $2,000 a year. Edmonds said.
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