University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1983
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Elderly guardianship topic of House bill
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
An elderly person in Kansas who is put under complete legal guardianship is left with little legal protection, Millie Schroeder, legal services developer for the Kansas Department on Aging, said yesterday.
Schroeder was one of two speakers invited by State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, to the third public forum this year for elderly people in Lawrence. Judy Gingerich, aging network specialist from the Kansas Department on Aging, also spoke at the forum.
Several bills in the Legislature this session will affect elderly people. The most important one is a revision of the
current guardianship law, Gingerich said.
THE REVISED BILL would improve the definitions used to determine whether a person needs a needy care plan and provide protections for the elderly.
It would require an annual report from the guardian on the health and condition of the elderly ward. Every three years the court would review the case to see if a guardian was still needed.
"Guardianship now is either all or nothing." Schroeder said. "The process is really slanted against the ward. How do you hire an attorney when your guard has taken away all your property? How do you prove that you are competent when you are already living in a nursing home?"
It is hard to get rid of a guardian once the elderly person has one, so the elderly need to protect themselves one in the first place, Schroeder said.
Revision of guardianship laws came about because of problems with legal guardians, especially in nursing homes, Schroeder said. They are not being allowed to open their own mail or phone their families.
"THEY WANTED TO control in- stead of help the older person," Schroeder said.
Ruth Anthony, 534 North St., a member of the audience, said she had that problem with her son.
"I can't sleep at nights worrying about it. It is so unfair," Anthony said. "You know, when you get older, you
get slower and tired. I feel so helpless Surely I have some rights.
Another listener, Naomi Mensch,
420 North St., said, "I'm interested because of my husband. He has been the V.A. sends his checks to me."
ONE WOULD IMPPOSE criminal penalties for not reporting all abuses in nursing homes.
She said the state should require more study of each case before making someone a ward.
Besides the guardianship bill, several other bills in the Legislature concern the elderly. Gingerich said.
Another would require medical aides to have 40 hours of training before they could administer drugs
Finally, a bill nicknamed "old gas for old people" would set special gas rates for low-income elderly.
KU scholarship hall may stay open this summer
For the first time in at least five years, a scholarship hall may be open for the summer session, an assistant instructor and a residential programs said yesterday.
Joyce Cliff, the office's adviser to the All Scholarly Hall Council, said contracts were distributed last Friday and were needed in living in a hall for the summer.
She said that if at least 20 women returned contracts to the office by March 21, Sellars Scholarship Hall would receive $40,000 and would cost each resident $400.
She said that there were not enough men interested in staying in a hall for dancing, so she made her way to the bar.
Residents can either pay the full amount when they submit the contract or pay a $70 non-refundable downpayment and make payments of $110 at the beginning of each of the three months, Cliff said.
Cindy Spiker, Kansas City, Kan., junior, said she thought the idea of a coeducational hall could have worked.
Sufferage memorabilia on display at Spencer
To live in the hall during the summer session, a resident must be enrolled in a minimum of two hours of classes during that session. A resident also must have lived in a scholarship hall for one semester before the summer session and have been an undergraduate during the spring term.
"I think that by having separate male and female floors, it would have worked, but the decision has been made," Spiller said.
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
The headline on the yellowed fiber reads, "What's the matter with Kansas women? Aren't we as good as anybody?"
However, Cliff said, the Hall Council discussed a proposal two weeks ago to open a coeducational hall for the summer term. The housing department rejected the proposal because the halls' bathroom facilities were not built to
The flier containing the bold statements is dated 1911, and is part of an exhibit of photos, documents and other memorabilia on display in the Kansas Collection in the Kenneth R. Spencer Museum. It also includes "Votes for Women: Women's Suffrage in Kansas," marks the beginning of Women's History Week today.
The hall will operate as it does during the fall and spring semesters, she said.
Laura Skaggs, coordinator of the exhibit, said Kansas was the first state to bring the issue of women's suffrage before the people and one of the first states to ratify the national amendment in 1919.
"Then make it unanimous. Suffrage is bound to happen and you know it."
Spiker, who plans to stay in Sellards over the summer, said living in the hall during the summer session would be an economical way to get some required classes out of the way.
accommodate members of both sexes.
remain open during the summer because it was the only hall with air conditioning.
SKAGGS SAID THAT three major campaigns for women's rights followed the Civil War.
When the women were denied suffrage, they decided to make it a separate issue and began publishing information to promote the cause. The Spencer exhibit includes a copy of a magazine called The Revolution, which said its purpose was to discuss and promote the status of women.
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In the first campaign in 1867, suffrage was combined with the issue of abolition. At the time, women were not permitted to vote, but help elect any local or national official.
Cliff said Sellards was selected to
"It was a radical issue at this time.
In Douglas County in 1857, women were granted the right to vote in the city election.
whether women could vote." Skaggs said.
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Although the women were not expected to leave the safety of their homes to take advantage of the right, a copy of a page from a Douglas County poll book, which is in the exhibit, shows several women's signatures.
ANOTHER PUSH FOR rights was defeated in 1894, but in the final effort in 1912. Kansas ratified the amendment for its suffrage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were among women who came to Kansas various times to promote women's rights. Anthony owned property in the Lawrence area and had relatives who lived here.
The exhibit includes an invitation to a banquet in Lawrence honorant Anthony on her 70th birthday, a photo of women piled into a turn-of-the-century touring car on Vermont Street with balloons and flowers. The museum has an address signed by prominent women of the state saying that the women of the "spartan state" wanted to vote.
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SKAGGS SAID another prominent suffrager siege was the wife of Frank Strong, chancellor of the University from 1902 to 1920.
The materials in the exhibit are from the University Archives, the Kansas Collection and the State Historical Society. The exhibit will be on display through March.
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