University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 22, 1977
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Come and get it
Homes found in communal living
Bv MARTHA FASSETT
Some students at the University of Kansas have found a place to call home, yet they avoided residence hall waiting lists, fraternity and sorority rush and the search department roommates. They are members of Lawrence's cooperative living groups.
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Ten of the residents work as house coordinators, and oversee such operations as cleaning rooms, inspecting and repairs. Feedback sheets are distributed at weekly house meetings and residents become voting members of the house committee from a handbook of house rules and goals.
Dinner provides a chance for the residents of the Sunflower House to mingle, dish up some food and have fun together.
She said residents must pay additional rent for not doing their duties.
Cheryl Shakbova, Shawnee Mission sophomore, and "Living here is much more personal than a dorm. It's just like having a big family of 29 brothers and
Stratton said she thought that students were able to learn from one another because the school was small.
RESIDENTS OPERATE the house on a work-sharing system in which students sign up each week for household duties. Each resident must earn 100 points a week by doing tasks such as washing dinner dishes or cleaning the bathroom. Stratton said.
The 30 residents of the house are all KU students, but they represent different nationalities, religions and interests, Kim Stratton. Sunflower House resident, said.
One cooperative, the Sunflower House, 1406 Tennessee St., is owned by the University of Kansas Student Housing Association (UKSHA), a non-profit organization. The house began in 1895 as a research project in community living for the University of Kentucky, education, and family life, Keith Miller, professor of human development, said this week.
Rent varies with the size of the single- and double-occupancy rooms, but the average room and board is $80 a month. Stratton, Topeka sophomore, said costs were cut because all cooking, cleaning and repair work was done by residents.
Miller said the house was organized to "provide cooperative housing for students and learn how to make it work."
"WE STAKE OUT of each other's hair," he says, but no one minds if people borrow things.
Christian homes are another type of community living group formed by KU students. One of these is Sardis, a community of five to nine students living in the United of the United Ministries in Higher Education (UMHE) Center, 1204 Oread.
Ann Hunt, associate director, said Sardis was an ecumenical group of students who shared meals, house maintenance responsibilities and Christian fellowship.
"Here students learn to love and care for eachother, not just live together," she said.
Some of the services performed by the students include determining financial assistance possibilities, surveying market potential and business analysis.
Students pay $40 to $65 a room for a room and food is extra. Some rooms are singles; others are shared by two men or two women.
Kevin Chestnut, Prairie village senior,
said he thought Sardia "offered tremendous
"People take more time to check on each other here," Chestnut said. "We're bound together by a sense of community and not a sense of a collection of people in a residence hall."
Program allows students to counsel business
Roland Garner, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, said he preferred the communal way of life because it has the "advantages of a family."
The residents do not seem to mind if men and women share rooms in the house, he said, and "everyone is responsive to people's needs."
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Oberman lives in a large single room, shares a bathroom with four to six students and has kitchen privileges for cooking breakfast and lunch, not included in the room and board fee. Lounge areas, laundry and storage space is shared by all residents.
Swinh said that SBI students, this semester totaling the counsel small group size, were
Small businesses in trouble do have an escape clause, thanks to the Small Business Institute, a program for advanced students at the University of Kansas School of Business.
By DERIC GILLIARD
John E. Young, student counselor for SBI,
explained how the program works.
The SBI, a program that allows graduate students to count, count small businesses, is beneficial to the community and the University, Robert L. Swin, professor of business, said last week.
She said she thought the house, like an increasing number of other communal living groups, was formed because of rising energy costs.
"Here we have lots of privacy, but it's very communal, too." Oberman said.
THE SMALL BUSINESS Administration in Kansas City identifies companies that
help each other with homework and get
together in impromptu parties, swimsna
and baskets.
SARA OBERMAN Sacramento, Caur. graduate student, said no pets, children or married couples could live in the Sunflower House, but policies were flexible and changed according to the needs of the
need consulting help, lets us (SBI) know who the companies are and we send teams out. From there on out, it's completely the student to the student to the actual field work."
"It's a very broad-based course that allows the students to apply all the practical knowledge they've learned in the classroom to real life situations."
Young said the SBI program also allowed universities to check the effectiveness of their classes and provide valuable counselling. The students noted that otherwise might be unable to afford it.
HE SAID THAT the effectiveness of the students was judged by student progress reports, which are turned in every two weeks, and at classroom discussions in which SBI students explain their problems and talk with other students.
CHESTNUT SAID he planned to live in a communal house after graduation, a place where students would get similar philosophies. A Christian setting best supports his philosophy of non-violence.
Young said that because many consumers
would be hesitant to deal with businesses that were being counseled, discussions of all businesses and their problems were confidential.
Young did say, however, that this semester's clients included businesses in Lawrence, Overland Park, Merriam and Kansas City, Kan.
"BUSINESSES are improved, community relations prosper, the University looks good and students get practical experience," Young said.
the counseling services were beneficial to both student and businessman.
Active learning programs such as SBI
Active learning a current trend in business
management schools, the said, showing
schools and institutions to judge the
gap between theory and practice."
He said that, because most people were surprised to learn how many problems the government had to solve, they could have,
Sardis is part of the ministry of the UMHE Center, an organization which offers Bible study, seminars, retreats, counseling and Sunday evening fellowship for all KU student Hunt and UMHE is one of seven organizational organizations, sponsored by local churches.
Barbara Shaw, Santa Fe, N.M.
Bartlett was a good experience at Sardis was "good experiences."
Researchers imitate nature for studies
By CATHY CRIST
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University of Kansas researchers are imitating nature to better understand unseen
**UOAY:** BMDP SEMINAR, sponsored by the Computation Center, will be at 1:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union, HALLMARKLECTURE SERIES will sponsor Fried Woel, a visiting metallism and sculptor, who will give demonstrations at 2 p.m. in room 128 in Broadcasting Hall, and who will lecture at 7 p.m. in Linden. GERMAN CLUB meets at 4:56 p.m. in room 4900 Warehouse Hall. GALUCUSES will meet at 4:30 p.m. in rooms 103, 109 and 110 in Strong Hall.
TONIGHT: SUA DUPLICATE BRIDGE will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Union. Judges for the 23rd annual KANSAS DESIGNER-CRAFTSMAN EXhibition will lecture about their own artwork at 7 p.m. in room 425 in Lindsey Hall, 100 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10021, and in the Room KU BALLANGON ASSOCIATION meets at 7:30 p.m in the Union's Formal Room.
TOMORROW: PHARMACY CONTINUING EDUCATION fall seminar begins at noon in the Union. MAGORAH MURAYA, visitor of pediology, University of Missouri at Kansas City, will present an anthropology thesis titled *Biochemical and Microbiological and Skeletal Science* a 4 am. in the Campus Room Council. Board of Class Officers BIG BLUE RALLY starts at 7 p.m. in X zone parking lot adjacent to Memorial Stadium. CREATIVE FANTASY CLUB will play Dungeons and Dragons at 7 p.m. in the Union. Jayhawk Room. KU FOLK DANCE CLUB meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Street Pizza Hut. CAMPUS GIRL SCROUTS will meet at 6 p.m. at the
Eleven environmental research ponds will be completed and filled in a few weeks, according to Jerry deNoyelles, associate professor of systematics and ecology.
The research ponds, on KU's Nelson Environmental Study Area about 10 miles north of Lawrence, will be filled with water from the pond. The ponds then will be stocked with fish.
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"These ponds are a compromise between a large lake, where it is almost impossible to observe activity and behavior, and a river that is often unnatural," deNovelles said this week.
The study of aquatic composition, growth rates, different feeding methods and the effects of pollution on fish and plants are to be studied of the first projects to take place in the ponds.
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"Kansas has many manmade ponds," deNoyelles said, "and it's important to understand their life. Farmers, for example, need to know how to store them and how to take care of them."
put in other ponds for various experiments.
Besides the large supply pond, most of the others are about one-tenth of an acre each. Two or three of these ponds will be left natural. Others will be regulated by adding fertilizer, pesticide or water by adding fertilizer to the effects of agriculture on pond and lake life.
A staff of six researchers is conducting the research with student help. The area also will be used for teaching demonstrations for classes and the public.
In the one Y-shaped pond, fish will be placed at the base of the Y and different foods will be put in each end to observe what foods fish favor.
Research results will be published when groups of experiments are completed, deNoyleys said. The research will increase knowledge of pond life, the benefit of ponds in farm communities and proper care of ponds and fish, he said.
The ponds are on the site of the 410-acre tract of land the Endowment Association bought in 1971 and combined with 160 acres purchased in 1956.
The area was named in honor of John Nelson, who was a KU faculty member from 1925 to 1968 and had a deep interest in environmental research, according to Kenneth Armilitge, chairman of the University Facilities Committee.
Nelson and his wife were present at the dedication of the land in the spring of 1976.
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"There is a family atmosphere where you can have many people better than in a conference hall."
Another community living group for KU students is in the Campus Christians house, 1217 and 1221 Tennessee. Here 10 men in one house and six women next door are called missionaries, nine men to serve Jesus Christ," Mark Baker, campus minister, said.
THE GROUP CALLS itself a community and not a commune because the men and women are together.
Campus Christians, Inc. is sponsored by several independent Christian churches in Kansas and owns the two Lawrence houses, he said.
Karen Milligan, Lawrence junior, said the community atmosphere could be hard at work.
Residents pay approximately $100 a month for room and board and sign up each semester for cooking and cleaning duties. Repairs are done by residents and volunteers from the Lawrence community, Baker said.
Dave Seely, Perry junior, said, "I don't think it is the Senate's duty to encourage participation. I don't think we should cater only to sympathetic part of the student body."
Student SenEx members are chosen from among the 13 student members of the University Council; the student body president, three honorary senators from the university, and two graduate students and two graduate students. All are senators.
Victi Sckit, Manhattan sophomore, said the two houses functioned as a community because all 16 residents met together for prayer each week, ate dinner together twice a week and set aside work days to maintain the houses.
"This is more fun than a dorm because the emphasis is on loving each other." Sexton
The Campus Christians offer Tuesday evening fellowship and Bible study, retreats, intramural sports, concert and a performance where people can "drop in and talk," he said.
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"We're learning to care for each other as brothers and sisters," she said.
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Graduate student participation is low in the Senate, "an undergraduate playpen," Cosgrey said, because there rarely is a large number of enrolment of graduate student arguments.
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