University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, October 24, 1972
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KU Volunteers Serve Lawrence
By PAT BRIETENSTEIN
Kansan Staff Writer
One function of the Volunteer Clearing House (VCH) is to give individuals who wish to donate food and shelter the opportunity to get together with agencies needing their help. VCH is an organization of volunteers that administrates campus volunteers to meet the needs of the community. It now is active in a variety of programs in the Lawrence area.
Now, it takes a far more active role, she said.
Janet Wilden, evaluation director, said that H. formely the first woman to clear House, had broadened the scope of its operations since it was formed three years ago, VCH said. It now oversees those seeking volunteer work.
CINDY STEINEGER, public relations director, said that VCH recruited, trained and placed all of the staff who kept them in close coordination.
VCH has an advisory board, Lucky Pounty, Kansas City, KS. The board consists of two associate directors, Cecilia Cochairman, said. The board consists of two associates directing the Louisiana Bury House, 1116 Louisiana St., and Lowell Lenkens, associate director.
Patty Evans, Great Bend senior, said VCH tried to draw from the resources of whatever expertise it could find.
The student staff members help the students with responsibilities including finding which agencies want volunteers, supporting volunteers, assisting in their training, and helping the agency see that the volunteers carry out their responsibilities.
BESIDE their responsibilities as directors, each member of the staff is project director for a team and participates in direct work with which VCH is involved.
Evans works with the Plymouth Head Start program in the Plymouth Congressional Church, 925 Vermont.
She said that she tried to stay in contact with the VCH volunteers and see if they had any problems
Jane Lacy, Manhattan junior works with the Jolliffe Head Start program.
"I am trying to establish a
team," she said. She said she was striving for a more active role in communications with the staff at
POLLARD WORKS with Headquarters, which he describes as a 24-hour crisis problems. The team offers both a telephone and a personal drop-in service, he said, and also refers people with a particular someone qualified to deal with it.
GARY RUTLAND, Hiatha senior, is working on a special project in Sunflower Village.
Wildiden fills a dual role as project coordinator, handling both special projects and emergency programs. The program is managed by new agencies, Wildden said, and emergency services are usually short notice problems of short duration. Giving handicapped people rides to class or to the hospital emergency services provided, she said.
Volunteers to the Samaritan Haitian Hospital are primarily concerned with providing companionship and conversation, Mary Sue Adam.
He said that he was trying to get community members involved through the Johnson County Library, including classes in English and science. He described his functions as providing manpower, leadership
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Highway Hearing Today in Eudora
"We're not anticipating any particular problems," McNeal said. "So far, the response has been satisfactory."
THE PROPOSED PROJECT extends from 2.5 miles east of Lawrence, east to the Johnson River and of approximately seven miles
Preliminary response to the project has been satisfactory, John McNeal, State highway engineer, said Monday.
The design public hearing and prehearing informational session of the Commission project to improve seven miles of K-10 is scheduled for 0 a.m. today in the Eudora Building, where hearing begins at 1:30 p.m. today, following the informal informational session, which
By CHUCK POTTER Kansan Staff Writer
"One of the choices offered to area residents at the hearing is to do nothing," McNeal said. "We are required by regulation to present that choice. If local officials are not willing to improve, they can say so."
Economic, social and environmental effects of the design are being considered at today's hearing. The prehearing informational meeting is intended to give area residents an opportunity to answer questions of highway commission representatives.
HOWEVER, McNeal said the highway commission did not expect a negative response today.
"Whether or not the highway commission decides to proceed with the improvement is not questioned," said the. "Pardon of the land owners is weighed by the combination with social and economic factors."
McNeal said he agreed that the possibility existed that some landowners might request direct ownership of the property away from their property.
"People usually want direct access, "McNeal said, "but on a major fireway route you do not have direct access for safety reasons.
"SIDE FRICTION is a major cause of accidents on major routes, as several studies have shown." If the grade of a graded lane from the side, you have to have room to accelerate, and that is difficult from direct
Usually we will not provide access to cities, because circumstances are most unusual. Most direct access control is provided close to cities, because it allows people to travel.
McNeal would not speculate about the number of requests the commission might receive for access.
"We always need more volunteers." she said.
program. She works in conjunction with a district social worker to provide a special friend for children, she said.
In the opinion of the agency directors who work with VCH personnel, the clearing house is doing a good job.
ROBBI NICHOLS, Jolliffe Head Start driver, said that 18 to 20 volunteers worked in the school and she had a good attitude. She said that the VCH volunteers had shown a good attitude, at least she did, and she taught the teachers with lesson planning. She said that she still needed drivers and someone to teach her.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULES for right-of-way acquisition, construction and relocation assistance programs are also scheduled for discussion today. The formal hearing will be taken before the final hearing prepared for use in determining the final location.
"I just believe that they are a lot of dedicated people who are doing the work," she said.
Charileen Frietas, Plymouth head Start director, said, "I think the organization is an important organization. They are reliable, dependable and interested."
according to Rick Silber, Headouarters director.
VCH VOLUNTEERS seem to have two characteristics, dependability and reliability.
volunteering means, and are ready to accept that," he said. Cybil Grey, director of the Samaritan Lodge, said that they were a good group with dependability. She said she thought that the program would improve. VCH has an extensive seven-
The first step is a recruiting campaign utilizing posters and public service announcements. The next step is to meet where VCH gets acquainted with the volunteers and they can become familiar with the program.
AFTER THIS, there is a training session where volunteers are told both the good and the bad side of volunteer work. This helps them to talk with professionals in the field of volunteer activities.
a fourth meeting,
responses to the various
agencies involved in their
particular needs. This is
followed by individual
meetings.
At this point, a decision is made by each volunteer about his commitment. After the volunteer has decided which agency he is involved in, he and the directors at VCH receive a list of those volunteer interested in each agency. The project heads may have individual training sessions to familiarize the volunteers with special requirements of the agency.
There are limitations on VCH at the present time, the staff members said. They lack the manpower, the time and the resources as far as they would like, but things are improving, they said
"Volunteerism is gaining momentum." Rutland said. "We want respectable function of students, respectable function of students. This hasn't been pushed enough. But a change of status of volunteerism is gaining support."
The Lawrence Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the University of Texas at Austin argued before the 10th circuit Court of Appalvs Nov. 15. The Court will hear the GLF plea against the University of Texas at Austin in Court in Topeka last February which uphold the University's formal recognition to the group
Gay Front, KU to Present Arguments on Recognition
Jack Klinekman, the GLF's local American Civil Liberties Union attorney, said his opinion, the Court's move to Wichita would not have any effect on the case.
"It's basically for the convenience of the parties involved," he said.
Written arguments were submitted to the circuit court in Denver in September.
Circuit courts normally travel
The hearing, which will be held in Wichita, will allow both the University and the GLF to present oral arguments.
to various cities within their circuits, he said.
Klinknett said he thought the GLF's chances for success in the case had been improved by
recent court decisions involving controversial student organizations at Oklahoma University in Central Connecticut State College.
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Guest Speaker Describes Attitudes of Yugoslavians
Dennison I. Rusinow, an American Universities Field Staff (AUFS) associate visiting professor at the University for a week for a series of talks with students on Adriatic Europe, described Yugoslavia as an exciting country because of an ethnic homogeneity in Eastern and Western attitudes.
"Yugoslavia is poised ideologically and geographically between the East and the West," Rusinow said.
He will speak in classroom sessions on nationalism and national minorities in Eastern Europe, a political system in Yugoslavia.
Rusinow said that Yugoslavia was a very complex country and that most westerners had the impression of socialist countries.
"PEOPLE THINK that Socialist countries are highly affected by the benefits but suffer the consequences of that situation," he said. Yugoslavia doesn't have the same level of some western societies."
confrontation and divide up the people who had happened, the Yugalas thought that no one would ask them which part of the world they would want to live in.
He said Yugoslavs did have rights generally associated with free societies.
Yugoslavia relations with the United States have gone from good to excellent and back again, he said. What the Yugoslavia would do was join the United States would join with the Soviet Union to avoid a
Conflicts between the Serbian and Croatian ethnic groups of
D. L. Rusinow
Yugoslavia have caused great internal problems, he said.
"Anything can happen and probably will," Rusinow said of the disputes.
"THE SITUATION is so wide open at the moment," he said. "When Tito is gone, anything is possible."
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