University Daily Kansai, August 20, 1981
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Information plentiful in Lawrence
By DE DE SHELLENBERGER Staff Reporter
Perhaps one of the most perplexing problems for KU students new to the Lawrence area is deciding where to go to get answers to questions.
The University of Kansas and the city of Lawrence both offer information centers where people can call to find out just about anything.
ONE COMMONLY USED source of information is the University Information Center, 105 Strong Hall. The Information Center is open 24 hours a day to answer questions about events, rumors and schedules, said John Helyar, Lawrence junior and information center employee.
Helyar said the center received about 800 calls a day during the regular semester. He said the figure dropped to about 250 calls a day during the summer session. The calls ranged from questions about enrollment to library
About the only information the center does not give out is phone numbers. The center obtains from the University operator. The center's phone number is 864-3506.
fines to the time zone that Korea is in. Helyar said.
For students who need information about activities and organizations, the office of student organizations and activities, 220 Strong Hall, provides assistance, Art Farmer, assistant美术老师, and We do a lot of advising, assisting and programming for registered student organizations on campus."
Farmer said the office kept information about events, guidelines and rules.
THE UNIVERSITY Counseling Center, 116 Bailey Hall, offers counseling in personal, educational and career development.
"We're a general-purpose counseling center," Richard M. Rundquist, director of the center, said.
For students with legal problems there is Student Legal Services, Room 117, Satellite Union. Cynthia Woelk, supervising attorney for the program, office gave advice on most legal matters and helped students in court in landlord-tenant cases and consumer cases and helped in the preparation of legal documents.
She said Legal Services provided student representation in court cases that affected the student's status in the University.
Perhaps the oldest information source in Lawrence is headquarters, Inc., 620 Massachusetts St. Larry Carter, assistant director, said Headquarters was about 12 years old. He said it was one of the oldest assistance centers of its kind in the United States.
CARTER SAID Headquarters offered emergency short-term counseling to emergency callers or walk-in people on alcohol abuse, sexual abuse, alcohol abuse, rape and suicide.
Carter said confidentiality was important in Headquarters' counseling
"There is no worry that a staffer would go home and talk with their roommate about a call," he said. "We don't ask people to fill out any forms."
Carter said names were never removed before the center keeps. The center's phone number is 856-471-3920.
The services Carter said Headquarters volunteers referred people to were Hape Victim Support Women's Transitional Care Services and the Women's Transitional Care Services.
Carter said RVSS volunteers helped transport victims to hospitals, and police stations, and to take care of other problems the victims might have.
Heidi Stein, advocate for the Women's Transitional Care Services, said the purpose of the WTCS was to help women readjust to society after their experiences in a traumatic living situation.
She said most of the women that WTCS saw had been battered by their
husbands or boyfriends. However, some women with other problems came to this support service for help.
OFFICE HOURS VARY for the information services. Most of the campus services keep regular office hours, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The University Information Center and the student Health Service at Watkins Hall will be reached 24 hours a day. All the Law enforcement agencies mentioned above have a telephone that is manned 24 hours.
Office numbers are:
Office of Student Organizations and Activities-864-4861
Student Health Services----843-4455
University Counseling Center-864-
3931
Women's Transitional Care Services-841-6887
Rape Victim Support Service-841-
2345
KU crime prevention stressed
Student Legal Services----864-5665.
By CHRIS TODD Staff Reporter
To many incoming student each fall, the cost of stolen property must be added to the high cost of tuition, books and room and board, according to Jeanne Longaker, a lieutenant with the KU police community services office.
The rate of petty theft—mostly from residence hall rooms left open or from classrooms where items are left unattended—is typically high during weeks of the semester because new students need precautions. Longer said,
"Many new students, especially freshmen, don't realize that their new dorm or fraternity environments are not as safe as their own bedrooms at home," Longaker said. "They get to know people in the dorms and feel secure that nothing will be taken, but there are 400 other people in the dorm who might be interested in stereos, credit cards or cassette players."
TO PROVIDE STUDENTS with information about crime prevention, the KU Police Department will exhibit a crime prevention display at Hoch Auditorium on Aug. 20 and 21 during registration hours, Longaker said.
property students wish to register. Longaker said.
In addition, officers at the display will sell bike registrations and engrave serial numbers on bikes and other
The display, according to Longaker,
will include exhibits featuring apart-
ment computers and various
devices students can purchase. The
ward off would be attacks or rapists.
"It's really important to register bikes," Longaker said. "Since last February, 45 bicycles worth almost $8,000 have been stolen. Even if we get them back, we have no idea who they belong to if they aren't registered."
AN IMPORTANT STEP students can take to prevent crime, Longaker said, was to have their valuable possessions registered.
"If you can't make it down to the crime prevention display during registration," Longaker said, "portable engravers are always available to be borrowed from KU police. Thieves or burglar will be a lot less likely to steal property that has an identification number on it."
Longaker offered additional tips to students on crime prevention.
- Never jog or walk alone on campus during early morning or late night hours if it can be avoided. If you have stairs, curb and avoid sidewalks near shrubbery, dark doorways or other hiding places with dim lighting.
- If you live in a residence hall, always keep your door locked, even if you’re just going down the hall. Most student windows are left open or unlocked.
- Park your car at night in well-ventilated areas and doors locked and the windows closed.
your key in the mailbox or under the doormat.
- If you are just moving into an apartment, have the locks changed because previous tenants or their friends might still have keys. Don't hide
Although the number of crimes committed hadn't increased by an appreciable amount over the last couple of years, Longaker said, the KU police department had improved its crime prevention service in several ways since January.
ONE OF THE improvements, according to Longaker, was an increase in the number of lines in the Emergency Blue Phone system, a network of various locations across campus that can be used by students to report crimes.
"There have been several cases where the Blue Phones have really come in handy for students and the police department," Longaker said.
"In one case last year, a student witnessed several juveniles breaking into a vehicle in a parking lot. He immediately called on one of the Blue Phones, and they responded them and recovered three citizens band radios five minutes after the call."
Another new service that will be provided this fall, according to Longaker, will make available to students a number of Lawrence ministers for counseling during crisis situations.
"The most important thing to know about the program is that students have a mentor in the engraver said. "Then we'll call a chapain and have him or her call the student.
"We hope it will help prevent suicide attempts, and that it will help students who are having problems."
New education curriculum set
By BRENDA DURR Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Fall freshmen planning to major in education would have to spend an extra year at the University of Kansas because of the School of Education's five-year program, Dale P. Scannell, dean of the school, said last week.
The five-year program requires 182 hours to graduate, instead of the original 128 hours in the four-year program, he said. The new program would also give the students 15 hours in graduate credit along with their Bachelor of Science degree in Education, he said.
This fall's sophoromes, junior and seniors would meet the on guidelines of the School of Nursing.
SCANNELL SAID THE change was brought on by a number of factors.
Assistant professor in education.
"In teacher education, you couldn't do everything in 128 hours," he said.
"We thought it was time for a review (of the curriculum)."
He said that new state and federal laws requiring that teachers be able to instruct the handcapped in addition to declining national test scores influenced the school to change to a five-year program.
But Scannell said that the new student would offer many advantages to the program.
"They'll get more of a lot of things" he said. General education will be extensive. They will get more extensive and larger student teaching opportunities."
Noyi Bowman, also agreed that turning out a better teacher was the main advantage of the program.
"They get additional class and additional field experience," he said.
"More (colleges) are considering it all of the time, because it will result in a better product."
THE EXTRA YEAR OF school would also help students when they were looking for jobs, Scannell said.
"They'll be better qualified and highly sought after by prospective employers, but only have higher salaries than students in the four-year programs," he said.
Extra tuition and generally low teaching salaries are the main compra-
sure for many students.
"The most frequent complaint is that 'Teaching salary is so bad, why take an extra year and go into a field that doesn't pay well'" he said.
An average teaching salary is $11,000 a year, he said, but most prospective teachers won't change their major because of the low income.
"Salary doesn't affect teaching," he said. "We encourage them to enjoy that type of life," he said.
Both faculty and student response has been favorable to the program, Scannell said.
Bowman also agreed that, "Thus far,
opinions have been positive."
However, one student majoring in education said that the program would need more teachers.
"I just think the students will have to
more school and pay more." Paula
Trotta said.
She also said that more students
would go to a different school offering a four-year program, dropping the school's enrollment even more. The school's enrollment has dropped from 1,497 students in spring 1980 to 1,065 in the spring of 1981.
PATTY M. BUNKER, Kansas City.
Kan., junior, said that most students seemed divided on the issue.
But a five-year education plan may be used in more education schools in the near future, Scannell said. He said that several states and a national meeting of education teachers would discuss the five-year program this fall.
"I think it's a good idea, if the student is paid a minimum wage for student work," she said. Bunker also said she doubted the degree would give the student a higher salary.
The only other university besides KU to use the five-year program is the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H., Scannell said.
"The University of New Hampshire has had the five-year program for four years now, and they've been very pleased with it," he said.
Correction
The Kansan incorrectly attributed a newspaper advertisement that appeared in the Tonganoxie Mirror to Richard Fatherly, a member of the Tonganoxie John Birch Society. The advertisement was paid for by Eugene Keck, the manager of the Tonganoxie, also a member of the Tonganoxie. The error appears in a story on the John Birch Society, in section three of today's paper.
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