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Wednesday, October 25, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Houses 'experiment'in cooperative living
Arrangement gives students alternative to residence halls
By Lisa Moss Kansan staff writer
Some people have different ideas of what cooperative living means.
Images of the 1960s and hippies may come to mind when the term cooperative living is used.
The 30-resident Sunflower House is a cooperative living unit for KU students who seek an alternative to traditional housing.
Sunflower House Cooperative, 1406 Tennessee St. is an experiment in cooperative living
Stacey Gore/KANSAN
see St., is an experiment in cooperative living. Twenty-eight people live in the 30-bedroom house, and Holmburg said two more students were expected to move in soon. The house is for KU students who are enrolled in at least six hours.
The house is owned by the University of Kansas Student Housing Association, a nonprofit corporation.
You really have to learn how to compromise with other people.
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Paul Justus
Paul Justus Rainbow House resident
SIX KU faculty members from the department of human development and two house residents serve on the board of directors.
The house has a work-sharing program that all members participate in on a weekly basis. Holmburg said members worked four to six hours a week.
He said some students had problems with the time commitment of living in the house.
"Scholarship halls are set up in a similar manner." he said.
Scholarship hall residents are expected to share cooking duties and perform three to six hours of housework a week. Each of the eight scholarship halls has about 50 residents.
Holmburg said society raised people with competitive values and the notion of the rugged individual.
"Because living in a cooperative environment is different, it requires some compromise."
Holmburg said the house had changed during the past 10 years.
"What has happened is that the house has been willing to try different approaches to group living," he said. "We have been willing to keep the things that work. A lot of the work-sharing is almost like a legacy of previous occupants."
Keith Miller, professor of human development, said the house was run better now.
He said the heart of Sunflower House was a trial-and-error process that helped the learning process.
Rainbow House, 1115 Tennessee St., is also a cooperative living group. Ten people live in the Rainbow House, which is privately owned. Eight are KU students.
The residents share work duties that are rotated.
Two residents of the house are former Sunflower House residents.
Larry Carter, Rainbow House resident, said that Sunflower House was experimenting with having more residents, so the experiment required a large bureaucracy.
Carter lived in the Sunflower House in 1979. He said the house was then in a transitional period. He wanted less people to live in the house, but the house was getting bigger.
He said he had a good experience, but he wanted a smaller cooperative living arrangement with less bureaucracy.
"Rainbow House is much more informal," Carter said.
Paul Justus, Rainbow House resident, also lived in Sunflower House. He said he found jobs were done more efficiently there than at Rainbow House.
"I do like the smaller numbers here. Ten to 15 people would make a better organizational size in my mind," Justus said.
He said he would live at Sunflower again.
"You really have to learn how to compromise with other people." Justus said.
Rebecca Larsen, St. Charles, Mo. Junior, relaxes before going to class
Stacey Gore/KANSAN
Slapping cop gets Zsa Zsa 3 days in jail
The Associated Press
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A judge yesterday ordered Zsa Zsa Gabor to spend 72 hours behind bars for slapping a Beverly Hills police-man during a traffic stop, telling her "if you slap a cop, you go to jail."
Municipal Judge Charles Rubin also ordered Gabor to pay $2,937.50 in fines and penalties and $10,000 restitution for extraordinary costs to the city because of the case's notoriety. The judge also ordered Hungary to perform 120 hours of community service at a shelter for homeless women.
The judge repeatedly admonished and rebuked the sullen, sometimes smirking Gabor, telling her that she had shown contempt for justice, and tried the U.S. people and that she had tried to milk the case for publicity.
"The law applies to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, and whether they are famous or not." Rubin said before sentencing her. "He was extremely mitigating circumstances . . . if you slap a cop, you go to jail."
Rubin sentenced Gabor to two concurrent 24-month jail terms but suspended them and ordered her to serve 96 hours in jail, with credit for 24 hours served after her arrest June 14.
Miss Gabor's sentence requires her to serve the 72-hour term by Dec. 29, with no possibility of early release. Should she violate any condition of her probation, she will receive 18 months. The judge said the sentence was common for such offenses.
Defense attorney Harrison Bull said no decision had been made on whether to appeal Gabor's sentence or conviction.
The actress was convicted Sept. 29 of battery on a police officer, driving without a valid driver's license and having an open container of alcohol in her car. She was acquitted of failing to obey an officer.
The tempestuous Gabor slapped Officer Paul Kramer on June 14 after he stopped her Rolls-Royce convertible. The actress testified that she instinctively struck out after Kramer roughed her up. She said Kramer had overreacted and used undue force in arresting her.
The judge told her to have her driver's license changed, so it reflected her correct age.
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