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University Daily Kansan, March 26, 1982
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Assistance programs are compared
By LISA GUTTERREZ Staff Reporter
The concern is the same—the student and the employee as an individual, a total person.
Thomas Anderson, director of facilities operations, demonstrated this concern when he initiated his employee assistance program a year ago. It was that it was better to help a troubled employee than to fire him.
Lorna Zimmer, as director of the Student Assistance Center, shares the same concern—but for the KU student.
"The interest expressed by Anderson is to the individual, both as a total person and an employee, who is interested in a benefit to the University and that
personal life affects one's work," Zimmer said yesterday.
"If they have a problem not directly related to work, it still may be a problem," said Zimmer, who has been director of the center since its inception in 1978.
"My interest is the same when it comes to students."
THE TWO PROGRAMS are parallel in intent, but the type of assistance offered to students and facilities operations employees, and some of the problems encountered by them, vary.
"We have a direct responsibility for class-related problems," said Zimmer.
Some of these problems are heavy class loads, inaccessibility to buildings and questions about what to do and what to do after graduation.
The employee assistance program
deals with problems ranging from marital relationships and sex problems to financial problems.
Zimmer explained the differences in problems encountered by saying that students experience a type of growth that older people do not.
"Things like financial problems or problems regarding personal relationships might be common themes, but the particulars of the situation might be quite different," she said.
SHE SAID the Student Assistance Center does not provide on-going counseling, but does refer students to other university agencies.
Regardless of the differences, Zimmer, whose expertise is in student assistance programs, said it was her general impression that the employee assistance program were successful in retaining employees.
By DEBBIE DOUGLASS Staff Reporter
Activities planned for '32 KU alumni
Commencement activities planned and sponsored by the University of Kansas Alumni Association are close to being finished, B.J. Pattee, Alumni Association associate director, said recently.
"Many alumni have not seen the University since they graduated and they will be very surprised with the changes."
She said that the class of 1932 would be the University's honored guests this year.
"They'll get such a kick out of the things that are planned for them," she said.
PATTIE SAID that on the Friday before the commencement, alumni of the 1932 class would be given a tour of the campus and the not-so-familiar sites on campus.
She said they also would attend a
luncheon where they would be given 50-
year alumni pins.
On the night before commencement, the All-University supper will be held in the Kansas Union Ballroom, Pattee said, KU students, faculty, alumni and campus visitors will all be invited, but tickets should be purchased in advance.
The ballroom will be decorated with the banners of KU's graduated classes, Pattee said. They will all be hung from the ceiling, and go as far back as the class of 1873.
"It's very colorful and fun to see," she said.
Most of the banners only have the date of the graduating class on them, but some have interesting designs and great conversation pieces, Pattee said.
The class of 1913 has a banner that stands out because it is green, Pattee said, and when the class' alumni were asked why they chose such a color, they said it was the only color that Weaver's department store had.
SHE SAID the class of 1928 had a banner with a Jayhawk standing in a puddle of water holding an umbrella.
"That class was rained out and had to have its commencement and baccalaureate service in Hoch Auditorium," Pattee said.
The banner of the class of 1945 stands out, she said, because it is pink with a crab apple tree design.
"That class gave the University most of the flowering crab apple trees that are so beautiful in the spring," Patttee said.
The class of 1967, she said, had the strangest-looking banner.
"It has a creature that looks like a monkey holding a diploma and below it are the words, 'And we shall inherit the earth.'"
She said the class of 1978 had a banner with the outline of a basketball on it because the basketball team went to the NCAA tournament that year.
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