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Page 10 University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1981
Books bound for Med Center
By JoLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
It's full of sex, violence and best-sellers, and it's parked outside the University of Kansas Medical Center. It is located in the City, Ken, Public Library Bookmobile.
Bookmobile librarian and driver Mary Lind stocks mostly fiction, including sexy, gothic romances and hair-raising murder mysteries. She also students a break from reading medical and scientific works and patient charts.
"At this stop, we let people who work here just show their KU IDs," she said recently. "They don't need a library card."
College of Health Sciences students don't need a library card either.
AS LIND SPOKE, she automatically checked out books to a line of patrons, and she called many of them by their first names.
"Hi, Terry," she said. "Do you have your library card today? Oh, that's
right, I forgot you got married and changed your name."
THE BOOKMOBILE is parked outside the Med Center between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
It stocks both children's and adult books. Lind said that a group of children in special education classes at the Med Center used to visit the bookmobile regularly but that she hadn't seen them lately.
Other patients rarely visit the bookmobility, "mostly because they're too sick," she said, adding that patients who can't walk well and Center long enough to check out books.
The van is crowded with men and women in white uniforms and a few neighborhood residents.
LIND SAID THAT she started bringing the bookmobile to the Med Center because so many Med Center employees were asking the medical library to stock fiction books. Earl Farley, medical library director, asked Lind to make the Med Center a regular stop.
"We check out about 100 books a week
here—mostly fiction," she said. "All the books on the best seller list are popular."
As Christmas nears, she said she will include a shelf of children's and adult Christmas books in her collection, which she revolves periodically. She said the Christmas books should be popular.
If a Med Center employee or student wants to read a particular book that is not on the bookmobile, Lind said, she always tries to have it by the next week.
Although business gets a little slow on holidays and toward the end of the summer, she said, she skips her MRS stop only when the weather is bad.
For Lind, unlike most drivers, mechanical breakdowns have never been a problem.
The Kansas City, Kan., Board of Education finances the bookmobile, she said, so the bookmobile is serviced at the school bus garage.
By TERESA RIORDAN Staff Reporter
U.S. ponders more student aid cuts
The federal government is considering eliminating another $850,000 in financial aid for Kansas students.
THE FEDERAL MONEY is divided evenly between the two programs, but the State Scholar program would be hardest hit because federal money constitutes more of its $000,000 annual budget.
If the Student Incentive Grant Program is eliminated, as the Senate Appropriations Committee recently recommended, the Kansas State Scholar program and the Missouri State Scholar would both lose their federal money.
If the federal money is completely cut, about half of the $235,370 awarded to the schools will be be cut, but unless Kansas Legislature decides to make
up the difference, Gerald Bergen,
student assistance officer with the
Kansas Board of Regents, said
yesterday.
All of the money would be eliminated for the State Scholar program if officials decide it would be wiser to put all the state's financial aid money into one grant program, Bergen said.
"I don't know what the Legislature would do, but it probably won't pick up because of how bad it is on other programs," Bergen said.
"All we have is federal and state dollars," Bergen said. "We're at their mercy."
THE PROGRAM is cut and the money is not made up by the Legislature, Bergen said, there are no more options for funding.
The other half of the federal money goes into a statewide tuition-grant program, which provides students with financial colleges. The effect would not be
quite as drastic on that program, however, because its budget is much larger-$4.17 million.
"It's a wait-and-see thing," Bergen said. "We have to see what Congress does first and then see how it will pick up cuts if they're made."
Bergen said the Board of Regents probably would not know whether the programs will lose the money until next spring.
About one-third of the 3 million post-secondary students nationwide are expected to lose aid during the pandemic. The American Federation of Teachers.
New restrictions, which went into effect Oct. 1, limit the eligibility for guaranteed student loans to students from families earning less than $30,000. The interest rate also increased from 7 to 9 percent. Students from families earning the first year they receive the loan.
The BSU
and
The Exquisite Ladies presents
The Black Student Union Fifth Annual Fashion Show
Theme
"A Serious Affair"
Place: Satellite Union
Date: December 5. 1981
Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Admission: $2.50
"The party is right after the show"
10:00 p.m.-1:45 a.m.
Men's Coalition Presents Male Contraception and Vasectomy
by Dr. Well, M.D.
DID YOU KNOW that an ESTIMATED 500 MEN in THE LARVAE AREA have VASCETOMES EVERY YEAR? AVICTORY HAS BECOME a POPULAR CHOICE OF CONTRACEPTION AND CONCERN WITH MEN. Dr. WELL, a UROLOGIST IN MEN'S CLINIC SYSTEM, GENERAL INFORMATION and ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS SIMPLE OPERATION THAT HAS BEEN SUBROUNDED BY MYTHS FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
*AKEYOUT, AS WELL AS OTHER FORMS OF CONTACTION, CONCERNES BOTH MILK AND WOMEN, THEREFORE, BOTH ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.
DATE:
THURSDAY, DEC. 5, 1961
PLACE:
COUNCIL ROOM, KANSAS UNION
Eagan-Barrand Retail Liquor
A New Concept That's Long Overdue
23rd & I love
Southwest Plaza Shopping Center
Located behind Hardise's
and Foodland
9 a.m. 11:10 p.m.
. . Mister Guy for her. . a Christmas tradition for the discriminating woman. .
Christmas Hours:
M-T-W-Th-F
9:30-8:30
SAT: 9:30-6:00
SUN: 1-5
920 Mass.
ALL CLASS PARTY AND 3RD OR 4TH ANNUAL GOLDFISH SWALLOW!!
Tonight: 8:30-12:30 p.m.
Lawrence Opera House
$3.00 All You Can Drink
Free Beer for Class Card Holders
Featuring: JASPER
PRIZES AWARDED!!
Be There!
Sponsored By: BOARD OF CLASS OFFICERS