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University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 11, 1989
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Community living offers independence
Sharl Mehringer hugs Jung Park.
By Stacy Smith Kansan staff writer
Jung Park sat at the kitchen table with a pencil in her hand and a piece of paper in front of her as her teaching counselor repeated the question for the third time.
"What's your phone number?" Shari Mehringer asked.
"Meredith," he harnum on her.
"The good," Melringer said and handed her a penny.
Kevin Recker uses tokens he earned for mastering a new skill to pay for television privileges
Andrew Morrison/KANSAN
Each penny Park earns represents a new skill she has mastered. It also represents a step closer to independence.
Park, 21, is one of eight severely mentally retarded residents of a group home in Merriam, which is run by Community Living Opportunities. Inc.
CLO is a non-profit private organization that provides alternatives to state hospitals for adults with severe mental and physical disabilities. Six to eight people reside in each home with a live-in teaching counselor and day-time instructors.
Jennifer Dowden, CLO program coordinator and 1987 KU graduate, said CLO gave people the chance to live in a family-style environment in a residential community near friends and family.
She said KU faculty and graduate students from the human development and family life department have played an active role in helping shape the CLO program. The graduate students spend time observing and consulting at all seven of the CLO homes in Johnson County.
For example, the students might organize plans to teach residents to bathe alone, exercise or do laundry. Dowden said the tasks were divided into individual parts and residents were rewarded with tokens when they accomplished something new.
James Sherman, director of the HDFL department, serves as a faculty adviser to the graduate students involved with CLO. He said student involvement in CLO had benefited the residents.
the program and the students themselves.
Three CLO homes were built between 1882 and 1985 and four were completed in 1988. Mike
"The residents have an opportunity to live a more normal enriched life than in an institution," Sherman said. "It also provides the graduate students with opportunities to expand their knowledge and skills."
Strouse said 50 percent of the cost of living in the homes was financed by the state and 50 percent by the federal government. He said that the cost per resident was $120 to $140 a day while a state hospital costs nearly $220 a day.
Strouse, executive director, said seven homes also had been planned for Lawrence.
Debating Lawrence's population
KU students not included in city totals
By Dave Wakefield Kansan staff writer
Kansas stands alone among Big Eight university states in at least one way.
Only Kansas does not consider students as residents of the town where they attend college if they claim another city as their home. Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Colorado all use federal census figures for apportionment of state legislatures.
According to the state census, Douglas County had a population of 59,441 in 1988, the first year students and military personnel were not counted unless they specifically had claimed Douglas County as their permanent residence. But census bureau statistics released Wednesday estimated the Douglas County population at 76,500.
The federal census counted students as residents of the city and county in which they were living on the day the census was taken, said Leeto Love, a supervisor at the Bureau of the Census in Kan-
An effort to count KU
By Dave Wakefield Kansan staff writer
A newly formed city task force wants to ensure KU students are counted in the 1990 federal census.
Jean Milstead, chairman of the 1900 Census Complete Count Committee, told Lawrence City Commissioners last week that six areas were targeted in the effort to ensure Lawrence gets its fair share of the population nie.
Higher education tops the list because the commissioners think many students were not counted in the 1980 census, Milstead said. Other target areas are schools, business/industry, special populations, religious and social organizations and media/promotion.
Milstead said student involvement would be important to the 1990 census.
Mayor Bob Schumm agreed.
"The number of students was
City planning director Price Banks, the city staff representative on the citizen task force, said that 70 percent of students were not counted in the study.
most difficult to count last time," he said.
"The difficulty was the field checks that were done after the census to ensure no one was missed," he said. "Unfortunately, the checks were done when a lot of students were out of town for spring break."
The census bureau would cooperate with the city to avoid any similar problems next year, Banks said.
A 1988 amendment to the Kansas Constitution provides that the state will use the federal census figures as a basis for apportioning state legislative districts.
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Opponents of the state census are suing the state of Kansas, contending that the students' and military personnel's rights are being violated.
The state will subtract students and military personnel from the federal figures under the new law.
"I think Kansas is dead wrong," said State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-
Lawrence. "The state censor shouldn't make a difference with your ability to be represented in court." It is a matter one man, one you.
"Why should a city like Lawrence get the advantage of population when it takes away from all the other small communities in Kansas," said State Sen. Ben Vidricksen, R-Salina and chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation.
But some proponents of the state method say a person should have the right to say where he lives.
"The University already gives Lawrence a steady income," he said. "There isn't any city in Kansas that wouldn't trade the census count for the University. It is almost to the point of being selfish."
Douglas County Administrator Chris McKenzie agreed that a person should be able to decide where he lives but said students were not given that right in 1988.
"We have evidence that some state census records were altered to conform with University records." McKenzie said.
He said that some records ma have been changed if the student's permanent address addresses differed from census responses. He said that the census didn't try to reach the students.
"If you are a student, you are presumed to live elsewhere and no one told students how to rebut that presumption," McKenzie said. "Thousands of students registered to vote here last year, but that wasn't good enough."
"As far as we know, this is the only state in the Union that does this," he said. "This just shows how backwards we are."
China leads count of foreign students
By Cory S. Anderson
Kansan staff writer
After a preliminary count, China heads the top 10 list of foreign countries represented by students at the University of Kansas.
Clark Coan, director of foreign student services, said that China and seven of the other top 10 countries represented at the University had increased. He declined to give the actual numbers.
"I simply think more students who had been admitted came and less decided to postpone their studies," Coan said.
Joseph Kuo, faculty adviser for the Chinese Student and Scholars Friends Association, expressed concern about the future of students getting out of China to study in the United States.
He said most of the students he had talked to were leaving China as soon as possible to avoid problems caused by recent unrest.
Kuo said students may be forced by the Chinese government to work two years in the Chinese countryside before being allowed to go to graduate school. Kuo said that he anticipated a decline in the number of Chinese students attending KU because most were graduate students.
The Far East maintains the next six places on the top 10 list respectively with Malaysia, Japan, the
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Tran goes down every year because our two countries don't have diplomatic relations. It's very difficult for students to get out of the country and get here.'
Clark Coan Foreign student services
Republic of Korea, India and Indonesia.
Malaysia was one of the two countries in the top 10 that had a decrease in enrollment.
"Due to the state of the economy, fewer Malaysian students can afford to study abroad." Coan said.
The other country to have a decrease in enrollment was Iran in the eighth place.
"Iran goes down every year because our two countries don't have diplomatic relations," Coan said. "It's very difficult for students to get out of the country and get here."
France and West Germany represent the last two places.
Coan said that those rankings may change by the 20th day of classes, when official counts are taken.
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