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Tuesday, October 17, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Male director of women's hall finds it a challenge, not utopia
By PHILIP GARCIA Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Living in a hall with 49 women might be utopia for some men, but for 23-year-old Mike Johnson, resident director of Miller Scholarship Hall, it is a management job and an opportunity to learn about people.
"I wanted to be a director for the experience because I am majoring in counseling," Johnson said. "I really wanted to have a job that was meaningful and gave me responsibility that I never had before."
After one month as director, there have been no great problems, the Joplin, Mo., graduate student. Most his time is spent giving advice on maintenance repairs or having conversations on the stairway or in the living room.
Andie Waas, Kansas City, Mo., junior and Miller resident, said having a male resident made a nice change from the past two years when women were
"I like it better this year than the other two," she said. "The atmosphere is more relaxed in a way."
WHEN JOHNSTON was being considered for the position, there was some concern about placing a male in a wheelchair or on one or two years older than some residents.
"Before I was hired, people talked a lot about situations that would come up and about my sex age and, he said. But after I worked at Johnson's, the job I was offered, Johnston said.
On Parents Day, he said, a mother of one of the residents, who was also a former
resident of Miller, remarked, "You're a lot different than Mother Roach."
Johnston said, "The fathers say things like 'Can you handle all of these girls?' I just laugh with them."
"It may take longer before the women feel comfortable enough to know me. The freshman see me differently than the older one, and that much older than they are," he said.
Debbie Short, Salina sophomore, said having a male director did not pose any great problems.
"Sometimes it's kind of fun when you're running around with your hair wet or in your robe, but I think everybody's getting used to having him around." she
Scholarships ...
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Initial delays in awarding the scholarships were caused by incomplete financial statements sent to the American College Testing program by students and a delay by ACT in returning the statements. Financial need is determined from statements by
KATHLEEN FARRELL, assistant director of financial aid at KU, said earlier that some students did not code KU or the Board of Regents to receive the financial aid statement, which is necessary to determine who provided inaccurate tax information.
A second problem was that ACT had a oled in sending a print-out sheet of students from the classroom.
Fire...
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Hallmark Inn, 730 Iowa St., at the expense of their former landlords.
Joe Henry, program vice president for student assistance with ACT, said there was an operational problem in computing need for students.
ACT was combining all the information from the financial aid statement along with application forms from the Basic Equal Opportunity Grant.
THE COMPUTER delay and the need to correct information on the financial aid statements delayed the entire process of making scholarship awards, Farrell said.
They will remain in the motel, Potter said, while their apartment is being remodeled. She said she did not know how long it would be before they could move back.
Farrell said she still needed to send the certification roster but did not think too much.
She said about 325 KU students were awarded state scholarships this year totaling $126,000. That total is $88,000 less than the money available last year.
Most of the damage done to the students' belongings was caused by water and smoke, although a few of their possessions were destroyed by fire.
Kennedy said that for some reason, the possibility of a fire entered her mind.
Kennedy was alone in the apartment the night of the fire. She said she was in bed but
*"ITHINK it's mostly the stuff that was in the applet to begin with that was damn expensive and hard to find like the carpet and drapes and furniture were totally ruined by the water from the wall."
had just gotten home and was lying in "bed awake," she said. "First of all, I was startled by a crash that sounded like a door slamming. Then I start hearing these little popping noises from below and I thought it was the neighbor's furnace acting
Three other persons were left homeless by the fire. Kennedy and Potter are the only surviving residents.
"I sat up in bed and started sniffing and I could smell the smoke," she said. "I followed the smell to our furnace closet and entered it. I saw a red glow coming from downstairs."
SHE SAID she run out of the apartment and called the fire department. By the time she got out of the building, the police were directing people to evacuate the complex.
Firemen at Lawrence Fire Department
1. I said the alarm went off at 1.38 a.m.
2. I said the alarm went off at 1.38 a.m.
Besides the damage to their clothes and part of their furniture, Potter said that many of their textbooks were ruined in the fire.
Both women skipped their classes yesterday, but plan to return to school
A SPOKESMAN for the department said the cause of the fire was determined to be
Dorothy Grinstead, manager of the apartments, said smoke damage to the apartments in April.
we got behind in scheduling," Henry said. "The realignment created problems for Kansas and other schools. The change impacted us and everybody else."
"Our school has very little money to return to the pot," she said. "But there is no way we can say how many of the 69 students are in the pots. They have to wait until all rosters are in."
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Feminist therapist's work is overcoming oppression
By LYNN WILLIAMS
Staff Reporter
Pat Henry says she wants to help men and women overcome oppression in society and social justice.
Henry, a feminist therapist, counsels four to 12 clients each week, mostly students.
She often suggests to her clients that problems they have may stem from op-
Males might be oppressed by parts of their personalities that tell them not to cry or feel weak and to regard relationships as less important than careers, she said.
Females might be victimized by a belief that they should be weak and supportive and not feel selfish in regard to their own needs, she said.
HENRY SAID women, including herself,
had often experienced therapy with males
She said she had been encouraged by a male therapist to work on problems with relationships at a time when she was equally concerned about her career choices.
Henry, who earned a master's degree in French and Chichester University, campaigned for Cambridge School for Social Change in Boston, sees two differences between feminist therapy and traditional therapy.
The first difference is feminist therapists
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do not think they need academic training to be good therapists, she said.
"Having a Ph.D. or M.A. behind your name doesn't mean that you know how to do it."
The second is feminist therapy involves the use of more active methods, which encourage people to get in touch with their feelings.
GESTALT AND psychodrama are both active therapy methods, she said.
Gestalt means "the whole" in German, she said. It centers on the belief that a person's personality if composed of several parts that need to be unified.
To promote the unification process, a Gestalt therapist has his client talk to a pillow, chair or other object that represents a part of himself.
The client then talks to the object as if it were a different and conflicting part of the image.
In psychodrama, a group effort, one member of the group gets out a problem and another person tries to solve it.
For example, a person having difficulty dealing with his mother might act out a scene with a member of the group who represents the mother.
representing a character close to the first member.
Henry said she used an eclercic approach to therapy, borrowing different methods, and using a variety of techniques.
FEMINIST THERAPY also has been influenced by radical therapy, Henry said.
Radical therapists try to simplify psychotherapy by organizing groups of people to learn about communication skills and therapy for no charge, she said.
"I use whatever method works," she said. Henry also is flexible about her billing methods. Her clients pay on a sliding scale according to income.
Some barter with her for her services. She has counseled a male client who paid her by working on her car. She also has received laundry and beautician service from clients.
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