University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 17, 1990
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Libraries improve in rankings
Kansan staff writer
Loss of the Margin will hurt status, dean says
By Karen Park
KU's library system advanced four places in the latest Association of Research Libraries rankings of U.S. and Canadian university library holdings.
William Crowe, KU Dean of libraries, said that the ranking was good for the library but that it was somewhat misleading.
According to a press release issued by the office of University Relations, the ARL statistics, which cover fiscal
1989, rank 106 university libraries. KU ranked 19th among U.S. public universities and was 31st among public and private universities in the United States and Canada. That was ranking among Big Eight universities.
"The ranking reflects fiscal year 1988-49." Crowe said. "That was the first year of the Margin of Excellence."
He said the library would have budgetary difficulty this year because the third year of the Margin
was not financed.
"We're definitely going to have a problem with the library materials' budget" he said.
The materials budget includes money for books, periodicals and journals, Crowe said.
He said he also was concerned about librarian salaries
As of June 1990, KU's librarian salaries ranked 96th out of 108 university research libraries in North America. Crowe said.
"We're taking a big risk," he said.
"Many people will stay through a bad year or two, but I'm worried."
"My hunch is we'll fall," he said.
Crowe said he was not optimistic that the University would advance further when the next rankings were published.
Steven Maynard-Moody, chairperson of the University Senate Library Committee, said he was concerned about library financing also.
He said the reason KU advanced in the rankings was not that the library system had improved greatly but that other library systems did not handle budgetary crunches as well as KU.
Juvenile center proposed for city
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A consulting group recommended last week in a report that regional juvenile detention centers be built in five cities to bring Kansas in compliance with federal regulations.
The five towns are Lawrence, Wakeeney, Garden City, Salina and Girard. The group also recommended that the Renzo County Detention Center, where the inmates handle young offenders in south-Kansas.
A federal law will prohibit the state from housing juveniles in adult jail after 1992. In addition, the Legislature passed a bill last session designed to juveniles and adults from being kept in the same jail.
Construction of the five facilities would help guarantee thatprovided adequate awaiting trial conditions, almoons could be accomplished.
Rachel Lindbloom, a social worker at Social Rehabilitation Services in Lawrence, said housing adult and juvenile offenders separately was important. Children had habits from or were victimized by adult offenders.
Lindbloom said a new detention center would be an asset to Douglas County because juvenile offenders were being sent as far away as Hutchinson or Toroka
"I think it'll make a lot of difference," Lindbloom said. "It'll prevent youth from being sent miles from home to a detention center where their parents can't visit them.
"I think it'll be a tremendous relief to our youth here."
The report was presented to the state's Advisory Commission on Juvenile Offender Programs. It was prepared by the Westridge Group of Associates, and was being on the proposal will be held in Topokia on Oct. 13.
The total cost of construction of the five facilities would be $7.3 million. The money would come from both state and county coffers. No federal money can be used for construction.
There already are juvenile detention centers in Sedgwick, Johnson, Shawnee and Wyandotte counties, but officials say those are filled most of the time.
State Sen. Nancy Parrish, D-Topeka, a member of the advisory committee, said she had not decided if the proposal included too many detention centers.
"That's something we're going to have to look at very closely," Parrish said. "The counties are going to have to be part of that discussion. I'd rather underbuild than overbuild."
The sizes of the five new centers would be:
■ beds and 14 detention beds
■ a $1.4 million price tag
WaKeneye, 7,580 square feet with seven detention beds and to emergency shelter beds. The beds are double staircase.
Garden City, 9,100 square feet with 14 detention beds. The cost of construction would be $1,5
Girard, 9,100 square feet with 14 detention beds at a cost of $1.6 million.
*Salina*, 11,200 square feet with 14 detention beds and seven emergency shelter beds. The cost would be $36,800.
Kansan reporter Debbie Myers contributed information to this story.
'Wheelhawks' hoping to find players
Bv Chris Oster
Ted Decker, number 14, thinks Lawrence would be a good place for a wheelchair basketball team.
Kansan staff writer
Hail, Lawrence junior, was a roller derby player in the late '60s. She played for professional teams at Boston and Detroit before retiring in 1968.
Sharon Drvflower Revna talks about the importance of her clav art.
Now she is trying her hand at wheelchair basketball.
Cathy Hall is changing sports.
Hall, who lost a leg to diabetic complications, said that she was new to the sport but that she was confident in her abilities and was determined to stay with it.
Hall and about twenty other disabled people gathered Saturday at Holcobom Park Recreation Center for a clinic on the sport.
"I've been in and out of the hospital for a while," Hall said. "Right now I just have to build my endurance up."
Hall said the clinic taught participants such things as how to shoot, dribble, and pick up the ball off the floor by pressing it against the wall of the room having the upward turn of the wheel lift the ball to the top of the wheel.
Ted Tedder and Andy Hanschu,
both from Topeka, helped organize
Saturday's clinic and hope to start a
team in Lawrence. Both are former
members of the "Kansas Chair-
ship," which disbanded about two years ago.
For Decker, Lawrence is appealing.
"Lawrence is a basketball-crazy town," he said. "Topeka wouldn't help in the least. Lawrence is bending over backward to help us. They've even given us a gym to practice in."
He said he thought Lawrence would be a good area for recruiting.
"I know there are guys in
Lawrence and out in the surrounding towns that could play." Decker said. "And once they play, they'll be hooked."
Decker said practices for the team would be Saturday afternoons from 12:30 to 2:00 at Holcorm Park. The team's name is the "Wheel-
One group Decker said he was hoping to hook was KU students.
Though Hall was the only student at the clinic Saturday, Decker said he hoped more would come out as they heard about the team.
Wheelchair basketball players need not be wheelchair users, Decker said. The only requirement is that a player has some sort of disability. Many players wear prosthetic limbs or use crutches.
Special wheelchairs are used for basketball. Decker said that they were lighter and smaller than normal chairs.
He said the chairs were expensive; some medical supply stores
Wheelchair basketball has nearly the same rules as stand-up basketball. The college 3-point line and center circle are called for the same violations.
charge from $1,000 to $2,000.
He said some chairs were acquired through corporate donations, some from local companies such as Hallmark.
Decker has gotten around some of the expense by building chairs for himself and having fund-raisers.
Decker raised money for one of his chairs by pumping his chair from Topeka to Kansas City. He raised $800 on the one-day trek.
"I'll never do something like that again," Decker said. "The knots on my wristes never go down."
Indian artists use exhibit to proffer ideas on tradition
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
American-Indian artist Reube, Kent adds form and shape to forces that exist but never are seen. Forces can be bad fortune, opportunity and wind.
Kent, a member of the Iowa-Kickapoo-Oto tribe, was one of more than 50 American-Indian artists who displayed art at the Second Annual Indian Market on the powwow grounds at Haskell Indian Junior College. The market was open Saturday and yesterday.
Kent's pieces, which are small statues of Indians adorned with colorful feathers and beads, represent a historic artistic side of the American Indian.
"Shaows like this let people see what Indian art is. We've always been artists, but because we didn't live in castles, people didn't see it. People think Indian art will be primitive, third-world and tribal."
"Indian artwork shows that Indians are more art-oriented and that we aren't just workers," Kent said. "For so long, everything concerning Indians was geared toVoices Indians need to have an artistic outlet.
Elizabeth Whitehorn Benally, a member of the Navaho tribe, said Indian art shows were important and they taught people about Indian life.
"People read a lot of things in books that aren't necessarily true."
she said. "They come to shows and learn something that's true. They learn about the tradition and the culture."
Benally was selling from a booth that housed her paintings, her brother's paintings and jewelry made by her husband.
There was a variety of art at the market, ranging from paintings to jewelry.
Susie Seibert, Garden City senior, said her favorite part of the Indian Market was the jewelry.
"My mom is the real Indian art lover," Seibert said. "But I've really enjoyed all the displays."
Jake VanLandingham, Wichita junior, said he went to the market because he worked at the KU Museum of Anthropology, where the second annual Lawrence Indian Arts museum, and he wanted to see more Indian art.
"I like to look at the art and see the different styles." VanLandingham said. "It is neat to see someone be creative."
Ross Byington, Haskell coordinator for the event, said several thousand people had attended the market. He also said most of the artists who attended last year's market returned this year.
Benally said people from all over Kansas had been to the market.
"This is a great chance to get exposure for my work," she said. "Even if we don't sell a lot, it has still been a success."
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