November 27,1984
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KANSAN
Scholarship to be set up in name of former student
Friends and faculty members at Gatewood City Community College are working to establish an endowed scholarship fund in the name of Jeff Bowersox.
Bowersox, a Belleville native who graduated from Garden City in 1982 and later attended the University of Kansas, was August 7. apparently of suicide. He was 21.
During his two years at Garden City, Bowersox worked part time on the sports staff of the Garden City Telegram. After graduation, he earned scholarships to attend KU, where he was a staff member on the University Daily Kansan.
Bowersox was scheduled to graduate from KU in December 1984.
Persons interested in contributing to the scholarship fund should contact the Garden City Community College Endowment Campus Drive, Garden City, Kan 67846
Columnist for Time to speak
Hugide Shipley, contributing editor for Time magazine, will speak at 8 p.m. today in the Kansas University Ballroom as part of the Vickers Lecture Series.
Sidley, who writes a column for Time called "The Presidency," will talk about "The American Presidency and the Nature of Leadership."
Sidey's speech is free and open to the public.
The Vickers Lecture Series is named for J A Vickers Sr. an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison founded Vickers Petroleum Co. Vickers family established the lecture series in 1969.
Prof to speak on Soviet Union
Andrew Conteh, former ambassador from Sierra Leone to the Soviet Union and a visiting professor at KU, will speak at 11:45 a.m. tomorrow as part of the Ecumenical Forum series at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oroad Ave
Contch will speak on "The Legal Status of Aliens in the Soviet Union."
To make reservations for lunch, call
843-4833 by moon today.
Former KU prof wins prize
A former professor recently received the $100,000 Crafoord Prize awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Daniel Junzen, an assistant professor of entomology from 1964 to 1968 at the University of Kansas, won the prize last year for his work on stimulating studies on co-evolution."
The work for which Janzen is widely known has his studies of the symbiotic relationship between ants and acacia in the tropics - was published at KU in 1966.
Kansan taking applications
Janzen, now an ecologist at the University of Pennsylvania, spends much of his research time in the Santa Rosa National Park in Costa Rica.
The Kansas is accepting applications for spring news and business staff positions. Applications are available in the Student Senate Office, B105 Kansas Union; the Student Organizations and Activities Department; and in 119 and 200 Stuart-Fint Hall.
The deadline for completed applications
5 p.m. Nov 29 in 200 Staffer Flint Hall
Weather
There is a 60 percent chance of snow today. It will be windy and cold, with temperatures holding steady in the mid-30s. Winds will be from the northwest at 15 to 25 mph and gusty. Tonight will be clearer, and the low will be in the lower 20s. Tomorrow will be sunny and the high will be in the mid-40s.
Compiled from kansas staff and United Press international reports.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, the Kansan in a story yesterday missed the name of Nancy Howater, the aca-cordinator for the athletic department
Counselors discuss causes of holiday anxiety
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND Staff Reporter
The tinsel and colored lights that bring holiday joy to some people often kindle feelings of hollowness and loneliness for others.
During the holidays, some people feel agitated, under pressure, depressed, sad or angry, said Doug Witt, clinical psychologist at University County Mental Health Center, 336 Missouri St.
"It's the holiday itself that symbolizes something and is a stimulus of anxiety and stress."
Stress is a combination of psychological, emotional and physical reactions, he said. Stress occurs at this time of the year because stressors are released during religious values are placed around holidays.
"ANYTIME YOU HAVE an ideal or an image, no matter how positive it is, you have stress in the attainment of that ideal," Witt said.
Richard Rundquist, director of the University Counseling Center said holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas often were included in family events. Visits to mentions including home, family and friends.
"Take a person out of that environment, and he feels a loss if it isn't possible to get back into that environment," he said. "This produces unhappiness in people at that time."
College students suffer from concentrated holiday stress. Rundquist said. Students are under many academic pressures at the end of their high school years in combination with [family pressures and expectations].
"CONSTANT EVALUATION PROBABLY produces some sort of stress," Rundquist son
"The world seems to be collapsing because you're not getting things done or haven't gotten things done that you should have started two months ago."
I don't want to call it depression, but unhappiness."
Marcia Epstein, director of Headquarters, a 24-hour crisis center, also said that the crisis response team is being trained.
WITT SAID. "WE don't get more people come in. We do get a fair number of crisis phone calls and visits from people who are not otherwise in therapy.
giving and Christmas than during the rest of the school year, Rundquist said.
"Often, people come in after the holidays because of their reactions to what has just happened."
Epstein said stress often built up during holidays because what people experienced did not always correspond to what they needed, and would happen before or during the holidays.
1 "don't know people who experience match what I've seen in magazines and movies"
'Anytime you have an ideal or an image, no matter how positive it is, you have stress in the attainment of that ideal.'
—Doug Witt, clinical psychologist
holidays.
"After being away from their families, sometimes it's hard to go back," she said. "For some people, it's the first time they've gone home in a while. They have experienced changes, made choices that they feel good about but that their families won't support."
Witt said, "People associate Thanksgiving and Christmas with the way it is presented to us. Many think of being together with their families or celebrating the religious significance of the holiday, depending on their convicions."
Although many people experience stress during the holiday season, many do not seek help from counseling centers. Witt and Gosling (2014) found that the Counseling Center between Thanks-
HOLIDAYS CAN BECOME stressful for people who have families because they feel the pressure to "do it up right" and satisfy others. Witt said.
families are still at home because they have changed while at college. Witt said.
Some students feel a loss even though their
Some people don't have family situations that fit the tradition of the holiday season, Epstein said. Some people are lonely — particularly people who recently have experienced the separation or death of a friend or relative.
"The feeling of loss is connected with death, separation or simply growing, he said.
Epstein, Rundquist and Witt said that a certain amount of stress was normal.
Rundquist said, "Stress is a part of this society in which we live. How people cope with it is different, but the stress is there."
EPSTEIN SAID PEOPLE should remember that feeling anxious during the holidays is a normal reaction.
"It's important to remember that it's OK to feel weird. It's going to happen sometimes," she said. "We should try to be aware that we might not have choices about the way we feel, but we do have choices about the way we act."
KU official ready to retire from payroll work
Rundquist said that finding a mechanism for relieving stress was important
"Some people may go to the movies to reduce stress, and someone else may run 50 miles," he said. "There is no panacea. Stress is an individual matter."
"Whether you come to the Counseling Center or use friends and family, it is a good idea to talk about stress and see where it is coming from."
By DAN HOWELL
Staff Reporter
Dick Steffen is ready for life without $79 million a month.
But Steffen does not expect to trade his portion of the paper chase for idleness.
He has plans for traveling, square dancing,
retinishing furniture, playing the organ and
using his imagination.
He said he and his wife Eva probably would visit the eastern seaboard and the Northwest.
"W E D LIKE TO go back to England, but he wanted to see the good old U S A. first," he want to see the good old U S A. first."
Steffen said he and his wife had made a 15-day trip to Scandinavia in August with several other couples from the Barn Dancers, a local square-dance group. Square dancing provides an outlet and exercise, he said.
"All square-dance are done in English all over the world," he said. "Even Pentecost."
Playing the organ is just one of the many plans that Richard Steffen has for his retirement after $16_{2/3}$ years at the Universi- ty of Kansas. Steffen's last day as assistant comptroller tor payroll and staff benefits is Friday.
In his office in Carruth-O'Leary Hall,
Steffen said he had seen many changes in
years of work at the University. But for the manager of a state payroll, one thing doesn't
"We have to meet Topeka's account report deadline, and man, they're in place."
STEFFEN SAID THE monthly payroll of $79 million, which goes to 8,000 people, included insurance and retirement benefits for 4,000 full-time employees.
His office now employs 22 people, he said, in contrast to the seven employees he had when he took the payroll position $7_{1 / 2}$ years ago.
He said that he had enjoyed most of his work but that the introduction of the Kansas Integrated Personnel Payment System last November had caused turmoil.
KIPPS was designed as a comprehensive method of paying all state employees. But it had too little computer capacity and too many problems in its programs, he said, and KU's participation in it is being phased out for the time being.
"We WILL LEAVE the KIPPS system sometime before the end of the fiscal year." Steffen said. "The students are already off of it."
He said the computer programming wasn't even finished when the system went into use. The programmer hadn't been there for a long time.
"They didn't give us adequate voice," Stern said. "We tried to tell them, but they didn't."
He said his staff came to work at 3 a.m. many days last fall to eliminate outdated and duplicated payroll records before KIPPS went into effect.
way university employees -- students and full-time employees -- change jobs or hold
Before taking the payroll job, Steffen worked nine years in student accounts receivable in the cashier's office. he said He was a former student of time in the basement of Carruth O'Leary.
HE SAID MOST students had been cooperative about fee payments and holds on their registrations when he explained procedures to them.
"Back in the 60s and 70s, the notorious group got the publicity, but many others got their educations and went on their ways," he said.
Administrators have learned to listen to students better, be said, and find that
Steffen, 62, was born near Haviland but moved to a farm near Eudora as a boy. After high school graduation in 1940, he spent a year in Lawrence Business College.
Steffen said he expected the University to continue to change its approach to enrollment and registration procedures. One possible change may be handing fee payment by mail.
HE SAID HE enlisted in the U.S. Air Corps in October 1942 and worked office assignments until his discharge in 1946.
But he won't have to face any turmoil such adjustments may bring. Instead of a keeping rein on a stampede of names and numbers, he will be stomping to a square-dance call or strolling through historic and natural points of interest.
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