Friday, November 2.1979
Sunflower home again
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Reporter
The handpainted sign at 1406 Tennessee St. rocked inconspicuously in the wind, where two large houses that jutted out from either side of a cul-de-sac. The sign read "Sunflower House."
Inside, the 25 persons who call the Sunflower house flower, were spread out on couches, chairs and the floor, listening half-earnestly to a speaker.
"I don't care if you smoke, but don't leave your ashes in the sink, on the counter or my toothbrush," said the speaker.
A second house member followed up on the sanitation decree.
It is the weekly Monday night meeting of the cooperative living group, a family in South Florida without the parental footstompning, according to member Carlen Japien Lawrence.
"When you flush the toilet, hold down on the lever, don't just walk away or the tank will keep filling," said the member amid nods and laughter.
He credits the cooperative's worksharing program with taking the emotional kinks out of group living.
"WE'RE LIKE A pseudo-family," said Jupe.
The worksharing program divides household duties into three categories—cleaning, food and repair. It also aims to end slaves by skipping 2% of oneqn labor workers.
University Daily Kansan
"When someone doesn't do his share of
the work, those who take up the slack
of burden; hurry them up; start feeling
put upon, you have; start feeling
program, which relies on points and fine,
heads off of what dissatisfaction,
The Sunflower House is not "Walden Two," according to Tom Welsh, Sunflower House manager, who was quick to admit the threat of a socialist with Thoreau's vision of a socialist aph学.
"EVERY GROUP STARTS out in the garage, then cooperates living. You still have to deal with the garage on the table, taking out the garage and repairing the leafy roof you have to be in."
The Sunflower House, christened in 1969 by founder Keith Miller, KU professor of human development, is owned by the University of Kansas Student Housing Association.
The house has led a roller coaster life between success and failure, Welsh said.
In 1977, a group morale further plummeted and almost everyone moved out, forcing the housing association to partially close the downflower House, Miller said.
At a low point a couple of years ago, the group was on the community blacklist of its reputation for drugs, underground newspapers and motorcycle gangs, he said.
"WE HAD TO DROP back and punt, because we needed to iron out some of the buys in the program," he said.
He said two members were on a "power trip" and had gained support against the housing association in a power play intended to win them more personal influence.
The KU housing association is a nonprofit organization aimed at providing low-rent student housing.
The group is not a sociological guinea pigs, Welsh insisted. He said only one small organization had consent, had been done since the cooperative opened its doors to newcomers
HE SAID THIS year's cooperative was on the upwing. "I am almost superstitious about saying things and is good well because you say something is good, it falls apart."
Developing programs to smooth group living, was a focus of the committee. Members affiliated with board of directors. Six of the board members were on the faculty of the department of human sciences.
IN ADDITION, a human development research group was set up to evaluate the effectiveness of educational activities in 1977, members charged that they were living in a sociology workshop
Applicants are interviewed and given a handbook test, a procedure designed to teach students netted only by the cooperative 10-team average $1800 a month for room and board.
Five people, though already have left the cooperative this fall, pushing the group total down to 25 members.
University immunity from local regulations and ordinances will be the keynote address by the annual Gay Leadership Conference, Sunday through Tuesday in the Kansas University.
KU hosts Big Eight city officials
The conference will involve city, Chamber of Commerce and university officials and news media from the Big Eight cities.
The conference has been held in alter-
tions since last summer, and said Tom Greene, chairmei of the initiative committee for this year's meeting
committee for the Lawrenz Chamber
of Commerce.
"As far as I know, this event is unique to the Big Eight conference," he said. "Our purpose is to discuss the common
problems of being a university community."
Conference topics were selected after surveying the Big Eight cities about their main concerns, Greene said.
By yesterday, 71 people had registered representatives from Laramie, Wyo., former University of Wyoming, who had heard evidence and asked to be allowed to attend.
THE UNIVERSITY immunity address
the university's advocacy, vice chair-
creature for business adresse, and
office of Colorado. It will be followed by a panel
observation on the topic. The presentation is
scheduled for October 10.
The conference will begin Sunday night with a reception at Chancellor Archie R.
Dykes' residence, followed by dinner at the Kansas Union.
Monday morning's session will include a presentation and discussion about creating a successful downtown in a university community.
The group will divide into special interest groups Monday afternoon to discuss the problems. For example, city officials of Lawrence and Milwaukee were of lawrence offices, 910 Massachusetts, 850 New York.
THE BIG EIGHT schools are Kansas State University; the University of Colorado, Boulder; the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Oklahoma State University, Stillwater; the University of Oklahoma, Norman; Iowa State University, Ames; the University of Missouri, Columbia; and the University of Kansas.
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