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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, Sept. 30, 1985
KU intern gets $1,000 for award
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
A KU graduate student will receive a national award of $1,000 next month from the International City Management Association.
Ardenia Holland, Baltimore graduate student, will receive the Ann E. Suttles Internship Award on Oct. 29 at National conference in Philadelphia
Holland, a student in the Edwin O. Stene graduate program in public administration, is working as a full-time intern in the city manager's office in Fort Worth, Texas. Before graduating from the kru program, he served as a warehouse clerk and complete a nine-month paid internship after one year of classes.
"The award was designed specifically to encourage minority women to enter local government," Marion Sheppard, administrative director of the program, said yesterday.
"No one from KU has ever received an award of this type before." she said.
Holland said the award had been established about three years ago by Suttles' daughter, Sherry, in memory of her mother.
"Ann Suttles was a black woman who progressed in the city management profession," Holland said. "The profession is one that women and minorities are just getting into, and accomplishing so much."
Holland, who earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland in College Park, applied last year and was named a finalist, but did not win.
Holland said she will use the money for living expenses while she serves her internship, which will end in May 1986 when she graduates.
"I felt pretty confident this year," she said. "I had a lot of contacts and I helped sponsor a conference for women in management last year. I had also worked at ICMA in Washington, D.C. I was really excited and relieved when I found out I won."
Sheppard said, "It's a great honor for her, and an indication of her potential in the field. Students in the graduate program are required to maintain at least a 3.0 grade point average, and Ardene's class work was well above that."
Holland said that she would like to pursue a career in public administration in Texas or California.
Mike Horton/KANSAN
Wet backtrack
Kevin Gacek, Omaha, Neb., junior, went to Watson Library in the rain yesterday afternoon for the second time after getting to Watson and discovering he had forgotten a notebook.
TOPEKA — Yesterday's cold, wet weather may have put a damper on activities at the World Famous Topeka Zoo, but it couldn't keep some warm, fuzzy teddy bears and their owners from gathering there for a beary good time.
Teddys bear weather at fair
Although many of the events were moved indoors, the second annual Teddy Bear Fair '85, sponsored by Hill's Pet Products Inc., Topeka, took place as planned. But the gray clouds and heavy drizzle reduced attendance, said Barbara Holder, admission gate keeper.
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
"I saw a lot of teddy bears come through," Holder said.
"But the weather kept a larger crowd away."
Last year 6,500 people and 5,000 teddy bears attended the fair, said Nancy Cherry, editor of ZOO magazine. But Holder said that this year's attendance was 330.
Through ice-cold pools and veritable streams, children and adults trudged along the zoo paths toward the special teddy bear events and exhibits. Many people toted their own bears in plastic bags or clutched them to their chests to protect their furry friends from the rain and cold.
Teddy bear owners who brought their bears with them received half-price admission.
Cherry said that at first she was surprised at the number of adults who liked to bring bears to the fair.
"The fair is for young and old." she said. "You think of it as a child's event, but it's not. Bears are universal because most everyone has had a bear in his life."
The teddy bear theme was chosen because of its universality and because people associated bears with good thoughts. Cherry said.
*Bears are associated with happiness, trust and love,*
she said. "A bear brings a smiling face and happiness."
The events lasted from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Some of the events at the fair included theater performances of Goldilocks and the Three Boars, showings of Paddington Bear films, a parade of boars, a bear collection of bear collections and several teddy bear contests.
Many of these events relied on participation from the public. For instance, people in the audience with bears fitting the parts were the actors in the play. The bear parade, called a "bearade," and the teddy bear contests involved volunteers and teddy bears from the public.
The events lasted from 1 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Cherry and Holder both said there probably would be another Teddy Bear Fair at the zoo next year during the last weekend of September.
Women discuss conflicting roles
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
Women torn between traditional and modern values were offered advice on making choices at a three-day conference last week.
"The KU Forum for Women. Choices and Changes," conducted Thursday through Saturday at the Kansas Union, was intended to help women deal with their multiple roles, mentor and program manager at the division of continuing education, said Saturday.
The conference was divided into five concurrent sessions dealing with subtopics such as personal development, management and career planning.
demanded that women be primary caretakers of their children and aging parents even when both spouses had full-time jobs. The conflict between roles at home and at work make women feel guilty, she said.
Jan Jess, assistant director of field practicum in the School of Social Welfare, said cultural expectations
"We don't have any simple solutions, but we hope we have made them more aware of their needs," she said. "If they don't meet their own needs, they will feel angry, guilty, helpless or sick."
Rousseau said she did not want the conference to be considered radical or political in any way but hoped the conference would provoke women to consider possible opportunities in their lives,
She said she wanted to make the conference an annual event.
Mildred Prather, Garnett Municipal Court judge and one of the 75 participants, said the conference was
a good place to exchange ideas and
"recharge her batteries."
"The women's movement of the 1970s focused on to be more like men," she said. "What was considered normal behavior was based on studies of male behavior. And women's behavior was seen as childlike, dependent and emotional with negative connotations.
"Now some men are saying they want more of some female qualities, such as intimacy."
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said in her welcoming address Thursday that in the 1970s many women went into the legal and medical professions for the wrong reasons. Many of them tried to imitate men, she said.
"Change what you can change, but live with what you can't change," she said, quoting French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre.
Studies try to improve astronauts' health
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Although the universe is beautiful, it can be cold and cruel, and a fairly fragile creature such as man won't last long out there without a lot of planning, an astronaut said Saturday.
Ellen Shulman, an astronaut candidate and physician at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston, spoke to about 200
people at the second Midwest Regional Conference on Women in Medicine, which took place Friday and Sunday at the Alameda Plaza Hotel.
Shulman told the conference that space medicine was actually environmental medicine.
"Our medical concerns are primarily of habitability," she said. "If folks are comfortable in their environment they'll have more energy to do their job."
early in the U.S. space program, after much of the technological work was done and the dream of space flight was nearing reality, physicians had to determine what effects space would have on the human body, she said.
Scientists had to develop a system to support life in a hostile environment and determine the effects of weighlessness and acceleration.
"Test pilots underwent every test imaginable." Shulman said.
Each step in the space program provided more data on humans ability to survive. Alan Shepard's 15-minute suborbital flight in 1961 proved man could survive and even function in weightlessness, Shulman said.
On long flights, she said, there has been some loss of red blood cells and calcium. On a three-month flight, it is expected that Mars would take 2½ years.
More serious problems are the loss
of muscle mass, cardiovascular deconditioning and motion sickness she said.
The loss of muscle mass — mainly in leg and back muscles — occurs when the muscles are not used in weightlessness. She said the loss was comparable to that expected in someone confined to bed.
Cardiovascular deconditioning occurs in weightlessness because the heart no longer has to pump against the pressure of gravity.
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