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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 7, 1986
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Hearings aimed at 'sin' laws Panel hopes for speedy action on amendments
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A legislative committee will begin hearings next week aimed at drafting legislation to carry out the three "sin" amendments voters approved during Tuesday's general election.
Leaders of the panel said they hoped for quick action when the Kansas Legislature convened in January.
The vice chairman of the committee, Rep. Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington, said he hoped proper legislation would be pre-filed before the 1987 session began. The panel scheduled three days of hearings for next week.
Gov.-elect Mike Hayden also said he hoped the start-up measures would be enacted quickly because voters said they wanted them carried out fairly and quickly.
"I think we're going to move with expediency to get them implemented," Hayden said. "We're also going to make sure they're squeaky clean, that criminal elements cannot take advantage of the and that Kansas will benefit."
Researcher to study programs for disabled
Mark Mathews hopes that elderly and disabled people across the country will benefit from his next year of research.
By CRAIG HERRMANN
Last month, the National Institute of Handicapped Research in Washington awarded a $50,000, one-year, post-doctoral fellowship to Mathews, a research associate with the KU Research and Training Center on Independent Living.
Mathews began his research Oct. 1, and will travel across the country through Sept. 30, 1987, to examine and compare different programs used by research and training centers for both disabled and elderly people.
Mathews said he would study as many programs as possible. The institute finances 35 research and training centers. About 400 independent living programs exist across the country.
Mathews will compile his findings into reports that he will deliver to the institute in Washington and distribute to U.S. research and training centers.
in our country.
"The fellowship will give me the opportunity to take a year off and look at how the different centers operate and how they can benefit others." Mathews said.
"Each 'R and T' center has a slightly different focus on the aspects of independent living for the disabled and elderly," Mathews said. "Despite their innovations, they don't seem to have an effective way of sharing their findings."
Mathews, formerly of Topeka, said he would try to develop ways to catalog innovations in independent living centers.
"Often, one center may develop an innovation, say for
people with high spinal injuries," he said. "Across the country, there may be other centers that might be able to benefit from those findings, but they simply don't have an easy way to learn about them."
Right now, Mathews said, about the only way for centers to learn about other centers' discoveries is for researchers to read the various journals being published.
Unfortunately, centers have trouble keeping track of innovations described in the thousands of articles published each year, he said.
"A person could literally spend all of his time reading, with no time to actually do anything with the findings," he said.
Mathews, who holds a bachelor's degree in human development and a doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Kansas, credited the entire staff's research efforts for his fellowship opportunity.
He said that an average of 12 research projects were conducted in the center at any given time, with five doctoral-level researchers and 12 graduate students conducting them.
"Without the work being done by the rest of the people in the research and training center here at KU, my research wouldn't be possible," Mathews said.
These projects, Mathews said, range from helping make community areas more accessible to the disabled, to researching the problem of handicapped parking violations.
Mike Jones, another research associate, said he thought Mathews' fellowship would benefit the KU center.
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Mark Mathews, research associate with the KU Research and Training Center on Independent Living, has received a $50,000 fellowship for research from the National Institute for Handicap Research in Washington, D.C.
Hayden to appoint his transition team
United Press International
TOPEKA — Governor-elect Mike Hayden yesterday said that he probably would announce the members of his transition team today.
In a brief interview in the speaker's office, Hayden said he was deciding who would be on the team, which would work with a similar team from Gov. John Carlin's staff to
The Hayden win sent tremors throughout state offices housing Democratic appointees, particularly those workers who are "unclassified," in other words, unprotected by the state civil service system.
At the top of cabinet secretaries who might be expected to remain in office is Secretary Robert Harder of the Department of Social and
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By PATRICIA FEENY
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Charla Jenkins, director of public relations for KU performing arts, is cutting herself in half.
Six months ago she had no desire to feel the burn of exercise with Jane Fonda or weigh in with Weight Watchers.
She preferred drinking beer at the Wheel after football games, reading everything from trashy novels to newspapers and listening to Peter Techaikovsky and Willie Nelson.
But by the end of next week she will have lost 100 pounds.
Charla Jenkins, director of public relations for KU performing arts, is responsible for publicizing the performances of the University Theatre, the KU Concert and Chamber Music Series and programs of the department of music and dance.
"I'm going to cut myself in half." she said Tuesday.
"I think she looks great," Davis said. "She has done a tremendous job as public relations director. He can get hectic around here and to maintain such a difficult thing — it's impressive."
Jack Davis, director of the Concert and Chamber Music Series, first met Jenkins when they were working on a political campaign together in 1972.
"Charla has never tackled a job before and let it fall through," she said.
Jenkins said that she and Davis worked together on the series. Davis chooses the performers and Jenkins promotes them.
"It's a collaborative effort," she said. "I think what we do together is very exciting."
During her first week of dieting she lost eight pounds.
In addition to the promotional work Jenkins does for the series, she also promotes University Theatre programs and music and
She said she attended all concerts, dance programs and plays.
She said she had a disciplined professional life in the sense that if work had to be done she did it, or it meant staying at work until mid-
Losing close to a hundred pounds has made it easier for Jenkins to tackle her responsibilities, she said.
Jenkins began losing weight about six months ago under a doctor's care. She is using a weight loss program called the Well-life program which combines dieting, nutrition and exercise.
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"It was just a matter of carrying that discipline over into my personal life," she said. "I feel so much better. I'm so pleased at the way it has gone. It was not that difficult."
"I not an exercise person," she said. "The first time I swam I thought I was going to die. I could barely swim one lap and now I swim 10. I swim at least one mile a week."
Exercise is a big part of Jenkins' weight loss program. She swims almost every day at noon and rides a stationary bicycle.
She said exercise still bored her — she counts and says the ABC's and nursery rhymes while swimming laps — but missed the swimming on the days she couldn't make it to the gym.
"My exercylee is boring!"
Jenkins said, "I bought a VCR so that I could record 'All Myidden and watch it when I ride'."
Jenkins was motivated to lose weight for health reasons. She set her own weight loss goal which cut her starting weight in half. In six months she has gone from a size 44 to a 13.
"The hardest part is not losing the weight but keeping myself in clothes," she said. "It is difficult to keep up when you are dropping a size every two weeks. Luckily I who, I can borrow clothes from."
When Jenkins reaches her goal she plans to reward herself with a shopping sore.
Long hours, grabbing meals on the run, and owning a bar contributed to Jenkins weight problem.
In 1979 she bought Harbour Lites, 1031 Massachusetts St. She said she always had enjoyed hanging out there and when the business opportunity came along she took it.
She borrowed the money to buy the bar from her parents, who were surprised but supportive.
"The football players learned that all of the music students aren't gay and the music students learned that all the football players weren't animals," she said.
The bar brought together theatre people, music students and football players.
Her father told her she was an astute businesswoman because she sold the bar at a time when she could still make a profit. She said that with the change in liquor laws, bars selling 3.2 percent alcohol beer could be picked up cheap now.
"I miss the people, but not the hassle," she said. "It was as if I had two lives and I had to separate those two areas. I wanted to do things I enjoyed. For three years I didn't go to movies."
In 1982 she sold the bar because it was too difficult to work in two places.
She said she had an obsession with journalism and was happiest in Stauffer-Flint Hall and in the newsroom of the University Daily Kansan. She held several positions as an undergraduate on the
Jennins graduated from KU in 1969. She was a journalism major with an emphasis in the news and editorial sequence.
"My mother always said that I majored in the Wheel," Jenkins said.
"I still value my journalism education much more," she said.
"I am where I am today because of the education I got here. It has done a lot for me."
She has fond memories of Calder Pickett, Clyde M. Reed distinguished professor of journalism. To her, he was a mentor.
Jenkins was a college student during the 1960s. She said she was aware of the problems and the changes of the times, but was not aware of how to deal with them did not know of anyone into the drug scene, and was not caught up
"Charla was a very likable gal." Pickett said. "She was a real student leader. She was everyone's pal."
in Beatlemania.
She said she was a big fan of the Kennedy family and was in newsrooms when John and Robert Kennedy were assassinated.
"I was probably more gaga over Walter Crankite on the Beatles," she said. "But I would have walked anywhere to see Bob Dylan."
Jenkins said she loved all kinds of music and had more than 600 albums.
"When I play music I stack albums up," she said. "The 1812 Overture might play and then some song by Nelson and may maybe the Beatles.
Jenkins said she had always
Her job exposes her to a variety of performance art forms. One of her favorite performances was in 1984 when Itzhak Perlman, a violinist, played to a sold-out Hoch Auditorium.
"Personally, I enjoy dance companies like Alvin Ailey because I
been a patron of the arts but never a performer. After 11 years of piano lessons as a child, she said she couldn't read music.
"I can play 'Heart and soul' and at one time I played the kazoo but I gave that up with the bar," she said.
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