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Monday, September 15, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Suicides, iguanas challenge RAs
By SARA HOLLAND
Staff Writer
A resident assistant (RA) is more than a part-time employee. An MA is both an academic adviser and a resource person for the staff. An MA is also a ball staff member and a student.
There is no routine day for an RA, said Juille Boetcher, an RA at Corbin Hall. Every day brings new problems and experiences, she said.
Roger Ward, an RA at HashingHall, said an RA must be ready to handle any situation from loose iguanas to possible suicide attempts by residents.
In order to become an RA, the student must submit an application that is available at the Offices of the Dean of Men and Dean of Women, said Carol Smith, acting dean of women.
THE APPLICATION must be completed
with letters of recommendation and college
transcript.
Ras must be at least junior, and have a minimum grade point average of 2.5. They also must have had previous group living and some past some past student leadership, Smith said.
After completing the applications, Smith said, each applicant must attend a group interaction session and have a personal interview with a student committee.
The purpose of group interaction, Fred McElhenie, associate dean of men, said, is to observe the applicant's response to a request for information. How do he acts as a member of a group.
The personal interview is conducted by a committee of residence hall residents, outgoing RAs and the resident director of the hall for which the applicant applied, Smith wrote the interview, each committee member writes comments and recommendations.
Although the final hiring decision is made by the offices of the Dean of Men and Dean of Women, student recommendations are important in the final decision, McEhlenie said.
Reasons students apply for the RA job
Phil Winegardner, assistant resident director at Tempelhilm, said he applied because the Job's hours fit into his study schedule.
Cary Badger, assistant resident director at Oliver Hall said that he became interested in the RA job when he was president of McColum. He said the job working inside the hospital was working with persons with differing backgrounds.
SMITT SAID THE basic duties of RAs include doing some clerical work, responding to emergencies, being available to residents at least four nights a week, acting as advisers to particular groups in the hall and acting as a resource person.
Each residence hall has its own "personality," Smith said, and duties of the RA vary from hall to hall depending upon the interests of the hall.
John McGee said that in Joseph R. Pearson Hall unlocking doors was a special duty of RAs. He said JRP was the only residence hall without duplicate keys and when students were locked out of their rooms, RA were to unlock the doors with a master key.
Jan Stokes, an RA at McColum Hall, said that since McColum was an international hall with 246 foreign students, RA there needs to have a teacher who needs of students who can't speak English.
BADGER SAID RA duties at Oliver were different because Oliver was primarily a freshman-sophomore hall. He said that during certain hours male and female residents had to be on their floors. He felt that he would act a little more as enforcement agents although disciplinary action was decided by the Oliver Hall judicial board.
Ward said that an RA in Hashinger Hall had to do more work with hall programming since Hashinger had special programs for fine arts students.
Honey becoming popular as a substitute for sugar
The growing interest in health foods and the rise in sugar prices have brought about a surge in demand for honey, according to local honey producers.
By SHEILA JONES
Men also will participate in tennis and volleyball this fall. Wilkerson said plans were being made for handball and racquet ball tournaments.
Winegarder said that he had taken care of several residents who returned to Templin drunk and residents who had girlfriend problems.
Dave Rubik, graduate student in entomology, said some people thought that if they ate locally-produced honey they would be better at producing reactions caused by local polluting plants.
Badger said that although the RA job wasn't financially rewarding, some of the personal rewards compensated for it. He said he received personal satisfaction in helping students learn how to live with each other.
Stokes said that she had just recently invaded one resident's contact lens by electronically removing it.
There are typical problems that all RAs in all the halls face.
THE SALARY that RAS receives is a single room at the double room rate plus a flat rate.
Ward said that he had handled everything from complaints about squacky pipes to water problems.
Wilkerson said that Rich Marcks, intramural directors, had conducted training sessions for students who wanted to be football referees this fall. There have been a number of accessions, he said, in which the officials have received practical training on the field.
About 2,000 students signed up to participate in intramural sports this fall, Tom Wilkerson, University of Kansas director of recreation services, said yesterday.
Wilkerson said that about 1,200 men would play flag football. He said there could be as many as 90 men's football teams. Play is scheduled to begin today.
Five new football fields will be in use this year. Wilkerson said the fields needed only to be lined and rolled to take away rough surfaces, which he used. He hoped to have them ready today.
Although RAs sometimes have to act as disciplinarians, Ward said, RAs are not moral agents or policemen. He said RAs weren't supposed to structure life but were more like guards. RAs should have to be an "ear," and sometimes just listen to problems and complaints, he said.
Ward said that he had counselled residents but he said that since most RAs weren't professional counselors he usually referred the resident to professional counselors.
P. Everett Sperry, a local wholesale producer of honey, has been raising bee colonies since 1927. He said yesterday there never had been a greater demand for honey than he did last summer, and that bad weather this spring had resulted in the crop being one-half its normal size.
Molly Van Hee, manager of The Mercantile, said people liked honey because it wasn't as processed as sugar and was more nutritious.
Bees store about two-thirds more honey than they need, Robb said. He said that a commercial grower would be happy to help.
Ward said RA job rewards had to be personal rewards because there isn't a lot of them.
MGEE SAID that most RAw were thrown to the shower by residents at least once as well.
No specific action has been recommended to alleviate problems in textbook ordering procedures, according to Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
one, but a smaller harvest could be made in the fall from the honey produced after the winter.
"We want at least three officals for each a 'Team game,' Wilkerson said. "If we do that, we'll have 'B' games they won't be played. I don't think we'll have any trouble gettingTests."
He said the summer harvest was the major
Girls' sports include flag football, kickball, tennis and volleyball. Wilkerson said girls may be offered other sports as soon as other plans were finished.
According to Calgaard, the problem concerning book ordering was that many professors didn't submit their orders on time.
Calgaard called a meeting last week to discuss textbook ordering procedures and book sales to Outreach students. William Bailour, vice chancellor for student affairs, Chestman, bookseller manager, also attended the Thursday morning meeting.
Fluid book ordering methods discussed
He said no concrete proposals had been discussed.
"It was an informal visit about lots of thins." Calzazard said yesterday.
He said he would continue to discuss with the Council of Deans ways to ensure that faculty members were prompt in their order returns.
However, Charles Micheen, professor of entomology and systematics and ecology, said it was very doubtful that eating locally-produced honey would have any effect on the insects collected pollen that was sticky, and not the air pollen that caused allergies.
Harvest was a month ago, and they have sold half of the 1800 pounds they extracted, said Roulk. The interest people have in honey, and the quantity they buy it in is surprising, he said. Roulk had he sold 60 pound quantities on four occasions.
Roubik, in cooperation with Orley "Chip Taylor, associate professor of entomology and systematics and ecology, is selling honey to maintain 40 hives. These hives are important for scientific studies and research, he said.
Players total 2,000 as intramurals start
Balfour said one option that could be enacted to streamline the ordering procedure would be to make each departeur responsible for its own professors' book orders.
The bookstore now deals with each professor individually.
"Obviously, we would like to make sure
Tonight: THE GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL will meet at 7:30 in the Jayhawk Room of the Union. THE MUSIC THERAPY CLUB will meet at 8 in the Library.
Today: There will be an ADMINISTRATION-STUDENT RECEPTION at 2 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. HUBERT PICTIICHMANN, former director of the Institute for High Energy Physics, Wien, Austria, will speak at a department of physics and astronomy colloquium at 4:30 p.m. YOM KIPPUR services, Mincha Nelah, will be at 5 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center, followed by a fast breakfast at sundown.
that we have a reasonable estimate of the enrollment for each class in advance." Calgard said. "Sometimes this is a little hard to do. Sometimes you miss, and we missed this fall."
On Campus
The Wells Fargo Bank, in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution, is offering prizes totaling $100,000 for an essay, a film or a tape recording about the future of the United States. For entry form and details write "Toward our Third Century," Box 44076, San Francisco, Cal. 94144.
Balfour said much of the meeting was spent discussing ways to achieve a better system to deliver textbooks to Outreach students.
Grants and Awards...
He said there were almost 1,300 students enrolled in 70 courses in Kansas City, Kan., alone and estimated the program eventually would reach 2,000 to 3,000 students.
Events...
Calgaard said improvements in the system would be designed to cut down some of the trips needed to transfer books from one classroom to another bookstore and then to Outreach students.
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