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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.8
（USPS 650-640）
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1992
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Alyson Bradv, Buffalo Grove, Ill., graduate student, helps children at the Hillton Child Development Center.
Single-parent students face child-care dilemma
By Julie Wasson
Kansan staff writer
Andrea Nordquist is a single parent. She's also a sophomore at the University of Kansas, planning to major in either English or education. This semester, her 1-year-old son, Kaeman, is staying with a baby-sitter while Nordquist is in class.
She sits in her apartment in the late afternoon, spending time with Kaeman before his 7:30 bedtime. Classes have kept her away from him all afternoon, and Kaeman doesn't like to share her when she gets home.
Nordquist said she relied on a sitter because off-campus child care was so expensive.
"Ive got him on the waiting list at Hilltop," Nordquist said.
But getting her son into Hilltop Child Development Center, 1314 Jayhawk Blvd., is more of a hope than an expectation for Nordquist. Thewaitinglist has 220 names, and applications come in almost daily.
Nordquist is one of 440 undergraduate single parents at the University. The majority of these students, 289 of them, are women.
For many of these students, arranging for child care is one of the most difficult parts of combining parenthood with college. And a lack of campus child care, coupled with poor parenting care, makes the barely balanced budgets of most single parents even more precarious.
Although various offices and groups on campus say they attempt to aid single parents, some mothers and fathers say they feel unwanted
or out of place at the University.
Brebcca James, a graduate student in education and a single mother, did her undergraduate work here. She said she did not feel encouraged by some professors, advisers and administrators.
James said she was lucky to get her daughter enrolled in Hilltop during her undergraduate years.
"I get the feeling sometimes that they feel you shouldn't be here unless you have someone to take care of your kid," she said.
James said emergency situations sometimes required her to take her daughter, who now is in public school, to class.
"Most professors were understanding, but some were hard to deal with," she said. "So sometimes they tell me they rather than take her with me."
James' complaint is common among single-parent students across the country. Single parents find themselves facing problems unlike those facing traditional students — problems such as finding affordable day care, stretching tight budgets and managing class work and parenthood simultaneously. But for many of these parents, an education is the only way for them to raise their children themselves, and it is the only way for them to become independent from welfare, child support or parents.
Colleges and universities across the country are responding to these problems by starting programs designed specifically for singleparent students. KU officials say it can point to services it has to help single parents, but the most important services have long waiting lists.
At Emporia State University, a program for single parents was started in 1989. Jacqueline Schmidt, coordinator of that program, said the student response had been positive.
"The program is designed to serve as a resource center for students," she said. "We provide information, training and fluid-care services and academics."
Schmidt said the program also offered student mentors. They meet with new single-parent students, help acquaint them with the university and maintain contact with them throughout the semester.
"The program also offered a single-parent support group," she said. "It was so successful that it created a network of organizations organized on its own."
Bruce Spector, head of the Single Parent Scholarship Consortium at Trinity College in Burlington, Vt., said Trinity's single-parent program was aimed primarily at low-income single parents.
Schmidt said child care was offered during the meetings because many parents were hesitant to leave their kids when it was necessary.
"Research has indicated that low-income, single parents have a good track record of getting off welfare if they can secure chance at an education," he said.
Stephanie Meuller, director of the single-parent program at the Uni-
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Weapons experts renew inspections
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq — United Nations weapons experts arrived yesterday for their first inspections since the U.S.-led allies set up a southern no-fly zone to protect Iraqi Shiite Muslim rebels.
Italian team leader Maurizio Zifferero said investigation of nuclear sites would begin today. He said he did not expect fallout from the allies' quarrel with Baghdad.
Fourteen chemical experts also traveled to Iraq to join a team preparing to destroy 40,000 chemical weapons at the Muthana facility outside Baghdad, said Doug Englund, regional chief of the U.N. inspection operation in Bahrain.
U. S. and British warplanes are flying more than 100 missions a day to prevent Iraqi military and civilian aircraft from flying below the 32nd parallel.
Four French Mirage 2000 planes were flying today to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, to join the patrols, said Gen. Vincent Lanata, chief of staff of the French air force. Other Mirages will join the patrols later, he said.
statement over state radio and television yesterday, urging Iraqis to prepare to resist the flight ban.
He threatened to reject the bold aggression and confront it with all means available and on all levels. He gave no specifics.
The official Iraqi News Agency said Saddam presided over a meeting yesterday of members of the military to mark the end of war in south Socialist Party. It gave no details.
Saddam Hussein issued a blistering
Travelers from Iraqavaging today in Amman, Jordan's capital, said the party had reopened recruiting and training centers throughout Iraq.
It seemed Saddam was mobilizing the paramilitary Popular Army that was assembled after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990 and disbanded after the coalition drove out the Iraqis and a cease-fire was declared.
Dozens of Soviet-designed T-72 tanks were sent south from Bagdad in recent days, said the travelers, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
That suggested Saddam was boosting defenses around the capital to protect his regime, rather than building up for a ground campaign against the Shiite rebels south of the 32nd
parallel.
In New York, U.N. spokesman Francois Giuliani said U.N. workers were placed on maximum alert after a bomb was found attached to the car of three U.N. guards after they crossed into northern Iraq on Friday.
Jan Eliasson, the U.N. secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, protested to Iraq's U.N. ambassador, Abdul al Amir al-Anbari. Al-Anbari told that in was an act of provocation from the allied powers, Guilian said.
The windshields of two vehicles driven by U.N. personnel in Baghdad were smashed yesterday, hostile phone calls were made to U.N. personnel, and the tires of U.N. workers' cars were slashed, Giuliani said.
Tensions have brought repeated threats from President Bush and other allies that military force could force the U.N. inspectors' mandate.
KU project bound for space
In July, a 21-day standoff occurred when Iraqi officials barred an inspection team from entering the Agriculture Ministry. That ended with a compromise that reduced American participation on the team.
By Muneera Naseer
When the Space Shuttle Endeavor is launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center Sept. 12, it will carry a piece of the University of Kansas into space.
That piece will be a 60-pound, 2.5-cubic-foot canister containing experiments and apparatus designed and built by KU students.
The students are members of the KU Space Program (KUSP), a nonprofit group formed in 1986 to design and build experiments that would eventually go aboard space shuttles.
Their six years of work finally paid off when members from the group went to the center in June and gave the canister to NASA scientists. It will be one of nine experimental canisters from around the world aboard the Endeavor during its week-long mission.
KU's three experiments will examine protein crystallization, the effect of space on various seeds and the properties of membrane formation in zero gravity.
Tom Miller, president of KUSP, said it was the first time the group had sent an experiment into space.
"I'm proud of what we have done," he said. "To say that we have actually designed and built something that is to fly on the shuttle, it's a tremendous feeling. You don't get to say that often."
Miller said the project was possible due to NASA's Get Away Special program, which enables interested parties such as universities to send their experiments into space.
Miller said that during the first few years of planning, the group worked mainly on design, safety and payload regulations according to NASA's specifications.
Miller said the project took extra time because of the space center's location in Cape Canaveral, Fla. "With the distance between us, it took time to get points across," he said.
He also said the experiments had taken a long time because the people working on the projects were full-time students who had other priorities. A lot of designing, testing and building had to take place.
"In January, we had 15 members working on the project. We probably ended up with six or seven people who pushed hard to get it down," Miller said.
One of the criteria for the project was that the experiments be self-contained and self-automated. The astronauts should not have to go through any training to operate it. They simply should have to flip a switch.
Miller said the project was jointly financed by the Kansas Space Grant Consortium and the School of Engineering. About $10,000 total was spent for developing and purchasing material for the experiments. The canister alone cost $3,000.
Art Riegel, St. Louis senior, said the experiments would be beneficial to NASA and the engineering school.
"Even if the experiments did not work, they still would be a success because KUSP will have come up with a more cost-effective way of performing the same experiment as compared to other groups," he said.
Members of the group will retrieve the apparatus a few days after the shuttle returns from its flight.
KU science experiment
Three science experiments created by students in the Kansas University Space Program will be sent into orbit Sept. 12 on the space shuttle Endeavor. The three experiments involve protein crystallization, the effect of zero-gravity on seeds and monitoring cell membrane growth.
Source: Chris Whittenburg, Kansas University Space Program
Sean M. Tevis / KANSAN
Digging in Costa Rica
KU students on an archaeological dig in Costa Rica tell of their experiences working in the jungles and humidity of Central America. From eating cow intestines to sloshing through thick mud, the students lived the lives of professional archaeologists.
See story, Page 3.
David Letterman, host of NBC's "Lite Night" variety show program, will leave the network when his contract expires in April, a trade magazine reported yesterday.
Typewriters in danger of removal
The future of Letterman
See story. Page 6.
Watson says space limited; Senate cites costly upkeep
By Stacy Morford
Kansan staff writer
Ten years ago, Student Senate purchased eight typewriters and placed them in a typing room in Watson Library for student use.
Unless students object, Kevin Sigourney, Senate treasurer, said Senate might remove those typewriters, the only ones available for student use on campus.
"We need to find ways to cut costs, and we just can't afford to hand out the money to maintain them anymore." Sigourney said. "We'd like to relocate them somewhere else, but space on campus is nonexistent.
right now we're taking into pulling them out and selling them or giving them to other departments on campus." Senate spent about $900 last year to repair stuck keys
and broken levers and to keep the typewriters working with fresh ink ribbons and correction ribbons.
"They really need to be replaced," Sigourney said. "We can afford to replace them, but it's the principle. Students are very abusive toward those machines. It's just not worth it to fix them almost daily."
Jin Hanna, Emporia senior, spent yesterday afternoon in the room typing graduate school applications. He said he used to use his roommate's typewriter but no longer had access to it.
"This is a valuable resource," he said. "I think it's worthwhile to keep them here."
Trent Traylor, a Topeka junior employed at Watson's reserve desk, said he rarely saw more than three or four students using the tving room at the same time.
The small number of people using the typewriterists is an advantage for students like Hanna because only four of the
One Swintec 8011 types quotation marks when the "o" key is typed. Another Swintec 8011 does not have ink or a cover, and a third has been covered for three days with a
The IBM Selectric is out of ink, and there aren't enough outlets in the room to plug in one of the IBM Selectric IIs.
"The bottom line is that they're not being taken care of," Sigourney said. "As much as it is Senate's responsibility, it certainly is not asking too much for the library to be a little bit more careful."
Sigourney met with library directors and discussed possible ways to monitor the typing room, such as employing a check-out system. The library directors would not implement Sigourney's plan.
Bayliss Harsh, Watson Library reserve desk supervisor, said that finding a room for the typewriters that could be strictly monitored the way Senate wanted would be nearly impossible.
Harsh said she did not know what the typing room would be used for if Senate removed the machines, but she said it would be.
"Unless we hear something else from the students, we're leaning toward pulling them out," Sigourney said. "If we find there is a need, we'll keep them somehow."