University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, December 1, 1987
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Sophomores win academic scholarships
Eighteen KU sophomores have been named Summerfield or Watkins-Berger scholars for the 1987-88 academic year.
The scholarships are awarded to outstanding KU sophomores, who will receive $500 annually for three years. They must keep a 3.5 grade point average to remain eligible.
The Summerfield scholars are John Beacon, Leneza; Brian Coffman, Topeka; Eric Hamby, Wichita; Tim Kelley, Tonganoxic; Doug Lindholm, Glenbold; Shaun Nicholson, Hays; Craig Prater, Salina; Brian Routh, Overland Park; and Christopher Rusconi, Prairie Village.
The Watkins-Berger scholars are Amy Gerstenberger, Topeka; Beth Hodges, Oskaloaos; Kelly Jones, Wichita; Lisa Redenbaugh, Augusta; Stephanie Spiker, Kansas City, Kan; Deni Stang, LaCrosse; Susan Renee Taylor, Wichita; Jennifer Ann Warner, Valley Center; and Shannon Wettstein, Lawrence.
Local radio station to be on air at night
Night owls now can have the company of Lawrence radio station KLWN-AM.
The station, which operates on the 1320 AM frequency, has received authorization from the Federal Communications Commission to extend its broadcast hours to nighttime, beginning tonight.
tongue.
Bob Newton, station manager,
said that although the station could
broadcast all night, KLWN
planned to extend its hours only
until 11 p.m. initially.
Those extra hours will allow the station to broadcast University of Kansas and Lawrence High School basketball games, election results and severe weather information.
The FCC had restricted KLWN, as it does many smaller-market stations, to prevent interference to other stations that operate at night on the same or nearby frequencies.
Newton said that the 250-watt power level that allows KLWN to have nighttime hours enables the station to reach all of Lawrence.
An overhaul of FCC regulations relating to daytime AM stations opened the door to the change. Newton said the change may allow nighttime broadcasts at 500 watts, a possibility KLWN will investigate.
Students can apply now for academies
Students interested in applying for nomination to the U.S. Military, Naval or Air Force academies and the U.S. Merchant Marines should apply by Dec. 31 to U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan.
Men and women who are at least 17 years old or who will be no older than 22 by July 1 are eligible to apply.
Applicants must submit a completed application form, SAT and/or ACT scores, a high school and/or college transcript, two letters of recommendation and a statement explaining why they want to attend an academy.
Applications are available from Statterty $^2$ Washington office. Students should contact Rebecca Banta 'Kuhn at 1440 Longworth House Office building, Washington, D.C., 20515.
Local agencies play Santa for needy
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
Staff writer
From staff and wire reports.
Santa Claus won't forget the needy families in Lawrence this Christmas. Five local agencies will see to that.
The Lawrence Holiday Bureau again is offering a program through which residents can adopt a needy family and ensure that Santa will remember them.
reminer them.
Susan Beers, director of social services at the Salvation Army, said,
"We help people at Christmas time with a little extra assistance so they can have a merrier Christmas."
Families in need of help who wish to be adopted can apply to the Salvation Army or one of four other agencies. Residents or groups who want to spread some holiday cheer can contact the agencies and through
Beers said most applications were from the working poor who could manage financially month to month but had nothing left for extras such as Christmas.
them give gifts of money, food, clothing and toys to needy families, who remain anonymous.
Pam Rothwell, administrative assistant at Ballard Community Center, 708 Elm St., told of the plight of one family of six, with four children between five and 12 years old. She said the father, who is scheduled for surgery in January, couldn't work because of a back injury. The mother also is not working. The family now is relying on welfare to pay bills and welcomes a little boost for the holidays.
A 75-year-old woman living on
social security also is typical of many applicants, Rothwell said. The $395 checks she depends on each month are more than many elderly receive, Rothwell said. The woman has no family near and will stay at home alone this Christmas.
Rothwell said people wishing to help could opt for a full adoption, which includes food or a gift certificate from a grocery store and gifts for each person in the family.
But Rothwell said people also could give just groceries or gifts, and the agency would do the rest.
She encouraged KU student groups to consider adopting.
"Anyone that would like to adopt — we'd be glad to set them up with a family," Rothwell said. "The more we receive, the more we can help."
Ballard has received application from 44 families,11 of which already have been adopted, Rothwell said.
This year's applications to the Salvation Army totaled 207 as of yesterday, Beers said, up a few from last year. She estimated that 600 to 650 families would ask for help by the Dec. 11 application deadline.
Last Christmas, the Salvation Army helped 584 families. Of those, 137 were adopted. The rest received food and gifts from the Salvation Army.
"We help everyone." she said.
"We help everyone," she said. The other three agencies involved are the Douglas County Council on Aging, 745 Vermont St., Lawrence Indian Center, 1910 Woodie Rd., and Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St.
By a Kansan reporter
Group may give rezoning plan
Help us save our neighborhood! That is the plea the Oread Neighborhood Association is expected to make tonight by the Lawrence City Commission.
Members of the association are concerned that the current zoning allows development they consider too dense for their neighborhood. They argue that salvageable old houses are being replaced by apartments, altering the residential climate of the neighborhood.
neighborhood Oread is asking that the city rezone properties in the 900 blocks of Indiana and Louisiana streets and the 900 and 1000 blocks of Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee streets, an area traditionally populated by many KU students.
The Oread neighborhood encompasses about 85 square blocks north and east of the University of Kansas.
Klassen.
Fred Sack, president of the association, said that the current zoning allowed triplexes, which he said encouraged development that was too dense for the taste of the 260 members of the Oread organization.
organization:
"It doesn't take many (such developments) to destroy the ambience," Sack said. "Take a two- or three-block walk. You can feel it."
The meeting is scheduled at 7 p.m. today at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
Hospital opens day care to ill
By a Kansan reporter
Lawrence Memorial Hospital opened its day care for sick children to the public this week.
TLC Day Care for Sick Children has been available for hospital employees since about June, said Judith Hefley, director of community relations.
Children who are suffering from illnesses that do not require them to be isolated are cared for at the center. For example, Hefley said that children who had chicken pox or the measles would not be allowed to stay. To participate in the program, parents must register their children.
Kathryn Nelick, a registered nurse in the pediatrics department, said the service was needed for working parents.
"Children get sick between six and 10 times a year. Parents usually can't take that much time off work." Nelick said. "It allows parents to go to work, and they don't have to stay home with a sick child."
Nelick said other day care centers did not allow sick children to attend because they usually were not equipped to meet state health department requirements for sick children.
The day care is open 24 hours every day of the week in the pediatrics department of the hospital. Up to 12 children, from six-week-old infants to teen-agers, can stay there.
Each child is assigned a bed, which is usually in a private room unless several day care children need to be accommodated. Then the children in the day care may share a room, Nelick said.
The cost of the service is $3 an hour and $1.50 a meal.
On the way home
Paul Kennedy, St. Louis sophomore, walks behind Hashinger Hall. Kennedy was on his way home from track practice recently.
Task force lobbies to distribute condoms
KU students may receive free condoms when they pay fees in January if the Student Senate decides to finance a plan by the Senate Task Force on AIDS.
By BRAD ADDINGTON Staff writer
Three student senators on the task force have sponsored a bill that would allocate $1,400 for the purchase of 10,080 condoms. The bill also calls for $1,500 in Senate money for informational pamphlets. Senate will consider the bill at its meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
"If they don't finance it, we'll still be doing something, but it might not have the same impact," said task force member Ruth Lichtwardt.
Lichtwardt said the task force probably would distribute the condoms and the information as part of a safe sex kit. She said the group had chosen fee payments as the time and place to distribute the material because most KU students will go through that process.
"The idea is to be very visible." Lichtward said. "We want to get the largest amount of information to the largest amount of people."
Lichtwardt gave another reason for distributing the material at that time.
Although KU students can buy condoms and obtain information on safe sex practices at Watkins Memorial Hospital, the hospital is out of the way for some students, said task force member Kathryn Anderson.
"If everybody has access to the same information, there's going to be less of a psychological barrier to accepting it." she said.
"They want the information, probably, and just don't take the initiative to get it on their own," Anderson said.
The distribution of safe sex kits and presentations to organized living groups would be the second of three stages of the task force's activities.
The task force also is looking into the possibility of giving presentations on AIDS at residence halls, fraternities and sororites.
The first stage occurred the week of Nov. 15, which Student Senate declared AIDS Awareness Week. The task force distributed informational pamphlets that week. Richard Keeling, chairman of the AIDS Task Force of the American College Health Association, also spoke at KU.
The third stage would involve the establishment of an AIDS support and counseling network on the KU campus.
As preparation for the counseling network, Lightwardt and three other task force members attended a three-day seminar on AIDS in Kansas City, Mo., in early November.
Group seeks to support teen mothers
Staff writer
By MICHAEL MERSCHF1
A psychology professor and an honors student are ready to start a support group for teen-age mothers in Lawrence, but they're lacking one important part - mothers.
accented. Ellen Unruh, Lawrence senior, and Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate professor of psychology and department chairman, began work on a support group after a conference in May in Lawrence.
McCluskey-Fawett said the group would be ready to start at the beginning of next year, if teen mothers could be reached.
Unruh, who is working with the group for her honors project, has been unable to contact
teen-age mothers directly, because privacy laws prevent schools and social agencies from releasing their names.
from growing up.
So Unruh has been going around to schools and social agencies herself, asking them to inform teen mothers about the group.
Unruh said she would like to have eight to 10 people in the group to start. So far she has a group leader and a 16-year-old mother and father with two children.
Plenty of teen mothers live in Lawrence, McCluskey-Fawcett said. About 100 girls under 18 become mothers every year in Lawrence. Nationwide, about 1 million teenagers get pregnant each year. About 600,000 of those give birth, and about 5 percent of
those give the child up for adoption.
About 300 teen mothers live in Lawrence, which McCluskey-Fawcett said amounted to more of a problem than most people thought.
"I don't think people realize that in Lawrence," she said. "They think it's a bigcity problem and doesn't happen in a nice town like this."
The group would give teen mothers a chance to share feelings about motherhood, Unruh said.
McCluskey-Fawcett said the group also would help researchers and social workers in Douglas County by telling them what teen mothers really needed.
PREPARING FOR FINALS
CRAIG K. WORLDH
Study Skills Workshop
- Time Management
* Reviewing
* Memory
- Boosting Confidence
* Test-Taking Strategies
* Concentration
Thursday, December 3
FREE! 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
300 Strong Hall
Attend one of the following:
Informational Meeting: Dec. 1 - Ellsworth Hall
6:30 p.m. Dec. 2 - Templin Hall
for more information call 864-3611
Presented by the Student Assistance Center.
Gift for the whole Family
A Holiday Tradition Begins in Lawrence with a Gift for the whole Family
Gian Carlo Menotti's
Amahl and the night visitors
Presented by The University of Kansas Theatreand The School of Fine Arts 8:00 p.m. December 18-19, 1987 2:30 p.m. December 20, 1987 Crafton-Preyer Theatre Murphy Hall
Tickets on sale at the Murphy Hall Box Office
All seats reserved for Reservations call 911 864 3824
Adults: $7.00
Children Under 12: $3.00
Senior Citizens: $6.00
PLAY in BAND Next Semester!
Symphonic Band Robert E. Foster, Conductor 3:30-5:00 M-W-R-F (Auditions December 1-4)
Concert Band Thomas Stidham, Conductor 2:30:3:20 M-W-F
University Band James Barnes, Conductor 3:30-4:20 M-W-F
Three Jazz Ensembles Ronald C. McCurdy, Director 10:30, 11:30, 1:30 M-W-F
For additional information, contact the appropriate conductor/director or the KU Band Office, 214 Murphy Hall, 864-3367