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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday November 16,1987 Vol.98,No.61
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
High union vote count expected
By NOEL GERDES
Both supporters and opponents of a faculty union predict high voter turnout at this week's election.
Tomorrow and Wednesday, faculty and staff members will vote whether to form a union, and, if so, whether they want to be represented by the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors or the KU chapter of the National Education Association.
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About 1,010 faculty and staff members are eligible to vote, and spokesmen from K-NEA and KU Independent Faculty expect about 700 to go to the polls.
In union elections on other campuses, typically 85 to 90 percent of eligible faculty members turned out for the election. Hohn, spokesman for KU-AAUP.
If none of the three options receives a majority of the votes cast, then a run-election between the two top vote-getters will be scheduled.
Officials from the NEA and the
FACULTY UNIONS
Editor's note: This is the last in a three-part series on this week's faculty union vote.
Today: What KU-NEA, KU-AAUP and KU Independent Faculty want faculty to know, and where to vote.
AAUP were on campus over the boost support for their KLaffallites.
Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of NEA, spoke on campus Friday. Also on campus was Mark Blum, associate secretary of the AAPU, who has been contacting faculty members individually.
Poll will be open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in
3012 Haworth, 208 Strong and 118
director of the Kansas Public Employee Relations Board, will supervise the election.
Paul K. Dickhoff Jr., executive
If none of the three options receives a majority of the votes cast, then a run-off election between the two top vote-getters will be scheduled.
Voting will be by secret ballot. Faculty and staff members must present a driver's license or other positive identification to vote.
Faculty and staff who are assigned to offices in Summerfield Hall, Haworth Hall, Malott Hall, Murphy Hall, Robinson Gymnasium, Moore Hall, Watkins Memorial Hospital and West Campus buildings should go to 3012 Haworth.
Library, Twente Hall, Blake Hall, Lippincott Hall, the museums, Smith Hall, Wescoe Hall, Stauffer-Flint Hall, Strong Hall, Spencer Research Library, Spooner Hall and Snow Hall should go to 208 Strong.
Faculty and staff who are assigned to offices in Lindley Hall, Learned Hall, the Art and Design building, Marvin Hall and Bailey Hall should go to 118 Lindley.
Faculty and staff members eligible to vote are professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, curators and scientists with at least half-time appointments.
Those who are not eligible to vote are people with titles that include the words chancellor, dean, director, general counsel, department chairman, department head or student health physician. Graduate teaching assistants and law school employees are not eligible to vote.
Faculty and staff who are assigned to offices in Fraser Hall, Watson
A little night music
Shaun Lang, Lawrence sophomore, puts in some late night practice on weeks, said he played there two or three nights a week because the Wescow Beach, Lang, who has been playing the saxophone about seven acoustics were good and the music did not bother anyone.
Engineering prof wins HOPE award
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
Staff writer
Green, Conger-Gabel Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, received the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award during halftime ceremonies of the University of Kansas-Oklahoma State University football game Saturday.
Don Green says going to class prepared, having respect for students and a sense of humor is the key to success in the 1987 HOPE award this weekend.
The HOPE award has been presented annually to a KU faculty member by KU's senior class since 1959.
Green has been a finalist for the award seven times, but this is his first time as coach.
"I certainly was surprised to really win," he said.
"I guess I wouldn't be human if I didn't feel good about being in there," she said.
"I've never been down because I didn't win, because it really is very nice to be nominated." he said.
Green said that respecting students and wanting them to succeed was an important element of teaching.
"I don't mean to just act like it, but be interested in them, which I think I am. I want them to do well," he said. "I don't need feel well."
"I really do feel like students are our junior colleagues," he said.
"That's pretty rewarding if you see a person struggling and you can help them improve," he said.
"I think by the end of the semester people really feel, I hope, that they've learned the material," he said.
Green, who has taught at KU for 23 years, said that teaching similar material for several semesters didn't bother him because he varied the homework problems.
"The personality of the classes are different," he said
Green, a native of Tulsa, Okla, has many achievements and awards since joining the KU faculty in 1964.
"I haven't come to the point where I've been bored with it at all. That's why I feel I can convey this enthusiasm," he said.
He is co-director of the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project at KU.
He also was co-editor of the sixth edition of Perry's Chemical Engineer's Handbook, a professional guide for chemical engineers.
Last semester, Green received an Outstanding Educator Award from KU's Mortar Board chapter, and received the School of Engineering's Gould Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1974, 1977 and 1981.
In 1983, Green received a National Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He received the Standard Oil (ind.) Foundation Inc. Distinguished Teaching award in 1967.
Green received a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa and master's and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
Du Pont gives talk
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Presidential hopeful visits Missouri
By BEN JOHNSTON
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At a campaign stop here Friday, Republican presidential candidate Pete du Pont said he was the only Republican candidate who had made dramatic proposals that could help many Americans.
Speaking to about 150 people at a $250-a-plate fund raiser and a news conference at the Allis Plaza Hotel, du Pont said he was the only Republican candidate who proposed mandatory drug testing for high school students in earning subsidies to farmers and public education and Social Security.
"Ualike the other Republicans, our campaign has been specific about where we want to go and how we want to get there," he said.
Du Pont, who was governor of Delaware from 1977 to 1985, said he thought high school and college students wanted to get Social Security benefits when they retired. He said that he had been to high schools and had asked students whether they thought they would receive social
Pete du Pont
security benefits and that most students told him they thought they would not.
"If I asked the same question on a
See DU PONT, p. 6, col. 1
Bill would extend hours at Watson during finals
By BRAD ADDINGTON
Staff writer
Watson Library hours could be extended during final exams with the assistance of Student Senate financing, Mary Hawkins, assistant dean of libraries, said yesterday.
However, Watson would be more like a study hall than a library during the extended hours. Materials could not be checked out, and services such as the library's on-line catalog would not be available past the library's normal closing time, Hawkins said.
'Any branch library which is more suitable than Watson should be considered.'
Mary Hawkins assistant dean of libraries
Hawkins met Thursday with a library subcommittee of the Senate University Affairs Committee to discuss the possibility of extending the library's hours.
Flannigan said about $800 would be needed for extra library staffing if, beginning a week before finals, the library remained open until midnight, on Friday and until midnight, Friday, and Saturday.
Mark Flannagan, subcommittee chairman and Nunemaker senator, said he planned to introduce legislation calling for Senate financing for extended library hours.
Hawkins said that although Watson's immense size could accommodate many students, it could also make staff supervision difficult.
could approve a bill to finance extended library hours, because the deadline for considering legislation for this Wednesday's meeting already passed.
But Flannagan said library hours could not be extended until the middle of the week on Monday.
Hawkins said that perhaps students could use other KU campus libraries for late-night studying. She said the engineering library in Learned Hall was closer to Daisy Hill residence halls. And she said the engineering library's smaller size would facilitate staff supervision of students.
"When Watson Library was remodeled, one of the objectives was to make the interior space more open. For that reason, it would be possible off any area for studying." Hawkins said.
The library was remodeled in 1982.
Watson Library is open from 7:30 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday, from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 a.m. and from noon to noon Sunday.
"Any branch library which is more suit- ed than Watson should be considered," Hawking said.
Although some KU students would like to see the library's hours extended, Watson Library already is open longer than the libraries of many other Regents universities.
As for permanently extending library hours next semester, Hawkins said, "We'll certainly consider whatever hours we might be asked to extend, but funding will be a major consideration for us."
Students seek low-cost child care
By JULIE McMAHON
Staff writer
Suzanne Vazquez, Lawrence graduate student, has a problem common to other KU students with small children — a lack of affordable child care.
Vazquez is taking one credit hour of thesis and teaching applied English this semester. While she is teaching, she has to leave her 12-week-old son, Tyler John, with friends because most child care centers don't take children younger than six months.
"Even if something is available, it's so outrageously expensive I can't afford it," Vazquez said recently.
Monday Morning
Lawrence has 17 child care centers. To be categorized as a center, the operators must have a license for more than 13 children. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment recommends regulations, which are then reviewed by the state attorney general and voted on by the Legislature. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment enforces the regulations through the counties, which make visits to the centers.
Of the 17 child care centers in Lawrence, only Kinder-Care and the Children's Learning Center care for infants. The Infant Day Care Center also takes care of infants, but it is not yet licensed. The two licensed centers have only 18 spots for infants.
Few places for infants
Peggy Scully, a child-care licensing charge nurse for Douglas County, said it was difficult to find child care for infants and toddlers in Lawrence because the state had high
staff to-child ratio requirements to take care of them.
"There aren't many centers that care for infants in Lawrence," she said. "Toddlers have more slots, but for a community this size, it's not very many."
Scully said child care was expensive. For someone with two or three children, it could be $500 to $700 a month, and it probably would only get worse, she said.
"There is demand for fees to be even higher than they are if staff members are to be adequately reimbursed." she said.
Scully said that most staff at centers received minimum wage.
Chrline Freeling, director of Children's Community Center, said space was not a possibility.
"There are probably enough slots if you count all the for-profit centers, but poor folk can't afford them," she said. "We have a waiting list."
Deb Pentecost, who owns and operates the Child Care Coordinating Service, said Lawrence had a definite shortage of infant slots compared to other cities but was comparable to available day care for children 18 months old and older.
Child care rates vary
Lawrence has about 1,040 licensed child care spots.
The Child Care Coordinating Service is a licensed referral agency that helps parents find child care for a fee. Pentecost said that parents told her the age of the child and the days and hours that they needed child care. She then gives the parents a list of centers or homes that have openings. She also has a list of nammies for those who would rather have in-home care.
The Head Start Center has half-day child care for low-income and other families. Head Start charges $8.80 for a half day. The center offers an on-site school with a sliding pay scale based on family incomes.
Some child care centers are non-profit, such as Children's Community Center and Rainbow Child Development Center.
Most centers in Lawrence are non-profit. Non-profit centers are financed by parents' fees, federal money, and Social Rehabilitation Services or the Douglas County Child Care Association. Some centers are financed by all four.
Other centers, such as Kinder-Care Learning Center and La Petite, are chains that are run for profit and are more expensive than non-profit centers. Fees for a toddler at the centers range from about $10 to $16 for a full day. The non-profit centers are on the lower end of the price range, with the dollar higher for young children and infants and lower for pre-school age children.
Babvsitting cooperatives
Children can also be cared for in registered day care homes, licensed day care homes and licensed group day care homes.
Registered day care homes allow a maximum of six children, licensed day care homes allow a maximum of 10, and licensed group day care homes allow a maximum of 6.
Pentecost said KU students who came to her tended to want the less-expensive day care of non-profit centers, although available infant care narrowed the choices. She said that when parents were unable to find child care, they considered babysitting coopera-
See CARE, p. 6, col. 2