University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 3, 1987
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Commissioner returns to work after operation
Douglas County Commissioner David Hopper returned yesterday to his office in the county courthouse after a three-week absence and said that it was good to be back.
Hopper had surgery Aug. 13 to remove a malignant tumor from his right lung. He was released on June 20. Mission Medical Center in Meridian.
"The biopsy showed that the lung was clear," Hopper said. "It was great news."
He said that papers had piled up on his desk a little while he was gone but that he had them under control.
"I'm going back to work full time to become 100 percent involved," he said.
All women who did not participate in fall sorority rush are invited to sign up for open rush, a process in which KU sorority houses that did not pledge 80 women can select more members.
Sororities announce fall open rush for KU
Shannon Parker, membership chairman for Panhellenic, said nine of KU's 14 sororities were eligible to select more members. The houses are not required to meet the quota, she said.
Those interested should call the Panhelenic office at 864-4643. The names of women who participated in fall rush and did not pledge already have been forwarded to the houses for consideration.
Language, social workshops offered
The Student Assistance Center is offering two workshops for students.
"Learning a Foreign Language," a study skills workshop, will be presented for the final time this semester from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday in room 300 of Strong Hall.
A program teaching social skills, "Dealing with that Uneasy Feeling," will be from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., 10 in room 100 of Smith Hall.
Company sponsors $10.000 contest
Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc., is sponsoring "The Corporate Challenge" essay contest with a first prize of $10,000.
Contestants will respond in 5,000 words or less to realistic problems faced by a fictional company in a case study.
Contestants must be undergraduate or graduate students at accredited U.S. universities and may enter individual or in groups.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, the cost of an AIDS test at the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department was reported incorrectly in yesterday's Kansas. The test is given free.
Because of a reporter's error, the location of the new Dickinson Plaza Shopping Center and Theatre was reported incorrectly in yesterday's Kansan. The shopping center is at 2329 Iowa St., and the theater is at 2339 Iowa St.
From staff and wire reports
The Associated Press
Senate passes altered highway bill
TOPEKA - After $ _{1/2} $ days of experimentation with several amendments, the Senate passed yesterday and sent to the House a highway improvement bill greatly
scaled down from what Gov. Mike Hayden wanted but close to what legislators think taxpayers can afford.
The plan, which will form the basis of the Senate's negotiating position in bargaining with the House during
this special session of the Legislature, would cost $934 million and would be financed entirely by increases in motor fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees.
It contained no sales tax increase and no honds_would be issued.
Senate passage came on a vote of 22-15, with at least 21 votes required in the 40-member Senate to approve a bill. It had just 18 votes on the first roll call, but four state senators switched and voted for Senate invoked a parliamentary maneuver to force all senators to vote.
The bill went to the House, where the Transportation Committee immediately began amending the
measure to conform to decisions it had made on what it wanted in a highway program.
The Senate avoided a sales tax increase to fund its program, while the House committee had recommended a half-cent sales tax increase be made a part of the funding package, which would be subject to a vote of the people at next August's primary election. The House panel wanted a $1.33 billion program.
Speaker Jim Braden said the House probably had "three times as many amendments" to be offered during debate, which he would begin today. It could last into tomorrow, but Braden said he hoped it
would be completed in one day.
The Senate is certain to reject House amendments, sending the bill to a six-member conference committee to try to work out a final version that can gain 21 votes in the Senate and 63 votes in the 125-member House.
The four state senators who changed their votes to pass the Senate measure with one vote to spare are: Gus Bogina, R-Lenexa; Tom McCauley, R-Topeka; Aileigh Salisbury, R-Topteca; and Joe Warren, D-Maple City.
During floor debate, an amendment incorporating the second plan State Sen. Robert Talkington, R-Iola, bad offered during the special session was adopted 19-18.
However, on final roll call, the vote was 18-19 until the four switches, which passed the bill, 22-15.
Talkington's proposal, unveiled before the Senate Republican caucus yesterday morning, would spend $934 million over the next 10 years, of which $288 million would be for new congressional members, including a new road from Wichita into the southeast corner of the state.
Talkington said he offered the $934 million program as a compromise. He conceded it wouldn't build all the roads people wanted, but said it was a start and the best he thought possible in this special session.
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
Sprucing up
Harvey Boyd, KU facilities operations employee, paints the word other painters who were working yesterday on the field said they would be "Jayhaws" in the north end zone of Memorial Stadium. Boyd and three painting for the rest of the week.
Helpers give labor of love at centers
Staff writer
By BRIAN BARESCH
In the basement of the Community Children's Center, 925 Vermont St., two Head First preschool teachers to 5-year-olds more or less in order.
Six of the children are absent. The cheerful, hurrying supervisors will be scurrying even more when they all show up.
Down the street at the Lawrence Senior Center, 745 Vermont St., the weekly afternoon dance is going on upstairs, while several men and women downstairs work on crafts and class life with the center's helpers.
Both centers get their money from the government, so they need volunteer help. Head Start volunteers spend two hours a week helping children learn self esteem and social skills through program programs in the senior center help older people with crafts, activities and just plain conversation.
for 21 years. The federally-funded program supervises and provides free medical exams to children who come from families below the legal poverty limit.
Yesterday was the preschoolers' first day this fall, and teachers Stacy Morrison and John Clawson had their hands full by late afternoon, even though not all the children had showed up.
Morrison, in her third year with Head Start, kept grinning, even when some of the children spilled their orange juice at snack time. Clawson, too, was having almost as much fun as the children themselves, who scurried around the room laughing and playing.
and just plain cancun
Head Start has been in Lawrence
Volunteers don't need a lot of experience, Clawson said. They just help the kids work on shape, color and number recognition.
The program needs at least eight volunteers a day, five days a week, said director Charline Freitag.
"Last year we had 50, so that was 10 a day, and that was great," she
said.
Frettag said volunteers were needed to improve the student-teacher ratio, now about 10-to-one. The class size is limited to 20 children at a time, and a waiting list ensures that the class stays full.
When children see the volunteers, it helps them develop self-esteem, one of the program's goals. Freytag gives the volunteers themselves a lot of out of it.
"They get a thrill out of the kids throwing their arms around them. 'Mikey's here today!' They get a great reward out of that." Freitag said.
"We have T-shirts that we wear that say 'Head Start: a labor of love,' and that's what it is."
Volunteers at the senior center also get that kind of reward. Shirley DeLano, fiscal manager of the center, said volunteers drove the Bus 62—the vehicle that brings clients to the center. Volunteers also deliver meals to people in their homes and help at the center in the Adult Day
Although the program gets some KU students whose courses require volunteer work, the center needs more. she said.
Cathi Bollin, Leavenworth senior, was a volunteer for a year at the center before she got a paying job there. Aside from having a great time, she said, the experience is important for her course work in therapeutic recreation.
Phone book listings lead to junk mail
Staff writer
By JORN E. KAALSTAD
Friday was the last chance for students and faculty to withhold their names from the KU telephone directory. When the directory comes out in a month, those listed could soon find their mailboxes brimming with junk mail.
Students are a targeted consumer group whose records are readily available for anyone to examine.
Gary Thompson, director of student records and registration, said the University of Kansas could release information about a student such as name, address, level and school, age, participation in activities, major field of study and degrees and awards received.
Students who want that information kept confidential must notify the office of student records and request records be withheld. Thompson sale.
"We know that confidentiality is a sensitive issue to students," he said.
Students' right to withhold information was instituted by the federal Family Educational Rights and Privileges Act, commonly called the Buckle Amendment.
But Thompson said it was his office's policy not to give out student records to mailing companies or other profit-oriented businesses.
"They can find that in the campus directory," he said.
But Russell Johnston, president of ACS Direct Mail Services of Hutchinson, said student telephone directories alone did not contain sufficient information to reach the desired student consumers.
Directories don't list information such as household income, sex and especially age, which is an important factor in pigeonhooning markets, he
Johnston said mailing lists aimed towards students had been cross-compiled from many different sources.
But they might as well leave off Farhad Sanadizadeh, Marlow, England, junior.
"I never pay attention to junk mail," he said. "But I always check if there might be personal letters stuck between the junk before I throw it away."
Thomas Olson, president of Enteret,
169 Massachusetts St., said mailing lists with 1,000 names cost from
$30 to $500, depending on the amount
and the exclusivity of information
they contained.
A $500 list could, for example, specify eye and hair color, personal income and other unique data, he said.
"The more qualified a list is, the more it costs," he said.
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Applications can be picked up at the Organization and Activities Office in the Burge Union.
Applications must be submitted by 5:00 to the Organization and Activities Office,
Tuesday, September 8.
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