University Daily Kansan, September 21, 1982
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Survey seeks residents' ideas for improving neighborhoods
By LINDA LANG Staff Reporter
Researchers at the KU Center for Public Affairs are taking the first step toward improving the quality of life in the six low-income neighborhoods in Lawrence. They are finding out what needs to be done.
Researchers Tom Seekins and Steve Fawcett are sponsoring a survey in each of the neighborhoods that quality for funds from the Community Development Block Grant program - Oread, North Lawrence, East Lawrence, Far East Lawrence, Pinckney and Old West Lawrence.
But this survey differs from traditional surveys. It allows the residents to select the issues to be studied and to interpret the results, Seekins said recently. Residents assess the strengths and weaknesses of their neighborhoods and discuss possible changes.
CITY and county agencies that distribute funds could use the informa-
tions provided in this section.
"We won't consider this survey successful unless there are direct changes that can be attributed to the effort done as a result of it." Seekins said.
The Community Development Advisory Board recommended this spring that about $2,000 be allocated for the survey. Most of the money will be used for paper, printing and mailing costs, Seekins said.
Sue Davis, a member of the advisory board and the Oread Neighborhood Association, said members usually looked skeptically at surveys. Her group approved this one because it wanted to know whether specific proposals had the support of neighborhood residents, she said.
TERRY SUMMERS, president of the Pinckney Neighborhood Association, said his organization wanted as much information as possible about the views of neighborhood not only residents but just those who were active in the neighborhood organization.
"This survey is a way of reaching people we normally wouldn't hear
Seekins said members of the advisory board chose 10 questions to appear on each of the six neighborhood surveys.
THE QUESTIONS concern the use of Community Development Block Grant money and the opportunities for citizen participation in the allocation of the community neighborhood appearance, water drainage, rental housing and city planning.
Committees from each neighborhood choose 20 questions for their neighborhood surveys, he said. The researchers provide a list of 300 questions, but the committees can modify the questions or write new ones.
For each question, residents will rate the importance of the issue and their degree of satisfaction with the way the issue has been taken care of, he said.
Seeks印说 he hoped for a response rate of at least 40 percent. Questionnaires will be mailed to all households in the six target neighborhoods.
ONCE THE surveys have been completed, Seekins said, the center will prepare a computerized summary of the results for each neighborhood. The summary will include a list of strengths and weaknesses.
Seekins said that after the results had been summarized, he and Fawcett would meet with each of the six neighborhood groups and discuss the results and possible alternatives to problems.
SEEKINS SAID that the method could be valuable in determining what services to retain and what services to cut back when federal aid is cut.
The researchers have been developing this method of gathering information.
"We are trying to build the survey as easy to use as possible," he said.
The executive secretary to the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Reduction Task (START) in Geneva, State University be at the University of Kansas Sept. 7.
START delegate to talk at KU
Donald Tice, who was named to the delegation in December 1961, will lecture on the American effort to decrease the possibility of nuclear war and perhaps decreasing the large number of weapons and Soviet strategic weapon seams.
Tice, who received a bachelor's degree in journalism from KU in 1984, will lecture at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 in the Big Apple Library. Tice's lecture is free and open to the public.
Clifford Ketzel, KU professor of political science, said recently that the topic of the lecture was important, and that he represented the "future of the world."
"The talks are one of the alternatives to the arms race. They are a consequence of the war."
"It's not every day that one of our alumni who has spent over, 20 years in the foreign service comes back to talk to us."
Tice, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, has specialized in communist affairs. He has served tours of duty in Yugoslavia, Belgium, Canada and Bulgaria. He was executive assistant to Philip Habib, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, from 1777 to 1979.
Before being named to the START delegation, he served for 2/1/2 years as an inspector in the office of the director general of the Department of State.
Tice, who was born in Summerfield,
will talk to a political science class
during his trip to KU and will lunch
with faculty members interested in
them. Later that afternoon he will
meet members of political science
and journalism faculty.
Tice will speak on Sept. 28 to the Council of International Relations in Kansas City, Mo., before returning to Washington.
Watson Library celebration planned
The renovation of Watson Library is complete and plans were announced last week to celebrate with readings, music and a carrie Watson look-alike contest.
"I think people had a really rotten time with the renovation, and now they should have a good time," said Carol Chittendon, reference librarian and an organizer of the rededication scheduled to begin a week from today.
The look-alike contest, which will be at 2:45 p.m., Sept. 29, in front of the library, students will try to imitate Watson by quieting or shushing the crowd watching the contest, Chittenden said.
CHITTENDEN described Carrie Watson, KL librarian from 1887 to 1921, as a tenacious woman who insisted on quiet in the library reading rooms.
"If the crowd below doesn't quiet down, we will know that the contestant doesn't have what it takes to win," she said.
THE CONTEST will be open to men and women, she said. All contestants required to wear Watson's trademark necklace or imitation pearl necklace.
A croquet tournament for students
staff will begin at 2 p.m. on
the day of the event.
She said the winners of the look-alike contest and the croquet match would be selected by a blind judge.
ON SEPT. 28, 1 one to six inmates of the state orison at Lansing will tour the library. Chittenden said she wanted the inmates who refinished 2,000 pieces of furniture for the library to get recognition.
Robert Vosper, director of libraries from 1952 to 1961, will cut a ribbon at 2 p.m., Oct. 1, in front of the library.
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