University Daily Kansan, September 2, 1982
Page 3
System cleans up files
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
Boxes stacked on top of boxes stacked on top of filing cabinets. From wall to wall, floor to ceiling, alms its rooms away from other uses.
Before the Kansas University Endowment Association purchased their microfilming system last year this was their situation, George Stewart, the Endowment Association controller, said yesterday.
Stewart said the Endowment Association had started filming its oldest documents first and had managed to film enough documents to clear two rooms. There were still documents from as far back as 1929 that had not been filmed though, he said.
The documents range from inter- office memos to records of contributions.
"We were going to have to rent more space to store our records in," he said.
The microfilm system not only saved space for the Endowment Association, it saved time as well, he said.
"Before we had the system, you
had to go to the storage room and
had that the boxes were marked
correctly." Stewart said. "Then you
had to take the box out and search
through its contents. A box might
have weighed as much as 10 pounds
or more. It could be in back row
of boxes, it would take up
an hour to find a document."
"If we weren't microfilming we would have run out of room," she said. "The volume of paper that comes through here is just tremendous. We don't throw anything away."
Nancy Burerman, file clerk, said she still had to go through the files and boxes every day because the most recent, and most frequently needed documents, had not been microfilmed yet.
Stewart said saving even a little time on each document was fairly important because they had to look up several hundred each week. The average time it took to find a document from files or boxes was a little longer than he said with microfilm the time we would drop about two minutes.
The system cost $35,000, and had been able to do everything the Endowment Association thought it would, he said.
On the record
THEVES STOLE $340 worth of goods and a 1976 Balm valued at $3,400 from a residence in the 1700 block of West 24th St, between 8:30 a.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday, police said yesterday.
THEVES STOLE a 1960 Pontcaster worth $7,000 between midnight and 7:50 a.m. Tuesday from a residence in the 2400 block of Missouri St., police said.
A RING WORTH $900 was stolen between 10:15 a.m. Sunday and 8 a.m.
Tuesday from a room in McCollum Hall, KU police said.
A CALCULATOR worth $250 and a math module worth $30 was stolen from a student's backpack between 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday in Learned Hall.
KU POLICE have several more leads in the investigation of bicycle thefts on campus, Captain John Courtney said that help from students had recently been observed something suspicious was bringing the investigation to a close.
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Child providers help student parents Sitters don't kid around with child care
By LINDA LANG Staff Reporter
Student parents seeking reliable babysitters may find minimum guarantees through state registering and licensing laws for child providers.
Personnel from county and state agencies use the term child providers to refer to people they work with who care for children.
Child providers must be licensed or registered with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment if they provide more than 20 hours of child care a week, said Diane Pope, one of the nurses at the county office who administer the registration and licensing program in the county.
registered child providers in Douglas County and 47 licensed child providers, according to the records of the Douglas County Health Department
Although the licensing or registration of child providers is required by state law, there are many child providers in the country whose other license not registered, she said.
"There are many informal arrangements between parents and neighbors or friends for child care that are satisfactory for both sides," she said.
"WE DON'T do that until we've called the child provider and informed them of the law. Basically, we want to help," she said.
But if a student parent seeking child care wanted to know whether a particular babysitter was licensed or registered, that parent could call the health department to check, she said. The health department could follow up
She cautioned that the licensing and registration of child providers should not replace parental caution or communication with the provider.
"We are ensuring that the person you are taking your children to fulfills the minimal safety and health standards at the time the registration form was sent in or at the time the nurse visited the child, so that you are important for the parent to visit the child-care setting and check out the person who will give the care."
and give the information to the county attorney to be investigated, she said.
A registered child provider has filled out an application that includes a self-monitored safety and health check and an immunization history of the child the provider is caring for. Pope said. To be registered, a child provider may take care of no more than six children at any one time, including the provider's own children under 16 years of age. Pope said.
The home of a licensed child provider has been checked by a nurse from the health department for safety and health conditions.
A licensed provider may take care of no more than 10 children at any one time. Pope said. No more than six at a time should be under school age. If the provider has 10 children, only one of them may be under the age of 18 months, including any of the provider's own children.
The first visit by health department personnel is announced, but all visits
after that, including visits for relic-
ing, are unannounced.
Among other things, the nurse checks the location of medication and poisons. The nurse also checks to see whether there are covers for electrical outlets and guards for stairways. The child provider must give an up-to-date list of immunizations, a record of a physician's examination for children under school age and a list of one week's menus, she said.
THE HEALTH department also provides a monthly meeting for people interested in becoming child providers, Pope said. The meeting includes information about a federally funded food program sponsored by the Douglas County Food Program and is associated with the Sunshine Acres Montessori Preschool and Child Care Center.
The program is funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture and administered through the state Department of Education. Child providers who participate in the program are provided with meals. They ensure that they are providing nutritional meals. About 55 of area child participants participate in the program.
About half of the registered and licensed child providers in the area participate in a federally funded food program that may save the student parent money, regardless of the student parent's income.
Rita Parrish, who administers the food program for the Douglas County Child Development Association, said, "I was a little surprised that parents can be assured that children are receiving nutritiously balanced meals and snacks."
By receiving regular reimbursement, child providers can keep their children and parents on the savings account.
At one time, parents with children in the program had to meet the same financial requirement as parents with children in school hot lunch programs, Parrish said. The rule was changed because many parents protested that their child had access to information about their incomes through the program.
Parrish holds training workshops for child providers who participate in the program, she said. Some are open to them; others are held privately in her home.
Parrish visits the homes of participating child providers in her program three times a year. Two of these visits must take place during a meal.
Breakfast must include a fruit or vegetable, cereal or bread and liquid milk, Parrish said. Lunch must include these food groups and an additional meat or meat substitute. Snacks must include two of the four food groups.
Providers are reimbursed 50.25 cents for breakfast, 98.5 cents for lunch or supper and 29.5 cents for snacks per child per meal, she said.
"WE WANT to keep it as informal as we can," she said. "We want the participants to have a support group of people who are interested in them, they can ask someone in the group."
During visits to the home, Parrish also checks for sanitation conditions in the home, as well as the way foods are prepared, she said.
An additional benefit of the program is a toy- and book-lending library funded by a federal grant several years ago, Parrish said.
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City Prosecutor Mike Glover and his staff are now digging a proposal of some local residents and the Lawrence Tavern Owners Association which would, according to the University Daily Kansan "force K.U. fraternities to buy $100 temporary alcohol permits and to obtain the signatures from nearby homeowners." This proactive hold would obtain the respective fraematuries "responsible for policing grounds, controlling noise, providing proper sanitation, and insuring that all party-goers were at least 18 years old."
Many townpeople are astonished to find the Lawrence Tavern Owners Association supporting a call for restraint and consideration as for years the tumult occasioned by the operation of the building. The owners have been demanding that 1340 Ohio Street has driven residents—both tenants and homeowners—from the surrounding neighborhood. Some of the more uninhibited patrons of these monuments to anarchy park their cars on private property, contribute in stereotyped ways to the city's efforts to maintain on private property to both intimate and effect property damage.
An article in the August 18th issue of Newsweek discusses the increasingly sympathetic response of our courts to the idea that businesses should "exercise reasonable care" in protecting customers from harm the owners could anticipate. "I can't it 'reasonable' to expect that the same courtesy be extended to those persons who live near a disruptive enterprise?
SHOULD JAYHAWK JAMBOREES HAVE VICTIMS?
Because neither "the Wheel" nor "the Hawk" has adequate parking facilities the police, whose time could be better spent elsewhere, pass many hours dealing with problems that result from the failure of these two taverns to hire enough supervisory personnel, thereby giving驾学员 experience about the university, gross displays of irresponsibility and hooliganism occur scant yards from his doorstep.
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, says: "We just want everybody to play by the same rules." There are many long-suffering residents who hope that Missra. With her will permit this avowed respect for conformity to find practical expression.
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