Friday, October 24, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
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Local food drive makes provision to fill cupboards
By Gwen Olson
By Gwen Olson
golson@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A crisis has hit Lawrence service agencies: Their food cupboards are bare, and some agencies say it is the worst food shortage they have seen in 20 years.
The Center for Community Outreach is sponsoring "Make a Difference Day," a city-wide food drive to help restock food pantries at Lawrence service agencies.
"There is an overwhelming need for this," said Jamie Najim, Wichita senior and co-director of the center. "If we can't feed people right now, how are the food pantries supposed to feed people over the holidays?"
Donations of non-perishable food can be dropped tomorrow at all Lawrence Dillon's stores; Checkers Foods, 2300 Louisiana St.; Hy-Hee Food and Drug, 4504 Clinton Parkway; and at the Kansas-Nebraska football game outside Memorial Stadium.
The center also will collect food at the KU shuttle stops in the parking lots at Robinson Center, Murphy Hall and the Burge Union.
The donated food will be delivered tomorrow night to the Ballard Community Center Inc., 708 Elm St.; Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St.; the Salvation Army Church, 946 New Hampshire St.; Pelathe Indian Center, 1423 Haskell Ave.; and ECKAN Community Action Agency, 1600 Haskell Ave.
Najim said she still needed more volunteers to staff the collection locations and deliver food to the agencies.
Linda Lassen, Penn House director, said the shortage of food was coming at a time when more people needed help.
"This is the lowest the Penn House has been since '74," she said. "The need has increased, too. In two weeks, we have helped 22 families and we usually only help 30 or so families each month."
Lassen said she hoped the food drive would give the Penn House nore to offer those in need.
“It’s hard to tell somebody that we can just give them green beans when they’re hungry,” she said. “A man of vegetables is not a meal.”
Christine Pelton, Ottawa University student and intern at the Ballard Community Center, said the food drive could help a great deal.
Food drop-off locations
All Lawrence Dillon's Stores
Hy-Vee Food and Drug, 3504
Clinton Parkway
Checkers Foods, 2300 Louisian
 Memorial Stadium before the
Kansas-Nebraska football game
 Parking lots at Robinson Center,
Murphy Hall and the Burge Union
 Donations can be dropped off
 until 7 p.m. Saturday.
To volunteer for the food drive, contact Jamie Najim at the Center for Community Outreach, 400 Kansas Union, 864-4073.
"About a week or two ago we were really low on food," she said. "Usually near the end of the month there are more people needing food."
Although "Make a Difference Day" will benefit Lawrence food pantries, there are other activities happening across the country.
This is the first time the Center for Community Outreach has been involved in "Make a Difference Day," but it is the seventh year of the event. It is a national day of service that is sponsored by "USA Weekend" magazine and the Points of Light Foundation.
Najim said that after the drive was finished, she would fill out an evaluation explaining how successful the drive was and return it to the Points of Light Foundation.
The foundation is an organization that recognizes volunteers and helps create volunteer opportunities on a national level.
The foundation will award a $2,000 prize to each of the top 75 participants in "Make a Difference Day."
"There is a potential, if this is as successful as I think it will be, that that money can come back to Lawrence and we can further the progress to help this situation," Nalim said.
To volunteer for "Make a Difference Day," contact the Center for Community Outreach at 400 Kansas Union or at 864-4073.
All they can be
Members of the KU, Baker and Washburn Army ROTC battalions learn how to repel down the Haskel football stadium. The three schools often group together to practice exercises, and refine skills. Photo by Eric B. Howell/KANSAN
Printer takes students' privacy to press
By Tim Harrington tharrington@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The enrollment center wants to protect your privacy.
That's why Wednesday the center stationed an employee to hand out students' class schedules after enrolling instead of forcing students to rifle through a stack of schedules.
A new laser printer replaced the track-fed printer at the enrollment center this semester and began shooting out individual student schedules faster than the old
printer ever could.
That's good.
What's not good is that the new printer didn't require the experienced touch of a registrar employee to tear the schedules apart and pass them out. This forced students to pick up the schedules from the printer tray and put the enrollment center in violation of the Family Educational Right to Privacy Act of 1974.
Any student could then learn the class schedule,student identification number,financial information,phone number and address of other students.
Art Yudelson, Los Angeles senior, was one of the students who brought the potential problem to the attention of the Registrar's office.
"The concern had to do with two things mainly," Yudelson said. "One was stalking and privacy issues. The other was that, God forbid if anything should happen, it would leave the University open to a lawsuit."
Morrall said that the problem had been corrected by Wednesday.
The cost of having an employee staff the printer is about $1,500 per semester.
Federal money makes school focus of research in education
Special education gets $1 million grant
By Mike Perryman Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Department of Special Education and the Center for Research on Learning have received a $1 million federal grant to increase the availability of new research to teachers of young students with disabilities.
The departments will establish an academy of expert researchers and educators from around the nation who will begin working Dec. 1 to gather research, translate it into a usable form for teaching and put it on a World Wide Web site.
"We will be using a different approach," said Edward Meyen, principal investigator for the project and professor of special education. "In the past, we had to translate and publish research in journals, which took some time. What we'll be doing here is translating the work and distributing it immediately to instructors over the Internet."
The focus of the project is to design short courses that teachers can find online and use in the classroom. The site will include areas with information about positive behavioral support, technology and reading and learning disabilities, Meyen said.
"Teachers can look these courses up on the Internet and use them as an instructional model," he said.
The area of positive behavioral support will include electronic instruction on techniques that are designed to enhance performance socially and academically for elementary students with and without disabilities.
Bringing together special and general education strategies and presenting them on the Internet for any teacher to use should be a positive thing, said Wayne Sailor, coordinator for the project's positive behavioral support component.
The grant is renewable for up to three years and $3 million.
"This is not just another large grant awarded to several institutions," Sailor said. "The University has been singled out and it will receive tremendous visibility across the country," he said.
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