Tuesday, November 17, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Regents road trip
Regents will meet at community college
By Jason Pearce Kanson staff writer
In a move concurrent with higher education governance trends across the state, the Board of Regents will meet for the first time on the campus of a community college.
at Seward County
Regents members and university officials will gather tomorrow and Thursday
Nevada County Community College in Liberal to conduct its November meeting.
Seward Presid
dent James Grote extended the invitation as an opportunity for the Regents to gain a sense of the community college as an institution.
"We look forward to having the Board and the university representatives visit Liberal and meet on our campus," he said.
Kim Wilcox, interim director of academic affairs for the Regents, said community college officials would be on hand for the meeting.
"This is an attempt to improve communication among state universities and community colleges in the state." Wilcox said.
He said Regents and community college officials would meet informally to discuss
One of these matters, a state task force designed by Gov. Bill Graves, is working to plan better and coordinate among the different sectors of higher education in the state.
common issues.
"The Governor's task force is attempting to improve communication among all the groups," Wilcox said. "And this is just another step."
The task force is looking into developing two new bureaucracies to coordinate and plan in areas that are overlooked now by the state. It should make a recommendation to the Legislature and Graves in January.
Wilcox said the main topics of discussion at the Regents meeting would include reports on a Vision 2020 planning effort and a proposed intellectual property rights policy.
He said Vision 2020 was a statewide plan at Regents' institutions to improve areas such as advising and administration.
Bob Basow, associate professor of journalism, said the intellectual property policy probably would be adopted by the Regents at the meeting.
Basow said the proposal, which gives faculty and students more rights to their university-related work, was flexible because it allowed individual campuses to modify the plan according to local needs.
Lawrence bike study rolls along
Moon-Bak Lee, Seoul, South Korea, graduate student, rides to class. Lee rides to class everyday. Photo by jlef Sevirin/KANSAN
By Chris Fickett
Kansan staff writer
Bicycle compatibility data to be presented
The first of four monthly meetings regarding a study of the compatibility of bicycles and automobiles in Lawrence will be at 6 tonight at the South Park Recreation Center.
This fall, the Lawrence Bicycle Advisory Committee recommended that 11 Lawrence streets be evaluated by TranSystems Corporation of Kansas City, Mo.
TranSystems has collected data about each street in order to determine whether bike lanes, bike route signs or another way of marking streets would be appropriate.
TranSystems will present its findings at tonight's meeting at the recreation center, 1141 Massachusetts St.
A representative from TranSystems will take comments from the public until 8 p.m.
Aaron Bartlett, city transportation planner, said that TranSystems was compiling a
bicycle/automobile compatibility index for each of the 11 streets and that the index was a new tool that had been used by other communities to determine what types of bicycle facilities should be installed.
Kaye Long, member of the Bicycle Advisory Committee, said she hoped KU students and Lawrence residents who use a bicycle as their main mode of transportation would be present at the meeting.
Long said that input from cyclists was important because they would be the ones affected by any changes made in bicycle transportation in Lawrence.
Future meetings will cover bicycle-friendly alternatives, summarize existing bike routes and make new route proposals to be sent to the Lawrence City Commission.
Bartlett said the Dec. 15 meeting would evaluate existing and potential bicycle conditions in Lawrence.
The next bicycle/automobile compatibility study meeting will be Dec. 15 at the recreation center.
$90,000 grant awarded to groups fighting drug use, violence
By Chad Bottes
Kansan staff writer
Two local not-for-profit organizations have been awarded grants totaling $90,000 to continue their efforts to decrease illegal drug use and violence by children.
Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall selected two Lawrence-based groups, Douglas County Citizens Committee On Alcoholism and Van Go Mobile Arts, to participate in the Federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities grant program.
DCCCA, a behavioral health organization at 3112 Clinton Parkway, applied for funding to continue its Increase the Peace project, which is now in its fourth year.
Lori Alvarado, programming specialist for Increase the Peace, said the program reached students across the state in its focus to decrease youth violence.
"What precipitated this program is that we saw increases in violence, not necessarily in schools, but in juveniles being arrested for violent crimes," Alvarado said.
In Increase the Peace, groups of eight junior high or high school students travel to a ranch just south of Junction City for a two day retreat. Fifteen groups of students participate in the retreat at
the same time. Each group is selected to represent a cross section of its school's population.
Facilitators at the retreat help students develop customized solutions to decrease violence in their own towns and schools. Students are expected to prepare to go home and implement their solutions.
"This is a youth empowerment model," Alvarado said. "We can't change the problem, but the students can."
Van Go Mobile Arts, 301 Creekwood Drive, takes a different approach to helping children. Created in 1996, Van Go provides a setting where at-risk children can participate in after-school arts projects
"Art can literally save kids' lives."
Lynne Green
Executive Director of Van Go Mobile
ticipate in after-school arts projects. Lynne Green, executive director, said Van Go was not an arts and crafts program. Rather, the projects are permanent, public-arts projects that are done in conjunction with professional artists.
She said 105 kids participated last year on projects that included an art sculpture garden for the
Lawrence Housing Authority.
A student group is working on a painted metal sculpture in the form of a tree for the annual Festival of Trees.
A self-described child of the '60s, Green said she was thrilled to be combining her experience as a teacher, social worker and artist to make a positive impact on the community.
"Arts are starting to be recognized as a means of prevention, and studies are confirming this." Green said. "Art can literally save kids' lives."
Both Van Go Mobile Arts and Increase the Peace are collecting data so they can measure the long-term impact of their programs.
William Arnold, associate professor of sociology, said that youth violence had decreased during the last three years but that drug and alcohol use had been just as prevalent or had even increased despite many prevention program efforts.
Arnold also said that most drug-prevention success was seen when a number of programs were combined but that he doubted whether a permanent solution would be found.
"Our society has become sufficiently into using comforting chemicals, legal and illegal," Arnold said. "I'd be surprised if we ever get over the problem in general."
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