Thursday, August 27,1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
Women's center gains new director
By Steph Brewer
Kansan staff writer
Kathy Rose Mocky just can't stay away from Lawrence.
The new director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center may have left Lawrence in 1984 to bask in the California sunshine, but now she's back at the University of Kansas, her alma mater, to continue the work of Barbara Ballard.
Ballard, who was director of the center for 18 years, was promoted to assistant vice chancellor of student affairs.
Ballard said her varied experience at the University would help her succeed in her new position.
Rose-Mocky said, "I feel fortunate to follow Barbara, who's done so many wonderful things with the center."
Devika Moore, Wichita junior, and Amber Burton, Frankfort sophomore, learn what the Women's Resource Center has to offer from new director Kathy Rose-Mockley. Rose-Mockley was welcomed at the center's open house yesterday at the Kansas Union. Photo by Tara Bradley/KANSAN
The purpose of the women's center is to promote awareness of gender issues. It holds programs throughout the year, including the ongoing Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Program. Rose-Mockry was introduced at the center's open house yesterday afternoon.
Rose-Mockry is no stranger to women's issues. Her last job was as director of the women's center at University of California at Los Angeles. While at the University, Rose-Mockry worked as a resident assistant at Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall and later as director of Lewis Hall.
"I enjoy immensely working with women's and gender-related issues," she said.
She said she took the job at the University because she liked the atmosphere.
"I love the environment at KU," she said. "The sense of community is unsurpassed."
The University is smaller than UCLA, which has about 35,000 students, but many issues are similar, such as the problem of sexual violence.
Sexual violence is one problem that has not disappeared during the years since Rose-Mockry began working with women's issues, she said. Other issues have changed.
"A lot of women coming into campus are not aware yet of where the barriers exist," she said.
She said that while it was good that barriers are less evident, it could cause problems as women moved up in the world. The higher women went, the number of women would decrease.
She said it could be difficult for young women who have never encountered these limitations to understand them.
As director of the center, Rose Mocky wants to help students real
ize and address these issues. She said she also wanted to collaborate more with other departments and student organizations. She stressed that she wanted to help both men and women students because inequality affected men, too.
The meaning of feminism has been debated in recent years. RoseMockry said if someone were to conduct a survey, most students probably would shy away from calling
themselves feminists. However, she said this was because of stereotypes and misconceptions.
"I don't think feminism is dead," she said. "The term may be dead, but the concepts aren't."
One of the problems today, she said, is fragmentation within the women's movement.
"That's unfortunate," she said,
"because we are by no means finished."
Student researches for child-care solutions
By Julie M. Sachs
Kansan staff writer
Finding excellent day care can be a long quest especially for busy working parents. So where does that leave the child?
Catherine Heaven is trying answer that question.
Through a $1,000 grant that she received from her Undergraduate Research Award, Heaven, Shawnee senior, is researching the history of child care in the United States.
"I think it's a great topic; it fits Catie's interest real well," said Elaine Sharp, professor of political science. "It can conceivably result in important results."
Heaven's focus entails why there hasn't been a federal bill which would provide child care to all citizens.
Her research project also will count as her thesis.
"The thing I wonder about most is that throughout wars and the Great Depression we have had national child care. But after times of
crisis they have been terminated," Heaven said.
She said her goal is to put the pieces of the past together so that the legislative choices of the present can become clear.
Originally, Heaven's plan for her project was to examine three separate issues: state differences in child care, Kansas child-care policy and national policies in child care.
Heaven said her volunteer work at the Hilltop Child Development Center day-care facility helped spark her curiosity of the day-care dilemma.
"I volunteered at Hiltop last year. Children in this facility are so positive and fun. They exhibit advanced social behavior. We're all so lucky to have such a nice facility," Heaven said. "I want everyone to have such good child care."
Through her research. Heaven discovered why the government was leery about national child care.
"Child care has traditionally been the states' rights," Heaven said. "There also is a fear of increased bureaucracy."
Heaven also said she found that in the past the
government was concerned with the cost of a national child-care program.
There are ways around the cost issue.
"Technically they could do it through subsidies; they could do it all sorts of ways," Heaven said.
they could rehabilitate it more. She also discovered that the family played a role in past and possibly present failures in child-care bills.
"They were also hesitant to pass a child-care bill because it skewed the role of the family raising the child." Heaven said.
Final results for her project will be presented at the Undergraduate Research Award symposium, which is scheduled for late to mid-February.
Sharp is optimistic about her student's project.
amic about her student's project. "Catie is enthusiastic about doing research. She is capable of doing the work," Sharp said. "It's an exciting project. She seems to be having a lot of fun."
Heaven encouraged students to get involved in the Undergraduate Research Award opportunity.
"It rewards people for being self-starters," she said. "It's so fun to do. Every time you have a breakthrough, it's your breakthrough."
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