Thursday, August 26, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Hilltop Daycare Center to get new home
Parents weren't happy with state of old building
By Lori O'Toole
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Ann Cudd takes her 5-year-old son, Alex, to the Hilltop Child Development Center in the morning before heading to work.
Cudd, associate professor of philosophy, said Alex likes playing in the Aqua Room, a kindergarten room where he stays in the center.
Two years ago, he started attending the day care center for the children of students, faculty and staff, located at 1314 Jiahawk Blvd.
Cudd, who is on Hilltop's Board of Directors, said she has grown to love the program's teachers and curriculum.
But she hates the building.
"It's run down, not very well maintained and some of the rooms are dark," she said.
A solution to Cudd's concerns, which mirrors those of other parents and Hilltop employees, is under construction.
In June, workers began moving
ground for a building that will replace the current Hilltop location. It will be between Anschutz Sports Pavilion and Stouffer Place.
The 20,000-square-foot, one-level facility will have a south and an east wing of day care suits. Each classroom will have a bathroom.
The new building will be handicap-accessible, unlike the current three-story building.
Douglas Riat, design and construction management associate director, said the plans encompass phase one the building. He said a second phase could be added in the future if the center needed more classroom space.
Riat said the contractor, Champion Builders of Topeka, began the building's foundation, which is planned to be completed at the beginning of October.
Riat said construction workers would work through the winter in order to prepare for the June 1 completion date.
Warren Corman, university architect, said the project would cost $3.1 million, two-thirds of which will be paid for by a bond issue and a $4-a-semester student fee, which began two years ago.
Hilltop management and the University administration agreed to pay for the remaining third of the
Pat Pisani. Hilltop director, said she has dealt with plumbing problems, leaky windows and a poor heating system in the current Hilltop building.
cost
"We're looking forward to a modern building," she said.
She said there would be more playground equipment, and flowers and grass would take the place of the sand, gravel and concrete that had served as landscaping.
Cudd said the new center would allow more children to become involved with the program, which she said is important because of the long waiting list.
She said she placed Alex on the program's waiting list when he was three months old, and he was not accepted until he was three years old.
In addition to Alex, Cudd's two year-old son, Thomas, attends Hilltop. Last year she was concerned for his health when Hilltop experienced a large infestation of cockroaches.
She said Thomas would attend the new center next year.
"I keep thinking about how great it's going to be," Cudd said. "Especially since it's been designed especially as a day care center."
—Edited by Chris Hutchison
Top: Project foreman Scott Miras, Eudora, and Drew Jones, Leavenworth, excavate a trench for plumbing pipelines at the new Hilltop Daycare Center. Right: Two children share a secret in the playground at the Hilltop Daycare Center. A new building for the overcrowded center is under construction between Anschutz Sports Pavilion and the Stouffer Place apartments. Photos by Lucas Krump/KANSAN
Med Center sponsors school, reveals medical secrets
By Kimberly Erb
The University of Kansas Medical Center is trying to take the mystery out of medicine.
Special to the Kansan
Beginning Sept. 14, the Med Center will present its first Mini Medical School to community members and students seeking a stronger understanding of health care and medical research.
Each Tuesday evening for eight weeks, 220 individuals will hear presentations by Med Center faculty, researchers, teachers and clinicians. Slated topics by a total of 15 speakers range from tobacco use to the reproductive system and from skin cancer to the development of a vaccine against HIV and AIDS.
Mary Beth Gentry, associate dean for external affairs at the Med Center, said the program was designed to present complex medical science in an understandable format for the non-medical population.
"One of the things we think this program is going to do is help us to be better partners with people about their health care," she said.
Jeanne Drisko, assistant professor in the department of obstetrics
As people play an increasingly active role in researching and understanding their own health, the relationships between doctors and patients have progressed into partnerships, Gentry said. The Mini Medical School is geared to strengthen these relationships.
and gynecology, said the program accentuated the public's growing desire to become more knowledgeable about health issues.
"As physicians, we hope that our patients become their own best physicians," she said.
Drisko will be speaking about complementary and alternative medicine.
The Mini Medical School has attracted individuals of all professions and ages. High school and college students, pharmaceutical representatives, bankers, attorneys and homemakers have enrolled.
Upon completion of the course, students should know the basic concepts needed to understand news reports about medical
research, should know how to improve health and should have an understanding of the role research plays in medical practice.
"This will give an overview of what medical students are learning about health and health care and will also give an appreciation of the issues we are dealing with," said S.J. Enna, professor and chairperson of the department of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics.
Enna will discuss the benefits and dangers of sedatives and hypnotics.
were eager to provide the service to the community.
"We just want to create a greater awareness of academic medicine's role in the health of Kansans and the country," she said.
Enrollment is full, but there is a waiting list for interested individuals. Tuition is $75, and a limited number of scholarships are available.
Gentry said Med Center faculty
The classes will be held at 7 p.m.
Tuesdays in the Wahl East
Auditorium at the Med Center in
Kansas City. To register, individuals
can call (913) 588-1227 or register online at
Edited by Katrina Hull
http://www.kumc.edu/som/minim/
med/
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