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VOL.104.NO.28
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1994
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University addresses child care needs
New center would ease overcrowding burden
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
A new child care center could be constructed and opened at the University of Kansas as early as Spring 1997.
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said the University recently hired a consultant, Rafael Architects of Fairway, to conduct initial planning for the center. The consultant will assess child care needs at KU and study possible sites for a new child care center.
"The University has a responsibility to provide a reasonable amount of child care, and it is apparent that we are in need of more child care," Meyen said. "We are still in the initial planning stages, but optimally we could open a new center in Spring 1997."
The consultant will work with the executive vice chancellor's child care task force to analyze the needs and wants of KU students, faculty and staff. The 24-member task force was appointed by Meyen in March 1993 to consider long-range child care needs of the KU community.
Although the consultant and the task force are making preliminary plans for a new child care center, Meyen said the University had not obtained approval for the project from the Board of Regents or the Kansas Legislature.
"I am hopeful that we will receive approval for the facility during the 1995 legislative session." Mewen said.
State funds will not be used for the project. A new center would be financed by student fees, user fees and private funds.
Meyen said he could not speculate on where
a new center would be located.
"We don't have many available building sites on campus," he said. "A new center isn't going to be on Jayhawk Boulevard, but we're not looking at major off-campus sites."
Ann Eversole, head of the child care task force and associate dean of student life, said she hoped the task force could make some preliminary recommendations to Meyen later this semester, but several issues had not been resolved.
Eversole said the results of a survey administered by KU's Institute for Public Policy and Business Research would reveal the opinions
of faculty, students and staff. The survey will be conducted during the next several weeks and the results will be reviewed by the task force.
"Everyone knows there are huge child care needs, but it's a matter of deciding the details." Eversole said.
An essential detail that has not been decided is who will operate a new child care center.
Hilltop Child Development Center provides the most comprehensive child care on cam-
University program tracks butterflies
See CHILD CARE, Page 7A.
Local children help with task
Second-grade Jared McDonald examines a monarch butterfly that he tagged with the help of his teacher, Kathy Davis. McDonald was one of a group of Hillcrest Elementary students that visited a monarch butterfly laboratory in Haworth yesterday.
By Shannon Newton Kansan staff writer
Jeremy Coons wants to watch his caterpillar turn into a monarch butterfly.
"I'm going to stay here all day until it becomes chrysalis," he said, referring to the third stage of metamorphosis.
Coon, a second-grader at Hillcrest Elementary School, is one of many students nationwide who is learning about monarch butterfly migration habits by participating in a program coordinated by Chip Taylor, acting head of the University of Kansas' entomology department.
In the program, students capture and tag monarch butterflies so that Taylor can track the monarch's migration habits. Coon's class is taking an extra step by growing its own monarchs and studying their life cycles.
The class also visited a lab in Haworth Hall yesterday where Taylor raises and studies monarchs.
"A few years ago the monarchs were not as abundant, so we decided to get the public involved," Taylor said. "We solicited schools and individuals to get involved."
Taylor started the program three years ago because he was interested in the migration of the monarchs.
Taylor said the project helped people connect with nature.
"People want to be a part of something larger than they are," he said.
Taylor said that when the project first began 100 schools nationwide were involved in the tagging. Now, more than 500 schools are involved.
"We've exceeded our estimated goal of participants," Taylor said. "We thought we would have 10,000 students, but now we have 20,000 students in 30 states."
Taylor said he estimated that
67,000 monarchs had been tagged so far.
Taylor said that when the program first began, it cost about $2,000. But because of the program's growth, it is budgeted this year at $25,000.
The money comes from contributions from individuals and corporations, he said. The University also donates some money. It is used for preparing kits sent to the people across the
The kits include tags with an identification number and Taylor's name, address and telephone number printed on them. The tags instruct people who recover the butterflies to call Taylor and report where they were found. Taylor said that he only received calls about the recoveries of one or two butterflies per every thousand tagged.
nation who participate in the program.
People capture the butterflies and fasten the tags, which are coated with a special glue, to one of the butterflies wings. While tagging a butterfly, people hold their wings together so not to break them.
Kathy Davis, who teaches Jeremy Coon's class at Hillcrest, said her students had tagged about 50 butterflies so far. The class does most of its tagging during its recess and lunch.
"Sometimes if there are a lot of monarchs outside our window, I'll let them go outside for a few minutes," Davis said.
The students also are planning to tag the monarchs that they raise, Davis said.
"It will be interesting to see how the students react," Davis said. "But I think they understand that the monarchs are not pets."
Hallway robbery
This shows crimes in residence haits broken down by type for 1992, 1993, and 1994 (1994 numbers are January through August only).
Crime 1982 1983 1984
Vandalism 42 47 20
Phone harassment 60 45 26
Arson 4 4 1
Trespassing 3 1 5
Drug charges 5 9 6
Rape 1 0 3
False Alarms 19 13 5
Assault 24 21 9
Theft 131 112 76
Source: Staff research
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Residence hall crime on decline
By Ashley Miller
Kansan staff writer
Crime in the residence halls is on the decline, according to KU police reports.
Figures reported by KU police through August 1994 show that the number of crimes such as vandalism, arson and assault in the halls was growing smaller.
KU police Sgt. Rose Rozmiarek said that there wasn't a way to measure why the number of crimes was decreasing, but KU police and student housing, which includes Jayhawker Towers, had increased the number of safety programs presented to students in the residence halls this year.
The programs stress the importance of being conscience of strange behavior and of what is happening in the hall, Rozmiarek said. One of the best things residents can do is identify early in the semester who lives on their floor.
"Just because someone is walking up there doesn't mean they belong up there," she said.
Rozmiarek also said that residents needed to realize that their room was their home and to lock the doors even if they were just going to dinner.
The most common crime in the residence halls reported to the KU police is theft. Seventy-six of the 219 thefts committed at the University in 1994 occurred in residence halls.
Ozrmalei said rape still was the least-reported crime. Rape victims may report the incidence to another source, such as student housing or a counseling hot line but often did not contact the police, she said. There were
See CRIME. Page 7A.
Good chancellors must be great fund-raisers
Kansan staff writer
There is a saying in fund-raising circles: People don't give money to institutions, they give money to people.
By David Wilson
At the University of Kansas, that person — the one foremost in the minds of generous alumni and legislators — is often the University's chief executive officer, the chancellor.
Those close to the issue of fund raising at KU say that the University's next chancellor should be a consumate money-raiser, able to schmooze a state legislator, remember an alum's name and juggle a call from the governor in a single bound.
Jim Scaly, assistant to the chancellor,
said the ideal chancellor would be able to convince state legislators that higher education was a necessity, not a luxury.
"Public support is fragile," he said. "It's
easy to lose support when there are so many conflicting demands on the treasury."
Marlin Rein, University director of governmental affairs, said there were just as many conflicting demands on the chancellor.
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"The chancellor has an awful lot of constituencies," he said. "Included among those are the Board of Regents, who the chancellor reports to. Finally, there is the governor and the legislature."
Rein said the chancellor was KU's No. 1 diplomat to all those constituencies.
"To those groups, the chancellor personifies the institution," he said.
And if support from the legislature is fragile so is support from private individuals and companies.
Martin said former Chancellor Gene Budig, who is now president of the Major League Baseball's American League, had been the driving force behind Campaign Kansas, a statewide private fund-raising effort that netted more than $260 million.
Martin said that the Campaign Kansas money — and the almost $40 million given to the University last year — financed such things as library acquisitions, student scholarships and distinguished professorships.
"In higher education, private fund-raising is essential," said Jim Martin, president of the Kansas University Endowment Association. "And the chancellor is undoubtedly the chief fund-raiser."
"There is little doubt that Campaign Kansas would not have been successful without a chancellor with a strong suit in fund-raising," he said.
Becker said that before Budig was hired, he did not have much fund-raising experience.
Frank Becker, a KU graduate from El Dorado and chairman of the chancellor search committee, said the search committee would rely on face-to-face interviews to determine whether the next chancellor would be a good fund-raiser.
"If you look at Chancellor Budig, his history of fund-raising was not outstanding," he said.
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But it wasn't long before Budig proved his money-raising mettle to the Kansas Board of Regents.
Sometimes, proving that mettle took little more than smooth small talk.
"Conversational skills are very important," Martin said. "Chancellor Budig had that. He always made the individual across the table from him feel comfortable."