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THE UNIVERSITY DA KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TOPEKA KS 66612
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.103,NO.158
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20.1994
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Faculty object to search committee's ad
Chancellor's duties include teaching role FacEx members say
By Roberta Johnson Kansan staff writer
Faculty Executive Committee members yesterday said they were upset with the chancellor's search committee and may discourage faculty input in the selection altogether.
During Thursday's search committee meeting, members decided not to include a faculty position as a requirement in the advertisement for the new chancellor
The committee feared potential candidates from non-academic fields would not apply if the statement was included.
But during yesterday's FaxEx meeting, some KU faculty said they were displeased with the search committee and its ad.
"The committee needs to be told that we don't mind a nontraditional chancellor as long as he or she carries on the KU tradition," said T.P. Srinivasan, FaxEx member and professor of mathematics.
KU's chancellor traditionally has held a faculty position. Outgoing Chancellor Gene Budigha been a professor of educational policy and leadership and also of journalism.
According to the FaxEx resolution, any chancellor candidate who is unwilling to accept an academic appointment would cause serious concern for the faculty.
"It is of the view that a departure from this tradition will be detrimental to the best interests of the University," stated the resolution, which passed unanimously.
Srinivasan, who also serves on the search committee, did not vote to prevent a conflict of interest.
But Srinivasan said that the Board of Regents efforts were changing the image of the University.
Jack Davidson, FaxEx member and professor of physics and astronomy, agreed.
"I think anyone who reads The Chronicle will see a different institution like IBM or General Electric," he said. "The University is being damaged by this. To endorse what is going on is wrong."
"I feel that the faculty must disown their role in the chancellor search because we're not
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permitted any academic input."
Srinivasan said that he was meeting an obligation by working on the search committee but that he could quit.
"I would be happy to do that at your direction or when I conclude that I'm not making a difference on the committee," he said.
The issue of quitting was too premature to consider, said Don Green, FaxEx member and distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
"I'll just wait and see what happens," said Green, who is also a member of the search committee.
No decision was made about faculty involvement on the search committee, but FacEx will send copies of their resolution to Stephen Jordan, executive director of the Regents and Frank Becker, head of the search committee.
Srinivasan also said he planned to raise the issue of the chancellor's academic role at the search committee's Sept. 16 meeting.
He said he had tried to discuss that role at the committee's first meeting and at a Regents meeting.
Other FacEx members attending yesterday's meeting were Will Linkugel, FaxEx chair and professor of communication studies; Bezaleel Benjamin, professor of architectural engineering; and Liane Davis, associate dean of social welfare.
KU parents face daycare dilemma
Students balance homework with time for children
By Melinda Diaz Special to the Kansan
At 7 a.m. he makes his way to where a little girl is sleeping. After some prompting, the girl opens her eyes and mouths "Daddy" through a toothless grin. In one hour, Dani Jones and her father will both be in school.
The alarm clock sounds at 5 a.m., and Tony Jones quietly reaches for a psychology text and note paper.
Silvana Danelo, graduate from Venezuela, helps her 8-year-old daughter Maria studying "Hooked on Phonics." Danelo enjoyed spending time together with Maria in between her busy schoolwork last week.
Tony Jones is among a growing number of KU students who juggle school with the responsibilities of being a parent.
The population of students with children has grown from 1,801 to 1,944 in the last ten years. Single parents account for the largest area of growth, according to statistics provided by the KU Office of Institutional Research and Planning.
Jones, a single parent, said that he has been working on a psychology degree for the past three and a half years. Daily, he faces the challenge of being a father, a provider and a student.
"When I came back to school, I had already worked out in my mind that I am not an 'A' student and that my primary concern is raising my daughter," he said. "I sew for my daughter, cook and clean house."
During the day, Dani attends Hilltop, an on-campus daycare center for children ages 12 months through fourth grade.
Although the daycare center is separate from the University, 60 percent of the students, like Dani, have a parent who attends KU, said Ali Fishman. Hilton director.
Jones said he draws strength from his daughter. OAKS, an on-campus support group for non-traditional students, is also a source of strength, he said.
Ronnie Bryant, president of OAKS, said the organization is also an informational and advocacy group that helps acclimate people who are coming back to school.
"We are here to listen and help," Bryant said.
An example of the organizations advocacy role, Bryant said, would be if a student had to miss class because of a sick child and the professor wouldn't accept the late work. The organization would talk to the professor on behalf of the student.
Silvana Danello also is raising her 8-yearold daughter, Maria, while working on a Ph.D. in pschology.
Danello said that she has created strategies for balancing her time between school-work and Maria.
Danello said that it is sometimes difficult for her to spend a lot of time with Maria, but she has come to believe that quality is better than quantity.
"Many times I take her to the swimming pool, and I sit in a lounge chair and study," Danello said. "I also take her to the park and let her bring a friend so that she has someone to play with."
Medie Youogo, who recently graduated
"I was typing my thesis, and if she cried I had to stop right in the middle of thinking," Youogo said. "I set her eating habits so she wouldn't cry for hunger when I was doing serious work."
The key to successfully balancing schoolwork and parenthood is organization,Youogo said.
with a master's degree in chemical engineering, knows what it is like to go to school and take care of her newborn daughter, Nelly.
"You learn how to plan ahead, otherwise
you will find yourself in trouble," she said.
KU Dependent Care Referral Service is an agency that help parents find daycare.
Betty Peterson, office coordinator, said if a parent needs a daycare, an in-home sitter or parenting classes, the agency can offer referral assistance for 120 of the 260 locations throughout Douglas County.
"We don't match-make," Peterson said. "We enable the process so the parent can get into the nitty-gritty of will this provider fit my situation?"
Parents tolerate long waiting list for quality care
By Jennifer Hughes Special to the Kansan
Many parents say the wait to get their children into Hilltop Child Development Center is worth it.
"We really like the teachers," said Mary McCabe, Lawrence resident, whose 2-year-old son Michael attends Hilltop. "They're really well-trained. I feel that they know each child individually."
Laura Bellinger, whose 2-year-old son Ricky attends the daycare, agreed.
"I feel best about the attention he gets there," she said. "It's like a home day care setting, even though it's not."
The center has a waiting list of 150 children, some of whom have been on the list for five years or more.
McCabe's daughter, Katie, 7, has been on Hilton's waiting list for five years.
Andi Fishman, director of Hilltop, said 160 children, ranging from 1 to 10 years of age are enrolled at Hilltop. About 50 percent of the children are those of KU students, 30 percent belong to faculty or staff, and the remaining 20 percent are children from the community.
"I think there's something to be said to have that many children and to have such a personal setting," Fishman said. "You don't feel like just a number."
The children are divided into eight rooms; each room has a lead teacher and an assistant teacher.
"The staff here is consistent in helping the children to use their words to express their feelings," she said.
Bellinger said that the methods used at Hilltop had been beneficial to Ricky. She said his language and motor skills had developed at what she called an incredible rate when he started going to Hilltop.
Fishman said the level of education of the staff at Hilltop had a direct correlation to the methods and the consistency of instruction.
"It's a structured program, with good variety in the daily routine," she said. "Now, instead of saying 'Mommy, bump head,' he says, 'I hit my head on the wall.'"
The natural
Tim Coughenour, a Lawrence resident who lives without many modern conveniences, sells his organically grown produce at farmers' markets to make a living.
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Reservation beckons student home
By Jarrett Lane Special to the Kansan
Carole Bordeaux-Orr's cousin once said to her, "I can't believe you have your college degree and haven't done anything for your people."
Today, 10 years later, Bordeaux-Orr is working at the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota as part of a master's degree program in social welfare at the University of Kansas.
Bordeaux-Orr's cousin, Lionel Bordeaux, is president of Sinte Gleska University in Rosebud, S.D. It was his questioning of Bordeaux-Orr's intentions that prompted her return to the reservation where she was born, blond-haired and blue-eyed, nearly 53 years ago.
Bordaux-Orr's natural father was Norwegian and her natural mother was Sloux.
She was adopted at age 5 by a Caucasian
family that lived and ranched on the reservation. She left the reservation with her adopted family at 14, leaving behind three siblings.
This summer Bourdeaux-Orr is in her third year of graduate school and completing her 600-hour practicum at an acute-care hospital on Rosebud.
"She came to me to saying that she was part Sioux Indian and that she hoped eventually to return to the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota to live and work someday when she completed her program," said Jan Jess, assistant director of field practicum at the School of Social Welfare. "So she wanted to see if there was any chance that she could do her practicum there."
With a little luck, all the pieces fell into place and a qualified sponsor was found at the reservation hospital. Bordeaux-Orr needed a licensed master of social work as
"She gets involved with patients from the standpoint of family concerns," Jess said.
In the event that a family member becomes sick, Bordeaux-Orr will step in and let the family know what resources are available and make contacts for them.
"When they get out of the hospital, we try to make sure they have adequate family support and that they understand what the doctor's orders are," she said.
The average patient at the hospital stays only three to five days, Bordeaux-Orr said, so whatever she does for the families she has to do right away.
"It's a sad situation." Bordeaux-Orr said.
A lot of the problems that Bordeaux-Orr sees at the hospital are alcohol-related, such as kidney failure, cirrhosis of the liver, diabetes and other problems that go with that disease, such as amputations.
"I've seen them come in to the hospital and go out in body-bags. To me, the root of all evil on the reservation is alcohol."
But, she said, there are some happy times at the hospital because new life from the maternity ward brings hope to counteract the desolating effects of alcohol misuse.
Bordeaux-Orr said it was not uncommon for mothers on the reservation to be 14 to 15 years old. One of Bordeaux-Orr's duties is to make sure the young mothers and their babies are enrolled in the tribe so that they and their children will receive the education and health benefits they are entitled to.
Bordeaux-Orr will complete her practicum at Rosebud and return home in August to the Kansas City area to her husband, Jim, and her family.
She said she would like to return to the reservation after she graduates so that she can continue helping her people.