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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, May 1. 1997
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Volunteer serves dignity at Jubilee Cafe
Student donates award to charity
By Paul Eakins
Kansan staff writer
Clark Keffer's dedication and commitment to helping people in need has earned him the Student Volunteer of the Year award.
Keffer, Lawrence sophomore, serves free food from 6 to 10 a.m. every Tuesday to homeless and low-income people at the Jubilee Cafe, which is situated at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 10th and Vermont streets.
Unlike most soup kitchens, the Jubilee Cafe does not have a cafeteria-style serving system. Instead, it has volunteer waiters who take orders from the guests.
Keffer said that this was one of
the reasons that the cafe was so special and why he dedicated so much of his time to it.
"We try to treat these people with dignity and respect," Keffer said. "We give them a few choices in life. This may open them to more choices and may help empower them to get out (of their situation)."
Keffer has been involved with the cafe since its opening in 1994. It was organized by the Rev. Joe Alford, chaplain of the Canterbury House ministry, 1116 Louisiana St., and several KU students. Alford said that Keffer had been an important and constant part of the cafe and that that was why he was nominated. Of the approximately 140 Tuesdays that the cafe has served food, Keffer has volunteered 137 of them.
"Clark has put in a lot more
hours than I have," Alford said.
"In the first year, every Tuesday Clark was the first one there and the last one to leave. He kept coming back and was one of our steadiest volunteers."
The Student Volunteer of the Year award, created in 1992 by the Roger Hill Volunteer Center, 211 E. Eighth St., is given to students who show outstanding commitment to volunteering and who have become an integral and necessary part of the volunteer organization. Keffer received a plaque and a $500 donation from Sallie Mae, a loan company, to be given to a charity of his choice.
Keffer said that he had many reasons for volunteering.
He has lived in Lawrence for 32 years, so Keiller likes to give back to the community, he said. In his 42 year life, he has dealt
In his 42-year life, he has dealt
with many hardships. He said that at one time, he had been battling a drinking problem and was on the other side of the serving spoon.
He said that many of the guests at the Jubilee Cafe had similar or worse problems and that he identified and empathized with them.
In 1993, Keffer turned his life around after struggling with such difficult experiences as a motorcycle accident that paralyzed his left arm.
He enrolled at the University of Kansas in the religious studies program. Now he wants to do some good and to help people who are less fortunate than him.
"Helping people is a good thing, and I'm trying to be a good person," Keffer said. "I'm an old hippy that hasn't forgotten about saving the world."
Chris Hamilton / KANSAN
Clark Keefer volunteers at the Jubilee Cafe, inside Trinity Episcopal Church, 10th and Vermont streets. He won the student volunteer of the year award this year.
Understanding your rights: University helps fight traffic troubles
Students can voice parking ills in court
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
It's after midnight and Camille Lauer, Lawrence sophomore, follows the road between the scholarship halls, searching for a parking space.
After finally finding a spot behind Stephenson Scholarship Hall, Lauer, a resident of Watkins Scholarship Hall, climbs the hill to her residence. One day, a nasty note and a parking ticket later, Lauer learns she parked in a spot reserved for the director of Stephenson, a violation punishable by a $15 ticket.
"The sign on the curb was so worm out that you can't see it," she said. "The director said a sign is on order but it still hasn't been put up."
Because the paint on the curb was faded, Lauer plans to take her ticket to the parking department this week and submit a written appeal to the parking court.
The court, a panel of three upperlevel law students, reviews written appeals and hears personal appeals from students, faculty and staff. Last year the court reviewed or heard 1,717 appeals, overturning 476.
Students have 15 business days to appeal their tickets, said Donna Hulte, assistant director of the parking department. But a recently passed rule changes that - allowing only 10 days to appeal tickets after August 1.
To appeal a ticket, students must take it to the parking department, situated north of Allen Field House. Then they wait.
The court hears 12 cases a week.Written appeals take about three weeks to decide, Braden said.
Enrollment holds are not issued to students who have an appeal pending during the enrollment period, Hultine said.
Lauer hopes the court will understand that she was unable to see the markings reserving her $15 parking spot, not for the money she must pay, but for the injustice of the penalty, she said.
"At first I was really steamed," she said. "Now that I've had a chance to calm down it's become a matter of principle."
Legal services aid with ticket queries
By Ann Premer Special to the Kansan
Speeding tickets plague many students. Some pay the fines without a second thought, while others seek free advice at Legal Services for Students.
Jo Hardesty, director or legal services, said the lawyers advised students of their options in dealing with tickets.
"I knew that if anything could be done, they could probably do it," said Brett Eakins, Paxon, Neb., second-year law student.
For example, students may pay a larger fine to change a speeding ticket to a nonmoving violation. Then the ticket would not be reported on their driving record, Hardesty said.
How a speeding ticket affects a students' insurance rates depends on their insurance company and policy. Kermit Cottrell, general agent of Allstate Insurance Companies, 2449 Iowa St., said a ticket could increase a person's auto insurance by 6.5 percent a year.
Hardesty said students should understand that traffic tickets cannot be ignored. If students don't pay a traffic fine, a warrant may be issued for their arrest and they can
be jailed, she said.
When a student is ticketed out of state, legal services still can offer advice.
Many students, when ticketed out of state, ask if they have to return to the state where the offense occurred for a court hearing, she said.
Legal services provides students with information on the penalties they face. It also works with out-of-state courts to resolve the matter without making students return to the state.
"What we try to do is find out what the laws are in the jurisdiction," Hardesty said.
Attorneys at legal services said they helped about 440 students rectify moving violations last year.
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