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Thursday, April 24, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Recognition given volunteers
National Volunteer Week, which is designed to recognize volunteer work across the nation, is being observed in Lawrence this week.
The week is sponsored nationally by the National Action Board and beacly by the Volunteer.
She said the week was designed to promote volunteer work in Lawrence by recognizing those volunteers working for agencies such as Big Brother Big Sister and Headstart. Moore said recognition ranged from coffees for volunteers for charities, thank-you's. She said she knew of at least 10 organizations that were recognizing their volunteers.
Sheila Bair, Independence senior and coordinator of volunteer recruitment at the KU Clearing House, described the week as, "a time when a group of people or things who are helpful to our society are recognized."
Recognized
Shari Spencer, Fremont, California junior and a member of the KU Clearing House, said the clearninghouse acted mainly as a
"Hopefully, what we would be able to do is recognize people at KU and improve the awareness of volunteers from around here." Spencer said.
liaison between students at KU and agencies that needed volunteers.
She said she thought the program was gave to it let volunteers learn about themselves.
Cindy Otto, Salina sophomore and Big Sister volunteer, said, "Our recognition is our own self-fillment."
"It makes people who are not volunteers more awake that volunteer work is needed."
She said she had become involved in the Big Sister program because it was pervasive.
Rene Rawson, Overland Park freshman and a volunteer for Headstart, said she became interested in the program after work with children and because she thought it would be a good experience.
"I don't care whether I get recognized, because I did it for the kids and myself and because I thought I could help the kids," Rawson said.
A survey of Lawrence residents may indicate the kinds of people involved in city government and their goals.
Paul D. Schumaker, assistant professor of political science, said Tuesday that students in his "Power in America" course were involved in businessmen and residents of Lawrence.
Private leaders, mostly well known people in business, were surveyed to determine their preferences and goals in city government, he said.
Survey seeks local political goals
According to Schumaker, about 25 students in the class interviewed the five city commissioners and former commissioners. They found out what influenced their decisions the most and to whom they were most responsive.
A total of 500 residents in five neighborhoods were randomly selected and a questionnaire asking their views on city government was mailed to them.
there is considerable concern among Topeka teachers that mandatory additional education requirements will turn a chain of challenges into the displacement of an integrated bar in the state.
On the basis of the survey results, Schumaker said, the class hopes to determine whether city leaders and citizens share the same goals, and what type of citizen share the same goals as the leaders.
One hundred persons in each of the following neighborhoods received the awards: $15,000 from Lawrence, the University of Kansas area, the Alvamar area and the Hillcrest area.
"We wanted to see who the participants are in Lawrence city government," Schumaker said, "and to find out whether we want to be out of politics that reflect citizens wishes."
the student said many lawyers thought the integrated bar was a bad idea because it would lead to more specialization in the legal profession. That has happened in many states that have switched from integrated to integrated bars, he said.
Although the data are still being compiled, Schumaker said the responses thus far had been disproportionately from white collar workers.
Schumaker said the survey wasn't to determine the number of politically active residents but to find out what types of people were involved in city government.
Kansas currently has a nonintegrated bar. That is, lawyers aren't required to be members of the KBA in order to practice law in the state. In states with integrated bars, bar membership is a requirement for practice. In Kansas, lawyers are registered only with the court and may be members of the KBA if they wish.
From page one
Field work valuable, students say
By KATHY STECHERT
Kansan Staff Reporter
Dettling is one of 300 students the School of Social Welfare assigns each year to social welfare agencies to get practical experience in the field.
Working within the bureaucracy of a large institution can be very frustrating, Lynn Detting, Lawrence graduate student, works week about her social work field experience.
Margaret Schutz, director of field instruction, said the field experience was an opportunity for students to put in practice their theories they and learned in the classroom.
"When working in a bureaucratic system you have to learn to be sneaky." Dettling
Seniors and graduate students in the school are individually placed in about 80 agencies in the Lawrence and Topka areas in Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo.
DETTLING DESCRIBED HER work at the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital in Topka as psychiatric social work. She said she had a variety of experiences at the hospital, helping with marriage counseling, family counseling and individual therapy with patients in the hospital and in nursing homes.
She said that the bureaucracy of the VA was "absolutely impossible," and that the VA had policies she disagreed with. However, she said, the opportunities for learning and research experience are valuable there.
Schutz said the school usually didn't have trouble finding agencies that were willing to accept their students, although the school often didn't have placements for students in the specific geographic or field area they requested.
KBA proposal . . .
Dotheim said she was working in the Community Placement Division with elderly patients in the hospital and nursing homes.
She said she worked on a one-to-one basis with her clients, helping them with financial, family and health problems as well as providing companionship for them.
ALTHOUGH SHE HAS enjoyed working with the elderly, she said, she would have preferred a field placement involving psychiatric work.
"My field work has taught me a lot about myself as a professional person and taught me skills that I think can be applicable in any situation." Dotheim said.
"ALSO, IT WAS a good chance for consciousness-raising at the school," she said. "It was a chance for the faculty and students to think of the women's movement as a legitimate social work area, not just a frivolous extra thing."
Most social welfare students, like Dettling and Dottleman, are placed in established social service agencies, such as hospitals, correction agencies and mental health clinics. However, some students choose less driven settings for their field experience.
Nancy Husted Cook, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, and Marilyn Williams, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, are doing their field work at the Women's Liberation Union (WLU) in Kansas City, Mo.
Cook said she chose to work in the WLU because she was totally committed to the women's movement and could see a connection between it and social work.
One project the two have been working on in the development of a referral list of teachers.
Schutz said there were job risks involved for students who chose nontraditional placements such as the WL because most of them did not have jobs who had worked in established agencies.
She said this list was an alternative for women to the traditional mental health therapy, because instead of sending a client to another therapist they would sent the client to individuals.
According to a Washburn University law student who works with a Tokea law firm.
Cook said she and Williams interviewed
those who were involved in those who
shared the values of the WLW.
One of the tasks of the school is to prepare students to work in agencies, she said. Another task is to provide experience in established agencies before taking their positions with the WLU, and so
Cook said her work with the WLU also gave her experience in administrative work, such as planning programs, coordinating groups and helping contact people in public welfare systems, which was what she hoped to do after she received her degree.
Each student working in a welfare agency is assigned to a field instructor, who is usually a full-time employee in the agency. The field instructor acts as a teacher in the field and helps the school evaluate the student's progress.
SHUZTZ SAID MOST students tended to take jobs in the general area of social work in which they had said that it had "very little impact" and said, is the main area of employment for graduates.
the school encouraged them to try the new situation.
Llamas said the office was created in the fall by him and Elsa Viram Rímez, assistant professor of social welfare. Sister Elva is one of several unit field instructors in the school. The field units are organized training programs, usually established in a particular geographic community or within a particular agency.
Another student working in a non-traditional setting is Phillip L llamas, Newton senior. He is working in the Kansas City, Kan., social services office, where Spanish is spoken, in the city's Chicano area.
Llamas said he went to Sister Elvira to request a field placement that would involve working with Spanish-speaking people in Kansas City, Kan.
When Sister Elafra found that there was no audit agency in Kansas City, Kan., she and the others began a lawsuit.
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