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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Thursday, April 11, 1996
Psychological services clinic opens
Students can obtain hands-on experience
By David Teska
Kansan staff writer
Gina Thornburg / KANSAN
The Child & Family Services Clinic is open and ready for business.
Located in several converted residence hall rooms in Joseph R. Pearson Hall, the clinic opened March 11 and is already accepting clients, said Kathleen Lemanek, associate professor of psychology and director of the clinic. Lemanek said 13 graduate students in clinical child psychology will conduct the primary counseling, with each student seeing between four and five cases each.
"It's a training clinic for their practicum," she said. "They actually get to do hands-on therapy."
Lemanek said the therapists refer to their clients as cases since they want to look at all members of a family and not only the child. Depending on the age of the child, the therapist may decide to meet with both the child and the entire family.
"With young children, we will see the family first," she said. "Usually when they reach school, they can verbalize their concerns."
Although located on campus, Lemanek said the clinic's services are available to any family in need of assessment and treatment services for children and their families. The clinic also has a sliding-free scale, based on need, that ranges
from $6 to $42 for a 50-minute session.
Before someone can receive services, the clinic does an initial screening by telephone. Daniel Wright, San Diego, Calif., graduate student, said the clinic needed to determine what services a child or family needed.
"We see if they're appropriate for the clinic and whether we're appropriate for them," he said.
Daniel Wright, San Diego graduate student, demonstrates one of the tests that members of the Child & Family Services Clinic perform on clients. Graduate students in the clinical child psychology Ph.D program are required to work at the clinic before having an internship.
After the screening, Wright said a staff psychologist will decide whether to continue further with a potential client. The student therapists also have to be on guard for problems that could arise from people who call in obvious distress. He said if he felt uncomfortable during a call he could get assistance from the staff psychologist on duty.
"If they're upset, they may take some calmming down," he said.
The student therapists are enrolled in a four-year master's program with a fifth year dedicated to interning Rodney McNeal, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student and clinic coordinator, said everyone involved in the clinic was still learning what it takes to make a clinic work.
"We're still growing and trying to figure out what works and what doesn't," he said.
Michael Roberts, professor of human development and family life and clinic psychologist, said funding to renovate the clinic's offices and therapy rooms came from an endowment established by Jackson Baur, professor emeritus of sociology, in memory of his late wife, Lillian Baur, who died in Dec. 1991.
Graduate student wins $2,500 award
Money will help create library in the Philippines
By Susanna Löof
Kansan staff writer
Alido, Manila, Philippines graduate student, has received a $2,500 Kenneth Holland Award to start a library in Rizal
The street children in Manila, Philippines, soon will get their own library. Ruth Alido is bringing it to them.
Park in Manila, an area where many children live.
The award comes from the Institute of International Education, which gave awards to four graduating Fulbright scholars, including Alido.
The library will be modeled after book mobiles in the United States, Alido said, although it won't be as well equipped.
The children won't be allowed to cheek out the books because the library could run out of books quickly that way, Alido said.
The program will not only be about
reading. Alido said she also would include story-telling sessions and arts and crafts.
"The first thing is to get them interested, maybe only to flip through the magazines," she said. "Later in the program, if we can interest them to read, that would be great."
Although there are public libraries in the Philippines, they are not as readily accessible as in the United States. Aldo hopes that she can make her project run longer than the 18 months the grant money is supposed to last.
She has already received several book
donations.
"I never expected people to respond so positively," she said. "It's very encouraging."
Paul Markham, associate professor on curriculum and instruction and Alido's adviser, described Alido as an energetic, enthusiastic, competent and hard-working student. He said he had no doubts that Alido's project would be successful.
Students who wish to donate books to the library can drop them off for Alido at Lewis Hall.
Senate approves SLAB bill
By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer
Student Senate approved legislation in its meeting at 6:30 last night at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union to grant $46,693.84 to student organizations for next year.
Jason Schreiner, SLAB campus coordinator, spoke at the beginning of the meeting and alluded to the SLAB bill.
Senate also approved legislation in a roll-call vote that dramatically altered the structure of the Student Legislative Awareness Board. Thirty-one senators voted for the bill, six voted against the bill, and three abstained from voting. Twenty-three were absent from the meeting. The restructuring bill came after legislation that would have disbanded SLAB as a Senate organization was dropped in the Senate rights committee April 3.
Schreiner said he sincerely hoped that Senate would put the issues and concerns of the students on this campus first, before everything that's personal and political.
"I ask that all of you really consider the future of student lobbying in Kansas," Schreiner said. "I feel that SLAB's been very effective."
Jeff Stowell, liberal arts and sciences senator, presented the restructuring bill during the meeting.
"This legislation is not an attack on SLAB as a body, on any coordinator or any board member," Stowell said. "The goal of this bill is to increase communications and improve accountability throughout the line of this organization."
The bill creates an advisory committee that will oversee the operations of SLAB. It also creates a legislative-director position appointed by the student body president and SLAB advisory board. The Senate will approve the appointment.
The legislative director will then hire four coordinators and a treasurer for SLAB.
Though legislation to grant $46,693.84 through line-item allocations to student organizations for next year was approved, Ami Hizer, holdover senator, expressed concern that Student Union Activities did not need $9,000 from Senate.
"I don't think that an organization that receives $90,000 from the Memorial Corporation Board needs money from this organization." Hizer said.
But Ward Cook, Nunemaker senator and a member of the senate committee that drafted the financing legislation, said that without the $9,000, SUA would not be able to hold Day on the Hill next year.
Cook said SUA needed the $9,000 to pay for the Day on the Hill concert stage, and that Day on the Hill was such a popular event among students that Senate should be pleased to help sponsor it.
"We discussed these things for four days, so if the body feels that we didn't put enough time into this, I'm sorry," Cook said.
Students, faculty shun provost search committee forum
Members had hoped for significant turnout
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
If members of the University of Kansas community have anything to say about the hiring of a new provost, they missed their chance yesterday.
Only 10 faculty members and students attended an open forum at the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union. Students, faculty and staff were invited to ask questions and discuss the qualities and experience the new KU provost should have.
However, provost search committee members and support staff nearly outnumbered those who attended the forum.
"I'm extremely disappointed in the turnout here today," said James Kitchen, dean of student life and search committee member. "It concerns me a lot that there aren't more people here to ask questions."
The provost position, which combines the duties of the executive vice chancellor and the vice chancellor for academic affairs, was created as a part of the new administrative structure unveiled by Chancellor Robert Hemenway in January.
Committee members have received 45 responses to a letter that solicited input from faculty and staff. But they had hoped to discuss concerns and answer questions in yesterday's forum.
"Some people may think that their voices don't matter, but we are very interested in what faculty and students have to say." Kitchen said after the forum
questions would be asked of provost candidates.
Elias Michaelis, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, and a search committee member, moderated the hour-long forum, which included discussion of what
Hector Clark, associate professor of mechanical engineering, emphasized the importance of allowing a cross-section of the University community to meet the provost finalists.
"This is a tremendously important appointment for the University, and we need to get it right," Clark said.
Michaelis said the committee wanted the finalist to meet a number of students, faculty and staff when each finalist visited the KU campus.
The committee plans to select three to five finalists by mid-May, and campus visits would be scheduled for late May or early June.
Because the provost finalists will visit campus after the spring semester ends, a question was raised about whether many members of the University community would meet the finalists.
"The opportunities would be reduced in the summer," Michaelis said. "But we'll try to do whatever we can. There are still faculty and students here in the summer."
Jon Ramirez, Overland Park graduate student, was one of four students who attended the forum. He said that to gain input from students, the committee needed to do more to help students understand how the provost would impact them directly.
"The provost is so far up in the administrative hierarchy that students think that the provost doesn't impact their daily lives," Ramirez said.
The search committee is still accepting input from all members of the University community. Questions or suggestions can be sent to Marian Orzulak, administrative affairs secretary and staff member for the committee. Orzulak's phone number is 864-4806, and her e-mail address is: mpo@co.wpo.ukans.edu.
Gina Thornburg / KANSAN
Elias Michaelis, provost search committee member, leads a discussion room concerning the new provost yesterday in the Big Eight room at the Kansas Union. The discussion was open to all students and faculty.
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