No swings at Stouffer
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Weeds grab play yard
By JOHN MARSHALL
The children at Stouffer Place play in the mud because there are no playground facilities for KU's married student housing.
"The children certainly need a decent place to play," said John Hodge, Bremerton, Wash., graduate student, "and as it is now, they just wander around."
HODGE SAID the so-called playground was "merely a fenced-in patch of weeds with some pipe for the children to play on."
He was referring to a fenced-in area, about 70 feet by 50 feet, with weeds and uncut grass standing six inches high. Inside the pen are three short sections of pipe.
Two crumbling tractor tires lie inside the pen.
"We take the children to the park during nice weather, but we can't take them every day."
"I agree that there's no place for the children to play unless you go to the park," Mrs. Myra Evans said, "and that's fine, if you have a car, but there are some who don't have cars.
"MOST MOTHERS, myself included, don't like to leave their children in 'that thing' unattended."
Mrs. Evans said there were two items the children could really use.
"We need some swings and some sandboxes," she said.
The sandboxes were removed because cats were cluttering up the sandboxes, Evans said.
THE DEBRIS left in the boxes caused screwworms and made it unsafe for the children to use the sand.
"I'm furious because they took away the boxes," Mrs. Evans said. "The pets that dirtied the boxes aren't supposed to be here in the first place.
"This place is just riddled with cats." Mrs. Evans said.
Mrs. Roger Douglas, mother of two, said most of the children now sit in dirt under a tree beside the pen, where the sandboxes used to be.
MANY MOTHERS suggested wading pools for the summer, and even a new pen with a lock and keys for all mothers.
Right now, said Mrs. Louise Cebula, there is a complete lack of safe playing facilities at Stouffer.
"I am mad because the one thing the children did have to play with, the sandboxes, were taken away," said Mrs. Cebula.
About three years ago, Mrs. Lilian Phenice offered to take a
collection from the mothers at Stouffer to buy a set of swings.
THE UNIVERSITY would not allow her to take up the collection because "they didn't want to pay the insurance," Mrs. Phenice said.
Mrs. Phenice said the area where the children now play is too small, and is not the intended play area in the first place.
"It's ridiculous not to fix up the pen and put in the sandboxes just because of a few cats," Arye Zachs said.
"Summer vacation is coming soon," Zachs said, "and we will have the same old problem—no place for the kids to play."
Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 27, 1967
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"OTHER PLACES my husband and I have lived seem to manage childrens' recreational facilities," Mrs. Phenice said, "and I don't see why they can't do it here."
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