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Wednesday, March 13, 1963 University Daily Kansan
Space Age Gives Women Dual Role-Working, Studying
The space age has launched a new kind of woman on the KU campus. She is the working coed.
About 20 per cent of her women classmates at KU work 11 to 15 hours a week.
SOME WOMEN send themselves through college with the money they earn in their jobs. Others pay their personal expenses with their extra money. But one thing is sure: the KU working woman wants to help mom and dad pay for her college education.
Elaine Harris, Kansas City junior, said since she started working in the English department her freshman year, her parents have paid only two months of her living expenses.
When asked how she manages to combine her school work and a 15-hours-a-week job; Elaine said, "I have classes in the morning, and I work in the afternoons. At night I study and sleep—mostly study."
CHRISTI SLEEKER, Leawood junior, who has a typing job 11 hours a week, said, "The things I have less time to study I have to organize."
KU women also hold jobs as counselors in both freshman and upper-class dormitories.
Sandra Gustafson, Hutchinson senior, is completing her third year counseling in a freshman hall.
"Generally my work is scheduled, and my study time isn't. I plan around the work," she said.
Sandra said she did not have to work to attend college, but she works because she enjoys it.
"IYE GROWN UP. I've learned to be more tolerant and to appreciate all kinds of people. I take a more calm, cool look at things now," Sandra said of her three-year experience.
This is Joyce Neaderhiser's first year as a freshman counselor. A Davenport Iowa, junior, Joyce said that money was a self-imposed factor in her job.
"I wanted to help out at home, and I wanted the experience of this particular job," she said.
She added, "One becomes a better person to himself because he must behave at his best in his job."
BARBARA BREMER. St. Louis, Mo., junior, is a counselor in an upperclass dormitory. She uses her $75 a month salary to pay for almost all of her room and board.
Several KU women work in the dining halls or on the switchboards in their dormitories. Ann Benz, Borger, Tex., junior, acts as switchboard manager in Lewis Hall.
Ann works for both the enjoyment and money. "The money keeps me in school. If I didn't spend the time working, I would be wasting it," she said.
LIKE OTHER KU women who work. Ann said a disadvantage to her job was she did not have much time to spend for herself.
Betty Bridges, Mount Home, Idaho junior, said her 12-hour-a-week job as a waitress in Hashinger Hall forces her to organize more.
Betty attends classes 33 hours a week. The only hardship her job
Betty, an occupational therapy major, said she took the Hashinger job so she could pay her traveling expenses to Washington State University this summer. She plans to work as a counselor in a crippled children's camp there.
presents is getting up at 5:30 in the morning for the breakfast shift.
Linda Ellis, Penns Grove, N.J. sophomore, considers her waitress job "a kind of education."
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Mary Meek, Thayer junior, worked last semester as a student assistant in the KU Nursery school.
"I GET TO KNOW a lot of people well, and I learn how the dormitory functions—something you normally do not think about," she said.
"Yes, it takes away from my study time," she said, "but it makes me happy to be around children."
Mary's extra money helps pay her dormitory bill.
Another way KU women earn spending money is through baby-sitting. Mary Ann Garlow, Wichita sophomore, said her babysitting job last semester was "a lot of fun and not too nerve-wrecking."
Mary Ann stayed with children while their mothers attended classes. "I took the job because I wanted
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MOUNTING MITES—Margaret Ives, Silver Lake junior, is one of KU's working, college women. A biology major, Margaret mounts mites in the Entomology Department in her free time.
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