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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 13, 1995
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Awards honor social welfare students' work
By Novelda Sommers Kansan staff writer
Goodwin Garfield, associate professor of social welfare, told an assembly of about 150 social welfare students on Friday to look at the students sitting around them.
"There is a sameness in all of you," he said. "The sameness about you is that you have survived until March 1995."
The students cheered. They had survived hundreds of hours of work with community agencies for their practicums— 480 hours for seniors, 600 for first-year graduate students and 720 for second-year graduate students.
Students were recognized for outstanding work in their practicum placements at Friday's ceremony in the Kansas Union.
"In any academic area, what you usually think about is the classroom," Garfield said. "But the field is where the action occurs."
Field instructors, the professionals who assist students with their practicums, also were honored at the ceremony.
Donna Bacic, Lenexa senior, won the undergraduate Margot Award, named for Margaret Shutz Gordon, professor emeritus and former practicum director for the school. Bacic worked at Ozanam Home for Boys in Kansas City, Mo. She helped four emotionally disturbed 17-year-old boys prepare for independent living.
"I helped prepare them to make the transition," she said. "I took each of them to community agencies and introduced them to people so they would know how to find those resources."
Stacie Stoltz, Bacie's field instructor, said Bacie was a natural at making the boys feel comfortable.
"She really just had exceptional skills," Stoltz said. "It's difficult working with emotionally disturbed boys. She was able to bond with them."
Diane McDiarmid, Topeka graduate student, won the award for administration. She works for the School of Social Welfare, leading workshops for case managers in Kansas.
McDiarmid teaches the strengths model, a method of counseling which helps people discover their strengths rather than focus on their weaknesses.
"I love what I'm doing, and it's really neat to be recognized, but I would do it anyway," McDiarmid said.
Other Margot winners were Martha Unhru, Newton graduate student, Candice Wertzberger, Lawrence graduate student and Margaret Goger, Newton graduate student.
Watkins physician has long KU history
By Robert Allen Kansan staff writer
Charles Yockey a student, ROTC cadet before becoming center's chief of staff
He's the E.F. Hutton of college health. When he talks, people listen.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, has dispensed medical prescriptions and sage advice since he became chief of staff eight years ago. But his history with the University of Kansas goes back much further.
From an early age, Yockey knew he wanted to become a doctor.
He was raised in Lyndon and found a role model in the town's doctor when Yockey injured his knee at age 11.
"When I was playing baseball, I dislocated my knee trying to swing at a curve ball," he said. "They were afraid to move me. So they got Dr. Stout, and he came up to the baseball diamond. He pulled and twisted until it popped back into place."
Stout made a big impression on Yockey that day. "I thought, 'That is really neat. I'd really like to do that.'" he said.
In 1964, Yockey came to KU to study zoology. The University setting was very different for this small-town boy. On his first day on campus, future football Hall-of-Famer Gale Savers led a demonstration on campus.
"I'd never seen something like that." Yockev said.
Edmee Rodriguez / KANSAN
Yockey lived in Battenfeld Hall and joined ROTC, which was stressful for him.
"It was during the Vietnam War," he said. "ROTC at that time on college campuses wasn't popular with students. We wore uniforms on Wednesdays, and some students were pretty vocal. Some Wednesdays were pretty scary."
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, reviews a patient's X- rays.
To get by, Yockey held several jobs while in school — driving an ambulance, working in a bowling alley, cleaning houses, washing glassware for chemistry labs and taking care of rabbits in the Animal Care Unit. Yockey developed a work ethic which his wife, Nancy, said made him a workaholic.
"He just can't sit still," she said. "If he's home, he's mowing, cutting or chopping something."
After graduating in 1968, he attended the University of Kansas Medical Center, and in 1972, he earned his doctorate.
Yockey became a doctor for the Air Force and worked on several bases. He met his wife while interning at
Travis Air Force Base in California.
Yockey joined the staff at Watkins in 1987. He said he enjoyed working here.
"Student health is a fun job," he said. "I'm early every day. I look forward to what I'm going to see new today."
Yockey said his fellow staff members made his job easier.
"It could really be a difficult job," he said. "But because of the staff it's been pleasant and pleasurable." DeeAnn DeRoin, staff physician at Watkins, said the staff $^f$ fortunate to work with Vockey.
"He is able to work with different personalities, different practice styles," she said. "He definitely has the respect and admiration and total confidence of the medical staff."
Shots in the dark: Drive-by hits home, car
By Teresa Veazey Kansan staff writer
A sticker on the front door of a southwest Lawrence house reads, "You loot, I shoot."
Bullet holes were found on the front of the house, the garage door and in the
"They told me I couldn't park my car in the street because they were picking up bullets."
Police said residents of the house had been the subjects of a drive-by shooting that occurred about 3 or 4 a.m. Saturday in the 2500 block of Morningside Court. The house and a vehicle parked outside the residence were struck with bullets from three small-caliber handguns, suggesting that there was more than one perpetrator involved, police said. No injuries were reported.
John Nelson Morningside Court resident
Two males — both in their 20s and one of them a resident — were at home dur-
windshield of the vehicle parked in front of the house.
ing the time of the shooting.
The men were awake when the shooting occurred but did not report the incident until around 9:30 a.m. because no phone is at the residence. The men did not want to leave the house until daylight because of the shooting, police said.
At this time, police believe the shooting was linked to a dispute that occurred at an unidentified Lawrence bar earlier Saturday morning. Police said they believed that the two men at the residence and the suspects responsible for the shooting had been involved in an altercation at the bar which led to the shooting.
Police were at the residence most of the day Saturday investigating the scene and collecting evidence. The Lawrence fire department also assisted at the scene by providing ladders for police to
reach some of the bullets. Police said no other homes or vehicles in the area had been damaged during the shooting.
"I came home at 9:30 that morning, and the police were out there," said John Nelson, who also lives on Morningside Court. "They told me I couldn't park my car in the street because they were picking up bullets."
Nelson said that he didn't know who lived in the house but that he had met briefly one of the residents, who had borrowed tools from him.
Although Nelson wasn't at home during the shooting, he said he was a little concerned about his safety.
"I worried about the neighborhood, whether it's going downhill or not," Nelson said. "I don't like it, but there's nothing I can do about it."
Police have identified the suspects, but the investigation is continuing.
The sounds of Latin American music fill Duffy's, 2222 W. Sixth St., once a week. Students from all cultures spend Fridays dancing.
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A dance from a different culture
Latin America comes to Lawrence once a week, and it feels like home
By Eduardo A. Molina
Kansan staff writer
On Friday nights, Miguel Marinez, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, graduate student, doesn't feel like a foreigner in Lawrence.
Every Friday, Duffy's, in the Ramada Inn, 2222 W. Sixth St., becomes Casablanca dance club where Marinez and others enjoy and dance to Latin music. The sign at the club says that the room's capacity is 91, but more than 140 people pack into the club to dance.
"At least one day of the week, I feel like I'm at home," Marinez said. "This is a place where Latin Americans meet to have fun but also a place where Americans have a good time with us."
Besides having a place to dance, Casablanca offers an opportunity to discover Latin-American diversity, said Pedro Echeverria, Quito, Ecuador, senior and the club's disc jockey.
"Some Latin Americans need a place like this one in Lawrence," he said. "But Americans and international students can learn from our cultures."
Janette Burke, Overland Park senior, said that going to places like Duffy's helped Americans to go beyond the traditional stereotypes about Latin Americans. Burke has been going to Latin American dance clubs since she was in high school.
"Sometimes, Americans don't understand the way Latin Americans are," she said. "To learn more about them, Americans have to understand Latin Americans' love for music, poetry and nature."
Burke said that dancing to Latin music was different but exciting.
"In the United States, you don't dance with someone," she said. "They have fun, but they don't have the variety that Latin Americans have."
Jane Galvin, Lawrence senior, agreed and said that besides learning to dance to Latin music, she had learned more about Latin Americans.
"People are warmer," she said. "They have a lot of life and are always happy."
Alfonso Canedo, Cochabamba, Bolivia, graduate student, said he had volunteered to teach Latin-American dance to motivate Americans and international students.
"I have always tried to bring our culture to Lawrence," he said. "We needed a place like this where Americans and people from other countries can discover our culture without traveling."
LAB: system malfunctions
Shenoy told the entire system had crashed twice, but minor glitches had abounded on several other days this semester.
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Jerry Neibaum, executive director for technology services, said closing the lab to nonbusiness students was entirely up to the School of Business.
But Paul Kerber, computer coordinator for the school, said it was not considering closing the lab to non-business students.
The network has not crashed since January, and Shenoy said she would just have to continue to reinstall the programs as they disappeared from the system.
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