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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol.89, No.144
Thursday, May 3, 1979
Spring exodus felt by Lawrence merchants
Lawrence, Kansas
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Aid might involve KU in KC politics
By GENE LINN and JOHN LOGAN
By GENELINN
Staff Reporters
The University of Kansas, while moving toward a closer relationship with Kansas City, Kan., has made a move that some people say connects KU to the city.
Faced with the problems of a decaying urban area, community leaders of Kansas City, Kan., have turned to KU for expert help in aiding the city.
Two years ago, Chancellor Archie Dykes was asked to join the board of directors of the Kansas City Kansas Development Corporation, a non-profit group trying to awaken the city's economy.
Last summer the group asked Dykes to contribute money for the KDCK's operating expenses. Dykes authorized Association Association to give $1,000 to the KDCK.
Shortly afterward, the KCKD began lobbying solely for a convention center for the city. Building the center was a key issue in the recent victorious mayoral campaign of mayor Jack Beardon.
REARDON PROMISED in the campaign to do all he could to bring in the convention center. Both Reardon and his campaign manager, John Jurcy Jr., executive director of the KCKDC. Jurcy is secretary-treasurer of the organization.
Before turning its attention to the convention center, the KCKC helped KU get $2.6 million in Regents' Revenue Bonds passed for the construction of a multi-level parking garage at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, according to Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association.
Dykes' donation came from an Endowment Association discretionary fund at the Med Center. According to Med Center officials, the donation was from a fund controlled by Dykes and David Waxman, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, that is used for Med Center improvements.
The donation was made on July 17. The bonds for the parking lot were approved on July 24.
Seymour said that the donation was an "investment" in KU's efforts to get the best return.
"THAT GROUP was really helpful in
getting the bonds for the parking lot," Seymour said. "It was absolutely essential that we got those bonds."
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But other University officials said they were whether she had had a larger role in maintaining the bond.
PATRICIA SEDLOCK, the unsuccessful candidate for Reardon's office, said the KCKDC has been pushed hard for the convention center. Sedlock said the center, she opposes, was the key issue of the campaign.
Waxman agreed. "Their help was important. They speak in our behalf and know individuals who can go to bat for us."
Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said he doubted whether the KCKD had been involved in the bond sale.
"I think they are mistaken," Nitcher said. "These bonds had nothing to do with Kansas City corporations. They were offered to public bidding."
"Those studies were done by the city engineer before I came to KU," said Dykes, who arrived in 1974. "They do these surveys as a matter of course."
At least two members of the Kansas City, Kan. political community see a link between KU and the KCKDC as possibly being bad for the University.
One of Sedlock's main campaign partners, David W. Carson, a Kansas city lawyer, said KU's involvement with the $1,000 donation, had been unwise.
"It definitely got KU involved in Kansas City politics." Carson said.
`rant's absurd on the face of it,' it said. 'It is a non-partisan group. It has no party affiliation.'
"It has no connections with city hall. If you look at the people who are on it, you can see they are not connected with us. The employer's authority is the largest employer in the area."
But Dykes said the KCKDC had nothing to do with city politics.
Students to work on KC economy
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About 20 percent of the state's tax revenues for next year will go to KU.
Dykes said he was sure the Med Center could benefit from the proposed conveniences.
By GENE LINN Staff Renorter
Underlying the efforts is a close relationship between the University of Kirkuk and the Mangalore School.
Palumbo and Charles Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said KU also would benefit from doing more projects in Kansas City.
He also said the School of Architecture and Urban Design recently had helped some Kansas City businesses redesign their fronts to make them more attractive.
Efforts to put KU urban affairs students to work on projects to help revive Kansas City, Kan's sagaing economy soon could bear fruit, after those efforts seemed to have died last winter.
For example, thousands of Kansas City students have taken the 40-minute drive west to attend KU and the city has a high volume of commuters. Many coffers, much of which has gone to KU.
The KU Medical Center is one of the largest employers in Kansas City, and the University has a wealth of expertise in urban affairs that could be used more fully to bolster the city's slumping economy.
Dennis Palumbo, director of the KU Center for Public Affairs, said yesterday that KU urban experts could easily help Kansas City.
"AT THE CENTER we've held conferences and trained people like management supervisors for law enforcement units," he said.
Palumbo said most projects added money to the center's budget.
Palumbo said the center had not had many projects in Kansas City, but was
"A good example of the consulting work we do is the contract we just signed with Shawnee County (Topeka) to write a comprehensive community corrections plan."
"If a project takes up 10 percent of my time and 50 percent of a secretary's time, for example, we'll charge the sponsor of the project enough to cover that much of our salaries and any materials used," he said.
The center had a total of six projects from July 1, 1978, to March 1, 1979, bringing in $167,489, according to Carolyn Hallenbeck, assistant to the vice chancellor in the research administration office.
"It is an enormous advantage to have students work on real projects for real clients," he said. "It probably helps us graduate students to work on the projects."
ROUGHLY HALF OF THE center's $80,000 fund was for by income from pallets. Palmieri
Of that amount, she said, $23,128 what
the University for administrative
officer.
KCKDC WAS CREATED in late 1972 to help revitalize Kansas City's economy. Both KU Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Stephen M. Goliver are on the KCKDC board of directors.
Despite the mutual benefits to be gained from involving KU in Kansas City projects, efforts by a non-profit Kansas use UK resources faltered last year.
Kahn said KU received another benefit from outside projects.
Thomas Budesheim, who was president of the Kansas City Kansas Development Corporation last year, said recently that he had hoped the KCKDC could have become a "coordinating council" which would gather information on the company's needs for KU expertise and pass the information along to KU.
"There were four or five scattered groups using KU's expertise, and we wanted to coordinate their efforts," Budesheen said.
Budeshem said in the letter that he planned to contact some officials at KU to discuss how the KCKD could use resources to work toward a bidrier economy.
"There really no limit to what the city and University can do in developing."
Budehse's attempt to use KU's expertise in urban affair offers a with than in urban affair.
The letter also acknowledged a $1,000 donation made to the KCKD from a
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S. Africa resolutions tabled
The Student Senate tabled indefinitely two resolutions concerning the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in South Africa after it had approved the creation of an off-campus housing board.
Rex Gardner, chairman of the Student Rights and Responsibilities Committee, called for the tabling of the resolution that he had helped submit. The action followed a two-and-a-half hour debate on the housing bill.
Gardner said he wanted to table the resolution because there was not enough time in the meeting to consider it. There were 90 minutes remaining until the senators would have leave because of the closing of the Kansas Union at 1 a.m.
Gardner's resolution endorsed the Endowment Association's investments in South Africa, and the second resolution called for the divestiture of the association's investments in South Africa.
The second South Africa resolution was tabled for the same reason.
Both of the resolutions had come from the Student Rights and Responsibilities Committee. Veronica Cruz, social justice attorney for the school district, said:
had tried to have the divestiture resolution considered in the Feb. 28 Senate meeting.
SEVERAL MEMBERS of the KU Committee on South Africa who were right said they had been盗取 documents by the labelling of the documents.
Tony Hunter, a member of the Committee on South Africa, said he thought the resolutions had been tabled because some senators feared the resolution favoring divestiture would pass.
"Rex did it again because he knew we would have won." Hunter said.
Jonathan Unger, also a member of the Committee on South Africa, said that although he was disappointed by the decision, he thought the resolutions had been tabled because of a lack of time.
"They may have tabled it because it is late, and they didn't want to draw out the meeting," he said.
The Committee on South Africa had endorsed the resolution that called for the Endowment Association's divestiture from all American companies with operations in South Africa.
CRUZ, ALSO a member of the committee, said she had been shocked by the tabling.
"Because these were tabled, this will not be discussed again until next fall." Cruz said.
The Services Committee had recommended Tuesday that the bill be sent back to committee because some members were opposed.
The board set up in the Rules and Regulations would represent all living groups on and off campus. Berlin's board would serve only off-campus students. No one has access to any of the regulations housing board, even though it does exist officially.
"The members of the ad hoc committee felt that there was a need to represent both," Melanie Anderson, co-chairman of the panel.
THE SENATORS who supported Berlin's board said there should be two boards.
Sidewalk splash
Heavy rains caused the cancellation of campus activities and forced many students to
remain indoors yesterday. Those who ventured out, like Corie Brown, Wichita junior, not only had to deal with Mother Nature but inconsiderate motors as well.
Staff Photo by BILL FRAKER
Children develop balance at clinic
By BARBARA JENSEN
Staff Renorter
Carlena Haney knew that something was different about her baby by the time he was four hours old—he consistently used the left side of his body more than the right side.
"We couldn't put our finger on what was wrong," Haney said. "But we knew that slow motor development ran in the family, so we had him tested."
As Jake became older, the right side of his body developed more slowly than the left side. It developed so slowly that the right eve almost quit functioning.
Jake took a series of tests at the clinic when he was 3/4 years old, but he was diagnosed as borderline in slow senescence and had been treated later he was tested and been therapy.
Jake was 4½ years old before his problems were diagnosed and treatment began.
"The clinic has helped him to be normal," she said, "and it might have helped him to stay healthy."
Now, 2% years later, Hanya thinks Jake has overcome most of his sensory-motor skills.
BUT THE past 2% 3 years have involved driving 35 miles four days a week for half an hour.
When Jake, who is 7 years old now, walked into the clinic in Robinson Gymnasium one day last week, he was not enthusiastic about the first part of his therapy.
"I don't like this—it hurts my head," the small, blond boy said.
But it was the last time he would have to spin in a swirl chair as part of his therapy.
Tom Svoboda, Jake's therapist, said the spinning was to make sure the semi-circular canals in Jake's inner ears were funcu-
tionally working. If the canals is necessary to maintain balance.
Jake was much more enthusiastic about the next part of his therapy. He was able to jump across a line on a trampoline 10 times while keening his feet together.
" he bends his leg when he's in the air, " should keep them straight and bend their feet straight.
BUT JAKE would put his hand on his hip and slap his hip when he could jump equally with the other person.
"One, two, three, Trap." Svoboda said as he climbed on the trumpet to jump with him. "Keep your head up ... jump with me. Keep your legs straight ... that is, Jake. Keep your legs straight ... that is, Jake."
ake climb down from the trampoline with a smile of satisfaction. He then tried one of his favorite things—learning to ride a bicycle.
For several minutes, Jake wobbled up and down the ball on a bike.
But soon or later, jake would lose his balance, always failing to the left side.
"Pedal hard, jake, keep going. keep ragtag. keep ragtag. keep ragtag." The back of the back of his bike.
Then the lights in the clinic dimmed. That
meant there were only five minutes left and it was time to relax.
Then the lights were on again, and Jake left until the next day.
About 30 other children between the ages of 3 and 12 attend the clinic. Children attend
Jean Pyfer, director of the clinic, said that about 85 percent of the children finished the course.
"We keep the children in therapy until you can catch, throw, write, skip and walk."
"You send a child like this to school in a turtle-neck sweater and he can't sit still or dance."
Pyler said a tactile defensive child could not tolerate be touched or cuddled
She said the older a child was, the more difficult it was to treat a lag in sensory-motor development. She said the lag caused problems in sensory input in six areas.
She said tactile sense, for example, were used to discriminate between size, shape and texture.
"AS A PROTECTIVE device, the tactile senses respond to subtle stimuli," she said. "Nerves located under the skin and hair follicles tell you where space ends and your
One of Jake's problems was visual tracking, the process of following something up.
crazy', she said. "The system that should respond to only very small stimuli isn't able to respond to any well-structured stimuli."
Jake's left eye was much stronger than his right eye, and he almost lost the vision in his right eye because of the slowness. But she never fell in the clinic, he has corrected the problem.
"The worst case of visual tracing I've seen." Pyer said, "was a little girl who read to the middle of a sentence with her left hand and drew a side back to the middle with her right eve."
Pyfer said children with undiagnosed perceptual-motor problems often had very little speech.
"THEY LOOK around and realize that they are different from other children, but don't know why," she said, "and it pervades everything they do."
She said children with perceptual-motor problems were usually either extremely young or underweight.
"The aggressive ones are saying that they will nieve them can do something," she said.
Two studies done in California showed that 75-80 percent of juveniles in detention homes had perceptual-motor problems, she said.
She said a 1972 study showed that 20 percent of the elementary students in inner cities were illiterate.
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