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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 23, 1986
Pool once stirred waves of attention
Bv Kristi Schroeder
writer
Although owning a pool now may be a mere luxury to most people, it was almost unheard of in 1964. But Helga Kursk broke with tradition and had a pool in her backyard.
Kursk and her son, Peter von Knorring, came to the United States in 1952 from West Germany. Von Knorring built five stone houses in an area south of 19th Street in Houlton house at 200 West Holland, where Kursk lived. At that time the area was all pasture, Kursk said yesterday.
Kw Von Krennard learned to build houses in Germany, and he brought this skill to America. The pool was put in because Kursk was used to having water around them in their native home off the Baltic Sea.
The house with the pool was never intended for Kursk's use, but after construction on it was finished, no one would buy it.
pool." Kursk said, "but because of the big windows."
the big windows. So Kursk and von Knorring decided to live in the house.
o five in the room.
To help pay the bills, Kursk took in tenants and began giving swimming lessons. Kursk's pool was the only one in Lawrence at the time it was built, she said.
bull, son,
Bryan Bruns, a 1985 KU graduate,
the thrill of Kursk's pool.
When he was six years old, the only
other pool in town was the Olympic,
located just south of Sixth Street at
Michigan Street.
Michigan St. Louis
"We didn't have the municipal pool then." Bruns said. "And Kursk's was closer than the Olympic."
kids could buy refreshments.
closer than the olympic pool. So Bruns and his friends would get a gargantuan swim and go swimming over it Kursk's, he said. The pool was within walking distance and a lot of kids from Bruns' school district used the pool.
ed the pool.
Bruns said that back then kids would pay 25 cents to swim all day, Kursk also had a pop machine so the
kids could buy Terrebonne.
Although no lifeguard was on duty,
the kids always were carefully watched. Bruns said the older folks who lived in the house would usually be out by the pool watching.
"Helga kept an eye on us, too" he said. "She made sure we didn't get too rowdy."
But Bruns never took lessons from Kursk.
Kursk no longer gives lessons herself, and she no longer swims. She has two teachers, and she keeps a careful eye over the business end of the swimming lessons.
the swimming pool. A child finished with the lessons and can swim to the deep end alone, Kuras said. She sits out in the shade and watches the child attempt this test. If the child fails, lessons are continued.
Although the pool is used for mundane things, such as swimming lessons, Kursk still remembers the stir it created when it was first put in.
created when it was in person
When the pool first went in, persons
flying a private plane over the house spotted the pool. After the plane landed, its owners called Kursk and asked for permission to come see the pool, she said.
pool, she said.
The neighbors all thought the pool was great, she said, and they still do. They don't have any complaints about noise or too many people around.
Today, life is a little quieter for Kursk. She no longer has lots of neighbor children swimming in the pool and the lessons are more structured.
The tenants in her house have permission to use the pool whenever they like, as long as they don't swim alone, Kurks said.
alone, Rush said.
"At first, they swim every day," she said. "After a while, they don't want to swim all the time."
So in the early morning, the pool is often deserted, looking just as it did in 1964 with Kursk's concrete statues keeping guard over the waters.
Plan would secure cab number to KUIDs
By Brenda Flory
Staff writer
when they fall, students may have something helpful added to their University of Kansas identification cards.
David Epstein, body president, wants to put a sticker with the telephone number of the Secure Cab on KUIDs.
on KUIDS.
"I think it's crucial because it can be lifesaving," he said.
The Secure Cab is a Student Senate service that was last March. Its purpose is to eliminate drunk driving by providing free cab transport to students with valid KUIDs.
Epstein was able to get the number added to the fall bus pass. But he said he wasn't sure how students who didn't buy a pass would receive the sticker.
sticker.
Epstein has asked the department of educational services to put the sticker on KUIDs when they put the semester stickers on during enrollment.
enrolment.
"If the number is on the ID,
students will be more aware of the
service." Epstein said.
William Kelly, acting dean of educational services, said he had received Epstein's request, but that a doctor not made could not be waited until this week.
Ann Eworsley, director of the organizations and activities center, said she thought the sticker was an appropriate way to distribute the information. But she could see why educational services would consider not putting the stickers on the IDs.
"There are many student organizations with many worthwhile causes," she said.
sne set up.
Epstein said that if the educational
department did not accept his idea,
the Senate would set up a booth in the Kansas Union during enrollment to pass out the stickers to students.
students.
"I know this may sound hokey, but we want every KUID to have the
Secure Cab number on it," he said. "People are driving drunk, and we think this can help ingrain the dangers of drunk driving in the minds of students."
Charles Ryan, coordinator of KU on Wheels, said it was difficult to determine the number of drunk drivers who have been kept off the roads by using Secure Cab because the statistics show only those who have been arrested for drunk driving.
"But I do think that Secure Cab does help bring those figures down," he said.
he said. Students can call 843-2401 for a free cab.
Helga Kursk
Homosexual groups cause funding debate
By Brenda Riory
Staff writer
ding until four years ago.
Of the three largest Kansas state universities, the University of Kansas has the only homosexual organization on campus that is funded by students.
The Gay and Lesbian Services of Kanaas has been a registered student organization at KU since the mid-1970s, but it didn't receive fun-
"Just because they don't have the same lifestyle as I do doesn't mean that I can condemn them," said Epstein, student I body president.
Epstein said he would support GSLOK as long as it could show that it was a service and not a social organization.
"As long as they serve other
students, I think they should remain on campus," he said.
Ruth Lichtward, spokeswoman for GSLOK, said the organization had a two goals.
a two goals:
"We want to help gay people live a normal life and educate everybody else so that they can," she said.
else so that the GSLOK offers educational programs, peer counseling, legal and medical referrals and support
"We feel information is extremely important."Lichtwardt said.
But the Gay and Lesbian Resource Association at Wichita State University and the Gay and Lesbian Resource Center at Kansas State University aren't funded by their student governments.
GLRA wasn't funded by the senate because WSU's supreme court declared the group a social organization.
organization.
"Our funding statute doesn't allow us to fund social, religious or military organizations," he said.
Mark Bolar, student body vice president at WSU, said that the
But Steve Wheeler, president of GLRA, said the organization had never held a social event. The judgment was based upon the group's
sexual preference, which was considered social, Wheeler said.
Steve Des Marteau, WSU's ombusman, said that when GLRA began at WSU as about two years ago, it had originally intended to be a support group that met and talked about problems facing homosexuals. But now it has expanded its services into education.
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