Monday, April 7, 1986
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Cats
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Most of Swezy's customers are regulars. New cat customers come around Christmas. The two calico cats she was watching last week knew each other from previous visits.
start looking for the toy box or go to the kitchen and see what he's being asked to do.
"So the cats kind of look forward to coming here because they get to see their playmates," she said. "The ones that have been here before will
The dark, paneled living room was quiet. Willi, a Siamese, was still under the couch. He isn't interested in mingling with the others, she said, and only comes out to eat at night when everyone else is asleep.
"She doesn't put them in cages," Williams said. "Sometimes I go on vacation for a month, and I wouldn't leave my animal with anyone that long if I knew it would be locked up." "A lot of people think that animals don't have emotions; I think they do. The poor creatures really suffer if they're left behind and put in a cage."
Tessa Williams, a Topeka resident, has been using Sweezy's sitting service for her 12-year-old Miss Kitty for the last three weeks of Sweezy's cat sitting was unique.
Williams said she thought Swezy provided exceptional care. Swezy, she said, could detected the slightest illness in the cats. Miss Kitty always looks healthy and well-fed when Williams returns from vacation.
Several veterinarians in Topika recommend Swezy to their clients.
When business ebss, Swezey actively recruits customers. She said she sometimes stood by the cat food display in the grocery store. First, she talks to the shoppers about cats, which clearly brings up the issue of cat tatting.
"I picked up two clients that way
Sweeye leaned forward and laughed heartily. One cat, she said, wanted to be rocked in her arms at 6:30 every morning.
"He acquired that after he was here. He was running around fussing in the mornings, so I just picked him up and rocked him," she said. "He loved it."
Even the scratching posts have been replaced by a natural log because her cat clients like it more.
"I can conscientiously say that I haven't just fed, watered and provided litter for them," she said. "I spend time with each one. Each gets their share of attention."
Swezy fondly recalls Sir, a 17-year-old black cat with gourmet tastes. When she watched him, she had to prepare his food. His owners left fresh bits of kidney that Swezy boiled and served to Sir.
Swezey said the cats were like children who often reflected their owners' personalities. She prefers the dog, which, she says, are too demanding.
last night," she said. "I don't know if that's legal; maybe it's called soliciting or something."
"Dogs will sit up and do their little tricks and get rewarded," she said. "If cats don't want to do their tricks, the heck with it."
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Swezey remembers all the names, ages, markings and personalities of all the cats she has watched. Somewhere in the piles of books and papers, there's a scrapbook with every cat's picture.
Swezey keeps a chart pinned to the calendar in the kitchen with names, dates and special information on each cat in case she gets sick.
Swezey has lived in Topeka for 30 years. She grew up in Wakefield and spent some time teaching grade school there.
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Mike Schultz, Topeka, pins his entry number on daughter Amy, 3. Schultz finished 110th Saturday morning in the 10-kilometer section of the Clinton Dam Run. The run started at the Holcom Park Sports Complex, 2702 Lawrence Ave., and stopped at intervals between the complex and the dam.
"There are always faculty curriculum committees who review a program's curriculum." McKay said. "This is not unique."
Student concern over possible changes in the curriculum is over-reaction to Hixon's death, he said. "People always attach themselves to a professor and students react to a professor is lost." McKay said.
The problem the search committee
is running into, McKay said, is a lack of qualified people willing to teach at a university salary.
The search committee is looking at applicants who have a good educational background as well as practical experience in the field.
"You find that the people you are looking for in interior design, graphic design and industrial design are in very high-paying positions," McKay said.
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renovate their views of their work
forces, in my opinion, that are stealing farmers' land."
While Zeskid warned farmers about extremists, another speaker advocated some unusual methods to promote job satisfaction on the farm.
He predicted that in several hundred years, farming would return to less technological, more successful operations. Looking beyond oneself and one's own problems is the key.
Wes Jackson, of the Land Institute in Salina, challenged farmers to
Jackson said. "Put the rural community and its culture first, and the healthy family farm is a derivative of that.
"To focus on the family farm is a bad idea for business policy."
"If you're not working on something bigger than what you can accomplish in a lifetime, you're not thinking big enough."
Two groups talk of lives as radicals
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LONG BEACH, Calif. — Activism is a way of life and not just a stage one grows out of, student radicals of the 1908s and 1960s said at a weekend conference. April 4 and 5.
The two-day reunion at Cal State Long Beach was the brainchild of Leo Riffik, a history lecturer at the school who wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the American Association of Students for a Democratic Society, co-founded by Assemblyman Tom Hayden, of Santa Monica.
David Kern, 36, who was a student radical at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s and '70s, spoke to 450 people April 4 at the conference.
"There is no question that there is a mood of depression today," he said.
Kern, who now teaches high school English, said many of his students seemed paralyzed by fear of a nuclear holocaust and a feeling of hopelessness.
Barbara Ehrenreich, member of the Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s and now a contributing editor for Mother Jones magazine, said myths had been created to discredit her generation.
"I want to talk about 'The Big Chill' myth," she said.
"The Big Chill" is a movie about student activists who abandon their commitment to social change for lives as hedonistic young urban professionals, or yuppies.
"Our political activism was not just a phase in the life cycle that we were going to out of," Esphroreich said. "We were not, as Spiro T. Agnew described us, 'a bunch of spoiled-rotten kids who needed a good spanking."
"I'm 44 and older than I ever thought I'd be. I'm more of a political activist now than I have ever been in my life."
The activists included fathers and mothers who worked in the labor movement and who participated in anti-war protests of the 1930s and their children who came of age 30 years later.
Donna Rogers, 35, a member of the Students for a Democratic Society in the late 1960's said, "I am the way I am politically because of my parents. I went on my first peace march when I was 9."