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Monday, December 6.1976
University Dally Kansan
Students question hall policies
By MARSHA WOOLERY
Staff Write
Even though many students eagled,
await the senesetive break, some are full of
anxiety wondering where they're going to
live during the break.
Only those with an average of 18 students staying the 27 nights will be open, John Hill, program director of the residence hall system, said last week. Those students staying must pay $4 a night without food service.
Last year McCollum and Tempilhins stayed open to accommodate 175 to 180 students, he said, but only about 20 to 25 students were there on a given night.
Hill said that an information sheet would be distributed today or tomorrow detailing the necessary arrangements, but that the handbook was not required. The hall would not be known until Dec. 15.
THE ARRANGEMENTS have produced hardships for many students who weren't anticipating the $4-a-s cost, particularly the students who have nowhere else to stay.
Mike Strong, Geneva, N.Y., graduate student, said that the policy has caused problems both for him and his roommate and for his boss. Who is an assistant instructor of German.
"My roommate was not told before he came to Kansas of the policy of occupancy during breaks," Strong said. "His exchange papers quote a price of $1,250 for room and board for the school year. They say nothing about it. He is also the principal for the break period. In his case, he feels the University was especially negligent in not informing him of this."
"THE CONTRACT says when the dorm will open, but makes no special point of saying it will be closed. For me that is extremely important. I picked up everything and moved. My address in New York no longer exists for me," Strong said.
Luckily, Strong said, his parents live in Nebraska so he will stay with them over the break, but he will lose money from not being a week at his part-time job in Lawrence.
Holana has decided to go back to Poland on a charter flight because the cost of flying home wouldn't be much more than staying here, Strong said. He estimated that staying at the residence hall during the break could cost about $210.
STRONG ALSO complained that the brochures and bulletins about the residence halls didn't mention the vacation housing. The conditions and prices were worked out far enough ahead to be included in the curriculum at the beginning of the semester, he said.
Hill said that the information about KU's vacation housing was available in the residence halls and housing office. He said the residence hall vacation cost wasn't included in the contract because the service wasn't covered by the contract.
"Housing during vacation does not really exist," he said. "It's totally dependent on how many people decide to participate."
He said that the service was offered to
make some housing available, but that since so few students were involved only the participants paid for the cost of the service and they did not cover the cost included in all housing contracts.
"ADMINISTRATIVELY, it's so difficult because it costs so much," Deb Bowman, resident director of McColm Hall, said.
The cost to students only covers the cost of staff, electricity, maintenance, cleaning and laundry.
"The security in the buildings is difficult because there are so many entrances and exites and people are always propping doors down that ensures the way for vandalism," Bohman said.
one staff also has to make sure that only paid residents are in the residence hall by knocking on doors and flushing strangers out. There are security entrances. No visitors are allowed, she said.
"I feel really out in the middle because I can understand the administrative point of view but more so the foreign students, who have no place to go," Bowman said.
IN ADDITION to the foreign students, she said, there are many graduate students who don't want to go home for vacation because they're involved in their studies.
Students receive notices four of five days ahead of holidays to sign up for the vacation housing, she said. They pay in advance but can be reimbursed if they leave early.
To most students it's a shock that after contracting to make 10 payments they must pay an additional month's rent for the vacation, Bowman said.
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Another Polish student, Andrei Kywacky, who also lives in McColum Hall, said that those students who were proficient in English stood flood the policy about vacation housing.
He wasn't aware of it and said that it would be better. if advisers informed students about it.
BOWMAN SAID that one student in McCollum Hall had become so concerned about the plight of foreign students that she sent a letter to Mr. alternative for the Thanksgiving vacation.
Carol Hoekje, Akile, Ohio graduate student, said she had reserved cabins at the Chippewa Church camp in October where students could stay for $2 a night, pooling extra money for food, but she had to cancel the reservations for lack of response.
"People just: had trouble deciding what they wanted to do." she said.
Judy Woleyell, assistant to the dean of foreign students, said that the University offered a program to teach students in English and Thanksgiving. The spring break but not during semester break.
Three national programs, the Christmas International House, the Friendship International House and VISIT, try to provide such vacation housing, she said, and students may apply through her office three weeks in advance.
BOTH THE Christmas and Friendship house programs provide free housing for two weeks in a city of the student's choice. Except for transportation and occasional student has no expenses. He stays in a family's home or in group living arrangements.
In the VIST program a student individually plans a three week itinerary of the places he wishes to visit. He again pays for transportation but stays in a home in each place for one and a half to two days. By participating in two of the programs, Woelf said, a student could plan his housing for the whole semester break, but only about 20 out of 1200 eligible students have.
WOELFEL AND Bowman both said that many foreign students were uninterested because they have been here several years and have already spent vacations in people's homes. Many are graduate work, they said.
Strong said he thought the housing solution should come from a special residence hall arrangement of the hospitality facility or a smaller residence hall as a place for
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"If this University is to insist on calling these places residence halls it should not treat them, and often their occupants, as long-term day camps," he said.
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"More than that, the University should make provisions for housing which doesn't stop in the middle of a year," Strong said. "It should allow those persons who know you to have stable housing and provide a different contract which would provide for the continual service to residents."
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"With some work, I think we could come up with a much more positive alternative than sticking people with paying $4 a night," Bowman said.
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