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Group donates proceeds to help build playground
The warm spring air brought out colorful shorts and wide smiles to the jungle-gyms, slides and swings at Hillcrest Elementary School yesterday morning.
Inside the school, past the crayon-and-paste posters and chatty classrooms, there were adults with smiles as fresh and exuberant as the smiles on the playground.
By Rick C. Honish
Kansan staff writer
Gene Shaughnessy, chairperson of the Lawrence St.
Patrick's Day Committee, had one of the biggest smiles in the school's library as he handed a check for $12,000 to Margo Grav.
Surrounded by committee members, students and Mayor Shirley Martin-Smith, Margo, a sixth grader at Hillerstreet, accepted the check on behalf of her family and
her brother, Ryan. It was a huge step toward making the Ryan gay Playground for All Children a reality.
Ryan Gray attended Hillcrest during grade school. He had befriended former Kansas basketball coach Larry Brown and the 1988 NCAA championship team. He died from an inoperable brain tumor last year at age 17
The playground, which will be built at Hillecrest, 1045
hilltop Drive has been designed to accommodate
children of all ages.
The $12,000 had been collected from donations to the St. Patrick's Day parade. Shaughnessy said last year's parade had collected about $5,000, so the $12,000 collected this year was surprising.
"I am very proud and happy, more than happy, elated," he said.
Study will assess KU's ability to achieve its academic goals
Bv Eric Nelson
Kansan staff writer
A study recently completed at KU will help analyze how well the University is setting and meeting academic goals.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the goal-attainment survey, which began in February, was completed in March. The survey included seniors, sophomores, faculty and alumni.
The assessment includes two parts: what goals are important to KU and how well they are being met, Shulenburger said.
The survey focused on goals of general education at KU, including increasing students' appreciation of human diversity, capacity for critical thinking and appreciation of the arts.
"The whole assessment activity focuses on undergraduate programs." he said.
Shulenburger said the survey was not a part of a program or series of studies.
Information obtained from the survey will be submitted to various departments and schools to relate how well they are meeting their
The study was done by telephone and supervised by the office of institutional research and planning. It was done through the survey conducted by the Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, he said.
missions, Shulenburger said.
Steven Maynard-Moody, director of public policy research at the institute, said the survey was conducted in the lab at Fraser Hall. The lab, which contains five microcomputers and five telephones, allows information to be compiled immediately.
New KU water line to be installed
By Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
Construction on a new water line that will improve water pressure for the KK campus will begin this fall.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said that there was a problem with water pressure in some of the taller buildings, such as Fraser and Haworth halls, and that the new system would solve the problem.
Although the construction will be done during the summer semester, classes will not be affected. Wiechert
"More than likely they'll connect buildings one at a time as they go through the campus," he said. "It won't take too long."
"Most of the disruption will be caused by the tearing up of the campus because the contractors will have to go under the streets, sidewalks and maybe even a few trees."
The project, which will cost almost $2 million, is state-
financed and will take two summers to complete.
Part of the cost will be generated by studies of the gas and electric utilities, storm sewers and sanitation service utilities on campus.
"The studies primarily look at the condition of the utilities, their capacity and how well they'll meet our needs in the next 25 years or so. As we continue to build on campus, we need to expand our utilities." he said.
Wiechert said the new system would give the campus water from two sources.
"If there's a problem and one gets turned off, then we can rely on the other source," he said.
Currently, the University's water supply comes from the city water plant. This summer, the campus will get water from Clinton Lake as well.
Workers in campus buildings have noticed the poor water quality at the University.
"The water in the fountain is absolutely horrid," said Christopher Zuckerman, a worker on the sixth floor of Fraser. "The water pressure is very weak up here also."
Zuckerman said he had noticed that the lower floors in the building had colder water in the fountains.
Agency job to support the homeless
In response to the shutdown of Lawrence's Salvation Army safe house, the United Way of Douglas County is financing a new farm to help solve Lawrence's growing homeless problem
By Lara Gold
Blankenship said United Way's decision to help the homeless allowed the community to respond to the crisis of poverty.
Blankenship also will be helping the community organize a long-term plan to solve Lawrence's homeless problem.
Kansan staff writer
Jeannie Blankenship, currently the director for home-less services for the Salvation Army, has been hired for the New York City Smith executive director for Douglas County's United Way.
"I feel like there is a commitment from the community," she said.
"United Way has invited Jeanne to provide the expertise she has gained while work at the lowest population." Smith said.
She said she would advise other agencies on how to find ways to help the homeless.
The Salvation Army safe house, which offered job and housing opportunities to its residents, closed April 1 because it had incurred a $70,000 debt and had failed to find a stable form of support since it opened in January 1990.
Blankenship said she was optimistic about the community's involvement with the homeless.
"It doesn't feel like I'm starting my job from scratch," she said.
Blankenship will work out of the Ballard Community Center. 708 Elm St.
The center has provided administrative support for the Emergency Services Council, Warm Hearts, the holiday bureau and Community Department of Appreciation Program, Smith said.
"They are a neutral agency, not directly in the business of providing shelter," she said. "They have already proven they have the capability to handle the administrative coordination of diverse programs."
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