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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, December 6. 1980
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Campaign can't fill Margin's shoes
By Angela Baughman Kansan staff writer
If Margin of Excellence financing were reduced, Campaign Kansas would not take on new significance but could be affected indirectly, campaign officials said yesterday.
Todd Seymour, president of the Kansas University Endowment Association and a member of the campaign executive board, said that because the campaign's purpose was
to supplement what the state provided, it could not be a substitute for the Margin.
"I don't think it's a trade-off," he said.
Campaign Kansas is the University's five-year $177 million fund-raising drive.
The Margin is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent
Margin financing has been mentioned by legislators as a possible revenue source to ease the property tax burden that has them scrambling for solutions.
of their peers.
for someone.
Seymour said he did not think donors would see the campaign as a substitute for the Margin. He said that donors thought the state had a responsibility to support the University and that their contributions were supplemental.
John Scarife, public relations director for Campaign Kansas, said that because the campaign began before the Margin and would continue until June 30, 1992, it still would raise private funds regardless of what happened to the Margin.
He said that if the Margin financing were reduced, it would be a further indication of the importance of private financing.
private funds to shore up those weak nesses," Scarfe said.
"If those increases from the state aren't there, they have to look to
Because some contributors to the campaign are faculty members and part of the Margin money applies to faculty salaries, Scarife said, those faculty members' ability to give could be affected by a Margin cut.
He also said that if Margin financing were reduced, such action could signal to the public that education was not a top priority for financing.
Med Center class helps disabled children
Sue Wenner, center, works with Jesse Culwell, 4. Mary Heeter holds Tallatha Gaeff, 4, during a song led by Kay Ritcher, right
By Melanie Matthes
Kansan staff writer
"OK everybody, it's good morning time!" the teacher sang to the four children.
"Is everybody ready for good morning? Call out or raise your hand if you are ready."
you are ready!
A four-year-old girl named Talatha Graeff, or Telly, bounced up and down and raised her hand and the five instructors led the children in a song called "Hello Everybody."
At the end of the song the instructor shook Telly's hand. Telly smiled and her blonde pigtails wave in the air as she bounced on her instructor's lap.
Telly and her three classmates are enrolled in a preschool class conducted at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The class is designed to help the children, all of whom have two or more handicapping conditions, to develop communication, motor, speech and language, social coping skills, and coping with Sue Wenner, head teacher of the multiple handicap preschool.
"We try to make it like a normal preschool so that the kids can learn as much as they are able to," she said.
The preschool is financed through the Wyandotte County public school system and is part of the Med Center's Children's Rehabilitation Unit.
The preschool now enrolls seven children ranging in age from three to five years, Wenner said. When the children leave the preschool, they usually enrol in a special education program offered at a public school.
Joseph Hollowell, director of the unit, said although the name implied that the unit gave in-patient care to handicapped children, it had always provided an out-patient, school setting.
The unit offers services such as pediatrics, orthopedic surgery, special education and hearing and speech pathology, he said.
"It was created to offer those services because there was a big void in those years of a place where a new city was planned, location in three avenues." Hollowell said.
Created in 1988 through federal and local financing, the unit gives condition evaluations and recommends treatment of handicapped children. It also provides treatment in areas such as multiply-handicapped and autistic preschool children.
Hollowell said that in the future he expected to see the unit's focus turn toward evaluation and treatment of infant and preschool-aged children because many public schools were developing their own handicapped education programs.
The unit also will focus on developing community-based education programs, he said.
One such program is the Project EAGLE, he said, which teaches health and child care to underprivileged families from Wyandotte County who have or are expecting an infant.
A program that teaches adoptive parents to care for a handicapped child is another community-based program sponsored by the unit, Hollowell said.
The unit also offers special clinics for children with chronic diseases such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida
1988. She said that working with handicapped children was both rewarding and frustrating.
"Every little thing you see as improvement is a real big thing to them," she said. "It can be a little frustrating because you want to see them achieve as much as they can."
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'We try to make it like a normal preschool so that the kids can learn as much as they are able to'
head teacher of the multiple handicap preschool
and cystic fibrosis. Children with developmental problems who cannot eat or drink properly and school age children with learning problems also can be helped by the unit, he said.
The preschool program recently expanded to include a home-based and center-based program for families with handicapped children under two years old, Wenner said. This program is designed to meet the individual needs of the children and their families by providing in-home services as well as services in the hospital.
Mary Heeter has worked as a teaching assistant in the preschool since she graduated from KU in Fall
Four-year-old Libby Bridge sat on the floor and watched her classmate, Telly, spin around in a scooter. Lying on her back in the scooter, Telly kicked her short, braced legs out in front of her and laughed. Libby smiled, clapped her hands and pushed her classmate across the floor.
"Oh good, Libby, you pushed!" her teacher coed. "Very good! Can you push again?"
Libby pushed the scooter again and clapped in delight as Telly's scooter som around.
"Everybody clap for Libby," her teacher said, clapping her hands enthusiastically.
Libby Bridge works on her skills by putting a puzzle together.
Assembly gives some students second chance
By Anita Meyer
Kansan staff writer
Some students who have been academically dismissed may have the chance to be readmitted to the University of Kansas, the college assembly voted yesterday.
Tom Beisecker, chairman of the committee of undergraduate studies and advising, said that students who had failed to meet basic English or math requirements could enroll in English or math courses during the 1900 Summer session.
"We're talking about that group of students who, for some reason, failed to maintain continuous enrollment in English or math," he said. "Whether they enrolled in the class and dropped it or didn't remain enrolled until they met the requirements, they were not on probation."
"If, in addition, they suffered a low grade point average, they were dismissed. What we're doing is giving them the chance to redeem themselves at KU."
Beiecker said that students had to remain enrolled in English courses until they completed English 102 and in math until they completed a course.
He said students who had been dismissed but fulfilled requirements during the summer session would be readmitted to KU in Fall 1990.
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of math, said he approved giving students a second chance.
The assembly also approved curricular changes in undergraduate and graduate programs.
"I believe it's fair," he said. "I believe in a student being able to recover if he's had some problems."
In graduate studies, these areas were biological sciences, anthropology, history and political science. Changes included course descriptions, titles, credit, course additions and deletions.
Terry Slocum, chairman of the committee for graduate studies, asked for curricular changes in graduate courses.
In undergraduate courses, the assembly approved curricular changes in African and African-American studies, anthropology, Army ROTC, biological sciences, chemistry, communication studies, culture, geography, Germanic languages and literatures, history, microbiology, political science, psychology, theatre and film and women's studies.
The assembly approved classes that would fulfill the bachelor's of psychology and bachelor's of general studies requirements.
Holiday Heat
Cause of tire fire remains a mystery
By a Kansan reporter
The cause for Monday's fireire in Leavenworth County remains uncertain as tires, trash and bushes still were burning yesterday.
The fire, which started Monday morning on the property of R. H. Brauer of Linwood, is now being investigated by county officials and by the Kansas Department of Health Investigation, a department official said yesterday.
Larry Stafford, administrator officer of the Environmental Protection Agency in Kansas City, Kan., said the cause of the fire was unknown.
Chuck Magaha, Leavenworth County chief of emergency operations, said that the fire was under control but that it would keep burning for about two more days.
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