University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 28, 1989
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Financial aid helps some KU students
By Tracy Wilkinson
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The days of the struggling college student still exist at the University of Kansas.
Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, said 7,262 students received some form of financial aid in the 1988-89 school year, amounting to $24,364,937.
Rogers said figures had not been calculated for the 1989-90 academic year.
"The figure is something lower than that right now," he said, "but I have reason to expect that they would go at high."
Information on the exact number of students who completely earn their way through school is unavailable, one office worker said.
Derren Berg, Mission senior, said that he had taken financial responsibility for all five of his years here at the University and that he intended to continue paying his way through law school.
"I just kind of took it upon myself to put myself through college," he said. "My parents can't afford it, and I have two sisters just a couple of years younger than me."
Berg said his financial support came from guaranteed student loans and from money earned in the summers and during the school year.
"I'm going into debt pretty far as far as loans are concerned," he said. "I probably owe between 11
and 12 thousand dollars."
Berg estimated that his expenses for each of his first four years at the University ranged from $4,000 to $5,000 because he lived in a residence hall.
"It's a little more now that I live in an apartment," he said. Working during the summers provides nearly half his expense money for the year, Berg said. And although money sometimes gets tight, he still tries to have a social life.
"I still go out and stuff like that," he said. "I don't think I should make myself miserable here. I'm not extravagant, I don't have to spend a lot of money. I can't afford to do that, but I can spend enough to have a good time."
Chris Lewis, Johnson City junior, is an architectural engineering major whose parents aren't paying for his college education.
He said he wanted to go to school, and he didn't have any money.
money. "I just decided I wanted an education, he said, "So I ordered two pamphlets explaining how to get financial aid and talked to a financial aid adviser."
Lewis said he received a three-year, $2,000 scholarship from the American Institute of Architects.
"The rest is filled in by financial aid and what I made in the summers." he said.
Lewis said that he had recieved the maximum amount of financial aid allowed by the University.
Group hopes message about sex helps teens
Slogan intended to draw attention to problem
By Holly Lawton Kansan staff writer
'Love is great, sex can wait.'
2008 This is the message of Kansas Action for Children, a non-profit, private child advocacy group based in Topeka.
But the organization isn't just for children, said Vicki George, teen-age pregnancy director for the group. Its messages also are targeted at KU students, who may have noticed signs prominently displayed on the back of KU buses, where a pregnant sunflower stands alone and sad.
"I do think the message can also apply to people in their 20s, who are probably not virginal." George said. "We just want them to remember that relationships need other kinds of nurturing besides physical."
George said the signs also could be seen by Lawrence teen-agers and their parents as the buses travel through town.
"We hope parents will look at the signs and say to their kids, 'See that sign? Let's talk about it,'" George said. "Sex education begins at home. Parents need to get involved."
Johamah Bryant, executive director for the Kansas Action for Children, said the Kansas were part of a statewide project. They are hung on buses in Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka and Wichita to send the message to as many people as possible.
young people getting pregnant too soon," she said. "Buses are a good place to make our point because they're seen by a lot of people."
Kansas Action for Children collaborated with the bus companies to hang the signs, George said. The organization pays a nominal fee for its advertising, and the buses donate their space.
many people as possible. "We know there's a problem with
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The reasons for getting involved so young are more than just personal. There are also societal factors. The media tells them that they're not OK unless they're having sex, and the parents aren't talking about it.'
Teen-age pregnancy director for Kansas Action for Children
Vicki George
George said that more than 4,000 Kansas teen-agers had given birth this year, most of which were not planned pregnancies.
"We want to show people that a problem exists," she said. "The reasons for getting involved so young are more than just personal. There are also societal factors. The media tells them that they're not OK unless
they're having sex, and the parents aren't talking about it."
George said economic factors existed as well.
"About half the teen-agers who get pregnant go ahead and deliver, and many are keeping their babies because we as a society offer them no other career options," she said. "It's all interrelated."
Stronger academic skills and better education and awareness would possibly help eliminate the problem of teen-age pregnancies in Kansas, George said.
About 20 percent of the KU students who request pregnancy tests each year have positive results, according to statistics from the health education department at Watkins Memorial Health Center. In 1988, 216 of 1,054 women tested positive for pregnancy at Watkins, said Candyce Waitley, a registered nurse in health services. Through September 1989, 160 of 702 women tested positive.
Kansas Action for Children's signs identify what has become a serious problem both at KU and nationwide, Waitley said.
"Anytime you have an unplanned pregnancy, that's a problem, even if there's only one," she said.
Female authors may emerge onto Western Civilization list
Bv Stacy Smith
Kansan staff writer
are men.
Aristotle and Sophocles may have to share time with their female contemporaries when the University of Kansas Western Civilization program is reorganized in Fall 1990.
James Woeffel, director of the program, said he would favor the introduction of more female authors into the program, if they were of significant cultural importance, to replace male authors now on the reading list.
"There is definitely room for improvement," he said. "I will certainly raise these issues. One problem is that there have been very few women writers of influence until fairly modern times."
Fourteen authors are studied in the first semester of Western Civilization, all of whom
In the second semester, two of the 19 authors are women. They are studied during the one week set aside to study the influence of feminism in society. Racism and anti-Semitism also are given one week of study each.
Woeffel said he would like to see portions of Christine De Pisan's book "The City of Women" incorporated into the reading list.
are given one week on study.
"The idea is to expose students to the great ideas that have shaped our world and where they come from and develop," he said. "In a two-semester program, we have to pick and choose like crazy."
incorporated into the school. Ann Schofield, director of women's studies, said she also would favor the addition of Piskan's book into the Western Civilization program. She said that the program was not well-balanced because it excluded most women and minority
writers and their contributions to western culture.
"There are many missing voices," she said. "I think the program should be redefined to say there are many traditions that make up our culture and the world we live in."
Phillip Paladun, professor of history who is on the program's teaching staff, said that the reading list was composed by faculty in the program and an advisory committee made up of four faculty members, four graduate teaching assistants, one undergraduate student and one volunteer faculty member from another department in the University.
"It's a choice between lots of good authors," he said. "No one's been able to present an argument to challenge the authors that are on the list now. There hasn't been a strong enough intellectual claim for women in that era."
Palaidan said he would favor the addition of women authors, depending on who they were and what author they would replace on the reading list now used.
"We are discovering women who haven't been heard in the past, and in doing so, maybe we'll find some unheard voices," he said.
The KU Western Civilization reading list has not been as controversial an issue as it has been in past years at other schools.
Several years ago at Stanford University, Paladan said, a debate about the nature of the curriculum resulted in the university changing its reading list to include seven women authors.
Although the issue has not recently stirred up controversy at KU, Paludan said, there was a time when no women were represented in the courses.
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