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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Monday, October 11, 1993
Helping community is week's focus
Outreach center to head campus volunteer drive
By Donella Hearne
Kansan staff writer
KU's Center for Community Outreach wants to get students "Into the Streets" this week to introduce them to opportunities for volunteer work in Lawrence.
Anyone can volunteer, said Julie Harris, co-director of the Outreach center, and this week gives people a chance to see if they like the work.
"Into the Streets" is part of a national campaign by the Collegiate Outreach Opportunities League. More than 100 campuses across the nation take part in the campaign each year.
The campaign will focus on different aspects of community work and the importance of volunteering. Harris said that volunteer work could fit into any schedule.
"Even an hour makes an impact," she said. "You can work one hour or twenty hours."
If students do not have enough time to volunteer they can donate food, clothing or toys.
Students can donate canned goods this week in front of Wesco Hall, Chee
where the Outreach center will collect cans in a small, constructed wooden house. The canned goods will be given to Ballard Community Center, 708 Elm St., from where they will be distributed to needy families.
Students also can sign up to work in the Salvation Army soup kitchens and at several child-care centers. Volunteers also will be visiting area nursing homes.
Shanda Vangas, co-director of the Outreach center, said students had been responsive to the volunteer program in the past.
"There has always been a great turnout for the volunteering," she said.
She hopes people will try volunteer work and then sign up to work the entire semester.
The Outreach center also sponsors a work-study program in the spring. The program pays students who volunteer for community agencies such as the Ballard Community Center and the Salvation Army.
Volunteers from the Outreach center also work during the Special Olympics and collect toys for the Salvation Army's Toys for Tots program.
Vangas said that students could obtain volunteer information at the tables set up in front of Wescoe or call the Center for Community Outreach in the Student Senate office at 864-3710.
'Into the streets'
Tomorrow — Literacy Day
Today — Homelessness and Hunger Day
The Center for Community Outreach is trying this week to get students interested in volunteer work in Lawrence. Each day will focus on a different aspect of community service.
- Tomorrow — Literacy Day
- Wednesday — Environment Day
- Thursday — Senior Citizen's Day; a speaker will speak on homelessness from noon to 1 p.m. in front of Wescoe Hall
Friday — Children's Day
**Saturday- Children's Day**
Study in volunteer work from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. all week and also can donate carned goods in front of Wescoe.
Landlords want controls in Oread's parking plan
KANSAN
By Tracl Carl
Kansan staff writer
As part of a proposed plan to solve parking problems in the Oread neighborhood, landlords want to be able to buy on-street parking permits to distribute to their tenants.
The Oread Neighborhood Association is upset because KU students and staff are parking on the neighborhood streets north and east of campus and inconvenienceing residents, many of whom do not have garages or drivewives.
The association's proposal is that up to three parking permits and one guest permit be sold to each housing unit, whether it is an apartment or a house, for $10 each.
- Residents would need the permits from 6 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
Five landlords told the association Saturday that landlords, not tenants, should control permit distribution.
David Holroyd, who owns several rental properties and lives in the Oread neighborhood, said there wasn't enough room on the streets to offer each apartment three permits. Two houses with several apartments could use an entire street's parking, he said.
"If those kids go down and buy three permits,
he'sye've eaten up the whole street," he said.
Forcing landlords to distribute two permits to several tenants might encourage them to provide other parking, Holroyd said.
Permits should be based on the amount of on-street parking in front of a house and not the number of apartments in a house, Holroyd said. Two permits per 50 feet of on-street footage was fair, he said.
"If a place is taking in $16,000 or $18,000 in rent, they better put some of that money into parking," he said.
Marziah Karch, Emporia junior and a representative of Sunflower House, 1406 Tennessee St., said that the proposal would put more parking pressure on Sunflower House because the house is just outside of the boundaries where permits would be used. The present proposal calls for parking to be limited to residents in the area enclosed by 14th, Tennessee, 9th and Maine streets and excluding campus.
Marci Francisco, a member of the association who owns and rents property in the neighborhood, said the association would consider expanding the boundaries to include Tennessee Street until 15th Street, but the question of how to distribute permits to the fraternities and sororites in the 1400 block of Tennessee then becomes a problem.
The association members and landlords also discussed whether it would be better to end the required parking permit time at 11 a.m. instead of 2 p.m. so that businesses such as the Glass Onion, 624 W. 12th St., and the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., could have unrestricted parking for their customers at lunch.
Francisco said she wanted residents to have parking for friends and appointments, such as a plumber.
Holroyd said changing the time to 6-11 a.m. would invite students and KU employees to park on the streets during lunch hours, and then residents once again would be without parking during the afternoon.
Post-game Aggieville celebration has no major problems
"We don't want the permits to make it impossible for you to have friends over to your house," she said.
Kansan staff report
The Riley County Police Department yesterday reported no problems in Manhattan's Aggieville following the Kansas-Kansas State football game.
"Things went really well," said Sgt. Michael Quintanar. "We had our normal arrests as far as liquor violations go, but other than that there wasn't any problem."
Quintanar said no property damage was reported Saturday in Aggieville, a college-oriented business district where fans traditionally gather after games.
In 1984, revelers caused $70,000 in property damage, primarily by throwing bottles and cans. A 198 riot caused from $80,000 to $100,000 in damage. Since then, the Riley County Police Department has asked KU police and the Highway Patrol to help with crowd control.
"I think we're probably dealing with a more mature crowd than in the past," Quintanar said.
Kansas State police also reported no problems during the football game.
Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
Fingers for music
Chuck Barland, Eau Claire, Wis., graduate student, practices part of J.S. Bach's "Saint Anne Fugue" on one of the practice organs in Murphy Hall. Barland, who was practicing yesterday, is working on his doctorate in music and organ theory.
Committee work part of the job for faculty
By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
About 130 faculty members who work extra hours beyond normal teaching duties to serve on University Governance committees receive no extra pay for the services.
But that is just part of the job, said Jeannette Johnson, assistant to the executive vice chancellor.
"The criteria for tenure and promotion traditionally have been and continue to be teaching, research and service," says the "Handbook for Faculty and Other Unclassified Staff."
Johnson said that committees usually were not time consuming. An exception was last year's Tenure and Related Problems Committee, headed by Rud Turbull, that oversaw the dismissal hearings of Emil Tonkovich, former professor of law, she said.
Turnbull, professor of special education, said that he had worked about 720 extra hours during the hearings.
"It was an extraordinary amount of time," he said.
"I had a contract on a book that had to be substantially delved." he said.
The additional hours did not allow him to devote enough time to other projects even though he had received time off from teaching, he said.
The extra hours can add up for a committee member and affect performance, Turnbull said. Faculty members should not be discouraged from serving on committees, but the administration should be aware of the time commitments of faculty.
Bob Friauf, professor of physics and astronomy and head of University Council, said that any faculty member was eligible to serve on a University committee.
The faculty was mailed a committee selection form in early March and was asked to choose several committees to serve on during the year, he said. Completion of the forms was not a requirement, but most sent them in, he said.
Friauf said that the University Senate Code had a provision that allowed a faculty member to serve on no more than two committees a year.
Aletha Huston, professor of human development and family life, said that she did not mind the extra hours of committee work because it was part of her job.
"You have to adjust your schedule around it," she said. "It's not the total amount of hours, it's when those hours occur."
Huston said that she agreed with the University's decision not to reimburse faculty members for time served on committees.
"I don't think it's something you should be released for unless you have an unusually large class load," she said.
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