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Wednesday, February 26, 1997
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KU students mentory youths
Adopt-A-School assigns greeks to grade schools
Chris Hamilton / KANSAN
Scott McClintick, Eureka, Ks, freshman, tutors Ian Lewis, 11, and Marques Boggs, 10, at Deerfield Elementary after school. McClintick works in the Adopt-A-School program where KU students assist students with their schoolwork. The KU students involved in the program say they are more like mentors than teachers' aides because they work one-to-one with the students.
By Chris Yancey Special to the Kansan
When Heath Sigg, lola senior, didn't show up at Kennedy Elementary School last month, the children in Carolyn Johnson's fourth- and fifth-grade classes wanted to know what happened to their reading partner, recess buddy and friend.
Sigg was not neglecting the students. He was on winter break from the University of Kansas and his volunteer commitment at Kennedy Elementary.
Sigg volunteers for Adopt-A School, a nation-wide organization that has placed approximately 40 members of the KU Greek community in eight Lawrence schools to assist students with their schoolwork. The program is sponsored by the Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council, but volunteers don't have to be in the Greek system.
KU students say they are more like mentors than teachers' aides because they work one-to-one with the students and establish relationships that many teachers are not able to create.
Emily Barger, Garfield sophomore and a student coordinator of the organization, works with students after school at Deerfield Elementary every Monday and Wednesday. She said college students could sometimes relate to elementary students better than teachers.
"If we stress the importance of education, they will pick this up," Barger
said. "If we say that math is cool, they will want to learn it. They look up to college students."
Sigg, an education major, said he enjoyed reading with small groups of students in the school's library. He said that when he arrived in the classroom each Thursday, the kids immediately asked their teacher if they could read with him.
"I have the best of both worlds," said Sigg, who can often be found playing basketball with students during recess. "They look up to me and appreciate my advice because I'm not a disciplinarian."
Johnson said that her students had better attitudes toward getting their
work done because they wanted to work with Sigg. She also said it was beneficial for her students to have a male role model.
"I it's nice to have other role models in the building," Johnson said. "In elementary schools, you don't see as many male teachers."
Drew Allen, Hutchinson freshman and a student coordinator of the program, said many elementary students didn't react well to teachers because they were like parental figures.
"College kids offer new insight, and they can get the kids to try harder," he said.
Kristy Willhike, the counselor at Deerfield Elementary and an adviser
to the program, said it was good for the elementary students to see college students valuing education.
"Many of the kids say 'this is what I want to be like when I grow up,'" she said.
Carol Alvarez, a four-grade teacher at Deerfield, said some of her students who were involved with the program last semester had improved so much that they no longer received tutoring after school.
"I had one student who went from consistently not having assignments done and not passing tests to the complete opposite," Alvarez said. "He won't have to come back because the program filled his need."
Vandalism darkens Jayhawker Tower D
By Harumi Kogarimai
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Matt Aschenbrenner, complex director for the towers and Stouffer Place, said that the problems had become more serious this year.
The vandalism has resulted in $200-300 in damages every week. Garito said that it happened more frequently on the fifth and sixth floors of Tower D.
Phi Garito, associate director of student housing, said someone had taken out light bulbs and dropped them down steps almost every weekend.
Recent vandalism in Tower D of Jayhawker Towers has been leaving residents and staff in the dark.
He said that 12 security monitors patrolled the buildings between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. but that vandalism could happen in the afternoon and morning when
the security staff was not on duty.
Knight said he did not want to become involved with the incident.
Knight said that he saw somebody taking out light bulbs from an elevator but that he was not confident enough to identify the person's face because it happened several months ago.
"The new security system is helping, but because no student assists us, we cannot confront residents," Aschenbrener said. "Students know who is doing it, but they do not report it to us."
"It's kind of childish," Knight said. "I don't really know why they are doing it."
Bryan Knight, an Ottawa freshman who lives on the fifth floor of Tower D, said that light bulbs were gone every weekend and sometimes every night.
Aschenbrenner said that KU police had launched an investig-
gation into the incidents. He and other tower staffs talked to the residents about the vandalism, but no one came forward to tell who was responsible.
KU police Sgt. Chris Keary said that if the damage was less than $500, the crime would be considered a misdemeanor and remain on the person's record, Keary said.
Fred McElhenie, associate director of student housing, said that who vandalized buildings would be asked to leave the building.
"If they break light bulbs every week, first we report it to the police and ask them to leave the building," McElhenie said.
Garito said that the maintenance staff has had similar, but fewer, problems with Tower C, and very few problems with towers A and B.
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