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FEBRUARY 1990 ■ News and Features
U. THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER 27
Children
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Harger’s day usually begins at 6 a.m.
and ends at about 1 or 2 a.m., he said.
Ido OK 1 think I'm a good father. I’d
wt married and divorced again just so 1
touldhave Dene.” Harger said money is
thebiggest problem he faces on a regular
basis.
"I’m broke 1 now. I’m always broke,” he
said. “I have just enough money to get
tuition and the rent paid.”
Harger said dating has been a problem
because he is always up front with
women about his daughter. “They usu
ally don’t want to have anything to do
with me, and I don’t blame them,” he
said.
Senior Jana Gregory is also a single
parent. Gregory, 21, married her fresh
man year, had her son the summer
before her sophomore year and was
divorced her junior v
custody of her two-
r -ar. She now shares
• ear-old son, Ryan,
raise him while
and does
attending
Gregory, who is majoring in business
communications, has been able to main
tain a 3.5 GFA since she had her son.
She has received several academic
scholarships and a Pell grant, which
help her finance her education and liv
ing expenses.
Gregory said many people stereotype
college students, with chldren as being
destitute “They just don’t think I look
like a mother," she said. “I just ask them,
‘What does a mother look like?’ ”
Although parenthood has eliminated
some academic and social opportunities
she has few regrets. “If I had it to do it
all over again, I'd wait to get married.
But I wouldn’t trade Ryan for any
thing.”
KELLI SMITH, UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN U OF KANSAS
U. of Kansas senior Jana Gregory plays with her son Ryan in their front yard.
Prayer
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The ruling stems from a successful
suit filed in 1986 by a Georgia high
school student who opposed pre-game
prayer. After a series of court rulings
declaring the prayer unconstitutional,
the U.S Supreme Court declined to
review the case and let the decision go
into effect in January 1989.
The U. of Georgia briefly defied the
court when UGA President Charles
Knapp allowed prayer to be broadcast
at the university’s season-opening foot
ball game, asserting that the ruling only
applied to high schools.
"We are going to go ahead with the
prayer," Knapp said before the game. “It
has become a tradition that is important
tithe fans.”
Knapp quickly backed down after the
Georgia state attorney general notified
himthat the ACLU was preparing a law
suit, and the university would lose a
court battle over the issue.
Georgia was the only one of four affect
ed Southeastern Conference schools to
broadcast prayer at the time of the rul
ing. The U. of Florida and Auburn U.
discontinued the prayers this year, and
Alabama has not broadcast a pre-game
prayer in the last three years.
•Veaf Callahan of the Red and Black,
1 of Georgia contributed to this report.
Crime
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violent crime that year, the fewest for
on institution with at least 20,000 stu
dents.
However, only 262 colleges and uni
versities nationwide contributed data
for the FBI’s annual campus crime
report.
‘You have to consider that probably 10
Percent of all colleges contribute,” said
Kris Waskaiewicz, an FBI crime report
writer.
“You can’t make a comparison
between colleges. We discourage any-
fhing like that.”
■A correction in New Mexico’s data
would leave the U. of Medicine and
Dentistry in Newark, N.J. at No. 1 in
violent crime with 51.
The remaining four most violent cam
puses, according to the report, are the
G- of California, Berkeley with 50
reports of violent crime, Michigan State
G. with 46 and Northeastern U. of
Massachusetts and the U. of
Washington tied with 37.
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