Child care problems at the University cannot be solved until students with children voice their needs, said a member of the Child Care Task Force.

Katrina Scott-George, task force member and co-chairwoman of the student-run Coalition for Campus Child Care, said the coalition will meet March 9 to determine students' specific problems.

" (The coalition) needs to hear from the students," Scott-George said, adding the coalition has had a hard time identifying students with children.

Scott-George said the problems discussed at the coalition meeting will be reported to the task force. Last fall, Vice President for Student Services William Asbury charged the task force to examine child-care needs at all of the University's campuses and develop an approach to meet those needs.

A final task force report is due June 1.

"(Child care) has been an issue with graduate students for a long time," said Ken Martin, president of the Graduate Student Association. "Nobody will dispute that there's not enough facilities for the children."

Martin said child care is mostly a problem for graduate students, but stressed that undergraduates are affected as well.

"(The child-care problem) affects graduate students more now, but in a few years from now the undergraduates will catch up," Martin said.

Martin added he believes the problem will get worse in the future due to an increase in the number of adults returning to school.

The child-care issue was addressed in the March 1988 University-wide study by the Strategic Study Group on Women. According to statistics presented in the study, the number of University Park students 25 or older who have children is 496 graduates and 168 undergraduates.

The task force has shown a willingness to act on these problems as quickly as possible, Scott-George said. However, she said, since the task force can only recommend changes, it is taking problems to the people who have the power to implement them.