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University Dally Kansan
Thursday, April 29, 1976
Minority students...
services, as well as information about job opportunities, students have a much better chance to succeed.
ine Black American Law students Association (BALSA) is also among the groups that recruit minority students to go to KU.
Tyrone Means, Chicago law student, said BALSA representatives traveled throughout the state contacting students that might be interested in law school.
THE REPRESENTATIVE IS provide student experience in materials and their questions.
means said the recruitment officer followed up each visit with a letter to reinforce initial contacts, and after that, it was "a wait and see situation."
BALSA received $298 in funding from the Student Senate this year, a cut of almost
He said funding could have been cut because of a feeling that minority recruitment programs were no longer necessary.
"I've heard folks say that there is no more discrimination and so there's no need for special programs to encourage minorities to make a difference in professional fields." Means said.
He said it appeared that only a minimum effort to meet affirmative action guidelines was being made to increase minority student enrollment.
"I DENENTILY feel as though there's a lack of minorities at KU whenever the percentage is less than five per cent," he said, "but myself self being the only one in the classroom."
The Student Council for Recruiting,
Motivating and Educating Rise Engineers
(ERE)
architecture school, are also recruiting students to come to KU.
Charles Lockhart, past president of SCoREBE, said that since the organization's creation, enrollment of black engineers has increased.
"In 1971 when the program began," he said, "there were six black engineers, now there are 60 students participating in the program."
LOCKHART CITED three goals of the program, which are: to assure that more minority student engineers graduate from KU, that there is more financial aid and support for students in engineering and to help minority students find suitable job placements.
Lockhart said most of the students in recent years had been from the metropolitan Kansas City area and other parts of Kansas, but he added that other students came from all over the United States.
He noted several problems that he thought black students in engineering confronted, including student identification, race and the back of black faculty members.
He said SCoRMEBE doesn't begin its program with the college student. It recruits high school students with high capabilities and limited educational opportunity to attend a summer program in engineering at KU.
"ONE PROBLEM that has to be faced in "respect to recruiting black faculty is that industry's offers to blacks are more expensive than the incentives you really have to want to teach."
In addition to recruiting, Black 'teens is geared to give black students some basis to help them work together and benefit from each other's experience in the school of
architecture, Kevin Wilson, Leavenworth junior, said.
"The overall situation isn't too good," he said, "but I know of several students that want to either change their major or drop out of the school because of the misconception that's put out by faculty and administrators."
He said in addition to these problems, black students were often misled about
curriculum requirements and the length of the entire architecture program.
"A lot of times students don't even have the basic courses and they have to take background courses that won't even lead to advanced graduation requirements," Wilson said.
"So oftentimes students start out with no hope of graduating in four years."
(Tomorrow): Recruitment by individual schools plus faculty evaluation.
TODAY: J. KELLEY SOWARD, professor of history at Wichita State University, will speak on "Erasmus: The Colloquies as Instruments of Reform" at 4 in
Events . . .
TONGHT: FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION members will sponsor a cupper at 3:00 in the United Ministries Center, 1204 Oread. The AFRICAN STUDIES FILM SERIES will present two films, "Africa's Fiction," and "Nigeria: A Culture in Transition," at 7 on 2920 Haworth. JOSE A. ARGUELES, art historian and author, will present "The Arguese of Visual Vision," at 7:30 in VIRIO SATO, Fukushima, Japan, graduate student, will present a graduate piano recital at 8:20 Rehouttical Hall.
TOMORROW: The MIDWEST REGIONAL MUSIC THERAPY CONFERENCE will begin at 8 a.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas University. The 15th annual JAYHAWK NAVY SPRING REVIEW will be at 5:30 on the east lawn of Allen Field House. LES COMEDIENDS DE L'ETERVIER of the department of French and Italian will present three short French comedies at 6 p.m. in Strong Hall Ballroom. The program is free and open to all. Ballroom. Kennedy's speech is part of the MAY FESTIVAL, which runs through Saturday and is sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women and the Women's Coalition.
A DANCE CONCERT
A DANCE CONCERT
UNIVERSITY MURPHY
THEATRE HALL
May 6,7,8
8:00 p.m.
HALL
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Children 50c
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Parking fees . . .
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stand by his recommendation.
He said the $ price for campus passes wouldn't produce much revenue, but it might reduce the number of cars driven through campus during the day.
Hugh Cotton, chairman of the parking and traffic board, said he would be disappointed
But Cotton said he was pleased with Shanker's recommendation on campus park.
That number might be decreased if campus passes aren't free, he said.
Cotton said there had been about 1,000 campus passes issued during the 1974-75 school year, the last year for which a total count was available.
THERE WILL have to be an increase in parking fees for the 1977-78 year, Cotton said, or "there will be serious problems in parking lot maintenance."
Cotton said that the condition of some parking lots was "deplorable," and that students might see their cars "fall in to the axle" in the holes in some lots.
The re-paving should begin this summer, be said.
Martin Jones, associate vice chancellor for business affairs, said the O-Zone parking lot southeast of Allen Field House would be paved with or without fees.
Jones said the project's cost, estimated at £50,000, wouldn't seriously deplete the plant.
IT WILL be partially funded by $80,000 remaining in this year's parking services lot maintenance budget and most of the other costs for lot improvements next year, he said.
The remainder of the project's cost will be paid for from the 1977-78 parking services
Jones said it would be possible for parking services to provide adequate maintenance
of other lots without fee increases, "but not for an indefinite period."
Jones agreed that the charge for campus passes wouldn't raise much money, and that, if approved, then would be initiated as a traffic control tool.
"Probably not all the people who have passes now will feel they need them if they need them."
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