KU officials seek ways to boost minority enrollment
By BILL SNIFFEN and JEANNIE EMMERT
Staff Writers
Minority student enrollment at the University of Kansas is low. But the problems surrounding why it is so low are as numerous and complex as the proposed solutions.
The reasons given by some KU administrators for the low number of minority students at KU vary from strict admissions standards to poor recruiting and from inadequate financial aid to poor counseling.
The minority affairs office has received private contributions earmarked for minority students, but "there isn't enough to develop a large fund," she said yesterday.
According to Townsmiss, director of the financial affairs office, the cause is inadequate financial aid.
ERNIE GARGIA, ASSISTANT to the dean of men and a member of the Affirmative Action task force, said money was only part of the problem.
KU's priorities are distorted, he said.
"We don't seem to have any problem funding secondary activities here at the University," he said. But it is difficult to obtain funds for minority student programs, he said.
But Marshall Jackson, assistant director of admissions and records, disagreed with Garcia.
"We don't have the numbers," he said. "Once we get people here we can begin."
JACKSON'S JOIS IS TO recruit minority students by visiting high schools and community organizations throughout northeastern Kansas. He said recruitment efforts by admissions office staff had resulted in an estimated 34 per cent increase in minority student enrollment at KU since the fall of
But, according to Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, because of constantly changing HEW guidelines, nobody knows how many minority students are at KU.
UNTIL TWO YEARS AGG, requests on admission and registration forms for racial identification were prohibited. Dyck said, to prevent the possibility that a minority student would be admitted to a minority student by denying him admission.
Two years ago, HEW said requests for racial identification could be made if the forms told the applicant that racial identification was optional, Dyck said.
That optional feature has been a part of admissions applications and registration forms since then. he said.
But this spring, Dycke said, the question won't be optional because the latest HIEW guideline state test is now available.
"WE'RE BEING FORCED TO provide different kinds of information to HEW," he said.
HEW often requires a statistical breakdown by race in requests for information about recipients of financial aid, student graduations, hiring procedures and grants, Dyck said.
And it's difficult to provide accurate responses to
hBW requests when "all the data isn't there." Dyck
writes:
Dropping the optional racial识别 feature of the forms will provide the University with accurate information, especially about minority students. Dvck said.
INFORMATION ABOUT MINORITY admissions to KU fail is normal because of the op-
Dyck said he estimated that 201 members of minority races were admitted to KU last fall; 139 blocks, 36 chicanos, 21 Indians and 5 oriental students.
According to the approximate information, 234 minority students were denied admission to KU.
Those students were denied admission because
A graduate of an accredited Kansas high school is automatically eligible for admission, Dyck said.
they failed to meet KU admission requirements, which Dvck called "relatively easy."
OUT OF STATE APPLICANTS must usually be in the upper one-half of their high-school graduating class.
Both in-state and out-of-state applicants must take the American College Test (ACT), which is used only for student advising and placement, Dyck said, and not for determining admissions.
Dyck said the minority student's biggest problem was financial aid.
But Jerry Rogers, director of the office of financial aid, dis散畏.
"The money is there," he said. "Minority students have just as good a shot at it as anyone
LAST FISCAL YEAR, July 1, 1974 to June 30,
$2,228 million in federal funds to
2,000 KILO
Of that total, 1,599 who student received
$1,686.28. A total of 41% minority students (black,
chicano, Indian and oriental), listed in descending
ranking, received funding (received funds)
received a total of $42,066.
The white students, 79.6 per cent of the total students who received funds, got 79.7 per cent of the total students.
According to Jackson's estimate that three per cent of the student population at KU are minority students, proportionately more minority students than students received aid and did white students. Ross said.
THE PERCENTAGE OF MINORITY students who received aid invalidated the argument that minority students couldn't get financial aid, Rogers said.
Financial aid is available to anyone who can demonstrate a need for it. Roers said.
But to demonstrate that need, a statement of the applicant's financial condition is required, Rogers
And that statement, called the Parent's Conidential statement (PCS), is probably a threat to members.
Karen Jeltz, financial aid counselor, said problems arise when the PCS was completed incorrectly, or submitted past the February deadline for consideration for financial aid
THE PCS IS OFTEN completed incorrectly or submitted late because of a lack of information
Jeltz said about the PCs, "the problems that
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No. 66
December 2.1975
KU student puts the hex on old game
By BILL UYEKI
Thanks to the shape of a hexagon, chess is no longer a "square" game.
"Hexesch", a game invented by Dan Jenkins, Lawrence graduate student in geology, has a six-sided polygon to allow two or three people to play at the same time.
Jenkins said yesterday that he had received a patent for the game board Nov. 18. He had worked on getting the patent for game since he was a senior in high school.
THE HEXAGONAL-SHAPED board, Jenkins said, consists of 127 hexagon spaces connected like a beehive. The spaces are arranged in seven layers on each edge of the board.
If the game sounds complicated, it' s probably we live in a 90-degree world, Jocko!k!
According to Jenkins, all sixteen pieces of one team in regular chess are used for each player. When three are playing, the teams are each lined up in a corner of the hexagon so that they all face the center of the 20-inch-wide board.
"It isn't any harder than chess," he said. "People don't believe me, because it looks complicated. Once they accept the hexagonal layout, it goes smoothly."
In his "conventional", set, bishops and knights are lined up on each side of the king.
JENKINS EXPLAINED SOME diffe-
rent regular chess in the setting
of the pieces.
His "variational" set employs three bishops on each team, instead of two. The advantage of this set, he said, was that it put a bishop on each of the three colors of the board, and that it added more power to the game.
Another difference in hexcess is the path of movement by the pieces, Jenkins said. The pieces which move diagonally go along "chains" of the same color, which are connected by lines, not by points, as in regular chess.
ALSO, THE KNIGHT'S move is slightly larger. Jenkins said it was like a "doubles."
JENKINS DESCRIBED THE advantages of hexcess over conventional claws as the result of the fact that they are more stable.
When there are three players, a game of boxexch can end two different ways, according to the rules.
With two players, Jenkins said that the pieces were set up at opposite ends of the board. Then it followed the same format as traditional chess, just on a different rudder.
The winner can either be the one who captures the first king, or the one who has the last king remaining on the board, he said.
HEXCHESS IS SIMILAR to Chinese checkers because it has the symmetry which allows more than two people to play, he said. But, what made his game different from other three-player chess games, is that it could be a two-player game.
"There are more options to move, make
"better use of two dimensions," he said. "In
the future we may do that."
Most chess players criticizing hexcess,
be said, were not willing to accept the
recommendations of a major board.
**BENEDETTA LOMBRICO**
"It's surprising how few alliances are termed." Jenkins said. "Each player must have a clear understanding of the game."
With three players, it is possible that two players could gang up on one.
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a new variation on chess. The rules are basically the same except that the hexagonal board allows for as many as three players.
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
Dan Jenkins, Lawrence graduate student in geology, has patented
Hexchess
Restrictions bar band from Bowl
BY BILL UYEKI
Staff Writer
"After preliminary costs for taking the band were estimated," Clyde Walker, athletic director, said yesterday. "it became evident with the expense allowance of the KUAC (Kansas University Athletic Corporation), it was an impossible."
The KU Marching Band don't accompany the Jayhawk football team to the Sun Bowel in El Paso because of Big Eight Conference restrictions on bowel game expenditures.
Walker said that it would cost $30,000 to bus the band, and from $40,000 to $50,000 to fly the band to the game in El Paso. These costs are comparable to the amount that KUAC could spend on the band
ACCORDING TO ROBERT Foster, director of bands, the KU Marching Band receives funds from the KUAC, the University, and the Student Senate.
However, only the funds from the KUAC could be spent for band service at athletic fields.
By making plans for the trip, Foster said that he had assumed the band was going to the game.
According to Walker, the band's trip to the game hadn't been discussed. He said that anything that said the band was going was "misinformation."
"The amount of money we're short is awesome," Foster said. "The most disappointing thing is that when the money isn't there, the university offered to help. That's not like KU!"
HE SAID THAT A bowl game was a reward for a band, as it was for a football
"The band is as disappointed as I've ever seen them," Foster said.
Jim Hall, Overland Park senior and head drum major of the band, expressed the disappointment he said most band members had.
THE BAND WAS SENT to the Liberty Bowl in Memphis in 1973, Walker said, because it was close enough and the KUAC could afford the band's trip.
"I've been with the band for four years," Hall said. "I went to the Liberty Bow. But a lot of us returning seniors are asking our guidance." She didn't get the support at the end of the year."
The same would be done for the Sun Bowl if it were financially possible, he said.
KUAC plans to take the KU pomp girls, the yell leaders, and the Jayhawk mascots, but it can't afford to handle the entire marching band. Walker said.
The fact that the Sun Bowl was not one of
the major bowl games, such as those played on New Year's Day, was the reason for the KUAC's shortage in bowl game expenditures, Walker said.
"ACTUALLY, I THINK very few people go to the Sun Bowl take their bands," WHALE said.
Funding for Associated Students of Kansas (ASK) also will be considered this year. The ASK is the only state school that does not belong to ASK, a state-wide student lobbying organization. The Senate will decide if they need a partnership in student feeess for KU's membership in ASK.
A high school band playing KU's music most likely fill the absence of the musician.
Budget bill tops StudEx agenda
There may also be a move to cut the student activity fee from $12, Woner said. Since KUAC's funding of $4.15 from each $12 student would reduce the fee, want to reduce the total fee, Woner said.
StudEx will meet to set the agenda
to Student Senate meetings tomorrow and
TuTu.
Wading through the remainder of Bill 600 will be a major consideration, Bruce Womer. When the bill is approved, it will be signed by
The Senate also will vote on a resolution concerning Wendall Barker, a third-year teacher at Northwestern College Ed Rolfs, student body president, and the Kansas University Athletic Corporation (KUAC) charging reverse discrimination he wasn't appointed to the KUAC Board.
BILL 650 IS THE Senate's new revenue code to simplify the budgeting process.
THE KANSAN AND the student council line item allocations from student fees in Bill 650 should be the most controversial issues. Woner said.
Rolfs protests Schneider's opinion refusal
By SHERI BALDWIN and CHUCK ALEXANDER
Staff Writers
and CHUCK ALEXANDER
Rofs said, "As the elected representative of 20,000 students, I feel that I have much to an opinion from the attorney general as does the legal officer of some other political subdivision."
A refusal by Atty. Gen, Curt Schneider to issue an opinion on whether University of Kansas organizations fall under the Kansas Open Meetings Law was yesterday by Ed Rolfs, student body president.
Rolfs had requested an opinion from Schneider on Oct. 30. In denying Rolfs' request, Schneider's office said it was the policy of the attorney general to act only on those requests for legal opinions submitted by the Board of Regents when it concerned institutions under the jurisdiction of the Regents.
ROLFS SAID HE WANTED AN opinion from the Attorney General on the application of the Open Meeting Law to University organizations funded by the National Science Foundation. Several closed meetings conducted by faculty and
student members of SenEx were in direct violation of that law.
The Student Senate allocated $250 to each student member of SenEx.
"We've apparently reached an impasse where no further progress can be made." Rolfs said.
"BY SCHNEIDER'S PROCESS, any request might have must first be directed to the executive vice chancellor," Rofs said. "He then may or may not direct it to the Chancellor. Finally, the Chancellor must direct the request to the Board of Regents. Only then can the request be submitted to the Attorney General. If any of these individuals decide not to request, we are left without any legal recourse."
Explaining his position in a letter to Ruffs, Schneider said the matter wasn't restricted to KU, but might also have been related to a case.
"It is for this reason . . . that no student, regardless of his position in student government on any individual campus, is entitled to receive my official opinion on any matter relating to the operation of institutions
under the jurisdiction of the Board (of Regents)." Schneider said.
ROLFS SAID HE THOUGH Schneider had failed to distinguish between his actions and body clashes. He has said that no other citizen
"It seems very unfortunate to me, that a large number of constituents, in this case the student body, find it impossible to seek a legal opinion through their elected leaders," Rolfs said.
ROLFS SAID, "T'M SURE we could probably get a ruling on the matter sooner or later."
Bruce Woner, StudEx chairman, said it was common for the attorney general to issue legal opinions to officiating counsel.
*Perhaps it's time that the attorney general initiate a new custom by responding to the requests of a law firm.*
He suggested that Rolfs discuss the matter with Max Bickford, executive officer of the Regents.
Schneider said that he wasn't authorized by custom or statute to furnish official opinions upon questions of law submitted by individual citizens, including students and administrators and administration agents at safe institutions.
In a Nov. 5 letter, John R. Martin, first assistant attorney general, offered personal observations which don't represent an official opinion of the attorney general.
in order to be subject to the Open Meeting Law, Martin said, "It is not alone sufficient that a body or organization receive public funds, assuming for this equipment, that student activity fees are public funds."
IT IS ALSO NECESSARY that the body or organization be a legislative or administrative authority. The body is required to monitor and regulate the actions he has taken.
Organizations receiving student activity funds aren't state legislative or administrative agencies merely because they receive "public funds." Martin said. They remain private, voluntary organizations that maintain a noninstitutional responsibility as state agencies merely because they receive student activity fee funds, he said.
Elmer C. Jackson Jr., member of the Board of Regents, said, "I tend to agree with the attorney general. If a matter affects the student body, then it should come through the Regents."
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