Tuesday, February 28, 1978
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'Mac' observes changes at KU
By LINDA FINESTONE
The 28-year memory of working for the Kansas Union as building engineer, then supervisor of repairs, stands behind Dewer*
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Things won't be quite the same at the Kansas Aug after today. Mac is leaving.
Derwood "Mac" McCabe, supervisor of maintenance and repairs at the Union, is a certified bus safety instructor.
McCabe, who will retire this week. McCabe said that although he was looking forward to retirement, there were also many things he didn't like.
"the students are getting more out of the Union today," Mac says. "They respect the Union. The more it is fixed up and kept up, the better they respect it."
mac, 85, who once was building engineer at the Union, has seen many changes in the Union and in the way it was used by University of Kansas students throughout
"We've come into a change where they respect the Union better than they respect their personal property," he said. "That goes for me at home, too."
Mac, who worked at the union at the University of Iowa before he came to KU in 1925, says that KU, as at Kau, he thought it was a great way from home for students and for himself.
MAC RECALELED instances in the late 1980s when he and his staff had to be wary of threats of damage to the Union made during a period of campus disturbance.
Some of the threats took the form of small fires set in the Union in 1898.
"They weren't damaging, but we had to be alert, watching for this sort of thing," he said. "We did not overreact because we were expected to overreact."
The night of April 20, 1970, the two top floors of the Union's main section were gutted by a fire. That night, Mac said, was one of the biggest challenges for him and his family.
"So many cooperated that it was proof of the strength of the Union."
However, Mac said he remembered more pleasant times.
"I've seen so many changes. There was a time when everybody dressed and thought alike. We thought we were responsible for the actions of students."
DANCES THAT ATTRACTED more than 2,000 people and that featured big-name musicians were some of the biggest events at the Union that Mac remembers.
Besides former President Gerald R. Ford's visit to KU last week, Mac said President Harry S. Truman also had visited the campus and eaten at the Union.
One of the busiest times at the Union he remembered was one week in 1987, when the KU Jayhawks played in the NCAA and the University of Oklahoma was open continuously for three days.
Louis Armstrong, jazz musician, played at the Union to help celebrate the event. Mac said Armstrong performed 14 hours beyond his contract requirements.
Mac also has put in long hours at the
Allenhour. Although he now works a five-day,
hourly job, he still lives in Macau.
three years, he sometimes spent 13 out of 14 days working at the Union.
MAC HAS an office in the union, but he doesn't like to spend much time there.
"I'm a doer, not a sitter," he says.
Mac has done much in his different capacities at the Union throughout the years, and is particularly proud of the installation in 1958 of the tunnel that leads from the Union underneath Mississippi Street to the X-zone parking lot.
Mac said the Army Corps of Engineers moved onto campus and practiced maneuvers while the tunnel was being constructed. They built bridges across Mississippi Street to the parking lot and moved the tunnel as part of their maneuvers.
Now that he will have extra time, Mac plans to take time to travel and to go fishing.
"I'll talk about it more than do it, though," he said.
Enrollment . . .
From page one
from last spring, when 9,637 women were
employed and a percentage in-
age of 4.1 percent from
"I think it'is only right since about one half of the population is female, one half of the population pursuing a college degree should be female," he said.
Shankel said last fall in a Faculty Executive Committee meeting that the University was attempting to make a change in the way faculty to faculty and other employee positions.
The rate of percentage increase in women since 1974 had been 41 percent, 48 percent, 43 percent, and 40 percent.
Although the total number of students enrolled in spring semester was a record, the full-time equivalent figure (FTE) declined for the first time in five years.
FTE is derived by dividing the entire number of credit hours taught at KU by the number of credit hours assumed to be taken by a full-time student (15 at the un-
ugegraduate level). TFE is only applied at public universities. It is the basis for legislative funding.
The FTE this spring fell from 20,060 in spring 177 to 20,040 in 1978, a decline of 19
However, Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said yesterday that the decline was probably caused by a new computer system rather than a significant change in enrollment.
Dyck said that although the official FTE figures showed a drop, the difference was the result of a new computer system that recorded "adds" and "drops" immediately.
"Before, we did not have the numerous drops by the 20th day," he said. "In reality, I personally don't think the FTE dropped from previous years."
Moreover, Dyck said of 19, con-
served, "I have over 600 students were
involved, was 'almost all' him."
The distribution of enrollment by classes on the Lawrence campus this spring was:
juniors; 4,021 seniors; 104 fifth-year students; 129 students in applied English; 1,276 unclassified students; 454 law students and 5,065 graduate students.
The official enrollment figures, compiled this weekend, were sent yesterday to the Kansas Board of Regents and the Kansas Legislature's education panel.
An unusually high number of students were expected to enroll late this semester because of a four-day gap between the last school enrollment and the first day of classes.
The gap was caused by changes made in enrollment dates last spring to comply with new rules.
Enrollment for both fall and spring semesters was conducted Wednesday, October 25th. Regents' calendar dictates that classes start Monday in the fall and Wednesday in the spring. This rule caused the gap between the beginning of classes in the spring.
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