Wednesday. May 5. 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Hall residents give Templin female-run government
By Jamie Knodel
jknode@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Never before has Templin Hall had so much female influence. Next year, the hall will be led by a student hall government dominated by women.
Last night, officers took their positions, and even though this happens every year, this time was for the history books. Templin residents elected four women to hold the four Templin executive officer positions for the 1999-2000 school year.
The residence hall positions will be filled next year with Dulcinea King, Council
Grove freshman, as president; Jennifer Timmer, Lawrence freshman, as vice-president; Paula Spreitzer, Overland Park freshman, as secretary; and Christy Larson, Emporia freshman, as treasurer.
King said she did not think the fact that the positions were held by women would affect the hall any differently than if men also held positions.
"We have a lot of goals to get people
"We have a lot of goals to get people together to make Templin a community," she said. "I think our goals and priorities would be close to anyone else's."
Dulcinea King KU student
"together to make Templin a community," she said. "I think our goals and priorities would be close to anyone else's."
Nick Crews, outgoing Templin Hall president and Tulsa, Okla., sophomore, said he thought the hall would benefit from the new makeup of hall government.
"They will bring with them new programs and perspectives," he said.
Crews said the election's outcome did not surprise him because there was only one male candidate who attempted a late write-in campaign.
Templin Hall has only been open to female residents for the last two years. Before the renovations, it served as an all-male dormitory.
"Because Templein has only been open to women for a short time, there have not been that many opportunities for women to serve." Crews said.
Hall residents said they did not expect gender to play a factor in hall government decisions next year.
"I don't think that hall government and things in the hall will change just because women are in the executive positions," said Nick Johnson, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
Edited by Keith Burner
- Because of out-of-district tuition taxes,
Douglas County taxpayers pay $24 for every
About 600 KU students take classes at community colleges each semester. Here is a breakdown of how this affects Douglas county taxpayers:
credit hour that a Douglas County resident enrolls in an out-of-county community college. These fees are paid through Douglas County property taxes.
- KU students attending out-of-county colleges add as much as four percent to Douglas County property taxes.
Community colleges offer easier classes, students say
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nificant money if the student enrolled in the class somewhere else.
Linus Williams, Stigler, Okla., senior, said he struggled through three semesters of Spanish at the University of Kansas before deciding to take a class equivalent to Spanish 216 at Kansas City Kansas Community College.
When students do choose to take classes outside the University, there is a direct impact on Douglas County taxpayers.
"When any student from Douglas County goes to Johnson County, we get billed for it," said Craig Weinaug, Douglas County Administrator. "If you list a Douglas County address but attend college in another county, you pay so much per credit hour tuition, and the county pays the rest."
A representative for the Legislative Research Department for the Kansas Association of Counties said that Douglas County taxpayers pay $24 for each credit hour taken outside the county.
Weinauga said this $24 was figured in with Douglas County property taxes, and the total junior college bill added up to about $1 million a year.
"After having finished taking my third level of Spanish here, I was basically just exhausted from having to spend an extraordinary amount of time studying — time that I didn't feel was worth it." he said.
"Your property taxes would be 4 percent less if you didn't have students going to school out of county." Weinau said.
Long said the classes most often enrolled in by KU students at JCCC were Western civilization, college algebra and language courses.
Chris Sawyer, Enid, Okla., senior, is enrolled in General Physics II at JCCC. He said physics was the only class he chose not to take at the University
"A lot of those students come over here to take courses because they perceive them to be easier, but we offer smaller classes and our classes are taught by faculty instead of teaching assistants," she said.
"Physics is a hard class at KU," Sawyer said, "Johnson County is a smaller school, and all the classes are easier."
Rosalea Postma-Carttar, assistant specialist of Spanish and Portuguese at the University, said she suggested to her Spanish 108 students that they spend, on average, 10 hours each week outside class studying Spanish.
This may seem a lot to some students.
"The 10-hour recommendation is actually based on a national standard of two hours of study outside of class for every hour in class, it's not tied to Spanish per se," she said.
Postma-Carttar said that the University's basic Spanish programs were comparable to those at other universities but that the graduate program was highly rated nationally.
Jim Woelfel, director of the Humanities and Western Civilization program, said he thought many students took Western Civilization courses at Johnson County because the classes at the University were full or did not fit into the students' schedules. He said that for a number of years, JCCC and KCK constructed their Western Civilization courses along the same lines as the University of Kansas did.
The conflict between community colleges and the University of Kansas is part of the educational morsass that has helped to pass a bill in the Kansas Legislature that will put Kansas universities and community colleges under the same Board of Regents.
The State Board of Education supervises Kansas community colleges, and the Kansas Board of Regents oversees the universities. However, the recently passed Senate Bill 345 awaits Gov. Bill Graves' signature and will bring both types of institutions under the same supervision.
Under the bill, the Board of Regents will be reconstituted into a nine-member board. Three members will oversee the state's universities, three will oversee the community colleges, and the remaining three members will provide coordination between the institutions.
Barbara Conant, Kansas Board of Regents Director of Communications, said that the board was aware that some students crossed between campuses in Kansas each year and that it caused inconveniences.
"It is one of the issues that has driven the legislature to try to help smooth coordination issues and make sure the students are getting the education they need in the environment they need," Conant said.
Weinaug said the amount of money Douglas County taxpayers paid for tuition had been consistent for the past three years. This restructuring of the Board of Regents could provide some financial relief. By 2004, Douglas County taxpayers will no longer pay out-of-district tuition taxes, he said.
- Edited by Seth Hoffman
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