Tuesday, April 22, 1980
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times higher than KU's will be an important problem for the schools
Robert Kelly, executive director of the Associated Independent College of Kansas, said, "Inflation can be a terrible blow to us. The education is more frightening than the demographics."
Combined fees and residence hall living costs will rise 17 percent next year at St. Mary's of the Plains学院 in Dodge City Fees for 1989-81 will be $2,250 per year.
Ku instate, full-time tuition next year will be $343.60 per semester. Residence hall living and tuition costs together will increase by about 9 percent.
Murray Blackwelder, director of development at Methodokind Baker Intermediate School in dependent schools were, or would become, trapped in downward spiral because of lack of support.
BLACKWELDER SAID the spiral began in the late '60s and early '70s for some schools, when they were still successful
"All of a sudden, in the early '70s," he said, "enrollment started to go down. They put off renovation and put off equipment purchases."
This decline in capital outlay to counteract lower tuition income, Blackwell said, made the schools less attractive and thus more reluctant than their demographable share of students.
"All of a sudden donors started saying, 'Hey, what's happening at this university,' he said. If they start losing students, they'd have new equipment, there's no way out of it."
But Blackwelder said Baker had a different story to tell contributors to the university's $5.5 million endowment fund.
HE SAID Bake was "going to be hurt" by the 1980s crunch, but that the school would remain competitive because of heavy new leadership and six years and corporate challenge grants.
Continued fund raising campaigns and tight spending on the campus will keep Baker operating. Blackwelder said
At Ottawa University, a Baptist college where enrollment has dropped in recent years, President Robert Shaw said the school's efforts to improve graduation rates in a modest rise behind them. "The
Shaw said that Ottawa's church relationship was very strong and accounted for 28 percent of total gift income.
The church is a very strong factor in who
we are, what we are and how we're supported," Shaw said.
He said Ottawa's extension course program and its College Without a Campus in the city of Pittsburgh and Phoenix would allow the school to a new resource of non-traditional students.
CTFING THE HEAVEN of KU's Regents
School. The school said it
confrastanted students—older
for additional education—could help schools
contrain the demographic indicators for
them.
Michael McCarthy, president of St. Mary's of the Plains, which has grown steadily in enrollment since 1975, and now has a campus enrollment of 661 students, staying competitive in the higher education world, but has simply a matter of developing a product.
"Your customers are students," he said.
"When you market the product, you do all the things being done in the real world. You create and make personal communications."
"Once you get the product going, word of mouth takes over."
MCCARTY SAID the private college enrollment decline in the 80s, which he projected to be 20 percent, would not necessarily hurt the colleges.
"I don't think that equation follows," he said. "You have the factors of quality of management, migration flow new students and market and older students back to school."
Tremendously important to the vitality of Kansas private colleges is the availability of scholarships, which fill the tuition gap between private and public colleges.
Kelly said 80 percent of private college students in the region finance their business through private gifts, the Kansas State Scholarship program, federal grants or the Tuition Grant.
State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, said 25 percent of all private college students in the state received Tuition Grants.
The grants have a maximum of $1,200 a year and are paid for by federal funds, with $150,000 in state funds expected to be added in 1981.
THERE IS a $1,450 limit on total scholarship money private college students may receive from Tuition Grants and State Scholarship money combined.
State Scholarships are available to all Kansas high school graduates and are based on academic achievement and need.
McCarthy said the Tuition Grant program
was needed because parents of private school students had paid taxes to support public schools and should get some of their investment back.
"We all support state institutions," he said. "What would happen if we didn't have private schools and we had to throw all the private students onto the tax rolls."
Berman indicated the Tuition Grant program might come under fire when public colleges were forced to compete with private colleges for available students.
He said there was "absolutely no question" that pressures from private colleges for increased scholarship funding would be great in the coming decade and those students who fail should graduate students would be unable to attend private schools without their Tufts Grant.
APART FROM financial considerations,
the administrators say there is a continuing
market for private higher education
schools. The school board has a
environment that of public colleges.
A spring 1978 Ford Foundation survey of 46 Kansas high schools found that the major students attended a private college and a public academic reputation and school environment.
The survey showed 9 percent of the high school students who went on to college chose private schools.
Blackwelder said the school environment factor made comparison of the appeal of private and public colleges one of "apples and oranges."
One part of the Kansas small college environment is a religious orientation.
McCarthy called St. Mary's of the Plains' orientation "Christocentric."
ALTHOUGH STUDENTS are not required to participate in the course of either a math or化学 course, McCarthy said, many of the students enjoy the atmosphere created by the inclusion of female students.
"It has a smaller student-teacher ratio," he said, "and the Christian principles for which the school stands can lead to a homogeneous student body."
Mccarthy said the school's literature clearly stated a belief in Jesus Christ, as well as prohibitions against drugs and dormitory visitations by the opposite sex.
Other factors that distinguish private colleges include their size, which allows for individual advising and makes students feel secure. They also require Ph.D. teaching freshmen courses.
Kelly said, "Some students are looking for something other than a cosmopolitan atmosphere."
Washburn University to remain in ASK
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-A compromise designed to keep Washauk University in the Associated Students of Kansas (ASK) was unanimously adopted by the Legislative Assembly last weekend.
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The compromise, which waives the membership dies Washup has to ask, would not affect the lobbying capacity of the board, and would not change the nature of the ASK board directors, said last month.
THE WASHUBRIN STUDENT Senate decided last month to withdraw the university's membership from ASK because of communication with Washubrina's Senate.
The ASK Legislative Assembly which meets twice a year, comprises seven Kansas schools, the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Fort Hays State University, Iowa State University, Wichita State University, Emporia State University and Washburn.
However, the Senate had continued to donate space in the Washburn Student Union for the executive offices of ASK.
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Instead of membership fees, Washburn is contributing office space valued at $2,046. This was based on $a square foot of office space. Instead of Washburn's membership fees for ASK,
Templeton said that because furniture was not included in the assessment, furniture rental would account for the difference.
TEMPLETON SAID he viewed the compromise as indicative of the necessity to raise the 25-cent per student membership fees for ASK schools.
"It looks as if we're going to have to do something," he said. "It's been 25 cents for the past seven or eight years and we've been getting enrollment to make up the difference."
In other business, the Assembly voted to support a Kansas House bill that prohibited consumption of 3.2 lb on highways and purchasing beer for consumption by miners.
enrollment, combined with inflation, would force ASK to raise membership fees.
It also approved resolutions to study the system, inter-collegiate and professional societies, and student union rental reimbursement, and 100 percent graduate fee waivers for the university.
He said the expected decline in
The increase would not occur next year, Templeton said, but probably in the near future.
The resolutions will be studied by ASK committees during the summer and final action on whether to put them on ASK's board. We be made at the fall Legislative Assembly.
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Americans will not be competing in the 1980 Summer Olympics, the Kansas Relays may be slipping in attendance and the Royals may be off to a sluggish start. But the sportsans need not despair. Joseph R. Pearson, a high school man who may have just what they are looking for.
JRP will host such athletic endeavors as matchbook snapping, Jello sailing can, and the annual Rite of Spring second annual Rites of Spring, a week-long group of activities starting today and continuing into Saturday.
STARTED LAST year by Kevin Nelson,
Leawood sophomore, the Rings of Spring is a floor-versus-floor competition sponsored by the hall government. The individual floors amass points in each event and the winners get one bottle of beer or the monetary equivalent.
"It's done basically for some solidarity on the floors and in the hall," Nelson said yesterday.
"Remember when he was walking through the line and just took it a bowl of jello and inhaled it? That is Jello snarfing," he said.
Jello snarlting, which promises to be one of the more interesting events, is similar to John Belushi's cateraie antics in the movie "Animal House." Nelson said.
"I last year there was a guy who was incredible," he said. "I mean it was less effort than a breath of air. He just put it up to his hand and he took it down, there was nothing there."
Staff Reporter
By TOM TEDESCHI
In the tradition of Jello snarfing is
Jalapeno pepper eating, in which one person
THE CANOE race will be this weekend on Potter Lake. The object is to relay two teams of three men across the lake and back without naddles.
Most of the other events will be held either inside JRP or on the adjacent basketball court.
JRP games boycott the mundane
ANOTHER "sarafing" event is ice cream feeding, in a whisker and an eater from each floor to try to empty their bowl in a little kitchen. The water is blended blindfolded and the eater has his hands tied.
Bottle top snapping is the same thing, he said. People who are beer drinkers become very adept at snapping bottle caps into garbage cans.
"The matchbook snap is a more esoteric and laid-back event," Nelson said. "Those people who are smokers become very adept at handling rather than passing them around the room."
Then, of course, there is the loft sport of matchbook snapping.
from each floor tries to eat 12 Jalapeno peppers in as little time as possible. Always a "colorful" event, last year's winner had his 12 in 46 seconds. Nelson said
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Also included in the Rites will be a canoe race and possibly a tricycle race.
"We had originally planned to have a tricycle race in the style of Bent-Hur." Nelson said. "I've asked the floors to round up all the tricycles. I have no idea how you do it," he said.
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In that competition, cans must be stacked as high as possible on a five-can base within the allotted time.
One of the more popular events, Nelson said, was the can stack competition.
"This is something that becomes verv
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Johnson said the $2,000 reward money was being put up by Herzog Construction Company, the owner of the equiment.
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Police said John displayed a handgun to a patron at the Virginia Inn Club, 2007 W. 6th. Johnson had reportedly been drinking heavily and another man took the gun from their hours in the Douglas County Jail, Johnson was released on his own recognizance.
arrest and conviction of persons responsible for the vandalism of construction equipment late Saturday night near the Clinton Parkway.
Douglas County Sheriff Rex Johnson announced the creation of a reward fund yesterday for information leading to the
A 35-year Lawrence was held on $38,000 bond early Sunday morning following an incident involving a handgun in a private club Saturday night.
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According to Johnson, three road compactors were started and driven by vandals in the area around the parkway one-half mile from the dam road. One compactor's gas tank was punctured and the rollers bent. The second compactor was found turned off ditch and the rollers was stopped in the middle of the dam road by a sheriff's deputy.
the man, Raymond L. Johnson, 3506 W. 7th Court, was charged with aggravated assault, unlawful use of a weapon, carrying a firearm, and possession of weapons by Lawrence police.
Vandals had reportedly up 500 feet of barbed wire fence and uprooted several. Herzog estimated the loss at $10,000-11,500.
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The University Kansas Student Awards Committee is accepting nominations for two awards annually awarded to graduating seniors. These awards are the Agnes Wright Strickland Award and the Class of 1913 Award.
The Agnes Wright Strickland Award was established in memory of Agnes Wright Strickland, a member of the class of 1887. The award is given annually to a graduating senior man and graduating senior woman in recognition of a good academic record, demonstrated leadership in matters of all University concern, respect among fellow students and indications of future dedication to service to the University.
The Class of 1913 Award was established by the Class of 1913. The award is given annually to a graduating senior man and graduating senior woman who by his/her evidenced intelligence, devotion to studies and personal character gives promise of usefulness to society.
Applications for the Class of 1913 Award and the Agnes Wright Strickland Award are available in the Office of Student Organizations and Activities, 220 Strong Hall. The Student Awards Committee invites nominations from the University Community. Self nominations are also welcomed. Applications for the awards must be received in the Office of Student Organizations and Activities, 220 Strong Hall, by Friday, April 25, 1980.
popular for some reason, people stacking cans in their windows," he said. "But they only have five minutes, so I don't expect massive structures."
The can stacking event and the Jello loss were adopted from An Tostel, an annual games festival at Notre Dame University.
The matchbook snapping, can stacking and Jalapeno pepper eating competitions will be from 6:45 to 7:30 m. Tuesday.
Bottle top snapping, ice cream feeding and "Just a Minute Mum," a dressing competition, will be from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m.
Thursday.
Balloon shaving and Jello snarfing will be from 6:48 to 7:15 p.m. Friday.
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Tuesday, April 22
THE BLUE DAHLIA
Dir. George Marshall, with Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Dendu, Hugh Beaumont. A serviceman returns to find his wife has been unafraid; it attempts to track down the real Kielner original script by Raymond Chandler.
Wednesday, April 23 LORD OF THE FLIES
(1963)
Dr. Peter Brooks, with James Auney,
Tom Chapin, Hugh Egduwens. Powerful
adaptation of Michael Golding with
their plane crash lands on an island.
Plus: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek
imbed in a timber base on Ambrose Bierce's story."
Thursday, April 24 THE ODESSA FILE
Dir. Ronald Neame, with Jon Vojtěch,
Maxillian Sellman. Suspenseful film
of a fictional journalist after the discovery of a dairy. Coordonspor with Hillel.
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Friday & Saturday
April 25-26
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Dir. Bernard Blier, with Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Deweare, Carole Laure. A man shares his listless wit with a young friend and finds contentment with a genius teenager boy. A truly delightful film that year, a Francei-sculptor Oscar last time. French universities.
Unless otherwise noted; all films will be shown at Wooldruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union; M-R films are $1.50 each, M-L films are $1.50 and start at 7:30; 7:00 and Midnight on Fri. & Sat., and at 2:00 on Sunday. Tickets available at www.kansas.edu/bookings. Skylab Information - 864-3477. No smoking or refresher accommodations.