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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 78 of its 102 Years
78th Year, No.2
WEATHER SHOWERS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Tuesday, September 19, 1967
Colleges stymie enrollment
BLACK FRIDAY
by Will Hardesty Kansan Staff Reporter
A quick look at the board of closed classes told the whole story.
Areas such as English, history, sociology, psychology and most of the foreign languages had class after class closed by noon Friday. And after noon, the number of closed classes increased faster.
"Well, I do think we had more classes closed this year than usual," said James K. Hitt, registrar. "I think we must have a larger enrollment than we counted on."
Predicted enrollment was 15-525. The University said yesterday 15,503 had enrolled by Monday morning. This is 965 more than were at the Lawrence campus last year.
Upperclass complains
Some juniors and seniors were complaining the pre-enrollment of the "Colleges Within the College" had hurt their chances of getting in some classes.
Hitt said the University had realized that by giving priority to the freshmen, there would be the risk of partially filling some lower level classes.
This pre-enrollment meant the "upper classes are feeling the pinch more. They feel it more because the freshmen have filled up some of the lower level courses
"This forced the upper classes to take more upper level courses which filled them up, too. However, we knew there would be some seats left in the lower level courses when enrollment of the upper classes began."
Severe shortages
"There is no question there are some severe shortages right now."
The time was a little after 2. Friday afternoon, with the big last minute rush still to come.
Why was the enrollment larger than expected?
Enrollment is predicted two years in advance so the University can submit a budget to the Kansas legislature.
"Don't ignore freshmen"?
When the legislature approves a budget, the University must work within that budget. "little sticks"
The problem becomes one of making do with what there is no matter how many students show up. This "can get a little sticky," according to Hitt.
by Steve Morgan
Kansan Staff Reporter
Swift has proposed a widespread public relations program to change attitudes of organizations that don't seek freshmen membership.
Form letter contact
The Shawnee Mission senior said campus organizations, because of limited budgets, fail to communicate with freshmen.
Steve Swift, All Student Council leadership committee chairman, says he wants to combat campus organizations ignoring KU freshmen.
But when contact is made, he added, it is conducted informally with form letters or posters displayed on living group bulletin boards.
This year, after the registrar's office had seen the results of pre-enrollments made during previews, it advised the various affected departments that there would be a big demand for courses in the affected areas.
"We will try to make campus
"I felt special when I arrived," she said.
organizations more personal to the freshmen," he said, "because they are a vital part of a student's life."
But Susan Babbitt, Kansas City freshman, said she did not expect the organizations to take a personal interest.
"There was plenty of help and everyone sort of gave me an advantage at first. I got a mimeographed letter from one campus organization and that is about what I expected."
However, several freshmen seem unsure about the success of Swift's program.
"There's not much interest in campus organizations anyway," said Dennis Parkins, Chillicothe, Ill., freshman.
Not contacted
Robert White, Overland Park freshman, said no organizations have contacted him and he did not care if they did.
"Even up to the last minute, we were telling departments to expect a lot of students," Hitt said, but you just can't open a
It takes an IBM machine seven hours to process the data for one group of 7,000 students, Kelly said. The machine reads 57 pages of information on each student's fees and then stamps the amount owed on the card to be sent to the student.
'Fee' bills sent today
Staggered mailing of fee statements begins this semester because of increasing KU enrollments, said William L. Kelly, associate registrar.
Students who enrolled last Wednesday or Thursday should receive their fee statements tomorrow and the rest should receive their statements Thursday. However, some students may not get their statements until Friday because of the large number to be processed, Kelly said.
Fee statements are being mailed today—at least part of them, anyway.
Most freshmen have little interest, said John Oliver, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, and the committee's efforts would be a waste of time.
Ed Abrahamson, Evanston, Ill., freshman, said the organizations are available but one has to look for them.
Kelly and his staff must finish
Whoopee!
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescow said the contribution was an example of the enlightened attitude of many business firms in acknowledging their stake in higher education.
"If a student does not receive his fee statement by Friday, he should notify the Registrar's Office immediately," Kelly said.
The company was founded in 1889 in Salina, Kans., and has plants from coast to coast.
The H. D. Lee Company, a garment manufacturing firm in Shawnee Mission, has donated $10,000 to the KU Program for Progress.
Contribution to program
Showers and thunderstorms are forecast by the weather bureau through Wednesday afternoon. High today low 80s. Low tonight about 60. Precipitation probabilities 50 per cent tonight and 30 per cent tomorrow.
WEATHER
the job. They stuff the envelopes with the IBM cards and other materials and then mail them.
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More than $8 million has been pledged to the University of Kansas' $18.6 million Program for Progress fund-raising campaign, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said yesterday.
Fund raising goal nears $9 million
At the 102nd annual University opening convocation, Wescoe also said a recent Board of Regents study "indicated clearly that KU is pre-eminently this state's upper level and graduate institution." The study, he said, showed KU teaching 75 per cent of all Ph.D hours scheduled last year in state colleges, 74 per cent of all post-baccalaureate professional hours and 34 per cent of all master's degree hours.
The Program for Progress, begun during the summer of 1966, was recently boosted by a $25,000 grant from the First National Bank of Topeka and a $10,000 gift from Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Ind. The hoped-for total of $18.6 million will be used to supplement legislative financing, Wescoe said.
Wescoe, referring to the three-year Program for Progress, said that in seeking private financial support, KU does not deprive any other college. Father, such efforts enhance the public's awareness of the needs of all institutions, he said.
"During the past decade, support for higher education has increased dramatically in Kansas," he said. "At KU, state support has more than doubled."
Wescoe said he regretted consistent student fee increases. This fall, KU fees went up $23 for in-state students and $40 for out-of-state students.
WHAT'S INSIDE
—Or read John Hill's version of last week's melee, set to music, on page 2.
—The Kansan helps discover a young "black humorist," see page 14.
—Rough enrollment? See page 4 and sympzate.
DR. WESCOE
Dorms full
KU men's residence halls are filled to their 2,108 capacity and a waiting list is now filling cancellations and no shows.
Bill Robinson, assistant to the dean of men, said contracted spaces which have not been filled by today will be given to those on the waiting list.
Although the University sent out more contracts than it had places to fill, only those returned before the deadline were accepted. Robinson said.
This year rooms were assigned on the basis of two men to a room rather than three to offer a more attractive housing arrangement.