Orientation Special
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 78 of its 102 Years
78th Year, No.1
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Section A
Thursday, September 14, 1967
NEW POM-PONS
KU's new pom-pon girls will make their debut Oct. 7 at the KU-Ohio game. They are (top to bottom): Judy Whitaker, Laurie Wedell, Karen Dunaway, Shirley Gossett, Dorothea Davis, Janet Merrick, Sandra Glenn and Shella Murphy.
Enrollment up-dorms full
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Over 15,000 on Hill
Enrollment at KU's Lawrence campus is expected to pass the 15,000 mark this fall for the first time.
The Board of Regents said enrollment would be 15,525 compared with official enrollment last fall of 14,697. The projected increase of 827 is expected to be bigger than increases at the other five state colleges and universities.
Enrollment at the KU Medical Center at Kansas City is predicted to be 1,326 compared to 1,265 last year.
Mrs. Mildred Lesuer, budget officer for the Regents, said the figures represented the number of undergraduates enrolled in a
minimum of 15 credit hours and the number of graduates enrolled in a minimum of nine hours.
Total enrollment at all state institutions is expected to be 54,987 compared to 51,375 last year.
The break down for other schools:
- Kansas State University, Manhattan, 11.908, last year 11,-231.
- Wichita State University,
9.032, last year 8.284.
- Kansas State College at Emporia, 6,648, last year 6,213.
- Kansas State College at Pittsburgh, 5.557, last year 5.084.
- Ft. Hays State College, 4,990,
last year 4,581.
4,700 in dorms
KU residence halls are 98 per cent filled-perhaps indicating a renewed interest in dormitory living.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said today the percentage means 4,700 students will be living in university quarters.
This figure shows a four per cent increase over last year, when only 4.512 students lived in residence halls.
Rooms available later
"We are full right now, and a long waiting list is developing." Wilson said. "I assume we will be able to handle anyone who wants housing after classes have begun next week. Some file for rooms don't report."
KU 'Colleges'grow
To test the benefits of a small college experience, KU next week will begin its second-year experiment with the "colleges within a college" program.
Enrollment for the 2,500 freshmen students who are expected to participate ends tomorrow. Each student will be placed in small groups. of which many will be discussion or seminar sections.
KU is first
Jerry Lewis, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is co-ordinator of the program. He said that KU is the first Big Eight school to undertake such a project.
Lewis said that about 400 KU sophomores and about 50 freshmen in the School of Engineering and Architecture also will participate.
The sophomores are members of Centennial College-begin last year as a pilot living-learning plan for the over-all project. The project is supported by a $300,000 grant from the Carnegie foundation.
Lewis said that some 450 freshmen were involved in the Centennial College last fall. Each of
the returning students will remain a member of that group.
The program this year has been expanded to five groups. Five residence halls on the Lawrence campus have been selected, and each has separate staffs composed of both faculty and administrative advisors.
Changes made
"Some changes have been made in this year's program." Lewis said. "For one thing, special attention will be given to isolated experiments with the colleges."
He cited the engineering program. Only about ten per cent of the entering freshmen will enroll in the School of Engineering and Architecture, and Lewis wants to see the problems, if any, those students encounter.
Each student will be selected from students in living groups which make up this unit. All students in each unit will have the same set of faculty advisors, counselors and administrators. The head of each section will serve as the dean for students in the unit and will report, periodically, the progress of the individuals in his group.
"As much as is possible, students living together will have classes together," Lewis said.
In preparation for the expansion, minor remodeling was done in Pearson, Ellsworth, Joseph R. Pearson, Gertrude Sellards Pearson and Corbin Halls. Most of the changes were to create headquarters for the administrative units.
Future plans for the "Colleges Within a College" include construction of satellite offices and classrooms in the Daisy Field area of the campus. The KU Council for Progress has recommended $1 million for the facilities.
Social activities included
Social activities also will be included in the program. There are plans for parties and dances within each college.
The major college reorganization will forego any administrative changes. Beginning next fall, all freshmen and sophomores, enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will be involved in one of these colleges.
Lewis said that projected figures indicate each college next year will have approximately 900 students.
Frosh react:
"Watkins?...It's disorganized!"
By MIC LOVETT Assistant Managing Editor Amid the chaos and red tape of beginning another KU semester wander the new freshmen.
What are their feelings and first reactions as they familiarize themselves with the Hill?
By RICH LOVETT
Assistant Managing Editor
"It seems like we're all banded together as freshmen," said Steve Pennington, Jefferson City, Mo., freshman. "But everybody seems sort of naive and dumb. Everybody seems friendly, though.
Here is what a few said:
"You're not a number here," said Tim Peck, Overland Park sophomore. "When I went to the Registrar's Office, they were very nice and helped me with my problem."
Pam States, Independence, Mo. freshman, said, "Oh, the number of people! I didn't realize you could cram so many people into such a small area."
KU's big, but the more the merrier. I plan to enjoy it thoroughly."
WHAT DON'T YOU like about KU, she was asked. "Well, I had to go to Watkins Hospital the other day, and it's rather disorganized over there," she said.
"I've got a car, but I don't want it now," said Pat Laird, Shawnee Mission freshman. "It's just not worth it to drive two or three blocks and then try to find a parking space."
Commenting on the University in general, Miss Laird said, "It's like going to high school as a
sophomore. At first you don't know many people, but then you meet lots of people. By the time you're a senior you're sick of all of them. It's like that here."
"KU'S TOO BIG," said Gordy Whittaker, Prairie Village freshman. "You've got to be real independent here because it's not like anything you've ever done before. It's your first real look into the outside world."
What don't you like about KU,
Whittaker was asked.
"Dormitories," he replied.
He also noted an increase in annual hall fees.
KU residence hall dwellers pay $800 instead of $725 this year to provide funds for student services.
Food allotment up
New services include parking and recreational facilities, and hall switchboards, formerly operating on a 12-hour day, will remain open round the clock.
The raw food cost allotment has been increased by 15 cents—from 75 cents to 90 cents a day per student. Wilson anticipates that KU will spend more than $1 million on food this year.
He believes the benefits drew some students.
William Spotts, manager, said all the four-person suites have been reserved.
Naismith Hall, a private residence complex, has shown increases. Last year it operated at less than 50 per cent of 500 person capacity.
A breakdown of the residence and scholarship halls:
Men's Hails
Men's Halls
Ellsworth 670
Tampa 432
Joseph R. Pearson 400
Women's Halls
Lewis 432
Hashingr 444
Oliver 690
Geralds Sollands Pearson 420
Corbin 720
Co-educational Halls
McCallum 770
Naismith 500
Scholarship Halls
Battenteld 50
Douthart 48
Grace Pearson 48
Hodder 50
Jollife 50
Miller 49
Sarco 52
Sellards 50
Stephenson 50
Watkins 49
No longer will the nation's colleges and universities automatically send notice of a student's enrollment to his local board.
Since many male KU students are unaware of this practice, the Dean of Men's office is distributing necessary information to students who wish to contact their draft boards and obtain a student deferment, says Kenneth Ivers, assistant to the Dean of Men.
Local draft boards throughout the country are placing the entire burden of obtaining student deferments upon the students themselves.
Deferment? Write your local board
Ivers says students in organized living groups will receive the information through those living groups.
Those not in organized living groups must obtain the draft information at either the Dean of Men's office, 228 Strong Hall, or the Admissions and Records office, 120 Strong Hall, Ivers adds,