University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 13, 1973
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Ken Anderson Predicts Enrollment Depression
By KAREN HILKER
Kansan Staff Writer
. Speaks to group of Latin American professors Thursday . .
Enrollment Drop Seen For Kansas Schools
Kansas schools from the elementary to the University level will suffer an enrollment drop from 1977 to 1985, Kenneth Anderson, professor of education and research at the University of Iowa Commission (MPC), told a group of Latin American professors here Thursday.
According to Aderson, the MPC was created by the 1970 Kansas Legislature to prepare the first phase of an educational program that includes goals and objectives of education in Kansas.
"We're a little bit frank," he said. We don't know how to handle it.
The enrollment depression predicted by the MPC is based on the number of high school seniors anticipated over the next 15 years, Anderson said. The number of students expected to become high school seniors has been estimated for each year through 1981.
Wine Prices Up; Demand Still High
THE ESTIMATES, Anderson said, were
By JOCELYN WOLBER
Kanean Staff Writer
Kansan Stan Writer
a had year for granes
It's been a bad year for grapes.
The U.S. dollar has been devalued, and as a result the price of domestic and imported wines has increased up to 30 per cent.
Of the imported wine companies, B&G,
one of the big-name shipers of imported
wine, has made one of the largest price
increases. The price of Fommard has gone
up from $9 to $12 a fifth, an increase of 30
per cent.
Even at its pre-devaluation price of $9 a fifth, Pommard can hardly be termed a student wine, according to Mark Schneider, Lawrence liquor store owner.
Schneider said that the prices of imported wines had not increased in the same period.
IN CALIFORNIA, two consecutive years of poor grape production caused a shortage of grapes, he said. Consequently, the price of California wines increased, but this price increase was not really in proportion to the severity of the grape shortage, he said.
"B&G is not really worth the price anywav." he said.
All wines have increased in price, not just imported ones, Schneider said, and this increase cannot be attributed only to the devaluation of the U.S. dollar.
French and California wines are not the only ones that have jumped in price. German wines, because of new German law, went up about four months ago.
"The German labels must now read like a French label," Schneider said. "They must tell exactly what ingredients are in the wine."
The German wines have not yet been affected by devaluation. Schneider said he expected the impact of devaluation to be felt in about two months.
Some other imported wines have not yet increased greatly in price on American shelves.
LAMBURUSO, a semi-dry Italian wine that is popular among students, has not yet been bottled.
'College students are pretty discriminating. They won't drink rot-gut.'
for about £2.30 if both will probably go up with a year because of the greap shortage.
Trouvader Rose, a Portuguese wine priced at $2.19 a fifth, similar to Maturete but about a dollar cheaper, and Casa Francisco Cabaret Savignon, a Spanish wine priced at $1.55 a fifth, have not gone up either, Schneider said.
POPULAR GALLO wines include California Chablis Blanc, priced at $1.24 a fifth, and Gallo Hardy Burgundy, $1.24 a their popularity, in part, may be attributed to the fact that they cost only about half the price of many other wines, Schneider said.
Gallo, a domestic brand Schneider rated as the most popular among students, has improved its product 100 per cent in the last eight months, he said.
Both of these wines are popular among students, he said, because they are good and affordable.
"College students are pretty discriminating," Schneider said. "They won't drink rot-rot-in." Kids no longer drink to want to drink something they will enjoy.
Students do not choose wine on the basis of price alone, however.
Another factor contributing to Gallo's popularity may be that it is sold in half gallons, unlike most other California wines. A half gallon of Gallo sells for $2.30.
Following the California Gallo wines in student popularity, Schneider said, are the
'Other states have a large variety of California wines.'
New York state states, Chelio, a red boreaux,
and Taylor's Lake Country Red.
SNHEIDER ATTRIBUTED the success of Taylor's Lake Country Red to a heavy advertising campaign several years ago, and he is known for drinking it and are familiar with it, he said.
Schneider said he did not consider New York wines to be generally as good as Asian wines, but the New York wines used only Concord wines, which did not make a good, dry wine.
"Other states have a larger variety of California wines. I think we will be getting some of these," he said. "In any college test these are the wines that are going to go."
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The most popular imported wines among
students seem to be French country wines,
Schneider said. Produced in areas immediately surrounding the chateau vineyards where the finest French wines are produced, the country wines are a very good buy.
Country wines are low priced, about $3.50 a fifth. However, students do not buy this wine as much as the young establishment's Lawrence community, Schneider said.
"IF A PERSON has knowledge of wines,
he knows where these good country wines are."
Anderson said the most obvious condition affecting educational planning was the slow progress in preparing students to figures from the U.S. Bureau of the Census of 26 of 105 Kansas counties reported a population gain in the last ten years, he noted. The presented an overall increase of "9 per cent."
extended to 1887 by the use of data on live births from 1964 to 1960.
The two main areas of population growth, said Anderson, were the industrial regions of northeast Kansas and the agricultural region of southwest Kansas.
Joe Speelman, Dodge City second-year law student and member of the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee, warned the committee Thursday that present senate funding procedures are in violation of state and senate restrictions.
In a written statement to the committee, Speelman said the senate must pass a statute forbidding the purchase of capital items by groups, organizations or corporations without conducting a property audit.
Student Urges Funding Statute
Otherwise, Speelman said, the senate would be in violation of state public funding statutes and would be liable in a public law lawsuit and be magistrated by the Attorney General's office.
From 1954 to 1960, educators were predicting enrollments in some Kansas universities to reach $5,000 Anderson said. "Today it is quite a reward," he said.
HE SAID THAT the enrollment projection for Kansas high school seniors was based largely on the cohort survival method. This method of analysis relies on computing grade-to-grade survival ratios of students. The ratio is based on the proportion of students receiving a grade level or the next he, said, and was computed for every school district in Kansas.
According to MPC's projection, the peak enrollment will be in the fall of 1977 when 106,084 students will be enrolled in post-secondary institutions, Anderson said.
Anderson said Fort Hays Kansas State College, Kansas State College of Pittsburg, Kansas State College and Washburn University would be before 1978. Kansas State University, the University of Kansas and Wichita State University will have some enrollment increases, he said.
THE 17 PRIVATE Kansas colleges are in trouble now. Anderson said.
"In a few instances their enrollment may go down to zero by 1978," he said.
Anderson said Kansas had four alternative meetings to meet the enrollment depression: Put more emphasis on recruiting students; reduce staff and cut programs; revise instruction methods to make institutions more attractive; or make significant curriculum reform.
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Of these alternatives, Anderson said, the curriculum reform is the most pragmatic. Washburn already is considering the option of two-year technical programs, he said.
THE COMMISSION spent two-a-half years completing its study, Anderson said. The Kansas Legislature is spending most of its time and energy finding another source of funding, Anderson said it has been unable to take advantage of school funding other than the provost tax.
The Latin American professors to whom Anderson spoke are here for the 13th Seminar on Higher Education in the nation's anatomy and coordination in higher education.
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