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Fridav. March 1, 1974
University Daily Kansan
KU Figures in City's Growth Study
By BOB MARCOTTE
Kansas Staff Reporter
For as long as the University of Kansas has been a part of the city of Lawrence, there has been confusion over who is actually included in the city's population.
Do the figures shown in the atlases and the road maps include KU students, or is Lawrence a lot bigger than many of us thought?
Dick McClanathan, director of city planning, and Ron Jones, city planning consultant, attempted to predict how night when they outlined the city's projected population growth through the year 2000 for members of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning.
And their projections indicate that KU students will, indeed, figure vitally in the city's population trends over the next 10-20 years.
The projections, developed in connection with an updating of the city's comprehensive plan, show an overall Lawrence population of about 61,400 for the year 2000. But the city's population is expected to drop between 1800 and 1985 because of a drastic rise in enrolment at the university of Kansas that is anticipated for the same period.
The projections show KU's enrollment dropping from about 18,825 in 1980 to about 13,200 five years later, lowering the city's population from about 35,319 to about 50,802.
After 1985, the projections indicate a gradual recovery in KU's enrollment which matched with a continuous growth of the city's nonstudent population, will pull the city's population back up to about 54,321 in 1990.
McClanahan said the assumptions about KU enrollment were based upon a study of higher education enrollment trends in State Education Commission in January.
The report notes that, in view of
elementary and secondary enrollment statistics already available, there will be a rapid decline in the number of high school students attending in fewer enrollments at the University.
The report also says there is a growing conviction among parents and students that a university degree isn't all-important. There is a growing willingness on their part, according to the report, to defer a college education to a later date.
The city's non-student, population, on the other hand, is expected to increase steadily.
The current population replacement rate for the nation, he said, is 1.9 children a couple, which could result in downward trends if the rate continues over a long period of time.
However, Jones said, there have been indications from demographers that the rate will probably bottom out and reverse in the next two years. 25 children a couple over the long run.
The city's population is about 48,000, including Kus and Haskell students, McClanahan said. Statistics from the State Department of Agriculture, based on the counts from county assessors made at the start of each year, show that more than half of those figures don't give a true representation of the city's overall population.
They usually include only those persons who are registered to vote in the county or who own property there, which means that, at most, only about 80-35 per cent of KU students are included in the state's population figure for the city.
The federal census gives a more accurate picture of overall population, be said, because it counts people on the basis of time of the county taken every 10 years.
So in the years between the federal counts, McClanahan said, the annual state reports have had to be adjusted upwards as much as 8,000 or more. An example of this
Jones cautioned the commission against taking the population projections as irreversible fact. The projections merely indicate likely growth patterns for the city given current trends and assumptions, he said.
discrepancy occurred in 1970, he said, when the state figure showed a Lawrence population of 32,832, well below the federal rate of 45,684 KU and Haskell students living in the city.
They are intended as a kind of mulepole, be said, for the city to determine where it is going and whether it needs to speed up its growth, continue "lockstep" or slow down.
The federal census is used as much as possible, McClanathan said, because the city's planning has to be based on the total population living in the city and demanding city services.
Sometimes a picture isn't worth a thousand in the case of the school cromartin.
BY DEBRA GOVIN
Kansas Staff Reporter
By DEBBIE GUMP
Robert Foster, director of bands, will conduct the concert.
For the past six months the international system of picture street signs has been used in Lawrence, according to Arnold Wiley, head of the city street department.
Wiley said he hadn't received any complaints about the picture signs.
Jazz Ensemble to Perform At Annual Festival in Riley
"They're self-explanatory if you look at them. I never had anybody in the dark on me."
But some parents have complained that the signs are confusing to drivers and are not helpful.
However, Sally MacKenzie, president of the Law School at Aaron-Peart Teacher College, taught in a law course.
The University of Kansas Jazz Ensemble will perform with jazz saxophonist Jamey Aebersold at 4 p.m. Saturday at Riley County High School in Riley.
The KU ensemble will be the featured university band at the 10th annual Riley Center Music Festival.
"There seems to be a real misunderstanding about what the new signs
Ensemble members are chosen by audition.
The KU Jazz Ensemble performs jazz, pop, rock and commercial music. It gives student members training in professional performances and is the only KU band that prepares students to play music commercially, according to Foster.
Picture Street Signs Are Unclear, Parents Complain
The performance with Aeberold, who is a well-known performer and author of works on jazz improvisation and education, will be held at the McArthur Park's jazz arrangement of "McArthur Park's."
According to the Kansas Driving Handbook, a sign with two figures between two horizontal lines denotes a school cross. One figure between the two lines denotes an ordinal figure and another. A sign with two figures or no horizontal lines means there is a school in the area.
Foster played with jazz bands directed by Doc Sevinenius, Billy Mary and Les Brown before becoming director of bands at KU. The ensemble will also compete in the college division of the Kansas City Jazz Festival in April.
MacKenzie said most complaints from parents worried about reckless drivers have come from the area of Schwegler School at 2201 Ousdahl Road.
She said the Schwegler PTA was petitioning to have two conventional crossing signs installed to supplement the picture signs.
IN THE MOOD
a dance sponsored by Gay Liberation Saturday, March 2 KU Union 8:30-12:30
Few people turn out better Gothics than Pyllis A. Whitney; in fact, her books are miles beyond most in that genre. The new one is "SKYE CAMERON" (Crest, 60 cents), which is set in New Orleans and deals with a young woman and her love for a man whose reputation is about as unsavory as any in town.
$1.00 Sound by RMS
More political-type stuff is William Woolfok's "THE OVERLIVERS" (Crest, $1.25). The plane of the governor of California crashes on an emergency trip to see the President (not Reagan and Nixon, we assume). A million dollars in cash is sent to the president's home, and an ex-FBI man finds evidence of a plan to seize the government.
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Article 9, Section 62, of the Standard Traffic Ordinances for Kansas Cities states, that when there are no traffic stops, the driver must pedestrian on the driver's side of the road.
Sig. Mgt. Galicia García, the head of the Traffic Bureau, said no radar had been install in the Schweiger area because he had received no complaints of speeders. However, radar has been used near Hillcrest School, he said, and speeders have been caught.
"People seem to be well aware of what the sign mean," he said.
Garcia also said he had not received any questions concerning the picture signs.
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STUDENT ASSOCIATION FOR COMBINED HEALTH SERVICES will have an organizational meeting for students in room 3139 and Thursday in Rooms 3139 and 3140 Wescoe Hall.
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