The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, July 30, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 161 USPS 650-640
Minority ranks fall
Bv CONNIE SCHALLAU
Staff Reporter
Kansas' minority population has increased, but the minority enrollment at the University of Kansas has decreased.
In 1970 the U.S. Census reported the minority population in Kansas as 5.3 percent of the total population.
According to the 1980 U.S. Census, the Kansas minority population is 219,904, or 9.3 percent of the state's total population.
In a 1980 report compiled by the KU office of minority affairs, the KU minority enrollment was 5.75 percent of the total KU enrollment. This represents a slight decrease from the 1973 rate of 5.7 per cent.
Mary Townsend, director of the minority affairs office, said, however, that the data was incomplete because ethnic data was self-reported.
*STUDENTS PLAY GAMES with their race on the (admission) application form said. Same said.*
Townsend also said that she did not know why minority enrollment had decreased.
"That's a hard question and I don't think that anybody on campus knows why," she said.
One professor had some ideas on why the enrollment had not kept pace with the Kansas school district.
"I think the early emphasis was not necessarily for quality students," Samuel Adams, associate professor of journalism, said.
"People said, just give me a dark face." They weren't concerned whether it was a qualified and capable student. When the students didn't do well, the interest waned."
CHANCELLOR-DESIGNATE Gene Budig's interest in increasing minority enrollment has not waned, however.
Budid said that he was firmly committed to attracting more minority students to KU.
"My commitment to recruiting minority students is not new," Budig said. "While at West Virginia University I worked aggressively to attract minor students."
During his presidency, the minority enrollment at West Virginia University increased from 1.5 percent of the total enrollment in 1977 to 2.4 percent in 1980.
The numerical increase was from 275 to 515. In both 1977 and 1980 the total enrolment topped up by 6,358.
At KU is a good effort is being made to recruit minority students but having them graduate is the most important thing. Marshall Jackson is principal director of admissions and records, said.
"RETENTION IS THE key word," Jackson said. "As a black person I would say that we have to recruit to graduate."
KU has never done a study on minority graduation rates. However, in 1976-77, of the 915,131 bachelor's degrees awarded nationwide, 82, or 9.7 percent were awarded to diploma recipients.
Adams said that the lack of minority faculty as
role models might have an adverse effect on minority students.
In 1979 about six percent of the KU faculty were foreigners, among them minorities, according to 1978 Equal Opportunity Commission reports.
In that year KU employed 3,239 people at all locations and 274, or eight percent, were minorities.
Service and maintenance had the highest percentage of minority employees. In that category, 18 percent of the workers were minorities.
Representation in colleges and universities by minority students nationwide is 18 percent, according to National Education Council reports.
Of the six Kansas universities governed by the Board of Regents, only one has a minority enrollment above the Kansas minority population percentage.
population per student Wichita State University had 1,175 minority students enrolled in Spring 1981, or 10 percent of the total enrollment.
Wichita State University is located in Sedgwick County, the most populated county in Kansas, which also has the second-highest minority population in Kansas.
OF THE REGENTS' SCHOOLS, KU is third,
in the University and WSU in
military enrollment.
Kansas and West Virginia are similar because both, historically, had low minority rates.
Richard Howard, institutional research
See MINORITY page 6
Hiromi Hashida studies with her head phones on in Walnut Grove Park, on the Richard Hollander sculpture of welded steel that was loaned by the Artist to the University of Kannas in 1970.
TRACEY THÖMPSON/Kansen Staff
Mass. Street shoppers require lots more lots
Staff Reporter
By MARC HERZFELD Staff Reporter
Downtown Lawrence parking lots are inadequate for both shoppers and downtown employees, according to a city survey released today.
Dean Palos, the city planner who conducted the survey, said, "We have a tremendous conflict here. Employees are using prime places reserved for customers."
PALOS SAID that the parking problem would have to be solved in the city's redevelopment plans. Robert Ackman,ASA president,city's mayor,has recommended more parking downtown for employees.
Paloas said that there were 3,326 public and private parking spaces downtown and more than 100 apartments in the area.
- What we really need to do is provide more parking for employees," Palos said.
The city built free parking lots on Vermont and New Hampshire streets to allow merchants to attract more customers, Palos said. If employees used the free lots, then shoppers would be discouraged and would shop elsewhere, he said.
IN A SURVEY of downtown businesses released last week, 47 percent rated downtown parking as fair to poor. Forty-one percent of the businesses cited parking as a major problem, and 22 percent called for more employee parking lots.
Palos said that the city had not yet found solutions to the parking problem. Because parking meters are an important source of
revenue to the city, they cannot be eliminated, Palos said.
More than one-fifth of the downtown businesses wanted to eliminate the meters.
Last year, parking meters brought in $72,300
Bil. year. The city adds an urban all-
$19,500; City Clerk Work.
Pat Hopper, city account clerk, said the city employed three full-time meter readers and one parking meter repairman, at an expense of about $35,000 annually.
Palos was not sure whether the gains from free parking would offset revenue losses.
Pales said that downtown businesses lost customers to shopping centers with free parking.
"ONE OF THE major departments stores like is free parking. Long before shopping centers were enclosed they were attractive to department stores because they had free fare." Palos said.
Pales said that downtown employees were taking 24 percent of the free parking downtown.
"The free parking in is being ushered by
employees and customers who do not
doze in effects" Force shoppers to "elsewhere."
In spite of downtown's parking problems, color that lawrence had better parking the city.
"In very few communities can you still find penny parking meters," Palos said.
runs said that many people were not aware of the free parking downtown. About one-fourth of the free spaces downtown were unused, he said, although the free lots in prime retail areas, such as behind Penney's on New Hampshire Street, were 99 percent occupied.
Obstacles face KU funding
By MARTHA BRINK
Staff Reporter
When Gene Budig officially becomes KU chancellor next week he will inherit the same problems facing many public universities; the university's faculty salaries and deteriorating equipment.
Of primary concern in the next year will be approval of the 1983 budget. The budget calls for significant increases in salaries and other operating expenses.
SEVERAL FACTORS, all beyond Budig's direct control, will greatly affect KU's success or failure:
THE KANSAS LEGISLATURE
Last season, a conservative wind swept through the Republican-dominated Kansas Legislature. Partially inspired by President Reagan's budget cut program and by the tight economy, legislators hacked away at the state including the Regents institution budgets.
bMagee, never. State Rep. John M. Solbach, D-Lawrence, said Monday that he thought the conservative mood would not be as strong next session.
One reason is that members of the House will all be up for re-election in the fall of 1982. Elected officials are generally less likely to make unconventional decisions in an election year:
"I think legislators were the ones who years," Solbach said. Nevertheless, legislators might still
"I think legislators will be less inclined to cut the budget than in past years." Solbach said.
remember the anti-KU sentiment stirred up during last spring's session.
On Jan. 21, State Rep. Joseph Hoagland, Roverland Park, rose from his seat and attacked the KU School of Social Welfare, calling for an end to the violence. He received a standing ovation for his words.
HOAGLAND WAS UPSET by KU professors Norman Forer and Clarence Dillingham's trips to Iran in 1979 during the hostage crisis. Specifically, he wanted to investigate the KU students and find out why Forest was able to keep his job. The University had suspended Forest without pay.
Houghtland's colleagues initially gave him considerable support in his House Judiciary office.
Committee a senior and major
At the same time, the tenure hearings were
going on, the Legislature was involved in two other KU-related issues. The Kansas City Times ran a series on alleged athletic recruiting violations and funding abuses at KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University.
In response, State Rep. Mike Hayden, Atkwood, an independent legislative investigation of the department's practices,
Also last spring, several legislators, including Hayden and State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, paid a surprise visit to the KU Medical Center.
Clerk. They said that they found evidence of mismanagement and unsanitary conditions, and demanded an investigation.
State Sen. Jane M. Eldrege, R-Lawrence, called the visit a "carefully orchestrated effort." The University was intended to discredit the University in order to justify large cuts in the budget, she said.
OTHER LEGISLATORS said that all three incidents were being used to turn KU into a scapegoat for further budget cuts. Hoagland, Hayden and Hess wanted to make KU look inefficient and overfund<sup>1</sup> to justify their cuts in the Regents budgets, the legislators said.
Another problem facing KU in the next session is that few legislators from Regents institution areas hold key positions in the Legislature.
Only one legislator from Regents school areas serves on the crucial Means Committees.
because Wichita is a large city, it does not always embrace the same concerns as the smaller Regents areas.
This is clear in the case of Hess, who has been one of the strongest supporters of the Regents
Before this past session, former State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, served on the Senate Ways and Measures Committee in the 118th Congress. The latter is the final stop for all budget matters.
Some people have speculated that Berman's
speculated that Berman's See NEWS page 6
British celebrate roval wedding. world looks on
LONDON-Prince Charles brought one of the most romantic royal love stories to a happy ending yesterday by marrying, amid great pageantry and nationwide rejoicing, a young woman who now works in the Kindergarten where she now Princess of Wales and the future queen consort of England.
The 32-year-old heir to the throne and Lady Diana Spencer, 20, pledged their vows before a
congregation of 2,500 crowned heads and world statesmen in St. Paul's Cathedral as nearly one million people jammed the streets.
Later, clasping hands, the royal couple kissed King Philip II of Spain and the sheers of more than 10 million well-wishers.
The new princess, only a few days out of her teens and a few months from her job in a kindergarten, can not stop smiling. Her smile. *for*
Prince Charles
one moment at least, made Britons forget their riots, their unemployment and the tragedy of Northern Ireland, where two IRA hunger strippers slipped closer to death.
Presiding over the marriage, Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie imparted words to the spirit of joy symbolized by the Prince, resplendent in his naval commandments, gowned in voluminous ivory-shaped silk. A 2x5-foot train extended from her shoulders.
"Here is the stuff of which fairy tales are made," the archbishop said.
Princess Diana
The primate of the Church of England went on to remind the couple that "The real adventure is the royal task of creating each other and creating a more loving world . . . especially true of this marriage in which so many hopes are placed."
After a wedding breakfast at the palace, the prince and his tall, blond and blue-eyed princess left by carriage with cavalry escort for Waterloo Station, where they boarded a special train to Leuven. The bodies of Courier's late great-great ulica Mountbatteren, who was assassinated by IRA terrorists.
In what was believed to be a light-hearted prank by Charles' younger brother Prince Andrew, their real carriage was decorated with an insignia of the "Just Married" sign scrawled in red crayon.
It was a sentimental journey to Broadlands for the future king, for in the same room of the same house Prince Charles' mother, Queen Elizabeth, and Prince Philip, began their own married life.
At Broadlands, a 6,000-acre estate set in the
rolling Hampshire countryside of southern England, the Prince and the new Princess of Wales retreated from the cameras to begin their honeymoon in seclusion.
An estimated 750 million watched and heard the day's events on television and radio in 61 countries including communist Yugoslavia.
The couple rode through streets thronged with the remnants of the teeming crowd, which packed the two-mile wedding route from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's Cathedral to witness the pomp and pageantry at which Britain rules supreme.
No one seemed to notice that the mounted cavalrymen always kept their horses between the crowd and the carriage of Queen Elizabeth, who was shot at with a blank pistol last month;
If the British were worried about their urban unrest or the threat of terrorism, the worries were washed away by a wave of happiness. Fireworks displays and other celebrations.
With the safety of the royal family and dozens of heads of state, prime ministers, crown princess and princesses and diplomats in their hands, security precautions ever seen in Britain.
Newpaper headlines shouted that two Buckingham Palace footmen had been arrested for stealing explosives—with all that might imply despite police denials of links with terrorism—and that hunger strikers were near death in Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.
or that one of the palace staff was quietly taken out of a carriage behind the queen and replaced by her bodyguard.
Marksmans dotted rooftops and even glided above the crowd in a blimp. Police, stationed four feet apart, lined the wedding route. More plainclothes police mingled with the crowds.
Weather
It will be mostly cloudy today with a high in the low 80s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be southerly at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight will be warmer with a high in the upper 60s.
the upper 80s. The high tomorrow will be in the upper 80s.