The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, June 11, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 147 USPS 650-640
Summer enrollment increase not a reflection of fall trend
By MARTHA BRINK Staff Reporter
The surprising record increase in the 1981 University of Kansas Summer enrollment does not necessarily portend continued growth in the fall. KU administrators said yesterday.
On Monday, Gilbert K. Dyck, dean of records and records, predicted an enrollment decline of about 150 students. Instead, enrollment on the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses increased by 123 students from last week. The total enrollment on both campuses was 8,690.
The University of Kansas Medical Center enrollment caused most of the increase, gaining 18 students from last summer's total. The increase in an increase of only five students over last year.
"in terms of enrolment, the summer has no relation to the fall semester," Dyck said.
ACCORDING T0 Robert P. Cobb, executive vice chancellor, the character of the student body is much different in the summer. Because many people come back in the summer to finish
their degrees, much of the summer enrollment is at the graduate level, he said.
at the graduate. This summer 3,165 of the 7,103 students enrolled on the Lawrence campus are graduate students.
Despite enrollment increases, for several years, administrators have been expecting enrollment to drop off because of the declining number of Kansas high school and tuition costs and the predicted cuts in federal student aid programs to affect enrollment gains.
PARADOXICALLY, when the economy is in bad shape, the summer enrollment usually increases even more. This can be partly explained, Cobb said, because during an economic slowdown, many people go back to college to upgrade their skills.
Overall, however, the economy affects the summer enrollment less than it does the fall.
The final summer enrollment on both campuses is expected to be 9,550, according to projections from the Bureau of Education. Last year, the final summer enrollment for both campuses was 9,498.
Holidome will increase business for everyone
By TIM ELMER Staff Reporter
The $8.15 million Holiday Inn convention center, the Holdome, has local innkeepers some what concerned about the effect it will have on their businesses.
The convention center, scheduled to be completed in Feb. 1982, will include 194 guest rooms, nine meeting rooms, a preconvening room, an event center, a coffee shop, a restaurant and a club.
BROCK HOTEL. CORPORATION is constructing the Holdemore on nine acres at the southeast corner of Second and Iowa streets about a mile from the west Kansas Turnpike
Although local hotel managers are generally confident that the Holidome will benefit their businesses in the long run, they are less optimistic about its short-term effects.
"The first year or two is going to be tough," Mike Donohue, general manager of Ramada Inn, 2222 W. 6th St., said Monday. "There will be time for things to get ahead that much time to allow for things to go."
Diamia Anderson, sales director for the Ramada Inn, said the opening of the Holidome was likely to have some immediate adverse affects on their business.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT conventions have to be scheduled two or three years in advance, she said, and until convention business starts coming in, bookings at the Ramada Inn are likely to decline because people will be eager to try out the new motel.
Harriet Lange, 322 Northwood, director of sales for the Holdime, agreed with Anderson's
"I think that bookings at local ims may decline because we are a brand new hotel and people's curiosity about what kind of hotel we are will have many people wanting to usr," I said.
Local innkeepers are optimistic about the longterm effects of the Holidome on the Lawrence motel business.
moral business:
"There will be a definite increase in business that is generated because of the existence of the Holdome." Donahue said.
When he managed a hotel in Great Falls, Montana, Donohue said, a Holidome was built there and motel owners were concerned about what would happen to their businesses.
"We found people within the community; and outlying areas would stay in the hotel when normally they wouldn't because of the facilities or contractions that the Holdem had to offer, he said.
THE OVERFLOW BUSINESS from the HOME 10
Lightning silhouettes the Edgerton, Kans. water tower during a thunderstorm early Wednesday morning. The storm photo, stalked over a
four-hour period by KU senior Tracey Thompson, was picked up by UPI and distributed nationally.
KU boosts Lawrence's growth in census; city betters state in housing, job growth
Staff Writer
Increased enrollment at the University of Kansas enabled Lawrence to record the largest numerical increase in population among all cities in Kansas during the last
On April 1, 1980, census figures listed the population of Lawrence as 52,738, up 7,040 from 1970.
The population of Lawrence rose during the 1970s by 15.4 percent, three times the state average, according to the 1980 Census recently released by the U.S. Bureau of the
INCREASED ENROLLMENT at KU accounted for 90 percent of the rise in Lawrence's population.
KU enrollment increased from 16,638 in spring 1970 to 23,070 in spring 1980, the semesters when the two censuses were taken.
Because of increased enrollment at KU, Lawrence recorded the highest rate of population growth among the five largest cities in the state, which are Lawrence, Overland Park, Topeka, Kansas City and Wichita.
Lawrence was the only city among those five with a growth rate higher than the state average of 5.1 percent.
Age of person The population of Kansas City fell by 4.2
percent to 161,087, while that of Topeka decreased by 7.8 percent to 151,266.
The population of Overland Park rose by 4 percent to 81,784, and Wichita's rose by 1 percent to 279.272.
percent of WITHOUT THE SURGE in KU enrollment, the population of Lawrence would have increased by only one percent.
Despite the high growth rate, Lawrence still trailed Overland Park's population by more than 29,000, to rank as the fifth-largest in the state.
Lawrence also outstripped the four other cities, and the state average, in the growth rate of housing units.
1, 1980, the U.S. Bureau of the See CENSUS page 10
Track club expands programs, widens appeal
By BRENDA DURR
Staff Reporter
Little Ryan Robinson lowered his head and ran as fast as his 6-year-old legs could carry him around the cinder track. As he rounded the first step, he pushed log, then to a shifting walk across the finish line.
With his freckled face beginning to match his maroon shirt, Ryan甩ed the dripping sweat off his face as Coach Steve Silver came over to check on his young quarter miler.
FIGHTING OFF THE HEAT and thirst, Ryan bobbed his head up and down for an affirmative answer.
"How youdoin' Ryan?"
"That a boy."
That a boy:
Minutes later, Ryan was bouncing back to life practicing his high jumping skills at the other end of the track on the hot and humid June night.
"These kids have a great deal of stamina, and it's the littlest kids that put forth the greatest effort." Siler said, referring to about 20 boys from part of the growing Lawrence Track Club.
THE CLUB IS INVOLVED with all the aspects of track and field and is open to all ages. It is now
WENDY CULLERS/Kansan alfa
Two members of the Lawrence Track Club practice baton passing for the relay team event. Most of the participants in the club are 18 years old or younger.
expanding its program to include long distance running and increasing the number of runners' clinics and road races—races generally 10 kilometers in length.
"The club acts mainly for the track group up to 18 years of age, but we're trying to involve more adults," Tobin Davis, one member of the Board of Directors for the club said. "It has been misperceived as a youth group because they're the most active."
But even though the club is open to anyone, most men are not been placed on the club under 18 years of age.
"In Topaka and Kansas City, members pay from $50 to $100 in memberships, so only the richer kids can join," Davis said. "We want our club available to all kids." We don't know how this partnership works with this, that it should serve the whole community, including the less prosperous," he said.
ONE FEATURE THAT attracts both the youngsters and their parents, Davis said, is the low membership费-$2 for students, $5 for non-students and $8 for families.
"The philosophy of our club is trying to bring in participants regardless of ability," Davis said. "Their satisfaction is derived from setting their own goals. In a sense, they're competing for their own best times," Davis, who was also club president for four years, said. "It's never been a policy of our club to cater to the very best."
Just as money is not a criterion for joining the club, it does not guarantee trust ability. The club is in search of another player.
ANNETTE RITCHIE WHOSE TWO children, 18-year-old Danny and 9-year-old Sarah, are both members of the club, agreed that doing your best instead of being the best was the most important.
"The they have team encouragement. They want their team to win, but they respect the other teams," Ritchie said, alternating between watching her youngsters at Monday nights's practice and guarding herself against a hungry baitfall of musquitoes.
"It's neat to let them do what they like and someone is here to coach them," she said.
"The coaches say 'don't say can't.'" Sarah said, sly, shifting her weight from foot to
sadly, they said.
"They teach us to do it right'cause you want to do good and you don't want your body to hurt," she said.
Coach Sittler, who coordinates the practices and teaches the basics of track and field, said
Besides the traditional track and field goals, Siter said, the club also wants to promote family involvement. However, he sometimes has problems with parents who twist the meaning of involvement into pressure for a child to do well in an event.
that, "Most of the parents were really super," "They出 their trust in me," he added.
"We need the parents to be involved but not too involved," he said.
"I don't put an emphasis on winning, just involvement and having a positive experience." Siter, who is also a graduate assistant for the KU track team, said, "I think it's a mistake to push youngsters. It develops unneeded pressure."
"I a kid loses, show how something good can come out of losing," Sitter said. "You can say 'well youre the fastest 8-year-old' and entice them. Try to make them think they did well really."
Ryun's mother, Pat Robinson, whose two other sons Shane and Jason also compete, said that children as young as Ryan did not have many snorts that they could compete in.
"Ryan started running when he was five. There's not too many things offered when they're so young," she said. "We all jig some, but the main thing was he was able to compete."
BEFORE THE CLUB was founded in 1974, most youngsters relied upon Lawrence's Parks and Recreation Department to sponsor the track at the Amar Bavel, the first president of the club, said.
Bavel said there were two drawbacks in using the parks department: the program only lasted part of the summer, and only a few girls were involved.
"I noticed that just as they were getting into good physical form, the program endured," Bavel said. "There wasn't enough track and field in this area for kids under 18, and mainly nothing."
Bavel began building the club's foundation by urging each of its name appeared on the club's rosters to patrol the territory.
Now, seven years later, the club is focusing its attention on attracting older runners who would compete in the open meets, ages 18 to 34, and the teams ages 35 and up. Jon Love, club secretary, said.
"A great deal of emphasis has been on youth, track and field, and cross country, which includes everyone. There has been too little emphasis on the older runners." Lowe said.
"I'd say about 50 percent in is high school or younger," he said. "It surprised me how many people in our area have a wife. I was disappointed in the graduate students we have thought," gave a KU graduate, said.
HE SAID THE CLUB had approximately 100 members but that he expected a significant increase in membership because of publicity, and the inclusion of programs for long distance travel.
"We service the entire town by offering facilities, opportunities and an organization they can belong to," he said. "We want to be there from a physical, educational and social stand-
The club's services will include adult runners' clinics on Sunday, with one Sunday a month set aside for doctors to answer questions about the physical problems connected with running. Also planned on Sundays will be run runs, non-competitive two or three joga joys.
Weather
RAIN
Today will be mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high today will be in the low to mid-80s with the low tonight in the 60s. Winds will be east-southeast at 11 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-80s to 90s and an overnigh low in the mid-80s.