University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 31, 1992
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KU seeks qualified admissions plan
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Many KU administrators support the Regents position.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for aca.eml affairs, said the administration supported qualification and use it wanted KU students to succeed
"We know that students who don't take a college-bound curriculum have a lower chance of graduating," he added. "We want to give a high chance of earning a degree."
Shulenburger said the University's capacity mandated stricter admissions standards.
KU faculty members handle 118 percent of the credit hours handled by colleagues at peer institutions, he said.
"Our faculty members are busy," Shulenburger said. "Bringing in students with the low probability of graduating wastes money that could be spent on students with a high probability of graduating."
KU personnel who deal directly with students agreed that preparedness
Jim Hartman, director of the writing center, said qualified admissions was something that should be considered.
"There are students who are prepared one way or the other for different aspects of the University, writing being one of them," he said. "Some students are ill-prepared for the most remedial courses. The degree to which you could reduce this would be a welcome relief."
Marilyn Carlson, director of the Kansas Algebra Program, said open admissions sent the wrong message to high school students.
"With open admissions, we are saying we can get students caught up, she said. "If we portrayed the message to high schools that we do have some sort of an admissions standard, then those students would make better choices."
Cheryl Towns, a graduate teaching assistant in English, said that if the University had to continue its open admissions policy, it should provide remedial classes geared toward ill-prepared students. She said that the English department listed one class, basic writing, which might be taken prior to English 101, but that the course had not been offered during the two semesters she had been teaching.
"Typically, if a student comes to 101 unprepared, he really has no choice but to get a tutor or work extra hard," she said. "In an ideal world, every institution would have funds to provide that kind of support for everyone, but since they can't, maybe qualified admissions could help."
Students have mixed feelings about qualified admissions.
Joe Cinnalli, KU legislative director of Associated Students of Kansas, said he did not think qualified admissions would affect most KU students.
"Few students here would not have
gotten into KU," he said. "Nobody is gone to miss the opportunity for a col-
Cinalli said qualified admissions would improve KU's image in the state and the nation.
But some students see qualified admissions as restricting educational opportunities.
"I think qualified admissions would force secondary education to take a strong look at itself," he said. "As long as every student in Kansas has the ability to take a core curriculum, then I have a problem with qualified admissions."
"A student could have been goofing off in high school, then gotten serious about what he wanted to do," said Tracy Johnson, Topea junior. "So (open admissions) gives these people a chance to go to a school that they might not otherwise have gotten into."
Kansan staff writer Greg Farmer contributed to this report.
Hillel to raise money to help Soviet Jews
By Kris Belden
Kansan staff writer
When 21-year-old Inna Drut, Lenexa resident, came to the United States from the Soviet Union with her family nine months ago, she knew no English.
Drut said the Jewish community and groups such as KU Hillel helped her and her family get jobs, educations and learn about Jewish culture.
"Things were terrible," she said. "We couldn't even go to a synagogue. Being Jewish was like a nationality, not a religion."
Hillel's Second Annual Cooffeehouse Fundraiser for Soviet Jewry will be at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Rum Tree Club in the Inn Imm Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
KU HILL, a Jewish student organization, hopes to raise money help more students.
"It's a creative way to bring people to aid the resettlement process," said Daveen Litwin, Hillel director.
Suzi Schei, Denver junior and co-chairperson of the event, said all proceeds from the fundraiser would go to a national program, Operation Exodus, which works to help Soviet Jews leave their countries.
"They're an oppressed people, 'Scher said. "They do not have the power to practice Judaism. Now it's relatively easy to get out. That could end anytime."
She said that thousands of Soviet Jews wanted to leave the country and that the Nazis had planned to kill them.
Soviet Jews need assistance finding jobs, learning the English language and getting an education in the United States. About 400 Soviet Jews live in the Kansas City area, and several new Soviet students have come to KU since Fail, Scher said.
Last year, the fundraiser was at Pywacket's and drew a standing-room-only crowd. Scher said she expected at 125 to attend Sunday.
The event raised about $300 last year, and Hillel hopes to exceed that amount Sunday, she said.
Forum discusses KU election code
Bv Jav Williams
Kansan staff writer
Low turnout at an open forum about proposed rule changes for the Student Senate Elections Code does not mean will run smoothly during elections.
"We will be hearing about it in April, about how awful it is," said Calley Denton, head of the Student Senate Elections Commission.
Dentonsaid the forum was a chance for people to air their concerns.
Six people attended the forum to ask questions about the code.
One audience member said the code was vague about what it meant to interfere with University classes.
Denton said wording about what constituted interference was intentionally vague to allow flexibility.
code."
The commission will rule only on complaints submitted in writing.
Students must file complaints to the commission before 5 p.m. today at election commission headquarters in Denver. The commission has received three complaints.
Brad Garlinghouse, head of the University Affairs Committee, said he had filed two of the complaints.
"I am hoping the experience this year is more positive an experience than last year," he said.
"I think this year's proposal irons out many problems from last year, especially with the addition of the hearing board," he said.
The hearing board, made up of some commission members, will hear election complaints concerning campaign violations. The board also can determine penalties. Last year, the board ruled and ruled on election complaints.
The committee will have a meeting Thursday to address complaints. The final code will be available Feb. 18.
The 1992 elections will be April 8-9.
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