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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.103.NO.5
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KU multicultural center waiting for space
Center's proposed site
John Paul Fogel: KANSAN
It could move into SES office by Spring 1994
Bv Carlos Telada
Kansan staff writer
Sherwool Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said he never expected KU's multicultural center to be completed on time.
"I've been doing this kind of work for 20 years, so I know how a university works," he said.
The University had planned to open the center this fall.
After 15 months of negotiations and delays, the multicultural planning committee this summer approved plans to put the center inside the Supportive Educational Services building, just south of the Military Science building on campus. SES will move to the bottom floor of Strong Hall's east wing, which is currently being renovated.
mompson said the new completion date for the center would be late spring or early fall of 1944, depending on when SES vacates the building.
When the administration announced plans in April 1992 to establish the center, the proposed location was a house at 1400 Louisiana St. Currently, the house is being used as office space for Western Civilization teaching assistants.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the new location was more convenient in terms of proximity and accessibility for disabled students.
The SES building is one story tall. The house on Louisiana Street has two stories, is connected to the sidewalk by a staircase and sits at the top of a steep slope on the east side of Mount Oread.
"I sometimes wonder how we're going to get this done, but there's such a consensus from the groups that asked for it," he said.
Thompson said the long delay had been frustrating.
The center would be similar to multicultural centers at other universities. Thompson said. It would include
reference materials, reading areas, secluded study rooms and offices for the services it would provide.
He said the multicultural planning committee, which is made up of representatives from minority student groups and various University departments, had yet to define which services the center would provide.
Other multicultural centers have not made the effort to include white students and non-ethnic minorities in their activities, Thompson said. Excluding students is one thing that Thompson, who heads the committee, said he wanted to prevent.
It will be the only kind with the agenda we hope to maintain, which means a center for all cultures," he said.
Tim Dawson, Topeka senior and vice president of the student body, said he also wanted the center to be open to all students.
"I would like to see that they follow through with being all-inclusive," said Dawson, former head of Student Senate's cultural affairs committee.
Although the Senate approved a resolution in November 1991 calling for a multicultural center, Dawson said it had not approved a proposal to match the $10,000 the University will contribute each year. Ambler called upon the Senate to match the $10,000 after the University acted upon its resolution.
Additional money for the center will need to be raised through private and corporate donations. Thompson said.
Master plan to diagram KU's future
Task force to chart growth of campus for next 2 decades
By Christoph Fuhrmans
Kansan staff write
University officials have long touted the beauty of KU's campus, and they are not taking any chances with the future.
The University is in the early stages of a two-year development that will chart the future physical and aesthetic growth of the campus. The end result will allow University officials to get an idea of what the campus will look like during the next 10 to 15 years.
"I think everyone is committed to keeping KU a beautiful place," said Max Lucas, dean of architecture and urban design.
Lucas heads the planning task force and steering committee for the long range physical development plan. The task force and committee were appointed by Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor.
Meyen said the plan would help maintain campus beauty in addition to any renovation or expansion.
The plan, expected to be completed in July 1995 includes examining building space, parking, housing and also electrical, lighting and water services.
Not only will the plan focus on improving the physical part of the University but also academic aspects.
During the two year development plan the task force will meet with deans of different schools to determine their respective academic needs.
The steering committee will coordinate information from the deans and other departments about the needs and desires of the University and students to the task force, Lucas said.
The timing of the development plan is beneficial to the academic programs, Meyen said. KU has just completed a program review of all academic departments and the needs and desires of each program can be used in the development plan, he said.
The task force and committee held meetings during the spring before the semester ended. During the summer the task force divided into three-person teams that reviewed documents and other information about possible plan decisions.
once program review began in April, there has been a personnel addition. Wan Tawecher, an architect in Facilities Planning, has joined the task force to help oversee the program review, said Allen Wiechert, University director.
"Twenty years is a long time for a plan to be viable," Lucas said.
The last long-range development plan KU had was in 1973
"Dunk Father Jerry" was one of the activities of yesterday's fiesta at the Saint Lawrence Catholic Center. The annual event included karaoke, a taco feed and volleyball games on the center's lawn.
Enrollment figures
While freshman enrollment increased, the total university enrollment, including Lawrence campus, Medical school, and off campus, decreased.
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Fall enrollment drop is the first in six years
By David Stewart
By David Stewart
Kansan staff writer
The opening day enrollment report for Fall 1983 showed that while freshman enrollment increased for the first time in five years, overall enrollment for the University has gone down after a six-year climb.
The opening day enrollment counts are preliminary numbers and are not considered the official Fall 1993 enrollment figures, said Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor.
The University of Kansas Medical Center and Lawrence campus enrollment dropped from 27,704 students last Fall to 27,297 students — a difference of 407 students. That represents a 1.5 percent decrease, according to the report issued by the department of educational services.
*Our loss comes from the ranks of
continuing students, where I believe the fragile economy is having an impact," said Cancellor Gene Budig.
The report also indicated that freshman enrollment went up from Fall 1992's count of 5,500 students, a five-yearlow, to 5,659 in Fall 1993.
"Freshman enrollment is very strong." Meyen said. "It's the quality of our program that attracts good, young, quality people."
Among the schools with significant decreases in opening day enrollment were the School of Engineering, with a 12 percent decrease from last year's total; the School of Journalism, with a 10 percent decrease; and the School of Business, with a 9 percent decrease, according to the report.
Croatian women slow U.N. aid convoy for Muslims
The Associated Press
The 20-day counts which will be taken on Sept. 20 will be the official figures the University will use for Fall 1993 enrollment.
MEDIUGORIE, Bosnia-Herzegovina — U.N. trucks piled high with food and medicine entered the embattled city of Mostar today, a U.N. representative said. They faced human roadblocks of Croat women trying to keep the convoy out.
Alemka Lisinski, a representative for the U.N. High Commission for Refugees in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, said the convoy entered the Croat-held western section of Mostar near nightfall.
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She said part of it was poised to move on into the eastern sector, where 55,000 Muslims have been trapped for more than two months without substantial aid reaching them.
No further information was immediately
available on the progress of the relief convoy, which took hours to negotiate the 12-mile journey from Medjugorje because of enraged Croatian women opposed to aid reaching rival Muslims.
"They are feeding the Muslims who are then killing us," sobbed Anica Golamac, 59, a refugee from Bijelo Polje, now under Muslim control.
Overnight, the U.S. Air Force had airdropped 25 tons of food and medical supplies into the southern city, which has been cut off from aid deliveries since Croats
began besieging it in May.
British Broadcasting Corp. radio said many of Mostar's Muslims didn't know the food was coming because they have no batteries for radios and have been cut off from the outside world.
Scooping up the most ration packs were people who were outside around midnight to escape the stifling basements where they had been holed up in 90-degree heat during a day of heavy shelling, the BBC report said.
On the movie set
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Phi Kappa Tau buvs vacant Acacia house
A group of KU students, graduates and former students help a Lawrence man finish his movie, which stars Isaac Hayes and Martin Sheen.
By Shan Schwartz
Kansan staff writer
The former Acacia fraternity house, its windows broken and boarded up, and its lot overgrown with weeds, will begin to find new life this fall.
Phil Harrison, member of the Board of Directors of the Phi Kappa Tau House Corporation, said Thursday that the corporation had entered into a contract to buy the site at 1100 Indiana, which would be renovated this year to allow members to move in next August.
The property was vacant since December 1992, when Acacia's international fraternity suspended the chapter because of a poor campground and housing problems and destruction to the building.
Harrison would not disclose the amount of building sale, but he said that basic renovation along with electrical and plumbing systems would cost at least $200,000. He said the renovation also would include a modernized kitchen, security systems, a sophisticated fire alarm and
sprinkler system, without significantly chang ing the building's exterior.
"When the project is completed," he said, "the house will be on par with any of the newer or older homes."
Money for the project, Harrison said, would come from the sale of the chapter's existing house at 1232 Ohio and from alumni donations.
Jeff Shaw, Roeland Park senior and Phi Kappa Tau president, said that the members were excited about the prospects of the new house.
Shaw said that the new building could house up to 75 members as opposed to the current house capacity of 24 members.
The larger house also would allow for membership growth. Shaw said that the chapter had about 45 members, but that he expected about 60 to move into the building next fall.
"We've been searching for a new structure for a long time," Shaw said, "but when the Acacia nationals closed their chapter here, it became our obvious top choice.
"It's a good location, close to campus, and it has a lot of potential to become a great house."
Renovations may begin a month on the former Acacia house, and Phi Kappa Tau members hope to move in next fall.