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Thursday, March 18, 1993
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Student to pay fine for fake licenses
An Oliver Hall resident charged with making fake driver's licenses entered a diversion agreement yesterday in Douglas County District Court.
Under terms of the agreement, Robert Martin,
West Des Moines, Iowa, freshman, must pay a fine of
$1,003.50 by Sept. 1, complete a minimum of 100
hours of community service by Oct. 1 and allow KU
puice to copy all the information he used in his公
puter to make the licenses. After allowing police to
copy the information, Martin must allow the in
formation to be erased from his computer.
KU police arrested Martin Feb. 24 after they received an anonymous call on the KU CrimeStoppers hot line.
Prosecution of the charge of dealing in false identification, a Class E felony, will be suspended, pending Martin's completion of the agreement's terms.
Student faces criminal charges
A Templin Hall resident was charged yesterday in Douglas County District Court with causing $1,900 in damage to the lobby at Templin.
Damian Donlon, Leavenworth sophomore, was charged with one count of felony criminal damage and one count of misdemeanor criminal damage.
KU police officer Burdel Welsh said that about 2:15 a.m. Friday, three students entered the lobby and began hitting a large-screen television with a pool cue. Damage to the television was estimated at $1,500.
Welsh said the cue was used to cause $200 in damage to a lobby wall. He said three windows were broken when the students hit them with their elbows.
KU police arrested the three students about 5 a.m. Friday after they received a phone call from a student in Templin. No charges were filed against the two other students.
SenEx names advising task force
Representatives from the student body and faculty from various schools at the University of Kansas were appointed to a task force on academic advising yesterday in a closed session of the Senate Executive Committee.
The names should be released today or tomorrow, said Jason McIntosh, a SenEx member.
The task force will work with the Office of Academic Affairs on a survey that would allow students to voice their concerns about the advising system and suggest improvements.
An addition to the original draft, which was proposed two weeks ago, requests that the task force explore the advising system as it pertains to transfer students.
"One of the complaints from one of the members the other day was that a student wanted us to make a judgment of whether something would transfer," said Nancy Dahl, who heads SenEx. "It's very difficult to give them adequate advice."
Student receives Mellon fellowship
Munro Richardson, Kansas City, Mo. senior, is one of 80 students nationwide who will receive a 1993 Mellon fellowship to encourage teaching careers in the humanities.
Richardson is one of 18 KU students who have received the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies since the program was established in 1982. The fellowship provides a $12,500 cash stipend and covers tuition and fees for one year of graduate study at any accredited graduate school. Richardson is the first American student from VT to receive a Mellon fellowship.
Richardson is the first African-American student from KU to receive a Mellon fellowship.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I think I could compete on the national level for the fellowship," he said. "It really means a lot to me. It's a reward for my hard work at KU."
Briefs compiled by Kansan staff writers Mark Klefer, Will Lewis and Frank McCleary.
Bill could revamp Regents budgets
Proposal would give more control of funds to state universities
By Ben Grove Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — State legislators have been searching for alternatives for financing the Regents universities, and the head of the House Appropriations Committee thinks she has an answer.
State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, said yesterday that she planned to introduce tomorrow a "revolutionary" bill. It would create a base budget for the universities and guarantee them a 1 percent increase from the state general fund each year for three years, beginning Fall 1994.
Chronister said that a 1 percent annual increase was just an example and that the Appropriations Committee would consider higher percentages.
Regents budgets typically are formulated based on enrollment adjustments.
The bill also would allow KU and the other Regents universities to request their own tuition increases, which would have to be approved by the Board of Regents, instead of the Regents setting a systemwide increase as it does now.
Each of the universities then would retain 80 percent of its tuition increases.
"The bill would probably benefit KU the
most because it attracts more out-of-state students, and, of course, they pay higher tuition," Chronister said.
Twenty percent of the tuition increases would go into a Regents-controlled fund for faculty salary increases. Chronister said that the fund would be used each year to raise Regents universities' faculty salaries to 95 percent of their peer institutions. Faculty salaries are now at 87.9 percent of peer institutions.
The Board of Regents collects systemwide tuition increases and uses the money to increase the Regents budget as a whole.
Chronister said the plan would eliminate the need for the Regents to make separate requests of the Legislature for campus improvements and salary increases.
"It increases flexibility tremendously," Chronister said. "We say, 'Here your pot of money, you figure out what needs to be done and where the money should go."
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, who is a member of the Appropriations Committee, said that the concept of giving the universities more of their own tuition increases was a good one but that a 1 percent annual increase would not be enough. She said students could face even higher tuition increases if 1 percent was all the universities received.
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said KU administrators were in favor of having more control over tuition increases and more direct access to the revenues they generated. He, too, said 1 percent would not be enough.
The bill would not affect the current Regents budget now making its way through the Legislature for the 1993-1994 school year.
KU would receive $105.2 million from the state general fund for the 1944-1955 school year, $106.3 million for 1995-1996 and $107.4 million for 1996-1997.
Andrew Arnone / KANSAN
Orchestral maneuvers
Egmar Meyer, a professional double bassist and University of Kansas Swarthout Society resident artist, plays for Central Junior High School's orchestra. Meyer, a Nashville, Tenn., resident, plays in styles ranging from classical to rock and will perform today with orchestras from Lawrence High School, South Junior High School and Schweiger Elementary School.
Medicine,law schools get national rankings
By Brady Prauser Kansan staff writer
Two KU professional schools received exclusive rankings in the most recent edition of U.S. News and World Report, which chronicles the nation's top graduate schools.
The School of Medicine and the School of Law were ranked in the magazine's fourth-annual edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools," which contains surveys of graduate programs in business, law, engineering, medicine, science and health.
The school of medicine was ranked 17th among the 60 schools receiving the least research money from the National Institutes of Health.
The magazine divided the nation's 126 medical schools into two categories: those that are oriented toward research and those that are oriented toward training primary-care doctors.
The 66 schools receiving the most research money from the NIH were placed in the first category and the rest, including KU, were in the second.
The survey used in the rankings of the research-oriented schools was determined by:
■ the schools' student selectivity,
based on undergraduate grade point
average and Medical College Admission
Test scores;
research activity;
faculty-to-student ratio;
**reputation, based on a survey of medical school faculty and of deans and directors of intern-residency programs.**
Scores in the above categories were converted into percentiles to determine overall rank. Thomas Jefferson University was ranked first among research-oriented medical schools.
reputation, based on a survey of national law deans and senior faculty and of practicing lawyers, hiring partners and senior judges.
faculty resources, based on the school's total expenditures per student:
Robert Jerry, dean of law, said that he was pleased to be recognized by U.S. News but that he did not like the methodology used to determine the rankings.
Jerry said the survey was unrepresentative of the law school's faculty productivity because that productivity was not taken into account by the magazine.
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Among the nation's 176 law schools, KU's law school ranked 71st. For the third consecutive year, Yale University was ranked as the nation's top law school.
"The critical issue is how much weight the applicants to medical school place in it." Price said. "Many of them mention it. The students applying to medical school evidently give it a lot of credence, and that's the important thing."
placement success, based on the percentage of the 1992 class employed at graduation;
the schools' student selectivity, based on undergraduate grade point average and on Law School Admissions Test scores;
"It underestimates our quality," Jerry said. "Anyone thinking about law school ought to look behind the methodology, so I would be careful in assuming we're only a second quartile law school. Actually, we're better."
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