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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.115
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
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MONDAY, MARCH 8,1993
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Saferide driver Tim Morris, Overland Park senior, records a student's location before setting out to pick him or her up. Morris said Saferide usually could pick up students within 15 minutes of their calls.
Saferide's popularity creates soaring costs
Student Senate projects service's growth will continue
By Brett Riggs Kansan staff writer
Late one February night. VanNamen.
ristin VanNamen had a creepy feeling.
Late one February night.
Austin, Texas, senior, set out into the darkness on foot from Robinson Gymnasium to her home on New York Street.
Still blocks away from home, she was startled by a man in a car who pulled up next to her. He rolled down his window and said, "Come on baby. I give you a ride."
VainNamen quickened her pace and headed toward the Kansas Union, where she called Saferide at 864-SAFE. A look of relief swept across her face as she climbed into the car and told the driver, Tim Morris. Overland Park senior, her address.
Riders like VanNamen prompted Student Senate recently to allocate an additional $15,000 to continue Saferide, a free student cab service, through the end of the semester.
Saferide, sponsored by Senate and operated by the Lawrence Bus Company, carried 8,784 passengers in Fall 1902 alone, compared to about 7,500 during both semesters of the 1991-92 academic year.
Brad Garlinghouse, student body president, says the service, which was originally budgeted at $55,000 for the year, is growing more rapidly than expected.
In fact, Senate does not know where the growth will end
Under the operation of A-1 C-A
Cab, the service cost $35,794 in
1989-90, $35,577 in 1990-91, and
$31,983 in 1991-92. This year the
cost for Safedire more than doubled. The service will cost students $7,000.
Kevin Sigourney, Senate treasurer, said that he foreores continued growth, and that Senate will attempt to fund that growth — even if it means seeking outside help.
"In the next year or two I could see it becoming a $100,000 project." Sigoumey said.
The Bus Company and Senate have not settled on any concrete numbers for next year, but have projected the cost at about $95,000. That cost would make the service the third most expensive that Senate offers, behind KU on Wheels and Legal Services for Students.
Chrisy Kaiser, director of KU on Wheels, said the service was struggling to satisfy the demand for rides.
"We are providing an excellent service," Kaiser said, "but we are getting more calls than we can handle."
The service, which operates nightly from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m., leases four 1991 Ford Tempos and employs 15 student drivers.
The program is costly because its goal is to provide a free ride for every student who needs a safe way home.
"We don't ask for any reimbursement, and when more people ride, you need more cars and more drivers." Kaiser said.
Garlinghoe house said that $5,727 of the supplementary funds would pay for a fourth car that was added last fall to the Sunday night schedule and for a new car that will soon be added on Tuesdays.
"We are taking too long to pick people up on those nights," Garlinghouse said.
The remaining $3,273 will make up for a low estimate of the service's cost and act as a buffer in case more money is needed at the end of the semester.
"This is our first year with the Lawrence Bus Company, so it was a trial-and-error year to begin with," Kaiser said. "We were hoping it wouldn't go beyond $55,000."
But it has. In fact, senators don't seem to have a clear idea of why the service is growing so rapidly.
It has been hard to come up with an accurate budget. Kaiser said.
"I have heard that some students are riding from one end of Daisy
One theory is that the service is being abused.
Story continued, Page 3.
Curtain falls on Rock Chalk Revue
Winners announced at final show of 1993
By Vicki Bode Kansan staff writer
Members of the 1993 Rock Chalk Revue performed their last show Saturday before a sold-out audience at Lawrence High School.
After the performance, members of each act gathered in aisles of the auditorium and waited for the announcement of the total money raised and the winners of the revue.
Members of Pi Beta Phi and Pi Kappa Alpha screamed and embraced each other when their act was announced as the best Rock Chalk Revue show.
Ann Perry was co-director of the winning show, "Off The Wall," a musical production about a painting gallery where the art came to life.
She said she was surprised when their show was announced as the winner.
"I could only hope," Perry said. "Everyone did a great show."
By Saturday night, the snow had raised $20,000 for United Way.
Jill Raines, promotions coordinator for the revue, said that more money would be donated and that the totals were not completed by Saturday's performance.
Revue participants also donated 16,566 hours of community service to the United Way.
Stacey Moore, community service coordinator, said the total number of service hours was an all-time record. Last year, the show donated 10,000 hours of community service and $43,000.
donating more than 2,000 hours of community service.
Chi Omega and his Kappa Psi won an award for the
Gamma Phi Beta won the Most Charitable Award for donating more than 2,000 hours of community service.
Among the other awards given Saturday:
Kappa Alpha Theta and Lambda Chi Alpha won best production number.
Perry of Pi Beta Phi won best female performer for her portrayal of Dorthea Dawn Davies, an art gallery tour guide.
Jamey Welch, member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, won best male performer for his portraital of Wolfgang Von Schritz, a hairstylist with characteristics similar to the Sprocket character on "Saturday Night Live."
Todd Miller, executive producer of the revue, said he was pleased with the results of this year's show.
"We had five really good shows that were all equal on their competitive level." Miller said.
Kelli Curtis, Ekhart senior and Alpha Gamma Delta sorority member, received her award for best support female performer after Rock Chalk Revue's final show Saturday night.
Proposal would keep some out of KU
Qualified admissions would turn away about 20 percent of applicants, study says
Kansan staff writer
By Ben Grove Kansan staff writer
Nearly one-fifth of KU students who apply to the University would not be admitted under proposed qualified admissions standards, according to a University study of 1987 incoming students.
The study was conducted by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning and outlined in a Feb. 24, 1993, memo to the Board of Regents. It found that 81.7 percent of students who applied at KU would have gained admission.
A bill passed by the Kansas Senate last week would require that high school students meet one of three standards to be admitted to one of the state's six Regents universities.
The bill now goes to the House of Representatives.
The qualified admissions legislation includes what state legislators call a window, a clause allowing a certain percentage of incoming students to enter the University without meeting the standards. The window would allow for a certain number of "late bloomers," they say.
The study of 1987 students assumed a 15 percent window in figuring that 81.7 percent of students would have been admitted.
As it stands now in the Senate bill, that window is
set at 10 percent.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs,
said each of the universities would decide who made it through the window. The bill does not outline what students would make up the 10 percent.
Supporters of the qualified admissions bill, including the Board of Regents and KU administrators, have outlined a number of alternatives for students who do not meet one of the requirements. They have said that the state could not afford to finance remedial education at its universities.
Karen Seals, Supportive Educational Services director, said she opposed qualified admissions.
"The people we serve haven't had the same opportunities as others," said Seals, whose service tutors about 250 students.
Joy Stovall, Wichita sophomore, is an SES student who would not have met one of the qualified admissions requirements.
In high school her grades were bad, but she graduated and came to KU, where she earned a 1.2 and 1.5 grade point averages her freshman year.
After that, Stovall took some tests that determined she had a learning disability.
"It may not sound like much, but for someone who got a 1,2,..." she said.
Last fall, after a semester of tutoring, she earned a 2.0
SES is financed annually by a federal grant of about $160,000, which the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences nearly matches.
Both administrators and state legislators are quick to point out that qualified admissions has a long history in the Statehouse, and that although it passed the Senate for the first time last week, it still
Proposed admission requirements
A bill containing admission requirements for Board of Regents schools is now in the Kansas House. The bill would require that incoming students complete two following requirements: 2:0 high school GPA
20 composite ACT score
top one-third of high school class
Random sampling of 410 new students A study was conducted to see how many of the new students in 1987 would have met proposed admission requirements.
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning Elaine K.Barkley/KANSAN
faces debate in the House.
Gov. Joan Finney has said she would veto the qualified admissions bill if it made it to her desk to be signed into law.
Joy Stovall said she hoped no one was denied the chance she was given.
"I was taught to fail when I was little," Stocvall said. "I has taught me that I'm going to make it, and that's what I need to do."
Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood, spoke to about 500 people Friday night in the Kansas Union Ballroom about the reproductive rights of women.
Jayhawks upset Lady Buffs in 'one of the finest ever'
Reproductive rights
By Jav WIlliams
See story. Page 5.
Kansan sportswriter
SALINA — In a determined effort, the Kansas women's basketball team fought its way to an 81-78 double-overtime victory against No. 6 Colorado yesterday in the semifinals of the Big Eight Conference Women's Basketball Tournament.
The Jaihawks, 20-8 overall, stood toe-to-toe with the conference's regular season champions in the second half
"This game will go down in tournament history as one of the fines games ever," said Kansas coach Martian Washintying baskets at both the end of regulation and at the end of the first overtime.
The Jayhawks will play for the championship at 7 p.m. against Nebraska at the Bicentennial Center. The game will be televised on the Prime Network, channel 45, on a tape-delay basis starting at 9:30 p.m.
Nebraska beat Oklahoma State 66-64 in yesterday's other semifinal.
Eansas had a six-point lead with 4:30 left in regulation and a four-point lead with 52.7 seconds remaining in overtime, but Colorado showed why it had earned its high ranking. The Lady Bucks, 25.3, forced some timely turnovers and went to junior forward Jamall Lang for the game.
Championship game
Championship game
Of what: Big Eight Women's Tournament
Against whom: Nebraska
When to Play: Central Center in Salina
When: 7 tonight
Live radio: KMJA, 1440 AM, or KHKJ, 90.7 FM
Tape-delay TV: Prime Network, network 45 at 8:30 p.m.
Aycock led Kansas with 20 points, while Sampon scored 17 and Kite added 16. Junior guard Michelle Leathers and sophomore forward Alana Slatter also scored in double figures.
The young Jayhawks received big performances from sophomore forward Angela Aycock and freshman guard Charisse Sampson, plus a hand from a veteran, senior forward Shannon Kite.
Washington looked at her players as they came to the bench between the overtimes and knew the Jahwahks
"I looked at my players' eyes, and they told me they could do it," she said.
See related story. Page 7.
Doual Hersise / KANBAN
Members of the women's basketball team celebrate from the bench their B1-78 victory against Colorado in the Big Eight Women's Basketball Tournament.