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Tuesday, March 2, 1993
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Senate to hear qualified admissions bill
By Ben Grove
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — For only the second time in a decade, a qualified admissions bill has made it out of a legislative committee.
The Kansas Senate Education committee yesterday voted to pass the qualified admissions bill to the Senate floor, where a full-chamber vote may come as soon as today. The full Senate must act on the bill by end of the tomorrow, when most Senate bills move to the House and vice versa.
school students to meet at least one of three requirements for admission to a Regents university. Students would need either a 2.0 grade point average, a composite ACT score of 23 or be in the top third of their high school class.
Qualified admissions legislation has only once been passed out of a legislative committee since it was introduced in 1983. In 1990, the House Education Committee sent a qualified admissions bill to the House floor, but eventually it was defeated.
One approved amendment required 5 percent of a university's incoming students to be allowed admission to a Regents university without having met one of the three qualified admissions standards.
As the bill went through final committee debate, several amendments were proposed for each.
chance to prove themselves in college.
Qualified admissions supporters have said that the 5 percent "window" would allow "late bloomers" who had trouble in high school to have a
The Senate bill would require high
The amendment, introduced by State Sen. Tim Emert, R-Independence, tightened the window to 5 percent from the 15 percent that was proposed in the bill. Emert said he was in favor of getting rid of the window altogether.
"My concern all along was that the standards in this direction were too weak to begin with," he said.
Last week, the committee discussed how the basic skills test might fit into the state's plan to accredit its schools, called qualified performance accreditation, or QPA.
State Sen. Christine Downey, D-Newton, said she thought the committee had lost sight of the purpose of the basic skills bill and would probably not agree on what those skills were.
The controversial bill passed to the full Senate with a related bill that would require high school students to pass a basic skills test before being admitted to a Regents university.
The bill requires the state board of education to define basic skills.
Senate Education Committee chairperson Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson, declined comment on the near future of the qualified admissions legislation.
"This is major legislation we're talking about," she said. "These are critical things that are going to be implemented in schools all over the state."
Ted Ayres, Regents general counsel,
said he was "cautiously optimistic."
The Regents support qualified admissions.
"It certainly is very significant that the Senate Education Committee thought it appropriate to pass it forward," Ayres said.
The committee also passed three other education bills, the first of which would create 40 minority graduate student fellowships.
Potential lift of gay ban stirs up past
as violence against gays is reported today.
Allen said he was not surprised by the recent incidents of homosexuals being beaten and, in one case, killed.
"You had the same incidents when Blacks came into the system," he said. "If they were in a group, no one would touch them. But if they were alone, they were beat up."
There is power in numbers, Allen said, and it is the only way homosexuals will survive in the military.
Alen said he thought that President Bill Clinton believed in equal rights for homosexuals in the military but that equal rights was not the true motive for President Truman's decision.
He said he thought the power in the number of African Americans in the military had accumulated was the real reason Truman ordered the integration of the military.
Truman wanted to decrease the power of a growing, separate African-American military that might become too powerful unless it was dispersed among the white soldiers, Allen said.
But there are no documents that support Allen's theory, said Dennis Bilger, an archivist for the Truman library.
As for homosexuals, the military is not ready to once again be a catalyst for change.
Reports that African Americans were being beaten in their home towns appalled Truman and motivated him to issue the order. Bilger said.
A survey published Sunday by the Los Angeles Times found that 74 percent of 2,300 enlistees said they disapproved of lifting the ban on homosexuals. Eighteen percent favored the change.
But lack of support shouldn't be a reason to give up, Allen said.
In the past 45 years, soldiers have been able to change who their enemies are, but their feelings for those on the same end of the gun have remained the same.
"If we can forgive our enemies, who we took up arms against and tried to kill," Allen said. "Can we do less for our fellow Americans?"
Where to vote today
Registered voters can cast their ballots for three of the 12 candidates running in the Lawrence City Commission primary election. The top six vote-getters will advance to the general election April 6.
People can vote in their assigned precincts from 7 a.m. to 7 o.p.
Source: Douglas County Clerk's Office
Polling places by ward and precinct
Polling places by ward and precinct
2.1 Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
2.1 Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont
4.1 National Guard Armory, 200 Iowa St.
4.1 Deerfield School, 101 N. Lawrence Ave.
4.2 Plymouth Congregational Church, 925
Varnmont St.
2. 2 South Park Recreational Center, 1141 Massachusetts St.
Massachusetts St.
812 Hillcrest School, 1045 Hilttop St.
82 Allen Field House, Naismith Street
85 West Junior High School, 2706 Yale Road
86 First Baptist Church, 1330 Kasol Drive
87 American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St.
88 First Presbyterian Church, 2104 W. 23th St.
89 Immanuel Lutheran Church, 2104 W. 15th St.
102 Clinton Parkway Assembly of God, 3200 Clinton Parkway
11-2 Holcolm Recreational Center, 2700 W. 27th St.
12-3 Mustard Seed Church, 700 Wakarusa Drive
12-1 Central United Methodist Church, 1501
2 Cordley School, 1837 Vermont St.
3 Lawrence High School Annex, 2017 Louisiana
43 Centennial School 2145 Louisiana St.
23rd, Chickens, 23rd and Louisiana streets
36 Schweiger School, 2021 Oudahl St
73 Southside Church of Christ, 25th and
Missouri streets
8-3 Sterling Heights, 1800 W. 27th St.
1-4 Central Junior High School, 1400
Northwest St.
Massachusett St.
2:4 Babcock Place, 1700 Massachusetts St.
1:5 New York School, 936 New York St.
2:5 Judicial Building, 111 E. 11th St.
Derek Nolen / Kansan
ON CAMPUS
The Office of Study Abroad will have an informational meeting at 10 a.m. today at 4020 Wescoe Hall for students interested in studying in Spanish-speaking countries.
OAKS — Non-Traditional Student Organization will have a brown-bag lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the Rock Chalk Room in the Burge Union and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow at Aceve B in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Kris McCusker at 864-7317.
International studies and programs will present the Worldview Lecture Series from noon to 1 p.m. today at Alcove A in the Kansas University. John Poertner, associate professor of social welfare, will speak on democracy and social welfare in Paraguay. For more information call Cathy McChure at 864-4141.
■ Association of the United States Army will hold an open forum at 4:30 p.m. today at the second floor of the Military Science Building. Lieutenant Colonel Esen of the Turkish General Staff will speak on Turkey's future in NATO, the Kurdish issue and related topics. For more information, call 864-3311.
Armchair Generals will meet at 6 p.m. today. A game session will be held. New players are welcome. For more information, call 864-7118.
Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will have a meeting from 6:30 to 8 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call
Peace Corp alumni will meet at 7 tonight at Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall.
KU Republicans will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. For more information, call David Olson at 841-6249.
Triathlon and Swim Club will hold swim practice at 7:30 tonight at Robinson Center. For more information, call Sean Roland at 865-2734.
KU Dr. Seuss Club will meet at 8:30 tonight at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Doug Hesse at 749-1255.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries,1204 Oread Ave. will have a University forum from 11:40 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow. Paul Danieri will speak on conflict and cooperation in the former Soviet Union. For more information, call Thad Holcombe at 843-4833.
KU Environs will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Kristi Holdsworth at 832-1751.
Library system stacks up well in 1992 report
**Watkins Memorial Health Center will have an eating disorders support group meeting from 7 to 8 tomorrow night at the second floor conference room in Watkins. The topic of discussion will be the media and eating disorders. For more information, call Chris Cameron at 841-0086.**
KU ranked top in conference for its facilities
By Will Lewis
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas' libraries ranks in the top 40 percent of those belonging to the Association of Research Libraries, according to a report released in January by the association.
The association, which includes 108 university libraries and 12 independent research libraries in the United States and Canada, compiles the report every year.
The fiscal 1991-1992 report ranks KU 39th among the university libraries. Among U.S. public universities, it ranks 23rd.
The University surpassed all other Big Eight schools included in the report. Kansas State University is not a member of the association and was not in the rankings.
The rankings were based on volumes held and added, serials, total expenditures and total staff.
KU ranks 17th in government documents, a category not included in the overall rankings.
Robert Melton, publications coordinator at Watson Library, said it was hard to compare accurately universities' libraries.
"Some don't like overall ratings because there are so many different variables," Melton said. "There are so many things that make the rankings apples and oranges.
"This would really only be meaningful if every school was offering the same number of programs and had the same number of students."
But he said he thought KU deserved
Best libraries
01.108 university systems surveyed for fiscal 1991/1992, the University of Kansas’ system ranks 30th, the highest of any other university in the Bigh Eight.
Kansas State University is not a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the organization that did the survey.
1. Harvard University
2. University of California at Berkeley
3. Yale University
4. University of California - Los Angeles
5. Toronto
6. University of Kansas
7. University of Colorado
8. University of Missouri
7. University of Nebraska
7. Iowa State University
8. University of Oklahoma
103. Oklahoma State University
Source: The Association of Research Libraries
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a fairly high ranking.
"Not only do statistics show us to be good," he said, "but my sense of things here is that this library is more able to support original research than most libraries in this region."
Melton said original research required materials like manuscripts, archival materials and original editions of publications.
The University ranks 32nd overall in the number of volumes with 3,043,964. This number increased from fiscal 1900-1991 by 83,199 volumes, alarger increase than any of the other Big Eight universities in the association.
But looking too good could mean less funding because of the perception that the library is financially stable, Melton said.
"Statistics can be a double-edged sword," he said. "Looking good can be bad in a way."
Many universities take the report with more than a grain of salt, Melton said.
"Literaries take it fairly seriously," he said, "partly as a way to get their funding improved."
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