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Vol. 94, No. 79 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday morning, January 17, 1984
Reagan says U.S. ready to try arms talks again
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that America was in "its strongest position in years" to build a good working relationship with the Kremlin, and he stands ready to reopen a superpowers arms dialogue for world peace.
Softening his anti-Soviet rhetoric but maintaining his philosophy of peace through strength, Reagan challenged Moscow to resume negotiations on the basis of mutual compromise."
The Soviets walked out of negotiations aimed at limiting nuclear and conventional arms late last year in response to NATO's distribution of U.S. medium-range, nuclear missiles in Western Europe.
Since talks have broken off, the Kremlin has warned that deteriorating U.S.-Soviet relations have increased prospects for a military clash. Reagan, who last year called the Soviet Union the "focus of evil in the modern world," tried to counter public concerns about a possible war. He declared his re-election campaign as a man of peace in a 24-minute address televised nationwide yesterday.
between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko tomorrow in Stockholm.
“*Strident rhetoric from the Kremlin.*” Reagan said, has led some people “to speak of heightened uncertainty and an increased danger to our country is understandable but profoundly mistaken.
HIS SPEECH ALSO set the stage for a meeting
"Look beyond the words and one fact stands out. America's deterrence is more credible, and it is making the world a safer place – safer because now there is less danger that the Soviet leadership will underestimate our strength or question our resolve." The 72-year-old president said.
"BUT TO SAY THAT our restored deterrence has made the world safer is not to say that it is safe enough. We are witnessing tragic conflicts in many parts of the world. Nuclear arsenals are far too high, and our working relationship with the Soviet Union is not what it must be. These are conditions which must be addressed and improved."
Reagan, however, proposed no new solutions to the stalemate. He neither offered new concessions nor called for a summit with Soviet President Yuri Andropov.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan addresses Europe and the United States, calling for the Soviets to reopen the disarmament talks that ended late last year. During his speech, which was televised yesterday, Reagan said the talks were necessary for world peace.
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. 5
Fewer KU freshmen are dropping out, study says
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
For the fifth straight year, the percentage of KU freshmen that dropped out of school before their second semester has fallen, according to a University report.
Last spring, 8.8 percent of the freshmen enrolled the previous fall either dropped out during that semester or did not return after the Christmas break.
The percentage was down nearly 2 percent from 1981 when 10.5 percent of the freshman
Deborah Teeter, director of the office of institutional research and planning, said the figures also represented students who transferred to other schools.
THE RESEARCH OFFICE prepared the report which was published last month. The
percentage has been shrinking steadily since 1978 when 10.8 percent of the freshmen that enrolled in the fall did not enroll again the following year. The percentage of return, and 10.6 percent did not return in 1980.
In 1982, 3,828 freshmen enrolled in the fall, and 336 did not return. The figure for this year's freshmen will not be determined until enrollment is complete, Teeter said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that he wasn't sure what caused the attrition rate to drop in 1982.
He said that economic factors might have deterred some students from transferring to other schools. Dismissal programs instituted in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences also may have decreased attrition rate.
haven't seen that dismissal policies have moved those percentages one way or another."
"Students may understand that they'll have to perform at a certain level or they'll be forced to take it very seriously."
ENROLLMENT FIGURES for entering freshmen have fluctuated slightly during the five-year study. The 1960 freshman class was the largest students, and the smallest was 3 with 3,691.
Of the freshmen who enrolled in 1980, the report showed that 62.2 percent are still enrolled, 37.3 percent left KU, and 0.5 percent graduated.
Of the freshmen who entered in 1981, 70.9 percent are still enrolled: 29.1 percent have left, and none have graduated.
The report shows that the attrition rate of the classes between 1978 and 1981 averaged 25 percent. The attrition rate of the classes between 1981 and 1986 averaged 30 percent.
The report also showed that as of January 1983 certain patterned patterns had emerged in the class of 1978.
MINORITIES HAVE A higher dropout rate
than white students, according to the report. Blacks and American Indians graduate at one-third the rate of whites. More older students in the 1978 class dropped out than entering 17-, 18- or 19-year-old students, and 49 percent of those graduating from Graduate Equivalency Degrees dropped out.
Cumulative totals show that 21 percent of the fall 1978 freshman class are still enrolled; 45.5 percent have dropped out, and 33.5 percent graduated.
In 1978, 3,608 freshmen enrolled in the fall; 391 students left after one semester.
Amber said that although the class of 1978 was the first one monitor on an expected the class of 1975, it has not been used.
"We don't experience radical changes from year to year," he said. In the past, attrition figures at KU have been parallel to those at other universities.
Enrollment on first day falls by 78
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Seventy-eight fewer KU students were enrolled the first day of classes at the Lawrence campus this semester than there was a year ago, dean of educational services said yesterday.
Gil Dyck, the dean, said that the number of students declined in part because of a downward trend that started last fall. The trend might be explained by a drop in the number of students graduating from high schools in Kansas and across the United States, he said.
TOTAL FIRST-DAY enrollment for the University was 21,929, down 236 students from a year ago. Total enrollment includes the University of Kansas Medical Center and off-campus students at Leavenworth, Overland Park and Tonka
The first-day enrollment figures showed that 19.434 students were enrolled at the Lawrence campus, a decline of less than 0.4 percent from 1983. 312 students who were enrolled in spring 1983
Dyck said the enrollment figures would change because his department was still compiling Friday's late enrollments and because students would be enrolling through Feb.
But he said he expected the event,nament figures for the 20th day of classes to be about the same as the 20th day last year. Twentieth day for the Lawrence campus last year was 21,237.
"Our full-time equivalent enrollments are running slightly ahead of last year, an encouraging sign because that is the figure reported to the Reents." Dyck said.
FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT enrollment is based upon the number of credit hours a student is taking, not the number of students enrolled, he said.
The Board of Regents will receive official KU enrollment figures after 20 class days.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said, "I am pleased that large numbers of able students continue to pursue their educational objectives at the University of Kansas."
Enrollment at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City for this semester is 2,222 students, an increase of 10 Med Center students from the spring of 1963.
Designs entered for war memorial by 10 students
By CINDY HOLM
Staff Reporter
Since November, Bud Bortner has been nearly obsessed with the prospect of designing KU's Vietnam War Memorial.
the memorial, which will be built in the Chandler Court of the Burge Union, will include a fountain and a list of KU students who were killed in the Vietnam War.
Working intensely since the design contest was announced, Bortner, Overland Park senior in sculpture, has devoted most of his energy and time to winning.
Yesterday's deadline ended weeks of work for Bortner, who with nine other KU students submitted a project to the Design Selection Committee.
"It was a contest I felt I was prepared to take on," he said. "I have every intention of winning."
THE DESIGN COMMITTEE is comprised of six students, two who are Vietnam veterans; four faculty members; the former General Manager of the USAS Union; and Anderson Chandler, for whom the court was named.
Lisa Ashner, student body president and a member of the War Memorial Committee, said she hoped that ground would be broken for the project in late May.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig approved the construction of the memorial on Oct. 11.
Peter VanderPoel, Kansas City, Mo., senior in architecture, said that he had drawn his design as an eight-hour sketch problem for his studio class.
David Fidler, Salina sophomore and chairman of the design committee, said yesterday that the committee would meet Thursday to discuss it. He said he hoot it would select a winner by late February.
ANY STUDENT ENHOLLED during the fall semester at the University of Kansas was
Mike Atkinson, Liberal senior in architecture, also drew his design as a class assignment, but said he had been thinking about the project since the contest was announced on Oct. 15.
Bortner, a veteran of the Vietnam era, said he wanted to win the contest because of the status of his own position.
"Dedication under optimal conditions could take place in late fall, possibly on Veteran's Day."
Atkinson said he had tried to depict an everlasting, unified idea that would suggest that the Vietnam War had affected not only the United States but the whole world.
AD. coaches see no rise in scholastic problems
See MEMORIAL, p. 5, col. 1
Grades bench 12 varsity athletes for spring term
Bv ROB KARWATH
Staff Reporter
But Athletic Director Monte Johnson said last week that he did not think academic ineligibility was a growing problem at the University of Kansas.
KU coaches say 10 other varsity athletes either have been declared academically ineligible for this semester under team or NCAA rules or are now appealing their cases.
Academic problems have benched a starting player from both the men's and women's basketball teams this semester, but athletic programs are wary of ensuring that KU athletes make the grade.
Johnson said that because key players had experienced eligibility problems, the eligibility
question was more noticeable this semester than in past semesters.
Figures for ineligible KU athletes from previous semesters are not available, said Dr. Bassman.
"There are always going to be some problems in a major athletic program like this one," he said. "If anything, I say the situation is probably better now than in the
CEDRIC HUNTER, the starting point guard for the men's basketball team, and Philiace Allen, the starting center for the women's tennis team, are both inelegible for this semester.
He said only a few of the estimated 420 athletes in the department had eligibility
Prentice Gott, director of the Big Eight
For head basketball coach Larry Brown, the problem of inelegibility is new. He said, he hadn't experienced it at either UCLA or the University of Carolina, where he had caught bad capches.
Although Brown said he couldn't pinpoint why some KU athletes had eligibility problems, he said poor relations between athletes and students might have caused some of them.
However, Brown said that KU's athletic department offered about as much academic aid to students as the departments at UCLA and North Carolina.
Conference Service Bureau, refused to release eligibility information for other Big Eight schools, saying the release of that information could harm recruiting efforts.
THE STUDENT BODY and faculty often do not accept athletes as students, he said. The idea that athletes aren't students should be eliminated, he said. However, he offered no
suggestions on how this attitude could be changed.
"I really want our kids to be part of the student body," he said. "At North Carolina and UCLA the kids were definitely considered students. They weren't just isolated.
Johnson agreed that KU's athletic department offered enough academic aid to athletes.
"AT BOTH SCHOOLS there was a tremendous sensitivity on the part of the administrators about that."
"I have to say we do a very good job with our
See INELIGIBLE, p. 5, col. 1
Ann Landers, right, greets an old friend, Eleonor Simpson of Topeka, left, and other well wishers. Landers spoke at the Menninger Clinic last night in Tonekau.
Landers entertains audience with anecdotes and advice
By LORI DODGE Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Ann Landers gives advice to thousands of people every day, sometimes witty and often serious. Last night she served up a little of both for Topekans.
"I could talk about three things tonight," she said. "I could talk about problems. I could talk about the wonderful people who live in Topeka. I could talk about sex.
"Or I could talk about the sexual problems of the people who live in Topeka."
Landers, the most widely syndicated advice columnist in the world, was at Topeka High School last night to deliver a lecture titled "What To Do Until The Psychiatrist Comes."
"IF I COULD GIVE one bit of advice to everyone in the room, I would tell an audience of people what to do."
Landers, who often drew widespread laughter, also elaborated about the kinds of letters that she had received in the 28 years she had handed out advice.
She agreed with one writer that it should be hung so that it would unroll from the bottom.
Landers said that she had received about 15,000 letters in reply to the toilet paper debate that unraveled many years ago.
Readers began writing letters on the issue after they were published, which side of the roll note paper should bang from the top.
Some readers write in assuming that she probably didn't buy expensive paper. As everybody knows, they said, the prints come out right-side up only if unrolled over the top
Although some of the issues she deals with are light-hearted, she said, the most important thing she does in her column is to refer people with special service agencies such as Alcoholics Anonymous.
THE LECTURE WAS the fourth in a series of Karl Menninger Lectures, named for the co-founder of the Menninger Foundation. The 90-year-old psychiatrist spoke to the audience briefly after the lecture.
"I'll answer the question what to do until the psychiatrist comes: get Ann Landers to come down and make a talk," he said. "She cures a great deal more people than we psychiatrists."
The lecture was also sponsored by the Junior League Topeka, Washburn University and the Village.
The Vampire
Landers receives about 1,000 letters every day and reads all of them, she said. Almost half the letters come from men. And yes, every letter with a name and an address gets a personal reply.
LANDERS' REAL NAME is Eppie Lederer. She lives in Chicago and is a mother and a grandmother.
Her column runs in more than 1,000 newspapers and reaches an estimated 70 million people.