University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, February 21, 1983
Vol. 93, No. 102 USPS 650-640
Regents to consider raising fees for foreign students
By JOEL THORNTON
Staff Reporter
The increasing cost of education to Kansas taxpayers has prompted the Board of Regents to consider raising fees for foreign students, Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, said Saturday.
Kopik said a committee had been formed to study the present fee system at Regents schools. The committee, which will meet for the first time at next month's Regents meeting; will consider a variety of options, including establishment of a higher fee for foreign students, he said.
Foreign students now pay the same fees as non-resident students, $1,110 a semester. Resident students pay $452 a semester.
dent students play what is called "We're just throwing it around," Kopfik said. "Some people have talked on occasion about a third level of fees."
HE SAID SEVERAL college administrators had complained of the high cost of maintaining foreign student programs, such as English as a second language.
In addition, he said, supporting the Regents schools has become a greater burden for state taxpayers. Student fees account only for about 21 percent of the Regents schools' budgets, he said.
Kopik said the Regents would have to check the constitutionality of a higher fee level for
foreign students. He said he knew of other universities that had tacked on an extra fee for foreign students.
People might be more willing to pay taxes to
As education costs rise, Kansas taxpayers and the Legislature are questioning to what extent they should support universities, he said.
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support a student from Iowa or Nebraska than a student from a foreign country, Koplik said.
"I THINK YOU can make an argument that the obligations of Kansas residents for different students is different," he said.
Clark Coan, director of KU foreign student services, said the effect of higher fees would
depend on an individual student's financial position.
he said higher fees could present a hardship to the more than half of foreign students at KU who were supported by themselves or their families
Ninety-five countries send 1,619 foreign students to KU. Coa said.
Other foreign students are supported by their governments and might not be affected as much, be said.
A higher fee level could cause a foreign student who was considered attending KU to go elsewhere, he said. Price is one of the biggest students' decisions on which college to attend.
which college to attend?
SEVERAL FOREIGN students said higher
fee levels_might_deter_some_students from attending KU.
Usha Thombre, Limbe, Malawi, graduate student, said, "One of the first things foreign students look at is the finances."
Thombre, president of the KU India Club, said she did not know how a higher fee level would affect Indian students because many of them were graduate students.
Some Indian graduate students are teaching assistants in computer science, engineering and business and therefore receive fee reductions, she said.
More than 800 Bengalis massacred
Hamed Ghazali, Egyptian graduate student and president of the Muslim Students Association.
Violence again disrupts Indian vote
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By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Thousands of Assamese tribesmen with axes, spears and arrows massacred at least 800 Bengali immigrants and burned 15 Bengali villages in the worst election violence in Indian history, the Press Trust of India said yesterday.
Witnesses earlier counted 253 bodies, many of them decapitated or mutilated. The semi-official agency said that at least 800 people were killed and that the toll might rise to 1,000. The killings began Friday night and continued into Saturday morning.
The news agency based its death toll on accounts by its own reporters who visited the villages and counted the bodies.
PRIME MINISTER Indira Gandhi announced that she would fly to the violence-torn northeastern state of Assam today to make a personal inspection of the devastated villages.
A correspondent of the Indian Express newspaper reported from the Nelli massacre site. "There are women and children with disfigured faces. One saw at least three children,
hobbling about with gaping wounds in their stomachs. Rice fields between Nelli, on the national highway, and the affected villages, are strewn with thirsty and exhausted wounded, their wounds smeared with mud."
Officials said that most of the victims were women and children who were hacked to death with machetes and other crude weapons because they could not be rescued. The police say the well-planned slaughter
The confirmed death toll from 29 straight days of violence in Assam, where elections were under way to replace presidential rule with an elected government, was about 1,200 people.
MILITANTS OF the 9 million Assamese native population began clashing with some of the 4 million Bengali immigrants in the state on Feb. 1. The Assamese protested that the elections should not be held until the immigrants were stripped of their voting rights and sent out of the state.
The Press Trust said that about 10,000 people, mostly women and children, escaped the carnage in Assam's Nowong district and found shelter in 20 relief camps.
Thousands of army and paramilitary troops
were rushed into the oil-rich state, dotted with tean plantations, in an attempt to restore order
Large quantities of white cloth, used as funeral shrouds, were rushed into the town of Nelli and surrounding hamlets in the Newgond district, about 80 miles cast of New Delhi, the Press
State officials said they feared the toll could rise higher as they searched the rubble of villages burned by the Assamese, who reportedly fled into the hills.
ELECTIONS IN the state — staggered over a period of three days last week and scheduled to end yesterday — could not be completed "because of communications problems" and a fourth round of polling was to be held today to fill state assembly and parliamentary seats.
The massacre in the villages surrounding Neli followed another mass slaughter on Feb. 12 in the town of Gohpur where tribesmen of the Bodo tribe butchered Assamese natives.
Besides the tribal massacre, another 18 people were reported killed yesterday — 11 in ethnic clashes in the Kamrup district, six by police bullets in the Lakimpir district and one by police fire in Kamrup.
Karl Meyers, 9, and Eric Lesigh, 7, look on intently as Ruth Gennrich, director of public education for the Museum of
Natural History, teaches them and other children "Why Animals Look the Way They Do." The workshop was Saturday.
Animals help kids learn about evolution
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
The group of budding scholars, ages 5, 6 and 7, sat on the floor on carpet-sample squares and tried to answer the question presented to them.
They were trying to determine why animals looked the way they did.
reasons existed.
During the winter workshop Saturday at the University's Museum of Natural History, children learned about animals who had acquired distinguishing features through evolution.
"Because God created them that way," one
half-old speculated.
However, the young thinkers found that other people existed.
"They have to be because they're made by him." another added.
RUTH GENNRICH, director of public education for the museum, hosted the workshop, titled "Why do Animals Look Like They Do?" She displayed a film; museum specimens and live guests to show how animals adapt to their environment to survive.
In discussions on a variety of animals ranging from armadillos to zebras, and
including flamingos, giraffes and monkeys, the children wanted to give their theories for some
One 5-year-old told why a cockatoo did not buy lutes a flamingo.
waters
THE CHILDREN examined with curiosity an armadillo shell and stroked a beaver pelt that had a pancake-like tail.
Gennirch explained that flamingos developed long legs to reach food deep in the water.
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"Sometimes flamingos look like this," he said, balancing on one foot to imitate the animal.
Because it would fall on the tree, he said.
thent to see just how large it would be. "If they put him on a scale, it would just bust and the arrow would pop out," one child theorized.
is that a nail. An apple's foot made into a stool allowed
that large elephants were.
he has legs like a tarnished.
"Because it would fall off the tree," he said.
A snapping turtle called Porky, a hamster named Ernestine and a speckled snake were among the live guests that demonstrated animal adaptations.
"Is that a real tail?" asked one skeptic.
Although Porky and the snake were eyed
warily at first, soon everyone wanted to hold them.
"Did you get these at the pet shop?" another asked.
then,
"Was he in an egg farm and he cracked?"
"Yes."
THE WORKSHOP participants also watched a film and toured the museum. They first saw the displays of early animals, and then moved to the large wildlife panorama display to see how the animals looked and lived now.
The children had an opportunity to exercise their creative talents and to show what they had learned by putting together a booklet of all the animals studied and by designing an animal that would evolve and be alive one million years from now.
One 5-year-old girl designed an animal with the head of a jayhawk and the body of a cat.
A 7-year-old Saturday workshop participant, who said he had been to many museum programs because he learned the part of the program during which he got to make things.
Gennrich said the workshop series had been offered each semester for the last eight years.
The museum also has workshops for people ages 8 to adult, animal story hours for 3- to 6-year-olds.
The supply and demand of elementary and secondary school teachers in the United States were compared in a report made by James Akin, associate director of Kansas State University's Career and Planning Placement Center. The regions are: 1) Northwest, 2) West, 3) Rocky Mountain, 4) Great PlainsMidwest, 5) South-Central, 6) Southeast, 7) Great Lakes, 8) Mid-Atlantic, and 9) Northeast. Alaska and Hawaii, were not included in the totals for the continental United States.
Dean of education says teaching jobs to increase
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
Teaching jobs in elementary and secondary schools will begin to gradually increase because of rising enrollments, Dale Scannell, the dean, said.
This year will be the end of a decade-long national decline in elementary and secondary school teaching jobs, the dean of the School of Education said last week.
he said the children of the baby boom of the late 1940s and early 1950s now have children who were starting elementary school. This residual baby boom was the major reason for the optimistic outlook for elementary and secondary teaching.
ENROLLMENT IN Kansas public elementary and secondary schools has fallen about 19 percent since 1971. The number of students attending Kansas public elementary and secondary schools has dropped from 504,200 in fall 171 to 408,900 in fall 193, according to the Kansas Statistical Abstract and the 1971 Kansas Educational Directory.
A demographic forecast in the April 14, 1982 issue of Education Week showed the number of school age children in Kansas declined slightly.
in the 1970s, but would increase between 1985 and 2000.
First-time teaching certification at Board of Regents schools has decreased about 60 percent in the last 10 years, according to this year's graduates. University's associate director of job placement.
Scannell said fewer new teachers entered the job market in the last decade, which balanced the declining enrollments and kept the job market stable.
About 3,500 college students completed certification preparation in 1972, and an estimated 1,500 will complete certification preparation this year, the report said.
SCANNELL SAID 85 KU students were graduated last year with elementary school teaching certification, and 45 were graduated with secondary school certification.
This spring the School of Education plans to graduate 113 students with elementary certification and 125 students with secondary certification. Cupp, teacher certification officer, said.
James Akin, the associate director of K-State's career planning and placement, listed average beginning salaries for Kansas teachers in 1983, with "Teacher Supply and Demand in Kansas 1983."
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Prof says West German youth don't understand Cold War
Staff Reporter
By JEFF TAYLOR
Older West Germans understand why Soviet missiles are aimed at Western Europe and why American troops are so heavily stationed in their homeland, an associate professor of political science said Saturday.
But for younger West Germans, the cold war is just something written about in history books, the professor, Ron Francisco said.
NOW THE SOVIET missiles have become the focus of attention among candidates for chancellor in West Germany, Francisco said.
"The problem the young people have is understanding the history of the cold war, how Germany got divided," he said. "They really have a hard time understanding why this absurd situation exists, why so many U.S. troops have to be there."
Francisco has studied past German turmoil and now teaches about current German
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Weather
Today will be cloudy with a chance of light rain or drizzle, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. High temperatures will be in the low to mid-40s with winds from the northwest at 10 to 20 mph.
taught will be mostly cloudy with a low between 35 and 40.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with the high around 50.
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