No more mass in Hoch
Catholic Center planned
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New center on University Drive
Father Brendan Downey, director of the St. Lawrence Student Center, shows a model of the proposed building. The new center will be large enough for Sunday mass, which is now celebrated in Hoch Auditorium.
Regents may raise fees
A Kansas Legislative Council committee took action Wednesday which could cause the State Board of Regents to increase tuition at state universities and colleges.
The move by the budget committee of the council, which reaffirmed a recommendation made to the 1907 legislature, was not entirely unexpected, said Raymond Nichols, KU executive secretary.
The committee recommended that resident and non-resident fees at state institutions provide, on the average, 25 per cent of the general education program cost. In the past two years, the proportion of costs covered by student fees has dropped below the recommended level.
Nichols said that fees may possibly be increased for the school year 1970-1971. He said there are two major factors that will affect the board of regents in their decision on an increase of fees.
The first consideration is the
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unusually fast rise in the cost of living that has occurred in the past year or two. This rapid inflation has, in effect, "devalued" the average dollar collected for tuition, making it necessary for the legislature to provide the deficit in the cost of education.
Nichols said that another factor that may possibly affect the reagents was the action taken in the past year by other large universities in the Midwest who faced the same problem. He said that the University of Missouri had substantial increases in tuition this year, and that many universities in the Big Ten conference had also increased tuition fees.
Plans are now under way for the construction of a new St. Lawrence Catholic Church and Student Center.
The new center will be located in what is now an empty lot in the 1900 block of University Drive. The center now occupies three houses at 1915 Stratford Road.
Father Brendan Downey is the director of the center. Father Downey has been at the St. Lawrence Center for eight of the 11 years it has been in existence. He is assisted by Father Donald Redmond.
Father Downey said that the estimated cost of the building will be just over $500,000. He said this cost does not include the cost of the land, which has already been purchased.
The activities center will house study areas, offices and facilities for banquets, meetings and other functions held at the center.
Most of the money needed to finance the actual building will come from the Kansas City, Kan., Archdiocese. Father Downey said that parents of some KU students and various Lawrence citizens have contributed some money to the building fund, but this is not nearly enough.
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"The University has been very generous with their facilities in allowing us to use them," Father Downey said.
Father Downey currently celebrates Sunday mass in Hoch Auditorium at 9:30 a.m. and again at 11 a.m.
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Record attend KU
A record 19,001 students are attending classes at the University of Kansas this year.
William L. Kelly, registrar, said 19,001 students are enrolled at Lawrence and Kansas City. Enrollment at Lawrence is 17,576, and the University of Kansas Medical Center has 1,425 students, including 292 part time students.
Kelly said the overall enrollment was an increase of 6.8 per cent over last year's total enrollment of 17,790.
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A girl may have her name placed in candidacy by submitting a petition signed by 30 off-campus, fulltime KU women students and by filling out an application. Petitions and applications are available in the Dean of Women's office. These should be completed and turned in to the Dean of Women's office no later than Thursday, October 30, at 5:00 p.m.
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