University Enrollment Expected to Match Projection
BY ERIC KRAMER
Kansan Staff Write
Enrollment at KU's laurence campus this fall has increased 2.3 per cent from last fall's enrollment, according to an estimate made late Monday by Registrar William L. Kelly.
There will be 18,373 students at the Lawrence campus and 1,452 at the Medical Center campus in Springfield.
Actual enrollments as of Monday the first day of classes, were 17,577 in Lawrence and 1,384 in Kansas City. These figures compare with 17,169 in Lawrence at this time last year and 1,383 in Kansas City.
first day count to reach the total figure, is based on standard percentage of students who enroll late after their transcripts have been received or they have completed correspondence with the University. The estimate is "awfully accurate." John Conard, director of university relations said Monday. Sometimes Kelley's estimate has come within one student, he said. All of these figures are "head count," or actual numbers of persons enrolled or expected to enrol in university programs. This includes the university budget, especially those that determine the number of faculty positions are calculated on the basis of "equivalent full-time" students. That figure is the total number of credit hours for which students have enrolled divided by the number of hours considered to be a full-time load for the average student. IF MOST STUDENTS are carrying light academic loads, as is frequently true in metropolitan areas by night students and part-time day students, the equivalent full-time number will be less than the head-count.
The estimate of late enrollees, which is added to the
sidered to be a full-time load for the average student
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr, said he expected the equivalent full-time number to be slightly higher than the head count at KU. It usually is, he said. The KU budget projections, which were given to the Board of Regents last spring, were based on an estimate that about 15% of the campus. Chalmers said it appeared that actual enrollment would hit the budget projection almost exactly.
"We ARE QUITE pleased," Chalmers said, "to see that our estimated growth is materializing despite harsh economic times making it difficult for parents to pay the expenses of college education this year."
At Kansas State University enrollment increased 7 per cent, according to E. M. Gerritz, dean of admissions and records there. He said enrollment there would reach about 14,700 when late enrollees were included. Last fall 13,700 students enrolled at Kansas State.
The boost in enrollment was not unexpected. Gerritz said. Freshman applications had been up 10 per cent and applications from upper classmen were up 20 per cent.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No. 2
Tuesday, August 31, 1971
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An Autograph Traded for a Smile
Kansas defensive tackle Gery Palmer signs an autograph in shy smile from a young admirer. KU faces Washington State on what seems to be a fair exchange—a moment of his time for a Sept. 11 in Memorial Stadium for the season opener.
Thieu Sure to Keep Legislature
By the Associated Press
the only doubt about the size of Thieu's majority was raised by the large number of deputies elected Sunday whose political affiliation has yet to be established.
With official tabulations complete for 140 of the 159 seats in South Vietnam's lower house election, President Nguyen Van Pham told the United Nations to retain solid control of the legislative body.
The Western White House expressed pleasure Monday that the South Vietnamese lower house election "appears to be over." But it had no comment on the results.
Presidential oress secretary Ronald L. Ziegler noted there had been large turnout and little difficulty in the voting "despite enemy efforts to disrupt the process."
Over the weekend, Communist-led units mounted nearly 100 shells, ground probes and terror attacks in the heaviest action in South Vietnam in four months.
The attacks failed, however, to dislocate South Vietnam's elections for lower house members and there was a near-record turnout of voters.
an 249,000 U.S. servicemen in Vietnam continued on a week-old alert confining them to bases and restricting travel. The alert was partly to prevent U.S. forces in the South Vietnamese political unrest and party precaution against enemy action.
SOUTH VIETNAMESE FORCES also maintained a high state of readiness.
Thieu's backers ran well in the Mekong Delta and in provinces around Saigon but opponents had the edge in Saigon itself and in the northern cities of Hue and Da Nang.
Thieu supporters won 58 of the 140 seats decided, with 32 opposition candidates, 3 independents, and 47 deputies of unknown allegiance also elected. Most of the 47, however, were from the Mekong Delta which Thieu carried heavily in the 1967 election. Political analysts believed most would turn out to be pro-Thieu.
Of 119 incumbents standing for re-election, 34 won their races. There were 18 opposition deputies, 14 pro-government deputies and 2 independents.
Thieu controlled about two-thirds of the old 133-member house. The increase in the number of seats from 133 to 159 reflects the expansion of government control and the increasing legislative district since the last election in 1877. The deputies serve four-year terms.
Major interest centered on the showing of pre-government candidates as a reflection of Thieu's political strength. He is expected to consider this factor before making a final determination to run as the candidate in the Oct. 3 presidential election.
THEU MET with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker for over an hour Monday night, presumably to discuss the results of the lower house election and Thieu's plans for the presidential balloting.
Bunker and the Nixon administration are reported prepared to accept, but with serious misgivings. Thieu's plan to run unopposed. The United States, however, apparently has given up all that he can do to give election at least the faace of democracy.
Relaxation to Follow Price Freeze Period
Candidates backed by the antigovernment An Quang Buddhist faction won well over half the seats in Da Nang, Hue, and the five provinces of northernmost military region 1. In Saigon, the opposition won 7 of the 13 seats decided.
Two other witnesses, Gen. George Lincoln, head of the Office of Emergency Management, and the executive director of the Cost of Living Council, said they have sufficient facilities now but could not predict what their needs will be in the new economic policy continues to develop.
WASHINGTON (AP)—A top White House adviser said Monday the 90-day freeze is likely to be followed by a period of more energy cuts and rent contenders by a sequester. "Glaucus,"
WEBER NOTED that legal interpretations indicate the law under which the President acted to impose the term decease has more punch than many supposed.
Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, echoed other administration officials in saying no enforcement action on the policy of the new economic policy.
Organized labor will be brought into negotiations shaping national economic policy for after Nov. 13, when the wage-price rent freezes, mMcCracken said.
McCracken told the congressional Joint Economic Committee that he expects 500,000 new jobs and a large boost in productivity during the current freeze.
He would make no comment as to whether a restriction on profits and interest, steps urgently demanded by Labor, will be included.
But he said it would not be reasonable to expect prices to remain flat during the season.
—Lincoln and Weber told the committee that several railroads have agreed to roll back a freight-rate increase after they had been forced to wear them in violation of the 90-day freeze.
—Rep. Wright Patman, D-Tex., chairman of the House Banking Committee, said administration of the freeze is unnecessarily inequitable and confusing because of lack of advance planning by Nixon and his advisers.
While it calls for only $5,000 fines, he said, those fines can be imposed on a per item basis, for example; "$5,000 for every can of peas" whose price is raised.
—The OEP announced it has rejected seven more requests for exemption from the wage-price freezes, bringing the total number there have been no exemptions granted.
In other developments:
—The dollar held firm on the Paris free market and weakened a trifle on the official titer; it strengthened at Tokyo, eased further in Europe, significantly at Zurich, while showing new firmness at Frankfurt. The London market was closed by a bank holiday. The Japanese and European governments also shrank, as did the Americans on exports and imports.
High-ranking U.S. officials warned foreign governments that retaliatory trade curbs would boomerang and escalate the current crisis. "Retaliation would unleash a wave of attacks," this is understood by our trading partners, "one high official told newsmen."
4,000 Attend Convocation
Finances, Stalemate Block Potential, Says Chalmers
Faced with an educational stalemate and expected to do more with less, the University of Kansas must keep moving to prevent stagnation and defeat. Chancellor Murray has said:
Chalmers, giving the 106th opening convoction address in Allen Field House, said "Each of our potential moves seems to be blocked by a lack of resources, by a retreat to traditionalism or by the inevitable opponents of change."
He singled out faculty members in asking for additional effort.
"I ask this knowing full well that the median work week for KU faculty is 39 hours, and Chalmers said, ... I am keenly aware of the fact that virtually none among us will receive any additional compensation, either because of the President's 99-hour service freeze.
An audience of about 4,000 people interrupted Chalmers' 22-minute address twice—once with laughter and once with applause.
THE LAUGHTER came early in the speech when Chalmers tol, new students: "If you find us lacking, tell us, not someone else. If you find us helpful and effective, by all means tell someone else." Chalmers tol said that valuable opportunities existed for them at KU but they had the responsibility of taking advantage of them.
"Your achievements will become our achievements. Your failures will become our failures."
The audience gave Chalmers a burst of applause when, speaking of the financial support KU had received from alumni and the faculty, he said, "we were 'becoming increasingly active in their efforts to persuade elected officials that their increased, voluntary support should augment, not replace, the state's response to the funding of public education."
Chalmers laid particular stress on the last few words of the sentence.
HE LISTED a few of the University programs that had received fund cuts and said, "We must make every effort to inquire into the cost of the program in the most effective manner possible."
Students, faculty and staff members were told by him that the cullabee would have to be brought in.
"We may be battered and bruised, but we are not beaten, by a long shot," Chalmers declared in closing. The opponent was still standing at a standing ovation of almost a minute.
He said that KU's priorities must be re-evaluated, a process he said would be
"Each course, each program, each scholarly effort that utilizes University personnel or facilities must be examined as overtly and as publicly as is humanly possible if we are to persuade the Kansas taxpayer that the investment of his or her tax dollar is sufficient to warrant a greater investment in the future," he said.
CHALMERSNOTED that some changes were in progress. He mentioned his approval this summer of a modification of the organization of graduate studies, including the yet-to-be-appointment of a vice-chancellor for research and graduate studies, and a re-evaluation of student financial aid resources.
Chalmers said that he would confer with the Senate Executive Committee, the Council of Deans and the Executive Committee of the Graduate School to look for a new vice-chancellor for graduate studies and research administration.
"Unlike many other institutions in our society, we cannot cope with our financial crisis by withdrawal or by stubborn entrenchment," he said. "The very nature of a distinguished university requires us to remain current in all of our endeavors."
Kansas Staff Photo by GREG SORRER
Chalmers at Convocation educational stalemate . . .
A push is being made this fall to register students to vote because there are hints that some moves are being made in the Kansas Legislature to prevent students from voting in Lawyers for Bill, a ballot initiative formed voter registration committee, said Monday.
Voter Registration Drive Being Aimed at Students
Twenty-five people worked during enrollment at Allen Field House to assist students and to urge them to register. Those people are affiliated with a group called the Voter Registration Committee, which is at present largely composed of KU faculty.
Bruce Molholt, chairman of the group, is trying to get a student group formed. He said that he thought that taking the responsibility for voting was "just as much a part of the liberal arts training as the courses at the University."
"If students vote, they won't be regarded as second-class citizens. If they become informed and participate, it could even help improve the townenpail, "women."
Molholt said the Voter Registration Committee planning a year-long drive to increase voter turnout.
organizations are also expressing an interest in the campaign.
He said the group is urging registration now both because of the local bond issue to be voted on Sept. 28 and because the state has issued a $1 million to the 39-day county residen­tial requirement.
Because of the bond issue, concerning construction of a city-county government center, the city clerk's office will be open for voter registration from 8 a.m. until 9 a.m. at the county office in room 160 in the Lawrence National Bank building at 910 Massachusetts St.
The Lawrence city clerk's office said that 166 students registered to vote in Douglas County last week. The minimum age required to vote by a recent Constitutional amendment. 3
A student is eligible to register to vote in Lawrence now, if by Sept. 28, 1971 he will be at least 18 years of age and a citizen of the United States, if he will have lived in Kansas for at least six months and if he was born in Kentucky or fixed home. Current law allows a student to designate his school address as his permanent address.