University Daily Kansan / Thursday. October 6. 1988
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Big-name lecture series
KU Student Senate hunts for money, program
By Craig Welch Kansan staff writer
KU Student Senate wants to find financing to establish a long-term lecture series that would rival the Landon Lecture Series on Public Issues at Kansas State University.
However, some administrators at the University of amsas said KU's lecture series were as significant or better than others.
The London Lecture Series has attracted Unite,
States presidents, vice-presidents, senators and
generals to speak to the K-State student body, leaving some KU students jealous.
Jet Blisskey, KU student lecture series committee chairman, said the problems with KU lecture series were the large number of programs and their widely dispersed funds.
"Even the KU series with the most financing occasionally have to go to two or three years without a contract."
Pam Holley, student body vice president, said, "One of the advantages of having a comprehensive general lecture series with significant funds as that it would attract the big name speakers. Without it, there is no
"If you hold the list of people who visited KState next to the list of visitors at KU, the difference would be much smaller."
Bleskey said there was a large difference in the prominence of the speakers that visited the two
The London Series at KState brought President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz. Supreme Court Justice Stephen R. McConnell forged a P.O. Nell, former Sen. Barry Goldwater, Sen. Edward
Kenney, Sen. Robert Dole, and NBC journalist Tom Brokaw
Jam Seally, assistant to the Chancellor, and that there were probably more than 25 lecture series at *K*
im Scally, assistant to the Chancellor, said that they were probably more than 25 lecture series in Paris. He said Ms. Gayle was President Gerald Ford, former Secretary of the Treasury Donald T. Regan, Supreme Court Justices Sandra D'Angelo O'Connell and William J. Brownen, gonzo lawyer and professor of law at Rockefeller and Rolling Stone Magazine's Bob Woolard.
"KState can't match that. They will not," Scaly said. "We have a lecture series that is equal to or better than the Landon series. We get more people, more consistently."
Frances Horowitz, dean of graduate schools, said that most of the KU lecture series were produced through individual departments and dealt with one subject, such as biology, physics, English or fine arts.
Karina Carryan, associate director of communications for University relations, said, "The lectures at KU are aimed at the individual's interest as opposed to the University as a whole."
The Landon series is financed through a patron system, a K-State spokesman said. Each patron donates $100 to the fund in All Landon's name. The budget is $4,000 a year, the spokesman said.
A KU organization would have to have a budget comparable to KState's to bring presidents to KU.
Some faculty and administrators don't see much of a need for a single, far-reaching lecture series.
Howitz said, "Within one month of each other Eileen Wiesel, Ralph Nader and Robert Bork will be speaking on campus. These are major national figures that are available to those involved with the Landmark Lectures."
Health sciences enrollment falls; nursing school defies trend with rising numbers
By Terry Bauroth Kansas staff writer
"We hope the fall 1987 figures were an all-time low," Clawson said. "The increase is a good sign, but we want
Although overall enrollment in the College of Health Sciences is down, officials are encouraged by the recent increase in the school of
The 20th day enrollment figures for the college, which has campuses in Kansas City, Kan. and Wichita, is 2,861 students from 1987 and 1989.
Decreasing enrollment at schools of nursing has been a nationwide trend, and one that concerns college officials.
However, enrollment in the school of nursing was 282, an increase of 30 from 1967.
"We saw the trend happening and went all out to show young men and women," Ms. Clawson said in nursing, "maid D. Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor for the university."
he said that job opportunities and the ability for students to choose their own hours were advantages in the field.
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We saw the trend happening and went all out to show young men and women the opportunities that existed in nursing. We hope the fall 1987 figures were an all-time low
D. Kai Clawson executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center
to go up even more.
The college is also concerned about another nationwide trend, the decrease in the number of students applying to the schools of medicine.
The number of Kansas applicants applying to medical school has decreased significantly, said UA Creditor, associate dean of the school.
She said that applications to medi cal schools, nationwide, had dropped 25 percent since 1980.
Creditor said that 228 Kansas residents had applied to medical school in the fall of 1988 compared to 448 in 1975. However, the number of out-of-state applicants had either stabilized or increased over the years.
This fall's medical school enrollment at the Kansas City campus is 1,374, the same as 1987, but down 25 from 1986.
Enrolment for the school of allied health is 337, down 58 from 1987 and 1986.
However, James P. Coiney, dean of the school of allied health staff, that the numbers were decreasing.
City considers raising downtown parking rates
"We've got more students than we can take." Cooney said.
He said that the recent shift from undergraduate to graduate programs and the closing this hall of allied health science undergraduate programs, were the reasons technology, programs, were the reasons for the decline.
By Deb Gruver
Kansan staff writer
When a downtown shopper cruises up and down Massachusetts Street to find a parking spot and can't, it may be because downtown business owners and employees are using metered spaces.
Forty percent of the downtown parking meters that were installed for shopper's are being used by store employees, city commissioners said Tuesday.
Because of that, parking on Massachusetts Street might get a little more expensive next year.
The proposed increase in the fine is an attempt to discourage owners and employees from parking at downtown meters. Many business owners are willing to park at meters and concede to $1 fines, said Buford Watson, city manager.
It costs 10 cents an hour to park at a meter. People who chance their fate, do not pay and do not pay are presented. If a proposal that the city commissioned Tuesday is passed, it might take 20 cents an hour and $2 to pay an expired meter line.
Kent Smaller, chairman of the Downtown Lawrence Association parking committee, said he disagreed with E. Seventh S., said yesterday that although he wanted to encourage downtown residents to disagree with doubling the fine.
"Parking is for the customers, and we do not want to alienate them," Smaller said.
But Watson said his recommendation was that the city shouldn't change the rate without changing the downtown parking meter revenue from both increases. Meter rates and fines finance free parking lots downstream.
Watson said other cities had raised meter rates and fines to dissuade
store employees and owners from parking in customer spaces.
Jam Halehah, a clerk to hospital motor division, said that the company had not required because business owners and employees were lying up parking
In Topica, meters have time limits of half an hour and an hour and 90 minutes. Even if people plug in an alligator head they will still be ticketed for going over the allowed time limit. That discourages owners and employees from using the meter.
Halseth said the parking meter division had not heard many complaints about the increase in fines
Stave Buren, an employee at Pennylane Records and Tapes, 844 Mashaschett St., said he thought people would be impressed. Lawrence increased the fee to $2.
Buren said he did not park at a meter but parked behind the store in a free parking lot.
"A $2 fee is a bad idea" Brune
aid. "If probably won't affect our
students, that's not important."
Students are students who take the bus down here, but nobody is going to like
Although it might spur complaints from shopers and business owners and employees, the Lawrence city staff also will study a trend of repeat offenders and devise a policy to prevent them from coming one month. They proposed having the fifth ticket be $10 to discourage people from overparking
Many of the side street meters
downstreet are half-hour meters.
90-minute meters are installed,
these are 60-minute meters and
89-hour meters.
Smaller also suggested that all meters have a limit of 90 minutes so people wouldn't be confused by different time limits on parking meters.
Giving blood
Scott WallaceKANSAN
The KU fall blood drive hopes to meet its goal of 750 pints today during the final day of donations. The drive, sponsored by the KU Interfaith Council and KU Panhellenic Association, will be from 9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Jo Byers, Douglas County Red Cross cross manager, said that as of yesterday, the drive already had received about 500 pints of blood, and she expected that about 300 more would be collected. Above, Aimee Voehner, Chicago freshman, donates blood.
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Sales Representatives of the Month
The Business Staff would like to recognize the following individuals for outstanding achievement and service to their accounts during the month of September.
Amy Billingsley Retail Divisional Sales Manager
Julie Sullivan Campus Sales Representative
Natasha Settle Regional Sales Representative
Congratulations!
Thank you for all of your hard work!
FRESHMEN
Today October 6 is your last day to vote for your Freshman Class Officers 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Polls in: Strong Hall Rotunda Kansas Union
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