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Thursday, September 22, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Haskell renovations cause housing crunch
By James Farquhar
Residence hall renovations and a decision to admit more students than usual have left some Haskell Indian students sleeping in unusual places.
"We partitioned off bedrooms in a television room and converted some office space into bedrooms," said Marie Haskell, his Miskell's director of housing.
Although some Haskell students started the school year in temporary dormitories for their unanticipated arrangements, he said. Enrolment has dropped since the end of the semester.
space for everyone at overflow capacity.
"We now have three people in many rooms which ordinarily would have two residents," he said. There are now @6 students in this situation.
Residence hall renovations are mostly responsible for the housing crunch. Renovation of Powhatan Hall, which was condemned for six years, was completed this summer. But renovation of Pocahontas Hall, which has space for 102 students, began this summer and completed until the next school year.
Compounding the situation, administrators decided to accent about 100
more applications than usual.
"we accepted 1,142 applications this year because last year enrollment ran low," said Jean Gibbs, director of admissions and records.
Deciding how many students to accept is an important decision for the teacher. You can play a guessing game by trying to know how many students will stay.
"We have so many no-shows because students don't have to make any financial commitment to the college and often end up not meeting the requirements. Gibbs said." "Haskell students pay no tuition and a $20 housing fee."
Each year, the school accepts more applications than it can handle because typically 30 percent of those who apply decide not to attend.
And more than 90 percent of Haskell's students require on-campus housing, which means that administrative decisions regarding the school's size are tied closely to the stable space in the residence halls.
Haskell's enrollment stands at 842. Normal enrollment is roughly 850.
Administrators try to keep attendance at capacity because the school is financed by Congress, not tuition revenue, Gibbs said.
"If our numbers go down, some in
Congress would use that as an excuse to curtail funds, but that is nothing new," she said. "They get their numbers 18 months to two years in the process and don't base funding on figures that often don't apply to the current situation."
Smith said the squeeze that students now endure would not last long.
"it will be nice when Pochontas is finished; then we will have plenty of money." Smith said "We'll have an extra week and the price is more than we ever had."
Gibbs said the extra space may mean Haskell will find its enrolment expanding after this temporary space crunch.
Club promotes motorcycling as fun, safe activity
By Cindy Harger
Kansan staff writer
Two leather-clad men ran down the Clinton dam pier at midnight toward their motorcycle parked on the road. A bright headlight flashed above roared and the motorcycle speed off into the water.
group consisting mainly of KU students.
At one-minute intervals, three other pairs of motorcycles and navigators left on a scavenging vehicle in the desert.
Tuesday night's road rally was sponsored by the Kansas Cycle Association, a newly formed
Scott Bey, St. Louis, Mo., senior and president of the club, said that the club wanted to promote motorcycling as a safe social activity. He also said that he expects about five events, including the midnight rally.
"The rally is of a strategy thing, like a scavenger hunt rather than a race." Bey said. "We're trying to have fun without trying to be dangerous."
limit by searching for the answers to a list of questions. Answers were worth from 5 to 55
The rally participants tried to earn as many points as possible within the 75-minute time
"What is the note of the 53rd bell in the KU campanile?" "And what was the date the bridge just east of De Soto was last painted"? were some of the questions.
Burned cat withstands fire, blast
Mike Tir, vice president of the club and Milwaukee. Wis., junior, said the most interesting part was running around the Lawrence park with members of a plane with a particular license number.
"We are going to try to get more motorcycle parking at KU, because that's a big problem," Bey said. "We might even try to get the toll on roads in the area dropped for motorcycles."
The club began informally last spring. Bey, said but now, he and the 10 other members are trying to formalize the organization by opening a center, getting new membership and setting goals.
Tur and Bey said that the association also was planning more group rides.
The Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK A part
Sister-in-law who
before being buried for four
days among the debris of her family's
Overland Park home that was
destroyed by a fire.
A singed and almost whiskerless cat called "Mindy" was discovered Monday by a Kansas Power Workers organization worker digging through the debris.
Rex Dean, her wife, Lorraine, and their seven-year-old twins, Andrea and Stephen, were thrown from the house when it exploded. All but one was in the blast, but only Andrea was hospitalized. She was released Saturday.
Mindy was singed from head to tail and her white fur is now yellow. She came with ears and the pads of her paws were burned and took considerate care.
"She just stuck her head out, she was too weak to jump," said Peggy Quibbs, Lorraine Deaver's aunt.
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