University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 19. 1988
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New scholarships planned
Kansas minority students may receive $1.5 million in aid
By Laura Woodward
Käsaan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Minority students are often deprived of a college education because few or no scholarships have been offered to them, a Kansas
Clantas McCurdy, director student financial aid for the Regents, last week introduced a program that would increase the scholarship ministries at a Legislative Educational Planning Committee in Topea.
2. "A number of institutions are trying to come up with things to attract minority students." McCruse said.
She assisted the Regents in developing the Kansas Minors Scholarship Program, which would provide 100 reeveable $1,500 scholarship for minority students who graduate from college and attend indicate university.
We need to do much more for recruiting and retaining
The program is at helping Native Americans, Assis. Hispanics and blacks who demonstrate anachronistic achievement and financial need.
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minority students.
- Kathrvn Kretschmer
associate director, KU admissions office
"What's happening is that we saw a bit of a dog get scratched on the ground, then the dog escaped. Like what, McCury said? 'It's an area that you have to keep working with.'"
The first year of the Kansas Minority Scholars program would cost $150,000. The program would entail a 2-year commitment of $1.5 million.
The program must first be approved by the Legislature. McKurty said the earliest the program could be started would be fall 1989.
To qualify for the scholarship a student would have to meet two of the following criteria:
Graduate in the top one-third of
- Have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher
their class.
Named to the National Merit program.
have an ACT composite score of 31 or higher
Have a combined SAT score of 870 or higher.
After receiving a scholarship, the student must maintain a cumulative grade point of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale to graduate for a maximum four years.
"We are trying to get the students who are academically promising," McCurdy said. "They are also the ones in need of the financial aid that they need."
Currently, minority students can
benefit from two state scholarsip programs:
In Kansas, only two percent of State scholarship funds are awarded to minority students each year. Only 10% of the grant recipients are minorities.
"By all means, if you ask me what Kansas does for minority students to participate in higher education. I education think of anything." McCurdy said.
Kathryn Kretschmer, associate director of the admissions office at KU, said that preliminary figures from the university enrollment at KU had increased.
"I certainly applaud their efforts," Kretschmatter said. "We need to do much more for recruiting and retaining minority students."
Kretschmer said KU has an Endowment Merit Award Program which provides scholarship for minority students with good academic records and standardized test scores.
United Way sets higher KU goal
By Cindy Harger
Kansan staff writer
The KU United Way fund drive officially began Friday with new goals of raising $10,000 by Nov 1 and increasing the faculty and staff.
Carl Loeke, chairman of the University of Kansas drive, said that 40 percent of the faculty and staff participate in the campaign, compared to an average of about 30 or 35 percent at other Big Eight colleges.
Last year, KU raised $88,000 and Locke thinks it should be easier to reach students who are not other participation of faculty and staff up to 20 percent
Locke said that the average donation at KU was $140.
He said that the KU fund-drive committee planned to increase donations by making information available to faculty. The committee does not actively solicit for student donations.
"I have a suspicion that not a good deal of students donate. It's enough to be here with just enough money to go to school, so we don't approach the students directly." Locke said.
However, Locke said that the students were an important part of the drive. The Rock Chalk Revue, an annual student benefit for the school, runs once a week with February's program, which goes toward this year's goal.
The money KU raises will be included in the Douglas County goal of $896,640. The money will go to more than 100 health and human service organizations within the county, such as the Salvation Army, Women's Transitional Care and the Boy and Girl Scouts.
Wheelchair lesson
ABOVE: Greg Bealdin, Derby senior, instructs second year architecture students on the hazards riding in a wheelchair. The program on Friday was sponsored by Alpha Rho Chi, a professional architecture organization. RIGHT: Rebecca Schafer, St. Louis sophomore, negotiates a tight door at Fraser Hall.
16 members appointed to planning committee
By a Kansan reporter
Appointments to the one-year Campus Planning Advisory Committee were announced last week
Members are: Marti Aaron, Wichita graduate student; Barbara Baird, Baltimore University; Andrew Debicki, distinguished professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Julia Ekland, assistant professor of Spanish; Joan Fischer, assistant director of
The committee is composed of faculty, staff and students. Rod Eichler is the chair of engineering and Elioir Schroder, professor of law are
personnel services; Tony Genova,
professor of philosophy; Ed Heck-
 professor of counseling psychol-
ogy Hutchinson, Wichita
senior
Maurice joy, distinguished professor of business: Lee Mann, associate professor of design; Mike Richardson, associate director of research; Sam Sanders, associate dean of the office of research, graduate studies and public service; Ron Schorr, mechanical engineering machine shop supervisor; and Andrew Miller, director of public administration.
County will challenge census
Rv Deb Gruver
Kansan staff writer
In an attempt to challenge the constitutionality of the Douglas County commissioners, the county commissioners have pledged $10,000 to take the state of Kansas to
They will be asking the city commission and the school district to do the same.
The 1979 Douglas County census reported that 74,257 people lived in the county. The preliminary count for this year's census report the county had a population of 386,044 with substantial reductions and went from 38,561 persons in 1979 to 40,698 in 1988.
The census shows the populations of Douglas County and Lawrence have decreased drastically since 1979.
A discrepancy in the interpretation of permanent residency is partly to blame for the decrease, said county administrator Chris McKenzie. In 1979, census takers were not supposed to include KU students who were not permanent residents of the city, city, but McKenzie said they did.
A Kansas constitutional amendment excluding non-resident military personnel in the preliminary count for the 1988 count census will be on the Nov. 8.
Unless KU students specified that Lawrence was their permanent residence when the cent us was taken this year, they were not counted in either school. That is why McKenzie said most of the census information for students was based
n information from parents
If they couldn't get ahold of the student, they talked to the student's parents, to Kemera and will wait until Kemara's student is ready to vote in Douglas County."
Because representation and monetary aid is based on population, Douglas County could lose a seat in the legislature if no money is given a court battle is not held.
Both McKenzie and Rep. John Sobach, D. Lawrence, have said that if the students were not counted in the town council and county would we hurt economically?
"Duquesa County will get less money than they should get," Bolach said. "That will hurt this community." He added that higher n taxes decreases the road.
Bookstore rebates up 1 percent
By Daniel Niemi Kansan staff writer
KU students are receiving cash dividends from the 1988 NCAA Basketball Championship.
Mike Held, general manager of the Kansas University bookstore; said a better-than-average sales year, due to the college's national championship merchandise, enabled the bookstore to increase its rebate on receipts from six to seven.
Reid said the store had about $300,000 more in sales compared with last year and that it offered the credit card money to its primary customers.
It's basically just to give some of the profits back to the students, he said. "We have a lot of money, so fee this is a way that we can give some of that money back when we graduate."
Rebates are paid only for receipts from last semester and are available online. Rebates will not apply to some computer hardware sales or to credit card purchases.
Rebates are calculated on the receipt total before tax. On a $200 total, which Reid said was the average purchase, the rebate would increase from $12 to $14. Students who received December to in turn their in taxes.
Reid said the bookstore paid $103,000 in rebates last year.
He said the percentage of future rebates depended on the amount of sales
Reid said many students were using the program.
"There has been a fairly steady crowd at the customer service counter." he said. "We've been running a week to a week in a brief period of people."
Brett Leoapid, Hoxie junior, said he had not realized the rebate percentage had increased.
"I got a little more money than usual," LeoPaul said. "Considering that I'm already getting self-back rates, it is a good way to get business and a good deal for students."
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