University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 16, 1988
Campus/Area
A student caught without an umbrella improvises to stay dry.
Fall showers
Despite the rain, facilities operations watered the campus near Potter Lake yesterday.
For the first time this school year, students hide under umbrellas while waiting for a bus on Javhawk Boulevard.
Storms soak state, ends dry spell
Weather service says Gilbert not factor in Kansas rains
By M. Meredith Relph Kansan staff writer
Kansas finally saw the end of a tide that had been released when showers and thunderstorms drenched the state, including 1.33 inches of rain the hard fallen by 7 feet in one day.
Bill Reilly, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Topeka, said the storms were not attributed to Hurricane Gilbert, the tropical storm which has been ravaging islands in the Caribbean for several days. The hurricane is heading toward the Gulf Coast.
Gilbert has wreaked havoc most notably in Jamaica, where at least 19 people were reported dead and 20,000 others were left homeless.
'T there may have been
Reilly said the forecast for Gil-
Here may have been some streets and intersections that flooded. But it's been so dry likely that there's no danger of a flash flood.
National Weather Service
Paul Franz
bett's path showed that the storm may touch land this afternoon, about 100 miles south of Brownville, Texas.
"That's if our forecast is right on the nose, though," Reilly said. "These things can go wherever they want."
Reilly said the weather service's forecasts were updated every six hours.
He said that the storm may miss Texas altogether and head into
Mexico, adding that the storm would weaken if it touched land.
The extent of Gilbert's cloud cover in eastern Arkansas and far western Missouri, although Reilly said those areas may be hardened by windy storms may in the
After an excessively arid summer, Kansas received a mid-July rainfall of 4.3 inches. Paul Franz, of the National Weather Service in Topeka, said that conditions were too dry.
Reilly said Kansas may experience some moisture as a result of Hurricane Gilbert later this week.
Yesterday's storms dropped as much as two inches in Raville, northwest of Topeka. Reilly said most of the precipitation fell in the mountains and lowlands of Russell and Goodland, in western Kansas, received nearly an inch.
flood with the current storm system.
Franz said a flash flood occurred only if eight rain fell in a three-hour period to raise flood levels of more than 50 meters and five jubes above flood stage.
"There may have been some streets and intersections that flooded," Franz said. "But it's clear there's no danger of a flash flood."
Today's forecast includes a 30 percent chance of morning showers. A 40 percent chance of thunderstorms is expected tomorrow, and the rain received Saturday could be attributed to the storm in the Gulf.
Although Lawrence may receive several inches of rain this weekend, the Raleigh Service will maintain a rainy level for September was 4 inches.
More minorities come to KU
By Laura Woodward
Kansan staff writer
Board of Regent member Linwoo,
Boston commended the University of
Kansas's recruitment of minority
agents to the board. The regents
meet in Topena yesterday
See related story p. 10.
"The efforts that we have started here in Kansas to get more minority students and faculty show that when there is a need, that will happen." Sexton said.
Sexton said minority enrollment at most Regents universities had increased.
"I think just about every school has an increase of minority students; KU, KState and Wichita," he said. "They are pretty standard." It is going to take some type of effort
to increase minority enrollment in western Kansas."
The increase in minority enrollment was caused by increased recruiting efforts, he said.
"The fact that enrollment dropped last year, dropped nationwide, and in our nation has been an increase (of minority students), shows there has been an increase in enrollment."
Milton Scott, assistant director of admissions at KU, said his office had developed a recruiting program for minority students.
"We're going out to all areas of Kansas and we're hitting them hard this year. Wichita, St. Louis and Kansas City."
Scott said he was pleased by the effort and concern he saw to recruit minority students.
Scott said minority enrollment figures would not be known until Monday.
fied minorities to the campus," he said. "But I'm not going to sit up and be content. There's still more that we can do."
"I see their concern to bring quali-
Neil Sanders, director of admissions at Wichita State University, said the university had a minority enrollment of 1,724 students this semester, which is a 5.6 percent increase over last year.
Sexton said universities also needed to work on retention programs for minority students.
"The retention is the most important thing about the student's feeling at ease," he said. "You need to make sure that the student has effort an effort has been made."
ROTC flag not allowed atop Fraser
Bv Jeremy Kohn
By Jeremy Kohn
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas does not permit other fights to fly atop Fraser Hall, regardless of their purpose.
Capt. Todd Renner, assistant professor of aerospace studies, said the KU Air Force ROTC was denied permission from the execu-
tion team to work on a week to hang a special flag on top of Fraser Hall. The flag would have flown today, commemorating former prisoners of war and those still missing in action in Iraq. Today is national POW/MIA day.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said she denied the request because Fraser Hall traditionally has been a visual symbol
for the University, flying only the U.S. and KU flags.
"It is the visual premise of the University," Ramaley said.
Phil Endacoff, associate director of facilities and operations housekeeping, said allowing other students a bad precede for the University.
"If you do the Air Force, how do you exclude anyone else from doing the same thing?" Endacott asked
Renner said the flag was a special commemoration to those held or still missing in Southeast Asia although all U.S. servicemen were prisoners of war or mission in action were honored today.
"That's fine. It's the University's flagpole. They can do what
they want with it," he said.
Renner said a flag-raising ceremony would be held at 7:45 a.m. today at the military base from down the flag pole in front of the building, Cadets from the Army, Navy and ROTC will conduct the ceremony.
Kelley Hayden, assistant to the executive vice chancellor, said Ramaley made the policy of not allowing more flags to fly at the Air Force base and that the Air Force first made a request to fly a flag at Fraser Hall.
Renner said the requested flag would have notified members of an Air Force ROTC class that the aircraft had held inside that class would be held inside.
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