Vol. 99, No. (USPS 650-640)
Rushi toward new season
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SPECIAL ISSUE
TOP. Right tackle Bill Hur Lenexa junior, and tailback noel Snelt, Mt. Vernon, senior, lead the Jawhays the season. The Bray got the season. The Jawhays 27-14 D day afternoon at Memc Stadium. RIGHT: Lesia Leng, Independence seni her father Fred Mount w her father David celebrated Parents Day Saturday.
Football '88
Starting from Ground Zero
43,000 greet team at stadium
By James Farquhar
Kansan staff writer
As Foxella deflated, the 39-foot orange and black PCEK-101-mascot belly-flipped to the pavement Saturday morning, bringing down the football ball, which party card and a two-month Kansas Football League card.
More than 100 people arrived at Memorial Stadium at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday for the pregame festivities. The crowd grew to more than 300 by as many onlookers trickled in early for the game.
"I was hoping for a few more people at the pregame party," said Craig Haines, director of marketing and promotion for Kansas sports. "I know they are going to be here and we'd never done anything like this before."
work paid off when a 32,400 boss, including visiting parents, showed up for the first home game. KU, playing under Coach Glen Mason for the first time, lost 27-14 to Baylor.
But Haines said that his two months of hard
KU-Baylor game coverage p. 12.
"I was hoping for 50,296 people to show up and fill the stadium," Haines said. "But I was very happy with the crowd that came out to support the team."
Flaming Companies, parent company
United Super, IGA and Checkers grocery store
This year's attendance increased nearly
1,000 from last year's first game attendance of
135.
Haines solicited support from businesses for the promotional campaign.
bought 15,000 tickets at discount prices and gave some of them away to its customers.
Sundance Natural Juice Sparklers sponsored T-shirts with the Jahayh's slogan, "Meet me at the stadium this fall," on the front. Football tickets were given away with the purchase of the $5 shirt. Sundance soft drinks were available at the beach party.
For the pregame party, Haines invited the radio station FXC-101 to play music and act as a cameraman.
"The whole idea of the beach party was to get a party atmosphere going before the game and have people hang around to watch the game." Haines said.
KCFX announces Ken Johnson and John Morrill were hosts for the party.
vulnerable paper yesterday and killed at least three parishioners, wounded 60 and burned down the building, witnesses and news reports said.
Police stood near the church but none came to the rescue, witnesses said. After the attack, gangs of men roamed the deserted streets and entered a group of two groups opposed to the military regiment of L.I. Gen. Henri Namphy.
The Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, an outspoken opponent of the military government, had just begin a 9 a.m. (8 a.m. CDT) Mass when a group of men began throwing rocks at the church, pamphing hundreds the news to raillers for the doors, said a foreign journalist attending the service.
"Suddenly the doors at the back of the church burst up to 20 and to 30 men with machetes, huge hacksets, firearms and civilian clothes," the journalist said.
"They started shooting people, beating them, and stabbing and slashing them. They stabbed a
lishioners in the church, inside a compound ringed by a wall, ranged from 600 to 1,500.
Frightened residents died to their homes after the attacks and only the bands of men remained on the streets. The attack came on a day groups had planned a protest at Naperville's voiding of the constitution in July.
A Crusade for the Constitution Committee, headed by the political opposition, had urged Haitians to dress in white yesterday in a show of protest. Few people could be seen wearing white in the city, however.
Paul Lauterte, a former senate candidate in Haiti, said he was sure the church attack was the work of the government and its supporters.
"They've wanted to kill Aristide for a long time," he said in San Juan, where he teaches economics at the University of Puerto Rico. "It is significant that the government tried to do this day, a day of protest."
Humanities enrollment declining,report shows
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A growing number of U.S. residents are buying books, visiting museums and joining online forums on college humanities courses has fallen drastically in the past 20 years, a government report indicated yester-
The report by Lyne V. Cheney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, describes a remarkable blessing" of public interest in humanities, and says books is boosting book purchases.
U. S. residents who spent twice as much on sporting events as on cultural endeavors 20 years ago are now spending $1.3 billion compared with $3.1 billion for
sports in 1986, according to the report.
The endowment, an independent federal agency, said the bad news was found at colleges and universities, where preparation for a money-making career overtaken interest in getting a well-rounded liberal arts education.
While the number of bachelor's degrees awarded increased 88 percent in the past two decades, degrees in foreign languages were down 29 percent. Foreign language majors were down 29 percent. English majors 35 percent, philosophy majors 35 per cent.
The report says that Western tradition is rich and creative, but that many colleges are abandoning courses that teach it.
Shortened add period has few enemies
By Jeremy Kohn
Kansan staff writer
Almost every department and school at the University of Kansas' Lawrence campus is using a two-week add period this fall, and the university is to be working well for faculty and students.
"I do think that it does force us to choose our classes more efficiently and quickly," said Ted Feldman.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts, said, "The sooner students have their schedules fixed, the sooner they can focus their attention on their classes."
The official University add/drop policy sets the add period at four weeks and the drop period at five weeks, but schools can set shorter add periods.
Eight of the nine professional schools on the Lawrence campus and 50 liberal arts department schools in New York.
began Aug. 30 and ends Sept. 15.
The School of Journalism, the religious studies department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the College of Health Sciences and Kau, are, different from their add/ad droll policies.
Mary Wallace, associate dean of journalism,
said the add period for journalism classes began
on Aug. 30 and ended Sept. 2. She started placing
students from a waiting list on Aug. 17. Students
who did not get their classes during main
enrollment last spring used the waiting list.
Robert Minor, chairman of the religious studies department, said the add period for his thesis was from 1980 to 1985.
He said the shortened add time was a departmental decision.
If the students have missed one week, they have already missed a significant amount of material.
Walter Gehlbach, director of the center for student affairs at the College of Health Sciences;
that said that except for those training to be doctors students could add classes through Sept. 30.
The drop policies listed in the timetable are the same for all schools and departments.
Brower Burchell, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the two week add policy was set early spring by the undergraduate advising committee.
The committee, which has representatives in each of the schools, is not much of a group in any way. Theresa Johnson of student records, said all the schools had agreed to have a shorter time ending on the end of school term.
Carothers said all of the schools and colleges used a touchpad add last year also.
Some don't seem to notice the two-week add period.
Wallace Johnson, professor of East Asian language and culture, said, "I hasn't affected
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