University Daily Kansan, April 14, 1982
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Legislature
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Eldredge, a supporter of the severance tax, said he was surprised by the Senate discussed the issue again this session.
Although she spoke out in favor of the tax on the Senate floor last week, she said the bill's defeat there could bring about compromises on alternative consonants for drawing state revenue.
"This could be a great step forward toward realizing that we can not hold up state government just because we don't have a severance tax," she said.
WITHOUT THE severance tax, which estimates said would draw more than $100 million a year, the legislature will have to increase the gasoline tax by 3 cents a gallon. Solbach said.
"There are going to be some very angry property owners," Solbach predicted.
He criticized the Senate's refusal to pass a severance tax at a time when the state faced losses of about $20 million from the federal government. The law provides no protection because of rising unemployment in the state.
But Eldredge said, "The House and Senate
approach problems differently. The Senate has tried to make up for sinking revenues by increasing other taxes, such as on gasoline.
Almost everyone in Topeka agrees that an impasse between the House and Senate on the severance tax has increased the Legislature's workload for the final two days.
BUT THE cause of the impasse is debated.
"We've had bipartisan cooperation in the House," Solbach said. "And we're chipping it together."
Eldredge suggested House members might have slowed dog legislation this session.
"House members have to deal with elections in the fall," she said. "That sometimes affects how they vote."
Branson agreed that elections played a role in lawmaking, but said elections kept legislators on the ground.
"The House and the governor have worked
together," she said. "The problem has been working with the Senate."
"But the Senate, of course, is up for re-election. That does not feel the responsibility to their constituents."
Attrition
An adviser's students would meet once a week to discuss career options and services, such as job opportunities.
course that freshmen could take for one hour of credit a semester.
"Advisors would also help students address the难题: 'Who are you here?' he said.
The attrition rate is highest among freshmen and sophomores.
"A standard statement in freshman orientation is, "Look at the person on the right of you and look at the person on the left of you, because you are here," here after your second year." **Amber said.**
THE GTETD drop-out figures compiled by the HE Office of Institutional Research and Planning. Of the students who enrolled at KU in the fall of 2013 and dropped out by the end of their second year.
But by spring 1981, the end of their third year,
a total of only 41.3 percent had quit school.
"If they survive the first two years, the attrition rate slows down tremendously." Ambler
The students with academic difficulties have been dismissed or discouraged enough to drop out by the end of their sophomore years, he said. The student will not leave the University will return, Amber said.
"The persisters are going to stay there."
"Some of that 35 percent of the sophomore year are going to come back," he said.
"There are students in this day and age who go to school for a semester or two and don't come back."
THEY MAY leave to get work experience,
money or attend to a family problem, be
hospitalized.
But others may have dropped out because they had 'miserable academic failures', he said.
Some of the students who fail academically have the potential to succeed, he said, but because they are not prepared how to compete with the wrong academic program for their abilities, they make low grades.
"We've got to do more for the middle student and those who are having trouble making good grades."
Pimpinning students who, based on their ACT scores and high school grades, are potential drop-outs, and advising them of ways to help themselves before they start school, may be another way to keep students from leaving school. Ambler said.
HIS OFFICE would suggest that the students with low ACT scores work harder and attend special workshops to enhance their study skills, he said.
ACT scores have been declining at KU and across the country. Ambler said.
"If you can assume that the ACT is a good indication of potential college success, then when you have 44 percent that are scoring in the top of the bracket in 1967 compared to 24 percent in 1979, then you'll have more people graduating," he said.
The interest in student attrition may be based as much on financial reasons as on concern for the student. Ambler said, because University rates are determined by the number of students enrolled.
"But I'll take the interest in it any way I can get it," he said.
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