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Tuesday, February 2, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 87 USPS 650-640
Pre-enrollment outdates pulling cards
By ANNE CALOVICH Staff Reporter
We have to pull cards oniv one more time.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig yesterday approved a computerized on-line pre-enrolment system that will do away with pulling cards at Allen Field House.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday that the system would be implemented immediately and would be ready next spring to pre-enroll students for the 1983 spring semester.
"IM PLEASED we've done it," Cobb said. "Many people have been here a long time who've found ways to live with the system. But I don't think the students, faculty and staff will be disappointed in forging the Allen Field House process next fall."
Richard Mann, director of information systems and chairman of the committee that studied pre-enrollment, likened the new system to an airline reservation system.
"You walk up and say, 'Here what I want,
here's my authorization,' " Mann said.
He said the costs would be minor in comparison to the benefits that would come from it.
"This won't solve all their enrolment problems," Mann said, "but it will make it a good one."
Under the on-line process, a student will see an
adviser during a two to three-week period before pre-employment begins. The adviser will approve a schedule with one or two optional courses. The student will take the approved schedule to the enrolment center at a specific time during another two-to-three-week period.
SCHEDULING WILL be similar to the current better scheduling in the present system of palliation.
If the full schedule can be implemented, the student will immediately receive a copy of the schedule. If not, the student will have to see his adviser again to set up another schedule.
An operator will type the schedule into a computer terminal and immediately will know which courses and sections are open and which are closed. You can also ask another section or one of the optional courses.
"It's not that dissimilar to the way we've worked in the Field House," Mann said. "But instead of going to each department where a student will have to go to pull a card, he can go to one terminal operator who will have a whole timetable data base in front of him, and will know instantaneously how many sections are and closed across all possible departments.
"WELL BE ABLE to produce reports on a nightly or weekly basis for the various academic departments so they can determine how fast courses are filling up, things like that. We would probably be posting each day what sections remain open."
Mann said that regular enrollment would still be held for students who are not able to pre-enroll but would last only one or two days. He has the option of having success be done by the computer system too.
"It would be foolish for students not to pre- enroll if they're hoping to get their courses," Mann said. "What will happen is they'll end up on the bottom of the list."
Mann said that registration still would take place right before the beginning of a semester, so that students could pay their fees, register their classes and probably receive a final copy of their schedule.
He said that a task force would work out the details of the process, such as where the bank of creditors are located.
MANN SAID that the on-line system to be used is connected after the one now in use by the University of Pennsylvania.
the most recent commission on en-rollment studied it from Sept. 14 through Dec. 22 of last year, answering questions administrators had asked about the system. It was issued January 1979, by an earlier committee.
Mann said that Budig expressed interest and that all the administrators encouraged preeminent
He said the most recent committee went to the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois, which use the batch system, to study the preenrolment processes they use.
5 traffic judges quit positions
See PRE-ENROLLMENT
By ANN WYLIE
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Five of the 15 student traffic court judges resigned from their administrative positions last night, in response to a move to block a proposal to pay student judges.
"We feel we cannot continue to donate our time as the administrative decisions require." Kent Frobish, chairman of the Board of Parking and Traffic Appeals, said yesterday.
Frobish, Eric Johnson, associate chief judge, Kari Schmidt, presiding judge, Carla Stovall-Roitz, presiding judge, and Collin Gage, presiding judge, decided to resign.
They handed in their notices last night to the Parking Board. Gage, who was ill, will turn in his car on time.
The five will remain on the board but will no longer hold their administrative positions. Their administrative duties included scheduling and presiding over court.
Friday, the University Senate executive committee decided a plan to pay the judges, who were suspended on Tuesday.
Earlier last week, the Parking Board voted to
nav the judges $4 an hour for their services.
The judges disagreed with SenE's contention that paying the judges would make it necessary for a judge to have access to a computer.
"We do not feel that we are just like other committees," Frohman said, providing a
Also, the Board of Parking and Traffic Appeals is one of only a few boards specified in the Kansas Administrative Regulations, Schmidt said.
"This is the law of the state of Kansas," she said.
Loren Bushy, vice chairman of SenEx and member of the Parking and Traffic Board,
"It sounded like a fine idea to me, but I didn't
get the sense of mind at the Traffic
Board meeting," he said.
"They took the job with the understanding that they weren't going to get paid," he said.
"I totally agree with (SenEx)." he said.
"Everybody should be paid or nobody."
Busy was at the meeting where the Traffic Board decided to pay the judges and at the meeting where SenEx said that it was a bad decision.
The judges disagreed also with SenEX's statement that paying the judgments would lead to incarceration.
"It would more than likely not raise parking
矣," Bobish said. "It's a matter of how you're
住."
The judges also responded to SenEx's Pairing Board was an honor to not on their request.
"The effect of having traffic court on anyone's resume is negligible." Frobish said.
Frobish made a "low" estimate of the time the judges spend on traffic court. He said the chief judge spent 10 hours a week on traffic court, the associate chief judge six, the presiding judges five, and other judges three hours a week on traffic court.
The judges heard 1,000 cases this semester. The judges stressed that they weren't resigning their administrative duties because they were not going to be paid for their services.
The judges heard 1,050 cases this semester.
KU not to gain from loan bill
By JANETMURPHY
Staff Reporter
The parent loan bill now before the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee will have no effect on KU students, an official in KU's financial aid division said yesterday.
"Most banks in Kansas will make loans to KU students or their parents."
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid, said there would be no effect because parent loans already were available to students in students through many adult institutions.
"If the bill is enacted," he said, "it will not mean more new money.
THE PROPOSED bill would amend Kansas law to allow the Higher Education Loan Program of Kansas (HBLP) to make loans for students and provide awards for the cost of the child's college education.
Students who do not qualify for guaranteed loans or bank loans may apply to HELP for financial assistance.
Parent loans have been available in the United States for about two years, Weinberg said, but said the program was not attractive to KU students and their parents because of
The interest rate for a parent loan is 14 percent while interest on GSLs is only nine percent. The interest rates were only one
See LOANS page 5
House okays funds for Med Center utilities
By COLLEEN CACY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-The Kansas House Ways and Means Committee yesterday approved an emergency supplemental funding bill to carry the University of Kansas Medical Center through
"We're now essentially out of money for utilities," Richard von Ende, executive secretary to the University, said at the committee hearing.
The bill allocates $3,277,685 to the Med Center for fiscal 1982, which ends in June. The money will pay for increased utility rates and medical scholarships.
The program pays tuition for medical students
Board of Public Utilities officials discovered a faulty electric meter that recorded only about half of the electricity the Med Center used in 1981, which caused the apparent increase in usage. The University requested, and Gov. John Carlin recommended, a total of $1,700,685 for the utility.
The rest of the money requested, $1,307,000, for the medical scholarship program at the Med
He said this was because of a 35 percent increase in electric rates and a 66 percent increase
in water service rates, as well as more than a 100 percent increase in usage of electricity.
VON ENDE said that because of a recently announced hike in gas rates, the Med Center probably would need even more money for utilities this year. But he said if additional requests were necessary, they would be made to utilities for next year, which begin later this month.
who practice medicine in Kansas after they graduate. Students who agree to serve in "designated medically underserved areas" will receive $500 for each year they practice in Kansas.
"Last year, we assumed that 75 percent of the medical students would be in the program," he said. "Our practice has been to finance it on the level of the number we are able to recruit."
Von Ende said the University underestimated the number of students who would participate in the program.
HE SAID that last year the Legislature announced that it would pass a bill restricting the number of students who could enter the program to 100 each year, starting next fall.
"The Legislature said everyone who was already in the program at the time could stay in it," he said. "So the number of students in it went up."
As me late afternoon sun slides down behind the residence halls on Daisy Hill, a bird soars beneath a blanket of clouds. This view is from the southwest corner of Wescock Hall.
St. Louis begins digging out from snow that stalls activity
Four men died from heart attacks while shoveling snow.
By United Press International
ST. LOUIS - City crews and National Guardmen teamed up yesterday to clear streets of firefighters knocking down a tree.
Public transit buses were unable to leave their garages.
"I think we're making some progress," said Mayor Vincent Schoemehl, who went on radio to discuss the city's efforts to dig itself out of the heavy snowfall.
HUNDREDS OF abandoned cars and sightseeing drivers drove streets and freeways
through the city.
"We haven't had anything like this to deal with in four years," said Richard Daykin, St. Louis County highway director. "We've been using whatever equipment we could wear on our hands."
Only four-wheel drive vehicles traveled the snow-packed streets. Downtown streets, normally clogged with workers, were silent and white during the rush hour.
as residentes began to hope for a thaw, forecasters said none was in sight. The weather service said there was a 70 percent chance of snow and sudden new accumulations of two to four more inches.
Weather
A travelers advisory is likely today, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka, with snow accumulation today and tonight of two to four inches. A high of 30 is expected, with winds from the north at 15 to 25 mph and gusting, and temperatures will drop to a low of about 10 tonight.
It will be mostly cloudy and cold Wednesday with a high of 10 to 15.
Raylene Gerkin, a registered nurse at Watkins Memorial Hospital, demonstrates treatment of a common late-night complaint by peering down the throat of Kristy Kopp, an admissions clerk at Watkins. See related story, page 2.
Redistricting map improved, reps sav
By COLLEEN CACY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—Amended congressional redistricting map that a Kansas Senate committee approved yesterday is a little better than before, but not much, according to several
The Legislative, Congressional and Judicial Committee endorsed the plan on a participant vote, with six Republicans in favor of it and four Democrats against it.
"I still don't think it's a good map in terms of the whole state," State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said yesterday. "But in the final analysis, I had to vote for it."
BRANSON WAS THE only Lawnend Democrat to vote for the original plan when it was approved.
The map leaves Douglas County in the 3rd Congressional District, and Branson had said that he was not interested in a redistricting.
Many Democrats opposed the original bill,
"The amended plan does reduce the deviation somewhat but not as far as it could be." State officials say.
sponsored by State Sen. Paul Hess, and State Rep. Neal Whitaker, Washington Republicans, because it divided largely Democratic Wyoming into two districts and Sedgewick County into three.
"The Constitution requires that we equalize population—a one-man, one-vote decision." Solbach said. "This is not as good as we can come up with. We ought to get in there and do our work."
SOLBACH SAID the deviation guideline that the committee decided on earlier was 15-percent. He said a .99 deviation could be challenged in court.
Hess introduced the amendments, which put Sedgwick County into only two districts but left Wynandotte County divided. It also divided Sumner County between two districts.
The deviation, or the difference in population between the districts with the highest and lowest number of people, was 1.14 percent in the original map. The new map's deviation is .98
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence,
agreed.
"I would think they could get it (deviation) down more," she said. "The .99 percent is challengeable if other maps offered had less deviation."
CHARLTON SAID she was concerned that the redistricting process would drag on the June 21 filing deadline for candidates in the upcoming November election.
"The delay makes it bad for all of us," she said. "If the governor vetoes it, that's a delay. If the courts draw the lines that's another delay. All this uncertainty is bad."
She said if a new map was not established before the deadline, candidates would have to move to another location.
Branson said she thought Gov. John Carlin might veto the plan if it passed the Senate.
"It's entirely possible because of the deviation," she said. "I think the governor has a very strong hand in this."