University Daily Kansan, January 15, 1982 Page 9 KU rated four-star university By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter What better time than at the dreary cold start of a semester to learn that the University of Kansas is one of the 29 college and four-year institutions in the country"17. That news isn't likely to bolster class attendance on cold mornings, but it could lure more warm bodies to KU if college shops use the newly published New York Times Selective Guide to College. An "inside report" on more than 250 colleges, the guide spots KU four out of five possible places in each of three colleges. The report also highlights social life and overall quality of life. Of the 265 public and private U.S. institutions examined, only 17 received a four-star or higher rating in all these schools, while 89 received an overall rating as high as KU's. The 1,000 word entry on KU includes such descriptions of the University as "a cornbelt Berkeley that in selected years will be the finest programs in the country." THE PROGRAMS listed as outstanding here were architecture, chemistry, engineering, fine arts, journalism, pharmacy, philosophy, special education, clinical psychology and human development. The guide remarks approvingly upon KU's housing situation, special programs such as honors and study abroad, varsity athletics and "the beautiful 1,000 acre campus atop Mount Oread." And lest that big a mountain should scare away "tenderfoots," the guild ensures that "the university's fine bus system can get you around comfortably, especially during chilly, windy winters." Seventy-five percent of all KU students are Kansans, the guide says, and "the rest come from the Middle West, except for a few foreign students who study at the outer fringes of the nation by the end of the academic program and reason tuition." "It could get them to come visit the campus," she said. "And once people are here they usually are impressed by how much care that someone might inquired in Kansas." But the percentage of non-Kansans here may increase now, thanks to the guide. Linda Thompson, KU director of admissions, said yesterday that the staff work a lot of interest in people who might not have considered KU. Not all of the guide's comments about KU are favorable. However, it notes that though "the faculty includes numerous eminent professors," they The guide also suggests that the KU administration "give some thought to the registration system. Lines are long, and while students register in an alphabetical order they need often be filled before they get a chance to sign up." "tend to be more interested in their research than their students." The only academic area demeaned by the guide is agriculture, for which it advises "try Kansas State." Published for 1982-43 by Edward B. Fiske, the New York Times education editor, the guide was gathered from interviews with college students, high school guidance counselors and college admission officers. But of the Big Eight universities, KU received by far the least criticism. The university of Nebraska and Oklahoma only one star each for academics. Fiske and more than 20 other writers of the guide also passed out 12-page questionnaires to a cross-section of students at each of the 265 college institutions. In addition, such subjects as the type of students who attend the school and social life. The guide concludes that KU "is a place where you can get a better-than-average education at a better-than-average time, having a better-than-average time." 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