University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Monday, November 23, 1981 Vol.92, No.65 USPS 650-640
BOR GREENSPAN Kansas Stell
Jan Beemer, Emporia junior (left) and Debbie Thompson, Chicago freshman, both residents of Jayhawker Towers, walt outside while firemen check the building.
Engle returns to KU presents flag to school
By LISA BOLTON Staff Reporter
Col. Joe Engle came home to Kansas Saturday as a humble hero and left smiling admirals all over
Lawrence was Engle's first stop since piloting Columbia back to earth and the first before being deployed.
He will go to Canada soon to talk about the historic second flight of the space shuttle.
"Canada built the big manipulator arm we used for the flight." Enule said.
ENGLE WILL continue flying and traveling but he will do so on this planet, at least for a while. Other possible stops for speaking are Australia, Japan, China and the Philippines.
His escentic grin and quick, easy laugh followed Engle all day Saturday. He lumbered
Monday Morning
around campus with long, lanky strides, smiling and waving.
True joy shone from his face as he and his wife, Mary, rode to the center of the football field in a blue convertible to present the KU flag he took into space to Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
Engle's exuburance peaked as he unfurled the KU fing at mid-field before the KU-MU football game.
After holding the flag for all the fans on the west side of the stadium to see, Engle shouted, "Come on," to Budig, and they raced around the band to the east side of the stadium so the KU students there could see the prized memento. The crowd resounded with a bublant uproar.
ENGLE HAS been surrounded by publicity
since he was first notified he would pilot Columbia in its return trip to space, and he has granted countless interviews. But he still got excited when Bill Muggy, manager of the Jayhawk Bookstore, gave him a souvenir KU T-shirt.
He admired it in the car on his way to the chancellor's residence for a pre-game luncheon.
"This is a super T-shirt," he said, holding it up by the shoulders.
None of the publicity has changed the simple,
Joe Engle
yet brilliant, small-town Kansas boy who has become a national hero.
"I haven't gotten used to it yet," he said with a cheerish grin.
See ENGLE page 5
Timetables distributed early
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Timetable is on the streets earlier ever before—a feat that may have been unimaginable.
Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, has said in the past that one of the few obstacles barring early enrollment might be putting the Timetable together early enough.
But today, students can pick up the Timetable in the basement of Strong Hall, about two-and-a-half blocks north.
And, because of changes in page layout,
students will find the table 56 pages smaller.
"With the talk of pre-enrollment in the past, there was a question whether the Timetable could be produced in a different time frame." "Is this the question we can do it without any suffering?"
Elliot said she began compiling the Timetable in July, rather than waiting until the fourth week to do so.
PATSY ELLIOTT, coordinator for scheduling,
said Friday that the earlier deadline for the
Timetable posed no problem for admissions and
records.
Departments had to submit all course schedules by Aug. 31, and the pages were sent to
See TIMETABLE page 6
Firemen rescue students in Jayhawker Towers blaze
By LILLIAN DAVIS and JANICE GUNN Staff Reporters
Firefighters rescued at least six KU students from Jayhawker Towers apartments Sunday morning, when a fire was ignited in the south elevator in tower B₁ firefighters said yesterday.
The fire started in the elevator after a grocery cart full of newspapers and cardboard was pushed inside the elevator and ignited, Jim McSwain. Lawrence fire chief, said.
While there was no fire damage outside the
building, two police officers acted as a chinney,
carrying smoke to all windows.
It was the smoke that trapped students in their rooms on the fifth and sixth floors, McMain
"Some of the trapped students were taken out by the snow, and they were drained down the stairs to the bottom." Ms. Snowman said.
Two students were taken to Watkins Memorial Hospital, however, neither of them were hurt.
"Those two came down the fireman's ladder on their own and were just wet and coughing a
little from the smoke," John Drees, Douglas County paramedic, said.
McSnow said that 15 off-duty firefighters were called to the scene, along with 15 on-duty firefighters, four fire engines, a ladder truck and a snorkel truck.
It took about an hour for firefighters to get to the source of the fire and put it out. McBwain said.
"I smelled smoke, then looked out in the hall and saw flames in the elevator," Alexander said. "I came back to my room to call the police and got my fire extinguisher."
Alexander said neither his fire extinguisher nor one in a friend's room on the second floor
The extinguishers are provided in every apartment by the management of Jayhawkter
"You make sure and tell everybody that we had already knocked on people's doors on the first and second floors and were crawling under them, and the fire alarms finally went off," Alexander said.
Several residents complained that the alarm system did not work fast enough.
"My roommate and I started going from room
to room on the fifth floor to get everybody up." Terry Albert, Coffeyville省员，said. "We were already on the stairwell before we heard the alarms go off."
McSwin said he did not have a damage estimate yet but was guessing that because the flames were contained in the elevator, the fire alarm mounted much as the Naismith Hall fire earlier this month.
"I'm really scared to live here anymore because there was no alarm until after the hall was full of smoke," Melissa Brown, Shawnee running up and down the hall knocking on doors.
Kent Gayton, Coffeyville senior, said that he sailed the efficiency of the fire alarm system
"It if we have happened on a school night and not in the broad daylight, no one would have seen it," she said.
The Towers' fire alarm system is set up with a smoke detector in each apartment. Power than
Hall of Fame Bowl extends bid to KU
"They should have fire prevention in the hallways as well as each room," Gaylor said. "It was left up to us to warn the other people. We had to close the doors, but we couldn't get to the other end of the hall."
The Nov. 6 arson fire at Naismith Hall began in
By TRACEE HAMILTON Sports Editor
The orange-clad men were red-faced.
Tangierine Bowl officials' faces turned sour Saturday as Kansas marched to a 19-11 victory over Missouri. And while Tangerine officials were frowning, the Hall of Fame committee smiled on the Jayhawks. That committee voted unanimously yesterday to extend a bid to the Jayhawks for the game Dec. 31 in Birmingham, Ala.
It was literally the University of Kansas' last hope. The open slot on the bowl's list was the only bid left of the country's 16 bowls. Mississippi State will be the Jawhaws' opponent.
THE HALL OF FAME is guaranteeing each
team $400,000 this year, but if Legion Field is sold out, that could reach $450,000.
Bowl officials are predicting a sellout of the afternoon contest. The stadium seats 78,000, and it would be the first sellout in the bowl's five-year history.
Last year, Arkansas and Tulane drew 40,079
fans and each received 223,850.
The Big Eight conference decides how much Kansas can spend for the bowl trip, and the team must follow that budget. Any money left over must be divided up between all eight conference schools.
The conference will be represented in five bowls this season. Nebraska gets to the Orange Bowl, Oklahoma to the Sun Bowl, Oklahoma to the Conference Bowl and Missouri to the Tangerine Bowl.
Schools must make a commitment to the bowl committee on how many tickets they think they can sell. This figure plays a part in the selection process.
"Kansas hasn't been to a bowl game since the 1975 Sun Bowel, and the school and fans are excted about making a trip," one bowel official said. "This is important in our evaluation of fany teams. We are that Kansas would bring in the neighborhood of 10,000 fans and that's above average."
**WORD CAME** officially late day afternoon when head Coach Don Fambrough called him. Fambrough named Fred W. Sington, an All-American and Hall of Fame member from Alabama, called
See BOWL page 5
A cross to bear
Jubilant fans carted away the goal posts with less than a minute to play in Saturday's victory over Missouri.
Weather
Freshmen blues factor in dropout rate
Today will be partly cloudy and mild, with a high of 80. Winds will be out of range.
Tonight's low will be in the mid 30s.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain.
Bv CYNTHIA HRENCHIR
Mark Young, a KU freshman from Hesston, is already planning to enroll at Emory State University.
Staff Reporter
"It's closer to home," he said. "It's a quarter of the size of the University of Kansas. Here there are all these people. It feels like one massive crowd."
YOUNG IS ONE of a predicted 1,200 freshmen who will probably not enroll for their sophomore year at KU. By the end of the spring semester, 25 of the freshman class will have left the University.
"Hesston was a pretty small town, I guess."
Barbara Paschke, a research assistant for the office of institutional research and planning, said she thought that percentage had become typical in recent years.
KU's peer institutions, which are similar in size, reflect KU's trend. Colorado State University is the largest member of KU.
found that 12.6 percent of its freshmen did not enroll for their sophomore year.
At Iowa State University at Ames, 18 percent of 2.775 freshmen will not enroll as sophomores.
Many factors make Young think he will never quite be able to adjust to KU life. His is another factor.
"Freshmen Blues" is only one of the many factors involved in the KU dropout rate, but it may become increasingly important born in the post World War II baby boom grow beyond college age.
"Freshmen Blues" is a time of transition in every student's life, Mary Ann Saule, a clinical social worker at the Watkins Mental Health Center, said.
"When you go away to college, it's one of the major transitions in a person's life, like birth, marriage, death."
"With college, for the first time someone is entering the phase of an unattached young adult.
SYDNEY SCHROEDER, the psychiatrist at the mental health center, said he thought
“Freshmen Blues” begin with depression, later develop into anxiety, but he doubled it causes his wife to suffer.
"I have seen 10 students who were not going to be able to finish school, while a couple hundred have symptoms that are disturbing to them," he said.
Schroeder thought pre-college experiences had a great deal to do with how students were able to learn.
"They are going from where their parents
'Students from an insecure family tend to have more problems than ones from secure families.'
"They feel the same way even if they are different situations." he said.
Schroeder said he thought those students from broken families reacted to the college separation the same as they did when their families broke up.
For freshmen coming from over-protective families, the freedom might trigger anxiety, he said.
checked up on them every minute to a lot of freedom." Schroeder said.
"They develop anxiety because they don't know how to handle self-reliance. It's a separation from family, not a cutting off. It's a healthy part of the normal life cycle."
In her book, "Passages," anthropologist Gail Sheeby discussed the life cycles that continued throughout a person's life and gave special attention to this cycle.
SHE EXPLAINED "Blues" as a time of transit between the intimate circle of family and city.
"While our Seeker Self, the side whose impulse it is to seek our individuality, urges us to confront the unknown and take chances, our Merger Self, the side of us that wants to merge, beckons us back toward the comforts of safety and the known," Sheehy wrote.
Schroeder agreed, and said all students felt it.
schreeder agreed, and said all students reit him.
"They've started to leave home," he said.
"Something of impact has hit them, whether they realize or not what's bothering them."
See BLUES page 6