VOL.100,NO.29 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY OCT. 6,1989
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Minority enrollment at KU has generally followed national trends of minority enrollment, which experiences wide fluctuation.
1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
Black 798 776 788 716 675 642
Hispanic 258 297 312 338 359 368
Am. Indian 112 162 191 106 148 219
Asian 291 320 341 380 415 465
Susan YoungerKANSAN
Black enrollment decreases at KU for another year
By Cory S. Anderson Kangan staff writer
For the third consecutive year,
Black enrollment at the University of
Kansas has dropped, but minority
enrollment overall has risen.
According to 20th-day enrollment figures released yesterday by the department of educational services, overall minority enrollment has increased by 6 percent to 1,684 students. Black enrollment has decreased from 675 students in 1988 to 642 in 1989.
The ethnic classifications — Black, American Indian, Hispanic and Asian — are self-reported by students on admissions applications.
Forlegn student enrollment also increased from 1,820 to 1,876 students.
American Indian students showed the greatest increase, going from 148 to 219 students. The number of Asian students increased by 50 to 465, and the number of Hispanic students increased by nine to 368.
Some students are concerned about the decrease in Black enrollment.
"I think we need to start assessing why we have this downward trend."
said Pam Jones, Kansas City, Kan,
senior. "We have established task
forces, and we have cultural diversity.
That's a wonderful start, but now we have to start moving and doing something about it."
Jones had some insight into the decrease in Black enrollment.
"Who wants to come to Kansas?"
"So said. Who wants to come to a sabbatical?"
University administration was also concerned about the decrease.
"The one statistic I remain deeply concerned about is the decrease in enrollment of Black students," said Michael Maley, executive vice chancellor.
With new scholarship funds, such as the Kansas Minority Scholarships and the $1 million Hughes Foundation grant for minorities and women in the sciences, KU will be increasingly attractive to minorities, she said.
"I'm hoping some of the efforts we are undertaking will pay off," Ramley said. "I'm not satisfied. Obviously, we have a long way to go."
Wes Williams, dean of educational services, said 1,273 students did not report an ethnic group.
Bakker declared guilty of defrauding faithful
The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - PTL evangelist Jim Bakker was convicted yesterday of using his television show to defraud followers of $3.7 million. Money, the jury foreman said, corrupted a minister who started out to do good.
"He was called by God, but eventually the money became too much for him," said foreman Ricky Hill, who said during jury selection that he was a Christian. "We kept looking for something from the defense, and we never saw it."
Bakker faces a maximum sentence of 120 years in prison and $5 million in fines. The U.S. District Court jury convicted him of all 24 counts in the indictment, which charged that he oversold lodging guarantees, called "lifetime partnerships," at his Heritage USA religious retreat.
"The message is you can't lie to the people and use television and the mails to get them to send you money," said prosecutor Deborah Smith. "It doesn't matter who you are or how well known you are; you simply can't do it."
Defense lawyer George C. Davis said the verdict would be appealed.
Prosecutors said Bakker diverted $3.7 million in ministry funds for personal use while knowing PTL was in financial trouble. He used money from PTL for vacation homes in California and Florida, a lakefront porsonage, a houseboat, Rolle-Royce and Mercedes cars and more peculiar luxuries such as an air-conditioned doghouse.
Bakker's wife, Tammy Faye, said she and her husband would return to Orlando, Fla., where they moved the diehard remnants of their ministry.
"It's not over until it's over," said Tammy Faye Bakker during a news conference after the verdict. Hundreds of Bakker faithful and the lunchtime curious flocked around the courthouse, and Tammy Faye Bakker serenaded them with a verse of "On Christ, the solid rock, I stand. All other ground is sinking sand."
"I'm going to keep my faith in God, and I'm going to go see Tammy now. I feel sad but encouraged in God." Bakker said, smiling in a brief midafternoon statement to reporters.
Bakker was freed on $250,000 bond imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Potter. The judge set sentencing for Oct. 24.
KC newspapers to merge
By Kate Lee
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas City Star Co. announced yesterday that the Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Times would be merged into one — the Kansas City Star.
James Hale, publisher of both papers, said at a news conference that he hoped the merger would be completed by the first quarter of 1990. The company will publish a morning paper.
The Kansas City Star Co., which publishes both newspapers, is owned by Capital Cities-ABC Inc., which bought it from company employees in 1977. Hale said the merger decision was made locally on Wednesday and stressed that no layoffs were planned.
Hale said the Star's declining circulation led to the decision to merge. The Star, started in 1880 by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Crawford, was renamed Times in 1901 and ran as the Star's morning edition.
"There'll be some reassignment of people on both papers," he said. "But anybody who leaves will do so of his own volition."
Editor Joe McGuff叫 the decision a response to a marketplace
where people had less leisure time and more to do. He cited studies showing that leisure time had been cut in half during the last decade.
"That's the time that people have for newspapers, for television, for all sorts of activities," he said. "I think what the marketplace is telling us, as you see this happening all over the country, is that people are saying, 'We're allocating X amount of time a day to read newspapers, look at TV, whatever. You can give us one newspaper, two or three, however many you want to give us, but we're going to give you this allotted amount of time.'"
"It's great," said Mary Sanchez, education reporter for the Star. "It will be a better paper. Both papers are incomplete now."
Hale said one paper would be able to do a more effective and better job
Sanchez said a committee of employees from both papers had been included in the meetings that the group added to work out the details of the merger.
Diane Stafford, general-assignment reporter for the Star, said she knew the committee had been trying to determine a new beat structure for reporting various areas of the community.
"They've been deciding how each area should be covered," she said of the beat restructuring. "And how many bodies are needed to cover each area. This is not complete. It will take weeks to complete. There are no deadlines."
"I would imagine that very few of us will be doing the exact same thing we are now. They're trying to be really sensitive to our feelings."
She said the employees had been asked to submit a position paper describing what they would like to be doing.
"Beats will be added," Stafford said. "We're understaffed in some areas. We don't have an environmental reporter on either staff. We don't have a consumer-affairs reporter. People are too stretched out to cover some things."
Each of the papers has a separate news staff. The editorial, sports and business sections are edited by
The two news staffs compete directly with one another for stories, and some people are concerned that the team will eliminate competition. Sanchez said.
Stafford said that the two managing editors were in Des Moines, Iowa, this week for a managing editors convention, but that when they returned, meetings with McGuff
would take place. The meetings will help determine if the staffs will begin cooperating with each other immediately and the date that the papers will merge.
"For now it's still business as usual." she said.
Sanchez said the name of the paper would be the Kansas City Star mostly for historical reasons. The Star was the original paper founded by Nelson.
"Most readers don't understand the difference," she said. "People haven't really caught on to the separateness."
Ralph Gage, general manager of the Lawrence Journal-World, said the merger did not surprise people at the Journal-World.
"The only surprise was that it didn't happen sooner." he said.
Gage said the star was sun corrupted in Douglas County and, according to Journal-World circulation figures, had 2,300-2,400 subscribers. He he did not know what the exact impact on the Journal-World would be.
"We will continue trying to put out
the very best paper we can with
good service and good service,
Gage said. "We will continue to be an
afternoon纸."
> The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Rudolf Jander, professor of entomology, explains the biological makeup of Insects in his class, "Insects and Humans."
Bug class offers insect insight
By Rich Cornell
Kansan staff writer
Stuve Rynd and Zak Weis leaned onto a counter in 1007 Haworth Hall. They turned petri dishes over and over, looking at scampering beetles in the dishes from every possible angle.
Rudy, Naperville, III., freshman, and Wels, Lawrence sophomore, along with five other students, had arrived for Biology 120, "Insects and Humans." The course is taught this semester by Rudolf Jander, professor of entomology, and is available only to
- Rudolf Jande
It gives them a feel of scientific ideas that they as non-scientists might not be exposed to.'
Jander began class with a review of the previous lecture. Then he discussed the biology of
Entomology is the study of insects.
Tricia Brown, Shawnee Mission senior, said she enrolled in the two-hour class to fill a requirement. The class is exceeding her expectations, she said.
Rudolf Jander professor of entomology
"I'm my favorite class," Weis said. "You get to learn about day-to-day things."
sex. In the short-run, Jander said, asexual reproduction is superior to sexual reproduction because fewer females can produce more offspring in less time.
However, asexual reproduction does not allow for much gene variation, he said. Species relying on it cannot survive long. Therefore, in the long-run, sexual reproduction allows species to quickly adapt to changes in the environment.
Jander said sexual reproduction allowed insects such as the housefly and mosquito to become immune to insecticides. Humans may benefit in the same manner by quickly changing to survive environmental problems such as the greenhouse effect.
Jander suggested that both humans and insects would reproduce best by combining sexual and asexual reproduction.
"This would be the ultimate in sexual equality." he said.
By combining the two genders, he said, humans and insects could reproduce both sexually and asexually. Then, they could reproduce quickly when necessary through asexual reproduction or adapt to new environments through sexual reproduction.
He named the aphid, or plant lice, as an example of a species using both forms of reproduction. "Insects give us some answers," he said.
For example, he said that house-files had some sexual attitudes similar to those of humans. The
male fly wants to mate with as many females as possible to do his part to further the species. On the other hand, the female chooses her mate carefully because she wants her eggs fertilized by a male with the best genes possible.
This explains why male humans are less choosy than females, Jander said.
After the class, Jander said he emphasized lifelike situations in the class.
"It gives them a feel of scientific ideas that they as non-scientists might not be exposed to," Jander said.
He gives the class oral examinations instead of written, he said. This provides him immediate feedback about his teaching.
Although his department has offered the class for several years, Jander said he had never before taught an undergraduate class during his 18 years at KU. He said his students had enjoyed it so far.
"They like it," he said. "The critical point has not yet come. I have not tested them."
Power shortage leaves KU in dark for 20 minutes
Bv Paula Parrish
and Bryan Swam Kansan staff writers
Most of the main campus experienced a 20-minute power outage about 10:40 a.m. yesterday because of a system overload caused by Kansas Power and Light Gas Services's updating of equipment.
Another power failure, lasting only a few seconds, occurred later in the afternoon, around 3 p.m., because of a power surge.
Andy Haun, assistant director of facilities operations for electrical engineering, said that one of the two feeds that supply the
campus with electricity had been shut down so that KPL could install higher-capacity equipment.
Haul said it was necessary to shut down campus air-conditioning units to restore power until the east distribution line was installed around noon, when KPL finished its work.
He said that even though the remaining west feed was designed to handle the output from both lines, it was unable to handle an unexpected overload caused by air-conditioning units and campus construction projects.
TA. Mindrup, district manager for KPL, said the power surge that occurred in the
afternoon was caused by work being done at a substation that supplied the University with power.
Mindrup said that while a major piece of equipment was being repaired at a Lawrence substation, campus power was rerouted through a KPL secondary line. A squirrel caused a short in the line, automatically stopping power for a few moments.
Hum said a loss of water pressure in most campus buildings was caused by loss of power to campus pumps. Telephone lines also were shut down during the outage because many campus telephone systems depend on electricity.
Tom Stolz, Lawrence junior, also was stuck in the elevator.
"I said, 'Let's take the stair,' but Roy said he wants to use the elevator because he felt it uncomfortable."
"We were trapped in the elevator for about 10 minutes," said Roy Lafferty, Lawrence senior. "There was just enough light in there to see but not enough to read."
The power outage was more than an inconvenience at Computing Services, where a disk crash on the new VAX computer system
Shortly after the outage, two maintenance workers arrived at Strong Hall to free four people trapped in an elevator.
brought some campus computers to a hail. David Gardner, director of the office of information systems, said power outages caused problems.
Jim Boyle, assistant director at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said the outage had no adverse effect at Watkins.
KJHK went off the air during the outage, but only because its transmitter is located on campus. The disc locket kept working.
"I knew it was off, but I decided to stay here and continue to spin records until it came back on," said Wade Johnston, Lawrence junior.