VOL. 100, NO.24 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
T THE STUDIET NEWSTAAPER OF THE T UNIVISITORY OF KAANSAAS
THURSDAY
SEPT. 28,1989
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University rolls to all-time high for enrollment
By Doug Flishback
By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
Fall enrollment at the University of Kansas is at an all-time high, according to figures released yesterday.
The total enrollment for KU campuses this fall was 28,773, an increase of 370 students, or 1.3 percent, from last fall's enrollment.
Last fall, total enrollment had decreased by 317 students, or 1.1 percent, from the previous year, according to figures released by University Relations.
KU administrators had attributed last fall's enrollment decrease to efforts to stabilize University growth.
James Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said this its increase did not mean that University growth was beginning to lose its stability.
"It's not an enormous increase," he said. "It's a very reasonable increase. It's manageable."
Scally said that the University was financially stronger than in the past and that a return to higher enrollments did not threaten University resources.
"Our strategies are consistent with those at the nation's other premier research Universities," he said. "We are on target at the University of Kansas."
The official enrollment was calculated Monday, after the first 20 days of classes.
Enrollment figures for specific schools were not available yesterday, but the report showed that the number of Lawrence campus and off-campus, full-time equivalent students had grown to 23,567. That is an increase of 105 from last year.
Full-time equivalency is calculated by dividing the total number of student credit hours by the average number of hours taken by all KU students, said Robin Eversole, director of University Relations.
The total number of Lawrence and off-campus students increased by 300. to 26,320.
Enrollment in the College of Health Sciences increased by 70, to 2,453, figures show.
Muir clarifies position of graduates in boycott
Cheryl Hanly/KANSAN
By a Kansan reporter
Neither the Graduate Stugeb Council nor the Graduate Executive Committee supported James Muir's boycott of Student Senate, a letter from Muir stated.
More Senate news p.3
he announced at the last Senate meeting.
At the beginning of last night's Student Senate meeting, Jeff Morris, student body vice president, read a letter from Muir, graduate holdover senator, clarifying Muir's position about the graduate student boycott
In the letter, Muir stated that the boycott was not supported by the GSC or GradEx. As coordinator of GSC, he said he hoped the concerns graduate students had with Senate could be worked out as quickly as possible.
Muir was not at the Senate meeting.
Study break
Comfort Oseel, Kumasi, Ghana, sophomore, and Helen Gebre, Islamabad, Ethiopia, junior, took advantage of nice weather by studying on the second floor of Haworth Hall.
Winter favors police checking bar patrons' IDs
By Stacy Smith Kansan staff writer
In response to a recent court ruling, State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, has expressed interest in introducing legislation making it legal for police officers to ask bar patrons for identification.
upcoming session."
In a Sept. 25 letter to Mike Heim,
principal analyst for the legislative
research department, Winter wrote,
"Since the consumption of any alcohol
by persons under 21 is against the
law, we must be sure that it can be
effectively enforced. . . I would like
to have a bill for introduction in the
Heim said the bill would probably not be pre-filed until the end of November or the beginning of December. He said no action could be taken until the legislative session began Jan. 8, 1990.
Jean Shepherd, Douglas County District Court Judge, ruled sept. 20 to suppress evidence in the Kansas v. Abby Bernstein case, involving a KU student who was charged with underage drinking last spring.
Shepherd wrote in her decision that Lawrence police officers did not have reasonable suspicion that Bernstein, Winnetka, Ill., junior, was underage
and therefore involved in criminal activity at the time they approached her. She shepherd wrote that an officer's view of who looked young was subjective and dependent upon that officer's perspective.
Jim Flory, Douglas County District,
Attorney, said an amendment to
Chapter 41 of the Kansas Liquor
Control Act was currently being
considered. The amendment would
state that individuals in a bar who
are drinking or who are in possession
of alcohol must present identification
or identify themselves when asked to
do so by police officers. Fleury
"I feel confident that a constitutional provision could be drafted that would make such a revision," he said.
Flory said the district attorney's office also was appealing the court ruling to the Kansas Court of Appeals.
"Obviously I think it's a decision worthy of appellate review," he said.
Bernstein's defense attorney, Donald Strole, said he did not think a bill could be passed that would be constitutional.
"I can assure you that I would look very carefully at the state if I had a client charged under it," he said. "I would be surprised if any statute
including Brown v. Texas, in her decision on the Bernstein case. In 1979, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in that case that a Texas law requiring police to be accorded to a police officer was unconstitutional and violated an individual's right to privacy.
could be passes and meet constitutional muster based on the Brown v.
Until legislation is passed or the present ruling is overturned, Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said the department would halt current bar check practices.
Bankruptcy sought by Braniff Inc.
The Associated Press
Braniff sought protection from creditors to allow it to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code, said Don McGuire, the airline's vice president for corporate communications.
He said Braniff channeled some onto other flights, but others appeared to be making reservations at Kansas City hotels.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Branff Inc.
filed for bankruptcy protection early
this morning after canceling flights
through its major Kansas City hub
and its Orlando home base for an
indefinite period, a spokesman said.
Hundreds of passengers were stranded at least temporarily last night at Kansas City International Airport after Braniff Airlines canceled about 30 flights out of KC1, the airline's major hub, an airport administrator said.
Braniff also canceled flights yesterday through its Orlando, Fla. home base for an indefinite period.
A rumor that Braniff plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection decreased the price of the company's stock. The counter-trading to $1.25 a share.
Braniff issued a tense statement late in the day saying that it had begun to cancel "selected flights" at airports abroad and national flights would be scrubbed later.
Braniff gave no explanation for the action or the state of the airline in connection, just cannot enter into conversations with Braniff snookers Dom McGuire.
By about 7:45 p.m., the backlog of people in the Braniff terminal At KCI had decreased to between 100 and 150 people, Karmeir said. Many of the people were put on other flights.
Karmeirie said Braniff indicated that only a few of its flights would be taking off today, and that customers should try to reach Braniff to see what flights would take off as scheduled.
"As I understand it, there will only be a few departing flights from KCI today). Now, whether that will be three or four five, I don't know." he said.
Karmerie said that Braniff and Branifft Express, a commuter line, accounted for half the flights in and out of KCl.
The airliner is an important employer in Kansas City. It has talked all year about expanding KCI flights to more than 100, buying new planes, adding parking space for new employees, expanding a terminal and building a new maintenance building, he said.
"Everthing was on the upwelling, talking about growth. So this is really a surprise," he said. "We are, of course, concerned."
Democrats, Republicans at KU remain rivals in non-election years
By Holly Lawton
Kansan staff writer
At first, the College Republicans and the KU Democrats say that little animosity exists between the two campus organizations.
Roy Laird. College Republicans adviser, said, "Only at election time do I see much animosity between the parties."
"The competition's pretty tame," said College Republicans president Jonathan Becker. "We all pretty much keep to ourselves."
Doug Johnston, secretary for KU Democrats, agreed.
"Perhaps it's there," he said, "but it's not enough to excite me. We're so different that it's hard to compete anway."
But an underlying rivalry seems to gradually emerge when members from both organizations begin talking. Each member shows loyalty to his college organization that is as strong as their loyalty to the national party.
Because this is not an election year, members of both groups have few reasons for competing on campus.
Beeker spoke of a recent sign on campus promoting the KU Democrats, which said "It takes no courage to be a Republican."
"We just see little things they do to us, like "mom," he said. "Maybe it says something about that group and that party they're doing stuff like that. I was thinking about answering that with something of our own, but we didn't."
Beeker was supported by vice chairman John Gladbach.
"We try to stay above attacks on the Democrats, but I've noticed they don't refrain from it." Gladbach said, "It's not an rivalry, but it's definitely not friendly."
Johnston said he sometimes found that the College Republicans were not as serious as the Democrats.
"I went over to the Republicans' table in the Union during the beginning of the semester to see what they're up to," he said. "They
mostly had a bunch of T-shirts that said
something about burning the American flag
and some information on parties.
“It’s fine to support patriotism, but we are concerned with issues, like abortion and the minimum wage. It seems they are at least 60 percent social and only 40 percent political. I think we are just the opposite. Which is better. I don't know, but that seems to be a big difference between the two.”
Sheila Zuschek, KU Democrats president, said the rivalry took on different dimensions for each individual.
"It depends on you who are," she said.
"Some people take it more seriously than
others. But I look at it more as a friendly rivalry."
have a lot in common. Both campaign actively in local, state and national elections, going door-to-door and calling potential voters, members of both organizations said.
The College Republicans sponsor guest speakers at meetings, work with an internship coordinator and have started an antidrug program through the state College Republican group, Beeker said.
Johnston said that the KU Democrats were working to develop a community service program and that they discussed national issues of importance.
Education summit seeks goals
The Associated Press
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — What's so wrong with U.S. schools that the president, his Cabinet and the nation's governors must retreat to this quiet college town to spend two days searching for solutions?
CHARLOTTESVILLE Va
After all, the nation is pouring $353 billion into education. That's $5,246 per pupil this year, 29 percent more in real, inflation-adjusted dollars than in 1981, according to federal estimates.
But all that money and a decade-long clamor for school reform seem
to have hardly dented the national deficit in what students know about the world around them.
Bush, the governors and educators all have expressed hope that the summit, taking place yesterday and today, will be a first step in supplying U.S. schools with something they've never had before; national goals and standards.
Keith Geiger, president of the National Education Association, met privately yesterday with Govs. Garry Carruthers of New Mexico and Booth Gardner of Washington, and said the governors "had a sense of
optimism that the meeting can come up with some general goals" to take home to their states.
"But the governors have some question about whether the meeting can put together a plan to meet those goals. That's not going to happen in two days," Geiger said, adding that over 900 reporters crowded onto the campus of Virgia campus, "the only sure thing is that this is a big media event."
Bush and others think that in an increasingly competitive world economic climate, it's high time the nation's schools agreed on what students at different grade levels should know.
Bush cries out for 'fundamental changes'
The Associated Press
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — President Bunch sat down with the nation's governors at an education summit yesterday, summoning them to forge "fundamental changes" in a national school system wracked by drugs, high dropout rates and mediocrity.
A raft of recent reports suggest they don't know plenty:
Governors circulated a memo outlining their own goals for the educational summit, the first ever conducted between a president and the state's executives.
Their plan called for eliminating illiteracy, curtailing the dropout rate and making American students the equal of their counterparts anywhere in the world, especially in mathematics and science.
—Less than half the nation's fifth-graders know enough basic science to realize it takes "a few days" to travel to the moon.
One plan pushed by the administration and welcomed by a number of governors would allow parents to shop around for schools.
Controversy over federal spending rumbled just below the surface, but a number of governors said it would not be a major issue at the meeting. Bush said he was not prepared to "quintuple spending."
—Two-thirds of high school students know so little economics they can't define "profits."