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Thursday, September 7, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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Kansas lauds high school students
By Angela Baughman Kansan staff writer
During the next seven months, 3,200 Kansas high school seniors will be recognized by the Kansas Honors Program, the program's director said.
The program, which has been sponsored by the University of Kansas Alumni Association since 1971, honors students across Kansas who are in the top 10 percent of their class, Jerry Lewis, director of the program, said.
"The honors program is a service program in the sense that it recognizes the best and the brightest students in the state of Kansas," Lewis said. "We will honor in total
about 3,200 students — 5,500 in the fall and 700 in the spring."
He said that although the program's purpose was not to recruit students for the University, it did have an effect on enrollment.
"There are some benefits that flow directly to the University of Kansas," Lewis said. "We feel that we get more good students by having the program than we would if we did not have the program."
He said he did an annual check to determine how many of the program's students apply to, are admitted to and enroll at KU.
"In the last two or three years it's been running fairly consistent that about 40 percent of all the students we honor are admitted to the University," Lewis said. "About 20 percent of them actually enroll in the University."
He said the students were honored at a dinner in their home counties where they were presented with a certificate signed by Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
the dictionaries are paid for through a fund provided by the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said the Honors Program encouraged students to improve their academic standing.
"It's a great program," he said. "It's one thing that encourages academics in the state."
Lewis said the dinners included a speaker from the University, which gave the program a quality and significance that others similar to it lacked.
"All of our speakers are either deans, the vice chancellor or the chancellor, so we use only top administrators," he said. "I think this program is the best of its kind in the entire United States."
"We do say to them (the students) that they are the state's most valuable resource, and we have a stake in keeping as much of that resource as we can in the state of Kansas in higher education. It is one of the most important activities the University involves itself in."
KU astronomers appreciate renovation
By Travis Butler Kansan staff writer
After being closed to the public for a year because of safety reasons, the Clyde W. Tombaugh Observatory at the University of Kansas is going to be fixed.
The observatory, located on the top of Lindley Hall, was closed last September, said Mark Brown, vice president of the Astronomy Associates of Lawrence.
Stephen Shawl, professor of physics and astronomy, said, "It was too easy to get hurt walking on the darkened roof. The surface is uneven, and there are pipes sticking up all around."
There was also some concern about fire code violations, he said. Fire codes require that two new exits be added to bring the observatory in
compliance with regulations.
"We also need to put up a wooden platform for people to walk on," he said. "Safety lights and exit signs also need to go in."
Some financing for the improvements has been approved from the building improvements fund, Shawl said.
"We've only been funded for part of the work," he said. "If it can be completed without cost overruns, there could be funds available for completing the rest sometime this academic year. Otherwise, it'll be a 2-year project."
Brown and Shawl said the closing had negative effects on both the astronomy program and the AAL AAL members had held open houses every Friday night with clear skies at the observatory. Brown said.
"It's been pretty bad in a lot of
ways," he said. "The location and times (for meetings) were regular, and people just knew to come. Now we have to publicize every event.
"The real sad part is it got shut down about the time of the Mars sighting. It was Mars" best appearance in 50 years, and we had a major effort to make sure that the observatory was closed, we couldn't set up an alternative in time."
AAL members have set up a replacement for the Tombaugh open houses at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, using equipment borrowed from the University, Brown said. But it hasn't been the same.
Shawl said, "Very few people take advantage of the Douglas County Fairgrounds showings."
The closing has caused problems for Shauk's closesse
"It's had a decreased effect on
However, Brown said the closing hurt AAL less than members had expected. Lighting conditions at the observatory had been getting worse for some time.
courses," he said. "I used to require my students to go to at least one of the AAL open houses at the observatory."
"The lights next to Lindley don't cause a problem," Brown said. "But the lights at the baseball fields lie like a big dome right in our faces."
The light from stars can be washed out by bright lights in the vicinity of the observatory, he said. The problems lights cause depend on the kind of light.
Shawl said that when the observatory re-opened, all of the telescopes there would be available to use for viewing.
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