Stefaan Foster, Grandview sophomore, relaizes during a hot afternoon band practice. The KU marching band will have its first performance 9 when the Jayhawks play.
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Housing situation easing temporary overflow crush
Staff Reporter
By BARB KOENIG
The first week of classes ends, relief for the placed in temporary housing at the University of Missouri.
According to Fred McElhenie, director of residential programs, KU is completing moves for 65 men and 35 women to spots throughout the residence hall system. Many of the 100 students have completed their moves.
However, McElenhie said, about 115 students, still awaiting permanent placement, Spaces and additional 25 students, he said, but those students have not been moved because they
MELCHEENI COULD not predict when the remaining students would be perjmng.
Because temporary housing has been set up in laundry rooms, sewing rooms and other special rooms, where telephone are not available, messages have to be left at a hall front desk. This has caused a delay in the transition to the students, McElhennie said.
He said the permanent placement of students was going well, and he credited residential programs' secretaries for the success.
"The secretarial stuff has been doing a remarkable job of getting people in the city."
In addition to moving students to permanent locations, McEhline said, students housed in the third-floor-north recreation room in Corbin were being moved yesterday to other temporary spots until they could qualify for permanent housing.
But two women who lived in the recreation room for the last week-and-a-half, said their living experiences were not bad.
Stacy Vernon, Leawood sophomore, said the diversity of class times and sleeping schedules caused some problems for the 14 students who had lived in the recreation room.
Joy Brightwell, Overland Park sophomore, said she and her four roommates got along well, but a lack of com-
fort was the problem, as dekes, made the living situation difficult.
"IT'S NOT QUITE what I expected," said Peggy Rowe, Leavand owlspomph, "but the big problem is when men walk through and they don't tell 'man on floor'."
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"There are problems," she said. "Everyone goes to sleep at different times and everyone has different class schedules."
"It's bearable, but it's little inconveniences that make it harder," she
Women open to merger
Vol.89, No.6
KANSAN
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Washington said, "There have been problems on other campuses where a merger hasn't enhanced relationships. K-State merged and the women's program was later accused of being a financial burden on the men's program."
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
During the early 1960s the fraternity was shut down by the national fraternity based in Omaha, Neb. after several members were arrested and juvenile and using other drugs. Shariro said.
Washington said that when Jersey Jermier resigned recently as athletic director at Kansas State University, he listed problems caused by women' statistics as the biggest.
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Marian Washington, women's athletics director, said yesterday, "I am receptive with some reservations. I have some high quality staff that I have to protect. I talk other women in the department are receptive if positive things can be worked out."
Officials close to the women's athletics department reacted with cautious optimism to recent reports that a merger of men's and women's sports was being considered by U. administrators.
ELIZABETH BANKS, a University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board member, said, "It seems to me a very efficient way to have such duplication that is caused by two athletics administrations." But Banks, who filed a complaint Aug. 1 with the Department of Education, said it was "a serious breach."
A tangle of inter-school rivalries and money problems remain to be solved before the University of Kansas becomes a state university. Students of Kansas, a state lobbying group.
By TAMMY TIERNEY Staff Reporter
"I think that the national fraternity is very strict about matters of that kind," he said.
Rivalry threatens ASK vote
By TOM RAMSTACK
Although the purpose of the retreat is to determine what the organization will lobby for this year, Harper said he would attend to answer questions about KU's proposed membership from representatives of member schools.
After spending the summer negotiating a 10-month provisional membership in ASK, Mike Harper, student body president, has brought KJI closer than ever to joining ASK.
However, his efforts at creating a unified front at the Kansas Legislature may be spoiled if potential problems with Kansas State University, Fort Hays State University and Washburn University are involved at an ASK retreat tomorrow in Topeka.
The fraternity is trying to re-enter KU's campus this semester after its doors please shut in.
"It's a can of worms that I've opened, so I'm prepared to answer an question that concerns me."
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said a merger was not definitely planned
and that Chancellor Archie R. Dykes was awaiting the opinions of the men's and women's athletics directors before taking further action.
"The students are just returning to school now and, for many of them, this is the first they've heard of KU joining ASK. There will be things they want to know that their student body presidents can't tell them. That's what it'll be for there."
When asked if he thought KU would overshadow K-State in the organization Brownback replied, "I would like not to," and the group responded something might Mike and I will have to discuss."
Currently, all other Kansas Board of Regents schools and Washburn University are members of ASK, each paying 22 cents a month. If KU paid the full fee, it would be $1,000.
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KU's membership, the resolution said, is subject to the approval by the student senates of each member school and the legislative assembly of ASK.
Harper said that because smaller schools such as Fort Hays State and Washburn were considering pulling out of ASK because of lack of representation, KU's membership would be an advantage rather than a disadvantage to K-State.
The board of directors of ASK this summer passed a resolution recommending that KU be allowed a 10-month provisional membership fee for a reduced membership fee of $295.
The student senates of the member schools will vote on KU's membership this fall. One dissenting vote would block KU's membership.
Although initially enthusiastic about KU's joining ASK, K-State's student body president, Sam Brownback, now has second hobbies, Harper said.
*K-State is a different animal academician and the other Regents have Harper said.
"The deal is already made," he said. "To back down now would be poor judgment on me. I have been with the cost full, and before we do, I think we should be allowed the trial period with full evidence."
Harpar said he did not expect major problems with any of the schools except K-1.
Brownback was reluctant to discuss any objections he had to KU's provisional menu.
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Harper said he would not change the terms of the agreement.
"There was a lot of strong talk, but I think things have been pretty well hammered out," he said. "I'm sure the reduced fee for KU will play a role in the discussion Saturday, but I think it's been decided that we would have KU in KA. Mike is a good bargainer."
Harper said he thought that Brownback's objections might stem from a reluctance to give up K-State's power as the largest university and from the rivalry between the two schools.
"Not being a liberal arts school, they don't share the same goals. I think KU's memoirs are more about quitting because it would give them confidence that liberal arts schools are being well-represented, also. If any school quit, they could be doing of being a united front at the Legislature.
This, however, is not an indication that KU is doing better than other Kansas universities in attracting new students, Gillman in addition of admissions and records, said yesterday.
Figures cloud enrollment facts
The increase in freshmen students this year also does not mean that KU is escaping the crunch from declining totals of high school graduates, he said.
There are 175 more freshmen on the
Lake Chapel. University of Kansas than at last time lived.
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Of the 4,465 freshmen on campus, there could be some who have 29 credit hours and are not yet classified as sophomores, he said.
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A recent study of projected 12th grade enrollment showed that the number of Kansas high school students expected to graduate this spring would be about 7,000 more than the number expected to graduate in 1985.
Although they are disenchanted with
African presidents at Fort Hays and Washburn said
"Watches don't look too good right now, but 'treat about a month, then things will really start moving.' Kenny Shapiro, fraternity secretary said yesterday.
Although their prospects appear bleak now, the members of Alpha Epifania Pi, the only Jewish fraternity on campus, have high houses for their house.
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Although no one can pinpoint this semester's final head-count or class distribution, Dyck estimated Sunday that it would be 25,340 this semester, 13 more last fall.
He said about 880 students still need to be processed and that about 1,080 other students would have to wait.
Dyck said the early enrollment totals were "only a snapshot of how things are at the present time," and he would not offer any conclusions about the figures.
Currently on the Lawrence campus there are 4,485 freshmen; 3,540 sophomores; 3,638
Final figures from enrollment this fall will be released in about four weeks.
COMPARED WITH class distribution figures at the same time last year, there are 531 fewer sophomores; 275 more juniors, and 91 more seniors.
in KU's enrollment, but that until enrollment was completed, it would be hard to tell if a stabilization period were beginning this fall.
"I think enrollment will certainly level off," he said. "I think the question is who will have the most problems with it and the problem that KU will have the least problem."
Dyck said that he foresaw a stabilization
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, also agreed with predictions of a global strike.
ALSO RELEASED yesterday was a breakdown by school of current enrollment.
The percentage of increases in student numbers on the Lawrence campus has increased.
The School of Education had the largest drop in enrollment. Enrollment in the school was higher than the national average.
Dale Scannell, deed of education, said that he was not surprised by the decline and that it was becoming harder to place graduates in teaching positions.
He said that this year's drop in enrollment was the biggest since 1972. However, the number of graduate students enrolled at the university declined by about 20 percent this year by about 20 percent, he said. Rising numbers of teachers wants to upgrade their teaching skills was the reason for the decline.
The rest of the schools either slightly increased their enrollments or remained
Schools that experienced slight drops in enrollment are the schools of Journalism Wellington
The average freshman is enrolled in 14.7 hours; sophomores, 15.1, and seniors, 14.6.
The junior class was the only class that increased its average credit hours this semester. Last fall junior took an average of 12 hours, and this year the average is 12.9.
In addition to enrollment figures, course load averages were calculated for each class. Class loads have steadily declined since 1975.
Shut-down frat making comeback
Staff Reporter
By DEBRIECHMANN
Ambler savs stats affect students
Charts and graphs of past and predicted enrollment figures have been studied by KU administrators for several years, but students should begin to take a look at them too. David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said Wednesday.
"I think the quality of their education is tied to the continuing financial well-being of
our university," Ambier said. "That's why I think students ought to be concerned about
Until a few years ago, enrollment in colleges and universities was rising. Now that studies predict an enrollment drop, more classes designed to attract different kinds of students are being introduced at KU and other universities.
Ambler said the number of students on
since then concerning drugs at other fraternites."
In 1969, Alpha Epsilon Pi tried to make a comeback, but after three years, was forced to shutdown again because of problems with drugs.
Seven members of the fraternity
This semester, 18 KU students are trying to
open the house and keep it open.
Shanghai
currently are living in the house at 1218
members of 11 members are living outside
of the house
"Right now, nobody wants to live here because of the way it looks," Shapira said.
He said the Fraternity rented the house thinking much of it would be repaired and used for housing.
nowever, according to Shapiro, when the
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samples must continue to grow to compet-
ence for sky-rocketing operational costs at the
tower.
EXPENSES, SUCH as materials, teaching salaries and utility costs for buildings, will climb, regardless of class size.he said.
If a class of 50 students falls to the 48 next year, the money that inflation eats up has come either from the Legislature or from the students' pocketbooks, Amber said.
A recent prediction of total enrollment this fall exceeds last year's fall total by 13.
Ambler said the main reason for the slight increase was lower birthrates, in the past 15 to 20 years, causing smaller classes of high school graduates.
Enrolment figures for high school seniors began to slide last year and a study of projected high school graduating class from 1985 showed that 7,000 lower high school graduates in 1985.
Tentative enrollment statistics, released yesterday by Gil Dyck, deans of admissions and records, showed that the number of freshmen on campus today had increased.
AMBLER SAID that although statistics show an increase in freshmen this fall, KU was not experiencing any large increases in total enrollment.
"At this point we have the same high number of freshmen. We have not yet experienced the decline of the 18-year-old that can be ignored, is a factor that can't be ignored," he said.
Ambler said there had not been any changes in the way KU recruits students, but that KU had traditionally attracted students from other areas besides high schools.
"It's a flicking thing, Kansas had had a good record of the percentage of high school graduates in the job market."
He added that although the number of potential college students from high schools was dropping, the percentage of those who go to college could increase.
This, he said, might soften any impact that decreasing numbers of high school graduates would have on KU's enrollment statistics.
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Compressed by a telephoto lens these three signs seem to lead a driver antray. The two
right hand signs are at the Lawrence Community Center parking lot and the other is at the corner of Vermont and South Park streets.