University Daily Kansan
Monday, August 28, 1978
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Senate to look at pre-enrollment
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Renorter
Unless the University of Kansas steps up its effort to implement campus wide pre-enrolment, the Student Senate plans to take the matter into its own hands.
"Most universities have an efficient plan for computerized pre-enrollment. It's time KU had one, too," Ed Bigus, student senator, said Friday.
"The administration has a committee looking into pre-enrollment, but that committee has been in existence for a long time. It doesn't even meet regularly. If we can put together a suitable plan ourselves, then that to the administration," he said.
Bigus circulated a petition calling for enrolment at Allen Field House during enrollment. Its purpose, he said, was to see how many students would support pre-
"It's just to rally for public support for what we're doing," he said. "We'll leave the petition in the Student Senate office for anyone who wants come in and sign it."
Bigus said about 409 signatures had been obtained for the netting Friday.
He said he would work with Mike Harper, student body president, to form a new school board.
"We'll be checking up on what the administrative committee has done and meet with people to discuss an alternative plan," he said.
But Biggs said he did not know how soon KU would have pre-enrollment.
"It would be nice to have it next semester, but I doubt if that's possible," he said. "We'll try to have it by next fall if that's feasible."
In addition to the Senate, the deans of several schools have cited advantages to them.
Hugh Cotton, associate dean of the School of Pharmacy, said his school had been using a computer to teach.
"It saves us a lot of time," he said. "We know how many classes and sections to prepare for. We know when to add or delete sections."
Cotton said campus wide pre-enrollment would make enrollment in the School of
"Our program would be even more successful if all the schools pre-enrolled," he said, "I think all the schools should pre-enroll."
Dale Scannell, dean of the School of Education, said that problems with closed sections and closed classes could be minimized by pre-enrollment. He said the early planning involved in pre-enrollment would not be a problem.
"Pre-enrollment would help us to plan classes and the number of sections," he said. "I tend to favor pre-enrollment despite the fact there may be a few classes I don't know, programs that we new computer facilities the University would look at it again."
Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, said pre-enrollment should be the perogative of the students. And, although it would limit their flexibility in choosing classes, he said pre-enrollment would improve the quality of pulling class cards at the field boxes.
Pichler said pre-enrollment would give business students several advantages.
"If we had advance knowledge of numbers of students, we could plan some classes."
Phone deposits required only for credit risks
At first inspection, it might seem that Southwestern Bell's Lawrence business office has been determining at random the deposits it charges new customers.
3y ROBIN ROBERTS Staff Reporter
Before May 1, all new customers were charged a $5 deposit unless they submitted a letter of guarantee from parents or friends and placed an account in good standing with the phone company.
Now, under an experimental policy, $55 is the minimum amount charged with the maximum figure reaching more than $200. However, according to new guidelines, only bad credit risks are required to pay deposits.
Bad risks, as seen by the phone company, are persons who have had delinquent notices or unpaid bills on previous phone calls. The phone company with bad credit accounts elsewhere.
POLLY KNIGHT, manager of Southwestern Bell's Lawrence office, said the phone company did not think all students were credit risks.
The deposit is determined by estimating how much a customer's service charge and long distance bill will be for a two-month period. To this, this estimate on an application for service.
NIGHT SAID if the customer un-
derstands that the charge, an
additional fee could be collected.
Knight also said people not required to pay deposits could be asked to pay one later.
Knight said the reason for the high deposits was the phone company's billing structure. She said by the time one month's bill is delinquent enough for service to be disconnected, almost another month of service could have been used.
*All we have done is eliminate good creditors and new accounts from those who are already using it.*
She also said deposits had to pay for the expense of collecting an unpaid bill.
and sections earlier," he said. "About 85 percent of our courses could be planned in advance. Pre-enrollment would also get students thinking about their schedules earlier."
However, despite support from students and faculty members, KU does not appear to be moving toward computerized preenrolment.
Since 1974, the University has studied the possibility of implementing computerized pre-enrollment. In May 1976, KU students who previously would be pre-enrolling by spring 1978.
"The administrative decision to purchase the program or to use the present system for a type of pre-enrollment has not yet been made. The decision is made, it may take a year or more before the equipment can be used for the optimized pre-enrollment and scheduling."
The only hold up, according to Jerry
"We have to cover and protect our air," Don just pick an amount out of the air."
Magnuson, director of administrative information systems, was the completion of a comprehensive computerized record system. He said that once the system was complete, KU would be capable of conducting campus wide pre-enrollment.
Magnuson said that Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and Ronald Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, probably would recommend such a decision and Chancellor Archie R. Dykes would give final approval.
Although the system is now complete, KU students still are not en-trelling.
Magnuson said Friday that the record system had been completed since spring 1978, but that it was not capable of computerized scheduling.
Lobbies back smoking tax to fund student programs
Before that is possible, he said, an additional computer program will have to be
By TAMMY TIERNEY Staff Reporter
Although the U.S. Surgeon General says cigarette smoking is harmful to people's health, it may help keep the University of Kansas' women's athletics program alive.
Associated Students of Kansas, a student lobbying organization, is planning to propose a bill to the Kansas Legislature this fall to require Kansas cigarette sales. The additional revenue generated by the tax, which should be about $4. 3 million, would go to the Kansas Board of Egents schools to fund women's improvements for handicapped students.
"Of course, if KU doesn't join ASK, it will be major issue, and we'll be ready to become major."
Ron Allen, a member of Concerned Students for Higher Education, a KU lobbying organization, said CSHE also would support the bill.
The KU Student Senate is negotiating to join ASK. KU's admission is subject to the approval of the senates of other member colleges. The KU Student Senate. Voting will be during September.
"IT WON'T BE our major issue," he said, "but we intend to lobby for it.
According to Mike Harper, student body president, the success of a cigarette-tax bill has been one of his greatest achievements.
He said Friday that part of the money would go toward financing women's college.
toward funding projects for handicapped students.
"RIGHT NOW, handicapped students are limited in the classes they can take because they aren't accessible," he said. "Improved facilities would attract more handicapped students to KU and make the University more accessible to those already here."
He said improvements for handicapped students would include ramps, curb-cuts, elevators, signs and remodeling of restrooms.
The balance of the funding for women's athletics would help eliminate a $3 fee increase, imposed this year to fund women's sports.
"Women's athletics will continue to expand," Harper said, "and we need another way to fund it until it becomes revenue producing.
"If this bill doesn't pass our only alternative is increased fees, which means an increase in our fee structure."
HARPER SAID he did not think women's athletics would be revenues for manufacturing.
THE SUCCESS OF the cigarette tax bill also would justify joining ASK, an expenditure of $2,500 this year and about $10,000 next year. Harper said.
In July, the ASK board offered KU a 10-month membership for $25,000. After that the membership fee would jump to 25 cents for each student, or about $10,000.
"If this bill is successful and we can eliminate the women's athletic fee, then
we'll have saved approximately $5,000 as opposed to what we'd spend join ASK," as
Last year, women's athletics was
badgeted a little more than $4,000 out of
the budget.
"ASK WILL also be lobbying for the graduate and minimum wage for Harper."
If KU JOIN ASK, the Senate will seek the regents' access of the cigarette tax bill the governor has approved.
"Success with any of those projects would certainly justify the expense of joining."
"They did not approve funding of women's athletics last year," he said, "because of a lack of resources, and they asked us for a good alternative.
"This is it. I think they'll be supportive."
He said ASK also would ask Ross Dayen, president of the State Senate, to endorse and work with him.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
called the proposal a "combination of ways
to address several needs otherwise not easy to
meet."
He suggested dividing the tax so that 1 cent went to women's athletics 1 cent to improvements for the handicapped and 1 cent to generate more support from the Legislature.
"Cigarettes have been known to cause cancer," he said, "so maybe the cause will be with you."
A new computer system that stores student records could enable the University of Kansas to begin pre-enrollment as early as the fall of 1979, Ralph Christofferss, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said last week.
"The development of the student records system is nearly completed," Christofersen said. "The next step is pre-requisite, which is a likely possibility for next fall."
The system has been in use since the beginning of summer 1978. Except for a computer failure early this summer, the system has run smoothly.
Computer key to pre-enrolling
The breakdown occurred when information was read incorrectly by the computer, causing a holdup in enrollment charges. The computer was repaired free of charge by IBM.
Although the new system speeds up student record-keeping enormously, the improvements were not apparent to students enrolling this fall, he said.
Christopher森 said he was not sure that students would prefer pre-enrollment.
"You would get the courses you want, but maybe not at a convenient time. The student would lose some flexibility in scheduling his classes," Christoffersen said.
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