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Phillip Paludan, KU professor of history, said allowing unprepared students into Kansas universities was costly.
Limited class space should go to students who are prepared to learn at the college level, he said.
In addition, instructors must slow the entire class to teach basics to unprepared students.
"While you are repeating yourself, struggling like crazy to find the way to say it so that that kid will look at you and say, 'I got it,' " Paludan said, "the two are five, seven, twelve . . . who have worked hard to be there, who have sacrificed a lot, who have been trying to see who are ready to make that classroom an exciting place and . . . who are waiting."
But Phyllis Chase, general director of curriculum and instruction for the Topka Unified School District, said that a student's abilities could not be measured with test scores and GPAs. A student's motivation, attitude and emotional maturity also are important factors.
"There is no one indicator of success in life," Chase said. "I've seen many of the students who weren't qualified at the level they needed to be come back blossomed and matured."
Koepke said that although all other states had some form of qualified admissions, none had a policy that applied uniformly to all its institutions. Some schools have different goals than others, he said.
In addition, if the state wants to save money, there are better ways to do so. Koepke said he questioned the need for having seven graduate programs in one state and suggested that each would be better if there were fewer.
But Kopik insisted that the most important concern was quality, and that qualified admissions would change little except the degree to which students prepare themselves for college.
"We truly believe if you raise the high bar of expectations, students will measure up," Kopfik said. "Just keep doing to do more. They'll do more."
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Students celebrate Taiwan's birthday with spirited show
By Tatsuya Shimizu
Korean staff writer
KU Taiwanese students yesterday celebrated their national birthday with a chair performance, folk traditional costumes and rock music.
Kansan staff writer
About 200 people watched the China Day Show last night at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. It was presented by Chinese Students Association, a student organization at Arizona State University to promote Chinese Day, which is tomorrow.
The show featured a Taiwanese student chair; tai-chi chuan, Chinese shadow boxing; pi-pa, a Chinese four-string vertical lute performance; traditional folk dances; Taiwanese rock music and a costume
Six costumes from various Chinese dynasties were displayed on stage.
One of the costumes, which was worn by an emperor of the Chou dynasty in 12th century B.C., was a yellow silk gown with dragon embroidery and a hat with dozens of pearls.
Yellow was a color of kings, and dragons symbolized nobility, said Joyce Tsou, graduate student from Taipei, Taiwan. She said ordinary people could not wear yellow clothes at that time.
The costumes were borrowed from a Taiwanese coordinate consulate in
Joe Lee, professor of civil engineering and adviser for Chinese Students Association, said that last night's show was good because it included many original programs, and many students joined the show.
Kansas City, Mo., said Hong Chi Liu,
president of Chinese Students Association.
They are loaned to show Chinese culture to the U.S. public.
China Day, which is Oct. 10 and known as double 10 day because both the month and the date are repre- sented in October, the number 10 is Taiwan's national birthday.
Liu said that the Taiwanese celebrated the day with firecrackers and remembered the nation's father, Sun Yat-Sen, who proclaimed the Republic of China and organized the parachutarian nationalist government.
After the communist government seized power in mainland China in 1949, the nationalist government fled to Taiwan and re-established the republic. Taiwan does not recognize mainland China as a sovereign state.
Michael Welker, St. Louis, Mo.
senior, said he enjoyed the show.
"It was very enriched," he said.
He spent three months in Taiwan and five months in mainland China last year.
"It's very obvious that both sides believe they are China and the other side is wrong." he said.
Students model authentic Chinese dynasty costumes.
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Governor starts drug programs
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The governor's office announced yesterday the implementation of two new drug and alcohol awareness programs, one aimed at Hispanic students and the other at university students.
One campaign, part of Gov. Mike Hayden's "Toward a Dog race" program, will be launched tomorrow. It is called "Dile Que No!; Piemsal!" meaning "Stay smart: Don't start."
School children aged 8 through 12, their parents and teachers will receive information to discourage the use of alcohol in the Hispanic community.
The program, developed by the National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organization and federal agencies, is being sponsored in Kansas by the Kansas Advisory Committee on Hispanic Affairs, Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and the governor's office.
The other program, to be financed with $38,000 in federal money, is a designated driver program for unit students through Fort Hays State University.
Hayden said the goal of the 15-month grant is to establish a designed driver program at every facility. Hayden said his highest-risk 18-to-24 age group, he said.
Touring activists discuss finer points of marijuana
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
Marijuana activists touring more than 70 Midwestern towns this fall rolled into Lawrence yesterday.
They said the purpose of the tour was to educate.
Even in the rain, about 25 people came to the Park zoo gate, 13th and Massachusetts streets, to learn more about the secrets of marijuana.
David Ulmo, co-chairperson of a Coalition for the Preservation of American Rights, said his group was
"There has been a miseducation campaign going on since 1937," Ulmo said.
In 1987, the Marijuana Tax Act was passed, making the cultivation of marijuana plants illegal in the United States.
Ulme said that before the passage of this act, hemp fibers were used for
He said he once fought for the legalization of marijuana because he thought it was a basic human right. But now, he said it was about pre-emptive punishment.
everything from clothing to fuel.
Joe lonno, director of Southeast Hemp, said hemp was a much better source for naper than was wood.
Hemp could be used as a fuel because it is fibrous and would give off less pollutants, Ulmo said.
"It grows in more soils and climates than any other crop." Ionno
said. "One acre of hemp produces the same amount of pulp as four acres of wood."
He said that hemp was the only crop that could supply the energy that the world needed but that corporate suppression kept hemp from becoming the primary resource for fuel in the United States.
"For money they are willing to pollute the planet," he said.
The group brought with them books, buttons, T-shirts and research. They showed the 1942
documentary "Hemp for Victory," and discussed some of the topics in Jack Herer's book "The Emperor Wears No Clothing."
Dan Viets, a Columbia, Mo. lawyer who travels with the tour, said he wasn't trying to promote marijuana smoking but rather the people's right to make the choice to smoke it.
He said the group had traveled to several towns already this fall and expected to stop in 60 more towns this spring.
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