Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 22, 1990
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Fresh start for KU's 125th year
Budig opens with changes
Patrick G. Brungardt/Special to the KANSAN
Panel members listen as Chancellor Gene A. Budig speaks at convocation in Hoch Auditorium. The annual ceremony, which officially starts the school year, was attended by 500 people this year.
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
By Jennifer Schultz
Korean staff writer
Chancellor Gene A. Budg welcomed students, parents and faculty at Opening Convocation on Sunday afternoon, announcing a series of lectures and symposiums to celebrate the University of Kansas' 125th anniversary.
Budig addressed 500 people at Hoch Auditorium at the annual convocation, which officially opens the school year.
The KU Heritage Lecture Series, which will include six lectures, will focus on the history and traditions of KU. The symposiums, which will address challenges facing the University, will be in April.
To maintain the high quality of education at KU, changes have been made at the University, Budig said.
In the School of Architecture, a new bachelor's degree program in architectural studies has been created to give students a broader education emphasizing more liberal arts, he said.
The School of Business will begin requiring students to take classes in a non-business area, Budig said, with additional course work in language
In the School of Journalism, a business communications major has been created, he said.
"KU doesn't rest on its laurels," Budig said.
Budig recognized three faculty members with Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Professorships in 1988 and contributed in 1989 through contributions to the
Kansas University Endowment Association.
The honored faculty are Mary Moran, professor of special education at the University of Kansas Medical Center and research associate with the KU Bureau of Child Research; Barbara兰耐姆斯-Badis-Rogers at the MED Center; and Dennis Dailye, professor of social welfare.
Each recipient will receive a cash bonus.
Budig also recognized Alexandra
Mason, a librarian at the Spencer Research Library, who received the Chancellor's Distinguished Library award of help to students and faculty.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, also welcomed students and wished them luck in the coming year. Mr. Schreiner will permit themselves to higher education.
"It gave you the chance to get to know who your deans and to kick off the school year." Johnston said.
"It's our responsibility to convince our leaders that an investment in education is a top priority," he said.
man, said he thought the convocation was impressive.
Pork Gipyo, a new student from South Korea, expressed surprise at the low student attendance.
"In South Korea, we give more importance to the official convocation than U.S. students We have a committee for the chancellor." Giyao said.
David Johnston, Lawrence fresh
City sales tax will increase
Police,fire departments plan to add manpower,equipment
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence voters earlier this month approved a half-cent increase in the city sales tax that will pay for increased police and fire protection and will provide property-tax relief.
The Lawrence Police Department already is preparing to increase its force by almost 40 members of the Delaware, department spokesperson.
City officials expect the increase, which will go into effect Oct. 1, to raise about $2.7 million in 1918. About$ 1.4 million will pay for hiring and equipping 27 police officers and nine firefighters. The rest will go to reduce property taxes levied by the city next year.
Mulvenon said the police department employed 71 officers.
Most of the recruits will be new to law enforcement and will go through the Lawrence Police Department Academy, where they learn more than 700 hours of training before going on patrol. Mulvenon said.
He said the department expected to begin the selection process for the additional officers late September or early october.
Police Chief Ron Olin asked the
Lawrence City Commission for the additional officers this summer in response to requests from citizens for community meetings. Muvengon said.
"We were stretched to the limit with the manpower we had at the time," Mulvenon said. "The only way to increase our manpower was to increase the manpower."
The department expects the extra officers to mean an increase in standard offense reports, traffic violations and other incidents to the community, Mulvenon said.
"Hopefully, it will mean a decrease in the response time to non-emergency calls." he said. It would be an hour to respond to those calls.
Mulvenon said increased police activity could aggravate overcrowding in the Douglas County Jail.
Loren Anderson, Douglas County sheriff, said he did not think conditions at the jail would change soon because it would take a year for the city to get the new officers ready for duty.
"We already have plans that when it gets overcrowded we'll go to surrounding communities for tail sneak," he said.
Recycling program expands
The jail is operating at capacity Anderson said.
'Blue monster' collects newspapers in front of Stauffer-Flint
Blue monster
By Mike Bruss
Kansan staff writer
By Mike Brassfield
The big blue dumpster in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall is a sign of the times, and the University of Kansas is moving into the '90s with an expansion of its recycling program.
The program, which began in January with the installation of collection bins for aluminum cans, makes the collection of newspapers.
Endacott said the dumpster would be placed between Stauffer Flint and Wesco halls Sept. 7.
"the dumpster is for newspaper and only for newspaper," said Phil Endacott, associate director of facilities operations. "Its purpose is to visible sign on campus in order to increase awareness of recycling."
"It will be closer to the service drive of Wescoe, less visible from Jayhawk Boulevard and more accessible to people who want to drive up and dump newspapers," he said.
He said the dumper was donated by facilities operations and was painted by members of a student, a student environmental group.
"The students have done a fantastic job of bringing attention to this issue," he said. "It takes some kind of big deal for a large foreign student, so it's displayed on campus. It's not the most assaultably pleasing object."
The dumpster is a temporary measure, he said, and the School of Engineering has agreed to assign students to design a more attractive receptacle, such as a permanent shed.
"Then perhaps this blue monster we created will go back into hibernation," Endacott said.
He said that the dumpster eventually might be set in front of various residence halls but that no definite plans had been made.
The dumpster will not be the only addition to campus this semester, Endacott said. The aluminum recycling program also will be expanded by 20 to 25 barrels.
Facilities operations is paying for the containers, which will be added to the 26 yellow barrels already on campus.
Endacott said that the new barrels also were yellow but that their lids were more functional and made from wooden plugs on the old containers.
It has not been decided where all of the barrels will be placed.
Mike Richardson, acting director of facilities operations, said no local recycling company had a deal to haul the recyclables away.
"Nothing has been finalized yet, but the plan is that whenever we get a load of aluminum or newspaper, we'll call around to local recyclers to see who has the best price," he said.
Both River City Recycling and United Recycling are out of business, said James Diffenderfer, head of the KU recycling task force. Both companies have had to travel back to haul aluminum off campus.
In Lawrence, Conservation Resources offers residential curbside pickup of recyclables. Conservation Resources takes aluminum and other metals, glass, plastic, plastics and paper of all kinds.
All four Dillon grocery stores take aluminum, plastic bottles, and paper and plastic grocery sacks.
Lonnie's Auto Recycling, 624 N.
Second St., accepts aluminum and
other metals. The company also
sorted into clear and brown bottles.
Kaw Motor and Salvage Co., 1549 N. Third St., takes aluminum and other metals.
Newspapers can be dropped off at the Lawrence High School, 2017 Louisiana St.; the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence, 1520 Haskell Ave.; Fire Department No. 3, 3708 W. Sixth St.; Hillcrest Center, Ninth and Iowa streets, and Saint John's Church, 1229 Vermont St.
Used motor oil and car batteries can be dropped off at the City Garage, 1141 Haskell Ave. or in storage for 1 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays.
Tuition rises again this year
By Kendra Murray
Kansan staff writer
Tution at the University of Kansas has increased for the second consecutive year, and a board of Regents is expected to expect more increases in the future.
The in-state undergraduate tuition and campus fees for the fall semester are $782, up from$ 756 in the spring. Total out-of-state undergraduate fees jumped to $2,344 from last spring's$ 2,155.
Marvin Burris, Regents assistant director of budgeting, said tuition would continue to increase for the Regents and Regents could meet budget targets.
These targets include comparable tuition pricing with peer institutions, meeting or exceeding the budget and cost range of the fee-cost curve, Burris said.
The fee-cost ratio is a formula used by the Regents to measure what percentage of education costs students are required to pay. The formula is the total tuition divided by the total budget, Burris said. The Regents voted in February to keep the ratio between 25 percent and 33 percent.
Gary L. Thompson, director of student records, said that this semester, in-state students would pay for 15 to 18 percent of their education costs. Out-of-state students will pay about 28 percent of their education costs
"That's a pretty good bargain," Thompson said. "Compared to other states, Kansas is pretty inexpensive. In fact, we get most of our students from Kansas. The next state is Missouri, and the next is Illinois. The reason for that is our non-resident community, and it favorsavorably with their resident rates."
Burris said the cost of attending KU was lower than the national average, which last year was $1,018 and in 2017 was$ 2,616 for out-of-state students.
There is no exact breakdown in the allocation of tuition fees. Burris said that all tuition fees were sent to the University, so students would appropriate them to the University.
"The Legislature treats tuition dollars pretty much like the tax dollar," Burris said.
Although tuition is sent to the state, campus fees stay at the University. Thompson said Campus fees are used to finance student health services, student activities, women's and non-revenue sports, educational fees and grants. The college offers free tuition for full-time students for Fall 1990 is $169, up from$ 150 in the spring.
Tamya Heim, Little River graduate student, said of the fee increase, "It was a surprise, and I was not quite sure," he said. "I didn't feel about it. I'm not too happy about it."
Kansan staff report
Final exam period may shorten
Chancellor Gene A. Budig will submit a proposed 1992-93 KU calendar, which shortens the final examination period from eight days to six days, to the Board of Regents this week for approval, James Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said Monday.
He said that according to the proposed schedule, the Fall 1992 semester would begin Aug. 24 and end Dec. 10. Fall final examinations would be
scheduled between Dec. 14 and Dec.
21. The Spring 1993 semester would begin Jan. 12 and would end May 4.
The Fall 1993 semester would be scheduled between Dec. 6 and May 14.
The proposed calendar, which must be submitted by Sept. 1, complies with the Regents requirement that the number of instructional days be increased from 72 to 75 days a semester, Scaly said.
"The school year will be one day longer than it is now," he said.
Frances Ingemann, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said the details of how long examinations would last and how many examinations each student could take in one day would be left up to the SenxE Calendar Committee and University Council.
Ingemant said students with more than two examinations scheduled on one day might be allowed to reschedule examinations.
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