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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Final enrollment figures to be released for Fall '84
Final fall enrollment figures will be released this afternoon by the department of educational services.
First day enrollment figures indicated that 24,558 students - 215 more than last year - were enrolled at the University of Kansas in August, according to Gary Thompson, director of student records. Thompson said in August that this fall's enrollment could break a record.
Prof to stress need for 'breaks'
Final enrollment statistics were compiled Sept. 21, the 20th of classes.
Johnson will focus on examples from English and American poetry.
Michael Johnson, professor of English,
tonight will discuss the importance of the
break after each line of poetry in his
speech, "Applying the Breaks: A Review
of the Poetic Line." He will speak at 7 p.m.
in 207 Blake Hall.
Chrysler to sponsor contest
run in the sun and driving cars safely will go hand in hand Saturday and Sunday at Potter Pavilion during the Third Annual Collegiate Driving Championship sponsored by the Chrysler Corporation.
Students are invited to drive a new Chrysler Dodge Daytona Turbo Z serpentine through pylons from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., said John Heeney, Student Union Activities Forum board member.
The driver with the fastest time will go on an all-expense paid spring break vacation to Daytona Beach. Fla., to compete in the national driving championship finals. Heeney said.
Movie star and KU alumnus Buddy Rogers will be on the KU campus Oct. 7 to accept the 'Life Achievement OZI' award given by the Kansas Film Institute
Film award to go to KU grad
The award presentation and the showing of one of Rogers' early films will be the culmination of the second Kansas Film and Video Festival, Oct. 5-7 at Dyce Hall.
Rogers, 80, made his first film in 1926. He had starring roles in 52 more movies in his 31-year career. Rogers is a native of Olathe.
Voters consider water issue
The Lawrence League of Women Voters will discuss a recent survey on water management for Kansas this Thursday and Monday.
and more. Warren Warner, 701 Tennessee St., who has been a member of the league for 35 years, said yesterday that the league had conducted two studies on the water problems in Kansas. One was done in 1977, and another was 1983.
Bar prefers appointing judges
The league will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday,
at 2617 Oxford Rd, at 9:15 a.m. Monday, at
Trinity Episcopal Church Library, 1011
Vermont St., and at 7:30 p.m. Monday, at
315 Park Hill Terrace
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Bar Association has endorsed judicial appointment instead of partisan elections of judges, an association spokeswoman said yesterday.
yesterday
Patti Slider, spokeswoman, said in a statement that the group had endorsed merit selection, which the American Bar Association also supported Cowley, Johnson and Shawnee counties will vote on the judicial selection method question in November.
Weather
Today will be cloudy and colder. The temperature will hold steady in the 30s and there is a 30 percent chance of rain. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 29 mph Tonight will be mostly cloudy and cold. The low will be in the low to mid-40s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and not as cold. The high will be in the mid-60s.
Correction
The Kansan yesterday incorrectly reported the location of a speech to be given tonight by Edward Maser, professor of art history at the University of Chicago. He will speak at 8 in the auditorium of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art
Snow frosts some states in the West
Cold front creeps in, casting autumn chill upon misty Lawrence
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
While Mother Nature dumped about two feet of snow on some Western states yesterday, a cold front made its way toward Lawrence — bringing a drastic drop in temperatures and light showers.
The showers, accompanied by lightning, began to dampen Lawrence last night. Autumn-like conditions were predicted for today, and Lawrence's Service predicted a temperature of 64.
Fog should appear this morning in low-lying areas, according to the KU Weather Service, and the chance for rain is 50 percent.
"It will be a cloudy, gray, gloomy day," said Mike Akulow, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.
In Montana, northern Wyoming and the western Dakotas, the first snowstorm of the season blanketed some mountain passes with as much as two feet of snow.
Cody, Wyo. has been buried under 17 inches of snow since autumn arrived Saturday. The snow snapped power lines and knocked down tree branches.
kicked down tree branches in LAWRENCE, SUMMER made a return appearance yesterday as residents swelled in 92-degree heat, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Fifty percent humidity added to the discomfort.
Alyce Johnson, Prairie Village junior, said she was pleased that cooler weather was on its way.
"We have no air conditioning here," said Johnson, a member of Ch Omega sorority, 1345 W. Campus Road, "so I think it's the best thing that can happen."
"The shorts have seen their last couple of days, I think." Johnson said.
She said she might wear corduroy pants or shacks today.
Normal temperatures for this time of year are a high of 78 and a low of 53, according to the National Weather Service.
Across Kansas, Akulow said, the cold front that originated in the Canadian Rockies will create cooler temperatures. Highs in the mid-50s are expected.
into 30s the capers. In northwestern and north central Kansas, frost may appear tonight. Temperatures may dip into the high-30s and low-40s, he said. Normally, frost does not appear in the Sunflower State until late October.
In lawrence, the temperature should drop to 41 tonight, according to the KU Weather Service. The service predicted a 50 percent chance of showers for tonight.
A firefighter douses a smoldering mattress after putting out a house fire at 1231 Brook St. The fire last night caused an unknown amount of damage. Carol Gannaway, 30, and her two children, who rent the house, were not home at the time
of the fire. The owner of the house, Jim Stuart, Route 2, Baldwin, said last night that the house was insured for about $30,000. The Lawrence Fire Department is investigating the cause of the fire, which was confined to a back bedroom.
Dean wants education center here
By DAN HOWELL
Staff Reporter
A state center for research in education should be located at the University of Kansas, if the Board of Regents decides to establish such a center, the dean of the School of Education said yesterday.
Dale Scannell, the dean, said the center should be on the campus with the most research-minded faculty and doctoral students.
"KU ought to be the place the center is located if it is created." Scannell said.
The center is one of 18 recommendations received by the Board of Regents on Friday in a 99-page report by a study team from the Academy for Educational Development Inc in Washington, D.C.
ing. Scannell said the center, if properly conceived, could be important to Kansas education.
The study was part of a comprehensive review of programs by the Regents through a five-year period. The Regents must approve changes in education programs or send proposals to the Kansas Legislature when required.
THE STUDY REPORT suggested a $ million appropriation in each of at least five years for the center and suggested as a name the Kansas Center for Excellence in Teaching
"It could serve as a stimulus to the kind of reform people in Kansas are asking for," he said.
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Among other recommendations, the report suggested discontinuing or modifying 25 of the 92 degree programs at the education schools of Regents institutions
Scannell said that although to of those programs were at KU, none were ones that the University deemed essential
"The report says a lot of nice things about KU!" he said.
the university deemed us dissatisfied. He said his initial reaction of general satisfaction with the report had not changed after a thorough reading of it.
THE STUDY COMMENTED favorably on the University's five-year teacher education program, the only such program at a Regents university.
Jerry Bailey, assistant dean of the School of Education, said he was pleased with the overall tone of the report and the potential of the center.
Regents university.
"Calling the program "a promising experiment," the study team recommended that the program be evaluated and that the five other Regents schools consider instituting it or a similar program.
the center.
"The proposal for the Center for Excellence may be the most important thing in the document," he said. "That could become a tremendous resource for faculty members in schools of education around the state."
Schools of Education
Stanley Koplik, executive director of the
Regents, said the report provided the Regents with suggestions for a variety of options.
Sandra McMullen, chairman of the Regents Academic Affairs Committee, said she was satisfied with the work of the study team
op108hL HIK HAS ASKED each Regents university to submit responses to the report by Oct 8 for consideration at the Oct. 18 Regents meeting
'I thought it was solid philosophically,' she said.
McMullen said the Regents' proposals, whether they follow the report's recommendations or modify them, probably would find a good reception at the Kansas Legislature.
"I think this area is one that the governor and the Legislature are equally interested in because the citizens are interested in it," she said.
Jerry Horn, associate dean of education at Kansas State University, said the report could produce good results if used by people who understood the educational system.
S CANNELL SAID HE had mixed reactions to a recommendation to raise the minimum American College Testing composite score by 1990 for entering students to a level higher than the current average composite score of 18.1.
"I would rather put emphasis on requirements at the end of the program instead of the beginning." "he said"
Students oppose library site, start petition to save tree
By JULIE COMINE
Staff Reporter
Several student senators who are concerned about the future of the 59-foot tall American Elm just north of the Military Science Building have started a petition opposing the site of the new science and technology library.
technology we "realize the need for the science and technology library," Mark "Gilligan" Sump, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said yesterday. "But we also feel that construction of the library on this site would destroy one of the most beautiful areas on this campus."
Architects began drawing preliminary plans for the library last month, said Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning. Construction could begin as early as the summer of 1987.
campus The site for the library is between the Military Science Building and Hoch Auditorium.
WECHECH SAD THE LIBRARY's architects were "very conscious" of the trees in the area and were trying to accommodate the 70-year-old elm into their plans.
"we're very much aware of the tree," he said. "We'd like to save the tree. We'll just have to see if it's feasible."
have to see him Sump said he began organizing the petition in May with the help of several friends and student senators.
"The University prides itself in the aesthetic value of this campus," he said. "And yet here we are, eating up another beautiful space with concrete and bricks."
Wechert said, "We don't build buildings to make the campus look ugly. We hope that the new library will be an asset to the University."
University Sump said he already had 400 signatures on his petition, which would be submitted to the Student Senate University Affairs Committee on Oct. 2. If approved, the petition will go to the full Senate on Oct. 9.
SUMP AND SOME *r* friends will collect
more signatures from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this
week on Wescoe Beach and next week at a booth outside the Kansas Union. Sump said, Petitions also will be distributed at residence halls
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"We're aiming for 3,000 signatures," he said. "Our goal is to make the administration aware of the concern that both faculty and students have for preserving the beauty of the campus."
The elm - one of the largest trees on campus can't be moved and replanted because of the expense. Wiechert said.
According to Jim Mathes, assistant director of landscape maintenance for the department of facilities operations, moving a tree the size of the elm would cost between $4,000 and $6,000.
because of the tree's branches span more than 90 feet and the circumference of the elm's trunk is about 11 feet.
$4,000 and $5,000.
EVEN IF MOVED and repplanted, there is no guarantee the tree would survive. Mathes said.
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Plans for the library should be completed by January 1895. Wiechert said, and then will
be submitted to the Kansas Legislature for approval.
approved University officials selected the site because of its proximity to other science classroom buildings on campus, he said.
"There's plenty of space for a large academic building on the site," he said. "The area is under-utilized for the major academic mission of the University."
But those who want to save the elm tree say he University could find another site
Kiesa Harris, Student Senate executive secretary, suggested that the library could be built on West Campus
"THE PROPOSED SITE is an ideal location for science students — right in the middle of campus," she said. "But science students can walk as well as anyone else."
Sump suggested that the library could be built into the hill between Malot and Stauffer Flint halls.
Sutherland the base.
But Wiechert said that the hill's slope and the geology of the area made the site unsuitable for construction.
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THE AMATEUR ATHLETICS ALBATROSS WILL CONTINUE TO CLAIM VICTIMS
Although a recent study commissioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) concluded that, in the words of Ted Bartell who directed the study, "black athletes are not able to be fully competitive academically in college and less likely to graduate (because) they are not getting the kind of core curriculum (high school) to be fully competitive in college," Kansas University officials want the NCAA to modify its academic eligibility standards for first-year athletes
Perhaps because these local moguls so frequently find time to whine about the NCAA standards, they remain uncharacteristically silent about the exploitative public education system which maintains a disregard of its intended beneficiaries a disadvantaged state. When professional educators and politicians measure the educational apparatus's success by the number of diplomas distributed, our public schools receive tax dollars even when they fail to reach many of their both black and white charges
both black and white charges
After trying "to find something that's fair" Kansas University Athletic Director Monte Johnson describes as evolutionary rather than revolutionary" the Kansas University Athletic Corporation board's recent call for an increase of some $2 million in the athletic department's budget during the next two years
department's budget constraints.
By rewarding this constructive mechanism while studiously ignoring the real problem, a few dignitaries can ensure that the amateur athletics albatross will continue to claim victims.
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