High hopes
Last year, North Carolina native Danny Manning transferred to Lawrence High School and led the Lions to the state finals. Now the 6-11 Manning, the most acclaimed
Jayhawk freshman since Wilt Chamberlain says he's ready to challenge Oklahoma and the great Wayman Tisdale. See story, page 16.
High, mid-90s. Low, 70.
Details on page 3.
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 2 (USPS 650-640)
Monday, August 27, 1984
Budig encourages KU faculty and students
By MARY CARTER
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budig this morning urged KU faculty members to continue their efforts to achieve the University of Kansas' potential, despite being "occasionally under-valued or overlooked."
An advance text of Budig's remarks was released for use today. He was to speak during the University's 119th opening convocation at 9:30 a.m. in Hoe Auditorium.
In the remarks, Budig said to the students,
"I urge you to re-dedicate yourselves to a
genuine search for knowledge. Not merely information or training, but knowledge, of yourself and of the range of human achievement."
achievement.
TO THE FACULTY, he said, "Continue this year your efforts to achieve this University's potential and your own.
"Your, your research and scholarship, and your communication through teaching and publication of the knowledge you have acquired, constitute one of our state's great treasures — although occasionally under-valued or overlooked."
Budig also said, "Efforts have been undertaken to allow our faculty and students
to stay abreast of developments in their fields and to gradually push back the limits of those fields and of our understanding."
loose fields and our understanding. More than $875,000 has been added to the budget of University libraries, and the state Legislature has approved planning money for the first phase of a new Science and Technology Library, he said.
of Kansas to "remember the ideals expressed in the 1860s, that the University would be the place to insure the greatest knowledge in any special branch of learning."
TECHNOLOGY THE UNIVERSITY ALSO is trying to raise "important endowment" for the purchase and maintenance of scientific equipment, as well as working to match a $1 million National Endowment for the Humanities grant, he said.
"Without public support, we cannot do this, nor can we make any progress." he said. "We will continue to present the case for higher education to the people of the state and to their elected representatives.
Budig also asked KU alumni and the people
"With help from our faculty and students, we will continue to explain what it is we do and why it is so important. The people of Kansas, in my experience, are most receptive and understanding."
THREE KU PROFESSORS and one from Kansas State University were to receive Higuchi/Endowment Research Achievement Awards, and three other KU professors were to receive Kansas University Endowment Association Teaching Professorships just before Budig spoke.
just before the game.
Budig and D. Kav Clawson, executive vice chancellor for KU's Kansas City and Wichita campuses, presented the Higuchi awards.
campuses, preacademic. Robert Casas, H. John H. and John M. Kane distinguished professor of law at KU, received the Balfour Jeffrey Award for
See SPEECH, p. 5, col. 1
Karen Mueller, Winfield special student, practices the dulcimer during the Kansas Fiddling and Picking Cham pionships held yesterday in South Park. Mueller entered the autoharp, ensemble singing and dulcimer categories.
Musicians pick their way to top
By ERIKA BLACKSHER
Staff Reporter
The sounds of musicians plucking guitars and banjos wafted over a warm breeze yesterday at South Park as music lovers gathered for the fourth annual Kansas Fiddling and Picking Championships.
Contests this and yesterday's help to preserve bluegrass music, said Keith Alber
MONDAY MORNING
ding, a member of the contest's planning committee.
"It's a real good way for the musicians in this area and surround areas to get together and swap tunes." Aberding said. Steve Mason, a member of the planning committee and a contestant, said the
committee At the park, spectators strategically had placed their blankets and lawn chairs in shaded areas in front of the two stages.
musicians valued get together to keep alive the tradition of bluegrass music.
a very social sport.
Wilma and Lori Howie, a mother and daughter team in the banjo and folk singing category, traveled from Abilleen for the contest. They said bluegrass musicians were rare in their home town.
Don Tabler played the dulcerer as he sat on a lawn chair at the park. A competitor in both state and national contests, he said the gatherings gave him a chance to see old friends and improve his art.
"IF YOU HAVE a community that doesn't provide time for musicians to get together, you lose them," he said.
rare in their women. The two women said they met new friends and other musicians at the contests. The acquaintances swap songs and ideas in a casual network of people with similar musical tastes, they said.
you lose them," he said. "Nobody is going to sit down and play a mandolin by themselves," Mason said. "It's a very social sport."
YESTERDAY'S CONTENT HAS evolved from its start in 1976 as a Douglas County
competition to its statewide emphasis of today. Organizers hoped when the contest was started that other counties would establish their own competition, Mason said, but the interest was not there.
Kansas does not have a tradition of bluegrass, Mason said. But Missouri does and the bluegrass in Kansas is a "spill over" from Missouri.
Yesterday's competition, which Mason estimated had attracted between 1,500 to 2,000 people throughout the day, was sponsored by several local businesses and donations from spectators.
Seven categories were included in the contest; banjo, mandolin, flat-pick guitar, mountain dulcimer, ensemble folk singing, fiddle and other string instruments
fiddlers and pickers value the recognition a trophy gives, Mason said. When a musician advertises that he has won a state championship, it attracts people.
Trophies and certificates were awarded to the top three winners in each category.
Many enroll late, causing long lines
By CHRISSY CLEARY
Staff Reporter
Surprisingly large numbers of late enrollments and misprinted late enrollment cards caused long lines at Strong Hall's computer enrollment center Wednesday and Thursday.
The long lines translated into overtime hours for workers at the enrollment center. Enrollment was supposed to end at 5 p.m. Thursday, but it didn't end until 10:20 p.m., said Gary Thompson, director of student records. Friday's enrollment went normally, he said.
he said.
About twice as many students showed up to late enrol at the enrollment center Thursday than were expected. Thompson said.
"The appointments were scheduled in March, and you have to predict." Thompson said. "There were just a lot more students than we expected."
Complicating the backup was a misprint of last enrollment dates printed on enrollment cards last spring, Thompson said. The cards, which list dates and times for students to enroll, read Aug. 23 when they should have read Aug. 24.
ONLY STUDENTS WHO had to go through late enrollment were affected by the misprint.
misprint
Thompson said that KU officials noticed the strain in the spring. Corrected late-enrollment cards were printed this summer, but some students were given the incorrect late-enrollment cards by their schools or departments.
schools or departments"
"We realized we needed to correct this," Thompson said. "It was either re-run all the enrollment cards or just late enrolment. So we ran late enrolment corrections since students going through late enrollment are
See ENROLL, p. 5, col. 4
Staff Reporter
Car discovered at KU 16-year-old girl still missing
By LEROY LEIKER
Gopal Gowan knew that his younger sister was accreted when she left home Thursday morning to enroll in her first semester at the University of Kansas. But when she had not returned by 3 p.m. that day, he knew something was wrong.
The Govan family has not seen 16-year old Indra since she left the family-operated Jayhawk Motel, 1004 N. Third St., Thursday in her dark blue Plymouth Volunte.
Indra is a diabetic, Gopal said, who requires medication daily.
Lawrence police are investigating but have no leads. Indra is 5 feet tall and weighs 90 pounds. She has brown eyes and black hair and was last seen wearing a blue blouse, blue jeans and brown sandals.
Gopaal said that he became worried Thursday afternoon when Indra failed to return home. He and a friend then began to search the campus for his sister.
They found her car in a parking lot near the Computer Center - her keys and notebook still in the car and the windows rolled down. Gopal also said the front seat of the car was
moved back.
"She always has the seat up close because she is short," he said, adding that the pillow she uses while driving also was moved
she uses white gloves."
"She was looking very forward to enrolling at Strong Hall in an accounting class." Gopal said at the family's motel.
Indra Govan
at the family's house.
We drew her a map of how to get to Strong.
Hall, and if you tell her how to do something,
she'll do it', he said.
But Indra never appeared for her scheduled enrollment time at Strong Hall, he said. Gopal described his sister as a quiet, intelligent girl who generally kept to herself
The Govan family moved to Lawrence two years ago from England when Indra entered Lawrence High School.
The family is asking that anyone with information about the case call them at 843-4131, or call the Lawrence Police Department.
It doesn't really last a week,but 'Country Club' goes on
"Country Club Week" is steeped in tradition and is supposedly the source of some of the best times students have during the school year.
Staff Reporter
By CHRIS BARBER
But, "Country Club Week" has been less than a week for four years. Did it work, or not?
"When we need to have a full week, it was wild. By the end of the week, everyone was too burned-out to go to class," said Warran Wiebe, Hilbaro law student.
in Miami University in 1981, when the University of Kansas opened the opening date of the residence halls from the Sunday of the week before classes started to the Tuesday before classes, the initial reaction from students was, "We'd rather fight than switch."
But three years after the switch, which later was changed to Wednesday, KU students hardly seem to have noticed a variety of factors made it not only unexcary, but unreasonable, for students to be here a full week before classes started. University officials say
"IT'S A QUESTION of just how much time students need to be on campus," said David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Before KU went to its computer enrollment system,he said,students had more to do and needed more time before classes started
Part of the reason for the decision was anticipation of the future enrollment system. Amber said.
"When we actually got into pre-enrollment," he said, "we saw we needed even less time and could move up to Wednesday."
Fred McElhenie, director of residential programs, said, "The system was pretty stretched out."
stretched out. Today, many students think that even the school week is more than enough time.
"PAYING FEES AND getting books takes about three hours," said Saily Porter, Overland Park sophomore "After that, there's so much free time that you start to get bored."
MeElhenie said that another factor in the decision had been "skyrocketing utility costs."
"I don't think you can imagine what it costs to air condition eight large residence halls, even for one day," he said.
even for one day.
Administrators and cost reasons were not the only prompts prompting the change. Some students said then that officials disliked the image of students drinking beer every night
The university's academic mission gets lost in such image, KU officials now say. Ann Eversole, director of organizations and activities, said that the administration was concerned that a 'new student get a sense that you also need to study and go to class.'
for a week and then stumbling out of bed to pick up registration materials.
that you also need of KIDS MELLIENIER SAID STUDENTS needed "a sense of what this University is about. When students want to have fun, they will find the time to have it. I don't think we have to build that time in for them."
campus with three 0-10 b
"1844 economics makes it necessary to work at your summer job as long as you can." Wiebe said.
Many students with summer jobs appreciate not having to spend an entire week on campus with little to do.
Caryl Smith, dean of student life, said the
time before classes start gave new students a chance to adjust to an environment many found mystifying
"There's a lot to do, like finding the drugsstore, getting to know your roommate," she said.
she said.
She said the University had increased its efforts to help students settle into college life, such as the efforts of various offices to provide tours or orientation sessions for new students.
A THOUGHT IT WOULD seem that having students in the residence halls for three teer days would hurt business for local bar owners, some say the opposite is true.
some say the oppose-
tion. "Actually, this was the best Country Club Week we've had," said Ken Wallace, owner of the Javahawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St.
Wallace attributed this to the residence balls opening later in the week