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Tuesday, September 4, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Twelve plant wheat at Wolf Creek site
BURLINGTON--About 12 members of the University of Texas at Austin yesterday at the site of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in Burlington, according to Lee Davis, law enforcement officer.
"We hope to raise the public's consciousness toward the power plant," Davis said. "The symbolic planting was designed to be used in order that it should be used for agricultural purposes."
"This is the bread basket. The land is better suited for raising wheat and milo or grazing cattle."
The 10,500-acre site, where the $1.08 billion power plant is under construction, is owned by the Kansas Gas and Electric Company in Kansas City Power and Light Company.
While the Coffey County Sheriff, a Kansas Highway Patrolman and about 15 other people looked on, the Guard members cleared weeds from a 15-foot hole in the field. They planted the wheat, which had been donated by Kansas Organic Producers.
DAVIS SAID the peaceful ceremony
lasted about an hour. Spokesman for the power companies were not present and law enforcement officers made no arrests.
River Flives, vice-president of K&E, said he had not been awarded a good protest. "He said, 'I think this was another one of their very successful protests.'"
The plant, which is expected to begin operation in 1883, is 40 percent complete, he said, and it would take an order from the regulatory Commission to halt construction.
Davis said the public might demand that the plant be stopped if they were wrong. But he doesn't have power. That awareness could result from a national nuclear accident that injured 18 people, but he continues work of groups such as the Guard, the Sunflower Alliance and local leaders.
ON JANUARY 17, the Guard staged a blockage near Burlington of a train bearing a 340-ton reactor vessel.
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Many law schools across the country have felt the impact of a decrease in applications this year. However, at the University of Kansas School of Law, an oppose trend
Law school bucks national trend
BY JENNIFER HOLT Staff Reporter
to 186 for the class of 1978, an 11 percent increase.
Staff Renorter
Lilian Six, director of admissions at KU's School of Law, said Friday that 210 students had enrolled for the class of 1979, compared
After 3,560 applications for admission requested this year, 713 persons actually applied and 378 were admitted.
Last year, out of 3,115 application requests, 659 persons applied and 361 were offered admission.
In view of these statistics, the enrollment
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TODAY: THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES ASSEMBLY will meet at 4 in the Union, MARINE CORPS OFFICER SELECTION will be in Booth 1 of the Kansas Union from 10 to 4 to interview the Marine Corps Officer program.
TONIGHT: INTRAMURAL FOOTBALL MANAGERS' meeting at 7 in 26 Robinson. MECHA will meet at 7:30 in Parian A of the Union. A DIABETIC ORIENTATION meeting will be at 7:30 on the second floor room of Watkins Memorial Hospital.
TOMORROW: MARINE CORPS OFFICER SELECTION will be in Booth 1 of the Kansas Union from 9 to 4 to interview
persons interested in the Marine Corps Officer program. A FRIENDS OF THE ART MUSEUM GALLERY TAKA on "The Useful Plants," will be held at 10 a.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art. At 3:30 p.m. the COLLEGE CHARPISSERS will meet in the Student Senate will meet at 8:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Room. The KU SAILING CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Club will meet at 7 p.m. in the Walnut Room, Union. There will be a CARLILLON RECITAL by Albert Beken, 7 p.m., Campanile. The YOUNG DEMOCRATS will be in the International Room of the Union.
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at the KU School of Law has been encouragcing. Six said.
Not only has the total number of applications increased, the number of applications received from minority students has hummed 88 percent, she said.
"We like to receive more applications," she said, "because the more we have, the more selective we can be. This year we received applications of very high quality."
SOME ENROLMENT figures are expected to change within the next four weeks, she said, because some students drop out or change matters or schools.
Six said she was not sure what had caused her law school enrollment, but she speculated that she had decided to stay in Kansas to attend law school, rather than pay higher fees out of college.
At KU, Kansas residents pay $18.20 in tuition fees per semester. Non-residents pay $1,856.20. Tuition at out-of-state schools can run as high as $450. Six said.
Figures scarcely changed in 1979-173 students, or 82 percent are Kansas residents: 37 are non-residents.
Although KU may have bucked the
Of the 186 new students enrolled in 1978, 151 students, or 81 percent, were Kansas residents.
declining enrollment trend, other law schools have felt the decline.
At Washburn University School of Law, admission applications dropped from 850 in 1978 to this year, a 9 percent decrease. Mary Parr, director of admissions, said.
And preliminary statistics from the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder also showed a decrease in enrollment. Enrollment decreased from 1,300 to 1,181 students. The Colorado-added office officer was not reached for more recent statistics.
RECENT STATISTICS from the University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City show that this year the school exceeds a 14 percent decrease in enrollment.
Other law schools across the country have been affected even more severely by decreased enrollment, recent surveys show.
Such highly ranked schools as Stanford University Law School received 800 fewer applicants, or a decrease of 22 percent. The University of Connecticut School of Law and University College of Law both reported decreased in applications of about 25 percent.
Lightning damages Hoch
A dispatcher with the KU police said the
This year, 221 new students were enrolled,
she said compared to 224 in 1978. The school's 1979 total enrollment is about 600.
According to the KU police report, lightning also damaged the computer in the police dispatch office in Fresh Auditorium. A dismembered with the KU police said the
computer was out of service for about six hours.
Lightning struck Hoch Auditorium on the KU campus Saturday morning causing an undetermined amount of damage to the upper southeast corner of the building.
Pieces of brick and mortar from the building were found scattered over the area. The debris has been cleaned up. Facilities in the building are excavated the area until the building is repaired.
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