UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN editorials
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August 22,1979
Housing blues resung
Housing officials at the University of Kansas have been playing the same old tune for the past several years—overbooking.
As many as 270 students will be placed in temporary housing arrangements this fall, including triple rooms, old storage rooms and laundry rooms as they wait for no-shows to be confirmed.
But officials say they have changed the housing-blues tune this fall. They say they have added sophistication.
Fred McElheneil, director of KU's Office of Residential Programs, has said his office will "sophisticate" the temporary accommodations by excluding some of the least-like living arrangements, including a converted sauna room and an activities room that were at GSP-Corbin last fall.
The move to exclude such living arrangements is one of several steps taken in the right direction by the housing office this summer as it tried to improve a situation brought on by a simultaneous surge in popularity of residence halls and a big drop in the birth rate in recent years.
HOUSING OFFICIALS also have reduced by a significant amount the number of single rooms available. Students in single rooms will now occupy only 12 percent of the total rooms and the 30 percent they occupied last year.
In light of the probability of declining enrollments in future years, KU administrators have noted correctly that building a new residence hall is out of the question. And they add that buildings such as Carruthr-O'Leary, which was converted to office space when the residence halls were less
popular, cannot be reconverted to residence space.
Despite the non-feasibility of new halls or conversion of office space, there are viable alternatives to the overbooking problem.
ONE OF THE MOST easily implemented solutions is to spot the noshows early in the summer. The housing office attempted to do that the year by including a clause in the 1979-80 housing contract that helps discover earlier than in previous years which would have prevented their encantling their tentative agreements.
OF THE FIRST 35 students who went through the appeals process to try to regain their rooms, 30 were denied. They joined the hundreds of others who have been offered temporary housing.
In late July, 280 students who had not made their June and July payments were notified that their contracts had been cancelled. Another 400 students who had made only one payment were warned that their contracts could be cancelled. In an effort to help those students who had legitimate reasons for slow payments, an appeals process was set up.
The new enforcement of housing contracts is the one way that the housing office is going to be better able to deal with the swarm of students who want to get into the limited number of residence hall openings.
And the new effort to enforce the agreements made in those contracts is the only way to truly sophisticate a situation that in past years has been better described as unsophisticated, but mentions un suitable for student needs.
Human energy counts
To be sure, the policy creators and legislation makers are trying to do their part.
While government and administrative officials haggle over what to do about our energy dilemma, it's time we get serious about utilizing our most valuable resource—human energy.
In the midst of the great Summer Energy Crunch, Gov. John Carlin signed an executive order calling for cutbacks in fuel consumption. The edifect requires state building temperatures be set at 78 degrees, and calls for stricter enforcement of the 55 m.p.h. speed limit.
KU also has hired Robert Riordan as
On the KU campus, Roger Ore, director of facilities operations, has said most KU buildings are in compliance with the 78 degree minimum. The building is a duplication of federal energy setting set by President Carter.
an applied energy research and public service program manager. As coordinator for a program to help the University, government and private industry research energy resources, he has vowed that several research projects, notably solar, wood and synthetic fuels, are being expanded.
But this is not enough.
Every individual should realize the potential use of his own energy. Human energy creates energy. When human energy is used, not only is a task completed, but savings in precious drops of fuel oil or kilowatts of power can be applied to another task.
So get out and walk or ride a bike to class this semester. If you must travel by car, ride with a friend, try to consolidate errands and obey speed laws. Set your thermostats at 78 °F while air conditioning is necessary.
Make conservation a part of your lifestyle. It's worth the energy.
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Editor
Mary Hook
Mary Hewk
Managing Editor Nancy Dresser
Editorial Editor Mary Erwin
Campaign Editor Tony Nasser
Associate Campus Editor Jennifer
Assistant Campus Editor Lori Garcia
Assistant Campus Editor Marcel Watson
Sports Editor Tom Fitts
Associate Sports Editor Marian Miller
Copy Chef Juan Miller
Special Section Editors Tina Sheehy
Marketing Editors Sandra Miller
Wire Editors Caitlin Goodwell, Chris Hayd
Wire Editors Tummy Tummy, Brenda Walton
Editorial Writers Larry Byrnesmith, John Logan, John Fischer
Editorial Writers Larry Byrnesmith, John Logan, John Fischer
Staff Writers David Eddie, David Hockhart, Bill Riggs, Debbie Bickman
Photographers Jeff Harring, Jeff Heber, Hard Kinsley, Chrys Todd
Artist Martin Jasconter, Stella Krugshaw
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Retail Sales Manager Vincent Coultai
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National Sales Manager Carl Nelson
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It is 8:40 a.m. at the University of Kansas on Monday morning, printing the day's University Daily Kernel rotate slowly at first, then gather momentum, and increase to a coarse uniform of newspaper.
The presses spew neatly folded leaves and the compost is stack for distribution, as the product cycle for the Kansan ends. But the cycle involves more than 100 people—already dead.
The previous night, Tim Sheeley, campus editor, his associate Phil Garcia and assistant Lori Limenberger checked with reporters and scanned other sources for story ideas. Assignments were made in preparation of what our readers needed to knowledge.
SHEEHY, HASTINGS, Neb., senior.
Sheedy was named the Summer
summer as a news intern for the Maui
Herald. Sheby was a reporter last spring
for the Rutchman News and also has in-
terns with the Los Angeles Times.
New Kansan staff serves readers
Meanwhile, Tiffy Fitts, sports editor, and his associate, Mike Earle,复习 KU's sports schedule for the following day and cast of sports writers to cover these events.
García, Garden City senior, spent the summer at the Wichita Eagle-Bearen and Lori Linenberger, Great bend senior, with the Salina Journal this summer.
Fitts, a senior in journalism from Scotts bluff, Neb. who also has a liberal art degree from Stanford University, has worked as a Kansan sports writer and copy editor. Eacle, Beloit student, has worked as a writer and copy editor for the Kansan.
BILL FRAKES, assistant managing editor, assign photos and artwork to
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coincide with stories assigned by the campus and sports editors.
Frakes, who spent the summer as a photo intern for the Miami Herald, is a Scabbishbill, Neb., senior, with a business degree from Arizona State University.
THE COPY CHIEF transports Kansan copy and printing instructions to the printing service usually after 2 a.m. and deposits the material into a mail slot.
Kansen editors arrive at the shop at 7 a.m. to proofread the Kansen on page plates are made and secured to the press. Soon the Kansen are rolling with another edition of the Kansen.
At 5 a.m., the physical production process of the Kansen begins. Tetterspunch computers programmed to produce columns of type that are pasted up on the desk.
For your return to school this fall, the Kansan offers this four-section back-to-school edition. The Kansan summer staff was responsible for producing a section on building and construction and one on recruiting new staff. Two fall staffers were back two weeks before registration to compile the sports section and the news roundup.
This behind-the-scene look at the Kansan has a purpose. The coordination, planning and performance of more than 100 people is important part of this newspaper - our readers.
worked this summer for the Milwaukee Journal and also has intermed with the Hutchinson News.
10:10 a.m. in the Kansan newsroom, 121 Flt Hall. Reporters and photographers have picked up their assignments and are coming to town. Sometimes it is across Jaywalk Boulevard to an office in Strong Hall. Other times it means hitting the ashpalt trails to Kansas City or Tupelo. Occasionally, it means an aerial view of a KU game or an important news event.
Throughout the day, reporters, editors and an assortment of other folk filter in and out of the newsroom.
As Kansan editor, I can pledge our readers again will be our No.1 responsibility this fall. We look forward to the challenges you will give us.
You are the reason we will work long hours, drink gallons of coffee, suffer hangovers brought on by lack of sleep and sacrifice other activities this semester.
THE DOOR TO THE editorial office is always open. As editor, I will be available to answer questions about Kansan policy or content in order to help editors and写客 with comments or complaints.
Dressier, Kingman graduate student, worked for the Topeka Capita-Journal this summer and has intermitted with the Hutchinson News and the Parsans Sun.
I spent the summer working for the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle and I have worked previously as a reporter for The New York Times, the Johnsons News and the Chanute Tribute. I also traveled to St. Petersburg, Fla., last fall to attend Modern Music and a program.
By midnight, all copy from the campus desk, except late news events, has reached the copy desk, where copy editors edit and review material. In Dana Miller, McPherson senior, who is
It's also Dresser's responsibility to keep track of the entertainment page, in the hands of Rhonda Holman, entertainment editor for the summer Kansan.
DRESSLER DIRECTS copy flow from the campus desk to the make-up editor and through the copy desk. She also supervises students who write news briefs and keep our wire cut.
Sharing the editorial office with me is Mary Ernst, editorial editor. Erin directs a staff of editorial writers and makes contributions to the unindicated material and letters to the editor.
Ernst, a Kansas City, Mo., senior, worked
TS $P S M. IN the Kansan business office, next door neighbor to the newsroom. Its deadline for Kansan sales representatives, who have been scouted; advertising.
this summer for the Springfield (1987),
NewsLeader and will attend the Sears
Congressional Internship program this
script in Washington, D.C.
Cynthia Rhy, business manager, directs a sales team at the ad revenue newspaper. Only 18 percent of revenue comes from student subscriptions taken through activity fees. The rest is generated by other sources.
Back in the newsroom, it's 6 p.m.
deadline for all new copy. Nancy Dressler,
managing editor, is in charge of the
newsroom operation.
Ray, Overland Park senior, worked as an advertising intern for the Kansas City Kansan this summer.
The managing editor also heads up news conference at 6:30 p.m., where editors must budget stories and photos to run in the next day's issue.
It is our choice, and therefore our responsibility, as a group of highly trained journalists and staff to dedicate ourselves to serving you.
Enrollment
Enrollment hassles plague students in traditional back-to-school trauma
As the first day of classes, circa fall 1935,
approaches, all of us have to face the
reality—stark or pleasant--that the summer
break is almost over.
Ahead of us lies yet another semester of fun, in whathere form we each may find it.
fun, in whatever form we can contend.
Part of that fun is the excitement to be enrolled in the days of enrollment at the Alten Field Hospital Enrollment at the University of Kansas in past years has been characterized by a maze of confused and excited students battling through the seemingly endless room with their need to get their cards and pay their fees.
I can already envision the steam rising off a stack of thousands of students as they learn that their class they wanted has been filled or temporarily closed. I can see clearly all of the students with the most heightened by the oppressive heat and then that awful moment when I write my summary.
ENROLLING AT THE ALLEN Field House Zoo has been one of the University's oldest traditions. It has been with us for decades. But who knows, perhaps within the next few years that this tradition will be established, a tradition, a tradition now firmly established at most universities across the nation. Yes.
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within the next few decades we might even consider pre-enrollment as somewhat of a longstanding tradition of our own.
The trauma of going through enrolment proceedings at the Field House may be mite in mind. Students who buy books while buying the Kansas Union Bookstore and the Jayhawk Bookstore After successfully completing enrolment you rush to either bookstore. You are
CRAMMING INTO either of these buildings like sardines, you have to push and pull your way down aisles to find the books you need. The method used in shelving some of the books boggles the mind, and the difficulty of finding a book can be compared to the difficulty of finding a novel in the stacks of Wakeon Library.
Finally, after some length of time and countless "excuse me's" and "pardon me's", you have found half the books you
need, but the other half won't be in for another eight weeks. The store's clerk tells you it's because of "delays," but you don't need the instructor furlough to fill out the orders.
THEN YOU SPY A small check-out line and squeeze yourself into it, your arms aching from the weight of the books. But as you stand in front of them inform you that you are in the wrong lines, you cash only and you want to pay by check. After a short exchange of "pleasanties," you relent and, hiding your embarrassment, make your way to the back of yet another line.
A half-day later, or so it seems, you finally make it to the cashier in the line you are really supposed to be in. In her, the cashier
proceeds to take the rest of your hard-earned summer earnings.
PUT BAY YOU MUST, and if it is any consolation at this point of the game, you can get a free coupon book or put in your free bid for an all-expenses-paid, one-way trip toaches of South Padre Island, Texas. It sometimes makes all the trouble seem worthwhile.
Perhaps the greatest disappointment of the day comes when you finally are finished and you realize your next major task is continue with book-buying. You must enroll and book-buying hassle seems to sink to the back of your mind, and the nightmare of classes come right to the end.
It's great to be back.
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