12 University Daily Kansan Campus/Area Friday, Oct. 4, 1985 New microcomputers for drafting labs Design students graphically improved By Jill White Of the Kansan staff Architecture and design students are abandoning their pencils and rulers this semester and reaching for computer plotters and IBM manuals in a new lab, professors said Tuesday. The Computer-Aided Design and Drafting lab, CADD, contains three new IBM microcomputers, one Victor 9000 microcomputer and two plotters. Four Macintosh microcomputers also have been added to fourth-year architecture student studios. "The computers will increase the graphic capabilities of design students," said Kent Spreckelmeyer, assistant professor of architecture, "and the CADD Iab will introduce to the faster and more efficient methods of computer technology in drafting." Students can create designs on the MacIntosh computers, and then they must make detailed working drawings and legal contractual documents of the design. Previously the process was a lengthy one because the drawings were done with pencils and rulers and the documents were typewritten. But with the use of the CADD lab computers, the process has shortened considerably, Spreckelmeyer said. He said students would have the advantage of spending more time on alternative three-dimensional designs because they would spend less time completing the original drawings. Richard Branham, professor of design, worked with Spreckelmeyer to establish the CADD lab. He said that computers increasingly were becoming a part of all classrooms and that architecture and design classes were no exception. "With the world's information wave, design has been moving from just design to 'information design'," he said. "It's almost impossible to work on industrial, interior or graphic design without some kind of data base." In the February 1983 Architectural Record, Eric Teicholz predicted, "Design is going to be radically different from what it is now within a very short time. Designers will have work stations that will be networked together and tied to all kinds of data bases, including some that haven't yet been envisioned." Spreckelmeyer said a relatively small amount of money was spent for the amount of equipment bought. The departments could have purchased one or two more powerful microcomputers and rented time from a mainframe computer but decided instead to buy a lot of basic equipment that would be accessible to more students. Although the computer classes are not intended to make students technically proficient, it is important that they become acquainted with computer capabilities in drafting and design as architecture and design firms increase their use of computers, he said. "Architects will increasingly do with computers what they have been doing with pencils," he said. "Computers will become an integral part of ordinary daily architectural design." Women bolster declining medical school rosters By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff The number of women in medical schools continues to increase even though general medical school enrollment is declining, according to a report released last week by the American Medical Association. The increase in women applying to, enrolling in and graduating from medical schools has been a continuing trend for the past decade, reported Anne Crowley, of the AMA Division of Medical Education. The report was published in the Sept. 26 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Enrollment, which included both men and women in medical schools, declined for the third year, she said. The School of Medicine enrollment at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., has remained constant, A.J. Yarmat, director of the center for student affairs and educational development, said yesterday. He said the school limited admissions to 200 new students each year, and that kept enrollment figures steady. However, the percentage of new women students is increasing, he said. "It is true that nationally there has been a reduction in enrollment for the past three or four years," he said. The AMA reported that in 1984-85, 33.5 percent of the KU medical school's incoming class were women. Sixty-seven women were in the class of 200. Nationally, 33 percent of first year medical school students were women in 1984-85. That is up from 32.9 percent last year and 22.3 percent 10 years ago. Yarmat said the increasing numbers of women in medicine might be attributed to a "general raising in the medical establishment." The decrease in total medical school enrollment has paralleled a three-year decrease in applications, Crowley said. However, 1984-85 students versed the trend with an increase of 700 applications nationwide. Yarmat said fewer students were applying to the KU medical school, but he said a reason had not been determined. enlightenment and consciousness- Two former chancellors will be present tomorrow night at the celebration of the successful fundraising venture between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Kansas. In 1983, the NEH donated a $1 million grant with the provision that the University raise a further $3 million. Chancellor Gene A. Budig announced Aug. 26 that the Hall Family Foundations had donated $2.5 million and that another $2 million had been raised from other sources. Nancy H. Dykes, chairman of the steering committee coordinating the fund drive and wife of former chancellor Archie Dykes, Franklin Murphy and Clarke Wescoe, honorary co-chairmen and former chancellors, and 25 steering committee members will be honored at the festivals, James Martin, senior vice president of fund-raising at the Kansas University Endowment Association, said yesterday. An honorary dinner will be at the Watkins Room of the Kansas Union, followed by a reception and piano recital at 9 p.m. in the Spencer, Museum of Art. Four to receive Alumni Association awards By a Kansan reporter Reception will honor donations Although all four recipients are By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff Polly Bales, Logan; Riley Burcham, 1624 Stratford Road; Jordan Haines, Wichita; and Eugene Morgan, Overland Park, are this year's recipients. Four members of the University of Kansas Alumni Association will be given Fred Ellsworth Medallions, the association's highest award, tomorrow night. members of the Alumni Association, Burcham is not a KU graduate. The medallions are named after Fred Ellsworth, who was the executive secretary of the Alumni Association from 1924 until his retirement in 1963. Mildred Clodfelter, assistant secretary for research and correspondence for the Alumni Association, said yesterday that the medallions were named after Ellsworth because of his contributions to KU. They will receive the medallions for unique and significant service to the University of Kansas during a p.m. at the Adams Alumni Center. Bales, a 1942 graduate, is active in a number of associations and committees, including the Alumni Association's development and Kansas Honors committees, the Kansas Historical Society and the Chancellor's Club. Burcham, who did not attend KUg is an associate member of the Alum Haines, who earned a law degree from KU in 1957, was vice president of the Alumni Association in 1972 and national president in 1973. ni Association, and his services include being a member of the Chancellor's Club and the Williams Fund. Morgan, a 1937 KU graduate, was president of the Alumni Association in 1963. A reception will be at Chancellor Gene A. Budig's residence before the dinner. Haskell student arrested; accomplice still at large A 22-year-old Haskell Indian Junior College student was arrested early yesterday on suspicion of armed robbery and was being held in lieu of $25,000 bond, Lawrence police said yesterday. Sgt. Don Dalquest of the Lawrence Police Department said the robbery occurred about 12:30 a.m. yesterday at Eighth and New Hampshire streets. Dalquest said the victim had stopped his car at the intersection and was approached by a man who pointed a pistol at him and asked him for a drink. When he said he had nothing to drink, a woman walked up beside the gunman. The gunman pointed to the woman and said, "Do whatever she tells you to do." Drinking Myth of the Week STUDENTS WHO DON'T DRINK DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO Sure they do! They go to the same parties and events others go to. Talking, laughing, dancing, music, movies, games, friends can be fun whether you drink a beer or a coke. 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