Page 8 University Daily Kansan, October 1, 1980
More foreign students enroll
By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
Foreign student enrollment is holding its own at the University of Kansas, despite rising tuition costs and a rising turmoil in some areas of the globe.
According to figures released last week, 1,882 foreign students are enrolled on the Lawrence campus, and 60 percent of the student population.
This semester's figure represents an increase of 82 foreign students over last fall and 14 foreign students over last spring. An additional 71 foreign students have registered at the University of Kansas City, the total foreign student enrollment on both campuses to 1,653.
KU's foreign student population includes students from 96 countries, Clark Coan, director of Foreign Student Services, said yesterday.
STUDENTS WHO ARE sponsored by their governments or can afford to pay out-of-state tuition may be required for a variety of reasons, he said.
"A school's reputation follows its faculty," Coan said. "We said we a travel agency that works with people overseas who may later decide to come here."
Many of the fields of study offered by KU are known abroad, and the University has an established Applicant Course in English to students learn English, he said.
KU also has a large number of foreign alumni who tell students from their homelands about KU, he said.
"Generally, knowledge about KU is spread by word of mouth." Coan said. "KU does no recruiting of foreign students. We don't even send school catalogs overseas. If a student writes to us and says he is interested in a certain program, we mimegraph the pages in the catalog that are pertinent and send them to him."
THE UNIVERSITY provides the U.S. Immigration Service and overseas consulates with more information about KU, and foreign students can contact those agencies to get details about the school, he
Iranian students once again constituted the largest contingent of foreign students at KU. This semester, 243 Iranians enrolled at the University, only 26 less than last fall.
Coan had predicted that the number of Iranian students would drop sharply because of tighter federal restrictions controlling the
admittance of Iranians to the United States.
The decrease didn't materialize, however, for several reasons, he said.
Coan said he had found that many Iranian students transferred to KU from other universities and junior colleges. Some who had completed their bachelor's degrees at other schools were beginning graduate work at KU, he said.
SOME IRANIAN students may have wanted to transfer out of KU this semester but were reluctant to apply for clearance from the U.S. Department of the unary relationship between Iran and the United States, Coa said.
The war between Iran and Iraq is affecting students from those countries, he said, because students are concerned both about the safety of their own families and the ability of government banks to continue sending them funds.
As long as an Iranian student is making good grades at an American university, the Iranian government permits his parents to send him money every two or three months, according to one Iranian student, who identified himself only as Bahram.
"The economic situation in Iran is getting worse," Bahram said. "It is becoming harder to get money
through. My family may not even be able to feed itself soon. How can I ask them for more money?"
While the number of Iranian students dropped slightly, the number of students from Taiwan increased, making them the second-largest foreign student group on campus.
Last year, 131 Taiwanese students enrolled at KU, compared with 165 this semester. In contrast to that figure, only seven students from the People's Republic of China are enrolled this semester.
MAINLAND CHINESE students have been coming to KU for only the last two years, and there has never been a large number of them, Coan
Next semester, KU will begin an exchange program with Nankai and Najing universities in China. The program will start out slowly, with only one or two students being exchanged in January, he said.
Other countries with high foreign student representation at KU are Venezuela, 118; Japan, 116, and India, 72.
The only other surprise in the enrollment figures was the number of Malaysian students, which increased to 34 this semester. Coan said.
Commissioners vote to create committee to represent city's handicapped residents
The Lawrence City Commission voted last night to draw up an ordinance requiring nine-member commission to present the city's handicapped residents.
The members of the new commission, at least half of whom will be handicapped, will help to address problems and public accommodations for the handicapped.
Michael Byington, who helped draw up the suggested ordinance, said the ordinance was patterned after one in Wichita.
The ordinance will be drawn up by
the city staff and should be approved by the city commission Tuesday.
the city commission also discussed a proposed phone survey to study the buving habits of Lawrence residents.
The survey, part of a downtown redevelopment study by Teska Associates, will be conducted by members of the city planning staff.
Residents will be asked about their shopping habits and suggested downtown improvements. The results of the survey, which will question from 300 to 600 people, will be available in two to three weeks.
Former student charged in hit-and-run
Acting on advice from his attorney, a former KU student turned himself in to Lawrence police yesterday afternoon in connection with an assault hit-and-run death of a KU student.
The former student, Steven L. Bender, 19, 1513 W. 22nd Terr., turned himself in yesterday about 3 p.m. and was immediately charged with four
Bender had been under investigation by Lawrence police since his car was involved in the hit-and-run accident on November 15, 2014, in death of Mark Allen, Leeward junior.
Bender was charged with vehicular homicide, falsely reporting a crime, failure to report an accident and leaving the scene of an accident.
dropped and Bender was released on his own recognition, Harry Warren, assistant district attorney and prosecutor for the case, said.
Lawrence police said that at 12:35 a.m. on Aug. 23, Allen was riding his motorcycle near 22nd and Tennessee when a car backed around the corner.
Allen's motorcycle collided with the car, throwing Allen several feet, police said.
Bond was set at $5,000 but later was
Police said the car then fled the scene.
scene.
According to police, witnesses identified the car involved and the car was traced to Bender.
Almost 24 hours after the accident, police said. Bender reported his car
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