University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Monday, August 25, 1980 Vol.91, No.2
PRINTED BY TELEGRAPHICS, INC., BALDWIN CITY, KS.
Enrollment irritating and typical
By ROBB EDMONDS
Staff Reporter
The fall 1980 enrollment at the University of Kansas has come and gone and it was not unlike most KU enrolments. It was frustrating for me to learn that I had to end, according to many involved, it worked.
"When I would go around to the various stations, everything would be running smoothly," said Linda Beville, assistant to the dean of admissions and records.
Beville was in chage of the enrollment control desk at Allen Field House.
"I didn't see any long lines." Bevile said, "excent may the fee line payment."
OTHERS INVOLVED with enroument also had good experiences.
"I've been with the University 10 years now, and this is the best enrollment I've ever seen," said Betty Garcia, supervisor of the undergraduate records division for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Garcia partially attributed the successful enrollment to the good number of the students. She was the supervisor at the problem-help room at Wescoe Hall.
David Henry, Overland Park senior, who handed out confidential folders at Wescoe, said he had been able to help his family.
Enrollment level up
Preliminary enrollment figures from the Office of Admissions and Records show 24,452 students attending KU this fall, compared to 24,452 at this time last year.
When the final enrollment tally is calculated after late enrollment, it is expected that the total number of students will be larger than the final total last year of 28,227.
semesters and that this was the smoothest. He had a efficiency of the operation made people very irritable.
BEVILLE ALSO said this year's summer orientation session was one of the best ever. Summer orientation is a pre-enrollment process for incoming freshmen and transfer students.
At the enrollment control desk, Bevillade had the final say on letting students enroll early. Bevillade said most students who asked to enroll early had schedule conflicts with jobs.
Pre-enrollment advocates were in out force at the university, especially prevalent among frustrated students.
Marianne Dent, Omaha, Neb., junior, was working at her third enrollment. She said that for the number of people involved, there should be something more efficient. Computer enrollment would be no less personal than the current system, she said.
DAVE BUTLER, Omaha, Neb., graduate student in charge of a geography table, said that it was a typical enrollment and that people were typically confused.
"I think it is ridiculous that a school of 25,000 doesn't have re-enrolment." Butler said.
Just as adamant, however, where those who did not favor pre-enrollment. Among those was Bill Venable, Overland Park senior and enrollment worker.
"If we have a computerized pre-enrollment, students will have to submit three schedules and the computer would pick your schedule." You get the freedom to pick the classes you want.
"However it is done, people are going to have to stand in lines."
JOE CLULYSE, Lenexa graduate student and assistant instructor at the enrollment control
"Students don't realize that with pre-enrollment they would not get to make any decisions on schedule changes, as they do now," LeChuise said.
Deysease said things were hectic at the enrolment control desk, but that nobody had gotten very angry.
Weather
Wolf Creek energy fair draws 275
It will be sunny and warm today with highs in the mid to upper 90s, according to the Weather Service Office at Kansas City. It will be sootherly at 10 to 15 miles an hour.
in the extended forecast, highs should be in the mid 80s and lows in the mid 60s Wednesday through Friday. Some showers are expected on Friday.
There is a 40 percent chance of rain tonight with cooler temperatures. Tuesday will be a little cooler with highs in the upper 80s.
Wolf Creek power plant, near Burlington, is viewed from the south before yesterday's rally. Various bumper stickers and buttons reflect the stand of the Kaiser Permanente nuclear power foes. Mike Spencer, Kansas City, Mo., is surrounded by helium-filled balloons, which were released carrying a card that requested the finder to return the card saying "when you found" Wolf Creek, Kansas 'first nuclear power plant, is scheduled to begin operation in 1983.
Photos by DREW TORRES
Apathy frustrates rally organizers
By RAY FORMANEK Staff Reporter
About 275 hard-core anti-nuclear sympathizers spent the weekend at an Energy Awareness Fair, an event sponsored by the Sunflower Foundation, in New York. The struction of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant.
The fair was held at the John Redmorc Reservoir, which is 65 miles southwest of Lawrence and just a few miles from the site of the Wolf Creek plant.
Les Davis, head of security for the event, said he was disappointed by the turnout for this year's event.
DAVIS SAID HE thought the catalyst for last year's large turnout was the incident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, the meltdown of the plant's core occurred.
Although he said he was frustrated by the apparent lack of concern over the construction of the plant, he said he still was optimistic that his company's efforts would halt construction at Wolf Creek.
THE SUNFLOWER APPLIANCE, a coalition of anti-nuclear groups from across Kansas and from Kansas City, Mo., opened this year's rally Saturday with a series of workshops. The workshops covered topics that include: hostile weapons and nuclear waste and weapons. One workshop described effective lobbying techniques to use when dealing with lawmakers.
Those who attended Saturday's workshops were invited to spend the night in the park at the reservoir. About 75 people slept in tents or sleepen bays at the park. Davis said.
The plant will be Kansas' first nuclear plant and is scheduled to begin operation in 1983.
The specific problems of working with nuclear energy were discussed by three speakers at the conference.
Michio KaKu, a nuclear physicist who attended Harvard and built an atom smasher while he was still in high school, addressed the group first. KaKu, whose relatives died in the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic leveling of Hiroshima, Japan, described in graphic detail the deaths of several Japanese nuclear reactors because of radiation, to discount statements that no one had ever died in a nuclear accident.
KAKU SAID THAT there had been at least seven such deaths. He said the first occurred in 1945. A 28-year-old worker at the Los Alamos, N.M. nuclear testing site was experi-
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Campus groups set traits for new chancellor
Bv CINDI CURRIE
Staff Reporter
Administrators want a public relations and liaison officer, the faculty want someone academically oriented and classified employee want someone who will recognize a previously known colleague.
The search for a new chancellor to replace former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes has given faculty, students, alumni and others a chance to succeed. The job is needed to govern a major state university.
Although opinions and priorities differ, the faculty members of the American Association of University Professors, Classified Senate members and University administrators agreed that the prospect of decreasing enrollment would be a major problem of the new chancellor's administration.
AS FEWER STUDENTS enrol at KU and the funding base remains the same, the new chan-
celler will have to do a better job of managing what funds the University will have, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said recently.
“The decade of the '80s will be a time of dwindling resources to the University,” he said.
Sherry Kopf, administrative officer for the University payroll office and a member of the Classified Senate, said the chancellor would now help to assign budgetary programs and priorities.
She said the chancellor should have to be active in the budgetary decisions of the
"He's going to have to take an active role in improving the paying system," she said. "There are many people who don't pay."
ROBERT COBB, EXECUTIVE vice chancellor, said the new chancellor not only would be facing the problem of fewer incoming freshman, but they would have to be concerned with faculty development.
He said that faculty development was likely to include new faculty members as well as opportunities for current faculty to improve their academic standing.
Ambler agreed that the faculty would be an important issue in the next few years and said that the morale of teachers had a direct effect on the academic quality of the University.
iracutty morale decreases, the quality of the academic programs and the quality of the teacher.
Lawrence A, Sherr, professor of business, said she change in enrollment would raise new earnings.
THE UNIVERSITY PREVIOUSLY had to decide where to allocate funds from increasing enrollments, but it was unlikely to be facing a similar situation in the future, he said.
The University's relationship with the Kansas Legislature means the chancellor must be able to maintain the level of legislative funding for the University, Sherr said. The chancellor also
would have to see that changes within the University were made with the least sacrifice to academic quality.
He said a realization of students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to the individual professional schools, such as the schools at Auburn University, will increase the quality of the classes available to students.
"The biggest threat (to the quality of the University) would be if the professional schools grew at the expense of the College," he said. "That would be a problem."
Richard Cole, professor of philosophy, said the administration of the '80s would have to maintain and improve the excellence of the University period when enrollments were expected to decline.
IMPROVING THE UNIVERSITY would in-
novate on improvement of academic
programs, he said.
The early '70s were a period when the external
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Shankel cites KU traditions
In his welcoming speech this morning at Hoch Auditorium, Acting Chancellor Del Shank reviewed a tradition of excellence at the university and challenged students to build on that tradition.
In a copy of the speech released yesterday, Shankel outlined his 21 years at the University. He noted the achievements of five previous candidates in the class of 2017 given direction for his term as acting chancellor.
Shankel described KU as "the center of excellence" and an institution with a "research mission" dedicated to maintaining its excellent teachers and high research standards.
"We are different in kind from many other colleges and universities because of our research mission," Shankel said. "It enriches our services to students and our community service we are able to perform for society."
Shankel has been acting chancellor since Archie R. Dykes, chancellor of the University for
Shankel credited each of his five predecessors in the chancellor's office for showing the University ways to continue its educational and research mission.
Shankel quoted former Chancellor E.
Convocation alters schedule
Because of the convocation at 9 a.m., the class schedule for this morning has been changed. Classes scheduled for 9:30 will meet from 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and 11:50 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. and 11:35 a.m. classes will meet from 11:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Afternoon classes will meet at regular times.
Laurence Chalmers' installation address on Sept. 15, 1968, when Chalmers said members of the university and the right to the obligation to pay tuition were being disruption from within and repression without.
Chalmer's commitment to academic freedom and student and faculty participation in governance impressed Shankel and are still important goals today, Shankel said.
Dykes was also an important figure in KU's rise in public and public esteem the past seven years, according to Shankl. Dykes helped the state of Kansas understand the "precious resource it had built in KU" and made support for it. He worked at any time in the past century. Shankl said.
"I will endeavor during this year to build on that basis of support, and to increase public awareness of the role the University plays in the life of our state."
Shankel said KU was recognized in the United States of the principal universities in the United States.
Watson's tranquility a facade library open despite sawdust
Staff Reporter
By KATHY BRUSSELL
From a distance, Watson Library appears as tranquil and orderly as KU students generally have known it to be.
But upon entering the double front doors, the pulsing sounds of a jaccammer and the smell of sawdust become instant indicators of the library's current status, continuing continual changes in the library's operations.
Colored tape lines radiate from the main lobby and thread their way to different areas of the library.
Students can follow a red line to find the circulation desk, book return chute, west stack entrance, service or the fines office.
Under the "Conditions" section of the board is the assessment of the library's atmosphere for the
In the main lobby is a bulletin board designed to show all members informed about the state of construction.
LAST THURSDAY, for example, plumbing and air conditioning were normal, electricity shut-offs were planned for two parts of the building, and noise was "awful in the vicinity of the west stairway, moderate in other parts of the building."
If that doesn't help, perhaps a yellow, black or
orange bag will land them at their destinations.
Business is sometimes hectic at Watson these businesses, because that the finished product will be well worth the money.
MAJOR CONSTRUCTION work on the project in its fourth month, with 14 months scheduled to end.
The "$" "6mm plan," as it has been dubbed by Carol Chittenden, reference librarian and renovation coordinator, is designed to restructure the interior of the library to make all areas more comfortable and to increase accessibility for patrons.
The section known as the center stacks has been stripped of its floors and part of the section will become a study area when the renovation is completed.
OTHER MAJOR improvements will include better ventilation, "climate control" for the stacks and greater ease of movement for handicapped students.
During the construction period, handicapped
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