Wild party
The Wildcats had plenty to celebrate Saturday as K-State beat KU 29-12 in Manhattan. But the celebration later turned sour as 6,000 people jammed the streets, breaking windows, burning a car and throwing bottles.
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since students at McCollum Hall found weevils in a meal almost two weeks ago, students and cafeteria workers all over campus have been watching their food more carefully.
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Gray day
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Today should be cloudy with a high temperature around 70 and a chance of rain. The clouds should hang around tonight as the temperature drops to the upper 40s.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday October 20,1986
Vol. 97, No. 41 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Regents cut KU's fund request
By TONY BALANDRAN
The University may not receive the full monetary benefit from this semester's record enrollment after Friday's action by the Board of Regents.
The Regents voted to give the University of Kansas permission to seek a spending increase in the general fee fund of about $1.2 million from the 1987
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Kansas Legislature. The money would be allocated from the portion of student fees generated by a larger-than-expected enrollment.
The relegts' decision came after the University had originally asked the board permission to seek about $1.5 million, in order to cover the cost of teaching an unexpected number of students enrolled this semester, said Keith Nitcher, University director of business and fiscal affairs.
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The Regents met Thursday and Friday at the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Although the University did not receive the spending limit it hoped for, some administrators said the decision to reduce the limit was justifiable.
In cases when excess general fee revenue is generated, schools should be able to spend the portion of the excess directly attributable to increased enrollment to defray costs associated with the additional students, said Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents.
The requested amount was based on the unexpected enrollment — 1,242 more students than were allocated for — in the fiscal year 1987 budget. The fiscal year began July 1.
The amount granted was based on the actual increase from fall 1985 to fall 1986 enrollment, or 1.048 students.
Koplik said the policy for granting increases in the spending limit was designed to make decisions consistent among the Regents schools.
Nitcher also said he thought the policy was inefficient.
"I think that our policy makes sense," he said. "I think it's a fair policy."
justification.
"Of course, the University would prefer the full amount," Nitcher said, "but this would certainly help us, and the University does need it."
last week, KU officials asked the Regents to approve an increase in its spending limit of $1,552,820. Nitcher said.
But the Regents allowed only $1,271,224, cutting the original request by $281,596, or 18.1 percent.
The unexpected increase in enrollment caused KU officials to revise the fiscal 1987 budget so that the University would have adequate resources to instruct the extra students.
If more students enroll than estimated, the University is not allowed by law to spend more than the budgeted amount, Nitcher said.
By granting an increase in the spending limit, the legislature allows KU to spend more of the funds it collects during enrollment.
Each year, KU estimates how many students will enroll and the average amount of fees collected from each student.
But until final approval comes, the University must channel money from other areas to finance instruction. Ward Brian Zimmerman, KU budget director, said last week.
He also said that most of the University's fee release would be used to replenish the money now being used to finance additional supplies and instruction.
Few student voters declare affiliation with political side
By KAREN SAMELSON
Staff writer
Chances are that if a KU student is registered to vote in Douglass County, he or she hasn't formally declared a political party affiliation.
County voter registration statistics released Friday indicate that almost
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40 percent of county voters are unaffiliated.
The percentage increases to more than 60 percent in the 4th Precinct 2nd Ward, which almost exclusively made up of students, Patty Jaimes, Douglas County clerk, said. The precinct includes the Daisy
Hill residence halls, Oliver Hall,
Stouffer Place and Jayhawker
Towers.
Statewide, however, the average is closer to 30 percent, according to John Reinhart, public information officer in the Kansas secretary of state's office.
Flying egg yolks thrill spectators
The high percentage of Douglas County voters not affiliated with a political party is fairly typical of a university community, Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science, said yesterday.
Cigler said the large number of young voters was the main reason for the high percentage of unaffiliated
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By PATRICIA FEENY
"It's a smashing success," Leon Smith, a Baker University senior
BALDWIN CITY — "The yolks on you" was the way Mungoan, a minority organization at. Baker University, advertised its egg t吞 this weekend at the 29th annual Maple Leaf Festival.
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and member of the club, said as he opened another egg carton — the 61st dozen.
Smith said he had seen other groups in Texas have egg tosses and thought it would be a good idea to host the group at the Maple Local Festival.
For $1, a person could get two eggs to throw at a club member, who sat behind a screen and egged the thrower on. Stacey Brown, the club's president, was covered with the yolks of 10 dozen eggs before Smith took over for him.
Todd Kramer, Baker University senior, said of all the events at the festival, he liked the egg toss the most.
Thousands of people attended the festival this weekend. People came to display their crafts and quilts; some were there to play games and take turns on carnival rides; others came to enjoy the changing colors of maple leaves.
One of the best ways to appreciate the fall colors was in the sky
Vinland Airport offered rides in Cessna 122 airplanes for $10 donations. The proceeds went to support a Baker University scholarship program for nurses.
The rides lasted about 15 minutes and flew passengers over Baldwin City, the Sunflower Army Armory. An evening of gondola rides and gold trees of autumn.
Julie Rouse, Lawrence senior said she went to the festival every
year to shop and look around. She said the leaves had changed more by this time last year.
"It's still really nice to come down here." Rouse said Saturday. "Especially on such a nice day. We come down to shop for Christmas gifts and look at the crafts."
House said she was in a good postion for selling her work and was doing well this weekend.
During the festival Gary Roberts, owner of Roberts Drugstore in the town, said he had to hire eight more people to help out with the extra work.
"Actually, I get as many as I can," he said.
Festival-goers crowded the old-fashioned drug store to buy candy, sip sodas and shop.
He said that with more people in town and in his store, he expected to see more problems. But he said the crowd was well-behaved and no problems existed.
In spite of the increase in business and large number of people he said he found time to enjoy the festival's events.
Hungry festival goers could buy funnel cakes, caramel apples, fruit cobblers and pork burgers.
A group of girls from Santa Fe Trail Junior High School in Olathe, who participated in the parade, were on a quest for Big Macs and stayed at the festival in hopes of seeing "cute college guys."
The festival offered rock-o-plane rides for those who enjoyed the feeling of flipping around in a cage hundreds of feet above the ground.
One of the big events was a parade that featured politicians, horses, marching, bands and pompon girls.
"We carried the banner in the parade for our school," Kristin Van Hercke, 14, said. "It was OK, I guess, but we really need to find a McDonald's."
At ground level, there was a horseshoe pitching contest, square dancing, bus tours and art exhibits.
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BALDWIN CITY — Steve Mock, Lawrence, cleans up after the Maple Leaf Festival Parade. The festival took place over the weekend, and the parade was Saturday. At left, Elmo the Clown helps a parade watcher across the street.
Maple Leaf Festival draws candidates
By SALLY STREFF
BY SALEY
Credit reviewer
BALDWIN CITY — On a patch of grass between a gray stone Methodist church and a smoky barbecue pit, under a maple tree just starting to turn gold, Douglas County Republicans had set up a booth and were selling “I Like Mike” buttons.
enng daddies with one hand and pale yellow "Kline for Congress" balloons with the other.
Along the crowded red-brick street, little girls skipped, clut-
A little more than two weeks before the general election, the city's annual Maple Leaf Festival was the perfect spot for some small-town, meet-the-constituent stumping, and few local candidates missed the opportunity.
"This is the part of campaigning I enjoy the most," Phill Kline.
Republican candidate for the Kansas 2nd District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, said Saturday as he stood in a patch of sun next to the Republican booth and watched the crowd.
"You can't help but enjoy this," Kline said.
Kline said he would spend most of the afternoon talking to people and passing out balloons at the festival before going on to a campaign dinner elsewhere.
"People have plenty to say," he said, adding that the most frequently voiced concerns were war crisis and the national deficits.
Kline said he and other candidates were attending many such community events as the election drew near.
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Computer phone system could end enrollment wait
By ALISON YOUNG
Staff writer
Meanwhile their counterparts at Georgia State University in Atlanta let their fingers do the walking and registered by telephone.
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KU students can remember.
When they think back to the spring at enrollment time, they recall the lines and the waiting.
Wes Williams, KU dean of educational services, came to KU this fall from Georgia
wicket. About 30 schools now use telephone registration. Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, started its program three years ago and Texas A&M University in College Station will start this fall.
He didn't understand why KU students waited in so many lines.
You could register from your dorm, you
could register from your home or from anywhere in the world." Williams said.
Williams, who praised Georgia State's telephone enrollment, said no present proposal to install a similar computer system at KU existed yet.
But he said he wanted to share information about the technology that was available.
With telephone enrollment, the student communicates with a voice responsive computer by using a touchone telephone. The student has the ability to register 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
At Georgia State, a computer voice answers the registration phone.
"Welcome to the GSU Touchone Registration for Spring Quarter, 1887," it says. "Please enter your nine digit student I.D. number followed by the pound sign."
The computer then asks the student for a
four digit access code.
After entering an access code, students, using the phone, enter course selections one at a time.
Williams said Georgia State University, when it first started the program, monitored some of the registration calls and asked students for their opinions of the system.
The responses were very positive. In fact, one student registered for classes from his canoe on a lake. Williams said.
"Students are interested in convenience, and we're interested in registering students in a timely manner and without long lines." Williams said.
The computer could be used for more than just course registration. Other transactions that could be made by telephone include
"You can register for class in two minutes."
ding and dropping classes and paying fees using a credit card.
James Greene Jr., Georgia State registrar, said telephone enrollment provided nothing but benefits for his university.
"It's a great system when you think of what we could do with it," Williams said.
The KU bookstores could be tied into the system, Williams said. By entering in a course number, the computer could tell the student what books were required for a course, their availability and cost, he said.
Students also could use the telephone to check whether the financial aid office had received all the needed forms, he said. Or they could buy athletic tickets or yearbooks by phone.
"It's great, and our students love it," he said.
"Some may feel, and most are people who
naven't used the system, that maybe it's not as personalized. But that doesn't bother the students."
Greene said Georgia State, which has had telephone enrollment for almost two years, hasn't had any problems with the system's security.
In addition to the student's 1.D. number, each has a four digit access code, similar to that used by automated teller machines
The computer won't allow students to enroll in classes that they aren't eligible for or that are full. It also is capable of giving priority enrollment to upperclassmen.
Georgia State's system, which cost about $130,000, has 32 telephone lines and is one of the largest available, Greene said. The university developed its own software.