Senior pride
Head basketball coach Larry Brown expects his senior basketball players Mark Turgeon and Cedric Hunter to lead the young Jayhawk team this year.
Space invaders
Story, page 11
Cramped storage space in Murphy Hall has become obsolete and antiquated as the band department has grown.
Story, page 3
Super, mark it
Today will be sunny with a high near 70. Tonight will be mostly clear with a low temperature around 40.
Details, page 3
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 39 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday
October 16, 1986
KU loses 1 of 5 freshmen after 1st year, study says
BY TONY BALANDRAN Staff writer
About one in every five nontransfer freshmen who began classes this summer or fall probably will not enroll for a second academic year, a recent University of Kansas report indicates.
Every fall from 1978 to 1984, freshman classes that have entered KU have suffered reductions between 19 and 23 percent after the classes' first year, according to the report.
In addition, freshman classes that have entered KU every fall from 1978 to 1983 are between 29 percent and 33 percent smaller at the end of their second year.
The figures are based on an annual report, "Undergraduate Attrition at the University of Kansas," released last month by the office of institutional research and planning.
The attrition rate is the rate at which students withdraw from the University.
"Many say that the University is not compulsory education," David Amble, vice chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday. "Students
are free to come here, and they are free to go — this is not an uncommon attitude."
The report places entering freshman students into one of three attendance categories, said Deb Teeter, director of the office.
Attendance categories are: currently enrolled, graduated and dropouts. The report indicates attrition from KU and not from higher education in general, she said.
To be placed in the "attrition pool"
— the group of students examined by the report — a freshman cannot not be in either the School of Law or the School of Medicine at Wichita.
In addition, the student must have entered KU during the fall or the previous summer session, and the student must not have completed other college course work.
For this reason, the attrition pool for each semester does not reflect the number of incoming students for each fall. Teeter said.
For example, 3,446 students were in the attrition pool for fall 1982.
The freshman class that entered in fall 1982 decreased by 19.7 percent by the end of its second semester at the
University. After its fourth semester, 29.9 percent of the original class members had left. At the end of six semesters, 35.78 percent had withdrawn.
The report, which does not distinguish between students in four and five-year programs, could not be accurately compared with many other universities because admission policy affects the data, Teeter said.
KU follows an open enrollment policy, she said, which allows all graduates from accredited Kansas high schools to attend any Board of Regents school.
Although the report offered detailed information on the attrition rates on other entering freshman classes, it did not speculate on why students withdrew.
Lorna Zimmer, director of the Student Assistance Center, said she had dealt with about half of the students who had decided to withdraw from KU.
The most popular non-academic reasons for dropping out include medical and financial problems
See ATTRITION, p. 5, col. 1
On the porch
Patrons of the Rock Chalk Bar, 618 W. 12th St., relax on the porch during the break in this week's cold temperatures. The high temperature was 62 degrees yesterday.
Blood drive at KU reports low turnout
Staff writer
By BETH COPELAND
The American Red Cross regional office in Wichita yesterday cut back blood shipments to more than 130 hospitals because of low donor turnout at the University of Kansas, a Red Cross spokeswoman said.
Of its three-day goal of 800 units, only 155 units were donated Tuesday, and at 3:30 p.m. yesterday, only 185 more units had been collected. Donations for the first two days fell short of their goal by 130 units of blood. One unit is about a pint of blood.
Kalen Larson, Red Cross assistant director of the office of communications for blood regions, said the organization had set goals for the three-day blood drive of 200 units Tuesday and 300 units both yesterday and today.
'There's the potential that a hospital patient who needs blood might not get it because it's not
Student housing rates may increase
Today is the last day for the KU blood drive, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Because of lower donations, the Red Cross decreased its shipments to hospitals in Oklahoma and Kansas yesterday by 50 units of blood.
See BLOOD, p. 5, col.1
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
Proposed housing rates for the 1987-88 school year would increase for scholarship halls, Stouffer Place and Sunflower Apartments, but rates would remain the same for residence halls and Jayhawker Towers, under a plan announced yesterday.
Currently, 837 students live in the Towers, compared with 735 students last year, an increase of
Kenneth Stoner, director of student housing, presented rate proposals to presidents of the student housing organizations, faculty and administrators on the Residential Programs Advisory Board. The board had its first meeting yesterday.
Stoner said this year's increased occupancy in residence halls and Jayhawker Towers would create enough extra revenue that an increase in rates would not be necessary.
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Rate increases for scholarship halls — 18 percent for Miller and Watkins, 7.5 percent for Douthart and Sellards, and 0.7 percent for the men's scholarship halls — would help cover the cost of a new telephone system and a general maintenance and repair technician, Stoner said.
Under the plan, residents at Sunflower Apartments would pay $265 a month for a two-bedroom apartment, a $25 increase from this academic year.
Rates at Miller and Watkins halls would increase from $101 a year to $720 a year. At Douthart and Sellhard, residents would pay $1,720, a $120 increase. At men's scholarship halls, residents would pay $1,720, a $12 increase from the current rate.
At Stouffer Place, residents in a one-bedroom apartment would pay $160 a month, a $4 increase. A two-bedroom apartment would cost $185 a
month, a $9 increase.
Miller and Watkins residents would pay a higher percentage increase than other scholarship hall residents because the University would take over some kitchen costs.
In the past, the fee paid by residents of Miller and Watkins scholarship halls has not included the cost of food
Rates at Stouffer Place have not increased for three years, Stoner said, and the proposed increase of 2.6 percent for a one-bedroom apartment and 5.1 percent for a two-bedroom apartment would offset the cost of inflation.
Stoner said KU had the lowest rate for married student housing of any Big Eight school and still would be the lowest after the rate increase.
Rates at Sunflower Apartments would be increased 10.4 percent because they had not been increased for two years, an increase that would help cover the cost of inflation, Stoner said.
Abused women receive shelter at care services
By RHONDA LINDQUIST
This is the first part of a two-part series dealing with domestic violence in the area.
WTCS sheltered about 20 University of Kansas students last year, but many other students called the WTCS hotline to talk about abuses they had suffered, said Barb Smith, former director of WTCS. Smith now is executive director of the Lawrence United Fund.
In Lawrence last year, about 150 women and their children took refuge at a shelter run by Women's Transitional Care Services. WTCS serves Douglas, Jefferson, Franklin and Ottawa counties.
Hundreds of Lawrence women are subject to criminal attacks each year in their own homes. And in most cases, a woman's attacker is her husband or boyfriend.
Women who stay at the shelter represent only a fraction of battered women in the area, Smith said.
According to recent FBI statistics, every 18 seconds a husband beats his wife somewhere in the United States.
Attacks by husbands on wives result in more injuries requiring medical treatment than raps, muggings and auto accidents combined, according to the national Centers for Disease Control's violence epidemiology branch in Atlanta.
Other FBI statistics indicate that 28 million battered women live in the United States.
A 1984 study at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, indicated that almost one of every four college students had experienced courtship violence. Studies on other campuses indicate similar results.
Last week, the Lawrence Domestic Violence Task Force observed Domestic Violence Awareness Week. Members of the task force distributed bookmarks to Lawrence elementary school children. The telephone numbers of community resources available to abuse victims are printed on the bookmarks.
"By age 11, the average child in America has witnessed something like 14,000 murders on TV," Smith said.
James Lichtenberg, director of the University Counseling Center, said children needed to learn that violence was not acceptable before, not after, they became involved in courtship violence.
Smith said schools gave little or no formal education on dealing with emotions and intimate relationships. Instead, children are bombarded with the message that violence is acceptable, she said.
"In junior high, we teach kids about VD and sex education,"
Lichtenberg said, "They need to learn a way of managing more intimate relationships. Nothing is ever said about that."
Abuse cases handled by WTCS and local law enforcement officials usually involve low-income families. A survey of women who were admitted to the shelter in summer 1985 indicated that 65 percent of the victims' families had annual incomes of less than $10,000.
Abuse is just as common among upper-income families but is reported less, Smith said. She also said that women in middle and upper income levels often had the resources to leave without help from WTCs and that they seldom called the police because they wanted to maintain their social status
A characteristic common to
See ABUSE, p. 7, col.1
Story of victim is common to many
Officials at the Women's Transitional Care Services shelter estimate that hundreds of women in Lawrence are in abusive relationships.
Mary is a full-time KU student. After 13 years of abuse, she and her husband were divorced.
The following story, the first of two parts, was compiled from three separate interviews with Mary.
When Mary mentions the police in this story, she is referring to the police department of a small town near Lawrence. Some details of her testimony have been omitted to protect her identity, and her real name is not used.
I was a bright kid. I finished both my junior and senior year together and graduated (from high school) when I was 16.
special to the Karsan
By RHONDA LINDQUIST
Special to the Kansan
I don't know what happened to me. I moved out as soon as I graduated because I couldn't stand my father. You see this scar on my lip? That's where my dad busted my mouth open with a 2-by-4.
I had lived on my own for a year by the time I met my husband. We dated for three or four months and got married. I was 18. Now, I'm 32. It's been a year since our divorce.
My husband felt so threatened.
He would tear the clothes off of me
when we got home if someone complimented me. And if a man dared
talk to me . . .
He hit me three weeks after we were married. During the first year of our marriage, he beat me so bad I called the police. When the officer got there, he told me, 'Maybe if you'd give him a little honey, he wouldn't hit you.'
I never went to the hospital for injuries, but my husband, he had to go twice. Once, he broke two fingers while he was punching me and, once, while he was stomping me on the floor, he pulled ligaments in his knee. He had to go to the hospital emergency room both times.
He's real sensitive. He would never forget a special occasion, and he would always buy me really special gifts and cards with special meaning. I thought that was the real him trying to get out. I thought he could change in the beginning.
I've been beaten to the point where I don't even look like who I am. He gave me two black eyes and a broken nose when I was seven months pregnant. After a beating, he would bring me gifts, make dinner and clean the house. He would promise he would never do it again.
A lot of friends don't understand why I left him. They think he's wonderful and that I deserted him.
I tried to keep the outside world from knowing. I was ashamed. When people began to ask about my bruises, he started to beat me on the back of the head and around the shoulders so the bruises wouldn't show. My best friend, who has known me since junior high, didn't even know about it.
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Other people don't understand why I stayed so long. I ask them, 'Would it help you understand if I told you I tried to leave?'
They say, 'No, I can't understand it.'
See MARY, p. 7, col. 4