A new look
The Kansan Sports Extra debuts today with a second-day look at college football games and expanded photo coverage of the KU game. The new section will appear in each Monday's Kansan.
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During Alcohol Awareness Week, Oct. 20-24, several campus groups will focus on Hollywood's presentation of drinking in the movies.
Just like in the movies
Reign ends
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Finally, fair weather should grace the Lawrence area with a high temperature of about 70 degrees and light winds. Tomorrow should bring more of the same.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 31 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
October 6,1986
More minorities enrolled at KU
By TONY BALANDRAN
More U.S. minority students are enrolled at the University of Kansas than ever before.
The 20th-day enrollment figures for minority students reached an all-time high of 1,806 this year, increasing 9.3 percent from 1,653 last year. This semester 153 more U.S. minority students are enrolled.
The figures, which are voluntarily reported on admission applications, were broken down into four sections of ethnic background: black, Hispanic, American Indian and Asian.
Although three of these groups experienced small increases in enrollment, one, black students, decreased slightly, from 833 to 826 students, said Marshall Jackson, assistant director of admissions.
The number of Asian students this semester increased 26.8 percent, from 336 last year to 426. Hispanic students increased 12.8 percent, from 313 to 353.
The American Indian student population ex
perienced a 17.5 percent increase, when 30 more students enrolled. This year, 201 students are enrolled, compared with 171 last year.
Although the overall increase was small, some University officials attributed the rise in minority enrollment to the many KU programs that were specifically designed to attract minority students.
specifically designed to oversee the
One such program is the Minority Outreach Program in Kansas City, Kan., an extension of the KU office of minority affairs.
in the outreach program, the University works with high school students in the Kansas City area to help familiarize them with higher educational schools, said Vernell Spearman, director of minority affairs.
"Recruitment is not the appropriate term," she said. "We are working with the student in the pre-collegiate level. We emphasize to them the skills they need to succeed in higher education."
Last spring, during the outreach program's six-week enrichment session, 51 students visited KU's Lawrence campus. Spearman said she did not know how many eventually had enrolled at $^{K11}$
"That is one of the things we are trying to work on — building that data base. I think we demonstrate success," she said.
Spearman also said students who were reintroduced to the campus through other programs were more likely to enroll at KU because they developed a natural attachment to the University.
Another program is the Kansas University Endowment Association's Merit Award program, which Jackson coordinates.
The program is designed to give academically talented minority high school seniors opportunities to tour campus, to stay over night, to visit with advisers and to meet with faculty and KU students.
In addition, the overnight stay is a requirement for a possible merit award ranging from $300 to $1,000. The Endowment Association gives the awards.
See MINORITY, p. 5, col. 3
awards.
Forty-eight of the 82 students who went through the program last spring ended up enrolling at the University this fall, Jackson said.
Enrollment climbs with record growth of foreign students
Bv TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
In a year of KU enrollment records, foreign students were not left out.
The foreign student population increased by almost 8 percent this fall, said Clark Coan, director of the office of foreign student services.
This year, a record 1,777 foreign students enrolled, compared with 1,646 enrolled last year — an increase of 131 students.
Coan said the University's reputation among schools of higher education was a reason for the increase.
The reputation sometimes is created when students return home with positive comments about the University, he said.
He also said that through U.S. and foreign academic journals, students see the works of many KU students and faculty members.
But two other factors, economics and the quality of schools at home, help determine the number of foreign students who enroll. Coan said
Musicians find outlet in festival
For example, the number of Venezuelan students on campus
Staff writer
By ALISON YOUNG
See FOREIGN, p. 5, col. 3
"Folks playing music to folks," is what Gary Smith called it.
High and dry above the waters of Potter Lake, the young and old of Lawrence gathered yesterday afternoon to hear music. Original music, written mostly by local artists.
when Carly arrived.
The event was the Fourth Annual Kaw Valley Songwriter's Contest. Smith was one of the organizers.
And while the writers played their music, about 200 people settled under the pines of Potter Pavilion to listen.
Monday morning
"The Kaw Valley attitude is a country attitude," Smith said. "I awrence is really a country town."
In what was hardly a media hightech concert spectacular, performers played at the edge of a concrete picnic area to an audience that sat on a stone wall or on blankets in the grass. A few listeners were propped under the pine trees or relaxing in lawn chairs.
One by one, the writers walked to their place on the concrete and sang their songs, not to four lonely walls, but to an appreciative audience.
The show's organizers call the music 'alternative folk music.'
The origins of the Kaw Valley Songwriter's Contest can be traced to a 1962 get-together at an area farm, Smith said.
most of the music was blues then, but Smith said there were a couple of people who played rock 'n' roll and one who sang religious hymns.
Beth Scalet, Lawrence resident, has been writing songs for about 20 years. This was her first contest.
Seatet said it was important to support live music performance and local writers. Writers have few opportunities to perform and be heard, she said.
Yesterday was the first time Tim Sullivan, a contestant from Kansas City, Kan. had performed his own music in public.
years.
"Songwriting is an addictive behavior," she said. "I use it for therapy."
Sullivan spends about nine months a year playing at public school assemblies across the country to promote brass instruments. But singing his own music is something new.
However, the contest was important for Sullivan to receive input and criticism of the music he has written.
The competition preparations began this summer, when 45 would be contestants submitted audition tapes. Smith and Rick Frydman, Lawrence law student, narrowed the field to 22 finalists.
"I'm not a singer," he said.
Yesterday, each finalist performed two songs.
Listeners expressed different reasons for attending the contest
"I like to see people who are not
See FESTIVAL, p. 5, col. t
A helping hand
Kansas Highway Patrol officer, comforts J. J Hurley 8 while trying to locate his father, Lance Joseph Hurley, Lawrence, during Saturday's football game.
Kansas voter registration nearing deadline
Voters who want to cast ballots in the Nov. 4 general election have little more than a week left to register.
The deadline for registering to vote in Kansas is Oct. 14.
Staff writer
Rv KAREN SAMELSON
Patty Jaimes, Douglas County clerk, said last week that the Douglas
DECISION '86
County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St., would stay open until 9 p.m. Oct. 8, 9, 10, 13 and 14 for people to register for the first time or to change their places of registration.
GOP has gained most from local registration increase
Today and tomorrow, the courthouse will be open for registration during normal business hours. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
By KAREN SAMELSON
Since the August primary election, voter registration has increased 2.4 percent in Douglas County, and the Republican Party has showed the largest gain in party affiliation, records indicate.
In August, 35,744 people were registered to vote in Douglas County.
and 36,602 registered by Wednesday.
Patty Jaimes, Douglas County clerk,
said last week.
About 1,000 more will register before the Oct. 14 deadline, she predicted.
"It's not as heavy as a presidential year, but we are getting new voters." Jaimes said. "We're already at 36,000."
Douglas County Democratic Headquarters, in Holiday Plaza, 2449 Iowa St., will be open for voter registration from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today through Friday and Oct. 13 and 14.
Republican Headquarters, in the Malls Shopping Center, 711 W 23rd
Marsha Goff, office manager at the Douglas County Republican Party Headquarters in the Malls Shopping Center, 711 W. 23nd, said seven people had registered since Wednesday when the headquarters started offering the service.
'But, I've had a lot of phone calls,'
St. will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m on the same days.
See VOTERS, p. 5, col. 3
To be eligible to vote, a person must be a citizen of the United States, at least 18 years of age by Nov. 4 and a resident of the voting precinct for at least 20 days before the election.
Voters who are registered elsewhere may change their registration to the new address as long as they will have lived there for 20 days before the election. They will be asked to fill out a postcard to cancel the previous registration.
Students who want to vote absentee in their home counties should ask parents or friends to request that ballots be sent to them in Lawrence. The person who goes to the county clerk or election commission must sign an affidavit saying that he is requesting a ballot on behalf of the voter.
our-or-state students are not required to have Kansas driver's licenses to be eligible to vote.
voters then must fill out the information on the ballot envelope to declare that they have filled out the ballot.
All absentee ballots must be returned to election officials by 7 p.m. on election day, Jaimes said.
Voters who will be out of the county on Nov. 4 can request ballots from the clerk until noon Nov. 3.
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