A new look
ne 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.
Story, page A1
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
Story, page 3
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.
Details, page 3
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 31 (USPS 650-640)
Monday October 6,1986
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
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 1,633 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.
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.
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
The America
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.
"That is one of the things we are trying to work on — building that data base. I think we demonstrate success," she said.
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.
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
By 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.
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
Coan said the University's reputa-
For example, the number of Venezuela students on campus
Mus find in fe
By ALISON
Staff writer
Start writer
High and Potter Lake
Lawrence groon to hear written most
"Folks pla what Gary S"
The event Kaw Valley Smith was or
And while music, about the pines of I
"The Kav country at "Lawrence i. In what we tech concert played at the nie area to a stone wall or a few listen the pine tre chairs
One by one their place on their songs, but to an apist The show music 'alter The orign Songwriter's a 1982 get to Smith said. Most of the but Smith sa people who one who saw Beth Scal has been wry years. This "Songwri behavior," therapy."
Scalet said
port live
local writers
portunities t
she said
Yesterday
Sullivan, a
City, Kan.
music in pub
Sullivan in pa
a year pla
assembles a
mote brass i
his own music
"I'm not a
However,
tant for Sub-
criticism of
the Com
began this s
be contesta
tapes Simi
Lawrence
field to 22 ft
daily two songs
Listeners
reasons for r
"like it,
Big Brutus used to be able to pick up 150 tons of rock and soil in a single scoop.
BRUTUS
Ron Bryant, one of the tour guides, expressed a tinge of disbelief when he recalled how some people have told him to put up signs marking the turn off Highway 102.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13
This sight is the skeleton of Big Brutus, which was the second-largest electric mining shovel when it was built in 1962.
Highway 7, a traveler can reach the other "must" of Southeast Kansas in less than an hour.
A good place.
The "thing" is about the height of a 16-story building and would look like a gigantic robot from a "Star Wars" battle if it weren't for the bright orange paint job.
"How can you miss the thing?" Bryant asked.
A good question indeed.
Brutus was used from 1963 to 1974 to remove the dirt from
overburdened coal seams. After it had exhausted the area, it was stripped of its useful parts, and eventually became a museum.
Bryant can spout out all kinds of numbers about the monster's size, weight and horsepower. When it was working, Brutus crawled along at a speed of two-tenths of a mile an hour. Each of the four crawlers, which look like those on a tank, has two tracks, and each track has 32 pads that weigh 2,008 pounds each.
Brave souls over age 12 may climb the many stairs to the top of the shovel, where they can hear the wind whistling in the metal riggings. Some folks say that on a clear night they can see the lights of Joplin, Mo., about 20 miles to the east.
Ron explained that to keep Brutus from tipping over when he lifted a load of dirt, the engineers had to add more than a million pounds of ballast to his rear end. Thanks to U.S. capitalism, tourism now can buy a bright orange bag of ballast for only $1.
Translated into English, that's big. Visitors can walk into the bucket, which at one time held three railroad cars' worth of Kansas gumbo.
Tourists who are still energetic after the climb can cast a line into one of the many nearby lakes, the remnants of the huge holes that Brutus dug.
If visitors have a strong urge to see more of sights of southeast Kansas, they can head to Coffeeyville and see the Dalton Museum, to Independence for the site of Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," or they can stop at the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum in Chanute.
Tired travelers can make the trek back to Lawrence in a couple of hours, all the while enjoying the peacefulness of country roads.
927 Massachusetts
841-2451
HALLOWEEN IS COMING!
Over 75 Costumes for Rent
Make your own from our unusual and unique items!
Mon.-Sat. 10-5:30
Thurs. 'til 8:00
Enjoy the opportunity to pamper yourself at —
now open Sundays 1-5
N,p.5,col.3
s are not reasns driver's o vote.
i vote absentee should ask request that in Lawrence. to the county mission must g that he is rebebal of the
1 out the infor
2 envelope to
3 filled out the
22
ots must be
obtitles by 7
lames said.
it of the county
t balloons from
w 3.
KANSAN MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 3, 1986