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
Monday October 6, 1986
Vol. 97, No. 31 (USPS 650-640)
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 1,653 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.
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
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
"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.
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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 $100 to $1,000. The Endowment Association gives the 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
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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 reputa
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
For example, the number of Venezuelan students on campus
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Onboard tools and sewing machine let Boyd work whenever he feels creative.
W INFIELD — After 10 years of dreaming and a year of building, Ron Boyd finished his unique
house in 1982. The 20-foot house, built of pine and fir, rests on the bed of a 1947 Chevrolet truck.
The sturdy all-weather house adds a heavy load to his green truck.
"I insulated the dickens out of it," Boyd said recently at the National Flat-Picking Championships in Winfield. "I was prepared for cold weather."
The house is like many other houses — a house, that is, from the 1800s. It has barn doors which open to a back porch with mounted plant boxes, wood-pane windows and a stained glass window with his trademark of a five-pointed star and a crescent moon.
Walking into his house is like walking through time. Indian rugs cover the hardwood floor. Oil lamps and push-out windows are his source of light. The house is heated by a potbelly stove, and he cooks his food on an gas stove from the 1920s.
Boyd makes his living sewing leather in moccasins, custom-made boots, backpacks, belts, bags and hats. He spends anywhere from five hours to three days to make a leather backpack.
"I like using the part of the animal after everything else has been used," Boyd said of his choice of leather.
Boyd's bed sits over the cab of the truck and under a window is
On the stove rests a tin coffee pot. On a shelf are porcelain wash basins and pottery dishware.
his workbench with leather tools and a sewing machine.
"It's low maintenance, doesn't need to be fed or watered and it doesn't bite the neighbors," he said.
The house is wired for electricity so that he can hook up to outlets at campgrounds. In the future, Boyd said he planned to equip the house with solar panels.
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The closest thing Boyd has to a pet is a pelt of a pine marten, closely related to the sable, which hangs from the ceiling.
Boyd nas Colorado license plates and a post office box in
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