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
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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
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Vol. 97, No. 31 (USPS 650-640)
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.
University of Hawaii 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
"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 camps, to stay over night, to visit with advisers and to meet with faculty and KU student.
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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.
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
In a year of KU enrollment records, foreign students were not left out
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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 1,644 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, economies 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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COMICS MAKE A COMEBACK Heroes cope with emotions, private lives and problems
BY NICOLE SAUZEK
ut down Aristotle's theories about life, tales of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick and last month's issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. There's an alternative to seemingly pretentious education — comic books.
The world of comic books has changed over the last three or four years. No longer do superheroes only leap tall buildings in single bounds or zoom across Gotham City in the Batmobile. Comic book characters now have private lives, emotions and social problems.
Comic books have started a new chapter in their 50-year history. No longer do stories begin and end in a single issue, and no longer are plots simplistic varns of good and evil.
The old stories consisted of a core plot structure — villain commits evil, hero seeks villain, hero defeats villain, world made safe for democracy again. Nice, short and to the point.
But, now, with the addition of private lives and continuing story lines, comic books are capturing the interest of a more adult and mature audience.
And many comic book collectors are saying it's about time.
"I would have ditched comic book collecting if it weren't for the changes," Kevin Dilmore, Abilene senior and owner of close to 45,000 comic books, said recently.
"I glad that stories now are taking place over issues and issues. It doesn't bother me that Batman hasn't used the bathroom or changed his clothes in several issues. I'm into comics for the entertainment. I'd much rather read a comic book than watch an episode of "Dynasty."
Before, in the early 1950s, the comic book industry adopted a code of ethics in the form of the Comics Code Authority, a body set up for the industry's self-regulation.
Violence, profanity, drugs and sex also have worked their ways into the comic book scene just recently.
The rules lasted until the mid-1970s, when new independent publishing companies began opening up with their own liberated characters and plots.
All comic book companies, such as DC Comics Inc., Gladstone Publishing Ltd. and Marvel Comics Group, were required to send publications to the Code Authority before they could be printed. The codes banned the portrayal of the living dead, crooked cops, evil heroes, drug abuse, profanity and sex.
Variety was a new word for comic book readers.
Big bucks became the obsession.
It was an influx of a diverse field of heroes. Everything from black-belt hamsters to teenagers having problems with sex and drugs were created by eager artists out to tear down the competition with lower prices and off-beat plots.
A comic book that cost 35 cents fewer than 10 years ago may be costing readers anywhere from 75 cents to $3 today. It's a range in which most younger kids can't afford to buy, but most older readers can.
On an average, Dilmore spends anywhere from $30 to $40 a month on comic books. He gets about 30 different titles a month.
Other comic book collectors, such as Brian Davenport, Lawrence resident, have turned to selling their stockpiles for extra money.
"I used to read a hell of a lot more," Dilmore said. "But, the cost starting killing me, so I cut back."
Of Davenport's collection of 10,000 comic books, he holds a few worth almost $100 each. And, slowly, he's been selling away at his boxes and boxes of books.
"I'm just not interested in comic books any more." Davenport said. "I'm not as easily impressed with the new changes as most comic book readers are. I think the industry is headed in the right direction with the changes. But, I also think they've got a long way to go."
One of the newest and most popular comic books just published is a four-part series called "Batman: The Dark Knight."
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