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.
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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.
specifically 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.
military education 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 sixweek 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,
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.
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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 1,644 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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Millstein and Oldfather had to change the structure of the theater floor. The floor had sloped slightly at an angle to the stage. Millstein and Oldfather took out the floor and built a new one, which has a tiered slope toward the stage.
Cosmic murals that swirl across the side walls and the arch above the stage adorn the theater. Paintings of some of the Muses, the Greek god Zeus' daughters, are on each side of the stage. Area artists Dennis Helm, Dalton Howard, Tamara Brown and Claire Bell contributed to the cosmic decor.
A past business had built a higher stage on top of the old one, Oldfather said. That stage was taken off, and the original one was refurbished.
Oldfather enjoys recounting the story of how the arch was painted.
Millstein found old theater furniture, including theater seats
Since Helm was unable to reach the arch to paint the mural, he stood on the balcony and told other painters standing on scaffolds exactly where to paint to create the scene.
Behind the stage, an obscure set of stairs lead to the basement, a maze of dimly lit rooms that house the furnaces, future dressing rooms and remains of a former club, the Seventh Spirit Cellar. The former club probably will be converted into a waiting room for performers, Oldfather said.
that had once been in a Lawrence church, in Kansas City.
The dressing rooms will be located almost directly underneath the Liberty Hall Video store, a business that has been open in the building since January 1985.
Once the hall is open, the place will be open to different sorts of entertainment Gary Mackender, a former Student Union Activities film chairman, is in charge of booking performances.
Original fixtures once again will be a part of the decor. Several chandeliers are being refurbished, original pieces of stained glass that had been removed will be installed again, and the original mosaic tiles that covered the floors will be put back in the lobby, on the runway that leads into the theater.
Mackender said several films
were scheduled for this month and the Kaw Valley Dance Theater would be performing there next month.
The building will be available for concerts, plays, dances, meetings and banquets. Oldfather and Millstein are applying for a liquor license, and food for the dinner theater will be catered.
The acts in Liberty Hall will be following in the footsteps of famous acts that have performed throughout history. Noted personalities — from Oscar Wilde, Ethel Barrymore and Marie Dressler to Ike and Tina Turner, Fleetwood Mac, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and the Police — have performed for Lawrence audiences in the opera house.
Mackender said he hoped Liberty Hall would bring back some of that excitement.
"There was quite a bit of excitement in the Red Dog era," he said. "Starting with the Beatles and on to Woodstock. There was a real interest in live rock' n' roll. Sometimes the place had crowds of over 1,000 people."
Having different types of entertainment will give the college crowd a chance to enjoy
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