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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Reign ends
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 1,633 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.
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.
perienced a 17.5 percent increase, when 30 more students enrolled. This year, 201 students are enrolled, compared with 171 last year.
specifically through One such program is the Minority Outreach Program in Kansas City, Kan., an extension of the KU office of minority affairs.
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office of minotauro 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 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.
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
The foreign student population increased by almost 8 percent this fall, said Clark Coan, director of the office of foreign student services.
In a year of KU enrollment records, foreign students were not left out.
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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the archway leading into the theater.
It looks good, Millstein says. One more small detail in a large project is accomplished — the placement of the Kansas State Seal, which reads, "Ad astra per aspera," meaning "To the stars through difficulties."
A phrase which Millstein and Oldfather agree has been very fitting to the task of renovating the Lawrence Opera House into Liberty Hall.
Oldfather and Millstein have devoted the last 15 months to creating a combined performing arts theater, movie theater and meeting place for the Lawrence community. The building, one of Lawrence's oldest, has seen some of Lawrence's wilder sides.
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The task has been overwhelming, they said. The original opening day date was Sept. 19, but the delay of a shipment of chairs, among other things, prevented Liberty Hall from opening.
Now, Millstone said, they are tentatively planning to open the hall Oct. 10 with a showing of the movie "A Room With A View."
"The guy who owned it was having some financial difficulties," Oldfather said of Moon. "He had talked to Dave. Dave and I just decided to do (the renovation) independently.
Oldfather is a former KU law professor and University general counsel. He was at KU for almost 25 years. Millstein owns Sunflower Surplus, 804 Massachusetts St., and the Casabah Deli, 803 Massachusetts St.
The two met and became partners through Skip Moon, who owned the building and ran it as the Lawrence Opera House from the late 1970s until the early 1980s.
The grand opening is set for Oct. 23 with the performance of the play "The Ballad of Black Jack," featuring Oldfather as the infamous abolitionist John Brown.
"We wanted to give it a shot."
Millstein said, "My initial concept wasn't realistic. It was a romantic notion to join Charlie and preserve this thing. It has really gotten complex. There are a lot of facets of this we were unfamiliar with."
"We've been fortunate to have been helped by people with theatre experience, setting the pertinences that go along with theater." Oldfather said.
Millstein has been acting as the general contractor, and Oldfather has been involved with the paperwork.
Liberty Hall was known as the Red Dog Inge from 1964 to 1971. When the place was the Red Dog, Millstein said, everything was painted red and black.
"There was never any attempt to bring out the quality," Millstein said. "A lot of expedient work was done, so many businesses would move in and out."
The two have made a lot of changes in the building. Past businesses in the building made changes that altered the building's original structure.
"When we first came here to work on it, everything was black." Oldfather said. "It made
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