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
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.
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.
office of介于 university 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
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.
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Forty-eight of the 82 students who went through the program last spring ended up enrolling at the University this fall, Jackson said.
By TONY BALANDRAN
Enrollment climbs with record growth of foreign students
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, 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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KU police chase speeders, vandals
Cop for a night
R riding with George Salehar, a KU police officer, was just like being a special guest star on "Miami Vice."
Except the car wasn't a Ferrari, but a four-door Ford.
And Saleh harw a uniform instead of an expensive designer suit. He even wore socks.
While the guys on television usually hunt down psychotic murderers or seedy drug dealers, we were looking for psychotic speeders and seedy vandals.
In fact, Salehar said comparisons between reality and television were pretty lame.
OK, so it wasn't at all like "Miami Vice." But it still was a good time. There even were times when reality was one up on the tube.
"You never see Crockett and Tubbs going to the Sonic," he said, between bites of a cheeseburger and onion rings.
screeching over the engine noise.
When we responded to a fire alarm at Corbin Hall, for instance, we had the car up to about 50 or 55 mph and were weaving between cars on Mississippi Street, the siren
screening over the engine noise. And all the time, the red lights are show, creating an interesting show on my white knuckles.
I had never legally gone that fast on a city road. I was excited.
Saleh, however, acted like a fan at a grade school tidilywinks championship. I learned why as I got to know him a little better.
Salehar was in the Marine Corps when the Iranian hostage crisis broke out. Although his four-year stint was up, he was placed on a ship in the Persian Gulf and stayed there "waiting for Carter to do something," he said.
"I guess you could say the situation there was pretty tense," he said.
When he returned home, he got a job as a correctional officer at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, where he worked for two years.
"It was about the only open employment possibility at the time," he said.
He said he had gone through many scary and uncomfortable situations while working at the
penentiary, including a couple of incidents that endangered his life.
I met Salehar about 5:15 p.m.
Saturday after I signed a form stating the police were not responsible for any injuries I might suffer, such as being killed.
We were briefed, and I was told that if any dangerous situations occurred, Salehar would either tell me to stay in the car or boot me from the car.
Though I felt fairly safe, I checked Salehar's belt to make sure he was wearing a revolver. I saw that he was. It looked like a nice one, too, with custom, molded grips.
Salehar was a rover that night, meaning that he provided backup assistance to either of the two division patrol cars.
About 5:35 p.m. we got a call from dispatch concerning a man who had lost his brother at Memorial Stadium. We went to the parking lot east of the stadium and got a description from the man who reported the incident.
Salehar drove to the west parking lot and found the man. The incident took about 10 minutes to resolve.
Saleh said the police liked to monitor certain roadways that statistically were more susceptible to accidents.
From the stadium, we went to the entrance of Jayhawker Towers to monitor traffic on 15th Street.
"We're just here to protect the students," he said, "even though some of them don't think that."
At 7:02 p.m., Salehar tracked a Dodge Omni doing 43 mph in a 30-mph zone.
After catching the car, Salehar called in the tag information to see whether the car recently had been stolen. Then he explained to the driver why he was being stopped and called in the license and registration information. This was done, he said, to see whether there were any warrants on the driver. Finding none, he gave the driver a speeding ticket.
We then hit the streets again.
Salehar, who has been a KU police officer since May 1962,
said he was just a working student.
He works the 4 p.m.-midnight shift so he can attend law classes at Washburn University in Topeka during the day.
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And though he admitted that "being scared is all part of the job," he enjoys the independence of police work.
At 8:35 p.m., an alarm signal came over the scanner, and the dispatcher sent us to Corbin Hall. When we got there it was apparent there was no fire. However, Salehar and several firefighters had to check every room to make sure.
"If there had been a fire, I'd have been out of there," he said, laughing. "We'd let LFD take care of that."
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People have a peculiar look about them when they see someone in a police car. Some raise their eyebrows, some turn away quickly, some laugh.
And there's always someone in the crowd who smiles knowingly.
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