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.
Reign ends
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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
Staff writer
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.
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.
perienced a 17.5 percent increase, when 30 more students enrolled. This year, 201 students are enrolled, compared with 171 last year.
"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."
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.
Last spring, during the outreach program's six-week enrichment session, 51 students visited KU's
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.
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.
Forty-eight of the 82 students who went through the program last spring ended up enrolling at the University this fall, Jackson 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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Another program is the Kansas University Endowment Association's Merit Award program, which Jackson coordinates.
"That is one of the things we are trying to work on — building that data base. I think we demonstrate success," she said.
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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.
Enrollment climbs with record growth of foreign students
This year, a record 1,777 foreign students enrolled, compared with 1,646 enrolled last year — an increase of 131 students.
By TONY BALANDRAN
The reputation sometimes is created when students return home with positive comments about the University, he said.
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He also said that through U.S. and foreign academic journals, students see the works of many KU students and faculty members.
Coan said the University's reputa-
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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girls and white-knuckle stagecoach rides.
Tourists wanting more staid entertainment can partake of the Museum of Independent Telephony, the Greyhound Hall of Fame, a wax museum of famous World War II generals and the World's Largest Souvenir Shop.
Jack Green has owned the souvenir shop, which features souvenir salt and pepper shakers and saucers emblazoned with the state logo and plastic dolls modeled after the Eisenhower family, since 1968. He said no one had contested his claim that his shop was the largest in the world.
"We've been pretty much everywhere in Kansas," he said. "And we've never seen one bigger than ours."
A tour of Kansas wouldn't be complete without a trip to the five-acre Mushroom State Park, about 60 miles west of Abilene.
Mushroom State Park features several car-sized, mushroomshaped rocks that were formed
by the glaciers during the Ice Age.
Kent and Mary Lou Staubus of Lenexa said that although the rocks weren't worth a special trip, they were worth seeing
"If you live in Kansas, they're worth seeing once," he said.
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curves in the snow, while the ski-dog ran behind me; pretending he'd catch me if I fell. Of course, he never did. He'd let me fall and then bounce on my back, cuffing me on the head, while I tried to dig out of the snow.
We spent the day skiing on the same trail. A snowfall began midway through the last run. I sat on a tree stump to watch. Bobo came over and leaned against me. Slowly a white, woolen sky descended and spread a veil over us. The late afternoon sky began its winter performance of turning from white to blue.
As we watched, I thought of how cross-country skiing was a sport of solitude but not loneliness. The sport lent itself to
quiet rests, and the shared silence between friends healed torn, ragged nerves. From where we sat, pain faded far beyond the low-lying clouds, and life seemed to hold no disillusionment.
The afternoon light grew richer. Bobo nudged me; it was time to go. The roads would be ice soon, and someone waited for us. But the thought of leaving irritated me, it was hard to see a good day end.
We skied to the car. My friend climbed into the backseat and fell asleep.
When I think about that day now, I can accept that few things last. This year's snow will melt in the spring; good days end; and people change.
I've gone back to the Crags to ski several times, accompanied by other friends, and each time we've skied farther up the road. As we pass the sharp bend, I look up at the stump where my friend and I sat in our sanctuary of snow. The engraved memory comes back. I long to step into it, to go back and watch the snowfall.
There is no bitterness, although I know it could not be the same. Bobo is gone. When his master left, he went with her.
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