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
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 1,653 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.
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,
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
Enrollment climbs with record growth of foreign students
By TONY BALANDRAN
The America
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 1,646 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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And history really does live there, especially during summer weekends when people dress up in costumes of the period to show what it was like to live at the fort in the 1840s.
Last weekend, the National Park Service, which runs the fort, invited a group of mountain men to recreate a rendezvous, the event at which the mountain men met the fur traders to exchange their goods.
Never mind that some of the mountain men were insurance agents or Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents in disguises, and never mind that the fur trade, and thus the mountain men rendezvous, had pretty much died out by the time that the fort was built in 1842.
He said he had put about 150 hours of labor into another shirt, including about 120 hours on beadwork. Such a shirt would sell for $400 to $500, he said, so he traded it to a friend in exchange for a riffle.
"I love every minute of it," Scott Sturgeon, Lee's Summit, Mo. said while carefully sewing beads onto a leather shirt. The shirt he was decorating was for everyday use and wouldn't have many beads, Sturgeon said, but the Blackfoot Indians used more beads on their ceremonial robes.
But do mind that the mountain men, their wives and children, were recreating history and having fun in the process.
"I can't make a rifle but I can make another shirt," he said with a smile.
Like other present-day mountain men, Sturgeon got interested in the sport through his gun club, the Strother Free Trappers.
Sturgeon, who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1972 with a degree in biology, travels
all over the country to attend mountain men rendezvous.
Allen and Delores Jones o. Parsons also got involved in the rendezvous through their gun club, the Timber Hill Muzzle Loaders.
"We love this place," Allen said, adding this was the third year they had set up their tent at the Fort Scott rendezvous.
Delores, wearing a handmade muslin skirt, sat in front of the family's canvas lodge selling her wares, which included clothing, candles and beads.
She said she usually sold enough to pay for the gas to get to the rendezvous.
One of her customers was Maureen McLellan, at Stillwell, who bought her son a cookbook that included recipes for rattlesnake, buffalo and opossum.
Mauren and her husband and children went across the street to the North Main Deli to take a lunch break before returning for the riffle demonstrations in the afternoon.
Jeff Sheets, a park ranger, said 2,000 to 3,000 people visited the weekend programs, depending on the weather.
The fort's events theme for this weekend is "Harvest Time," and will include bread and apple butter making.
Visitors to the fort who don't come on a weekend that includes special events still can wander through the fort at their own pace. There is no admission fee to the fort.
The infantry barracks now house a museum that tells the story of the fort — first an outpost on the edge of the frontier in 1842-53, then a meeting place for pro-slavery forces from 1855 to 1860, and finally a supply base for Union troops during the Civil
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Musically inclined visitors can play the organ, and others might be able to persuade the volunteer on duty to treat them to a verse of "My Country Tis of Thee."
Before leaving town, visitors ought to take a brief look at a few of the impressive Victorian homes, as well as the restored Old Congregational Church.
The town of Fort Scott has other attractions to offer as well, and visitors who have a few extra dollars can even tour the town in a horse-drawn buggy.
The church was built in 1873 on the site where the previous church burned down. The Historic Preservation Association of Bourbon County was formed 100 years later to save the church from a sad death. Now visitors can admire the original stained-glass windows and ring the church bell.
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History may be alive in this town — except at the Fort Scott National Cemetery — but once out of town, the signs of life are limited to an occasional dilapidated farmhouse.
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There, visitors can see the wooden bunk beds, where two men had to sleep side by side. A sign explains that it was warmer that way in the winter, but it fails to tell how the soldiers survived the hot Kansas summers. The sign also gives the menu: rice soup with dried vegetables and boiled beef, or maybe bean soup with boiled salt pork.
Students may learn to appreciate their rooms at school after seeing the reconstructed barracks.
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