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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Vol. 97, No. 31 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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.
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
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Bv TONY BALANDRAN
In a year of KU enrollment records, foreign students were not left out
Staff writer
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, 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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Ottawa is about 30 miles south of Lawrence on Highway 59. At 7 a.m. every Saturday, farmers vend their wares, which include fresh fruits and vegetables, baked goods and crafts, at a farmer's market in the town.
The market is located right across the street from the Old Depot Museum. Built in 1888, the depot, which used to serve as division headquarters of the Southern Kansas Railway, now is a museum that features Civil War displays and an old-fashioned general store.
Ottawa also is a favorite spot for antique collectors. The town is spotted with several run-down shops that serve as ideal hunting grounds for antique connoisseurs, as well as amateur bargain furniture hunters.
If Ottawa's one museum isn't enough to satisfy a hearty appetite for history, Council Grove, with at least a dozen historic sites, is only about an hour's drive west of Ottawa on Route 268.
The Council Oak Shrine probably is Council Grove's most famous spot. Although the site itself isn't impressive - it's just a large tree stump with a bright orange park shelter built around it - the stump is steeped in history.
In 1825, when the now deteriorating stump still was a live tree, Indians and U.S. soldiers gathered under it and signed a treaty that allowed white settlers to safely travel the Santa Fe Trail.
The third most famous tree stump is called the Post Office Oak. Before the town had a post office, this tree was used as a central message center. Travelers on the Santa Fe Trail left messages here for the people who came later.
Council Grove boasts of two other famous tree stumps. One of these is Custer Elm Shrine — it looks similar to the Council Oak Shrine, only the Elm Shrine reportedly stands on one of Gen. George Custer's favorite camp sites.
Among Council Grove's other historical assets is an intact, old pioneer jail that used to house "desperados, border ruffians, robbers and bootsleggers."
The Hays House, located on Main Street in Council Grove, is the oldest continuously operating restaurant west of the Mississippi River. It was built as a restaurant and hotel in 1857 and was frequented by tired and hungry pioneers.
A large Madonna of the Trail statue stands right down the road from the jail. Only 12 of these statues exist — one in each state where the Santa Fe Trail passed through. Council Grove has exclusive rights to the Kansas statue, which is meant to commemorate the courage of the pioneer women who forged the trail.
The Hays House has been in Helen Judd's family for a long time. Her grandfather, who was Council Grove's street commissioner when the town's first brick street was laid, bought the restaurant in 1911.
After her grandfather died, Judd sold the restaurant business to someone else, but kept the building. In 1973, she and her husband were teaching school in California when they heard the restaurant in Council Grove was going out of business.
"We didn't want to ruin our record of continuous operation," she said. "So, we quit our jobs, put $10 down on the business and came back to run the restaurant."
When the Judds restored the restaurant in 1973, they tried to keep it historically accurate, she said.
Junction City is about an hour's drive northwest of Council Grove. Fort Riley, the local Army base, houses most of the historically significant places in the Junction City area.
Judd said many of her customers enjoyed the rustic atmosphere of the restaurant as well as the food.
Kansas' First Territorial Capital, built in 1855; a U.S. Cavalry Museum; and The George Custer House, the famous general's residence when he was stationed at the fort, all are located within one square block at the fort.
Ablene, the home of late President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is about a 30-minute drive west of Junction City on I-70.
The center is open year-round from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum features artifacts from the era in which Eisenhower was president. There is a $1 fee to tour the museum.
Other tourist spots have sprung up around the center. The attractions include, Old Abilene Town, a re-creation of an Old Western town that features bone-chilling gunfights, lusty cancan
The main attraction in Abilene is the Eisenhower Center. The center was built around the original Eisenhower family white frame house, and now it includes a museum, research library, visitors' center and memorial chapel.
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The journey across the state can be long and monotonous. One mile marker blends into the next.
Above, tourists enjoy the variety of activities in Abilene. Right, Dwight Eleanorhower's statue in Abilene.
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