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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.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 31 (USPS 650-640)
Monday
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
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 1,633 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 428. 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.
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specifically designed 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
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.
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.
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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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I know it's early to be thinking about the ski season, but I can't help it. Snow already has fallen at the Grand Canyon, and that usually doesn't happen this early - so it's probably safe for me to start daydreaming.
As I anticipate the coming season, my thoughts often turn to an old skiing partner. As partners go, he was as good as they get He was a dog who always was ready to go, and once in the mountains, he never complained about snow conditions.
When we first met,we really didn't have much in common except that we both were obsessed with the same girl. In fact, she had introduced us.
He had been a drifter, getting kicked out of seven homes in the first six months of his life. He went by the name of Ben, but he had other names, so it really didn't matter what people called him. I called him Bobo because Ben was too dignified for his Australian shepherd-coyote appearance. Besides, I knew it irritated my girlfriend.
Not long after we met, he decided that we should cross-country ski together. I think he pitted me as I weathered my stormy relationship with his master.
known as the Craig.
We usually drove the several miles to a picnic area, but the snow was still deep from mid-winter storms, and I did not want to fight my way in.
to right my way.
I stopped where the road bent sharply. Snow crunched under the tires as I edged the car into the bank. I got out and began putting my skis on while Bobo ran up the trail to look it over. We hadn’t skied here, and he wanted to make sure it was a good trail. He came bounding back with his approval.
masters.
One early March morning, he rode in the backseat as we drove up Ute Pass in Colorado. The sky was dirty and gray. I was worried about my present and my future. And I sensed that this might be our last day skiing together; changes were coming that I could not prevent.
that I found off the highway,
heading south toward Cripple Creek. After a few miles filled with more brooding, we left the paved road, going to the west side of Pikes Peak and the area known as the Crags.
approval.
I checked the bindings, slid to the bottom of the bank and fell, my legs and skis knotting together. Bobo saw his chance and pounced. We wrestled to a draw and then resumed skiing. He ran ahead, waited until 1
came close and then scooped his nose in the snow and looked at me. He knew how to get a laugh.
We crossed the mountainside and into open ground. My friend disappeared in a clump of trees. He reappeared at the top of the slope and good-naturedly bumped his shoulder against my leg.
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