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)
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
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.
University of Kansas university 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.
Hispanic. American Indian student. 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.
perienced a 17.5 percent increase, when 30 more students enrolled. This year, 201 students are enrolled, compared with 171 last year.
One such program is the Minority Outreach Program in Kansas City, Kan., an extension of the KU office of minority affairs.
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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.
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
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, 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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A after three years of golfing, fishing and loafing. Al Woolard decided he was bored with retired life. So, when former KU football coach Don Fambrough asked him in 1979 to help with recruiting duties, it took just three seconds to say yes.
In his coaching career, spanning more than 30 years, Woolard attained records that few, if any, high school football coaches have broken.
"The greatest friends I had were the kids that played for me," Woolard said recently. "A coach and player are close because they know the problems, they have laughed, cried, been frozen and been rained on together. It's almost like a marriage. You are that close."
At the end of his coaching career in 1968, his victory total was the second highest ever achieved by a high school coach.
In 1977, he was inducted into the Kansas Football Hall of Fame for his coaching record.
Those kinds of feelings never go away, regardless of the years that have separated a coach and his player, he said.
However, his remarkable coaching accomplishments seem trivial compared to the memories and relationships he developed with his players.
He began coaching before any of the KU athletes he works with now were
born. When he graduated from Southwestern College in Winfield, Woolard defied the advice other coaches had given him and returned home to Edna, Okla., to be the high school's head coach. At 21, he was barely older than most of his players, so they became his closest friends.
He had played sports all his life, so his occupation choice seemed natural. Coaching took precedence over playing because "I was too little to play anything."
He spent two seasons at Edna, with a 25-2 record, before moving to Commerce, Okla., for 10 years. At Commerce, he had a 72-13-3 record, but that is insignificant to him considering who one of his players was — Mickey Mantle. Mantle played football and baseball in high school. Mantle went on to play centerfield for the New York Yankees and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Woolard has coached the famous and the not so famous. He has coached at large high schools and small high schools. No matter where he coached he always has maintained a winning tradition.
After leaving Commerce, Woolard's dynasty at Lawrence High School began. In his 19 years as head coach, the Lions won 12 state championships and compiled a 151-11-9 record including a 47-game winning streak. He
also had several 30-game winning streaks.
Lawrence had had a winning tradition for years and for the new coach, that was somewhat intimidating.
that was somewhat different. "My biggest worry wasn't that I was going to start something, I just wanted to keep something that had been happening going," Woolard said. "We lost three games the first year and I almost gushed out of town."
Woolard kept his job and the state championships started pouring in. Woolard said it was the players he had along with his coaching that made his teams so successful.
teams so successful.
"Why sure it was my good coaching," he laughed. "Really though, I was lucky to have been in such good communities. It would have been tough to go somewhere where the kids don't have a winning attitude."
Woolard said winning streaks are harder to come by in football today.
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"I don't think people have those winning streaks anymore," he said.
"Schools are more balanced out so one team won't dominate anymore. The kids have changed, too."
kids have During his coaching era, kids didn't used to watch television on Saturday and Sunday afternoons; cars and social activities weren't as common as they are now. His players probably were more physically prepared for football, he said.
"I was at this reunion called 'Al Woolard Day' for all my players who had been All-Americans," he said, "and one of my former players, who is a businessman now, was smoking a cigarette. When I walked up, he stamped it out quickly. He said he just didn't feel right smoking in front of me."
Now at age 76, Woolard sits behind a desk watching video tapes of prospective recruits rather than pacing the sidelines. Gone are the days when his roar could make the boys jump. But even 20 years later, his former players still think of him as coach.
Woolard said that 19 of the 21 All-Americans he coached had come to the reunion. Several now are doctors, lawyers and engineers.
"That tells you what kind of caliber you were working with." Woolard said. "Phog Allen used to tell people when they asked what kind of player someone on his team was, 'Wait 10 years and I'll tell you then what kind of player he is.' You don't really know until they've grown up what they were like."
Some of the coach's players from Lawrence moved on to play at KU and then in the pros.
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