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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
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
More U.S. minority students are enrolled at the University of Kansas than ever before.
University of Kansas 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.
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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.
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
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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hen you became the KU athletic director on Dec. 1, 1982, what were your goals for the Athletic Department?
I was thinking of the athletic program slipping to the depths that it happened to be at that time. Football wasn't doing well, and basketball wasn't doing well. Overall, I didn't think the athletic program was of the same quality as the rest of the University. I had goals of getting the program back to respectability. That doesn't mean just basketball or football, but the total program.
some of them. I think probably in certain areas more than others. Without any question, our football program is better. People have different ways of measuring that, but we've won at least one more game in the three years that Coach (Mike) Gottfried was here. Consistency means something in athletics, where you can show people that you're getting better each year rather than on that roller coaster.
Basketball, there is no question we're eight years ahead of where we were because of Larry (Brown). He is just so good. A lot of people think that you have to rebuild. He rebuilt in one year. He had what would be a career for other coaches in one year.
Have you accomplished these goals?
Because of my background, I'm proud of what Larry has done in basketball, because that happens to be my sport. Emotionally, I'm just as proud of the fact that we've turned football around, and we've allowed the other sports, because of the success of football and basketball, to have more resources to work with.
Describe the working conditions at Kansas and your relationship with the chancellor. For what I wanted to get done, the working
What one accomplishment are you proudest of since you came back to Kansas?
relationships are excellent. First of all, the person I answer to is the chancellor. He's extremely supportive of athletics. He wants the athletic program to be a quality one. Our working relationship has been very good. He's been there to provide moral and tangible support.
The athletic board, made up of faculty, staff, students and alumni, has been very helpful in developing a long-range plan for the athletic program.
Working with the coaches has been excellent. Obviously, we've made some changes. Some leave, and some are still here from when I started. In every area, we have committed, dedicated and energetic coaches.
Have college athletics and business become too interrelated?
I think athletics is a business. You can't remove it from that environment when you consider that we have an employee base of 80 to 90 full-time people. We have 400 to 450 athletes who are also, by being on scholarship, almost the same as employees. If that's not a business, I'm not sure what is. We have an operating budget of $7 million a year, and that's as large as almost any business in the city of Lawrence. Everything we do is geared to generating income to support that operating expense.
In the four years I've been here, I have not felt any alumni pressure that would affect my decision-making process. What I'm doing is what most of the alumni would like to see me doing. I use the athletic board and the chancellor's office for inputs in my decisions.
How much influence and pressure do alumni have on the decision-making process in the Athletic Department?
now much pressure do student-athletes feel to perform well, to succeed?
i compare that to an honor student who gets a scholarship. He has the pressure to perform, too, but doesn't have the visibility. The pressure in athletics comes about from the nature of what we're doing. You want to win. You want to succeed, but winning isn't everything. I've never believed in winning at all costs, sacrificing everything.
What kind of student-athletes are graduating from KU? Can they function in the real world?
They owe the same that any good employee would owe an employer. They have to be responsible as students, responsible as citizens. If a student-athlete has a problem, that's news. Our kids have a responsibility not to put themselves in that position.
Enough isn't being done in many places I know of. When we continue to have problems in society, we need more education. There must be an effort by those who control lives, like we control the lives of athletes, to do as much as we humanly can to help those young people learn about the risks involved with alcohol and drugs.
What does a student on athletic scholarship owe the university?
They have an obligation to be good examples to other people. They do in almost every case.
We started on this a little over three years ago by developing a drug policy. And we have consistently upgraded it. We've tried to make it more constructive. It doesn't do any good to penalize someone with a drug problem. You need to help them.
When I was out looking for a job, I thought I had an advantage over some of the people I was competing against who had not had a competitive background. It doesn't matter what business you're in, you're going to compete with other people.
Of all the student groups on campus, the athletes have a better opportunity to learn about drugs and have more people concerned about them. They can say what they want about performance-enhancing drugs, but that's what leads to (Len) Biaste problem types. If what Blas did was to help him as an individual, it didn't help him too well. If they choose drugs to deal with a problem or for performance enhancement, it will have repercussions.
Is enough being done to eliminate drugs from college sports, and what is Kansas doing to further the cause?
If we find that they've been involved in drugs, they must submit to professional help. If it continues to be a problem, we have the right to either reduce their scholarship or eliminate their scholarship. We are lucky that, according to our testing, the involvement in drugs by our athletes is minimal.
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