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)
Monday October 6,1986
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 1,633 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 student;
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 workshop session I students enrolled KU's
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.
"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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The program is designed to give academically talented minority high school seniors opportunities to tour campus, to stay over night, to visit with advisors 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
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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.
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.
C. and the University's records.
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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