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KU's image helps boost enrollment
By BILL RAYNOLDS Staff writer
What do the KU men's basketball team and a favorable rating of the University of Kansas in a national guide to U.S. colleges and universities have in common?
Both could explain an increase of 591 students who attended summer orientation sessions, a University administrator said recently.
This summer, 4,367 students attended the 14 sessions compared to 3,776 students who attended in 1985.
Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, said the increase in the number of freshmen and transfer students attending summer orientation indicated that total enrollment should increase.
Last fall, the first-day enrollment figure at the Lawrence campus was 24,774. Lindvall said he expected this semester's first-day enrollment to exceed 25,000.
However, he said, the University doesn't have a standard procedure to predict enrollment figures.
"The success of the basketball team has given the University national public," said Lindvall. "Edward Fiske has clearly pointed out the quality and low cost of KU."
Fiske is an education writer for the New York Times and author of "The Selective Guide to Colleges." He gave KU a four-star academic rating, the best in the Big Eight Conference. The top rating used in the guide is five stars.
More students may be attending because of an increase in out-of-state recruiting, Lindvall said, and because students visit the campus and tell their friends about it.
The University's full-time equivalency enrollment, which is used by the Kansas Legislature to determine a budget for the University, will not be available until Sept. 16.
The figure is calculated by dividing the total number of credit hours by average full-time credit course loads. For undergraduates the average course load is 15 hours; for law students, 12 hours; and for graduate students, nine hours.
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Band on the beach
Cindy Campbell, Overland Park freshman, plays the tuba on Wescoe Beach with the rest of the Marching Jayhawks. The band was featured at the beach during Hawk Week.
More campus lighting waits in the shadows
A seemingly sluggish bureaucracy repeatedly has delayed campus灯光 improvements, keeping students in the dark, the student body president said last week.
By BETH COPELAND
Staff writer
"I don't know what the holdup is," sain David Epstein, the president. "If students have to suffer another winter walking in the dark, that's a shame."
The campus lighting issue dates back to 1970 when Student Senate was formed. The current project started in 1985, when William Easley was the student body president.
During Easley's administration, the Senate allocated $10,000 for a study that identified campus areas that had inadequate lighting.
Epstein's administration picked up where Easley's left off and worked for improved lighting. Earlier this year, Student Senate allocated $25,000 to help pay for the project. At that time, Epstein understood that the new lights would be installed by this summer.
"I really don't know what I'm doing wrong," Epstein said. "Do I have to go out there and dig the holes myself?"
Greg Wade, a landscape architect for the University, last week speculated that the first stage of construction would be completed by the winter or during the spring semester.
Meanwhile, the Senate's $25,000 is sitting idle in a University account, said Keith Nitcher, director of business affairs.
Wade said completion of the project was snagged by the complexity of the new light fixtures and the length of time state officials took to approve the project.
The University lacked enough money to accept bids in May. The funds now have been acrued and bidding will open in September.
Nitcher said $75,000 had been tagged for lighting. The bill will be divided equally among Student Senate, the University's operating budget and the Board of Regents.
Wade said the project could cost $75,000 to $100,000.
Wade expects five to eight construction companies to offer bids to erect new light poles on Jayhawk Boulevard from the Chi Omega Fountain to Mississippi Street, located between Stauffer-Flint Hall and Watson Library.
After the companies bid, the state's architectural and purchasing divisions in Topeka will approve one bid, a process that adds another six weeks to the project.
The study that Student Senate commissioned in 1985 was supervised by Ronald Helms, director of architectural engineering. The study identified the boulevard as an area that most needed improved lighting, Wade said.
Watkins takes appointments
By ALISON YOUNG
A new appointment system that should cut patients' time in the waiting room at Watkins Hospital should begin today, hospital administrators said last week.
"This is something students have been wanting for a long time," said James E. Strobi, director of student health services.
Lawrence Magee, chief of staff at Watkins Hospital, said students complained about the amount of time they had to wait to see a physician.
About 120 appointments will be available each day. In addition, four physicians will take patients on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Magee and Strobl estimated that Watkins now sees from 180 to more than 300 patients a day in the general medicine clinic.
The appointments will be scheduled at 15-minute intervals from 8:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
"I'm not going to say they will be seen at exactly the time of the appointment," Magee said, "but within a reasonable amount of time: in the range of 20 minutes.
"Hopefully the program will progress to the point where all will be taking appointments." Appointments should be scheduled at least a day in advance. However, be said, patients
may be able to call and get an appointment for later the same day.
During the last two years, most patients didn't wait more than 45 minutes, Magee said, but during the flu season some waited more than an hour.
Appointments should be scheduled at a regular day in advance. However, he said, patients
Initially, about half the physicians will be taking appointments and half will be taking walk-ins.
With the exception of the gynecology clinic, which has taken appointments for the past three years, this will be the first time the hospital will schedule appointments for most physicians.
The scheduling system allows patients to make appointments for a specific physician. The system is designed to improve patient flow to the various services, such as the laboratory and X-ray.
The program also will distribute patient load throughout the day and week. Traditionally, the hospital has been its busiest on Mondays and in the early afternoon.
The plan will include a screening nurse who will direct walk-in patients, pull the patient's medical records and possibly recommend lab work. Nurses and nurse practitioners also will administer treatment under the new system.
Strobl said he would increase the hospital's night staff to pull medical records for the next day's appointments.
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