University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 10, 1987
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Rep. Gephardt to be at UMKC airport today
Gephardt, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, will speak on post-Reaganomics at room 115 of the Education Building at Holmes and 52nd streets.
Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., is scheduled to speak at 4:30 p.m. today at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
He will speak at 4 p.m. at a press conference at the Downtown Airport.
Police investigate Saturday night fire
KU Police have no leads in the fire that consumed an unused building on campus late Saturday night, said police spokeswoman Lt. Jeanne Longaker.
Police officials said Sunday that the fire was suspicious and that they were investigating it as an arson. There were no injuries. Facilities operations estimated damage to the building at $5,000.
Three KU students involved in fight
Three KU students and two other men were involved in a fight early Saturday morning in Lawrence, police said.
The three students were treated and released from Watkins Memorial Hospital with minor head injuries.
Police are looking for the other two men, who were traveling in a brown Ford passenger van with a ladder on top.
The students told police they were on their way home from Manhattan when the van stopped in front of them, forcing them to swerve onto the shoulder of the road and throw gravel on the van. The men in the van made obscene gestures and then followed the students to a house in Lawrence, where the fight occurred.
Company creates Higuchi fellowship
Upjohn Co. has established a fellowship in memory of KU professor Takeru Higuchi.
The company is contributing $90,000 to establish the Takuru Higuchi Predatorof Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, said Ronald Borchardt, chairman of the pharmaceutical chemistry department. That money will be matched by commitments from the University of Kansas and private contributions through the Kansas University Endowment Association, be said.
The fellowship will be awarded to first-year doctoral students starting fall 1888, Borchardt said. Higuchi was a distinguished professor at KU until his death in March.
Correction
Information in a story on twin research in yesterday's Kansan was incorrect. Janette Schwartzburg and Danete Knowlton developed rapid speech patterns as toddlers.
From staff and wire reports.
Watson's foreign buying power falls
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
Watson Library's ability to buy books overseas is shrinking along with the value of the U.S. dollar. That has library officials worried about paying bills and the possibility of making more cuts in the purchase of foreign books and periodicals.
The library has lost up to 80 percent of its purchasing power in some countries since July, 1985, said Clinton Howard, assistant dean for technical services. That means an overseas periodical subscription costing $100 then costs $180 now.
The dollar's slide since this summer alone is causing more headaches for library planners, who will spend about $1.2 million on foreign purchases this year. The KU libraries purchase about 40 percent of their books and periodicals overseas.
The library lost up to 7.5 percent in purchasing power against some currencies between July and Thursday alone. Between Thursday and Friday, the library lost more than another 2 percent.
The dollar's drop has Howard and others at the library keeping a daily watch on the dollar's value, something Howard said he never expected would be part of his job. He said he was most worried about further predicted drops for the dollar.
Each percentage point represents about $12,000. Howard said that meant the library lost about $25,000 in purchasing power overnight.
Some of those predictions have the dollar dropping another 30 percent.
"The difficulty is the problem is so large and is developing so rapidly," he said.
Richard Ring, collection development librarian, said that the library staff had expected the dollar to drop and had budgeted for that. But the dollar already has fallen as much as they expected for all year, he said.
Ring said he was especially worried about overseas periodicals that were ordered but hadn't been paid for yet. Money is set aside for such problems, but Ring said he wasn't sure it was enough.
Ring said it was too early to tell what might be done to handle the problem.
"We'll get through this year one way or another," he said. "Somebody will give us more money, or we'll have to purchase fewer books."
Ring said that the library purchased all kinds of books and periodicals from overseas publishers, including many English-language
scientific journals.
This year, Watson canceled 1,500 periodicals and made plans to purchase 5,000 fewer books. Ring said. More cuts could be on the way.
Those cuts would be decided in the spring and made in fiscal year 1989, he said.
"I think we may have to have a second round of serials cancellations, as well as cut down on the number of books that we buy," he said.
The problem has been compounded by generally rising prices in academic journals, which Howard said were falling under the control of several large companies.
The resulting cuts would be decided as they were before. Howard said. Different fields will be cut equally, but choosing what to cut is becoming difficult.
Applications have to meet new deadline
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
New students, transfer students and students applying for readmission to the University of Kansas for the spring semester must turn in their applications by Dec. 1., an administrator said yesterday.
tumultuous, but we are ready.
"When we warn students now, they need to meet the deadlines," said Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions.
"We're going to be hard-nosed about this."
In March, the office of admissions set admission deadlines for the first time as part of an effort to slow enrollment growth and ease overcrowding, Lindvall said.
For this semester, out-of-state freshmen had to apply by April 1 and in-state freshmen had to apply by May 1. Transfer students and students wanting readmission had to apply by June 30.
Lindvall said that because the deadlines were new, the admissions office had set up a committee to review late applications. The exceptions committee reviewed 308 late applications.
But for spring semester, Lindvall said, the office will make far fewer exceptions than they did for fall semester. Students who miss the deadlines may have to wait until summer 198 for admission.
the tall 1988 application deadline for out-of-state freshmen will be Feb. 1. In-state freshmen, transfer students and student seeking readmission for fall 1988 should be见 their applications in by April 1.
The new deadlines apply only to undergraduates. Graduate students applying to KU must contact individual schools to request deadline dates.
Lindvall said that it was too early to tell whether the application deadlines had slowed enrollment growth.
Another proposal to try to ease overcrowding wouldn't take effect until next fall.
Last Wednesday, the College Assembly approved tougher admission standards for out-of-state students for fall 1988
An out-of-state applicant will be required to have a 3.0 grade point average or higher, or score at least 23 on the ACT composite or complete a recommended high school core curriculum for admission. Currently, all out-of-state applicants with a GPA of 2.0 or higher are automatically admitted to KU.
The thing
Mike Dudick, Clearwater, Fla., senior, molds a piece of clay into what he calls "the thing." Dudick was the sculpture yesterday morning for his introductory ceramics class.
ASK pushes Margin of Excellence to parents
Staff writer
By BRAD ADDINGTON Staff writer
KU students who feel guilty about not writing home to Mom and Dad shouldn't worry. The Associated Students of Kansas has done it for them.
The plan is dependent on increased financial support from the Kansas Legislature, and the letters encourage parents to express support for the plan by contacting Gov. Mike Hayden and their local legislators.
As part of its Higher Education Rescue Operation, KU ASK representatives sent letters last month to the parents of resident undergraduate students at the University of Kansas. The letters request support for the Margin of Excellence proposal.
percent of the average of KU's peer institutions, which are universities similar in size and mission. Under the plan, the state would raise KU's budget to 95 percent of the average of peer institutions.
Margin of Excellence is the Board of Regents three-year plan to raise KU faculty salaries to 100
The letters also encourage parents to urge their friends to do the same.
Leslie said she probably would not actively support Margin of Excellence.
Joy Leslie, 128 Minnesota St., whose daughter, Kym Fagan, is a senior at KU, said she had received the letter.
"It isn't that I'm not in favor of it. It isn't that I don't think it's a good program. I'm just too busy," Leslie said.
Traveler gives talk on Jewry
The money for the letters came from the $23 student activity fee that all students pay each
the Student Senate in September approved a bill allocating $3,800 to assist ASK in its lobbying efforts. The bill provided $3,000 to cover the cost of mailing letters to the parents of KU students.
By ELAINE WOODFORD Special to the Kansan
"Shalom. I'm a friend from America."
Hellman and Elizabeth Kaplan, a reporter for the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, traveled to Moscow, Minsk and Leningrad during a two-week visit to the Soviet Union in October.
That telephone greeting was used often by Judy Hellman, associate director of the Jewish Community Relations Bureau of Greater Kansas City, during a visit to the Soviet Union.
Their purpose was to speak with Soviet Jews, especially refuseniks. Refuseniks are Jews who have been convicted for extinguish has been denied.
Hellman spoke to about 35 students and Lawrence residents last night at the campus.
She has been involved with the Jewish Community Relations Bureau for the past nine years, working on the issue of Soviet Jewry.
More than 4 million Jews live in the Soviet Union; and according to information from the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, 268,551 Jews were allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1987.
Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union has been increasing, especially since April, according to the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. The average number of Jews now leaving is 800 a month.
Hellman said that the increase allowed by Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev wasn't a gesture of good will on his part.
"Gorbachev is a very clever man. He has been allowing the well known Jews to emigrate. By doing this, he accomplishes two things. One, he gets a lot of good publicity, and two, he eliminates the leaders of the Jewish community."
Once a Jew applies to the government for an exit visa, he usually faces several consequences, Hellman said.
"Most people who apply for visas lose their jobs or are demoted to half-salaries. To be able to survive, many people sell personal items, such as crystal, china, clothing or items that are sent to them by outside sources, such as cigarettes," she said.
"But this is not just a Jewish problem," Hellman said. "The Soviet Union is violating the rights of many other religious groups, including Catholics, Protestants and Muslims."
The National Conference on Soviet Jewry is sponsoring a rally Dec. 6 in Washington D.C., before Gorbachev's summit with President Reagan.
Several Lawrence residents anc KU students are hoping to attend the rally, including Daveen Litwin director of Hillel House, and Aaror Rittmaster, Overland Park sophomore and Hillel House resident.
"I have family roots in the Soviet Union," Rittmaster said. "Something is wrong when a person cannot be free to leave a country. We need to do something about it."
Diane Harris, Northbrook, Ill. senior, said that she had been learning more about Soviet Jewry in the past year and that she was interested in learning more.
"This is something that everybody together on campus can work for a solution," she said.
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