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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday November 5,1987 Vol.98,No.54
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Admissions plan supported in poll
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
Almost 60 percent of KU faculty members support a selective admissions proposal by Board of Regents executive director Stanley Koplik, according to a survey released yesterday by the University Senate Executive Committee.
SenEx sent about 1,175 forms to faculty members Oct. 23, asking them whether they supported the proposal on selective admissions with few or minor reservations, whether they supported the concept of selective admissions but did not like Koplik's proposal and whether they supported the current open admissions policy.
Under the current policy, any student who graduates from an accredited Kansas high school automatically is admitted to KU.
Kopik's proposal would require in-state students to complete a recommended high school curriculum with a grade point average of 2.0 or higher, a score 23 or higher on the ACT composite or rank in the top third of their graduating class to be admitted to the University of Kansas.
About 366, or 31 percent, of the forms were returned.
Sandra Wick, SenEx administrative assistant, said the survey might not accurately represent faculty opinion, because those who took time to answer the survey probably had the strongest feelings on the issue.
About 125 people wrote additional comments, Wick said. The specific comments were not available yesterday.
Evelyn Swartz, SenEx chairman, said she wasn't surprised that most faculty supported selective admissions in the survey. She said she thought the comments were the most interesting part of the survey.
"Funding is clearly on people's minds." Swartz said.
She said many faculty members would support selective admissions if they thought the state might change the way it allocated money to KU.
Under the present system, the amount of money KU receives from the state depends on the number of students enrolled. Thus, under the current system, if KU admitted fewer students because of selective admissions, it would receive less money.
Tea for two ... and more
Wick said that the survey results would be discussed at the Nov. 12 University Council meeting and that Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, might include the results in a report on selective admissions to the Regents.
Story by AMBER STENCER
Photos by James Larson
W when you approach the limestone castle mansion on the corner of 13th and Mas
sachusetts streets, you expect an austere butler to answer the door.
Instead, a 5-foot-2-inch gray-haired lady hollers at you to come on in.
For more than 40 years, Libby Florito has run the Castle Tea Room.
Old-fashioned lamps light the way into the entry hall. Portraits in ornate gold frames and a few elaborate mirrors line the wooden walls.
Customers can dine in one of four rooms on the main floor of the Castle Tea Room. They can eat beef stroganoff in what used to be the walnut library of Gen. John N. Roberts, who built the 17-room mansion in 1894. Or, they can enjoy eating pasta in the oak room, which used to be the main dining room for the Roberts family. The front parlor is made of birch wood and the back parlor of cherry, and both are set up for diners.
Libuse Kriz Fiorito, who goes by Libby because she says no one can pronounce her name, lives on the second floor of the restaurant she has run for more than 40 years in Gen. Roberts' former home. Libby and her friend, the late Ruth Quinlan, decided to open the Castle Tea Room in 1947. Quinlan owned another tea room in Lawrence and Libby had worked as a waitress during college at a tea room in the Chicago area.
Besides booking reservations, overseeing four part-time workers and maintaining the mansion, Libby is the only cook. She cooks an assortment of dishes but specializes in Bohemian cuisine — relying on her Czechoslovakian heritage. Because Libby has so much to do, customers are required to make reservations a day in advance. Dinner is served between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., unless the customer requests a different time for a special group occasion. Libby only offers for lunch when at least eight people have made reservations
Entrees average from $6 to $10.
"Oh, I do have a few lovers that come in," Libby said. "I put them in a corner. I had one couple come in the other day. They were so cute. He had a big pumpkin filled with stuff and I thought maybe a diamond ring was at the bottom.
But I didn't dare ask because I
didn't know him very well. I
was just dying to get in there
and look myself!"
Libby said her main clientele consisted of clubs or groups. Libby said she wished more college students would eat at the tea room.
That curiosity has taken Liby on several adventures. In October, she took her 91-year-old friend, Mable Hegeman, who worked as a cook for her for more than 35 years, on a trip up the Mississippi River
"I took her as a thank you," she said. "I wasn't able to pay her much when she worked for me, and if I gave her that much money she'd save it for her children. I thought this would be the best way to thank her."
When Mabie first worked for Libby, 14 to 16 waiters worked every night. Three cooks prepared food for an average of 100 customers each night. Tables were set up all over the mansion to accommodate the customers.
Mable said she loved working for Libby. She said she was a great businesswoman and a hard worker.
"She nor I ever had one cross word for one another since we've known each
The Castle Tea Room, 13th and Massachusetts, was built in 1894 by Gen. John N. Roberts.
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When a disabled student needs a space, Parking Services usually will reserve the space early in the school year. Turvey said.
"All a student has to do is ask for one, and usually it appears pretty quickly," Turvey said. "I can't imagine somebody being here since the beginning of the year without student assistance finding out he needs a space."
Templin has no spaces for disabled students because no students with disabilities live at the hall, Turvey said. Turvey said Parking Services reserved parking spaces for the disabled at a hall only when a student with disabilities lived there. The number of reserved parking spaces would be the same as the number of disabled students living in the hall, he said.
"The spirit of the law is that there be a spot that gives students with disabilities easy access to the building," Turvey said. "As far as I know, the University does have parking for all students with disabilities."
He said that since the University had begun installing spaces for disabled students in 1977 no student would have been allowed that a disabled space be reserved.
Turvey said that disabled students with state handicapped permits who visited Templin could park in the backyard of the hall without receiving tickets.
Petty, who is disabled, said he had received several parking tickets at KU. But, he said, he never had to pay any of the tickets because he successfully appealed them to Parking Services.
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