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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday
November 5,1987
Vol. 98,No. 54
(USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Admissions plan supported in poll
By NOEL GERDES Staff writer
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 Kopik's proposal and whether they supported the current open admissions policy.
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.
Under the current policy, any student who graduates from an accredited Kansas high school automatically is admitted to KU.
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.
Quantrill's raiders destroyed this version of the Eldridge House in 1863.
The town that once stood in Lawrence
Wick said that the survey results would be discussed at the Nov. 12 University Council meeting and that Judith Ramaley, executive vice president, might include the results in a report to selective admissions to the Regents.
Story by KIRK ADAMS
Photos courtesy of Kansas Collection
A among the stone masonry that composes many of Lawrence's oldest
homes and buildings are the marks of the cutters' tools. History is entwined in these buildings, and Lawrence has played a key role in our past, especially in events surrounding the Civil War in the second half of the 19th century. Though many of the buildings have been destroyed or lost to fire, the history remains in our pictures, our books and our minds.
When Kansas became a state in 1861, a Kansas Jayhawker was an anti-slavery guerrilla that contributed to raids on neutral Missouri.
Missouri.
John Brown had attacked Harper's Ferry in 1859 as the first move to rope slaves throughout the South. The Civil War broke out in 1861.
The border struggle with Missouri intensified. Men of
In August 1862, Quantrill's band attacked Union troops in Independence, Mo., and captured the town. After this raid, Quantrill was made a captain in the Confederate army. In September, Quantrill and his men raided Olathe, looted the city and killed six men. The next month the band killed 15 Union soldiers near Olathe and robbed and burned Shawnee.
Lawrence were involved in the battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield, Mo. Humbolt was attacked and burned twice by Missouri raiders in 1861, and Gardner was attacked also. On March 7, 1862, 24-year-old William Clarke Quantrill and a band of pro-slavery guerrilla farmers from Jackson County, Mo., raided Aubrey in Johnson County. Three were killed.
Brig, Gen. Thomas Ewing Jr., who commanded Union forces on the border of the two states, arrested relatives of Quantrill's
and sent them south of Missouri. Quantrill's men, of course, did not like that.
In August of 1863, Lawrence Mayor George W. Collamore posted guards at the city's
entrances. The Union forces had received reports that Quarrill and his men might try to raid the city, Collamore, however, kept the reason for the alarm a secret. That is a decision he would soon regret.
Early on the morning of Aug. 21, 1863, a group of men were working on the machinery for a new windmill at John H. Wilder's carriage and plow manufactory at Seventh and Kentucky streets. Wilder was a native of Boston who had settled in Lawrence in 1854. About 5 a.m., the group was startled by running horses, shots and yells. It was Quantrill's raiders.
The workers ran to Wilder's home on Kentucky Street. Two of the Swedish workmen, a father and son, were injured by gunshots from the raiders. Wilder and most of his workmen survived, though a later witness recalled one of the men being killed and falling into the unfinished mill.
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Quantrill and his men could not damage the mill's stone foundation, but part of the uncompleted structure was reported burned.
A lover's stroll in turn-of-the century Lawrence might have
The builders and owners of the windmill were Andrew Palm, a naturalized citizen from Sweden, and John Wilder. Palm may have met Wilder as a blacksmith in the shop. Palm had the idea of building a windmill to power a mill, like those of his childhood in Sweden. Palm returned to Sweden and brought back with him several experienced millwrights. The men began construction on what would be the first Kansas windmill of its work capacity.
raken a couple to the Lawrence windmill on the first high hill west of the center of town. The European-style windmill had been a favorite spot for picnics and romantic interludes before it burned in 1905.
The windmill was located at the site where the Theta Chi fraternity, Ninth and Emery Road, presently stands abandoned.
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The structure was about 64 feet tall and 55 feet wide. Each of the
The Regents will consider Kopik's proposal at their Nov. 19 meeting.
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When a disabled student needs a space, Parking Services usually will reserve the space early in the school year. Turvee 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.
Turvey said that disabled students with state handicapped permits who visited Templin could park in the loading area in front 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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"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 living at Templin had requested that a disabled space be reserved.
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