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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
Almost 60 percent of KU faculty members support a selective admissions proposal by Board of Regents executive director Stanley Koopik, 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.
Koplik'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
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About 125 people wrote additional comments, Wick said. The specific comments were not available yesterday.
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.
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Evelyn Swartz, SenEx chairman, said she wasn't suprised 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.
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Late nights at the laundromat are too common for some students.
At 3 p.m., Lt. David Cobb with the Lawrence Police Department is through a working day of collecting money from about a hundred colleagues for the United Way and reissuing beer licenses.
Cobb, who was promoted three weeks ago, is one of the invisible cops on the second floor of the station. He is working with budgeting, animal control and crime prevention.
"This is what I always wanted to do." Cobb says. "Uniforms and guns, which meant a lot to me before, don't mean anything now".
"I almost have to read the papers to see what's going on on the crime scene," he says.
"People come up with the strangest excuses," she says. "One time some people had to find their dog, and another time a boy stuffed a sock around his ankle and he and his friend drove up and said they had to drive through because the one kid had a bad ankle and couldn't walk."
At 3:30 p.m., Nina Bair stands in her traffic booth at the end of Jayhawk Boulevard by the Chi Omega fountain. Bair chats with the drivers as they pass but gets tough with the ones who want to get on campus without the right permit.
"I told him I'd seen him put the sock in," she says.
Aside from three 15-minute breaks, Bair is in the booth from 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. But her day doesn't end there.
An FBI agent drives up and flashes his badge. Bair waves him through.
"People from the FBI and KBI and Department of Defense come through here quite a lot," she says. "Sometimes five and six times a day. Probably investigating students."
"I have to go home and help take care of my two grandkids today," she savs.
As the big, red Kansas sun is disappearing slowly west of Iowa Street, two KU students are earning $3.50 an hour doing something other than flipping hamburgers.
Martin Taylor, Iola senior, and Janalin McCradie, Leavenworth senior, work as teacher's aides for 4- to 6-year-old kids from a Lawrence daycare center.
"What would you like to eat today?" Michelle, 6,
asks Taylor.
Taylor says he wants a hamburger.
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After a trip over to the imaginary kitchen, Michelle returns with a fistful of leaves, or caffelinia, as she calls it.
"Caffelinia, what's that?" asks Martin, while McCradie tries to comfort a child who has stumbled.
"They are a barrel of laughs," Taylor says before 15 jeering kids drag him over to the big slide.
"It's a salad with bugers on it," Michelle says.
"You promised to take us," the kids say.
By 6 p.m., darkness has fallen upon the KU campus. But that doesn't mean there isn't anyone out. Students walk in twoes and threes, heading to the library or to evening classes.
At 6:50 p.m. Patricia Lang, Wakeeney junior, walks outside her astronomy classroom in Lindley Hall. Night classes are not her favorite thing.
She said many faculty members would support selective admissions if they thought the state might change the way it allocated money to KU.
it's a nassle. I live off campus and have to drive to class. Towards winter you have to come earlier because it seems like parking places are farther away," she says.
"We're going to take pictures off of the observat-
But Lang says tonight won't be so bad.
or Watson Library draws a consistent stream of studies throughout the evening.
student's throughput. John Yother, Lawrence freshman, stands in the doorway of Watson at 10:30 p.m., waiting for his ride.
"I've been here two hours," he says, with an obvious lack of enthusiasm. "I'll probably go home and study some more."
It's close to midnight, and Mike Morrissey, a KU student who is taking a semester off, is impatiently looking at his clothes revolving in one of the dryers at a laundromat on Ninth and Mississippi streets.
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.
Morrissey, a cook at Nabil's Restaurant, 925 Iowa St., just came off a typical quiet Tuesday night shift.
"I'm uncomfortable with laundromats. I'd rather be home watching Letterman or reading a book or something." he says.
It would be better to buy new clothes when the old ones get dirty, he says.
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.
"This is really a waste of time," Morrissey says.
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The Regents will consider Kopik's proposal at their Nov. 19 meeting.
ys KU lots ability laws
When a disabled student needs a space, Parking Services usually will reserve the space early in the school year, Turvey said.
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.
"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 snace."
He said that since the University had begun installing spaces for disabled students in 1977 no student was left alone, he believed that a disabled space be reserved.
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.
"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."
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't want to detract from the enthusiasm They add to the home-court advantage n." Temple said. "But we want them to enthusiast to verbal action."
not trying to throw a wet wetowl on these we want fans who act in a sportsman. and I think Larry (Brown) backs us " Temple said.
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aid that fans who threw toilet paper earned the first time and then ejected me the second time they were spotted. aid that if fans were asked to leave and jey could be arrested for criminal
rule was first enacted, many have but others have been taking toilet paper house restrooms.
itball there is continuous action, and it just get caught up in it." Temple said. "I stopped to think about what they were wouldn't do it."
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