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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 Kopik, 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 Kopilik'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
Laura Husar
Eugene Roper starts the day by cleaning Lawrence streets.
Lanita Kindall winds down her night shift at the Village Inn.
A after midterms are over and the holiday season is approaching, days for KU students are consumed with the final much before finally begin. The sun seems
to rise and set simultaneously. Buried in books, we often don't realize what other people in Lawerence do each day.
At 7:30 a.m., Massachusetts Street is almost empty. Only a man sweeping the street and a couple of shop keepers are out in a seemingly downtown. Clouds of exhaled air surround the mouth of a lone, well-clad jogger, moving north toward the river.
As the sun begins to stretch over the horizon to mark the start of a new day, Eugene Roper, a part-time city employee, takes a break from sweeping autumn leaves and walks into the warmth of Drake Bakery and Snack Shop, 907 Massachusetts St.
Unlike the street, the cafe is packed.
Roper, 62, who describes himself as a regular, seems to know most of the people sitting around the counter.
'This place's been around as long as I,' he says. It's not a fancy place, but the home-cooked style dishes are hearty and cheap, Roper says.
"If you wanna go fancy, you gotta pay, but you don't get nothin'. You wind up leavin' hungry," he says.
Nancy Nguyen, owner of the cafe, says the place is a melting pot of all kinds of people, from doctors and lawyers to unemployed youths.
Employees come in and begin the breakfast shift at 5:30 a.m. The cafe closes at 3 p.m.
"If I don't open on time, people will start pounding on the door." Nguyen says.
Laura Leiker, Wichita junior and cashier, came to work at 6:30 a.m., but the real crowd won't start until about 12:30 p.m.
By 11 a.m. on the KU campus, things are picking up in the Hawk's Nest cafeteria in the Kansas Union. The trickle of people coming through the line is becoming a steady stream.
Despite the long day, Laura doesn't mind the job
"I like it," she says. "You get to see and meet a lot of people, and most of our customers come in every day."
Three more hours until the end of Laura's almost eight-hour work day. And then she starts her classes.
Comfortably seated in the smoking section is a couple in their late 30s, who describes themselves as members of the Lawrence leisure class and prefer to remain anonymous.
Downtown, another cafe, the Casbah, 803 Massachusetts St., is brimming at lunch time with hungry Lawrencians who prefer a continental alternative, espresso and croissants instead of coffee and doughnuts.
The couple say they don't come to the Casbah to drink espresso but because it is civilized.
"You can put up your feet and relax over a cup of coffee without being asked to leave. That's civilization."
The man, wearing a black cap and sporting a full beard, says the cafe is a hang-out for students and professors, especially those who adhere to the arts, but also is frequented by the business community during lunch time.
When 1:30 p.m. rolls around, the lunch hour is definitely over. Back on campus, students rush to afternoon classes.
In Wescoe Hall, around a bench on the fourth floor, things are taking on an international flair
Four students are leading a conversation class in English for two foreign students, Masafumi Naito, Nigata, Japan, and Xinfeng Cong, Fuzhou City. This class is given through the Applied English Center.
The class consists of talking with the two foreign students about any subject that any of them wants to talk about, from haunted houses to overcrowding in China to the cost of U.S. universities.
Allison Findley, St. Joseph, Mo., senior, tells the two about haunted houses and Halloween. Naito shows Lillie Pardo, Mission Hills senior, how to write using kanji, the Japanese characters that are
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.
Evelyn Swartz, SenEx chairman, said she wasn't surpassed that 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.
Wick said that the survey results would be discussed at the Nov. 12 University Council meeting and that Judith Ramaley, executive vice chair of the unit, might include the results from selective admissions to the Regents.
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.
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The Regents will consider Kopikil's proposal at his Nov. 19 meeting.
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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.
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.
"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."
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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