THE FAR SIDE
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 21, 1987
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By GARY LARSON
Campus/Area
Feb. 22, 1946: Botanists create the first artificial flower.
Chris Roesner/KANSAN
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Tracy Phillips, Lee's Summit, Mo., senior, serves irene Short, Alvin Manka and George Osterhout at the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th St. The three, part of a Life Enrichment program sponsored by Butler County Community College, were touring KU yesterday.
Student leaders have own admissions proposal
By MICHAEL HORAK
Staff writer
Student body presidents from the seven Board of Regents schools said recently that students don't want to see ACT composite scores and class ranking used as criteria for admission under any selective admissions policy.
However, the student body presidents said that most students favored making entering freshmen pass basic high school courses to quality for admission at any Regents institution.
"What students want to see is that everyone is prepared to go to college," said George Ritchie, student body president at Wichita State University. "We don't want to exclude capable students from our schools."
Ritchie's views were echoed by those of the student body presidents from the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Fort Hays State University, Emporia State University, Pittsburg State University and the Kansas Technical Institute at Salina.
The student presidents said their information came from conversations with students on their campuses and had an empirical study or poll they had conducted.
They said that the selective admissions proposal unveiled last month by Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, did not have student support because of its ACT and class rank stipulations.
Kopilik's plan would limit in-state admission at KU, Kansas State and Wichita State to only students who completed a basic high school curriculum with a 2.0 grade point average, or scored a 23 ACT composite score or ranked in the top third of their graduating class.
Students over 21 would be exempt from the admissions standards and each school would be allowed to make exemptions for 10 percent of its
freshman class.
Fort Hays State, Emporia State, Pittsburgh State and the Kansas Technical Institute would remain under state's current open admissions policy
'My main concern is the varying standards around the state.'
— Mark Biberstein student body president
at Emporia State
The student body presidents from those four schools said they feared unequal standards would make their schools the dumping ground for students unable to meet selective admission requirements.
"My main concern is the varying
standards around the state," said Mark Bibberstein, student body president at Emporia State. "Uneven requirements will inevitably stigmatize the perception that certain Regents schools are elitist."
Biberstein said keeping admissions at Emporia State open while closing it at other schools scared him because the four schools with open admissions could become the remedial schools of Kansas.
The student presidents of all three schools that would become selective under Kopikl's plan said they too lack the resources requirements to be equal statewide.
Jason Krakow, KU student body president said. "We need to move toward an admissions policy that rewards students education at every school — not just KU."
classes for them.'
The presidents said they would continue lobbying individual Regents and members of Kansas legislative committees for support of a selective admissions plan they presented to the Regents last month.
"We need to send a strong signal to our high schools that the universities are working together."
Their proposal requires minimum high school curriculum at all Regents schools but does not include ACT scores or class rank as criteria.
It allows students to gain entrance to any university if they earn a minimum 2.0 GPA in nine hours of prescribed summer session college-level work or earn a passing grade in makeup courses for specific subjects before they enter a Regents school.
The Regents are expected to debate the merits of Kopik's and the student presidents' plan later this fall and are expected to make a decision on selective admissions before the Legislature convenes in January.
Judge tells officials to impose tax boost
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge ordered county officials yesterday to speed up collection of a court-imposed property tax increase to help pay for school desegregation in Kansas City.
U. S. District Judge Russell G. Clark issued a preliminary injunction against Jackson County officials who said earlier that they would not collect the school levy increase. Clark last month ordered increasing the tax from $2.05 to $4 for each $100 of assessed valuation.
He said county officials immediately must take all steps necessary to adjust the school levy rate, but no specific date was set. Any delay, dark sark, would perpetuate the state's efforts, presently found in district schools.
Jackson County officials still could request a hearing before the preliminary injunction becomes permanent. Clark said he gave the county judge two days to prove why the preliminary injunction should not become permanent.
At the Kansas City School District's request, Clark earlier issued a temporary injunction against county officials and extended it on Oct. 9.
Clark removed the state from his preliminary injunction, saying state officials had done nothing to impede the collection of the property tax increase.
Clark rejected claims by Jackson County that the federal court could not order the county to collect the tax collected from a party to the desegregation case.
In the Kansas City desegregation case, Clark found the school district and the state to be in violation of the constitution and ordered them to bear the costs of the desegregation plan.
On Sept. 15, Clark imposed the property tax increase for district residents and a state income tax surcharge of 1.5 percent for people who work in the district to pay for the desegregation plan.
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