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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Friday September 25,1987 Vol.98,No.25
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
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KU's enrollment increases at half last year's rate
By MICHAEL HORAK
Staff writer
The number of students attending the University of Kansas has increased for the fourth straight year, but the rate at which new students are entering the University has slowed, enrollment figures released yesterday indicate.
Those figures differ sharply from figures released a year ago that showed KU had 1.048 new students on all campuses, a 4.2 percent growth.
Total enrollment this fall at KU was 28,720, an increase of 1.6 percent. Overall, the University has 461 more students.
Administrators said they were passed KU was experiencing slower growth.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said. "We can handle this kind of enrollment increase without compromising educational quality.
"We are still straining at the seams from previous years of growth, but we are getting back into a better level."
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Sciences in Kansas City, Kan. decreased by 23. The student count at the college is 2,414.
Enrollment at KU's Lawrence campus was 24,519, up 574 students from last year, an increase of 2.4 percent.
The 20th-day enrollment figures released yesterday are the official measure. UU's enrollment for the purpose of the 20th day of classes was Monday.
KU's off-campus enrollment in programs at the Regents Center in Overland Park, the Capitol Complex in Topeka and the University of Kansas School of Medicine — Wichita was down 90 students. A total of 1,787 students were enrolled off-campus sites.
We can handle this kind of enrollment increase without compromising educational quality. We are still straining at the seams from previous years of growth, but we are getting back into a better level.' - ludith Ramal
executive vice chancellor
Although growth at KU has reduced by almost half since last year, the increase in the number of students at KU was still greater than any of the seven Regents schools or schools in the Big Eight.
Robert Lineberry, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said he expected growth in his department but that it
was near the saturation point.
This fall, Lineberry's school grew by 10 percent increase from a year ago.
Lineberry said, "We are still busting at the seams, particularly in the foreign languages, which are awfully crowded.
Judith Ramaley
"Sure, we can hire more teaching staff, but we can't make Wescoe Hall any bigger. We're typically running up to room capacity in some cases. And sometimes we're even running beyond it."
Enrollment at the College of Health
More students walk up the Hill
Of the 14 professional schools at the Lawrence campus, seven experienced, five experienced growth and two had only marginal student enrollment.
Allied health, business, engineering, fine arts, journalism, law and social welfare decreased in enrollment. Architecture and urban design, education, pharmacy and the graduate school had increases.
The schools of education and architecture and urban design were behind liberal arts and sciences in biggest increases.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said KU's growth will be difficult to manage with current budget conditions.
The School of Business and the School of Engineering suffered the largest decreases, both having 66 fewer students than last year.
The growth KU has experienced in enrollment over previous years has not been financed by the state, Brinknan said.
"To grow beyond this would be a problem," he said.
Brinkman attributed the smaller enrollment growth, in part, to policies the University started last spring.
Setting earlier deadlines for admissions applications made enrollment more manageable and cut down the number of students trying to get into
KU at the last minute, he said.
Ward Brian Zimmerman, KU budget director, said the University would ask the state for adjustments in its budget to accommodate the 484 additional students on the Lawrence campus.
Zimmerman said the University would send its 20th-day figures to the state so state officials could calculate fees the additional students paid. After that, the University could ask the state for additional money.
approve any budget adjustment
Zimmerman said KU would probably
receive its adjustment next spring.
"Last year we did not know about our adjustment until April. In fact, it even told us if we were going to get it, he said. 'I'm really confident about it.'
The Legislature would have to
Keith Nitcher, KU director of business affairs, said it was too early to try to calculate how much KU could be reimbursed.
Alliance seeking support
Kansan reporter Jennifer Rowland contributed information to this story.
Staff writer
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
The New Alliance Party, which terms itself a black-led, multiracial, pro-gay national political party, is the leader in the 1988 presidential election.
The party's vice presidential candidate and a campaign aide are in Lawrence gathering petition signatures to get the party on the ballot.
The party's presidential candidate,
Lenora Fulani, an activist from New York, will run under the motto "Two Roads Are Better Than One.
Mike Pellettiere
The motto refers to the party's plan to support the Rev. Jesse Jackson during the Democratic Party nomination process. They assume Jackson won't receive the nomination, but it would be porters to vote for the New Alliance Party as a third party in the general election, campaign officials sav.
The party was founded in New York in 1979. It became a national organization in 1984, and launched a campaign to get a presidential candidate on the ballot. The party failed to get on the national ballot that year because it collected enough signatures in only 33 states.
Pellettiere and Phil Pinheiro, the campaign's public relations director, will begin a petition drive today or Monday in Kansas to get the party on the ballot in this state. They plan to collect most of the signatures in Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City, Kan.
Mike Pelletière, vice-presidential candidate for the party and regional coordinator for the campaign, said yesterday that to be placed on the ballot would require a difficult process that is unfair to parties seeking third-party status.
They need 2,500 signatures of registered voters. But the state requires that they turn in 5,000 signatures, some of the signatures are not valid.
In each state, they must get signatures amounting to 2 percent of the
See ELECT, p. 6, col. 1
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Cylinder recordings, stored in special cardboard tubes, are one form of recorded music found in the Archives of Recorded Sound in Murphy Hall.
Sounds of the past have a home at KU
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
This week, she said, she has been preparing to accept 20,000 opera and vocal recordings. That donation, from an Oregon collector whose wife is a KU graduate, will bring the total number of recordings in the archives to more than 90,000.
The wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling shelves of records make the rooms below the Gorton Music Library in New York a must-visit library room — at first glance.
But step in a little farther, and the sight of wind-up phonographs, some with 3-foot horns for speakers, and the atmosphere becomes less academic and more like a grandparent's attic.
Johnson said she had run the archives since 1982, when she was given permission to convert two junk rooms below the music into a sound archives, starting with about 45,000 donated recordings.
Yet, the Archives of Recorded Sound are not just a storage space for old records and players. Ellen Johnson, librarian in charge of the archives, said the collection of mostly opera, jazz and concert band recordings is the largest of its kind in the Midwest.
Johnson also is putting the finishing touches on her part of a project she has worked on with researchers from Yale, Stanford.
the Library of Congress and others from around the world.
The researchers are trying establish standards for cataloging and preserving recordings. Johnson's task has been to determine what kind of recordings other team members said he it wasn't easy because some of them are Yale, don't know themselves how many recordings they have.
The type of recordings vary as much as their subjects. In addition to standard-sized records, the library has oversized discs, quarrelsome cassettes, cylinders recordings and tape boxes, 8-track and reel-to-reel tapes.
As well as opera, jazz, and concert band recordings, Johnson said the KU sound archives includes poetry, drama and theater recordings and speeches by Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and other historical figures.
Material in the archives that has been transferred to reel-to-reel tape can be checked out by students.
For each specialized type of record, the library has a special phonograph, ranging from the state-of-the-art electronic turntable used for most recordings to an acoustic, wind-up model for albums that play from the inside of the disc to the outer edge.
James Seaver, professor of history, donated more than 25.000
Robert Eberwein, assistant archivist, files some records onto the shelves of the Gorton Music Library.
recordings to help start the archives.
Seaver, host of the KANU radio program, "Opera is My Hobby," since 1952, said the rare recordings in the archives, such as performances conducted by the composers of important works at the turn of the century offered students opportunities for new generations did not have.
KU has largest increase in Big 8
By JENNIFER ROWLAND Staff writer
The University of Kansas is the fastest-growing school in the Big Eight, enrollment figures released yesterday indicate.
Enrollment at KU's Lawrence campus increased by 574 this fall. Kansas State University had the highest enrollment in all of Eight, increasing by 449 students.
The University of Oklahoma in Norman and the University of Colorado in Boulder also reported enrollment increases. Oklahoma State University in Stillwater and Iowa State University in Ames lost students. Enrollment figures for the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Nebraska Lincoln will remain unofficial until mid-October. Preliminary figures indicate a student loss for UNL and an increase at MU.
Iowa State had the greatest enrollment decrease, 724 students. Officials at ISU attributed the decrease in applications from high school graduates
K-State's 449-student increase is the school's largest gain in three years. Officials attribute the increase to concentrated recruitment efforts.
The University of Oklahoma reported a 1.9 percent increase and the largest freshman class in the institution's history, 397 more than last year, OU Registrar Milford Messer said.
Messer said Oklahoma's failing economy had strained the university's budget, which meant the enrollment increase was accompanied by fewer faculty and crowded classrooms.
The University of Colorado hit an all-time high in enrollment this fall, up 379 from last fall. Richard Harpel, director of planning, said the increase reflected a jump in out of state student enrollment.
Harpel said the 1.7 percent increase meant housing shortages at Colorado, which could make it necessitate add residence halls to the campus.
The University of Missouri's first day count for this fall was 21,386, but officials estimate 22,800 will be the next week. Tim Sullivan, assistant registrar
Oklahoma State University's enrollment decreased 2.9 percent from last fall, one of the largest reported declines in the Big Eight. Nestor Gonzales, public information officer at Oklahoma State, said he wasn't sure why enrollment decreased by 606 students, but that it might be because of a faltering state economy.
Unofficial sixth-day enrollment figures from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reflected a 433-student
See GROWTH, p. 6, col. 1