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Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1987/University Daily Kansan
Local Briefs
Convocation cancels class 9:30 Monday
KU classes will be canceled from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday during the University of Kansas' opening convocation ceremonies in Hoch Auditorium.
Campus and Area
Convocation, which includes an address to students and faculty by Chancellor Gene A. Budig, is held annually on the first day of classes.
Parking Services also will be closed during the ceremony, and no parking permits will be sold during that time.
The KU Athletic Ticket Office had sold all but 700 of the 7,500 all-sports tickets as of yesterday morning. The tickets are good for all home football and basketball games and for the Kansas Relays.
Students may purchase the all-sports tickets for $60 at Allen Field House. Students still will be able to purchase season football tickets for $25 after the remaining all-sports tickets have been sold.
All-sports tickets are selling quickly
Orientation slated for grad students
For information about purchasing tickets, call the Athletic Ticket Office at 864-3141.
The Graduate Student Council and the Graduate School are sponsoring an orientation program for new graduate students at 1 p.m. Friday in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public services, is scheduled to speak, along with representatives of various graduate schools, research libraries and the computer center, said Michael Foubert, council chairman.
Refreshments will be served after the presentations.
Sessions offered to orient students
The Student Assistance Center is offering free workshops to help ease students into the swing of things this fall.
An academic skills enhancement workshop, covering time management, listening, notetaking and study reading, will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in 3139 Wescoe Hall.
"Dealing With That Uneasy Feeling," a program teaching social skills, will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 26 in 100 Senn Hall.
"Learning a Foreign Language," a workshop covering the basic study skills necessary to learn any foreign language, will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 27 in 300 Strong Hall.
Lectures to focus on area landscape
"Green Spaces/Urban Places," a series of seven lunchtime lectures about landscaping in the Kansas City area, will begin tomorrow and run every Thursday through Oct. 1.
Tomorrow's lecture, "From Cowtown to Garden Metropolis," will be given by Cydney Millstein, founder of Architectural and Art Historical Research in Kansas City, Mo.
The public presentations are free and will begin at 12:15 p.m. in the United Missouri Bank Auditorium, 11th and Walnut streets in Kansas City, Mo.
Students encounter KU housing crunch
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
The mad rush for space in KU residence halls is on again this fall
Staff writer
In fact, Fred McElhenei, director of residential programs, says residence halls have filled up this year even more quickly than last year.
At this time last year he was telling students they might have to be put in temporary housing, he said. This year, however, his office has been advising students by mail for the past three weeks that temporary housing and waiting lists are the only things available.
"The handwriting's on the wall that this will be a banner year for housing." McElhene said.
McElhenny announced last week that he was asking Lawrence residents to open their homes to students with no place to live. He said he'd received several offers from residents to take in student renters.
As of Monday, women's housing in
residence halls was full, but temporary housing was still available for 35 men, he said.
"But that number could change this minute." he said.
KU's eight residence halls, which opened for the fall semester at 8 a.m. Monday, were designed to house 4,741 students but have temporary space for 176 more. The eight scholarship halls and Jayhawker Towers apartments accommodate an additional 1,265 students.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said that although the rush was occurring earlier, it was more controlled. He said that because the University had installed application deadlines this year, students also were encouraged to think about housing sooner. The in-state student application deadline for fall admission is now April 1.
"This year it's not possible to just show up." Stoner said.
set up temporary housing. Dennis Task, resident director of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, said his staff had converted computer and typing rooms into space for eight men, moving out machines and moving in bunk beds.
He said the residents in temporary housing had few hard feelings, however, because they had been given the option to move off campus. Most sealed their own fate by sending in contracts late, he said.
"They were the last people to apply." Task said. "They know they're late."
McElhenie said that each year his office had a steady flow of people who wait until the last minute to send in housing contracts. But others cancel contracts because they move home, off campus or into Greek housing, he said.
All campus residence halls have
said that after sending his contract in the day before it was due, he received a letter from residential programs saying that even temporary housing was full. Yesterday he found that because of cancellations, he could move into a room at Templin Hall.
"I was going to drive from Holton everyday if I didn't get a place," Ludlow said. "I have a motorcycle, so it wouldn't take much gas."
"I'm looking for an apartment," he said yesterday outside the office.
George Reddick, East St. Louis, Ill., freshman, said he didn't send a contract in residential programs.
Students without housing can refer to the office of residential program's off-campus listings, apartment guides or a roommate listing service, McEhlenie said. He also suggested that students check local papers for roommate ads.
McElhenie said he'd done everything he could to ease the situation. As long as enrollment continues to
increase, nothing short of building malls; halls will remedy the housing problem.
Also, demand should level off and decline in the weeks and months ahead, he said.
Although apartments also are hard to come by, space still is available. A leasing agent for Mastercraft Management, 1927 Moodie Road, said yesterday her house had about five places yet to be rented.
"A lot of students are getting their act together earlier, like right after spring break," the agent said. But there are always those who don't know their plans until the last minute which accounts for the rush for living space each year.
New KU administrator enthused about her job
Staff writer
Bv IULIE McMAHON
The new kid on the block has a lot to learn and many new people to meet.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, is the newest kid on the University of Kansas administrative block. Learning the ropes and meeting people has kept her schedule hectic, but she's up to the challenge.
Judith Ramaley is KU's new executive vice chancellor.
"It's been exciting and enlivening," Ramaley said Monday. "I go home tired at the end of the day."
Ramaley, who started her job Aug. 1, is the head of the Lawrence campus and reports directly to Chancellor Gene A. Budig. She replaced Robert Cobb, who resigned in December 1986 to return to teaching English.
Although she hasn't been here long, Ramaley has already found things that need attention. Increasing enrollment is one area she hopes to bring under control. Last fall, KU had a record enrollment, and in the past few weeks the number of expected late enrollees for fall semester has nearly doubled, she said.
Last spring, KU established a new set of deadlines for enrollment to help curb the problems that increasing enrollment has caused. She said she would continue to look at the subject.
"My job is to understand how to accommodate these people with housing and classes," she said. "I feel like the old woman who lived in a shoe and had so many children she didn't know what to do."
"There is no way, with the popularity of KU, that we can accommodate last-minute walk-ins," Ramaley said.
But she also hopes to continue the popularity of KU by maintaining its high quality of education.
"I want to make sure conditions are right to attract a fine faculty that will attract good students," she said.
Education is not the only vital element of a university. Research is also very important, and Ramaley, who has a scientific background, hopes to strengthen KU's research departments.
"KU doesn't bring in as much research money as would be expected for a university this size," she said.
Ramaley said she enjoyed her job because of its diversity.
"I can talk to anybody about anything, and it is a part of my job. I'm not required to specialize. It's like a liberal arts education every day," she said.
She also enjoys getting to look at the University as a whole.
*Being an administrator means you have to know how it all fits*
together," she said.
Knowing how it all fits together has helped Ramaley in her past administrative jobs. She came to KU from the State University of New York at Albany where she had been the executive vice president for academic affairs since 1985. From 1982 to 1985, she was the chief academic officer there.
Moving from SUNY-Albany to KU means finding strengths, weaknesses and defining new goals for her new university.
"I'll probably spend several months talking to as many people as possible." she said.
In addition to Ramaley, several other new campus officials were appointed this summer:
Jon S. Vincent, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, was named co-director of the Center of Latin American Studies.
■ Jeremy Matchett was named associate dean of pharmacy.
New KU phones may cause dialing difficulties
Ann T. Weick was named acting dean of social welfare.
James A. Turner was named director the KU office of affirmation.
Staff writer
By KIRK M. ADAMS
Students living in KU residence halls might be wondering what happened to their long-distance telephone service this fall.
Students will not be able to dial direct for long-distance calls, because a new campus-owned and operated network was installed this summer. The University also has quit loaning phones to hall residents, so they must buy their own.
Richard Mann, director of information resources, said yesterday that the University purchased and installed telephone lines and leased a private branch exchange switch so it could have its own system.
KU phone system crashes after first month of service
"When AT&T and Bell split up, we began to find that there a lot of opportunities available for our telephone system," Mann said. "We thought that if we could install one modern system, it could carry all of our voice, data and much of our video needs throughout the campus."
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
KU's month-old phone system crashed yesterday afternoon, wreaking havoc in campus offices for several hours.
The campus switched on July 24 to the new system, which officials say will save the University of Kansas $3 million over the next eight years. It has the capability for video reception and links the University with the Topeka government buildings, the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas State University, Wichita State University and Fort Hays State
University.
But from 2:45 to about 4 p.m. yesterday, the new phones only served to frustrate campus employees in the midst of the back-to-school rush.
Jan Weller, assistant director of telecommunications and computer services, said engineers thought the problem was in the programming, rather than in the system itself. The engineers are consulting with the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., office in Denver to pinpoint or if the system is flawed.
Under the new system, students in residence halls will have to use a telephone credit card, call collect or bill a third party to make long-distance calls.
"It's unfortunate that it
occurred on the busiest day of the year — enrollment, "Weller said, adding that she hoped it was more of an inconvenience than a serious problem for most campus phone users.
She said it might take several days to discover what caused the problem.
LL Jeanne Longaker, of the KU police, said she didn't think her department had been seriously affected, but she was frustrated at the disruption.
Love Nichols, community relations manager for Southwestern Bell in Lawrence, said his company would not make credit cards available for campus phones. Students must use
either their home calling-card number or obtain a calling card from another company.
Bong Peterson, who was handing out applications for AT&T calling cards yesterday in front of Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, said the AT&T applications should take about two weeks to process.
But students may obtain calling cards from companies such as AT&T
or MCI by filling out applications distributed at residence hall jobs.
Mann said the new system eventually would be more cost-effective for the University. Students in residence halls may have lower costs if the state offers KANS-A-N state long-distance services to them this spring, a move the state is considering.
For now, however, students who want to make long-distance calls will have to pay higher rates for credit-card calling, calling collect or billing a third party.
Keith Weaver, Pleasantville, N.J., junior, said, "I was not so mad about not having long-distance service, but I was kind of put off to see that they had ripped out our phones."
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