University Daily Kansan, December 2, 1982
Page 13
Shortages close Western Civ enrollment
By JEANNE FOY Staff Reporter
Some students, despite repeated attempts, are still unable to enroll in Western Civilization because of a shortage of instructors, the latter recently.
All Western Civilization sections except those in the honors program are closed for the spring semester. The department will not know until Dec. 15 whether it will receive the money necessary to rehearse six局 in the new season of major sections, said Joe Van Zandt, the assistant instructor.
THE SIX instructors were hired only for this semester with extra funds granted by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences after all the regular Western Civilization classes closed during fall enrollment.
Van Zandt said he was angry that the department would not know sooner whether it would receive the instructions necessary to rehire those instructors.
If the instructors are rehired, 320 more students could enroll, Van Zandt said, but that still will not meet the demand.
He said in August that about 800 students had been turned away during fall enrollment.
In a normal semester, 1,300 to 1,900 students enroll in Western Civilization, he said. This semester, only 1,300 are enrolled.
"THE COLLEGE is going to have to compensate for the fact that they've created a backlog of students who have to get through," he said. "If next year is as severe as this, most schools are likely to about requiring Western Civilization."
This semester the department has
the equivalent of 20 full-time instructors, he said, and the average in the past has been 26.
Van Zandt said more instructors would be needed in the future to catch up with the number of students who had not been able to take the class.
"Some students say they have been closed out of Western Civ three semesters, and the numbers will increase," he said.
HOWEVER, JAMES SEAER,
chairman of the department, said,
"This is something that has happened
every term. Western Civilization
close out and then money
comes from some source to hire more
teachers.
"We have told the administration for a long time that we needed more people, but they're not given until the last moment."
many students had had to postpone taking Western Civilization.
"I hope that some kind of Western Civilization program will continue. Conditions are very difficult now," he said.
HE SAID that nothing dramatic would be done about the program until a decision about a core curriculum was made.
He said the elimination of the Western Civilization program would hurt other departments because the Western Civilization department who could afford the cost of attending school.
Michael Young, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, agreed that a substantial percentage of students at University to continue the program.
Elderly untapped resource, director says
By VICKY WILT Staff Reporter
Older people are the most under-used resource in this country, according to the director of the KU Gerontology Center.
Ron Harper, the director, spoke at the University Forum yesterday on "Alternatives to Nursing Homes." He said a retired citizen could offer valuable resources to the community. For example, retired professionals can provide their services to the elderly, he said.
"THERE ARE PROBABLY a lot of students retired faculty members could be willing to act as preceptor for students interested in gerontology and
would be willing to talk about problems of being older." Harrier said.
If senior citizens in good health could organize themselves to help those who cannot do things for themselves, both adults and children must be kept out of nursing homes, he said.
SOME ELDERLY are in nursing homes because they have nowhere else to go. Harper cited a survey indicating that 33 percent of relatives of nursing home patients said their family member did not need to be in the home. Half of the residents living home could have been avoided if 24-hour care had been available.
Around-the-clock care is one alternative to nursing homes, but it is expensive. Harper said, and not an option for most, that he did not appropriate or useful for a number of people.
With today's high unemployment, he said, people could be trained to take care of the elderly in their homes. He said there would be a demand in the future for people who have a knowledge of such as nurses or occupational therapists.
BY THE YEAR 2025, Harper predicted, there will be 1.12 billion people over age 65. Because 72 percent of these will be in developing countries, the effect on the political and economic arenas will be great.
Children born during the baby boom era will significantly affect the economy when they reach retirement age, Harper said.
"When they were children, we built grade schools, then junior high schools, senior high schools, community colleges and finally universities. And now
we are finding them empty. Are we going to build nursing homes and have them in our homes?
But many retired citizens are not financially able or healthy enough to support themselves outside of a nursing home, Harper said.
The elderly face a scary situation, when one considers the expense of health care and the fact that about 30.7 percent of deaths are due to some type of chronic illness, be said.
A person who works at improving his health when he is young has a better chance of avoiding serious health problems. Harper's advice is to stop smoking, stop any alcohol or drug abuse, eat more nutritiously, improve physical fitness and learn to handle stress.
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Nobody from Utah came, or Nevada or West Virginia — or Vermont, for that matter. But they came from countries around the world, and at least one was in Texas.
This year, the freshman class at the University of Kansas includes students from 42 states as well as the continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and Australia. The reasons they came to represent us as the home-towns they represent.
"Without these windows on the world we would be a provincial, land-locked school," Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said recently. "We become more aware of our place and sense, citizens of the world, because of the makeup of the student population."
COBB SAID the University had traditionally drawn students from urban areas in the Midwest such as Chicago and St. Louis, because many former teachers at St. Louis were leading the way for their children to return to the alma mater.
The states of Arizona, Montana,
North Carolina, Mississippi, Maine and Alaska have one representative each in the freshman class.
Predictably, the state that sent the most students to the University — other than Kansas — was Missouri, with 393 students running a distant second with 158.
Roger Bainbridge, Tulsa, Okla...
freshman, said he came to KU because he "wanted to get out of Oklahoma."
"There's more chances to excel down here, and there's more people so that means more challenges," Hunter said.
"I looked around nearby states and Big Eight schools, and found that KU was the prettiest, certainly, of all the campuses," he said. "Also, they were rated very high in academics, which I was looking for."
A graduate student from West Germany, Hans Joachim Fuchs, came to KU this year to study architecture and because he "needed a break."
BAINRIDGE SAID that the cost of coming to KU was considerably higher than that of attending an Oklahoma game. He added that the added expense was well worth it.
Another student echoed the desire for quality.
Elizabeth Hunter, Austin, Minn., freshman, said she came to KU because "KU has a very high rating for her," especially music, which is my major.
"The MAIN reason I came was because KU gave me a scholarship," Fuchs said. "What I really don't like about it here are the strange laws about alcohol. What I really like is the rule that the time, it's better than in Germany."
"I like the people. They are very friendly. I was surprised, I had some thing about America, but everything was wrong. I think the people are very friendly."
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