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University Daily Kansan, October 15, 1982
German scholar giving Mongol Empire talks
By JEANNE FOY Staff Reporter
Herbert Franke took a puff of his cigarette and apologized for his English.
But despite his apology and German accent, his English is almost perfect, a fact not to be lost on those who attend his series of lectures on the Mongol Empire this month.
Franke will be at the University of Kansas until the end of October to give eight lectures on "East-West Studies" During the Mongol Period."
Wallace Johnson, professor of East Asian languages and cultures, said Franke was the foremost expert on Europe on China and central Asia.
Franke said he became fascinated with China as a small boy.
HIS FATHER owned a bookstore in Coline, which was one of the few towns in Germany that had a museum of Asiatic art, he said.
"I read translations of Chinese poetry and books, and I thought how wonderful it would be to read it in the original," he said.
He said he loved to give lectures and listen to the audience's response. The large attendances at his lectures surged him, he said.
The remaining lectures will be at
7:30 p.m. next Tuesday and Thursday
and Oct. 26 and 28 in 4033 Wescoe.
Although he is a retired professor, Franke still leads an active life. He is a co-editor of one of the volumes of the Cambridge History of China,
professor emeritus at the university in Munich, where he still teaches classic Mongolism, and president of the Bavarian Academy of Science.
THE ACADEMY is a research organization, and to be a member is a great distinction, Frank said. In Germany, most research is not done at universities but at academies, he said.
"At the end of life, you need to do something different. I always believe in new work. It keeps you young and frank, we, recently told Frank,
Franke has traveled to China, England, Australia, India and Hong Kong, where he was a diplomat for the German foreign office. In 1970, Franke headed an American Volkswagen and traveled from Oregon to California to Arizona.
"In America, you have real deserts. There aren't any in Europe," he said. "I love the vastness and grandeur of nature in America. I fell in love with the Pacific Northwest at first sight."
He said this was his first visit to the Midwest, although he had flown over it many times. He twice has been in Washington, and the University of Washington in Seattle.
Kansas, said Franke, was much as he expected it to be.
"WE ALL know Kansas is the wheat bowl of the United States," he said.
In his free time, he lies on his sofa in his apartment in Nunemaker Center and reads American authors such as Sailow Bello and Bernard Malamud, things he said he did not have time to do at home.
On the record
A 13-YEAR-OLD Lawrence junior high student punched a man in the stomach Wednesday night and avoided what he was in a dangerous situation, police said.
"After he got back up," Lawrence police Sgt. Larry Loveland said, "he
The girl told police she was walking about 8:30 p.m. in the 800 block of Maine Street when a man grabbed her and told her to take her clothes off. At that point, the girl hit the man in the stomach.
ran after her and called her to come back."
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The last batch of babies from the post-World War II baby boom is now in college, and the number of graduates coming out of Kansas high schools continues to drop, according to state statistics.
Decline won't hurt KU, officials say State high schools produce fewer grads
By STEVE CUSICK Staff Reporter
But despite the prospect of declining college enrollments because of fewer high school graduates, enrollment at the University of Kansas probably will fluctuate little during the rest of the decade, officials said recently.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said other factors might cancel the effect of smaller classes at Kansas high schools.
Those factors include KU's ability to lure out-of-state students and the growing percentage of high school students making a college education, Babbler said.
OFFICIALS SAID enrollment prediction was an unsure science because of all the factors that could tilt the numbers.
Administrators said they had projected a decrease of 650 students next fall, and they blamed part of the drop on the shrinking number of high school graduates. The projection is included in the University's fiscal 1994 budget.
Although officials cannot accurately predict enrollments, statistics indicate that they can count on a decrease in high school graduates.
David Monical, principal analyst with the Kansas Legislative Research Department, said the number of Kansas high school graduates had dropped 3,900 from 1977 to 1981. There were 29,777 graduates in 1981 and 38,177 in 1977.
The number of graduates will continue to decline through 1986, he said, and it will probably not top the 1981 figure during the rest of the decade.
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graduates are important, officials said,
because 70 percent of the new freshmen
THE GRADUATION numbers should jump back up in the 1990s when the grandchildren of the baby boom start financing from high school, Monica said.
Ambler said he did not expect the University to return to the rapid enrollment growth of two decades ago, and the University may have to readjust to accommodate that lack of growth.
"With the fact that our current funding is tied to enrollment, it's best that our enrollment go up, as opposed to going down," he said.
Even without that growth, the University will have to pay the bills, he said.
"You try to find ways of maintaining your essential services so you don't tear at the heart of what the University is all about," he said.
IN ORDER to meet the costs, which rise every year, he said, the University may have to take more measures such as increasing the number of students in the year and reducing supplies.
The University already had to cut at some of the heart, he said, referring to his mother.
'You can't help but have an impact on the quality when we cut back like we did in the past.'
Although the number of graduates from Kansas high schools peaked in the middle 1970s, the number of new graduates who have faculty identity has remained stable. Amber said.
The University recorded an increase in total enrollment this semester compared to last semester. The enrollment at the university was 410 above last fall's figure of 23,990.
Although only three Kansas Board of Regents schools recorded enrollment decreases this year, those declines outnumbered increases, dropping the total enrollment figure for all Regents schools.
Program will recognize Kansas honor students
KU faculty, staff and students will travel to Kansas high schools this year to tell top Kansas seniors "you're the best and the brightest — make use of the university's director for the University of Kansas Alumni Association said yesterday.
Clair Keizer, the director, said the Alumni Association's annual Kansas Honors program gives students certificates and American Heritage Dictionaryes at dinners and receptions across the state.
The program started 11 years ago when money was bequeathed from the estate of Frank Crowell, a KU alumnus, to the KU Endowment Association.
This fall's tour will begin Nov. 1 when the program will honor the top 10 percent of Wyandotte County high
AMONG THOSE who will talk to students in this year's program are Chancellor A. G. Budi; Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor; Dean Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs; Oliver Phillips, professor of classes; and David Adkins, student body president.
Adkins said he would tell the seniors that their generation was unique because of the changes that have occurred since their parents were born. He will also challenge the seniors to develop values and become leaders so that they can respond to the changing world, he said.
school seniors at the KU College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kun.
Last year, KU representatives spoke to 2,122 students in 757 high schools.
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