University Daily Kansan, August 30, 1982
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Continuing Ed thrives despite economy
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The building is a forsaken fraternity house. Computers are kept in a room originally meant for preparing meals, but now usually an office used to be an entryway.
Yet from this humble base the KU Continuing Education Program assisted in the education of 28,000 people any other branch of the University.
Frances Longhofer, secretary in student services, said that number was greater than the total enrollment of 25,000 University, which was about 25,000.
rupert Senecal, dean of the division of continuing education, said the division put on 575 educational seminars and conferences last year, as well as offered correspondence courses for students, and did it with only 20 percent of their program being subsidized by the state. The other 80
percent of the program was paid for with the fees they collect, he said.
"Some activities will break even, "he said. not "we shall." If "we do happen to make a little extra money with them, we lower the wages for another."
The continuing education program cost $4 million last year, over $3 million of which came from the program itself. Senecal said.
Wallace May, associate dean of the division of continuing education, said the division was almost as much of a teacher as it is an educating institution.
"We are an entrepreneurial branch of the University," he said. "We have to provide what the marketplace and we have to promote and sell it."
Senecal said a negative aspect of being a self-supporting program was that students would often be scared to disclose their concerns. It captured the Graduate Record Exam
workshop they are sponsoring next week as an example. The price for each section of the workshop is about $10,000, the usual said, is too high for many students.
The reason for the high price is that continuing education has to bring in someone to run the seminar for them, and outside help is often expensive, he
Many of the programs continuing education offers are mandated by state statute, Senecal said. An example of such a course is the refresher course in pharmacy, he said, which is offered to pharmacists who don't have time to leave their jobs and come to KU!
Most of their programs aren't mandated though, Senecal said, so staff members have to work in order to develop programs people will be interested in.
"We try to react to what people want," he said. "Daily we have people call us and ask if we have any
program in their area. We look at the ideas and see what the total need for the program would be. Sometimes a program needs a long wait and we won't have the resources."
Senecal said they hold down the cost of most of their programs by calling on members of the KU faculty to teach or lecture at their seminars.
The continuing education faculty is more of an organizational group than a content one. Senecal said.
"Our staff can help a professor sort out the educational objectives of a seminar," he said. "For the most part we are not content experts."
"We complement the professors by hiring professionals to supplement our programs," he said, "but we are not being trained in academic strength of the University."
May said concentrating on organization had helped the KU Continuing Education Program maintain its best programs of its kind in the nation.
Late enrollment proves no simple chore
Transfer especially troubled
By DEBORAH BAER Staff Reporter
Ann Wille, Overland Park, walked out of the KU office of admissions for the third time last week. She had been told that before she could transfer to the University of Kansas from Texas where her university needed a copy of her transcript.
Unfortunately, her transcript was in English, and I had no day of classes. We had not yet enrolled. We had not yet enrolled.
Wille had not yet been Linda Thompson, director of admissions, said Wille's situation was not unusual. Many people decide to attend the University just as the semester is beginning.
"It happens all the time," Ms. Thompson said.
People who decide to apply to the University after the semester has begun must, of course, enroll late. But they are only a portion of the people who enroll during the first few days of the semester, said Gary Thompson, director of student records and registration.
Thompson said many students had to enroll late because they were working or were on vacation during regular enrollment. And sometimes, he said, students who are not ready for school after enjoying the summer realized their friends were all going back to school and decided to go, too.
For students enrolling late, whatever the reason, there are obstacles, Thompson said.
If the student has not yet been admitted to the University, he first must go to the office of admissions. Ms. Thompson or one of six assistant directors will explain the procedures and requirements for admission. To be admitted, the student must have the appropriate transcripts and test scores. Students who have been admitted to the University then must go through late enrollment. Late enrollment is harder than enrollment at Allen Field
"Late enrollment involves running around a little bit," he said.
Those who enroll at the regular time only have to walk around the field house to pick up their class cards, but late enrollers must walk all over the campus and pick up their town office department in which they want to enroll. Thompson said.
The problems begin when a student goes to pick up an add slip from a department and discovers that the class is closed.
Since each class card must be signed by someone in the department and timetables no longer are available, such cards much more difficult for the late enroller.
"A lot of students have trouble finding a schedule that fits," Thompson said.
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RABBLE-ROUSING WITH DR. ROOSA
Dr. Rocca who claims to have been "an expert witness for the defense" at this joke by the deacon County judiciary, accuses Kansas City Times cartoonist Lee Judge and columnist Arthur Brisbane of distorting the facts by "being highly selective in the items (upon which) they chose to comment." After describing some of the sacrifices (donating blood periodically, helping狱 inmates earn their high school equivalency certificates, and contributing one fifth of his personal earnings to a crime victim's fund) that the sentence would exact of the male俘虏, one of educational psychology at the University of Kansas City, during the five years of his probation, Mr. Brisbane for ignoring the situation and pressing the death of Mrs. Karakter—a highly emotional discussion in which she had just told her husband that she was leaving him—and also (omitting) any mention of the fact that it took place while Dr. Karakter was in a catastrophically altered state of mind, a state in which he remained for three days.
Webster's Third New International Dictionary tells us that to rubble-rouse is "to stir up public sentiment by emotionalism." Dr. J. Barn B. Roosa of Kansas City's Gestalt and Social Competence institution reverts to rubble-rousing (I'm assuming that Dr. Roosa is capable of something better) in a letter found in the August 14th issue of the Kansas City Times. In this tear-jerking epithel Dr. Roosa responds to some of the criticism inspired by a Jackson County Circuit Court judge's conclusion that a man who bludgeoned his wife to death with a hammer was guilty merely of mansluaughter.
This sentence, a classic attempt to becloud, is par for the psychiatric gopher on the foreseeale course. While Dr. Roops begins by attributing Dr. Karraker's emotional state to Mrs. Karraker's informing her husband of her intentions, Dr. Roops ends by claiming that it (mrs. Karraker's statement and the violence it precipitated) took place "while Dr. Karraker was in a catastrophically altered state of mind." In this one sentence Dr. Roops manages to say that the dialogue of the Karrakers which preceded the violence both caused and occurred during Dr. Karraker's "catastrophically altered state of mind."
The fact that all six of the psychiatrists and psychologists present at the hearing categorized Dr. Karraker as a newviolent shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with our malfunctioning legal system. Public funds are often used to purchase from these forensic professionals such persuasive efforts. While Dr. Roosa is offended by Dr. Karraker and Bribantea's apparent belief "that Dr. Karraker's status as a middle-class professor was a determinant in his sentencing." Dr. Roosa also manages to feel that a responsible sentencing process would take into account the accused's "record prior to the time he was convicted of a crime." Even while accusing Mr. Bribantea creating a red herring, Dr. Roosa claims (incorrectly) that the incarceration of miscreants occurs "only when it is necessary for the protection of the public."
Yet Dr. Roxa does make one good point: "the need for a criminal code which can benefit society by... reducing the number of persons who are likely to commit crimes in the future." When the defendant is guilty of wanton violence justice is served by removing him from the populace. Any other legal response to such savagery constitutes a denial of the Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments and is hence a display of judicial cowardice.
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Nuclear filming nets KU funds for scholarships
By STEVE CUSICK Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is making a profit from the filming on campus of a TV movie about the aftermath of a nuclear explosion.
An official from ABC Circle Films, which is shooting part of a TV movie at the University, presented a $10,000 check to KU Chancellor Gene A. Budig in a short ceremony Friday in the chancellor's office.
Michael Gallant, production executive for the company, said the gift was in appreciation of being allowed to use the campus for filming.
The money will go to the Kansas University Endowment Association for the general scholarship fund, said Todd Sevmour, president of the association.
An ABC film crew shot a short scene of the four-hour TV movie "The Day After" on KU's campus last week. It was a special for a bigger screen in Alen Field House.
"This is a very good time to receive gifts." Seymour said, referring to budget and financial aid cuts at the University.
"This money will be used to the benefit of students, too."
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Gallant said ABC will use 1,500 extras, many of them students, for the scene. Jason Robards, who won back-to-back Academy Awards in 1976 and 1977 and plays the film's leading role, is included in the field house filming.
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Budig said after the presentation that he thought the filming was a "worry" for KU.
ABC also will pay costs arising from the use of KU facilities such as campus police and grounds crews, according to the written order between the two parties. Everla said.
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"The project will give the University significant national attention," he said. "We are confident it will be done in a tasteful manner."
"It has been an interesting experience. We have learned something about movie making."
ABC officials said the Allen Field House filming might be the TV drama's most poignant scene. The film crews were as an evacuation center in the movie.
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Besides shooting scenes at Allen Field House, crews will also roll their cameras at other spots on campus. A film crew last week shot scenes of a professional race car riding a motorcycle at several places on campus.
He said the movie troupe will stay in Lawrence until Sept. 9.
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