THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011
PAGE 11A
CAMPUS
Places to stay open to help new students
IAN CUMMINGS
icummings@kansan.com
Dozens of University offices and departments will be open over the weekend to serve students before classes begin on Monday.
"Since this is the first time since 1995 that fall semester classes will start on a Monday, the University wants to ensure that new students and their families can find and use the services they need prior to the first day of classes," Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, assistant vice provost for Student Success, said in a press release.
Applied English Center
STRONG HALL OFFICES
Admissions
Academic Achievement and Access Center
Applied English Center (8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Aug. 20)
CLAS Student Academic Services (1 to 5 p.m., Aug. 21)
Financial Aid and Scholarships
International Student and Scholar Services
New Student Orientaton
University Advising Center
University Registrar
Bursar's Office
Vice Provost for Student Success
KU Info on Jayhawk Boulevard
UNION & SABATINI MULTICULTURAL CENTER
Kansas Union and Burge Union
KU Card Center
KU Info
Multicultural Affairs
Student Involvement and Leadership Center
COLLEGE
Surge in student population means wait list for housing
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some students are finding it difficult to secure housing at Pittsburgh State this fall.
University officials attribute the high demand to a multimillion dollar effort to improve the university's living areas.
University housing official Steve Erwin says the school's
nine residence halls have room for more than 1,300 students. Last school year, the university had a record 1,201 students living in its residence halls.
Other factors include a program approved in 2010 that offered in-state tuition to students from seven nearby counties in Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
The Joplin Globe reports that apartment complexes near the campus also are full and have waiting lists.
The housing crunch comes as Pittsburg State's student population increases. Last spring's enrollment of 6,754 students was a school record.
EDUCATION
Schools use elite tactics to dictate student body
IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
Rury and Saatcioglu said census data from past decades show that suburban schools have not always had the advantage, but have been favored over time by the suburbanization of America due factors such as "white flight."
Suburban school districts have gained advantages at the expense of urban schools and have actively guarded those benefits, according to a new study by University of Kansas researchers.
The researchers studied the history of suburban America and found that inherently competitive neighborhoods promoted schools to market themselves to potential residents and used exclusionary tactics such as high home prices to keep certain populations out. The study also showed that social problems
John Rury and Argun Saatcioglu, professor and assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies, recently published the results of their study of students in the northeast United States in the American Journal of Education.
such as poverty and single parent homes could prevent city neighborhoods from reaping the benefits of schools and dampen social mobility.
A review of law history showed that the Brown v. Board of Education ruling was not applied equally across the nation and did not have an immediate impact in the north and west. Ruray and Saatcioglu suggest changes in federal education policy to address inequalities and plan to expand their research to study all regions of the United States.
Edited by Marla Daniels
SPORTS
Players killed in accident, soccer careers cut short The men's soccer team at Kansas Wesleyan University is beginning practice without two players recruited from California by coach Mike Dibbini.
was injured Saturday when their pickup truck overturned on Interstate 70 in southeastern Utah. The Utah Highway Patrol says two of the men were thrown from the truck when it rolled in the median west of Green River.
Ornelas was 21 and from South Gate, Calif. Valencia was a 20-year-
Carlos Ornelas and Eddie Valencia were killed and another teammate
old from Los Angeles. They were recruited along with Briant Reyes, their injured teammate, to Kansas Wesleyan program after strong careers at Cerritos College, a two-year school in California.
Reyes is expected in Salina sometime this week.
Associated Press