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Vol. 108 No.31
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Kansas' volleyball team dropped three straight sets to Kansas State last night. The team is now 7-9 on the season.
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
"That would have attracted much more attention to the bill than anything," Huffman said. "They told me that they were interested in the process because they'd never been to a StudEx meeting before."
Campus colors
Flower beds like this one are located all across campus. They are often planted in red and blue colors to show the school's colors. The flower beds have been thriving this year because of the plentiful spring rain. See story page 6A. Photo by Pam Dishman/KANSAN
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Women's groups successfully gain Senate funding
Members of the organizations attended meeting in bills' support
By Tim Harrington tharrington@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The women of the University of Kansas scored one victory and one partial victory last night in the form of a pair of Student Senate funding bills.
However, both groups were concerned about being kept on Senate's agenda for last night's meeting.
Student Senate voted to allocate funding to both the Feminist Union and the Women's Empowerment Action Coalition. Feminist Union received $212 of the $307 they requested. The Coalition received all of the $275 they requested.
StudEx sets the agenda for the upcoming meeting and has the power to take items off the agenda if it chooses.
About 20 people supporting the two women's groups sat on the floor of the Governor's Room, crowding around the small room's conference table.
Kelly Huffman, StudEx chair, said visitors were welcome but highly unusual.
"I can't think of a time when StudEx had that many visitors at one time," he said. "All our meetings are open but usually there are just one or two people."
Huffman said that there were absolutely no plans to alter the agenda and that even if they did, which he has never seen StudEx do, he would have to report it to Senate.
"There was a rumor going around that StudEx was going to take one of our groups off the agenda," said Jen Keltner, Wichita senior and president of the Feminist Union. "We were under attack last week in committee because people were saying that the Women's Empowerment Coalition and the Feminist Union served the same purposes."
While Huffman said some visitors told him their presence at the meeting was to learn about the StudEx processes, some of the onlookers admitted that was not entirely true.
Student Senate Rules and Regulations prohibits duplicating, or funding two groups that have the same goals.
The Women's Empowerment Coalition's main concern is violence against women, while the Feminist Union deals with educating the student body on feminist issues. Stacey Mann, speaker of the Women's Empowerment
"There's been a lot of talk about our organization, that it's a controversial issue and a controversial group when we're really not," she said. "We just wanted to make sure that someone who really knew what our group was about was in attendance."
Stacey Mann, speaker of the Women's Empowerment Coalition, said that she had heard the rumor as well.
Recycling program gets another chance at success
By Sarah McWilliams
mcwilliams@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Residence hall leaders at the University of Kansas are rolling up their sleeves once again this semester to tackle the piles of plastic, newspaper and glass that need to be recycled.
But apathy, a lack of funding and uncertainty about the payoffs of recycled plastic threaten their efforts.
Katie Griffiths, environmental chairwoman of the Association of University Residence Halls, said getting people involved would be difficult but worth the effort.
Griffiths said she would try to work out some of the kinks in the recycling program started last spring in the halls.
In the program, maintenance staff in the Department of Student Housing donate bins and help collect paper and aluminum.
This year the University switched from aluminum can vending machines to plastic bottle machines as part of the Coca-Cola deal. Randy Timm, associate director of marketing and
"The University is always saying it's part of the community, and the community recycles, so the University should too," Griffiths said.
Recycling
Eight residence halls haye had recycling programs for three years.
Residence hall leaders are looking into the cost of recycling glass and plastic.
It is uncertain whether recycling of the plastic bottles in University vending machines will pay for itself as it did with aluminum cans.
programming for the department of student housing, was not sure if recycling plastic would pay for its operating expenses as recycled aluminum did.
The halls found it was not financially feasible to keep the company, so they got maintenance and special services in the department of student housing to help.
Two years ago the residence halls hired a professional company to collect and haul the aluminum and paper, Timm said, but that didn't go as planned.
Phil Garito, associate director of housing maintenance, said the maintenance staff had problems last year getting students to separate paper into glossy, newsprint and office paper.
Despite the convenience, residents still had recycling troubles.
Masturbator leaves his mark across campus
KU students report sightings to police
By Mary Corcoran
By Mary Corcoran
mcorcoran@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A rambling exhibitionist apparently worked his way across campus Monday night, exposing himself to four KU students.
"It appears to be the same person, but right now the description is too general to narrow it down," said Officer Burdell Welsh of KU police.
The man exposed himself to female students and masturbated in and around four campus buildings between 9 and 10:30 p.m. Monday.
At 9 p.m. Monday, a 24-year-old Kansas City, Kan., graduate student in human development and family life saw the man sitting in the northeast stairway of Haworth Hall. When the woman approached, he unzipped his pants and began to masturbate.
The student said she did not feel threatened at first because she worked with disabled people who sometimes did inappropriate things.
"Then I realized I didn't know him or his history. I didn't know how he might react to anything," she said. "So I went out the door and tried to get to my office."
The student said she did not see the blue emergency phone in the stairway and ran out to look for another phone.
She then found a security guard who notified the police. She described the masturbator as a white male with sandy hair and no facial hair.
"It was a little upsetting because all the doors were locked, and I couldn't get to any of the phones," she said.
About 15 minutes later, another female student saw a man with a similar description on the fifth floor of Watson Library near the East Asian stacks.
Police said the 19-year-old student saw the man rubbing the outside of his jeans and then begin to expose himself. The student then left the stacks to call the police.
At 9:30 that night, a man with the same
Random acts of nudity
Reports of indecent exposure received by KU police Monday night:
description was seen by a 19-year-old student answering the phone for Chi Omega sorority. She heard a knock on the window, looked outside and saw the man masturbating with his right hand. She described him to police as a white male, about 5-foot-8, 150 pounds and wearing dark clothing.
An hour later, Stephanie Robinson, Overland Park sophomore, saw a man outside of her second-floor apartment in Jayhawker Tower D.
"It was really disturbing. My roommate saw a person outside the window," Robinson said. "When we looked out he started waving to us and motioning for us to come downstairs."
Robinson said she yelled out the open window that she would not come outside.
"Then he started pacing back and forth and unzipped his pants. I ran to the phone to call the police," she said.
Robinson gave a similar description of the man to police. The general description the police have of the man is a white male in his 30s with light-colored hair, between 5-foot-8 and 6-foot-2, 150 to 225 pounds.
Robinson said her roommate was especially frightened by the experience.
"She told me she was going to go buy some Mace or a weapon." Robinson said.
KU police said that the best way to avoid lewd and lascivious experiences was to not become isolated in remote areas. Police encourage students to study and travel in groups and to know their surroundings and the locations of the blue emergency phones on campus.
Graduate-student enrollment declines
Jobs not as plentiful for certain fields
By Matthew Friedrichs
matff@ukans.edu
Knopf staff writer
Graduate education is changing at the University of Kansas. Fewer people are seeking academic Ph.D.s and more people are looking for professional development and job enhancement education.
According to enrollment data provided by the Office of University Relations, 6,087 graduate students enrolled on all of KU campuses this fall - 185 fewer than last fall.
For the fourth consecutive year, graduate-level headcounts fell on the Lawrence campus.
Graduate enrollment at the Regents Center in Johnson County rose again. Regents Center enrollment has increased almost 50 percent since the facility on the Edwards Campus opened five years ago, said Bruce Lindvall, assistant dean of the Regents Center.
The enrollment numbers reflected
continued declines in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, Nursing and Pharmacy. The Schools of Business Fine Arts and Journalism showed growth over the same time period.
"Jobs for Ph.D.'s in certain fields are not that plentiful and the responsible thing to do is not to turn out unemployed Ph.D.s," Debckli said.
Andrew Debicki, dean of the graduate school, said the overall four-year enrollment decline could be attributed to several factors.
Graduate School enrollment
Graduate enrollment in the College declined by 118 students this fall to 2,006. Since 1993,graduate enrollment in the College has declined by 462 students.
Programs such as the English graduate program have made a conscious effort to reduce the number of graduate students enrolled in courses, Debicki said.
Declining graduate enrollments also were caused by a drop in the number of international students, who are less attracted to the University because they no longer receive in-state tuition for student assistant positions, he said.
The School of Education showed a
Overall enrollment in graduate programs has decreased for the past four years.
Source: University Relations
M. D. Bradshaw/KANSAN
decline of 32 students to 1,641. Enrollment in education graduate programs has dropped by 254 students since 1993.
Karen Gallagher, dean of education, said enrollment declines were a result of planned decreases and a strong economy.
Gallagher said the strong local economy also had hurt graduate enrollment for education.
Gallagher said the school had deliberately decreased the number of students in the teacher education program. Students in their fifth year of the program are graduate students.
"There is a need for teachers as growth occurs in Lawrence and Johnson County," Gallagher said.
Education has seen an increase in part-time students, especially at the Regents Center. Gallacher said.
Teachers with stable jobs are less likely to return to graduate school, Gallagher said.
Other programs also have shown gains in enrollment, especially professional schools with programs located at the Regents Center.
Although graduate enrollment in the School of Business decreased by nine students from last fall, graduate enrollment in the school has increased by 93 students since 1993.
Lindvall said enrollment in the Master's in Business Administration program at the Regents Center had increased from about 200 in 1993 to 315 this fall.
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