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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 23, 1965
Why's of Enrollment
Whenever there is a campus phenomenon that causes as much complaint as does enrollment here at KU, it seems logical to discuss it.
Enrollment appears to be a totally undefined mess and can be a trying experience for everyone, not to speak of the tears and groans it so often brings from the freshmen. However, there are explanations for at least some of the most inconvenient steps.
A MAJOR COMPLAINT is always the congestion at places where packets and folders are distributed. Some things have been changed in recent years to correct this confusion. For example, in the past, packets were distributed in Strong basement. This has been moved to Hoch for more room.
Students usually wonder why they must run all over campus to take care of all the preliminaries before they can even begin to pull cards for their classes. Ideally there would be a huge area somewhere that would accommodate the entire process, but where?
The folder traffic at Strong has been reduced by leaving the folders of students outside the college to the responsibility of the various schools.
Some students feel folders should be left with advisers to combine two enrollment steps. However, at a university such as KU where departments are shifting location to keep up with new buildings, advisers are sometimes hard to find.
If there is a central area to receive folders, students may also be able to find out where to contact advisers. If the folder is with the adviser, the process can become impossibly complicated.
FRESHMEN RECEIVE CARDS informing them of their adviser's name, office location and appointment time before they arrive at school. It has been suggested that each student receive such information prior to enrollment.
On the other hand, it seems a student who has already attended the university for one year should know his way around well enough to handle these matters himself. No university can do everything to cut the administrative red tape for every student. The problems are too individual.
One of the most valid suggestions seems to be for a more efficient handling of senior enrollment. When a plan was tried to allow all seniors to enroll first it met with little success. Some of the
seniors took advantage of it; others waited for the regular enrollment period, apparently thinking they would get courses they wanted and needed anyway.
IN ANY CASE, SOME ANSWER to the problem of graduating seniors being closed out of needed or desired classes must be found. The university owes them this consideration. The present provisions for this are not well defined and often poorly executed if they are executed at all. Perhaps this problem could be handled within each school and department.
Another major complaint is about the confusion involved in paying fees two weeks after actual enrollment. At one time students paid all fees before they were allowed to enroll. Many complications came out of this. For instance, if a student paid the entire fee and then did not enroll in the minimum number of classes, the problem of refunds arose. There were also problems involved with enrolling exceptions to the regular pattern.
IF FEES WERE PAID immediately after class cards were pulled, those totalling the fees and receiving the money would be under a great deal of pressure and the margin for errors could increase greatly.
Many students must await scholarship or loan checks before they can enroll. These checks are processed during and following the three-day enrollment period. This would be another hard to manage exception.
A system is now being discussed whereby all students would be mailed a bill for their fees several days after enrollment. Students would then pay the fees by mail at their own convenience within a limited time period. Exceptions could pay at the business office, as is done now.
ALTHOUGH KU'S ENROLLMENT system seems to be inconvenient and unnecessarily complicated, it at least handles all students. Some other schools, even state universities, have much more simple and efficient methods. However, many of these provide prepared curriculums for their students which, in my opinion, cut down the amount of freedom awarded to students in choosing their own curriculum.
KU's system, confusing as it is, does allow the student to form a program that fits him personally.
Janet Hamilton
The People Say...
To the Editor:
IN HIS WELCOMING ADDRESS
Monday morning, Chancellor Wescoe commented at some length on unrest on university campuses."
"Many questions have been raised," he said, "no answers have been provided as to why there are some who take pride in being the young rebels.
"The most frequent cited," he continued, "have been a lack of communication between student, faculty and administration. a breakdown of communications between generations and a degree of suspicion between the various segments of the community not heretofore apparent. Both of these causes have been related to bigness. . ."
He then transferred these generalizations to KU and reminded the gathering that channels of communication have always been open to the top here and that in the future they will be appreciably improved.
But change, he cautioned, "is often subtle" and "the student, whose years here are brief as the most transient in our community, is not always here to see the subtle changes or even the dramatic ones that occur." A demonstration of reason and "responsibility" is what our university community most needs while pathological suspicion must be avoided.
Perhaps these observations help to explain last year's demonstrations at U. Cal. at Berkeley or at some other institution of higher learning. They are not relevant, however, to the sit-in demonstration which took place outside his office last semester. No swarm of paranoid or suspicious looking young rebels descended on his hallway. Never was a word mentioned about the size of the university or the breakdown of communications channels by either protesting students or indeed the Chancellor himself.
Vituperation was never aimed at the Chancellor or his administration and there was no suspicion of a conspiracy among the older generation in our community. To summarize, the Chancellor's analysis was confusing, misleading and failed to deal squarely with the central as yet unresolved issue which led to direct action last year. He had nothing to say about discriminatory practices in the KU fraternity-soriority system. I do. There is need for clarification of that issue before it is smothered under more blanket cliches about the student rebel generation.
Discriminatory practices in the Greek system are a disgrace to a university which aspires to egalitarian community life. Whatever may be said in praise of the KU Greek system is nullified by their neo-primitive criteria for selecting members.
The demonstration on the second floor of Strong Hall was an attempt to encourage a less than subtle end to discriminatory practices in the Greek system. The Civil Rights Council and its many supporters were not protesting a breakdown in communications but, on the contrary, too much communication followed by no concrete administrative action. One example will amply illustrate the need for direct action. Dean Woodruff candidly admitted in the first negotiation session with the UHRC that little or nothing had been done to enforce the two year old executive statement prohibiting discrimination in off-campus housing units. So we went to Strong demanding action, not more communication.
Endless protestations of good will and procedural hang-ups will not change the bald fact that academically qualified students who were not born with pink skins and straight hair, or who came from another land where the culture and language are different from ours, or whose belief in God did not come through the teachings of Christ, are not welcomed in KU greek letter living groups.
Further these social organizations are not self-governing residence halls as their members claim. This is a fiction which has been foisted off on the university community to justify discrimination. In fact the University has almost complete authority to control their activities and does so in many areas, (e.g. fraternities do not vote as to whether or not they should allow the U. administration to put them on social probation. Sororites do not determine what hours they will have.) Most obvious though, is the yearly assistance of the University Dean's offices in rushing. Indirectly the state, our state, is financially aiding a discriminatory system within the University realm of authority.
The U. Human Relations Committee has done an admirable job in ameliorating other discriminatory practices in the U. community. But the most galling affront to human dignity has not yet been eradicated. The Chancellor didn't even feel it important enough to remark upon.
The Chancellor's address was regrettable then on two counts. First, because he resorted to innuendo when analyzing the causes of last year's protest. And second, because he said nothing about forthcoming policy to deal with discriminatory practices in the Greek system. Both auger poorly for the future.
Douglas Ruhe
Lawrence senior
"Hot Potatoes! Come And Get Them Please"
Student Tribute
Editor's Note—The members of African Club, represented by their secretary, Girma Negash, Ethiopian graduate student, wishes to pay tribute to their late president, Seth Anthony, Togo graduate student. They have asked that we print the article which appears below.
The African Club regretfully announces the tragic death of Seth Anthony, a graduate student from Togo who died in a car accident in Maryland on August 30, 1965.
Anthony, the president of our club, was born on January 8.1931, in Lome, the capital city of Togo, and grew up in a family of five brothers and sisters.
After completion of his elementary school in Togo he went to Ghana to get his high school education. He had worked as a news reporter in Ghana for some time before he came to the U.S.A. to pursue his studies.
He acquired his B.A. from Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1964. He won the Speizman Foundation Scholarship before he came to KU to work on his graduate studies.
A familiar face on the campus and its vicinities, Anthony gave several lectures to many institutions in Kansas: the last at the Veteran's Administration in Topeka.
As a member of the International Club he served as member of the Steering Committee for 1964 International Festival. He was most responsible for the success of the African part of the festival. Towards the end of the last spring semester he was elected as President of the African Club.
His high ambitions and hopes in regards to the progress of his country and Africa is short-lived by his untimely death. His friends and relatives back home miss him most. So does our Club that lost both a friend and a leader. May his soul rest in peace. Amen.
Girma Negash
Ethiopia
Secretary of African Club
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