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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, October 21, 1999
Tomorrow to be first day to enroll for Spring 2000
By Amanda Kaschube writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Outside 151 Strong Hall tomorrow, a seemingly endless line of students with white papers in hand will watch the hands of the clock, waiting for their enrollment times to be called.
Tomorrow marks the first day of enrollment for Spring 2000.
Students enrolling on the first day will most likely get into the classes they want, while students enrolling toward the last day, Nov. 17, might be left empty-handed.
But not everyone is hurt by a later enrollment date.
Erika Hicks, Denver sophomore,
said her Nov. 9 enrollment date
gave her more time to choose the
classes she wanted.
"I'm not mad — I usually get the classes I want," she said. "I'm not doing classes for my major yet anyway."
Students' years in school, not the specific number of credit hours they have, determine the order in which they receive their enrollment dates, Brenda Selman, associate registrar, said.
Selman said the order of enrollment was graduate students, seniors, juniors and so on. Students were separated into those groups based on completed class hours: 90 hours equals a senior, 60 a junior and 30 a sophomore.
But within the actual divisions, students receive random times based on their KUIDs.
"It's a University policy concerning enrollment — a computer system sets the appointment time," she said. "It's a random rotation, but it's based on the last three digits of a student's ID number. It rotates within groups."
Lauren Waterson, Manhattan freshman, said she understood the University of Kansas' policy of having seniors enroll before freshmen.
"Most upperclassman have decided on their majors, and they have certain classes they need to take in their last few years here," she said. "Whereas I'm still deciding, and I can take a broad range of classes. It actually helps me."
On a busy day, Selman said the center can handle about 1,000 students.
SPRING 2000 ENROLLMENT
What: Main enrollment
Where: 151 Strong Hall
When: Oct. 22 through Nov. 17
See your permit to enroll for your enrollment date and time.
Tomorrow will be the first time Caleb Hensley, Pittsburg senior, has enrolled on the first day. He said he was sure he'd get all the classes he wanted.
"I'm stoked about getting the first pick of classes," Hensley said. Even though many graduate students and seniors think they will get all their top class choices, Selman urged all students to list at least two alternates on their permits to enroll.
"List alternates even if you have the first time on the first day," she said. "There are no guarantees."
Selman said those students who did not list alternates and were unable to enroll in 12 hours of classes would not receive extra help after the enrollment deadline.
"No alternates, no completion forms," she said. "There are benefits for having as many options as possible."
Students should include different courses at different times for their alternates, not just the same course number with a different time. Selman said.
To make the enrollment process easier for all, students should bring their completed permits to enroll and any other additional cards, such as a closed-class openers or special permission cards.
Also, students should try to avoid coming 20 or 30 minutes before their appointment times. Selman said most of the congestion was caused by early arrivers, not because of backups in the system.
"Students tend to come early and hang out," she said. "It's one of my pet peeves — it makes it appear that there is a long line when there isn't."
Students wanting to change their schedules can start with add/ drop on Nov. 18, and those who missed their enrollment dates can start on Dec. 1 when late enrollment begins.
—Edited by Kelly Clasen
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Student Senate president Karb Maxwell talks about items on the Student Senate's Transportation Board agenda. Board members held part of their meeting on a bus on the downtown route yesterday so they could better understand transportation issues. The committee's agenda addressed problem intersections on campus, delivery vehicles blocking bus stops and other issues. Photo by Matt J. Daugherty/KANSAN
Hundreds mourn loss of abducted KC girl
Community gathers to embrace family
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A mother sat sleeping yesterday as family and friends mourned the loss of her 10-year-old daughter — the victim of a kidnapping and killing that shocked the city.
Hundreds of people — many who did not know Pamela Butler or her family — filled the CrossRoads Church for the emotional funeral service
interrupted regular programming to carry the 75-minute service live.
Pamela was snatched from near her home Oct. 12 as she was skating. One of her sisters and others watched. They saw a man grab her and put her in a white truck.
Three local television stations
A suspect, Keith D. Nelson, 24, remained in federal custody on a kidnapping charge.
Pamela's mom, Cherri West, did not speak at the services, but sat in the front row at the church, dabbing at her eyes. Her stepfather, Danny West, had been released from prison to attend the funeral.
the girl the Sunday before she was kidnapped. She visited him in prison at Ellsworth. He said her last words to him were "be good so you can come home."
Pamela's friend, Holly Woods, said she remembered her smile and laugh.
"I remember how she always used to come to my house, she would borrow something from me. She would always try to take my nail polishes," she said.
"She was always someone there to make me laugh when I was feeling bad, and made me feel better when I was feeling good."
was read by Alvin Brooks, a well-known activist who heads a group that fights crime.
"People from all walks of life have embraced Pamela's family," said Sharon Smith, co-pastor with her husband of the church. "The outpouring of love makes me proud to call this community home."
A resolution from the Missouri State Senate condemning the slaying
Mourners clutched purple ribbons, the girl's favorite color, as her sister, Casey Eaton, wondered what her future may have held.
Thousands of dollars have been given to a fund for the family.
Pamela may have been a doctor, teacher, or mother of her own little girl, she said.
Despite programs, kids still left uninsured
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The number of uninsured children remains at 11 million despite the strong economy and a new program that has been enrolling them for nearly two years, according to two reports.
The problem, advocates say, is that the children lost Medicaid coverage when their families left welfare, even though many of them still are eligible for the program.
That study found that overall, more children left Medicaid than joined the new program, which is aimed at kids who are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.
A new Children's Health Insurance Program, created to help reduce the number of uninsured children, has signed up more than a million kids, but its efforts are not enough to counter the falling Medicaid rolls.
"We're no further down the road toward protecting children than we were in 1976 or '97," said Ronald Pollack, president of Families USA, which released a study comparing 12 states' coverage of children in 1996 and 1999.
Among the states losing the most ground was Texas, and Vice President Al Gore's office wasted no time in blaming Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.
"Today's report is further evidence that the governor's batting average, when comes to children,
is Bush league — last in environment, last in children's health care coverage and near last in the quality of life for our kids," Gore representative Chris Lehane said.
Texas Medicaid roles dropped by about 228,000 between 1996 and 1999, but just 34,553 children were added through the new program, meaning the number of kids covered by both programs fell 14.2 percent, the biggest percentage drop among the 12 states examined.
A representative for the Bush campaign had no immediate comment.
Five states say net declines in the number of kids enrolled. Besides Texas, they included Ohio, with a 7.3 percent drop; Arizona, 6.5 percent; California, 4.2 percent, and Pennsylvania, 3.9 percent.