TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL.102, NO.27
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
Playin' with the pros
Kansas women's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher tells of his professional exploits. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Watkins wants shot at students
Students should get their flu shots and update their MMR records before enrollment. Page 3A
Simpson trial nearing end
Today's television coverage of the closing arguments still touch and go for Big Three. Page 5A
NATION
WORLD
Bosnia closer to peace
Talks will continue after U.S. negotiators patch a hole in negotiations. Page 5A
WEATHER SUNNY
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion ... 4A
Nation/World ... 5A
Features ... 6A
Sports ... 1B
Scoreboard ... 2B
Horoscopes ... 4B
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Enrollment is down at state schools
Falling off
Enrollment at the University has decreased for the third year in a row.
Source: Educational Services
Deans say program changes to blame
By Novelda Sommers
Kansan staff writer
Micah Laaker/KANSAN
Nonresidents may have shunned the University of Kansas and other state universities because of tuition increases, according to 20th day enrollment figures released Friday.
Ray Hawke, Board of Regents director of planning and budget, said this could explain the University's overall enrollment decline.
KU nonresident undergraduate tuition increased from $3,497 last fall to $3,742 this fall.
Nonresident enrollment decreased by 388. Resident enrollment decreased by 21.
Kansas State University saw a decrease in nonresident undergraduate tuition, as well. K-State drew 228 fewer nonresidents than a year ago.
Enrollment at 10 state schools is down 866 students from last year's total of 81,216.
"There are several factors at play, especially at KU," Hawke said. "We felt it was a combination of change in the nonresident tuition rate and the fact that the number of high school graduates in the states we normally draw from isn't increasing as much as it is in Kansas."
Deans of several schools at KU say that the enrollment figures can be misleading.
The figures showed enrollment numbers broken down by school. Some figures showing large decreases reflected policy changes.
According to the figures, the School of Education had 210 fewer students than last year, an 8 percent decrease. That was mostly because the school was accepting fewer applicants, said Karen Gallagher, dean of education.
This fall was the first time the school did not enroll freshmen majoring in health and physical education. Instead, they will have to wait until their junior year.
stricter admission requirements on the school, such as a 2.75 grade point average.
Also, the Board of Regents imposed
The School of Pharmacy also saw an 8 percent decrease because of policy changes.
"Some of it we are doing by design," Gallagher said. "We will have smaller classes, and the quality of admissions is going up."
Before this fall, paid post-doctoral assistants were enrolled as students and therefore exempt from payroll taxes.
Andrew Debicki, dean of the graduate school, said the School of Pharmacy had about half of KU's 60 to 70 post-doctoral researchers. The IRS made officials change the policy this year, he said.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, KU's largest school, saw a 210-student, or 1-percent, decrease. Last year, the college decreased by 899 students.
Sally Frost-Mason, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said that only 40 of the 210 students were undergraduates. The drop in enrollment largely was due to a program change allowing for the acceptance of fewer students.
James Grau / KANSAN
Peace, love and happiness
David Loewenstein, Lawrence resident, brushes on yellow paint to "Celebration of Cultures," a mural he designed. It depicts hands of different races releasing dove and was open for the public to help paint on Sunday as a part of the Lawrence Harvest of Arts Festival. The mural is in a walkway between Ernst and Son, 826 Massachusetts St., and the Antique Mall, 830 Massachusetts St.
Tenants shocked to find cars towed
Parking department fails to tell residents of repairs
By Sarah Wiese
Kansan staff writer
The fluorescent fliers, orange and white barricades, and bright yellow caution tape would have been ample warning for Jayhawker Towers residents to move their cars by 7 a.m. yesterday — if only they had seen them.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said the department had put up barricades and caution tape Friday. Both were torn down Saturday and replaced.
At 10 a.m. yesterday, seven cars remained in the southeast section of the west parking garage, where workers were waiting to install plastic netting above the ground level to catch falling debris.
Two of the residents got a call from the parking department and moved their cars, avoiding $10 tickets and $23 towing fees.
But not everyone did, and residents at the Towers are wondering why.
Ye said she returned to the towers late Sunday night and couldn't find a parking spot. So she decided to park in the area slated for repairs. She planned to move her car in the morning.
Hultine said she tried to call the others.
But Xiao Ye, Shanghai, China, senior, was
home all morning and never got a call.
Move it or lose it
During the three weeks, small sections of the Jayhawer Towers parking garages will be closed for repairs. Residents need to move their vehicles by 7 a.m. on the first day of closure to avoid being towed and ticketed.
The third level of the East Garage will be closed one day during the week of Oct. 9. The closing will be posted at least three days in advance.
Ye was shocked when she went to move her car about noon. It was gone.
"I think it's ridiculous," Ye said. "We pay $35 for a parking permit and can't find a spot. And then when we finally do, we get towed and have to pay for it."
Ye said she didn't understand why the repairs couldn't have been done during the summer, before students returned.
Source: KU Parking Department Mirch Lasher/MANBAN
Four of the five uninformed tenants' cars were towed.
The materials for the work arrived just last week, said James Modig, director of design and construction management.
The nature of the work makes moving the
cars imperative, he said.
"We can't put in netting to protect the cars if the cars aren't moved." Modig said.
During the next three weeks, he said, small sections of both garages will be closed to minimize the number of cars affected at a given time.
Nakeisha Childs, Wichita senior and the Towers' tenant association president, said the Towers office received one filer of a closure schedule on Friday. That was the first notice they were given. Childs said the parking department hadn't done its part to get out the word.
"If it had been made clear, the cars wouldn't have been towed because they would have been moved." Childs said.
Putting fliers on windshields doesn't guarantee anything, she said, because some residents don't go to their cars every day. Towers staff has no way of notifying residents in violation because they don't keep license plate information on file.
The biggest problem is a lack of communication between the parking department and the Towers, Childs said. For example, Childs said the Towers hadn't been notified that any part of the east garage would be closed, when in fact it's slated for renaries starting next Tuesday.
Hultine said the department would continue to tow cars if residents failed to move them. Residents can appeal tickets at the department if they believe they were towed unfairly.
Total expenditures for students may top $287 million this year
KU spending per student is in thousands
By Josh Yancey
Kansan staff writer
Guess how much the University of Kansas spends on each student during one year of education.
"I don't know," said Leslie Doran, Leavenworth senior.
"About $800?"
Not even close.
Not yet answered
According to U.S. News & World Report, more than $10,000 was spent by KU on each full-time student during the 1994-95 school year.
The news magazine published its yearly rankings of universities by value and academic reputation, and per-student spending was one of the figures taken into consideration
Per-student spending includes money spent on instruction, student services, administration, academic support, commu
ers and libraries.
Twentieth-day enrollment figures for all KU campuses showed 27,639 students.
At $10,401 per student, KU's expenditures could be more than $287 million this year. The figure may sound high, but consider what must be paid for.
Big eight spending
A look at an average student's $10,401.
University of Missouri: $11,287
University of Oklahoma:
University of Oklahoma:
$10,430
Pays professors and instructors, including
The rankings of Big Eight schools by per-student spending;
University of Kansas:$10,401
University of Colorado:$9,339
Iowa State University:$8,599
Kansas State University:
Kansas State University:
$7,355
University of Nebraska: $6,840
Oklahoma State University:
$6.870
The University of North Carolina, one of KU's peer schools, spent $17,284 per student last year.
Harvard University, a private school, spent almost $40,000 on each student.
those in departments that students might never encounter.
Provides services. All the students have access to services such as counseling and legal services, even if they never use them.
Upgrades computers and libraries. All the students have millions of dollars' worth of computer equipment and millions of books available to them free of charge, whether they ever use them.
In other words, students may not be taking advantage of their full share.
Deborah Teeter, director of institutional research and planning, said the per-student figure could be both an accurate and sometimes misleading indication of the quality of education at a university.
"Instruction is the biggest element," Teeter said. "That takes into account faculty and administrative salaries. For the most part, the University shows what it spends on all these different activities. They add it up and divide it by the number of students. It's that easy."
But, Teeter said, more is not necessarily better.
"There are some institutions that spend a lot of money on their students, but the money may not all be well-spent." she said.
Teeter said the figure had remained fairly consistent for several years. What was increasing, she said, was the ratio of tuition revenue to state funding. Tuition revenue has increased from about 20 percent of the University's budget in 1981 to more than 40 percent last year.
"But, that's a whole other story," she said. "Per-student is one aspect of judging. It does give us a measure."
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