TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS 864-4810
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SECTION A VOL.102,NO.12
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TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
'Hawks squeak by Bearcats
Kansas wins a close season opener, 23-18. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Open-air market still fresh
The Farmers Market has been providing Lawrence residents with unique fruits and vegetables for 20 years. Page 6A
NATION
First lady attends conference
Hillary Rodham Clinton is leading a U. S. delegation to China's global conference on women. Page 7A
WORLD
Serbs reject ultimatum
The NATO deadline to withdraw weapons from Sarajevo went unheeded by Bosnian Serbs. Page 7A
WEATHER
HUMID
High 91° Low 67°
INDEX
Weather: Page 2A
Opinion ... 4A
Features ... 10A
National News ... 7A
World News ... 7A
Sports ... 1B
Scoreboard ... 2B
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Programs draw Missouri students to KU
By Josh Yancey Kansan staff writer
Students just across the Kansas-Missouri border in Kansas City, Mo., more often head east to the University of Missouri than west to the University of Kansas.
That is unless those Missouri students want to choose from an assortment of programs that offer them in-state tuition at KU.
MU's resident tuition for Fall 1995 is $124.03 per credit hour, which
equals about $2,000 for 16 hours of
courses. Nonresident tuition at KU
this fall is $3,950 for seven or more
credit hours.
Reciprocity, the process of mutual exchange between two states so that students from one state can get in-state tuition in the other, can be achieved by Missouri residents who come to KU to study music therapy, linguistics, Slavic languages, architecture and Eastern languages and culture.
Brenda Selman, assistant registrar, said students paid resident tuition for those programs because the programs often weren't offered at other schools in their region. The University of Missouri, for example, does not have a school of architecture, so many students from Missouri come to KU to study architecture.
In Fall 1994, MU had 1,869 graduate and undergraduate students from Missouri's Jackson and Clay counties, which make up most of the Kansas City, Mo., area. That number is slightly more than KU's total of
"There have been rumors about it, mostly from wishful students," Selman said. "But, as of right now, it's not happening."
In exchange, Kansans can study dentistry at the University of Missouri and set resident tuition there.
But Kansas City, Mo., students
"We've seen a decline in our out-of-state enrollments over the last several years," said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs at KU. He said the decrease was partly due to significant increases in out-of-state tuition.
who don't study the areas listed above aren't likely to be eligible for in-state tuition anytime soon.
Ambler said MU had a reciprocity program with border counties in Kansas. People who lived in those counties but worked in Missouri were eligible for resident tuition, he said.
1,836 Missouri students, although Kansas City is about 40 miles from KU and about 120 miles from MU.
Resource center took planning, patience
By Hannah Naughton
Kansan staff writer
After almost four years of hoping, waiting planning,waiting,building and waiting, the Multicultural Resource Center finally will open for business.
The idea for the center was first submitted to Student Senate in November 1991. The idea will be realized at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the center's grand opening in the annex behind the Military Science Building.
"The idea came from a coalition of student groups," said Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs and head of the planning committee for the center. "They came up with this solution to move KU along a line of greater racial civility."
In April 1992, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, announced that the center had been approved and would be opened at 1400 Louisiana St., where offices for graduate teaching assistants in Western Civilization are located.
Between the time of its proposal and acceptance, members of the administrative staff dealt with issues surrounding the implementation of the center, such as sources for funding, where to put the center, what exactly the center would be and concerns that the center would end up being a clubhouse for different minority groups. Ambler said.
Thompson said. The committee was broken down into different focus groups. One group researched other schools' multicultural centers, one planned future programs and one studied facilities for the center.
Over the next three years, while the planning committee researched and defined the center's purpose and what it would offer, the physical plans for the housing of the center hit some roadblocks.
"One of the mix-ups he was when we announced where it would be," Ambler
"Some people legitimately feared this would cause greater isolation on campus and not really contribute to equality in our society," he said.
Ambler appointed Thompson to lead a committee of students, faculty and staff members to define what the center could and should be so that concerns would not become realities.
Over 33 different groups sent representatives to serve on the planning committee,
"While students planned on the strategy for the establishment of such a center, I served as a consultant to them," Thompson said.
Kelly Cannon/KANSAN
Nobody told the graduate students whose offices were in the house on Louisiana Street that they were going to have to move, he said. Another problem arose because it was difficult to make the house accessible to disabled people as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
"To make that facility ADA-accessible would require more money than it was worth," Ambler said. "Then, getting a new space was a good part of the delay."
A space did open with the move of Supportive Educational Services from the annex to the basement of Strong Hall in December of 1994, he said.
The Office of Design and Construction Management received a request to remodel the annex in April 1994, said James Modig, director of the office. The plans were finished and sent to Facilities Operations in February 1995.
The grand opening of the center was to take place April 4,1995. The date was changed because of a number of small delays in construction caused by difficulty attaining materials, said Mike Richardson, director of Facilities Operations. Also, the purchase and delivery of a new furnace and air conditioning unit caused an eight-week delay. The construction was officially completed in July.
Although the opening of the center was pushed back several times, the idea behind the center was always present, Amber said. "If Multicolor is not just a color, it's
"Multiculturalis an idea," he said.
Ka-boom
The chimney of a house at 1144 Louisiana St. exploded after being struck by lightning around 5:30 a.m Saturday. Michael Giard, Lawrence resident, takes a picture of a car hit by falling bricks and debris.
Edmee Rodriguez/
KANSAN
LIGHTNING: The same bolt of lightning damaged a computer inside the house.
Page 3A
Spray painters strike campus property
Kansan staff report
Unknown persons sprayed painted gay-related messages around campus sometime during the weekend.
Messages such as "lesbians create" and "dykes rule" were sprayed with paint on stairwells and on a tree between Wescoe and Stauffer-Flent halls.
"Everything has been chalk in the past, and that's a nuisance more than anything," Richardson said.
Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations, said this was the first report he had heard of spray painting on campus this year.
Richardson had not seen the graffiti but said that removing spray paint was sometimes costly.
A more graphic message denouncing homopho
bia was sprayed on steps southeast of Wescoe.
Scott Manning, acting director of LesBiGay Services of Kansas, said he had never seen such messages written on campus.
"I'm pretty sure no one in our group would do anything like that." he said.
KU police said yesterday that no report had been filed.
Pam Dishman / KAM
Vandals sorav painted messages on campus during Labor Day weekend.
Delta Chi faces hazing penalties
Delta Chi fraternity has been placed on interim suspension by the University of Kansas for a suspected hazing incident that sent two fraternity members to the hospital, Interfraternity Council officials said.
By Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
The University is investigating Delta Chi for a Hawk Week incident in which two Delta Chi members were admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. One of the students had to be transferred to St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., where he remained until the middle of last week, said Danny Kalser. assistant dean of student life.
Kaiser, greec program coordinator Bill Nelson, the Delta Chl Alumni Board of Trustees and a representative from Delta Chl's international headquarters in Iowa City, Iowa, are conducting the
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See FRATERNITY, Page 2A.
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