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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 1, 1991
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Open admissions hurts ranking
Officials say lack of selectivity accounts for magazine's low ranking of KU
By Alexander Bloemhof
Kansan staff writer
KU's low ranking in a recent U.S. News & World Report survey is a vivid example of how open admissions can hurt the University, said Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
KU ranked in the lower third quarter of 204 national universities the magazine surveyed. Twenty-five percent of the ranking was determined by a school's selectivity, measured by the number of students it turned down.
Brinkman said that the state's current situation made qualified admissions necessarv.
"If we had unlimited resources, we could provide unlimited education."
Brinkman said. "With our limited resources, we can't."
By state law, KU must admit every Kansas high school graduate who applies, and that policy caused the University's low overall score, according to a prepared statement from University Relations.
However, Chancellor Gene Budig said he was less concerned about the magazine article than about the state's best interests, which would be offered if the state adopted a Regents proposal for qualified admissions.
"We will continue to support the Regents initiative in the legislative body." We want qualified students at KU, students who are prepared for college."
According to the proposal, Kansas high school graduates under 21 would have to graduate in the upper third of their class, have a composite ACT score of at least 23 or complete a recommended core curriculum with a point average of at least 2.0 in order to be admitted to a Regents institution.
The core curriculum would consist of four years of English, three years of math, three years of social sciences, three years of natural or physical sciences and two years of foreign languages.
However, John Welsh, associate director of academic affairs for the Board of Regents, said chances were slim that the proposal would pass the Legislature in its 1929 session.
He said Kansas was the only state that had an open admissions policy for all of its four-year universities.
Welsh named the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an example of how well qualified admissions worked.
According to the survey by U.S. News and World Report, 75 percent of the freshmen who enter the University with Carolina graduate within five years.
At the University of Kansas, only 48 percent of the freshmen graduate within five years.
Joseph Fillow, assistant director of undergraduate admissions at North Carolina, said the graduation rate at the university was 85%, and the university selected the best students.
Injured students now roll to center
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
Students who sprain their ankles or wrench their knees while working out at Robinson Center will no longer have to Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Now they can ride in style.
Two weeks ago, Watkins donated a five-year-old wheelchair to Robinson to accommodate injured students, in Boyle, assistant director of Watkins.
"It was a cooperative effort between Watkins and Robinson that will provide better service to the students," Boyle said.
The chair already has seen use. A gymnast injured a knee and a volleyball player injured an ankle and each wheelchair for the short trip to Watkins.
Allan Heinze, director of facilities at Robinson, said he sent a letter in March to Boyle asking that Watkins donate a wheelchair to Robinson.
He said the typical process of caring for a student injured at Robinson was to check the student's injury and in case of evacuation or a trip to Watkins was needed.
Heinzes that because of frequent knee and ankle injuries, students often went to Wakins for an X-ray or examination.
If students did not need an ambulance, they usually went to Watkins for an examination, which meant they were worked by a staff member from Robinson.
Students used crutches before the wheelchair was donated, but the crutches were clumsy and sometimes dangerous during icy conditions, he said.
"The wheelchair is a real time-saver," Heinze said. "Now we can get students right over to Watkins so they can be care of them."
"What's really neat about this is that two organizations on campus worked together to provide better service to the students."
The donation to Robinson leaves the health center with six wheelchairs, including two wheelchairs purchased this summer for $796 each, said Jo Wallace, director of purchasing and housekeeping at Watkins.
Jennifer Hoeffner / KANSAN
Steven Drumm, St. Louis junior, tests a random-number generator. Drumm was building the generator yesterday for an electrical engineering class." "I know it will work," Drumm said. "It's just a matter of finding where I wired it. Call me arrogant." He said he would tear the generator apart after it was graded.
Sisters may be awaiting second coming of Christ
Professor discusses disappearance of two KU students from Russell
By William Ramsey Kansan staff writer
Two KU students from Russell, who left with three others last week for Israel, may be journeying to Jerusalem to await a second coming of Christ,
an assistant
professor of
religious
studies said
last night.
Making the grade
idea among new Christian religions that Jesus will come again and take the true believers to Heaven.
"The few who are the faithful remaining will literally be sucked up in the air to meet Jesus," he said.
Sonya, a KU senior, lived at the hall.
Miller, who specializes in new religious movements, spoke to about 40 people at Miller Scholarship Center on Sunday. The chance of Souva and Stephanie Brown
She and her sister, Stephanie, a KU junior, their mother, Marcia Brock, 46, and two others had been the center of a two-week mystery until Friday, when FBI agents met the group as they boarded an airplane in Washington bound for Israel.
Two of the travelers, Donna Butts of Russell and Scott Corder of Ottawa, have co-written literature UFOS and the end of the world.
"This is nothing new," Miller said. "UFOs have been around since the 1940s."
Miller said many religions that believed in UFOs had taken the idea of the end of the world and modified it.
According to the Russell group's literature, the period when the faithful are taken to Heaven is
calledtherapture
"When the rapture comes, the spaceship will appear," Miller said. "And then you hop on and way yoose."
Miller's theory is that the group, which supposedly includes 21 chosen people, is expecting this rapture to happen in November.
The rapture, which the group may be awaiting in Jerusalem, is associated with a seven-year peri-
lapse called the tribulation, Miller said.
He said that the Russell group's literature pegged May 1988 as the beginning of the tribulation.
Most groups place the rapture before or after this date, but some put the date midway through the tribulation period. Miller said.
If this is true for the Russell group, November 1991 would be halfway through the seven-year period.
Miller said that if nothing happened, the group might stay until they ran out of money.
"They could very well decide,
"We were off by a few weeks and
we'll stay a few weeks more," he said.
Because so much is unknown about the group, Miller said his theory about the November date for capture was only an educated guess.
Heather Schunk, one of Sonya's roommates at the scholarship hall, said Miller's theory seemed plausible.
Schunk, Wichita sophomore, said the meeting, and two others the hall has conducted since the disappearances, were a good way to open the lines of communication among the residents about the mystery surrounding the sisters' departure.
Molly Green, Lawrence graduate student and director of the hall, said the women in the hall had felt that the situation was getting back to normal.
"I think people just were needing some information," she said.
Police give 32 tickets for illegal drinking in Oread area
Kansan staff writer
By Melissa Rodgers
Students were not the only people cruising the Oread neighborhood last weekend.
"I didn't realize it was against the law to carry a beer down the street."
After driving around the Oread area in special party cars Friday and Saturday nights, Lawrence police ticketed 32 people for underage drinking and opened open containers of alcohol on public property.
Party cars are patrol cars carrying four or five officers that are sent to investigate large parties, Sgt. Ron Dalquest of Lawrence police said.
Sgt. Mark Warren of Lawrence police said officers were sent mainly to Ohio Street between 11th and 13th streets Friday and Saturday nights to control large parties there.
Now that city police have the available personnel (the department added 26 officers after a half-cent sales tax increase was approved last
Mario Quiroz
Lima, Peru, sophomore
(year) police are patrolling areas where large parties are usually held, Warren said.
The party patrols also are a good way to curtail underage drinking, he said.
The patrols, which also are done by other officers in patrol cars and on foot, will continue through the fall or until the parties calm down, Warren said.
Policeddecidedtomonitortheareaafterreceiv-
ing complaints about large parties, blocked streets and drinking in the street the weekend before last. Dalouest said.
The parties, which Dalquest described asout of conduct and attended by many underage students, have not yet been contacted.
Notices to appear in Lawrence Municipal Court were given to people who were drinking alcoholic beverages on sidewalks, streets and in
"I didn't realize it was against the law to carry a beer down the street," he said.
Mario Quirio, Lima, Peru, sophomore, said he was ticketed for drinking in the street about 2 a.m. Sunday as he was leaving the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St. Police officers from an unmarked car approached him as he was walking north on Ohio Street, he said.
The 32 citations, which were issued for violating city ordinances, are punishable by up to a $500 fine and 180 days in jail.
Tom Porter, city prosecutor, said he had not decided whether to seek full sentences in the cases. No hearing dates have been set, he said.
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