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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, July 3, 1991
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Regents aim for higher admissions requirements
By Kelley Frieze
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents will appoint a task force this week to determine how to ensure passage of a qualification proposal in the next legislative session.
The Board of Regiments approved the force at its monthly meeting Thursday.
A qualified admissions proposal was first presented to the Legislature in 1987. To be accepted into a Regents university, a student would have to have a 23 on the ACT, be in the top tier of her graduating class or complete the Regents recommended curriculum with a 2.0 grade point average.
The curriculum includes four years of English, three each of math, science and social studies, and two years of a foreign language. The proposal would affect any student applying for admission into a Regents university, although it allows for 15 percent of the freshman
class to not meet the requirements.
The Regents executive director and its chairperson will appoint a task force of about 10 people within the next week, said Martine Hammond-Paludan, Regents director of academic affairs.
The task force will re-examine the most criticized areas of the qualified-admissions proposal, said Stan Koplik. Regents executive director
These areas include the high school foreign language requirement, the required minimum ACT score, the 15 percent allowance for exceptions and the 30 percent of the same admission standards for each of the seven Regents institution.
The committee will decide whether to revise parts of the proposal. It also will develop arguments for qualified admissions and a strategy for ensuring passage of the proposal in the 1992 Legislature.
The task force should provide a comprehensive report addressing
each of the issues by the end of November.
If the proposal is approved, qualified admissions could not be applied for four years. This is to allow high stress times time to meet the requirements.
University enrollment should not be affected substantially by the change, said Dave Shulenburger, director for academic affairs.
The number of students entering KU who have completed the Regents proposed curriculum for high school in the last several years, he said.
Student retention and college graduation rates are higher for students who have taken the recommended curriculum in high school, he said.
Almost all Kansas high schools offer the recommended classes. A few schools that do not offer foreign languages soon will make them available because of Board of Education standards, he said.
Regents name new film studio after studio's two benefactors
Kansan staff report
A recently purchased theater and film studio at Ninth and Avalon streets will be ready for classes by the instructor, complete with a new name.
The studio, which was acquired by the University of Kansas in April, officially was named Oldfather Studios at the Board of Regents meeting Thursday. The two-story building used to be owned by Centron Corporation Inc. and is at 1621 W. Ninth St.
Oldfather Studios is named after Charles and Hortense Oldfather, who
donated $500,000 for the purchase of the Centron building.
The building will be used as a film studio and for film and acting classes. It is 18,000 square feet and contains office space, editing rooms, a sound stage, sound-editing facilities, a screening room and classrooms.
In other Regents action:
The board decided to allow the University to seek approval from the 1992 Legislature to raze Jolliffe Hall.
University officials presented 1993 budget requests.
hall would be used for storage until it was razed and that no further plans were made.
Marci Francisco, assistant director of facilities planning, said that the
- Jack Sampson, a Regent from Hutchinson, was named the new chairperson.
- Salaries for University heads were approved. Chancellor Gene A. Budig's new salary was set at $135,000.
A task force was created to evaluate an existing Board of Regents qualified admissions proposal.
Early heat wave hints weather may worsen
Angie Zinn, a student at the Hilltop Child Development Center, tried to escape the water from a hose held yesterday by Deanna Schierling, assistant teacher at the center.
By Cathy Garrard
Kansan staff writer
Students are sweating it out a bit early this summer, but high temperatures can bring more than discomfort.
Matt Foster, a forecaster for the KU Weather Service, said strong pressure systems that began at the end of winter caused unseasonably high temperatures.
"There was a strong, high-pressure ridge that kept the storm systems up in Canada," Foster said. "It makes the weather dry and cooler than the warm. That system usually doesn't move up until this time of year."
Foster said early summer heat would continue and lead to a scorching July and August. The average Lawrence temperature degrees, but last week temperatures climbed into the 90s every day.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said a person could suffer from heat exposure overexposed to high temperatures.
Heat exhaustion can lead to the more serious problem of heat stroke.
Vockey said heat exhaustion occurred when a person was overheated and experienced dizzy spells, irregular heartbeat, heavy perspiration and severe headache. He may be treated on an outpatient basis.
Heat stroke can be fatal if untreated, Yockey said.
body's temperature rises above 106 degrees."
Yockey said no one had been treated at Watkins for serious heat-related problems this summer.
"The key is acclimation," Yockey said. "If a person is used to the heat, then it is unlikely that there will be a problem. It is when a person is accustomed to air conditioning, and they go out into the heat for a prolonged period of time."
Yockey also had other tips for beating the heat;
- People should drink plenty of water to keep the body's fluid levels high.
- People should be aware of their heat tolerance. Those accustomed to high temperatures will be less exposed to experience heat-related problems.
Time spent in high temperatures should be limited, and adequate water and water should be available when outdoors.
Connie Goetz/KANSAN
Stylin'
Marcia McCoy, a psychology graduate teaching assistant (right), escorts her student, Lane Czaplinski, Merriam senior, during a role-reversal activity for Human Sexuality class. The activity, conducted Monday, was intended to make students more aware of others' sexuality, as well as their own.
KU to start waste cleanup Woman fears that University's waste disposal site will leak radioactive material into her water supply
By Jeff Meesey
Kansan staff writer
With $252,000 from the Legislature, the University has begun to determine how to clean up its low-level radioactive waste disposal site, which a nearby resident said was leaking onto her property.
B&V Waste Science Technology Corp. is monitoring the site and hopes to begin investigating cleanup options by September, said Mary Prewitt, assistant general counsel for the University.
The final step, which will not begin for at least two years, involves designing a cleanup method for the site. The cleanup money is to be used for this fiscal year, which began Monday.
Jean Martin, Eudora resident, lives on property about 250 yards northwest of the landfill, which is in rural Johnson County.
"I do drink bottled water because of the hazard to my health," Martin said. "I put in a purification system in 1982 knowing that the contamination was moving toward my house. If I could clean it up, that's my goal."
"It's my home. It has been for 30 years," she said.
She filed a lawsuit last summer against the Board of Regents asking that it clean up the site and her property. She was worried that the landfill was leaking.
'Our objectives seem to be quite the same. We would both like to find out what's going on out there.'
Bill Session Regents lawyer
In another suit, Martin is suing for $500,000 in personal and property damages.
The Lawrence campus and the University of Kansas Medical Center used the dump from 1962 until 1982, when it was closed because the site no longer met federal regulations on disposal of hazardous wastes.
"They know it's leaking," said John Parisi, Martin's lawyer. "Ultimately, the Martins would like to see the site's materials removed. Now they would just like to prevent the rainwater on top and the ground water underneath from leaking onto their property."
KU entered into an agreement in January with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to take steps and take steps toward its cleanup.
"Frankly, that's been the Martins' frustration." Parisi said. "They've been waiting 10 years. Under the best of circumstances, if they can keep on
schedule without any unforeseen problems, it will take 18 months to come up with a solution."
The Regents lawyer, Bill Session,
said he thought the lawsuits were
unnecessary.
"Our objectives seem to be quite the same." Session said. "We would both like to find out what's going on out there."
Samples taken by the Department of Health and Environment showed traces of a carcinogen, dioxane, in Martin's well. But Greg Crawford, the department's director of public information services, said the test was flawed because of contaminated equipment.
"There has yet to be some evaluation as to the impact, if any, the dump has had on the Martin's property," he said.
Prewitt said the department had authority over a site that posed a potential danger. The University's position is that Martin's property has not been contaminated.
Relocation will rescue arts series
New locations have been found for the seven concerts originally scheduled for Hoch Auditorium, concert series officials said yesterday.
The shows will go on for the KU Concert Series.
Kansan staff report
Four of the events will be moved to the Topeka Arts Center, which seats 2,600 people, said Jacqueline Davis, director of the series.
the performances in Topeka will be by the Ballet Pollocko de Mexico on Oct. 15, the New York City Opera National Company on March 19, the Vocalo on March 19, and the Garth Fagan Dance Company on April 8.
The performance of a play by the National Theatre of the Deaf has been moved to Haskell Indian Junior College Auditorium on Feb. 18.
Davis said she was pleased that all the concerts had been relocated.
"I've had some phone calls from people thanking us for saving the concert season," she said.
Davis said she was trying to arrange transportation for KU students who wished to attend the Topeka concerts.