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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, FEB. 18, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 99 (USPS 650-640)
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Randy Gross, Shawnee freshman, and Patty Widener, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, play with a dog near Potter Lake. The three enjoyed the outdoors yesterday afternoon. See weather story page 3.
Some owners praise horse racing benefits
By Abbie Jones
Staff writer
Some local horse owners say it's the horses' nature to run — fast. Pari-mutuel wagering on the animal also would draw money, they say.
"They love to run," said Rick Schian, owner of Charocco Enterprises Inc., in Baldwin. "That's what they're bred for. Most of the time people are into it because they like it and they like the animal."
A resolution legalizing parimutuel waging on horse and dog races will be up for a full House debate on Thursday. The House committee of Federal and State Affairs approved the proposal Jan. 30, that would allow the state to permit, license, regulate and tax horse and dog races.
The state now prohibits parimutuel wagering on races. The proposal must pass both the Senate and the House by a two-thirds vote before it can be placed on the November ballot.
Schian, a supervisor for housing at the University of Kansas who trains and shoes horses, said horse racing brought excitement for spectators on the outside, but criticism from skeptics on its inner workings.
Opponents of pari-mutuel betting argue that there is a possibility for organized crime and mistreatment of the animals at the race track.
"If there is a lot of money anything is possible," Schian said. "The horse business is tricky stuff."
He said he would vote for the proposal although he wouldn't get into the business himself.
"I couldn't afford to lose one dime," he said, "I'm not in the racing game."
Shirley Funk, manager of Co-op Stable in rural Lawrence, said the money that racing would bring to the state outweighed the possibility of attracting crime.
"What's the difference between a race track and a bingo game," she said. "I'm not worried about elements it might bring in. It doesn't matter what we do in our society, we'll never exactly get rid of it."
One local horse owner says that pari-mutuel wagering may not be the answer to the state's problems, although it might create a heightened interest in horses.
Elizabeth Nice, owner of Rockafire Farms, rural Lawrence, said she hadn't made up her mind about the issue, but said that a chance for abuse was possible in racing.
See BETTING, p. 5, col. 1
SenEx to review faculty discipline
By Leslie Hirschbach
Staff writer
KU faculty members rarely are disciplined by the University. But the University hasn't been a consistent disciplinarian when necessary, because of unclear procedures, Sid Shapiro, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said yesterday.
Shapiro said SenEx now was discussing changes in KU's faculty disciplinary procedures that would give the University some guidelines when punishing a faculty member.
Sandra Wick, recording secretary for SenEx, said that in the past, disciplinary procedures often were changed by the Band-Aid principle — procedures were periodically patched-up when the need arose.
Now, she said, SenEx is trying to make some overall changes by evaluating the entire disciplinary code.
The University now divides faculty misconduct into two categories that have different disciplinary
procedures — academic misconduct and proscribed misconduct.
Shapiro said the categories were so broadly defined that both procedures applied to every case of misconduct. The University needs to decide when to use each set of prodecures.
"Our theory is there is no definition that will separate the two." he said.
There also is no clear definition of each type of misconduct.
Faculty members accused of academic misconduct are given a hearing before a department or school grievance committee.
Faculty who are accused of proscribed misconduct are given a hearing by the Faculty Tenure and Related Problems committee or before a judiciary committee.
Shapiro said the dean of the faculty member's school should decide what procedures applied and recommend those to SenEx. SenEx would make final procedural decisions.
written procedures was that some of them appeared in the Faculty Code of conduct and others appeared in the Senate Rules and Regulations.
Shapiro said one of the largest problems with the
Before the rules are compiled, he said, individual procedural changes need to be agreed upon by the committees making the amendments.
Shapiro said SenEx received approval to make changes from the Organization and Administration Committee, a faculty senate committee. Now, SenEx is discussing individual procedural changes.
Shapiro said all recommendations would be completed by Feb. 27, and SenEx would send them to the University Council on March 6 for final approval.
Arno Knapper, presiding officer of the University Council, said the council could vote the amendments down. In that case, the existing procedures would stand. The amendments also could be given complete or partial approval.
See SENEX. p. 5. col. 3
Bookstore receipts can be profitable
Staff writer
By Brian Kaberline
They lie around in the bottom of drawers and in old notebooks for months at a time. But what appear, at first glance, to be just old pieces of paper are valuable receipts — worth money in time.
Cashing in receipts from the KU Bookstores for dividends is as much of a campus tradition as complaining about the price of books. And the tradition is growing stronger, Steve Word, general manager of the KU Bookstores, said yesterday.
Word said the dividend program was meant to be a way to share any profits made by the stores with the students.
The program now pays enrolled students 6 percent of all receipts for cash and check purchases for a six-month period. The bookstores are supposed to pay only for receipts from the prior period, but Word said a six-month extension on the payments was usually granted.
In recent years, students have claimed anywhere from 70 percent to 96 percent of the money allocated for
the program, he said. The total dividends paid to students for period 76 receipts, given out in the latter half of 1984, were approximately $46,500. This translated to 93 percent of the $50,000 allocated.
The amount allocated is set by the Kansas Union Memorial Board of Directors. It is based on the sales figures for the main bookstore, the Oread Bookstore and the bookstore in the Burge Union, Word said.
If the amount set by the board is depleted, more money is allocated to cover all dividend requests, he said.
Kemper Straley, Winfield junior, said he took advantage of the program by picking receipts out of the trashcans near the exit of the bookstores. The best time for this, he said, is on days when there is a football game.
Straley said he would never get rich from the receipts, but "you make some money." He said he liked the dividend program, but would prefer the money be used to lower book prices.
Marcia Madaus, Lawrence senior.
See DIVIDEND, p. 5, col. 4
Enrollment continues upward trend
Rv Lori Poison
Staff writer
By the mid-1980s, enrollment at the University of Kansas should have leveled off to around 16,000 students.
That prediction was made in 1978 when total enrollment was 22,261 students. The number of high school seniors was declining and the economy was in a recession.
In the past five years, enrollment has dropped only twice — in the fall of 1983 and the spring of 1984.
But the University has defied the projections and continued to grow.
Del Shankel, acting vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday that there were many reasons for the unexpected enrollment increase during the past few years.
Spring enrollment this year for the Lawrence campus, the College of Health Sciences and off-campus classes was 25,932 students, a record for spring enrollment.
"A higher percentage of high school graduates are realizing what a college education can mean," he said. "Also we have to look at the quality of education here. I guess we must be doing something right."
The number of high school students in Kansas has not dropped as much as expected, said Gary Watson, research analyst for the Kansas Department of Education.
"The trend is for high school enrollment to decrease," he said. "But the figures seem to be becoming a little more stable than a few years ago."
There were slightly more high school students in Kansas in 1965-86 than there were in 1984-85, he said.
Enrollment figures are directly
tied to the purse strings of the University. The more students attending the University, the more money the Kansas Legislature appropriates for KU's budget.
The University will use this spring's full-time equivalent enrollment figures to plan for the fiscal year 1988 budget. he said.
Keith Nitcher, director of business affairs, said the enrollment increases over the past few years reflected the type of education the University offered.
"As the job markets tighten, students want to be assured of going to a school where they will receive a quality education," he said.
Deborah Teater, director of the office of institutional research and planning, said many factors affected the projection of enrollment figures.
"We look at a number of things," she said. "We consider the number of high school seniors, economics and current and historical trends."
But Teeter said she could not predict what sort of changes in enrollment would occur over the next few years.
When the anticipated drop in enrollment was predicted during the 1970s, the University began to look at ways to attract more students.
Carla Rusch, assistant director of the office of admissions, said representatives from the admissions office visited high school campuses across the country to attract prospective students.
"We're expecting enrollment to stabilize, but you never can tell," she said.
"Each year we try to do different
sorts of things and expand our programs," she said. "We try to reach new people."
She said prospective students often recognized one of the biggest attractions of the University — the price.
"We've gotten a lot of publicity
recently about our reasonable rates and quality education," Rasch said. "It's really a good buy for the amount of money they put in."
Many out-of-state students choose to attend the University instead of a
But most KU students are Kansas residents.
higher-priced private college, she said.
Only 29 percent of the students attending the University are not Kansas residents, Rasch said.
27,141
Source: Department of Educational Services
Bill Skeet/KANSAN
Shuttle projects delayed
KU faculty members involved in the shuttle program are beginning to sort out the futures of their projects, they said yesterday.
By Sandra Crider
As the investigation into the cause of the Jan. 28 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger continues, the civilian-in-space program has been given partial go-ahead.
Staff writer
The journalist-in-space program will resume the first phase of its selection process, officials said.
Rick Musser, associate professor of journalism, is assisting Del Brinkman, dean of journalism, in coordinating the regional review committee. Musser said the program adviser in Houston told him yesterday that the administrative portion of the project could now continue.
Musser said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was sending applications to the cooperating schools of journalism. The schools in this region then will send their top choices to the University of Kansas for review by the regional committee.
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He said he expected the committee, not yet completely formed, to meet in early May to review the top 20 applicants from the region. The group was originally scheduled to meet March 3.
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