Monday, Feb. 17, 1986
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Professors to receive awards for teaching
Five KU professors will receive the Outstanding Educators Award as part of this week's activities for National Mortar Board Week.
Maria Swall, Lawrence senior and president of the Torch chapter of the National Senior Honor Society, said the recipients were Corinne Anderson, professor of French and Italian; Zuohuang Chen, associate professor of orchestra and director of the KU orchestra; Ellen Gold, associate professor of communication studies; Del Shankel, professor of microbiology and acting vice chancellor for academic affairs; and Norman Yetman, professor of American studies and sociology.
! "Members nominate professors and then say why they nominated them." Swall said. "Members then vote by what is said about each professor."
Windows shot out
At least 15 reports of windows in cars and houses shot out by vanals came to Lawrence police Saturday night.
Most of the reports were of car windows on the drivers' sides shot with either BB or pellet guns, police said. Several house windows also were shot. The vandalism was not confined to any one neighborhood.
The vandalism apparently started sometime after 7:30 p.m., but most of the incidents occurred after 9 p.m., according to police reports.
Police said they had no suspects. Most victims did not hear the vandals, police said, but found the damage after going to their cars.
Police estimated the cost of the damage to the vehicles to be $70 to $150 each. Damage estimates for the house windows were $30 to $50 each.
Student hit by car
A KU freshman suffered a broken ankle Friday evening when he was struck by a car in Roeland Park, the student's brother said yesterday.
Mark Vusich, 21, of 3204 W. 22nd St., was walking with a friend when they were hit by the car at 10:25 p.m., said Joe Vusich. He said his brother's friend suffered a broken leg.
Joe Vusch said his brother had been visiting their father's Fairway home. He said Mark was to undergo surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Weather
Morning cloudiness will give way to mostly sunny skies this afternoon with a high temperature of about 50. The winds will be southerly at 5 to 15 mph. Skies are expected to remain fair through tomorrow.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, the intent of a bill before the Kansas Senate was incorrectly reported in Friday's Kansan. The bill would fade out the number of Kansas Medical Scholarships, which require recipients to practice in Kansas towns that need medical personnel.
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Spring enrollment at the University of Kansas has hit an all-time high, according to 20th-day enrollment figures released Friday.
KU's spring enrollment reaches new peak
From staff and wire reports.
Staff writer
Bv Lori Poison
Spring enrollment for the Lawrence campus, the College of Health Sciences and off-campus classes is 25,932 students, an increase of 495 over last spring's enrollment.
Figures represent the number of students enrolled as of Tuesday.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said the enrollment figures signified a continued confidence in the University's faculty and resources.
"It's a reflection upon the quality of our academic programs," he said.
Enrollment in Health Sciences increased by 109 students from 2,260 last spring to 2,369 this year.
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Enrollment at the Lawrence campus is
23,563, an increase of 386 over last year's spring
enrollment of 23,177.
"There are many state universities which are experiencing major enrollment drops."
The full-time equivalent enrollment for the Lawrence campus and off-campus classes also increased by 385, from 20,568 last spring to 20,953 this year.
The FTE is calculated by dividing the total number of credit hours in which students are enrolled by the average full-time course load.
Aided by the average course load for undergraduates
Budig said the enrollment increase would cause some financial problems for the University.
is 15 hours. The average for law students is 12 hours and the average for graduate students is nine hours.
The Kansas Legislature approves the budgets for the state universities based on enrollment projections made the previous year.
The University has collected $804,722 in excess fees during the 1985-86 academic year because of enrollment increases. In order to spend that money, the University must have special approval from the Legislature.
"It is apparent that we must have early
release of surplus student fees by the Legislature to assure needed quality at the University," Budig said. "Our significant enrollment increase necessitates hikes in funding for basic areas."
The University is diverting funds from academic programs to help pay for the additional instructors and services needed to absorb the enrollment increase.
William Kelly, acting dean of educational services, said the administration had been expecting an enrollment increase, but there was no way of telling whether the trend would continue over the next few semesters.
"We have to look at enrollment one semester at a time," he said.
SAMS fires shot at MS at Battle of the Bands
By Monique O'Donnell
Staff writer
Since they kicked off their campaign in January, KU's Students Against Multiple Sclerosis have found a way to raise money and have fun at the same time.
Friday's Battle of the Bands was the second event in SAMS' campaign to raise money for MS research. Six bands from Lawrence and Topeka rocked the Kansas Union Ballroom for an audience of about 500.
During the intermissions, contestants impersonating celebrities went on stage to ask the audience to vote for them. Members of the audience received three vote cards when they paid the $3 cover charge.
The first event was the kick-off party on Feb. 6. At the final party on Feb. 22, the winner of the celebrity look-a-like competition will be determined. The prize is a paid vacation to the Bahamas during spring break.
The contestants recruited local sponsors to donate money to their campaigns. The money raised will go to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for research.
Absolute Ceiling, one of the six bands that played at the event, won a recording session at the Ramona Recording Studio, 646 Locust St.
The bands were judged by a panel of SAMS members based on how original and danceable their music was. Other bands competing were Absolute Ceiling, Altere I Media, The Fanatix, Sons of Liberty, Pariah and All of the Above.
Steve Vogel, president of KU SAMS, said the fund-raising events were intended to be fun and not bring in the negative connotations associated with disease.
The KU SAMS has more contestants than any of the 149 other universities participating in the fund drive. Vogel said. The university that
raises the most money will get a free concert sponsored by MTV now call
Harlan Harper, Topeka freshman and member of SAMS, said his mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis two years ago.
Harper said he joined SAMS because he thought members were sincere in their efforts to help. SAMS, he said, was raising the public's awareness of the disease.
"It may be different than actually going out and working in a hospital and personally contributing through your physical work," Harper said. "But it's hard to survive when you're just working for a cause."
John Hochschieid, Topeka senior and a contestant in the look-alike contest, said he thought SAMS had used all resources needed to create incentive for the fund-raising events. Offering the trip to the contestants and the free recording session to the bands, he said, was a good way to achieve results.
"I am one of the peons in this whole thing, motivated primarily by 'Lets win a trip,'" Hochscheid said. "I'm socially conscious, but not necessarily socially active."
Lon Freeman, Tonganoxie junior and coordinator of the Battle of the Bands, said he didn't know whether most people in SAMS were altruistic in the beginning. But since the group started, people had put a lot of time and effort into scheduling and organizing the events.
Freeman said he thought there were a lot of people in SAMS who now were participating for the cause.
"Benefits are kind of trendy, but it's a good trend." Freeman said
Since November 1984, when Britain's Band Aid released a single to aid Africa's starving, many musicians and interest groups have engaged in fund-raising benefits.
Dressed as the Go-Go's, Carrie Purcell, Overland Park sophomore, left, and Jessica Potueck, Wellington sophomore, dance to the music of the Sons of Liberty. They were at the Kansas Union Friday night for the Battle of the Bands, sponsored by Students Against Multiple Sclerosis.
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Phase-out may begin
Bill would cut scholarships to future med students
By Mark Siebert
Staff writer
A scholarship program aimed at increasing the number of doctors practicing in small Kansas towns may be phased out, to the dismay of some students in the program.
Greg Horton, Arlington first-year medical student, said he thought the elimination of the program was a travesty.
A bill introduced into the Kansas Legislature last week would reduce the number of scholarships in the Kansas Medical Scholarship Program from 50 to 25 for the next two academic years. The scholarships would be eliminated after the 1987-88 school year.
No current medical students would lose their scholarships, but later classes would not have the scholarship program as an option.
Overland Park, who introduced the bill, said the scholarship program was set up in 1979 to help fill a shortage of physicians in Kansas.
"There's a lot of evidence that we have plenty of doctors in Kansas."
"If they are trying to do this to remedy a glut." Horton said. "I think
State Sen. Jack Walker, R-
'There's a lot of evidence that we have plenty of doctors in Kansas. It's getting a little difficult to find a place to practice.'
Jack Walker
R-Overland Park
Walker said. "It's getting a little difficult to find a place to practice."
Walker said the program was not designed to be a loan program for medical students.
they're going about it wrong.
Horton said he had a Kansas Medical scholarship and probably wouldn't have been able to attend school without it.
Kathy Tawadros, president of the KU Pre-Med Club, said the end of the scholarship program would hurt a few students.
"They should cut the number of people coming in and get the smartest people instead of the richest ones."
But the University of Kansas Medical Center has a good financial aid program and there are other financial options to take.
Walker said the state began to feel the effects of the program in 1983, when the first class that was offered the scholarships graduated. The state will benefit from the program until 1992, he said, when the last class that receives the scholarships graduates.
The proposed bill would require students who accept the scholarship next year to practice in a Kansas city with a population less than 7,500. Cities in Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wyandotte counties would not be eligible.
A student who accepted a scholarship before the 1985-86 academic year would be required to set up full-time practice in a part of the state that lacks the student's specialty.
If the student decided not to enter full-time practice in the designated area, he or she would have to pay back the scholarship.
The bill would set at 10 percent the interest rate on paying back the scholarships.
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