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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, Feb. 10, 1986
Best students leaving, study says
United Press International
WICHITA — A newspaper study published yesterday indicated that more than half of 1,359 Kansas high school students who were National Merit semifinalists from 1970 to 1980 have left the state.
Roughly 25 percent of those students were living, working or studying in Texas and California, the article said.
The six-month study by the Wichita Eagle-Beacon concluded that Kansas' brightest young men and women were flocking to big cities to pursue
education or white-collar, high-technology jobs often not available in the Sunflower State.
The newspaper said its study suggested that Kansas, traditionally an agricultural state, had not followed a nationwide movement that began in the 1970s toward a post-industrial economy.
The National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, taken by high school students in their junior year, is widely recognized as a strong measure of academic potential. Kansas had 152 semifinalists in 1985.
about 71 percent of the 1,926 Kansas high school students who were National Merit semifinalists in the 1970s. It found that 58 percent of the students surveyed had left Kansas
The newspaper was able to contact
Nearly 90 percent of the semifinalists have left their hometowns and have moved elsewhere in Kansas or out of the state.
Illinois students taste haute cuisine
Among the study's findings:
"We're exporting our wealth," said Anthony Redwood, executive director of the Institute for Public Policy and Business Research at the University of Kansas.
The Associated Press
UBRANB, Ill. — The mystery meat of college folklore is not on the menu at a University of Illinois dining room.
Instead, it's likely to be chateauband for two, served by candlelight, with fresh flowers on the table and classical music in the background — at least once a week.
Each Friday, students scramble for a chance to eat at a tiny
restaurant in Allen Hall called Reservations Only.
They might select the Chinese shibu bow appetizer, steamed buns stuffed with pork, egg and sausage in oyster sauce; an orange and jicama salad; a pear with grated cheese, topped with a raspberry; a spicy Africa chicken groundnut stew; carrots and grapes sautéed in butter with a sweetened vodka sauce; crepes suzettes; and a beverage.
The check: $4.50 plus a punch of
their meal ticket — worth about $1.10.
Reservations Only was created by Maria Ramos, campus director of MCHS.
Ramos also wanted a place where she and a few colleagues could get away from administrative chores and do what they enjoy most — create haute cuisine.
Most students are grateful. One said, "My only regret is that my stomach isn't bigger."
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin's reorganization order for the Kansas Department of Agriculture is just the tip of the legislative iceberg facing lawmakers in the fifth week of the 1986 session.
United Press International
Farm board reorganization order to confront Legislature this week
The Legislature also will begin chipping away at issues such as a mandatory seat belt law, a special fund for gambling revenue and implementation of an economic development study. The fifth week also may see some progress in legislation on medical malpractice, annexation and banking.
The reorganization order for the Board of Agriculture, which Carlin said he would issue today, would eliminate the board's power to appoint the secretary of agriculture. Instead, the new board would be an advisory board to the governor and he would appoint its secretary.
The governor must file his executive order by tomorrow. If lawmakers do not act on the order within 60 days of the filing, it will become law. The current structure of
the 12-member board was established in 1872.
Lawmakers also will try to make sense out of the Kansas Economic Development Study. The Legislative Commission on Kansas Economic Development — created by the 1986 Legislature — scheduled its first meetings for today and Thursday to discuss how to implement the so-called Redwood study.
The House Judiciary Committee will try to wrap up work on medical malpractice legislation. Committee Chairman Joseph Knopp, R-Manhattan, said he expected fireworks in the final week of committee work on the controversial issue.
Malpractice victims are to testify before the committee today. Knopp said he expected the panel to take final action on the bill on Thursday.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee was expected to receive a report today from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division on the problems of enforcing the state's new drinking age. During the 1985 session, lawmakers passed
legislation that would gradually raise the legal drinking age for 3.2 beer from 18 to 21.
The committee also planned to discuss a bill that would tighten the state's ban on happy hours. The bill would remove a loophole in the 1985 law that allowed cut-rate drink prices if the prices were offered all day.
After a hearty legislative menu today, tomorrow is Pancake Day, which usually draws many state officials to Liberal for the annual pancake race with the women of Olney, England.
Tomorrow also is the deadline for introduction of bills by individual legislators. The deadline usually brings a last-minute crush of bills.
The House Ways and Means Committee plans to discuss Thursday a bill that would earmark the proceeds from lottery and parimutuel gambling to a special gaming fund. The bill would send 60 percent of gambling revenues to economic development, 30 percent to counties' reappraisal costs and 10 percent to correctional institution construction.
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