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COMPLETE ROYALS ROUNDUP DETAILS ON THE UNION RENOVATION FAWN HALL'S IRAN-CONTRA TESTIMONY
Wednesday June 10,1987
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Vol. 97, No. 146 (USPS650-640)
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
Old smokey will be a missed KU landmark
By PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
For more than a half-century the tall, slim sexagenarian has worked for the University of Kansas department of facilities and operations.
His job was to remove waste from the number 7 and 8 boilers at the KU power plant. He also helped many out-of-towers find the University. He did these chores unfailingly, seven days a week.
He had one vice, however, he smoked quite a bit, like a chimney,
But University officials didn't need him anymore, so they hired a team of hit men to rub him out.
The work of this gang of tanned assassins can be seen or heard from almost anywhere on campus. Chunk is always smokestack is dying a slow death,
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ing than heating," he said.
Perkins said that the two boilers receiving new smokestacks should be operable by Oct.15,depending on the weather.
Until then, the two boilers now on line should have no problems handling the work load this summer and fall, he said.
"One of the boilers can handle most of the summer heat. In winter, however, we'll have both of them up to full operational capabilities, and sometimes a third," he said.
Workers are proceeding by digging out 4-feet-square sections of the smokestack, cutting renforcing steel bars imbedded in the concrete, then letting the sections fall into the smokestack, Perkins said. The rubble is being dumped at the KU landfill west of Iowa Street.
As of yesterday, about 40 feet of the smokestack had been torn down, Perkins said, but as the stack gets
New vice chancellor selected
By CARLA PATING
Staff writer
For the first time, a woman will be the executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Lawrence campus.
Judith A. Ramaley, acting executive vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Albany, was selected for the job from 55 candidates, said Del Shankel, chairman of the executive vice candlelor search committee.
When Ramaley begins her duties Aug. 1, she will be the second-highest ranking administrator on campus.
She will replace Shankel, who has been the acting executive vice chancellor for the KU campus since January when the resignation of
INTERVIEW
Robert Lineberry
'This is a time in which major and most minor institutions in the United States are competing for quality students in the same way that they compete for athletes.'
In what ways has this year been especially challenging and eventful for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences?
of English.
The most important thing was the discovery that we had an additional 1,100 students in the college, bringing our total undergraduate enrollments to more than 2 million. Our ranks dominated almost every issue this year.
Second in importance was the mid-year recission that made our finances even tighter. On the plus side, it was a sterling year in terms of the quality of faculty that was added, so we see a lot of positive things this year as well as the adverse effects of the enrollment.
How severe is the overenrolment problem?
It has pluses and minuses to it. On one side, we are continually pleased that so many students and so many good students choose the University of Kansas. A lot of other institutions, some in our own state, are struggling with sudden and severe downturns in enrollment. It is more pleasant to wrestle with the problem of a attractive rather than being too untattractive.
But it does have a lot of adverse effects, including the swelling of class sizes and section sizes, overworking an already busy faculty and causing students some dislocation in their schedules. Some students are being closed out of classes they would like to take as part of their degree program. We simply haven't gotten new resources to meet them. So it's been a burden on the faculty, on the staff, on equipment and supplies and on the students.
In the long run, we hope and expect that the Legislature will give us some relief from this overenrollment or underbudgeting, which are merely two sides of the same coin. And if not, the exacerbation of resources is going to continue.
That certainly seems a reasonable expectation to me. I'm also the first to understand that the state of Kansas has had some serious problems, but I don't think some thinks it's a little too easy to point
What are the prospects for improving the situation?
Since the state requires an open-admission policy, shouldn't it also be willing to provide the resources to meet the needs of the students that the policy brings in?
finger and to cast blame. We're here for the long haul, and we're more interested in what the University has over a five- or 10-year period than in the problems of any given year. So we remain optimistic that the Legislature and the governor will continue to place the needs of the University of Kansas high on the state's agenda, partly because the governor and the Legislature know that the only place, realistically, that's going to deal with the problem of the brain drain and economic development is the University of Kansas and other Regents institutions.
If it were up to you, would the University have an open-admission policy?
I've always thought that one of the attractive features of the University of Kansas was that it attempts to balance the concept of equality of opportunity with the concept of excellence. There is something that appeals to my populist soul about that. As long as we can continue striking that balance, I favor very strongly a continuation of the system that we have come to appreciate over 100 years of our history. The real question is whether, without adequate funding, we're going to compromise the quality of education that good students have rightly come to expect from us. The jury is still out on that question.
The most important thing the college controls is the standards of retention in the college. We have undergone a process of increasing the standards over about a six-year period. We have produced a more rigorous curriculum, we have higher standards for remaining in the college, and I think we will have a stronger undergraduate profile because of that.
We take in 70 percent to 75 percent of the new freshmen in the University. It seems to me that it is often unfortunate that the college is a wide-open funnel. It is a source of some chagrin to members of the college faculty to see one school after another raise its requirements in order to reduce their enrolments and encourage, therefore, the college to take in students that they may not want in another school. This creates what I have called the Flying Dutchman problem. There are probably 2,000 to 4,000 students in the college who would rather be某处
What are the consequences of the fact that other schools at KU can be selective, while the college can't?
Given an open-admission policy, to what extent can the college manage, or restrict, its enrollment?
else it is difficult for our faculty to manage students whose hearts are not with us. So I have a concern about the degree to which the college becomes a home for Flying Dutchmen.
BY PAUL SCHRAG
How does the enrollment situation look for next fall?
My understanding is that enrollment applications remain at least as strong for next year as they did for last year. It looks like enrollment will be up again.
We continue to do very, very well. ACT scores remain well above national averages. Equally important is that our ability to attract minority students is good, while nationally, that is going down.
Will the college be able to deal with that?
Looking to the future, how is KU doing in competition with other universities to bring in high-quality students?
Is the competition becoming more intense?
With some dislocations, it will be able to handle the bulk of that. Students' flexibility is going to be limited. Some problems are emerging in upper-division courses, courses that require high enrollment levels, 50 or more, where we may not have the faculty to add new sections.
This is a time in which major and most minor institutions in the United States are competing for quality students in the same way that they compete for athletes. That's a welcome development, in my judgment. So far, KU has held its own in this competition. I am concerned about our ability to do so in the future, and that is why I urge us to put as much money as possible into honors fellowships, and fellowships for merit scholarships and other high-quality students, because I don't want to lose either of the two competitions of the '90s. The first competition is for high-quality faculty members. The graduate schools will not be producing as many faculty members as the universities want to absorb because of their high rates of retirement. I want to start now to hire the largest possible number of good faculty members.
Secondly, I want to continue to attract the largest possible number of high-quality students to the honors program and to the entire University. Those are two competitions that KU cannot afford to lose.
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