University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 1, 1987
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Local Briefs
21 classes made available for the summer
Students now enrolled in summer school may sign up today in 111 Strong Hall for 21 additional summer courses. New students or returning students who did not participate in early summer enrollment may enroll June 8.
Southwestern Bell Telephone will disconnect phone service to KU residence halls May 18th, a Southwestern Bell spokesman said yesterday.
Letters have been sent to residents informing them of the disconnection time and billing procedure.
The additional courses provide 499 places in 14 freshman-sophomore philosophy, communication studies, English, history, mathematics, political science and Spanish courses. They also provide 238 spaces in seven junior-senior classes in Western Civilization, mathematics, technology, communication studies, political science and sociology.
Guidelines for enrollment,
including listings of class information and hours, are published in ads in today's Kansan.
Campus and Area
Phone service ends in residence halls
Students not living in residence halls should contact Southwestern Bell and notify them of the time they wish their phone service to stop. Students also should provide the company with forwarding addresses so the last bill on contract will not be delinquent.
Several KU students will move from classroom to Capitol Hill this summer to work as interns for Kansas congressmen.
Interns chosen to work at Capitol
Amy Buchele, Topea junior,
and Ann Fricker, Lawrence
junior, will serve for two months in
U.S. Rep. Jim Slatterty's office.
She is a Democrat, represents
the Lawrence and Topea areas in
the House.
Kevin Connor, Kansas City, Mo.
law student; Ronald Creekmore,
Lenexa sophomore; Sara Ann Belden,
Sterling senior; and Thomas Cole,
Lawrence sophomore, will serve six-week internships with
Nen. Nancy Kassbeau, R-Kan.
Mitch Rose, an aide to Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, said that Dole had selected interns who serve four weeks each, but that he couldn't yet release the intern's names.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, Gregg Stauffer's name was misspelled and he was identified incorrectly in Wednesday's Kansan. Stauffer is a Lawrence sophomore.
Because of a reporter's error, the use of KU's 1987 fee release was reported incorrectly in yesterday's Kansas. Only a portion of the release will go toward opening summer classes.
Because of incorrect information supplied to the Kansan, the closing time of KU residence halls was reported incorrectly in yesterday's paper. The halls will close at 9 p.m. May 14.
From staff and wire reports.
Financial aid office in late-semester crunch
Big rush as students scramble to get loans and make it through current and coming school terms
By KJERSTI MOEN Staff writer
The office of student financial aid has been busy lately helping students who need money to get through the rest of the semester, summer school or the next school year.
Staff writer
"There's a whole rush at the end of the semester when people need money," said Jay Johnson, a student employee at the office.
Johnson was adding a name to a list of almost 50 people who had signed up Wednesday to be interviewed for loans and scholarships between 7 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. today
by two office employees.
two bins of clipboard.
Liza Van Mol, Kansas City, Kan...
junior, was in the office yesterday to
hand in application forms for next
semester loans. She said she'd had
problems getting the forms processe
through the office for next
semester.
"This time of the year, it looks like it's practically impossible," Van Mol said.
This fiscal year, the office has distributed almost $25 million in loans, grants and scholarships from universities and private sources to students, said
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of financial aid. The office also is the center of part-time campus and local employment.
Lori Bertels, a receptionist who has worked in the office for almost a year, said, "This seems unusually busy to me."
She said that at 11 a.m. last Thursday, more than 20 students had come into the office, which seats eight. Thursday at 11 a.m. is the only time people may set up appointments for loan interviews for the next week. The line was so long that Bertels had to pass out numbers to maintain
order. At the same time, people were phoning in to make appointments.
The two receptionists sometimes receive up to 300 walk-ins and calls a day. Bertels said, "The system is really clogged."
At this time of the year, most people inquire about and apply for federal student loans for next semester. Short-term loans from the Kansas University Endowment Association also are popular, Bertels said.
"Some students are kind of desperate to get money for the last month's rent, for example," she said.
But Weinberg said the end of the
semester wasn't necessarily the office's busiest period.
"Certainly this is a busy time of the year but not busier than for example October or November." he said.
He said that the office was understaffed but that it handled its workload fairly well. One solution was to set up extra appointment times, such as this morning's early interviews, he said.
Van Mol said she thought the office's service had improved since 1983, when she handed in her first loan application.
Fast-filling liberal arts classes could limit students in the fall
Bv PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
Many fall classes in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are filling up faster than last year, which will leave students who enroll this summer with limited options.
College officials still hope that more sections of classes can be opened, James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said yesterday.
"Studies are being done to project what the final situation will be so that we can take action to meet students' needs." he said.
But lack of money will make action difficult, said Brower Burchill, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. Part of the fee release approved Wednesday by the Kansas House and Senate already has been spent to open more fall classes.
"We've already committed all the money." Burchill said.
More sections of high-demand classes may be opened, Carothers said, if money is available and if departments have adequate classroom space and qualified teaching assistants.
"The demand for classes in some areas seems almost inexhaustible." he said. "There are limits to our
The demand for classes in some areas seems almost inexhaustible. There are limits to our ability to staff more courses.'
James Carothers associate dean of liberal arts and science
ability to staff more courses."
Burchill said that it was too early to predict the number of new students in the fall but that an enrollment increase was probable. If a large increase occurs, he said, it will be difficult to give more options to students who enroll in late summer and early fall.
Enrollment projections are important, Carothers said, to avoid a situation such as the college faced last fall, when a projected increase of 300 students turned out to be a 1,100-student increase.
Carothers said, "It's just too early to tell what the demand will be until freshmen enroll during the summer."
"We hope we will have a more accurate prediction this summer," he said.
Carothers said the addition of 21 summer classes announced last weekend would somewhat improve fall class availability.
"If these fill up, and we expect they will, that will be 720 more classroom spaces available in the fall," Car-others said.
The college decided which summer classes to add partly based on which classes were most in need of more spaces in the fall, he said.
Beginning language courses, particularly Spanish and French, are among the fall classes that are almost certain to fill up before the demand for them is met, Carothers said.
Other college courses that have demand running well ahead of last year are lower-level communications studies, biology, sophomore and junior English courses, and any courses in personnel administration, he said.
Chad DeShazo/KANSAN
Lawver shuffle
Law students and professors walk from Green Hall to Lippincott Hall. Yesterday was the 10th time that students have taken their annual walk across campus in remembrance of the law school's former home in old Green Hall, which now is Lippincott Hall.
Mike Elwell works on the plaster mold for his bronze sculpture, "Leadership." Elwell's sculpture will be one of 13 on display during the next year in downtown Lawrence.
Sculpture will adorn streets of Lawrence
By JENNIFER WYRICK
Staff writer
Tomorrow morning, downtown Lawrence will be transformed into an outdoor sculpture gallery.
Thirteen Kansas artists have agreed to loan their pieces to the city for the first outdoor sculpture exhibition of its kind in Kansas.
The event will be marked by a guided walking tour/opening ceremony, which will begin at 11 a.m. on the east side of the Douglas County Courthouse, 11th and Massachusetts streets. The tour will proceed northward up Massachusetts Street to City Hall.
Many of the artists will be on hand to discuss how they made their pieces and what they had in mind when they created them, said James Patti, 1983 founding president of the Kansas Sculpture Association.
The idea for the exhibition came from Patti, who saw a similar project in Grand Junction, Colo., and read about another one in an international sculpture magazine.
"I thought it was time Lawrence had an exhibit. too." Patti said.
The exhibition is a culmination of two years' work. Through the combined efforts of the Lawrence Arts Commission, the Kansas Sculpture Association, the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Kansas Arts Commission and the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department, the first downtown Lawrence sculpture exhibition has become a reality.
The pieces will be in place for one year. However, they all are for sale.
Patti said. The statues will be randomly placed along Massachusetts Street.
All Kansas artists and members of the Kansas Sculpture Association were eligible to submit slides of their work for consideration by a 3-member selection committee. The committee received 41 entries.
Barry Newton, a member of the arts commission and one of the judges, said the selection committee's intent was to choose a broad range of sculpture designs from different materials.
"We searched for eclectic pieces from the slides that we had a chance to mess with." Newton said.
Mike Ellwell of rural Lawrence had his piece, "Leadership," chosen for the exhibit, but because of its large size and complexity, the work will not join the exhibit until June.
The 6-foot bronze sculpture is a stylized figure of a geometric shield that wraps around the figure of a small child, affording protection. Elwell said.
When he styled the piece, he had in mind the volunteers in court who take in children without homes. To Elwell, the volunteers represent leadership and the home represents the encircling and protecting of the child.
Patti said that he and a representative from the parks and recreation department decided where to place the statues by considering their sizes and where they could best be viewed.
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