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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 2, 1987
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Alcohol was not cause of wreck, trooper says
Alcohol probably played a role but did not cause a car-train wreck that killed four University of Kansas students en route to a sorority barn party, the investigating trooper said yesterday.
Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper J.D. Hall said blood-alcohol tests conducted by Dr. Alan Sanders, pathology director at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, revealed that the students had been drinking, but the concentration of alcohol in their blood was less than 0.1 percent. Courts can presume a person is under the influence of alcohol if their blood-alcohol level is 0.1 percent or greater.
"None of them were over the legal limit." Hall said. "A couple of them were close enough that alcohol may have been a factor as far as reflexes, but it wouldn't have been a cause of the accident."
Two final debates planned for tonight
Lawrence city commission candidates will debate for the last time before Tuesday's election at two forums tonight.
Student Senate is sponsoring a debate at 6 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union. The other debate, sponsored by a coalition of Lawrence neighborhood associations, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Community Building, 115 W. 11th St.
City invites public to mall meeting
Anyone with suggestions and opinions about how the exterior design of the proposed downtown Lawrence mall should look is invited to attend a town meeting tonight. The Urban Renewal Agency's design subcommittee will preside at the meeting.
The meeting is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. in the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
KU student wins award for paper
Patricia Karlin, Grinnell graduate student, won an award last weekend in Emporia for best graduate paper at the Kansas district meeting of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society.
For the first time, the Phi Alpha Theta meeting was held jointly with the Kansas History Teachers Association annual meeting.
Other KU students who presented papers at the Phi Alpha Theta meeting were Virgil Dean, Emporia graduate student; Margaret Palmer, Independence senior; and Randy Sowell, Wichita graduate student.
Presenting papers at the KHTA meeting were Robert Bader, research associate in history; Marilyn Brady, lecturer in women's studies and assistant reference librarian of the Kansas Collection at Spencer Library; Nancy Garner, Overland Park graduate student; and Donald R. McCoy, University distinguished professor of history.
Homemaker class will meet tonight
Cooking tips, recipe ideas and a petpourri of helpful household hints will be available at Homemakers School 87 at 7 p.m. today in the Lawrence High School auditorium. 2017 Louisiana.
From staff and wire reports
Seesaw, balloons at Wescoe mark start of Wellness Week
By JOSEPH REBELLO Staff writer
For a moment, it looked as if the circus had come to town.
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For about three hours yesterday, a handful of students and members of the office of residential programs stood outside Wescoe Hall distributing several hundred blue and orange balloons and about 600 oranges to surprised passers-by.
"Squeeze a little wellness out of your life," read a banner placed in front of the building. Directly in front of it, two students sat on a bright orange seasah. Others distressed pamphlets on safe sex and health.
The colorful display kicked off the office of residential programs' Wellness Week, a week devoted to promoting physical and intellectual well-being among students.
One student, Chris Ashner, Prairie Village junior, was so delighted by the scene outside Wescoe Hall, that he unslung the camera he'd been carrying and began to take pictures.
"This is pretty festive," Ashner said. "When you walk by Wescoe, you don't usually see this kind of thing going on."
Deb Stafford, assistant director of residential programs and Wellness Week coordinator, said the display was designed to make students think seriously about their health and have fun doing it.
David Innes, Harper sophomore, foreground, and Mark von Schlemmer, Leavenworth graduate student, toss oranges to one another as they teeter on a seasaw. The two were a featured attraction on Wesco Beach during the office of residential programs' Wellness Week.
"We really wanted to hit on the lighter side," she said. "Instead of telling people 'Do this' or 'Do that,' we wanted to show you can have a good attitude and knowing. You can have a good time just exercising with your friends."
"Wellness and healthy lifestyles don't just mean being thin. We're talking about helix in the overall sense. We're just saying, 'Look at your overall lifestyle. It'll make you feel better.' "
Some students, however, were a little squeamish about some of the information they were offered.
At a stall dealing with information on safe sex, several kinds of contraceptive devices were displayed, in addition to about a dozen different namphells on sex.
Many students stopped to ask questions, but few took any of the pamphlets, said Lynn Heller, coordinator of health education at
"I think the problem is a lot of people don't want to be identified with this kind of information," she said.
Watkins Hospital. Heller was one of two volunteers answering students' questions at the stall.
House delays bills that effect tuition enrollment at KU
By CHRISTOPHER HINES Staff writer
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TOPEKA — The state House yesterday put off a decision to change the open enrollment policy at state universities and threw back to committee a bill allowing the Board of Regents to fix different tuition rates.
"It's too big of a change for us to walk in here and approve these bills just like that," said State Rep. Elizabeth Baker, R-Derby." It不是 a wrong idea. It just not an appropriator to jump into without further study."
The first bill would have changed the state's tradition of letting Kansas high school graduates attend the state university of their choice by requiring them to pass a specific curriculum of courses before enrolling.
The other bill would have allowed the Regents to fix different tuition rates at each state university and ties for different levels of cours work.
Supporters said the bills would improve the quality of higher education and reduce costs. Opponents said the bills were a cheap way for the state to escape its responsibility to higher education.
"It would prevent some kids who are unprepared for college-level courses from wasting their time," said State Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park, who drafted the bills. KU's peer institutions have entrance requirements, he said.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he was not surprised that both bills were sent back to committee. He said he considered the bills a threat to the number of educational opportunities Kansians would have.
"It is a significant policy change," he said. "Yes, it does provide some redundancies in opportunity, but it helps keep people in Kansas."
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"If those who support the bills want to improve higher education, they should quit voting for the large budget cuts we've seen come through here recently," she said. "Their primary concern was fiscal, not education."
The first bill would have allowed the Regents to require high school students to complete several courses in English, history, science and a foreign language before enrolling in a state university. Students now are required only to have a diploma from an accredited Kansas high school
The other bill would have let the Regents set the tuition at each university based on the school's quality. Students also would have been charged varying hourly rates for different levels of course work.
The University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University now charge the same fees as students to enroll in 20 hours a semester.
Under the bill, students would pay for courses by the hour and could pay a higher price for a course at KU than for the same course at K-State. The Regents would be allowed to cost of each course at each university.
"It's a way to make it fairer for each student," Vancrum said. "Some courses cost more, and the quality of courses depends on the quality of the university."
The high turnover rate among college freshmen is reason enough to push for a standard high school curriculum, Vancrum said.
"It provides an incentive," he said.
They better get serious if they want to
be in the game.
Solbach said that KU had the best freshman return rate of the state universities and that Vancurum's bill would not solve the problem.
"People develop and mature at different rates," Solbach said. "People should be given the right, in a free society, to return to school and make something of themselves."
Senate gets request for $2 transcript fee
Special to the Kansan
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
A $2 fee for transcripts is needed because the transcript office can't keep up with student demand, the assistant to the dean of educational services said at last night's Student Senate meeting.
The assistant, Sally Bryant, said the office of student records sought Senate approval for the increase because it was a student issue. A motion to endorse the fee was expected, but none was made.
The fee would be charged for every transcript except for the first one requested. Money from the fees would be used for a computer system that would provide transcripts faster.
Senate took no action on the fee, but Brady Stanton, student body president, said he would give his recommendation for approval.
Bryant said students needing transcripts for scholarships still would be able to get them through professional training, still could request them for students.
The fee would especially affect alumni, who make a majority of the office's 70,000 transcript requests each year, she said.
"We're not out to make $140,000," she said. "We're looking to reduce the number of transcripts issued."
Bryant said exempting enrollee students from the fee but charging alumni would lead to a nightmare in trying to determine if re-admitted students were alumni.
She said the University of Kansas was the only Board of Regents school that provided free transcripts.
Senate also voted down an unex pected resolution to rescind revenue code status for the Black Student Union.
Stacey Walsh, social welfare senator, said she made the motion to take back BSU's status because when she voted to give BSU status at the last meeting she misunderstood why the group needed it.
The motion will be reintroduced next week, when a majority vote would rescind the status. A two thirds vote is required to pass such a motion, unless a one-week notice is given.
Senate took away its recommendation for a $3.50 Student Activity Fee increase for women's and nonrevenue sports.
Liberal arts degrees prove more useful in recent years
That view has changed. A liberal arts degree has become a high-demand commodity in the job market, opening doors to a wide range of careers.
"A few years ago, we had a more simplistic view of the world," said Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "If you wanted a job, you majored in some technical area.
"Now, students are becoming more careful in selecting colleges and majors. They're making decisions that aren't the best for them." 'han short-run, first job decisions,'
Frequently, these decisions include majoring in the liberal arts.
"The college is bursting at the seams with people who understand the importance of liberal arts for careers." Lineberry said.
To help students take advantage of the increasing marketability of a liberal arts degree, each department
The trend toward a preference for liberal arts graduates began 10 to 15 years ago. Genova said.
James Henry, assistant director to the placement center, who works with liberal arts undergraduates, said job prospects for arts and sciences students have been the best in several years.
"A lot of the large companies prefer to hire a bright liberal arts major, regardless of their field," he said. "They have found that those who work out better than those who have been trained specifically in business."
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"Some companies say directly, we want liberal arts," he said.
By PAUL SCHRAG
Broad background valuable in service-based economy
Not long ago, most college students thought that studying liberal arts was an impractical way to prepare for the real world.
The U.S. economy is shifting from
Anthony Genova, chairman of philosophy, who serves as contact person for his department, said a wide range of jobs were hiring liberal arts students.
"People who are broadly educated are able better to adapt to the rapidly changing economic system we have today, and it's going to change even more rapidly in the 21st century than it does now," he said.
Lineberry cited a recent study by two sociologists who polled liberal arts majors who graduated from the University of Virginia between 1971 and 1983.
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Of the nearly 1,800 graduates who responded to the survey, 35 percent said a liberal arts graduate would have an edge over someone with a technical or professional degree applying for a job in their field, and 33 percent said both would have an equal chance.
an emphasis on manufacturing to an emphasis on services. Consequently, job opportunities in some technical fields, such as computer science, are decreasing, while jobs that require skill in verbal and written communication are opening up more. Henry said.
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Lineberry said liberal arts graduates' abilities to adjust to new challenges was attractive to businesses
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