University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 6, 1987
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Blood donors help Red Cross edge 3-day goal
KU donors gave a total of 699 pints of blood during the American Red Cross' three-day spring blood drive that ended yesterday, Eden Keefe, blood services consultant said.
The bloodmobile's three-day goal was 649 pints.
Yesterday, 290 people each donated a pint of blood, the drive's biggest day. Of those 290 people, 59 were first-time donors. Keefe said
The KU Army and Navy ROTC units will have their annual Dining In banquets this weekend.
During the drive, a total of 747 people came in to give blood, but 48 were turned away because they didn't meet Red Cross health guidelines or for other reasons.
ROTC units to hold annual banquets
Gerald Mikkelson, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, will be the speaker at the KU Army ROTC Dining-In banquet at p.m. tomorrow at the Holiday Inn Drive. 200 McDonald Drive
Mikkelsen recently returned from a two-week trip to the Soviet Union to attend a writers' peace conference and tour the country.
William Lind, author of the "Maneuver Warfare Handbook," will speak on military reform at the KU Navy ROTC Dining-In banquet tomorrow. The banquet will begin at 6:45 p.m. at the Adams Alumni Center. Lind is scheduled to speak at 10 p.m.
County bans kegs at Lone Star Lake
The Douglas County Commission yesterday approved new regulations for Lone Star Lake's camping and picnic areas, which permit liquor and beer but ban kegs.
The lake is 10 miles southwest of Lawrence.
The commissioners also approved new rules that permit nonprofit groups to canoe in swimming areas between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m.
Corrections
■ Because of a reporter's error, J. Mullins' student status was incorrect in yesterday's Kansan.
- Because of a reporter's error, Frank Hempen's name was misspelled in yesterday's Kansan. Hempen is the director of the Douglas County public works department.
Because of a reporter's error,
James Bibb's name was misspelled in a story in yesterday's
book and is a legislator's law
for KU.
Because of incorrect information supplied to the Kansan, the date of the showing of "Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery," was incorrectly reported in yesterday's Kansan. The film, which will be followed by a discussion, will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
- Because of an editor's error, Jack Bremer's comment on the Sandinistas going to the Soviet Union for support was reported incorrectly in yesterday's Kansan. Bremer is the director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
Committee approves 1988 release of fees
From staff and wire reports
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
The Kansas House Appropriations Committee yesterday reversed a previous decision and decided to approve Gov. Mike Hayden's 1988 fee release request for the University of Kansas.
Before giving final approval to KU's 1988 operating budget, the committee accepted a motion by State Rep David Miller, R-Eudora, to award $30 million for animated excess KU student fees for fiscal year 1988, which starts July 1.
In February, the committee approved 50 percent of the Board of
Regents' $1.2 million KU fee release request for fiscal year 1987, but rejected releasing any fees for 1988.
"I don't think the committee's first decision on the '88 release was fair to the University," said State Rep. Bob Hammond, an independent appropriations subcommittee for KU.
If approved by the full Senate and House, the committee's 1987 fee release decision would return $635,612 in excess fees from the current 1986-87 academic year to KU and keep about $2 million of those excess fees in the state's general fund.
Ott said the committee might not
have understood the difference between 1987 and 1988 fee release when it made its initial decision. The 1987 fee release request is based on actual revenue generated from the increased enrollment, but the 1988 request is estimated increased enrollment for the next academic year, Ott said.
"The 88 fee release has nothing to do with actual funds, but is based on the University's predicted enrollment for the year," he said. "I think the committee realized that the University would need the money at the time of enrollment to provide services for the extra students."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, said that he was pleased with the committee's decision, but that he was disappointed it didn't go a step further and approve 100 percent of the 1987 fee release request.
"They didn't do quite enough their repentance," Winter said. "I'm sure we'll review how they handled the entire fee release issue in the Senate Ways and Means Committee."
If approved by the House and Senate, the committee's reversal would allow the University to keep that amount of excess fees next year without having to deposit them into
the state's general fund and request them later.
"We won't have to go back to the Legislature and make an official release."
Keith Nitcher, KU director of business affairs, said he was pleased with the committee's action because the University would have access to the extra revenues when it needed them most.
In an attempt to deal more effectively with increased enrollment at state universities, the committee last month endorsed a change in the present fee release, or corridor, system.
Alan Hagman/KANSAN
Friskv friend
Sonna Donaldson, Lawrence senior, finds a friend outside the Museum of Natural History. Donaldson was waiting for her husband, Kent, when the cat approached her Wednesday afternoon.
Minorities low at KU, official says
Staff writer
By TIM HAMILTON
Howard Adams thinks that there are an alarmingly low number of U.S. minority engineering students pursuing graduate degrees because they aren't being encouraged.
"We haven't made a good case for mojitos in this country to go to grapefruit."
Adams, executive director of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering, GEM, visited campus Wednesdays to review the University of Kansas for membership in the organization.
the consortium, established in 1976, is a group of 50 universities and 48 corporations that provide grants of $3,000 and summer internships each year to more than 200 minority engineering students, who are U.S. citizens.
Florence Boldridge, director of KU's minority engineer program, said the University needed the GEM program because her program provided scholarship money only to undergraduates.
Under the agreements, the universities match the grants.
Adams said he was concerned that the majority of graduate students at U.S. universities were foreign students. A recent National Science Foundation survey said foreign students earned 1,413 of the 3,165 engineering doctorates given in the United States in 1985. That year only 65 U.S. minorities received doctorates.
Jacob Gordon, director of the University's Center for Black Leadership, Development and Research, said only four blacks received doctorates in mathematics in the United States last year.
More U.S. students should attend graduate school because many high-level jobs in business and higher education in graduate programs. Adams said,
Adams said GEM was trying to even out the proportion of U.S. to foreign students by encouraging them to pursue graduate degrees.
Karen Hummel, director of the minority engineer program at Kansas State University, said, "What would help to boost minor graduate enrollment would be to provide good role models."
"A lot of administrators are com-
come out of evidence graduate progra-
grams," she said.
Adams said GEM was an example of a minority organization established to provide opportunities that normally wouldn't be provided.
"We have to do this kind of stuff because the traditional things don't work," he said.
Hummel said K-State aggressively recruited minority professors to provide role models for undergraduate minorities.
She also said that KState put engineering undergraduates in contact with minority graduate students to provide them with role models.
Gordon said attracting minority faculty as well as students to graduate programs was a high priority at KU.
KU now has 23 black faculty members.
The chancellor is very aware of the shortage of minority professors." Goeget
By KJERSTI MOEN
Staff writer
Watson passes up offer of computers
Two years ago the University set up an advisory board to monitor and review minority graduate studies, assisting qualified blacks to graduate require programs in chemistry, health sciences and engineering. Gordon said.
Watson Library on Tuesday turned down an offer of two free microcomputers and a printer that library patrons could have started using this week.
Last month, Herbert Harris, director of academic user services at the University's computer services, offered to provide and install in the library two Apple-Macintosh Plus microcomputers with software.
Brady Stanton, student body president, offered to provide Student Senate money to pay for an electron microscope printer to go with the computers.
The computers and the printer would have been installed in the library's third-floor typing room, as an addition to six electronic typewriters that have been in use since last month. The Senate paid for the typewriters.
Mary Hawkins, assistant dean of library public services, said she did not want the computers installed extra work for the library's staff.
"The typing room causes a steady stream of questions and puts a heavy workload on the service desks."
Hawkins said.
Bayliss Harsh, supervisor of the reserve desk, which is across from the typing room, said that if word processors were installed, desk assistants would be responsible for computer software and other materials. The desk already assists typewriter users.
Harris said that he had offered to install a telephone line in the typing room to directly connect users to the computer desk, with would provide assistance.
"I think we would get a lot of engu-
sy," she said, the basic uses of the
engu-sss. "als."
Still, Hawkins was concerned that the computers would result in extra work for the library staff toward the new master, the library's biggest period.
"We would like to wait and see how the use of the typewriters develops before we install any computers," Hawkins said.
Harris said, "If the library reconsideres, I would entertain the option of doing it again."
Hawkins said that this summer the library would reconsider installing computers next semester.
Staff writer
By PAUL SCHRAG
Meteorology program faces faculty shortage
The KU meteorology program received approval Wednesday to search for a temporary instructor to critical shortage of faculty this fall.
Without a new temporary instructor, the program would have no faculty available to teach three courses in the fall because Joe Eagleman, professor of atmospheric science, will be on fall sabbatical.
The dean's office of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences authorized a committee from the meteorology program to begin the search.
The meteorology program, which is in the department of physics and astronomy, has had to deal with a shortage of faculty since it began offering a bachelor's degree in 1982, Eagleman said.
Now, two full-time and two parttime faculty teach about 60 undergraduates and seven graduate students majoring in atmospheric science.
"I don't know of any program in the University that size that has only two full-time faculty members." Eagleman said. "The problem is obvious. We need more faculty. It's not reasonable for four people to handle the entire load of the program."
John Davidson, chairman of physics and astronomy, said the meteorology faculty carried a heavier teaching load than other faculty in the department. He said that the department would like to hire more people and better staff, but money wasn't available to do so.
The KU meteorology program is the only one in the state that offers degrees in atmospheric science. Eagleman said.
Davidson said he was optimistic that the program could find a good meteorology instructor and an Interactivity Meteorology would be offered.
The other fall meteorology courses now in jeopardy because they lack an instructor are Unusual Weather and other courses. Both required courses for the degree.
Chris Wikle, Overland Park grade student, said offering Introductory Meteorology was essential to the meteorology graduate program because it provided income for graduate assistants who help teach the lab sections. A shortage of money for research projects makes the existence of the course even more important, he said.
"There's very little research money now because the faculty are overburdened," Wikle said. "That's why the teaching assistantships are so critical to us.
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