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University Daily Kansan / Monday, January 19. 1987
Local Briefs 24,563 students enroll in classes for spring '87
University of Kansas enrollment figures showed that a spring first-day record of 24,563 students enrolled at all KU campuses, said Wes Williams, dean of educational services.
The record figure is an increase of 1,196 students from the first-day spring enrollment of 23,367 students a year ago.
Williams said enrollment at the University continued to grow because of the quality academic practices with expert teaching faculty."
Documents covering the legislative career of State Rep. Clarence Love, D-Kansas City, have become part of the Kansas Collection at the Spencer Research Library and are available to the public.
Archives get papers of black legislator
The documents are part of the Kansas Black History Collection Project, which has surveyed or collected materials from about 50 individuals, churches, social organizations and businesses dealing with black history in Kansas City and Wichita.
The Clarence Love papers show the changing roles of black legislators since 1967. That year Wyandotte County sent two black representatives to the Kansas House of Representatives for the first time.
Weekend snowfall tough for motorists
Cars slipped and slid into 106 traffic accidents this weekend as three more inches of snow fell onto Lawrence streets.
According to Lawrence police records, only five accidents involved injuries, all of them minor.
Cars weren't the only victims. Also hit were three mailboxes, a house, a wall, a tree, a fire truck, a passer-by and 10 parked cars.
In most of the accidents, cars slid through stop signs or lost control on ice hills. Lawrence police said. Three accidents involved three cars hitting each other, and one accident was a four-car pile-up.
On three occasions, parked cars that had already been involved in accidents were hit yet a second time. In one incident, a driver went around a police barricade and slid into two already-wrecked cars as a Lawrence police officer was writing an accident report.
Aerophobia seminar to be held Saturday
A one-day seminar to help sufferers of aphrophobia — the fear of flying — will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday in room 124. G Building, Kansas Medical Center 39th and Rainbow Rvd., Kansas City, Kan.
Those attending for the first time must pay a $90 fee.
Correction
Campus and Area
Because of an editor's error, a story in Friday's Kansan incorrectly attributed information about the Kansas Legislature's budget allocation for the arts. The information should have been tripped up by the State Assembly of State Arts Agencies in Washington, D.C.
From staff and wire reports.
Hayden names four to Board of Regents
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
TOPEKA Republicans now control the Board of Regents after Gov. Mike Hayden's appointment of four new members before a Regents meeting Friday.
Hayden said at a press conference that the Regents were a non-partisan board and that he chose the new members, three Democrats and one Republican, for their abilities and not the ideals. Four Democrats had left the board.
Neither political party is allowed more than a 3-4 majority on the ballot.
Hayden said he made the appointments in order to maintain a geo
graphic balance on the board and to insure that each institution was represented.
rebuted Regents member Frank Becker said, "I think he's done a good job of rounding out the board."
The four members appointed were Linwood Sexton, Norman Jeter, Richard Senecal and Shirley Palmer.
Three members' four-year terms expired in December, and a fourth, John Montgomery, resigned with two years remaining and ran for lieutenant governor on Tom Docking's ticket.
This year the Regents may consider whether Washburn University in Topeka should enter the Regents system. Hayden has supported the
move, but said he did not ask the new Regents their views.
"I make the selections, but they, along with the other board members, must be the ones who make the decisions." Hayden said.
Sexton, of Sedgwick, was the only Republican appointed. He said Saturday that he hadn't formed an opinion about control of Washburn but that the situation was similar to when Wichita State University wanted to enter the Regents system.
"People sometimes have a reluctance for change," said Sexton, who served on the Wichita State Board of Trustees for six years.
Palmer, of Fort Scott, was appointed for two years to replace
Montgomery, Palmer, who was Kansas Teacher of the Year in 1982, said Saturday that her classroom experience in elementary schools would give her a perspective that lawyers on the board wouldn't have.
Washburn may have a valid point in wanting to enter the Regents system, Palmer said, but it needs to be studied.
Palmer said she would work to keep Kansas' best high school students in Kansas. Higher faculty salaries and financial incentives universities challenge students, she said.
"We want them to be excited and enthused," she said.
Jeter, of Hays, has been president of the Hays Board of Education and a
member of the Fort Hays State University President's Club.
He said Saturday that his primary concern was to make education available to all Kansans. Jeter, a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law, has three children who graduated from KU.
Senecal, of Atchison, has worked for the Kansas Supreme Court and was a member of the Kansas State University School of Law. Washburn University School of Law.
With the new Regents attending the meeting, the board approved the naming of KU's Hambleton Hall, which is the addition to Moore Hall, home of the Kansas Geological Survey.
Laura Rauch/KANSAN
Hold on tight
Area high school and junior high school students ride an inner tube down a hill near Potter Lake.
Exploration institute sponsors trip to Peru
By JENNIFER WYRICK
The National Institute for Exploration will sponsor a trip during spring break with the promise of adventure and a hint of danger.
The institute is sponsoring a trip in March to Peru. Interested participants can sign up for expeditions to Machu Picchu, the Amazon Basin, the Andes Mountains or the Atacama Desert.
Participants will photograph and write about the land and their experiences for "Project Peru: The Mystery," the third book in a series titled "Earthtreks," which documents worldwide expeditions.
Time and interest are the only qualifications needed.
"Participants can be amateurs or full-time professionals." Jeanne Cloud, an official at the institute, said. "Sometimes it helps us if photographers send us slides and writers send us copies of their work."
The institute, which has its headquarters in Champaign, Ill., is a nonprofit organization that promotes exploration and discovery. Barry Barker, the institute's director, said.
The Peru expedition is open to those who want to publish work and would like to gain experience in a workshop environment, Barker said.
Cloud said the participants' contributions would be published in a large, four-color book. Profits from the book will be divided among the photographers, writers and staff. Kodak will supply film for the project.
The first book in the series was "Project Kenya: The Adventure," and the second book, from an expedition to Egypt, hasn't been completed.
Clark Coleman, a resident of Over land Park was a photographer on the institute's expedition to Kenya. He said his unit was responsible for photographing a large section of Kenya.
Coleman has been a wildlife photographer for 30 years. He said his experience in Kenya was one of the best he had ever had because of the number of species he was able to photograph.
"Everything went off without a hitch," he said. "The institute did an excellent job of planning."
to the institute.1
"I took 14,000 pictures in Kenya," he said. "Then I chose my best 10 pictures of those and submitted 20
The cost of the program is about $1,690 for an eight-day trip, Cloud said. The cost will be shared by participants and Peru's government, once special arrangements are approved.
'P participants can be amateurs or full-time professionals.'
Jeanne Cloud Institute official
Barker said the publishing effort would involve 32 travel writers, six underwater photographers and 62 outdoor photographers.
Cloud said writers would be allowed to write in any format, and writers and photographers would submit their best pieces to the institute.
GradEx refuses job review
Staff writer
By PAUL BELDEN
The Graduate Executive Committee, citing the need to preserve its independence, unanimously refused Sunday to formally review the job performance of its executive coordinator.
Frances Horowitz, dean of the graduate school, suggested Wednesday that GradEx initiate a formal review of the job performance of Dean Braa, GradEx's executive coordinator.
Brea was fired by a 4.3 GradEk
vote in December, but no formal job
selection.
David Hardy, GradEx member,
said at Sunday's meeting that he
thought Horowitz was concerned
about the legality of the firing
because Braa was paid by the graduate
school and not by GradEx.
Travis Patton, GradEx member,
said the graduate school administration
did not want to be forced to keep
paying Braa after he was fired.
Michael Anderson, GradEx mem ber, said, "Braa) has this magic piece of paper — a contract."
Hardy said, "I realize that he has a contract with the graduate school, but if we decide that we do not want him acting for this organization, he cannot act for this organization."
Ted Vaggali, another GradEx member, said previously that Braa had been treated unfairly by the committee. But Sunday he said that retaining GradEx's independence transcended Braa's treatment.
"I think we need to stick to our guns on this," he said. "We must retain the integrity of GradEx Shea and has got to respect our decisions."
Braa said Friday that he probably would appeal to the graduate student body, as prescribed by the GradEx constitution. He also said that he did not think he could receive a fair review by GradEx because the review's conclusions would be forever deanned.
"Why didn't they hold a formal review in the first place?" he said. "If they do it now, how can I expect a fair review from those same four people who voted to fire me on the slimest of charges in the first place?"
Anderson said GradEx should avoid taking Horowitz's advice to ensure that it retained its Student Senate financing. He said the Senate's rules required student organizations to be totally controlled by students.
If GradEx followed Horowitz's suggestion, that action could be used against GradEx at the next revenue code hearings, when the Senate allocates money.
TWO GREAT SHOWS
Mon. Jan. 19
DREAM SO REAL
Mon. Jan. 26
- Coyote Records
- From Athens, Georgia
- produced by Peter Buck of REM
SOUL ASYLUM
- From Minneapolis of Husker Du
- Twin Tone Recording Artists
- with HOMESTEAD GRAYS
Cogburns
- produced by Bob Mould
737 New Hampshire
SPRING BREAK SPECIAL
From now until March 15,1987 students can join
JUNKYARD'S JYM
for 9 weeks for $45
includes: Nautilus Sauna
Free Weights Jacuzzi
Steam Bath Susan Beds
SUNTAN MEMBERSHIP
$30 per semester
($3 for 30 min.)
($4.50 non-members)
REGULAR STUDENT RATES (Spring Semester 1987)
Students — $105.00 per semester—prime time 80.00 per semester-non-prime time