A wrap-up on the KU football team's season paints an encouraging look ahead, and the KU volleyball team ends one of its most successful years ever.
Twas the season
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Today's Kansan is the last issue of this semester, and this is the last regular day of classes. Publication of the Kansan will resume Jan. 15, the first day of classes next semester.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 73 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
December 8,1986
Proposed cuts ieopardize classes
By ALISON YOUNG
Staff writer
Kansas' bleak economic situation has hit home for KU students, hundreds of whom were turned away from full classes for next semester.
The University's budget, which already was strained by a record fall enrollment, faces more tightening because of Governor-elect Mike Hayden's proposed 3.8 percent budget cuts for all state agencies, KU officials said recently.
Administrators said last week that about 100 sections, in which students pre-enrolled, could be canceled because of proposed budget cuts.
Class offerings are so limited that the University may send advisory letters to students who have been admitted for the spring semester and plan to
enroll next month. officials said.
Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, said he didn't want students to pack up and move to Kansas if the courses they were expecting weren't available.
According to statistics generated by the enrollment center Nov. 26, after main enrollment was completed, several basic classes turned away hundreds of students.
The statistics show the number of students who tried to enroll in a course but couldn't because it was full. These figures may be inflated because a single student could have been turned away from several choices in the same department.
According to statistics:
According to statistics Western Civilization 104 enrolled 678 students.
but turned away 399.
■ Communications 150 enrolled 753 students, but turned away 837; COMS 130 enrolled 183 students, but turned away 256.
Economics 104 enrolled 302 students, but turned away 183
- Five of the seven liberal arts required 200-level English courses were closed, turning away a total of 758 students, including 26 juniors and one senior.
■ Math 115 enrolled 830 students, but turned away 90; MATH 121 enrolled 188, but denied 23; and MATH 122 enrolled 382, but denied 51.
See CLASSES, p. 5, col. 1
Political Science 110 enrolled 501 students, but denied 271.
Honduran troops airlifted by U.S., governments say
From Kansan wires
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduran warplanes and troops ferryed by U.S. helicopters yesterday attacked about 1,000 Nicaraguan government forces who had violated Honduran territory, the United States and Honduras said.
In Managua, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto said U.S. warplanes had bombed two
troops along the two countries' border in response to an incursion Thursday by 200 Nicaraguan troops who allegedly attacked a border outpost, wounding three Honduran soldiers and capturing two others.
In Tegucigalpa, U.S. and Honduran officials refused to reveal how many U.S. aircraft were used or how many Honduran troops were ferried to Jamastran, about 48 miles east of the capital.
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Miller said he did not publish Plumber's Friend to make money, and estimated he lost $100 a year in printing it.
Subscriptions are available from Miller at 50 cents an issue.
Miller began teaching part-time at KU in 1969. He graduated from KU in 1966 with a bachelor's degree in classics. In 1969, he graduated from KU with a master's degree in religious studies.
In 1973, Miller received a doctorate from KU in American Studies. Miller said he had wanted to be a teacher since grade school.
"I'd rather teach part-time so I can have time to pursue my other interests." He is a half-time faculty member.
"I had a clear sense that I wanted to teach for a long time," he said. "I like the academic life. It's physically and emotionally taxing work.
Miller said he preferred college teaching to high school teaching.
"College teaching is more intellectually challenging," he said. "You don't have to devote time to discipline, and college teaching is more focused on academic interest."
Miller's academic interests are in American religious history and religious cults. This semester, he is teaching a course titled Religion in American Society, and next semester he will teach a course titled New Religious Movements in America.
"It's more interesting to look at religious cults and exotic groups," he said. "All religions start out as marginal groups, and I think marginal religions will be the wave of the future.
"Religions are undergoing large-scale decentralization
worldwide because of technological improvements in communication systems."
Miller's activities are not restricted to the classroom. He has been a stringer for Time magazine since 1975. Stringers are part-time writers who are paid based on the number of column inches of copy they produce.
The unpredictable hours of being a free-lance journalist fit in well with Miller's schedule, he said.
"Sometimes I'm swamped with work, but it fits in well with what I doing.
"I don't aspire to be a full-time journalist. The work is hard and demanding and it generally is low-paying. My boss is 600 miles away in Chicago, so nobody's breathing down my neck."
Earlier this year, Miller wrote a biography on Charles Sheldon, a Congregationalist minister in Topeka who lived from 1857 to 1946. Miller has not yet chosen a title for the book, which will be published next fall by the University of Tennessee Press.
Miller said Sheldon perhaps was the best-known figure in Kansas religious history.
"Sheldon wrote prodigiously. He wrote about 50 books and hundreds of articles," Miller said. "He was a pacifist who was a tireless worker for world peace."
"The press was more diverse. The press provided divergent,蹭ambunctious and competitive opinions. I got a good sense of what went on by reading multiple sources.
"The Topeka papers lambasted each other," he said. "They ridiculed each other daily. The public benefits from this."
'My perspective was greatly enhanced by these divergent sources. It's tragic we don't have a similar diversity of opinions today
At that time, Topeka had three newspapers. Miller said.
"I wish we had 10 daily papers. There would be more honesty inolitics."
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