Twas the season
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.
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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 jeopardize classes
By ALISON YOUNG
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 selections, in which students pre-enrolled, could be approved.
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
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 303 students, but turned away 183.
■ Math 115 enrolled 830 students, but turned away 9; MATH 121 enrolled 188, but denied 23; and MATH 122 enrolled 382, but denied 51.
- Five of the seven liberal arts required 200-level English courses were closed, turning a total of 758 students, including 26 juniors and one senior.
Political Science 10 enrolled 501 students, but denied 271.
See CLASSES, p. 5, col. 1
Honduran troops airlifted by U.S., governments say
From Kansan wires
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduran warplanes and troops fried 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 290 Nicaraguan troops
who allegedly attacked a border outpost,
wounding three Honduran
soldiers and capturing two others.
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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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Shoppers seek the perfect gifts
City takes on a holiday glow
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Christmas is on the way.
The city of Lawrence and local stores are gearing up for the holiday season with annual decorating and Christmas sales.
Lawrence, once again, is rediscovering the Christmas spirit and decorating its downtown streetlights with red and green Santa Claus faces and Christmas trees. The city also is stringing white lights in the trees along Massachusetts Street.
The Downtown Lawrence Association decorates the business district each year and lends a festive atmosphere to the area during the holiday season.
It is part of the annual holiday season events sponsored by the association. The events started Nov. 28 with the official lighting of the lights in the trees on Massachusetts Street. The decorations were hung by members of the Lawrence Public Works Department during the week of Nov. 17.
"Anytime they are exposed to the elements, there is a chance they will need to be replaced," she said.
Carolyn Shy, director of the downtown Association, said recently that the decorations were evaluated each year to see whether new ones needed to be purchased.
Some of the best-selling decorating items so far this season include the lights and rope garland for Christmas trees, Clark said. He said he also had seen many early shoppers buying wooden Christmas ornaments.
Other activities include carriage rides and visits from Santa Claus.
Phil Clark, assistant manager at K mart Discount Store, 3106 Iowa St., said many people already had started their Christmas shopping.
The past weeks also have added to the usual rush at area discount department stores.
Artificial trees also are selling well,
Clark said, even though it still is early in the season.
K mart advanced its seasonal selling to before Halloween for the first time this year because there was more space after the store was remodeled, Clark said.
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"In past years, we've never had the space," he said, "and now we did, so we decided to put the decorations out and let the people see them."
Wal-Mart Discount Cities, 2727 Iowa St., always has put Christmas decorations out early, said Sam Shepyle, store manager
"You want to be six to eight weeks ahead of the event," Shepley said. "You need to be 100 percent set in the merchandise by the time of the holiday. Plus, if it's out early, it enhances your chance of selling it."
Both K mart and Wal-Mart are selling a lot of artificial Christmas trees early in the season.
"surprisingly, people have started buying them early," Shepley said.
"As far as what I'm seeing, the trend is away from outside lights," he said. "But you have to realize it was colder last year."
Outdoor Christmas decorations — lights, the roof Santa and Reindeer and the lighted nativity scenes — decreased in popularity last year and haven't sold well this year. Shepley said.
The trends have indicated, however, that some traditional items have slowed in sales and caused smaller orders
The trees keep improving and taking less time to set up, he said.
So far, Shepley said, electronic products have topped Christmas lists. Some of the most popular items for children include Teddy Ruxpin, a talking bear, and remote-control cars.
Cold or not, people still are expected to overrun the stores in search of the perfect present for the perfect price.
"Hi, my name is Teddy Ruxpin," the bear says. "Would you be my friend?"
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Another special gift for Valesente, when he was a child, was a catcher's glove from his parents.
"That she would make that for me with her own hands is very special," he said.
One of last year's hot items, the Cabbage Patch doll, isn't one of this year's big sellers. A talking Big Bird doll, however, is selling well, Shepherd said.
For the adult crowd, video equipment, smaller stereos and compact discs seem to be popular, he said.
Bob Valesente, football head coach,
remembers that one of his most special
gifts wasn't purchased in a store. His
wife, Joan, knitted him a wool sweater
as a Christmas gift.
He said it was wrapped in a big box
"I had wanted it for so long, and there it was," he said.
After opening it, he found another wrapped box. Inside that box was a third box. Valesente finally found the mitt inside the third box.
Phil Forte, defensive end for the football team, said his 13th Christmas was one of the best because he got a beagle from his mother that he named Snoopy Sue.
Larry Brown, men's basketball head coach, said his most memorable Christmas were spent on the basketball court while he was coach of the New Jersey Nets. Brown and the Nets had a game on Christmas Day 1981, '82 and '83.
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