T'was 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)
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
December 8,1986
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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.
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
Administrators said last week that about 100 sections, in which students pre-enrolled, could be canceled because of proposed budget cuts.
enroll next month, officials said.
Bruce Lindwall, 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 enrolment 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.
■ Communications 150 enrolled 753 students, but turned away 837. COMS 130 enrolled 183 students, but turned away 256.
but turned awav 399.
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 away a total of 758 students, including 26 juniors and one senior.
Political Science 110 enrolled 501 students, but denied 271.
See CLASSES, p. 5, col. 1
Honduran troops airlifted by U.S., governments sav
From Kansan wires
TEGUCIGALPA. Honduras — Honduran warplanes and troops ferried 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, Nicaragua 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.
may not be filled
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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W when Tom Berger returned from two years of active duty in Vietnam and a war that was learing. a land
For a while, he was on the fringes of that violence as a card-carrying member of Students for a Democratic Society, a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and as a student who traveled to Chicago for the Days of Rage in spring 1969.
apart, he found his own country torn by a different violence.
But the killing of seven college students at Kent State University in the spring of 1970 got to him, he said recently.
"When I realized what could happen," he said, "I wasn't sure I wanted to take that kind of risk.
“It’s different in a war. When it happens on the streets . . . ” He shook his head. “I made a decision that that wasn't the method for me.”
The angry young man became, he said, a closet veteran, with withdrew from the protest movement and concentrated on his love for biology.
"It was a way of not dealing with what was going on outside," he said. "It was a way to get away from it."
If that doesn't sound like the man who colleagues say worked tirelessly to collect money for and build the Vietnam Memorial on the University of Kansas' campus, maybe it's because he, as other Vietnam veterans, needed time to figure out the best way to deal with his experiences, he said.
Berger, who has a doctorate in systematics and ecology in biology, now works as a research assistant for Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor. In addition, he is doing post-doctoral work in higher education administration and teaching an honors section of Western Civilization.
"Not only are Vietnam vets understood now, but we've also grown up," he said.
He and his wife live in and maintain the chancellor's guesthouse.
During the years when he concentrated on school and did field work in South American countries, he didn't forget he was a veteran, Berger said. While working on his undergraduate degree and later his master's degree until 1976 at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, he talked about war experiences with two students who were Vietnam veterans.
In the future, he wants to work in a university setting, combining work in his field with his studies.
When he came to KU to work on his
he real heroes are the guys who didn't come back. We owe it to them to honor their sacrifice and courage. Whether or not they wanted to be there, they were.'
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Lisa Ashner, KU's student body president from 1982 to 1983, originally suggested the idea of a memorial and worked with Musgrave and Berger. Ashner, Mission law student, recalled that Berger hadn't talked publicly about being a veteran before working on the memorial.
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But when the memorial committee began to raise money for the memorial, Berger began to speak frequently to groups about being a veteran, Ashner said. Many people, especially older people, veterans and parents of KU students who died, strongly identified with him.
doctorate, he met other veterans, including John Musgrave whom he eventually worked with on the KU memorial.
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Berger was always patient and understanding with those people, Ashner said.
"I think the thing that binds people to him is that experience in Vietnam," she said. "He's someone who was there, he was in combat, he had the same experiences that their sons had, and he's back here doing something for them."
To Berger, the memorial became as much a personal form of therapy as a commemoration to veterans from KU, he said.
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