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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Finals
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.
Agony of de sleet
A chance of light rain will accompany cloudy skies today. Temperatures will be in the mid 30s and the rain may change to snow tonight.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 73 (USPS 650-640)
Monday
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
December 8,1986
Proposed cuts ieopardize 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 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-
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 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 students 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 after Math 121 enrolled 168, but denied 23.**
**Math 115 enrolled 760 students, but turned away after Math 121 enrolled 168, but denied 23.**
- 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.
See CLASSES, p. 5, col. 1
Political Science 110 enrolled 501 students, but denied 271.
Honduran troops airlifted by U.S., governments sav
From Kansan wires
TEGUCIGALPA. Honduras - Honduran warplanes and troops firing 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.
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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students decided that the University needed a magazine, one that did not have to conform to any specific standards.
Working late at night in the press room of the Kansan, Ross Busenbark, Matt Jones and Harry Wilson, with the help of a Kansan employee, started the humor magazine.
A few ads were sold for the first issue, but it mostly contained stories, jokes and pictures collected from students.
They finished printing the first issue of the Owl in time for distribution at KU's final football game of the season.
The magazine soon was black-balled by the Lawrence Merchants' Association. Although it suffered the criticism of some University officials, the Owl survived.
Apparently, the uproar of the merchants' association stimulated more interest, and when the magazine returned the next year, enthusiasm was high and ads came easily.
In addition to the magazine's humorous and entertaining intent, it eventually took on a vigilant air.
According to an article in the 1918 Jayhawker yearbook, the Owl was known to "print complete details of all the shady practices and events taking place on Mount Oread."
Under the control of Sigma Delta Chi, the magazine seemed to abandon its previous attitude and return to its more humorous, though still scandalous, intent.
"Hears All, Sees All, Knows All, Hoots All" were the key words for the Owl in 1918.
In the early '20s, financial problems beset the magazine. Amid investigations and audits, the future of the magazine looked bleak
The Owl was out of print during part of the '30s and early '40s until the All-Student Council decided to revive it.
Malott declared that no staff member listed on the title page "shall participate in any further activity or hold any office whatever, or any employment, in any student activity or any department of the University."
In 1924, Sigma Delta Chi, the professional journalism fraternity, took control of the Owl and nursed it back to health.
Paul Coker, Lawrence artist and resident, drew several covers for the Bitter Bird while he attended KU from 1947 to 151.
In November 1944, the Owl made its debut once again, but it was greeted with enthusiasm from the community.
He said that although he considered most of the artwork he had done for the Bitter Bird to be poor, he strived to maintain a standard of good taste.
The Owl disappeared.
In the Owl's absence, another magazine was born: the Bitter Bird.
The Owl, banned by the U.S. Postal Service because of its risc content, also drew fire from Chancellor Deane W. Malott
The Bitter Bird had the same basic purpose as the Owl, to humorously entertain.
"I did it mostly just to get pictures published." Coker said.
The Owl disappeared.
"Although the magazine was extremely vile, any art I did I could have shown to my parents," he said. "Or to my grandparents, for that matter."
The Owl resurfaced in 1948, and soon replaced the Bitter Bird as KU's humor magazine.
James W. Scott, editorial page editor of the Kansas City Star and Times, remembers the Owl of the '40s as being outrageous.
Scott said that he remembered writing two or three pieces for the magazine but that he never was an active staff member.
"Back in the late '40s, the Sour Owl did not make fun of people so much, but it was more for individual expression." he said.
Scott said that although his memories of the Owl were hazy, he remembered one story in particular.
"Once there was a story about a sorority girl who accidentally flushed her new $20 glasses down the john," he said. "That was the
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