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.
Finals
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)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
December 8,1986
Proposed cuts ieopardize classes
By ALISON YOUNG
Stan Wynne
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 : 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
Math 121 enrolled 188, but denied 23.
Math 147 enrolled 164,
■ 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 say
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, 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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By day, Tim Miller immerses himself in the study of religion. But by night, he devotes his energy to journalism
energy to journalism.
"Journalism is the vehicle by which people talk to each other, and I've always had an interest in it," said Miller, lecturer in religious studies. "I don't quite know why I'm interested in it."
His foray into journalism began in the second grade when he and a friend published the Jefferson Hawk.
Miller said he had named the newspaper after his school mascot in Jefferson Elementary School in Wichita.
"We would go to movies, cartoons and serials on the weekends and we would write up summaries of them," Miller said.
"I read voraciously," he said. "I came from a family that read a lot. My mom taught high school English and my father was an engineer at Beech Aircraft.
"It was similar to the soap opera updates that are printed in some newspapers today," Miller said.
"My parents were big on grammar, and they were concerned about proper language and words."
He set aside his journalistic endeavors until the summer of 1965, when he wrote music reviews for the Kansan. Miller said he had no specific reason for taking a respite from journalism.
Miller said the Hawk became the official newspaper of his school when he was in fourth grade, but it disappeared after he graduated from the sixth grade.
Miller started it because he thought there was a lack of publications in Lawrence.
His publishing days then went into bibernation until 1981 when he started Plumber's Friend, a different kind of newsletter.
"Plumber's Friend is my personal soap-box," he said. "It's my feeble attempt to contribute diversity of public discourse."
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"Ear to the Ground wasn't a very snappy name." he said. "Plumber's Friend was a more descriptive title, and it has tones of Watergate, too."
"A plumber's friend takes a stopped-up toilet and gets it flowing." Miller said. "My purpose with Plumber's Friend is to have a different flow of ideas.
"It's more commentary than news. I use Plumber's Friend to rant and rave as I see fit."
Apparently, Miller's parents share his view of the need for a diversity of newspapers.
"We encouraged Tim to question authority" his mother, Margaret Miller, said. "Every university needs a dissenting voice, and alternative newspapers are a great way to express different viewpoints."
His father, Paul Miller, said, "Alternative newspapers provide refreshing viewpoints to the monolithic news coverage that's common in one-newspaper cities."
Miller said that about 50 people subscribed to Plumber's Friend and that they provided the bulk of its content.
Plumber's Friend blends humor with criticism in a hapazhard fashion. Last month's issue states, "Waldheimer's Disease: you grow old and forget you were a Nazi."
However, the humor of Plumber's Friend often takes a more local track.
Miller said he published Plumber's Friend eight or nine times a year and that he published 400 to 500 issues in a given month. He said he usually sold most of the issues.
The Lawrence Daily Journal-World often is the recipient of Miller's frequently barbed humor. In last month's issue, Miller played the role of an English professor and graded a Journal-World editorial, giving it a C-.
The Journal-World management would not comment on Miller or Plumber's Friend.
"If we have an alternative press that offers constructive criticism from opinion grounded in fact, then society presumably benefits from the diversity of ideas and information."
Mike Kautsch, associate professor of journalism, said, " (Miller) seems to be offering himself as a community gadfl
Issues of Plumber's Friend cost 25 cents each and are available at Eastside Lawrence Community Grocery, 1200 New York St.; Community Mercantile, 700 Maine St.; and Town Crier, 930 Massachusetts St. and 711 W. 23rd St.
Issues also may be bought at boxes in front of the Kansas Union, at the corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets and in a box in front of the Journal-World building, 609 New Hampshire St.
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