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)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
December 8,1986
Proposed cuts ieopardize classes
By ALISON YOUNG
Star Write
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.
sure agreements. The 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 303 students, but turned away 183
**Math 115 enrolled 830 students, but turned away 90; 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.
See CLASSES, p. 5, col. 1
Political Science 110 enrolled 501 students, but denied 271.
Honduran troops airlifted by U.S., governments sav
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we may not be filled
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 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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ublications such as the Plumber's Friend, KU Travesty and Stalwart provide today's students with alternative reading, but these were not the first.
Several humor magazines have come and gone over the years, entertaining and often offending their readers.
From 1914 until the late 1950s, publications such as Squat, the Poop and the Bitter Bird tried to portray University life as it was, usually by satirizing people and organizations on campus.
Common staples, such as residence hall food and the greek system, often were the targets for the biting humor of these magazines.
New sorority pledges were featured, usually in lists that gave their names, ages, measurements, hair and eye color and, most importantly, "remarks." Interested parties could learn whether their favorite pledge was "easily convinced," "willing" or "a good bridge player."
Bits of gossip were collected and printed, names and all:
Thomas C. Ryther remembers the Sour Owl as an entertainment publication.
"Culminating a series of very exact determinations and observations, Jack Giesch, Phi Delt and Navy medic, concluded: Beverly Bohan has the sloppiest figure on campus and a bigger swing in her backyard than the 'immortal Mae West,' " according to the November 1944 issue of the Sour Owl.
But sometimes these campus satirists would carry their humor too far, as when they poked fun at different chancellors. Reprimands and probations often resulted for the students and faculty members involved.
Once in a while, investigative articles revealing the "real" contents of campus cuisine appeared in the Owl.
From its conception in the Kansan production room in 1914, through its disastrous final issue in 1956,the Owl served as an alternative to structured journalism.
Thomas C. Ryther, professor emeritus of journalism, remembers the Owl as a publication with entertainment as one of its main goals.
Although each magazine had its own particular edge, the one campus humor magazine that seemed to set, and even start the trend, was the Owl.
"It didn't claim to have any real lofty ideals or purposes," Ryther said. "It was a way for some students to see how much they could get away with, and maybe make a little money."
Ryther, who attended the University of Kansas as an undergraduate from 1922 to 1926, said he remembered peddling issues of the Owl when he wasn't busy working in the University's print shop.
"The Sour Owl was a blessing in disguise, really, because it gave students something to do,it kept them busy," he said. "With something constructive to do they wouldn't have time to get in trouble at beer joints."
He said he also remembered the Owl as controversial, but said the administration allowed it to continue.
"As far as the University was concerned, it was sort of a sore thumb it had to put up with," Ryther said.
But the administration didn't always put up with it. The Owl did spend a few years in retirement, banned by administrative order.
Despite its problems, Ryther said, the Owl was fun to be associated with.
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