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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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 AUSON YOUNG
Staff writer
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 closed.
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 can jump from one department away from another 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 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 say
From Kansan wires
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.
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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.
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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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His administration's greatest achievement, Awbrey said, was the creation of the Hilltop Child Development Center. 1314 Jayhawk Blvd.
Yet, his non-conformist activism didn't become evident until Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Wis., sought the Democratic nomination in 1968. McCarthy emerged as the peace-seeking candidate and attracted a large student following.
Awbrey's political roots extend to his youth when his father was editor and publisher of the Hutchinson News. He traveled with his family to political conventions across the country, including Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention at which he was battered in the rioting.
Awbrey left the fraternity in December 1968, calling the system racist to the core, and was expelled from the ROTC program two years later because the government considered him a security risk.
Just as the McCarthy campaign sparked Awbrey's activism, a short stay in the Douglas County jail tempered it.
Shortly after the Student Senate election, police arrested Awbrey for violating a curfew imposed during extensive student unrest at the University of Kansas.
Other political beliefs were fueled by his membership in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and by his enlistment in Army ROTC, a move intended to avoid the draft.
McCarthy lost the nomination to Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., but the revolutionary vigor of students such as Awbrey was still alive.
He saw in this curfew a mechanism for civil disobedience. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months in jail, which he began in summer 1970
Awbrey began serving his sentence, and with the help of a lawyer, his stay lasted only one week.
He credits John Macaulay, an associate professor of history and of religion, with showing him the importance of what history had to teach: the more things change, the more they remain the same.
"I realized in jail where I was heading," he said. "Some day it wouldn't be a week in jail, but a very long time. I had been very stupid."
Macauley said that in the classroom. Awbrey always wanted to know why things happened or what made things work.
That month, Awbrey began graduate studies in KU's School of Religion. There, he withdrew from his former activism and delved into intensive study of religion and philosophy.
"David created a quiet stir," he said. "You knew that he was around, but he had an elusive quality. In class, he was not outspoken, but he always knew how to ask the right questions."
After earning his master's degree in religion, Awbrey began his career in journalism as a police reporter for the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeyne. Awbrey was married the summer of 1972.
Macauley oversaw Awbrey's master's thesis, a topic that parallels Awbrey's career. He chose for his thesis the dissent of Henry Barrow, a nonconformist and early separatist from the established church in England.
Two years later, he and his wife, Susan, travelled to Europe where they "played alienated, estranged tourists."
After returning to the United States, he covered the Maryland Statehouse for United Press International.
"It didn't matter how legislators voted or who won because the whole system was very morally corrupt." he said.
Starting in 1978, Awbrey began writing editorials, a job he says is enjoyable because he is able to incite change from behind the scenes.
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Students chose grades in course on 'New Left'
BY BETH COPELAND
War, the movement on KU's campus one semester took the guise of theory, with the "History of the New Left" class.
The 1969 spring semester class description billed the 098 and 048 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences class as "a presentation of criticisms of modern American society and foreign policy from a New Left perspective."
D during the 1960s, when students across the country were protesting the Vietnam
The class would examine alternatives to lifestyles found in middle-class culture, alternatives aimed at "human liberation."
Rather than having professors teach, 17 left-wing students, including student body president David Abrewry, taught seven class sections. Classes often met in the informal atmosphere of students' apartments.
Section leaders could decide the class assignments. Generally, students were
If students completed their work conscientiously and missed no more than four class periods, they would be allowed to grade themselves.
given a choice of either writing three papers, each dealing with a different aspect of the New Left, or writing one long term paper.
Students recommended their grades on a comment sheet. Most gave themselves "A's." They also critiqued the class, and comments reflected student unrest.
"Yippie!" another student wrote. He gave himself an "A!"
"I feel that although I have read less than the number of books assigned, those which I've read have given me a much better understanding of the goo, given me the sentiments of oppressed Negroes and attitudes of different types of Americans," one student wrote. She asked for an "A" in the class.
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