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
Bv 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 offered.
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 92; 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 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
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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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'I think that young people happily are more idealistic than their seniors.'
obert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, will resign his position at the end of this month to teach English. Cobb, 61, came to the University of Kansas in 1957 as an associate professor of English. Since 1962 he has held several administrative positions, including dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Cobb will take leave from the University in the spring, but will return in the fall to teach English 105 and 209.
How have KU and its students changed since you came here in 1957?
Well, in the first place, we're about three times as big. We've seen a lot of changes. But I think on the balance students probably are brighter and maybe not as highly motivated as they were earlier. It's much more customary for students to go on to some post-secondary experience now than it was then. But, you know, human beings are human beings and the emphases change but the basic person is pretty much the same. They tend to be right at this moment very voca-
Why are you leaving KU's second highest post to return to teaching English?
Well, I've been doing it for 25 years and it's time. I have some other lives I'd like to lead. I'd always aspired to leaving before I was carried out — or found out. I've been planning this for a couple of years. When the vice chancellor for academic affairs was being considered for a federal judgeship, that was not an appropriate time to leave. And searching for her replacement was not an appropriate time for me to leave. I didn't know there was going to be a recision, but I'm not sure there ever is an appropriate moment to leave. By the same token, the university can go on and the office can go on independent of individuals.
tionally oriented. I think they were probably a little less so at that time. Maybe a good deal less. But they were living in a growing economy. The late '50s and '60s were looked on in some ways as the golden age, because higher education was in a growth phase, an expansive phase and hasn't been, at least in this part of the country, for some years.
Why did you come to KU?
I had been teaching at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and I was looking for an opportunity to teach something in my principal area of interest at that time — American literature. That opportunity presented itself to come here, so I did. My wife and I both grew up in Kansas. She's from Wellington. I grew up in Salina.
What was it like being a University administrator during the late '60s?
It was exciting, but not always comfortable. There was a lot of ferment in our country. And our campus was more a reflection of that than a cause. People were more bevy overtly idealistic than they are now. It was a combination of enthusiasm and idealism that reflected itself in ways that the larger society did not know how to deal with. But many of our best students were involved in the activism in those days. There were two, three or four instances of violence that colored the otherwise commendable aspects of the times.
I think it's still there. I don't know if activism is the word to use now. I think that young people happily are more idealistic than their seniors.
What has happened to student activism?
Will there ever be a return to large, campuswide protests?
It's hard to say. You'll always see expressions of that idealism as long as universities have young people. It's discouraging when young people don't have that because if they don't have it when they're 21, what are they going to be like when they're 60?
How long has it been since you taught English?
I've taught part time almost all the time. Early on I taught almost full time. As my responsibilities changed, I was not able to teach full time.
What have you enjoyed the most about being executive vice chancellor?
I think there are a variety of activities associated with this office and a diversity of stimuli. I grew impatient sometimes with people that would ask me if I don't miss teaching because I consider every conversation an opportunity to teach. I get to interact with Regents, legislators and members of the general public in ways I would not if I were a full-time member of the faculty.
Will you miss that?
I'm sure I will. But there are other things I won't miss. Particularly at this time in my life. My energies are not as strong as they once were. And I won't miss the seven days a week and 365 days a year.
I will try to refurbish my skills. I want to be a full-fledged member of the English department. I need to get up to speed.
What will you do next semester while on leave from the University?
Will you ever return to University administration?
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I don't think so. I'll be happy to do those things that I can whenever asked. But no, I think once you've left, it's best to leave those who succeed you to do what they have to do, without the encumbrance or the benefit, as it were, of your solicited and unsolicited advice.
In light of budget cuts facing the University and the recent hiring freeze, what do you see for the future of the University of Kansas?
I think I'm an eternal optimist. This institution is a better institution than its history of funding would suggest. We've had a very good faculty here. No institution can ever be better than the quality of its faculty, but we have to be supportive of them. A lot depends on what will happen in the next fiscal year. What is happening now will have a serious impact on the rest of this year. The recision of three years ago removed almost all of the main flexibility in the University, and you can't cut out $3.1 million without seriously impacting the quality of education.
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