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
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
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.
signed statements. 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 be
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.
or political institutions, including 28 polls.
Political Science 110 enrolled 501 students, but denied 271.
See CLASSES, p. 5, col. 1
Honduran troops airlifted by U.S., governments sav
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.
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 Managua, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto said U.S.
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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
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Lauretta McMillen
Finally, at long last, I'm graduating and leaving the University of Kansas.
You might get the impression after reading these little snippets that it takes many Kansan staff members an inordinately long time to earn a degree.
And you would be entirely correct.
There are an awful lot of 9-, 10- and even 11-seminar seniors that roam our newsroom.
When people ask, we say the Kansan takes up so much of our time that we can't carry enough hours every semester to graduate in four years. We've even been known to get a little melancholy and announce that we've stayed in school this long because we love the Kansan. And as Bob Greene once put it, journalism never gets any better than working on a college newspaper.
After spending seven semesters on this paper and nine at the University, I can attest that the above reasons are indeed true. But there's more to it than that.
After much perusal and a lot of reporter-type investigating, I have uncovered the deep, dark secret that really explains why we linger within the halls of the venerable William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
It's the only way we can continue to buy cheap basketball season tickets.
Keep the faith. Happy holidays. Go 'Hawks.'
Heather Fritz
When I changed colleges, I chose KU over Missouri for many reasons, one being its proximity
I am about to do a very courageous thing. I'm going to bare my soul and tell you all one of my fears.
to Arrowhead Stadium, which is where my hero, Peter Placeckier (his name has been changed to protect the innocent), comes with his team once a year to play the Chiefs.
I thought if I came to KU. I could watch him play when his team came to town and maybe meet him, which was my dream.
But, my first year here, he got sick and stayed home. Last year, he pulled a muscle and stayed home. I waited patiently, knowing that if I was a good little girl, I would get to see him.
This year, he stayed healthy, and with an overwhelming sense of destiny, I drove to Kansas City
I hung around the Westin Crown Center until the team bus pulled up, then I popped out and intercenticated him on his way to the elevator.
Our conversation was memorable only to me. There were no rockets; the earth didn't shake. He was very nice. We posed for a picture, which now hangs life-sized on my wall. The next day, he went out and missed a kick that would have won the game for his team, which only proves that even heroes aren't perfect — which is a lesson in growing up.
Which brings me, finally, to the point. I've grown up a lot in my $2_{1/2}$ years here. Six hundred miles from Mommy and Daddy, I've had to learn to take care of — and be responsible for — myself. When the car breaks down, the telephone gets shut off or I have two equally wonderful job opportunities, it's my problem to deal with.
I learned a lot at KU, and, as I move on to bigger dreams, I want to thank my friends and the school. They've given me an awful lot of memories.
John Hanna
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Graduating staff (bottom left) Heather Fitzs, Tad Clarke, Brian Wheley, Cecilia Mills; (middle row) Lauretta McMillen, Bonnie Snyder, John Hanna; (top) Julie Mangan. — Photo by Mary Chambers
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