University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 1, 1988
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Admissions date isn't a problem
State students meet deadline
By Rebecca I. Cisek
By Rebecca J. Cisek Kansan staff writer
The April 1 admissions deadline to the University of Kansas for state residents doesn't seem to be causing a problem for high school students.
Counselors at three high schools said that their seniors knew about the deadline and that most had already applied.
Counselors in Emporia and Johnson County agreed with Williams.
Tommy Williams, counselor at Wichita North High School, said that KU representatives had visited the school recently. Students seem to be informed about the deadline and it isn't causing problems for students, he said.
Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, emphasized the need for students to apply even if they were only remotely considering attendee KU.
He said the application form was simple, could be completed in 10 minutes and didn't require a fee. The application forms are available in the office of admissions.
"in-state applications are running behind last year's application.com."
The April 1 deadline also applies to transfer students and students who wish to be readmitted to the University.
Students can't leave the University for a semester and then show up the first day of the new semester expecting to enroll, he said.
The application deadline for out-of-state students was Feb. 1.
The deadlines began last year as a
In-state applications are running slightly behind last year's application count.'
- Bruce Lindvall director of admissions
way to plan for enrollment increases in a time when the University's resources aren't meeting demands. A campus enrollment planning group appointed by then-acting executive vice chancellor Del Shankel recommended the deadline.
Lindvall said that enrollment growth had created problems such as lack of classrooms, crowded classrooms, and the need to open more sections of courses. He said there was little money to do that.
Probably the only exceptions to the deadlines that will be made are for students who submitted their applications to high school counselors on time but whose counselors sent the applications to KU late, Lindvall said.
All Kansas residents will be admitted to KU if they meet the April 1 deadline. Entering freshmen also need to send a sixth- or seventh semester high school transcript and request that their ACT test scores be sent to KU.
Transfer students need to send transcripts from each college they attended and send ACT scores and a high school transcript if they have completed fewer than 24 college credit hours.
Senate filing deadlines are set for this month
The three coalitions are:
By a Kansan reporter
As of yesterday, three coalitions had verbally announced they would enter the KU Student Senate elections in April.
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■ Coach Coalition with Mark Flanagan running for president and William Sanders running for vice president.
- Integrity Coalition with Frank Partnoy running for president and Brian Kramer running for vice president.
- Top Priority Coalition with Brook Menees running for president and Pam Holley running for vice president.
The Student Senate will start accepting formal applications for presidential and vice presidential candidates tomorrow. The deadline for filing applications is 5 p.m. March 9.
To be eligible, candidates must have served on Student Senate or must have signatures from 150 students supporting their candidacy.
March 9 is the first day that applications for Student Senate candidates will be accepted. The deadline for filing is March 23. All applications must be submitted in person to the secretary at the Senate office in the Burge Union.
Kansas spiders interest scholar
By Stacy Foster
Kansan staff writer
Guarisco, a Lawrence resident who has been studying spiders since he attended the University of Kansas 15 years ago, prefers to see them alive.
Some people might cringe at the sight of a spider and smash it, but Hank Guarisco would crringe at the sight of a smashed spider.
Hank Guarisco, Lawrence resident, handles an Amaunobius ferox spider.
His interest in spiders has led him to conduct in-depth research that he hopes to develop into a field guide of spiders in northeast Kansas.
Guarisco, who graduated from KU with a systematics and ecology degree, is collecting data on spiders throughout the state for the Kansas Biological Survey.
Paul Liechti, assistant director of the biological survey, said Guarisco's spider research would be valuable because there was little spider data available. He said Guarisco's research was the most complete study of Kansas spiders available.
The biological survey supplies Guarisco with microscopes and other materials to help him with his research.
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Henry Fitch, retired professor of systematics and ecology, did a study of spiders in 1963. He restricted his study to leaf litters in the Natural History reservation and Rockefeller experimental tract, $ 6\frac{1}{2} $ miles northeast of Lawrence.
Fitch said that an in-depth spider study in Kansas would provide people with more information about Kansas sniders.
"Spiders are a group not very well known. A few species can be dangerous, and people want to know about those spiders," Fitch said.
"Spiders have been studied more now than in the past but not in this part of the country. Hank's work is helpful because it is specifically about Kansas spiders." Fitch said.
The field guide of spiders in northeast Kansas could be published by the Museum of Natural History for its educational series.
Philip Humphrey, director of the museum, said that he encouraged Guarisco to pursue his spider study because of the educational possibilities it could provide.
"It would be the first major publication of its kind. It would be useful to public schools, to scout public in general." Humphrey said.
Guarisco said the guide would be a basic guide of spiders encountered most often in the state. It would also provide natural history background on the spiders.
Information will include how big the spider is, where it lives, what it eats and what eats it, Guarisco said.
Guarisco said it was important to know how the spider population was controlled. A fishing spider can reproduce 2,000 baby spiders. Frogs and lizards feed on these
spiders, so they do not become a problem.
Spiders are important because they control a diverse group of potentially harmful pest species, Guarisco said.
He said that his study helped other araeologists, or spider experts, because it would provide them with accurate species identifications that have not been available.
Greek Council gets organized
Group brings together leaders of three governing bodies
By Kim Lightle
Kansan staff writer
Leaders of the newly formed Greek Council hope that the organization will improve communication between all fraternities and sororities at the University of Kansas.
The 15-member council consists of members of the executive committees of the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic and Black Panhellenic, which governs both black fraternities and sororites.
The group met for the second time last night at the Kansas Union to discuss how the group should be organized, said David Morris, Interfraternity Council president.
met in late January to discuss setting up the council.
Morris said the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic and Black Panhellenic would try to work together to perform more community service projects.
"It was one of those things we were supposed to be done for a long time," he said.
Morris said that the groups first
Setting up the Greek Council was a way of gaining knowledge about community service and getting the groups more involved with each other. Morris said.
Molly Wanstall, president of Panhellenic, said that the Greek Council was not set up as a governing body but as a forum for discussion. The
council will not have any binding authority over its member groups.
"We're not out to change each other." she said.
London Bonds, Black Panhellenic adviser, said that things were going fine so far and that the group had not run into any problems.
As a result of the council, two representatives from Black Panhelenic, including the group's president, Myron Gigger, will attend the Midwestern Interfraternity Council and Panhelenic Conference this weekend in St. Louis, said Morris.
Bill may alter history requirement
The groups also will participate in Greek Endeavor, a retreat that focuses on leadership skills and ways to improve the greek system, on March 25 and 26.
taught in junior high school, it did not make sense to require it for high school graduation. The committee voted down the proposal.
high school graduation requirement
TOPEKA — The House of Representatives Education Committee endorsed a bill yesterday that would require Kansas history to be taught in accredited state schools between the seventh and 12th grades and voted down two proposed amendments to the bill.
State Rep. George Dean, D-Wichita, tried to amend the bill to eliminate the graduation requirement but still require the course. He said that because the class could be
Kansas history must be taught in state public schools, but current law does not specify when. Lawrence schools teach state history in fourth and seventh grades.
The bill also would make a passing grade in a Kansas-history course a
State Rep. Gary Blumenthal. D-Merriman, proposed an amendment that would make Kansas history a requirement in current U.S. history courses, which are taught in the eighth and 11th grades in state public schools. His proposal also was voted down.
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By a Kansan reporter
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"Leap year is just another day in February that postpones me getting my paycheck from my parents," said Rudy Burlin, Sacramento, Calif., senior.
Stephen Shawl, associate professor of physics and chemistry, said that adding an extra day in February was necessary to keep the calendar intact.
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