Tuesday
February 16, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 97 (USPS 650-640)
Enrollment tops 27,000
Bv Ioel Zeff
Kansan staff writer
For the first time in KU history, spring enrollment has crossed the 27,000 mark, according to enrollment figures released yesterday.
Total enrollment for all campuses this spring was 27,088, an increase of 322 students, or 1.2 percent, from last spring.
The figures, released by the office of educational services, show that the rate of enrollment growth is slowing. Last spring, enrollment for all campuses increased 834 students.
Administrators, however, said they weren't surprised by the spring enrollment figures because of the moderate increase in the fall.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said deadlines for admission applications and an effort to counsel prospective students on KU standards slowed the enrollment growth.
"I have no desire to see enrollment on the Lawrence campus increase," Ramley said. "I have a desire to work with the administration and faculty to improve retention but reduce the number of new students."
Ramaley said that if enrollment continued to increase, the University of Kansas would get more money from the state, but would still be behind in offering classes and new programs.
Twentieth-day enrollment figures are the official numbers used for budgeting purposes. The 20th day of this semester was Feb. 10.
Keith Nitcher, KU director of business affairs, said that spring enrollment figures would not affect how much money the state for budget adjustments.
"The numbers for spring enrollment are essentially the same as when we estimated them in the fall. The fee releases are based on fall figures and would not be affected one wav or the other." Nitcher said.
Spring enrollment at KU's
Lawrence campus was 24,817, up 472 students from last spring, and enrollment at the College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan., decreased by 150. There are 2,271 students enrolled at the Med Center
the Capitol Complex in Topeka and the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita increased by 23 students over last spring. The current enrollment for off-campus students stands at 1.691.
Off-campus enrollment at the Regents Center in Overland Park,
Figures for KU's Lawrence cam-
See ENROLL, p. 12, col. 1
Figures follow trend
Rv Rebecca L. Cisek
Kansan staff writer
According to spring 1988 figures released yesterday by the office of educational services, total KU enrollment for Lawrence, Kansas City, Kan., and off-campus classes is 27,088. The figure represents an increase of 322 students from spring 1987 figures, or a 1.2 percent increase, and sets a record for spring enrollment.
Wes Williams, dean of educational services, attributed the increase to a large fall entering the spring semester over into the spring semester.
KU is attracting a greater percentage of Kansas high school graduates, but the overall number of graduating seniors in Kansas is smaller. Also, out-of-state student admissions are increasing. Williams said
Spring enrollment also increased at all the Regents universities for various reasons.
A carry-over from a fall enrollment increase was cited by some schools.
Pittsburg State University increased by 199 students to 5,528 for the spring semester. The 3.7
percent overall increase was attributed to a 14 percent increase in the number of graduate students and a carry-over from an undergraduate increase in the fall, Lee Christensen, registrar, said.
Emporia State University reported a spring enrollment of 5,126 students, up 180 or 3.6 percent. Some reasons for the increase include a carry-over from the fall increase in the number of students and an increase in off-campus enrollment. Bill Schull registrar, said.
Off-campus enrollment also affected Fort Hays State University. Enrollment increased by 60 students, or 1.2 percent, to 5,026 for the spring semester. Fort Hays State had an increase of 118 students in its off-campus programs and increased of 61 students on campus.
Kansas State University reported enrollment of 18,698, a spring record. The increase of 578 students or 3.2 percent can be partly explained by successful retention of students, said John Fairman, assistant vice president of university relations at K-State.
Bill Wynne, registrar at Wichita State University, said an increased marketing effort helped Wichita State increase about 1
See FIGURES, p. 12, col. 1
Residence hall crime
Police say rate lower
Kansan staff writer
By Kim Lightle
The total number of burglaries and thefts in 1985 was 80. In 1987, students reported 56 total burglaries and thefts.
Burglaries and thefts have decreased 30 percent in the nine University residence halls from 1965 to 1987, KU police department statistics indicate.
Last year, McColum Hall, the largest hall on campus, reported the most buglaries and thefts with 15. Hashinger and Corbin hills tied for the lowest number with one each.
But a per resident rating of the hall shows that Lewis Hall had the highest rate of burglary and theft in 1987, with Oliver Hall second and Templin Hall third. Hashinger had the lowest rate.
The lower crime rate is due to an increased awareness among residents, said Sgt. John Brothers, KU
police department
"We're slowly seeing the end of people seeing the University as insulated from the rest of the world when it comes to crime." Brothers said.
The decrease also may be due to increased efforts by the police department to educate residents about how to reduce their risk of becoming a crime victim, he said.
The department began distributing crime statistics and prevention posters to the halls in 1985. It also helped the office of residential programs prepare a safety and crime brochure that was published last year.
LT. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said that 20 to 22 percent of the thefts and burglaries reported in residence halls were resolved either by an arrest or a decision not to prosecute.
The crime rate rises annually in April and May because of a more relaxed attitude among students, Longaker said.
Longaker said that 20 percent was a high proportion compared with police departments across the country.
Also, the rate increases in October and November because of new students. Freshman are usually the targets of these crimes because they are more trusting, Longaker said.
"They're not used to locking their doors," she said. "They don't lock their bedroom doors at home."
Both police officers and students who work on residence hall security staffs said most theft could be avoided if residents would lock their doors.
Security measures vary from hall to hall depending on what requirements have been set up by the Association of University Residence Halls Advisory Board, said Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
The board determines how many students each hall must have on its security staff, with two on a shift as a minimum. It also determines when security hours will begin. During security hours, residents must show identification to gain entrance to the hall and sign in any guests, he said.
Burglaries and thefts in
residence halls
Celebrating Susan
Sherrill Robinson, graduate assistant, hands out birthday cake in commemoration of Susan B. Anthony Day. The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center has sponsored the celebration every year since 1983. Anthony was a leader in the women's suffrage movement.
Kansans fear state may be site for nuclear waste dump
Nebraska exit from compact might put disposal area here
By Jeffrey Moberg
"This issue is far from over with." said State Rep. Delbert Gross, D-Hays. "Nebraska is probably going to vote on this and if they pull out, we're next in line."
Kansan staff writer
Kansans may take action to pull out of a five-state low-level radioactive waste compact if a petition to withdraw Nebraska from the same compact is successful.
Nebraska was chosen last December as the site of the first waste dump in the compact. According to a geological study, Kansas would be the next in line for a low-level nuclear waste site.
Of the proposed sites in Kansas, 75 percent per cent criteria that included having a low-density population, not threatening ground water and not being in a flood plain.
In 1982, Kansas entered into the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact with four other states to find a site to handle the states' nuclear waste. The other states in the compact are Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
But whether a Nebraska site will be built remains uncertain. Sam Welsch, president of the Nebraskans for the Right to Vote, said that about 90 percent of the people in the group's
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This issue is far from over with. Nebraska is probably going to vote on this and if they pull out, we're next in line.'
Delbert Gross
Delbert Gross state representative D.Havey
state representative, D-Hays
survey wanted to pull out of the compact.
Welsch said the group began collecting signatures two weeks ago. He also said that he thought the petition would bring the issue to a public vote in November.
"Early reports out circulating show that we're not having any trouble getting signatures," Welsch said.
Ron Henricks, executive director of the Kansas Natural Resource Council, said that if Nebraskans decide to eventually pull out of the compact, the other states would proceed. But then Henricks also said yesterday that if that day came, legislators would run into a hornet's nest.
"If they overwhelmingly vote against it, it's going to cause a political crisis. Then the finger gets pointed at Kansas." Henricks said.
About 8,000 Kansans have already reacted. At a rally last March in Beloit, people from around the state showed up to voice their opposition to the compact. Henricks said that getting that many people together in western Kansas for a protest was unprecedented.
"That doesn't happen outside of sporting events." Henricks said.
In 1979, Congress decided that each state had to figure out a way to dispose of its own waste by Jan. 1, 1988. In order to cut costs, Kansas, like other states, entered a compact. State legislators decided that it would be too expensive for Kansas to build its own dump.
But a feasibility study on the cost of building a dump was never conducted. Laura Menhusen, president of the Kansans Coalition on Nuclear Waste, said that lawmakers just assumed it would be too expensive.
She also said that if the state built its own dump it would not have to deal with waste from other states.
"We've asked and asked for them to do the study, but they won't do that." Menhusen said. "We feel that if it was state-governed and state-operated by people with a real interest in the state . . . It would be better than a private company who's going to come in."
KJHK show featuring Klan will be broadcast at later date
By Jeff Suggs
Kenoon staff writer
Radio and school officials meet with ministers concerned about show. Budig and Ramaley release statements
Kansan staff writer
A KJHK talk show that was to feature two members of the Ku Klux Klan was intended to explore reactions to the Klan on campus, the show's host said yesterday.
JayTalk 91 host and station news director Russ Ptacek said he had invited two members of the Missouri Knights, a Kansas City area group affiliated with the Klan, to appear on the talk show. The two also were scheduled to appear in a KU journalism instructor's Reporting II class
Officials at KJHK, the student-run radio station on campus, postponed the planned radio show with the Klan members indefinitely Sunday because they didn't think the station was prepared for the controversial topic.
this week. Their appearance in the
weekly *Riverdale* episode by Harry
Jones, the instructor.
Ptacek said one of the reasons the show was postponed was that he was unable to find a qualified spokesman who was willing to sit in the same studio with the Klan members.
Placek said that he, KJHK news adviser John Broholm and Adrienne Rivers-Waribagha, who teaches Advanced Broadcast Reporting, met Saturday with University officials, community leaders and a delegation from the Rev. Lee Barbee to discuss the show that was scheduled for yesterday.
He said that at the meeting, at the American Baptist Campus Center, 1629 W. 19th St., the ministers expressed concern about the Klan appearance on the talk show. He said that he gave his reasons for doing the
Barbee also met Friday and Sunday at the center with black students and Lawrence residents to discuss the situation.
Patcek said the last thing the station wanted to do was to ignite racial tension.
show and that he offered an invitation for the pastors to appoint anyone they wanted to appear on the panel for yesterday's show.
"KJHK in no way intended for this to serve for an opportunity for the Klan to recruit." Placek said.
Though it may be controversial,
Platke said the station planned to have the Klan members and opposition to the Klan appear on the show at a later date.
In a prepared statement released yesterday, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said suppression of views, however bizarre or repugnant, had no place on a university campus.
"Great universities, such as this one, serve as places where widely divergent views are expressed, debated and analyzed," the statement said. "Students at the University of Kansas are not swayed when the
facts of a matter are inadequate. I respect them and their intellectual abilities to determine right from wrong."
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said in a prepared statement that she thought the postponement was reasonable.
"In the present circumstances, we must be sensitive to the concerns of our students, faculty and community," the statement said. "Educational objectives cannot be achieved in an atmosphere permeated with fear and anxiety."