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Wednesday, February 3, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
KU gets high grade for cost, quality
By Rebecca J. Cisek
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas is among about 35 universities that offer a good education at a cost below the national average, according to a study in the March issue of Changing Times magazine.
The article describes KU as a large university with a small college atmosphere. Nancy Henderson, associate editor of the magazine, said KU officials and people involved with the study had told her that the atmosphere at KU
Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, said KU's being included in the article meant two things.
was more intimate than that at other large universities.
things.
First, he said, the article might influence students who had been admitted to several universities to choose KU.
then college selection The schools were selected from a list of
Second, parents of younger high school students might consider KU more carefully in their college selection.
universities whose costs were less than the national average of $10,500 for private universities and $6,500 for out-of-state students at public universities. Also, universities whose freshmen had a Scholastic Aptitude Test average of more than 900 were chosen.
A panel of 13 persons who work in fields such as higher education and higher education associations narrowed the choices from an initial list of about 100 universities.
Schools with a particular religious focus or whose students were mainly local residents
were excluded from the original list. Henderson said she wanted her list to contain schools with a diversity of students.
She said the study was unique.
Henderson said that more of the selected schools were in the Midwest than other parts of the country because costs were less for room and board. More private schools made the list than public schools.
"Other surveys don't look at cost as the main criterion," she said.
Downtown plan finished
Grant request needed soon
By Christine Martin
The Downtown Improvement Committee submitted its final report to the Lawrence City Commission last night on the $44.5 million downtown retail development project.
Kansan staff writer
The city commissioners will meet with the improvement committee and its consultant, Ralph Basile, at the commissioner's recommendations.
The city-appointed committee has been working on the project since June. The project calls for three
department stores, 60 small shops and 1,200 additional parking spaces between the 700 and 900 blocks of Massachusetts Street. Six enclosed walkways would connect the shops.
The plan would be financed 52 percent by the developer, 18 percent by a federal Urban Development Action Grant, 10 percent by an increase in property taxes from the project and 20 percent by the creation of a benefit district downtown.
Burdett Loomis, chairman of the improvement committee, said the project needed to continue going forward to meet the July 31 deadline for applying for the federal grant.
On Aug. 2, Lawrence residents will vote on the property tax increase.
Commissioner Sandra Praeger said a survey of downtown merchants' opinions on the project was needed before the request for the development grant went in and before the Aug. 2 vote.
Loomis agreed that the project needed the commitment of downtown merchants but said that the improvement couldn't meet artifi- ceedilities.
"I think that politically you must have the support of the downtown merchants," Loomis said. "Financially, we need the components of finance of the UDAG."
Commissioner Dennis Constance said he was impressed with the speed of the improvement committee in the past seven months.
"It has produced a great deal of results in a relatively small time frame," Constance said.
Geological survey to stay here
But the survey, which must move from Parker Hall on West Campus by May, will be relocating in Lawrence after all, officials said yesterday.
when the Kansas University Endowment Association, in charge of Parker Hall, told the survey last summer that its lease would not be renewed, officials thought they might have to relocate in another city.
However, all the invitations for bids were sent to property owners in Lawrence, said Tom Huntzinger, acting district director of the U.S. Geological Survey.
For a while, the U.S. Geological Survey didn't know whether it would continue to call Lawrence home.
Martin Henry, the Endowment Association's vice president for property, said the association asked the survey to leave when the University requested that Parker Hall be used for the Kansas Geological Survey. The Kansas Geological Survey plans to expand its operations from Moore Hall.
The General Services Administration, which manages leasing of space for the survey, sent out 13 bids.
Huntzinger said staying in Lawrence would enable the survey to work closely with KU faculty, a practice survey officials wanted to continue.
"Our mission is technical." Huntzinger said. "And we have a technical base with the University."
Alterations suggested for women's studies
Jack Nesbitt, spokesman for the GSA in Kansas City, Mo., said that Feb. 10 was the deadline for first bid offers. Nesbitt said that a date hadn't been set for final offers but that the GSA would like to award a contract by April 15.
By a Kansan reporter
Bv Stacy Foster
The KU Women's Studies program, scrutinized by the Kansas Board of Regents in its 1987 program review, needs more faculty and more course direction, a Regents official said yesterday.
Kansan staff writer
John Welsh, Regents associate director of academic affairs, said that the program review was not to criticize but to recommend areas that needed help.
Welsh said that in some Regents schools, women's studies programs were not following proper curriculum guidelines. Classes could become a forum for political debate. Often, courses in gender studies were indistinguishable from courses in women's studies.
Susan Noakes, director of women's studies, said that women's studies at KU were solidly academic and focused completely on women's issues.
"We cover only women's issues. We aren't qualified to teach gender studies," Noakes said.
board met Monday to make up a list of candidates for a new faculty position. Interviews for the new position are expected to begin this month, Noakes said.
Currently, about 10 students are enrolled in the program.
"There are presently two faculty on the women's study budget," she said. "This is the first new faculty member in almost ten years."
Neakes said that changes were needed to improve the program and hiring a new staff member was the top priority.
The KU Research Institute on Women supplements the women's studies program. The research program allows undergraduate students to become directly involved in research studies, Noakes said.
"We are trying to coordinate our work with the undergraduate program," she said. "The research program fertilizes the undergraduate program by giving undergraduates the opportunity to be in direct contact with the latest research."
The women's studies advisory
The research covers three primary areas: women's relations in their public and private lives, contributions of minority women and women's health issues.
Noakes said that the program review gave credit to the Regents.
"The Board of Regents spent so much time and care on the review. It was helpful to us to see our problem areas," Noakes said.
East Asian studies program hurt by drop in dollar's value
By Jeff Moberg
Pulliam's Music House 2601 Iowa 843-3008
Kansan staff writer
A drop in the value of the U.S. dollar against the Japanese yen is causing difficulties for researchers in the East Asian studies program.
The dollar's drop has made scholarly Japanese books and periodicals less accessible to researchers in East Asian studies, said Gene Carvalho, director of the East Asian Library.
In 1985, $1 could buy approximately 255 yen. Currently, the dollar is worth only about 120 yen. That has shrunk the East Asian Library's buying power by about 50 percent. The library's budget has remained the same since 1985.
"We've been hit so hard our heads are spinning," Carvalho said. "How
During 1985, Carvalho said that he purchased 1,600 books for $21,100, but from July to December 1987, he said, the department spent the same amount and received only about 320 books. The East Asian Library, on the fifth floor of Watson Library, holds around 110,000 volumes.
can you support a Ph.D. program with only 320 books? I don't think you can support one faculty member."
About 25 percent of the Japanese periodicals once offered in the library are no longer available. The average price of Japanese publications, Carvalho said, had risen by about 135 percent.
Many faculty members and students in the East Asian studies program, which has 45 undergraduates
and 25 graduates, have not been able to receive publications vital to their research.
Margaret Childs, assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures, said that a project she was working on about a 14th-century Japanese poet would suffer.
"It's not going to be in depth as it should be, because I am not able to get the materials I need," Childs said.
Other faculty members have been worried that they are falling behind on current news from Japan.
"We're having trouble keeping a finger on the pulse of what's going on in Japan," said Cameron Hurst, director of the Center for East Asian Studies. "In the past, the size of our
program was such that I could get most materials, but that's not the case anymore. I can't keep up."
With fewer resources available, the program is limited in the types of research the faculty and graduate students can conduct.
"It's putting restrictions on the department, and for attracting graduate students and faculty," said Patricia Fister, curator of the Oriental Art Museum in Spencer Museum of Art. "If the sources aren't there, you can't do good research."
Andrew Tsubaki, chairman of the East Asian languages and cultures department, said that until a solution was found, professors would have to buy books they needed on their own.
was a major field of study in the East Asian studies program, so he planned to purchase six volumes on Ukiyoe paintings.
The paintings are wood block prints, a unique art form in Japan, and KU has a large collection of them. Carvalho bought the first volume for $300. He said that buying more volumes was inconceivable because of their high cost.
Carvalho said that he had been spreading his resources thin to keep buying books from different fields. He said that he was trying to emphasize inter-library loans with other U.S. universities to compensate.
Carvalho said that Japanese art
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