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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday December 4,1987 Vol.98,No.72
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Black enrollment drop at KU is part of trend
By MARK TILFORD
Staff writer
While overall enrollment continues to increase at the University of Kansas, black student enrollment has decreased 9 percent from last fall and 15 percent from the fall of 1981. University of Kansas figures show
Black student enrollment is at 716 students this semester.
Blacks now make up 2.7 percent of the overall enrollment, the function shows.
The figures reflect students enrolled at the Lawrence campus, the Capitol Complex in Topeka and the Regents Center in Overland They do not include students at the medical centers in Kansas City or Wichita.
Since last fall, overall KU enrollment has increased by 2.4 percent.
"It's significant," said Marshall Jackson. assistant director of admissions at KU. "That's a big drop, I'm not expecting that big of a drop."
widely perceiving that Jackson said he didn't think most KU officials had taken real notice of the drop.
The problem, he said, reflects a national trend of decreasing black income.
But the problem has not been ignored, according to other KU officials.
"Have we taken cognizance of it? You bet we've taken cognizance of it," said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Ambler said the current economy and federal budget were part of the problem.
For example, two-thirds of a student's financial aid package in the past often comprised grants and scholarships, which do not have to be paid back. Now two-thirds of a financial aid package often comes from
loans and work. Ambler said.
That greater financial burden puts more of a strain minority students in.
One change designed to help minority students, Ambler said, has been to change the immediate supervisor of the office of minority affairs. The director now reports directly to Ambler's office. That puts the office more in touch with student concerns, Ambler said.
The office previously reported to the office of the executive vice chair.
Administrators also are working to find a new director of minority affairs Vernell Spearman, the director, is stepping down for personal reasons and will be announced by the beginning of the spring semester, Ambler said.
"It is a very tragic thing," Spearman said of the enrollment drop. "I
was not expecting a drop that large. It means that we must certainly increase our recruiting efforts."
Also, Ambler said, a new admissions staff member recently has been placed at the Regents Center to help students from the Kansas City area.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Executive Vice Chancellor Judith Ramaley are looking closely at the decrease. Ambler said.
"It doesn't come as too much of a shock, but it doesn't lessen the worry about it," he said.
Other people have other reasons for KU's decline.
Richard Lee, director of KU Supportive Educational Services, said that tighter out-of-state admissions requirements also were discouraging blacks from coming to KU.
"The parents of a black student approached me at a meeting the
other day and asked, 'Is KU working toward the elimination of black students?' '' Lee said.
Brian Dougherty, Black Student Union president, said the atmosphere of an predominantly white campus is too polarizing for students a reason not to come to KU.
Ambler said that expanding KU's orientation program to include programs emphasizing cultural diversity has helped the University hoped to take in the future.
"It's a continuing concern to the University." Ambler said.
Concern about black enrollment also exists at KU's five peer institutions.
At the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, both overall enrollment and black enrollment are slightly but, the number of black
See ENROLL, p. 6, col. 1
Peaceful ending in Atlanta
Cubans inmates release hostages
The Associated Press
ATLANTA - Cuban inmates freed their 89 hostages early today, peacefully ending an 11-day prison uprising under an agreement that provides a moratorium on deportations of 3,800 Mariel detainees nationwide.
Hostages immediately rushed out of the U.S. Penitentiary through the room in which the eight-point agreement was signed shortly after 1 a.m.
State may hire staff to help with health plan
The first to taste freedom was Basil T. "Buddy" Levens, a 44-year-old prison hospital administrator, who said it "feels great." He rushed into the arms of 11 waiting relatives.
Both granted permission for some to go to any third country willing to accept them, a guarantee of medical treatment for those inmates who need it and immunity from prosecution if an image at the prison during the rioting.
The two-page agreement is similar in most provisions to one that ended a siege by Cuban inmates in Louisiana on Sunday.
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ates and Cuba to deport
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