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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday December 3, 1987 Vol. 98, No. 71
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Census will alter way of counting city's KU students
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer
Kansas will begin its once-a-decade census this January to re-pport legislative districts according to population.
ing to population A bill passed by the Legislature last session will change the way KU students are counted but will not affect where they are registered to vote
vote.
Under the new law, students who are not permanent residents of the state districts in Lawrence will be counted in the district where their permanent residence is.
"Students should be counted at home unless they have abandoned that residence and established a new permanent legal residence at college," said Frank Ybarra, co-director of public relations for Secretary of State Bill Graves. The census will be conducted by Graves' office.
Beginning Jan. 8, Graves' office will send cards to every household in Kansas asking them to list all members of the household and designate those who are college students.
Census workers then will match that information against lists of students given to them by universities to ensure that students aren't counted twice. It also will determine those students who were not registered on one of the cards.
In February, census takers will go door to door in Lawrence and across the state to obtain information from those who have not been counted.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Rawrence, said the new way of counting students was a bad idea. Winter said he represented everyone in his district, whether they did or didn't vote for him, whether they were registered voters, residents or neither.
If students were not counted, Winter's senate district and Lawrence area house districts could be reapportioned. That would result in area legislators representing more people in a larger area, he said.
"It treats students as not being here when they really are." Winter said.
--first illustrators to work on Hallmark's line of contemporary cards, started in 1955.
See CENSUS, p. 6, col. 3
"Hallmark had no idea about what they wanted. They wanted something that could sell and compete with other cards," Coker said. "Fortunately, the whole thing was quite successful."
having established himself as an illustrator at Hallmark, Coker moved to New York City in 1957 and did freelance work for MAD and other clients.
Coker spent about 12 years in the Big Apple, working from 12 to 24 hours a day. He moved to Connecticut and then to California, and in 1973 he returned to his childhood home of Lawrence to be with his mother, who was ill.
Most of Coker's work with MAD is done through the mail. MAD sends him the material, and he illustrates it. And that's all Coker does for the magazine — illustrate.
"we've been not all over the world, but quite a distance," Coker said.
"I'm much too lazy to sit down and think up ideas," Coker said. "It's really just a job of decorating other people's work."
As for his dealings with the staff and the other MAD idiots, Coker said, "It's sort of a remote relationship."
Coker does other freelance work, but he said his schedule was not as long or as hectic as it used to be. The demand for freelance artists in the Lawrence
Once a year the magazine's regular contributors get together for a two-week vacation paid for by MAD. In the past they have visited such countries as Thailand, Japan and Mexico. This year the MAD troop went to Switzerland and France.
tiser.
Coker usually wakes up before 6 a.m. and draws from six to eight hours a day, working three or four hours at a stretch.
"You don't have a time clock. You don't have a boss, anyone insisting that you get to work," Coker said. "You have to have a certain amount of discipline."
And if Coker's schedule resembles that of a college student's, so does his room.
somewhere under a mound of books, magazines and drawings is a bed, and somewhere under the bed is a floor. Coker said he either had a reason for keeping each and every piece of papyrus, or he simply had not found a good reason to throw them out. At any rate, the pile of papers under his desk probably makes a nice footstool.
bookstore.
Coker draws on a board on his lap, and in this case he's making illustrations for his Lawrence High School Class of 47 reunion. Coker has neither a wife nor children, but one of his artistic offsprings is at the school every year. In the winter of 1945-46. Coker drew the Lawrence High School Lion, which the school still uses as its symbol.
sim uses as his symbol,
"That's my greatest claim to fame," Coker said.
Thus, Coker has been renowned as an illustrator for more than 40 years.
Coker said he had to be careful not to adopt subconsciously another artist's style. The surest way to accomplish this is through abstinence — abstinence from viewing the work of others. Coker is especially susceptible to the style of George Booth, a regular contributor to The New Yorker.
orker.
"He's one of the people that I
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area is not great, and the Wheat Belt is somewhat out of the way for clients in New York.
Paul Coker works in cramped quarters at his Lawrence home
Coker said he sometimes had to work under deadline pressure, but usually not. He might have weeks to complete a project for MAD and a matter of hours to finish illustrations for an adver-
"Unless you're sinfully good, they're not going to fool around calling Kansas," Coker said.
If Paul Coker is really an idiot, then he is a sophomore, a wise fool. And his sagely advice to college students trying to decide on a career would probably be to do that which is personally fulfilling.
"I've always been able to make a living doing cartoons, and I don't mind doing it, which helps a great deal."
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its Iowa r top post
In late October, Iowa released the james of four potential candidates or the university presidency, including Horowitz. Challenger was added to the list of candidates in November.
The other candidates for the position are Nils Hasslemo, provost at the University of Arizona at Tucson; Donald N. Langenberg, chancellor at the University of Illinois-Chicago; and Robert Stein, dean of law at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis.
Sam Becker, president of the research committee, said yesterday hat committee members would be asking Horowitz about her leadership experience, her vision for Iowa and her understanding of issues facing students and faculty.
Horowitz said that she was interested in the position because she received her doctorate at Iowa, and she liked the thought of returning to her alma mater as president.
Horowitz has taught at the University of Kansas for the last 26 years. She began in 1961 as a research associate in the Bureau of Child Research. In 1978 she became the first vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service.
Horowitz received a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She received a master's degree in education from Goucher College in Towson, Md.
iowa is a Big Ten conference school and has garnered a reputation as a major research university in the Midwest. Its enrollment this fall was about 29,000.
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