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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
"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.
Staff writer
Kansas will begin its once-adecade census this January to reaportion legislative districts according to population.
be conducted
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.
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.
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.
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- Lawrence, 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 re-portioned. 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.
See CENSUS, p. 6, col. 3
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However, this idiot is unlike most in that he is nationally known for his contributions to a popular magazine, a magazine that for more than 25 years has been a staple of kids' literary diets.
any people might not know it, but Lawrence has its own town idiot.
He is Paul Coker Jr., a regular illustrator for MAD magazine and, as the magazine itself calls its illustrators, one of the usual gant of idiots.
gang of Coker first illustrated for MAD in the early '60s via a friend, Phil Hahn, who Coker said now writes for Dolly Parton's television show. Coker and Hahn were in New York City, where MAD's office is located. Hahn had written some material for the magazine and wanted Coker to illustrate it.
18 KANSAN MAGAZINE December 2, 1987
Story by Brad Addington
Coker became a regular illustrator for MAD, which soon became a comical candy that satisfied the satirical sweet tooth of many a pimply faced adolescent.
MAD was first published in 1952 as a 10-cent comic book and by 1954 had a circulation of 500,000. In 1955, it took its current format, and today it has a circulation of 1 million.
lation of 1 million.
MAD has not changed much over the years. It has retained
"the reason they go on with essentially the same format, the same layout and the same jokes is because it's just that brief period in early adolescence that kids look at it," Coker said. "It's a successful magazine, so you can't really criticize it for not trying a whole lot of other things."
the same (blecchhl!) vocabulary,
the outrageous television and
movie satires and many MAD
vetaner illustrators, including AI
Jaffee and Mr Drucker.
About the only part of the magazine that has changed over the years is its price, from "35 cents cheap" in the early '60s to "$1.35 cheap" today. Coker said the change in price was primarily to cover printing costs.
"They don't waste a lot of money on office space, the staff or the people they hire to draw or write," Coker said.
Coker hardly appears as one might imagine a MAD illustrator to look. A college friend once described him as being "gentle of eye," and at 58 he still is. He is also gentle of laugh, slender of body and white of beard, a description almost befitting Santa Claus.
a Giraffe. Incidentally, Coker also drew the illustrations for "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," "Frosty the Snowman" and other Rankin/Bass animated specials of the
'60s and '70s.
Coker's main audience has not always been children and adolescents. He illustrated the Jayhawker yearbook while he attended the University of Kansas from 1948 to 1951. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1951.
after a graduating from KU. After graduating from KU, Coker served in the Navy from 1951 to 1953. Then, thanks to a fraternity connection and good timing, he landed a job at WHB television station, now KMBC, in Kansas City, Mo.
two pages of the 1951 Jayhawker are dedicated to Coker's work, with one colleague writing,
"The prodigious production of his poised pen has flooded the campus with a stream of petulant pygmies, fearful freshmen, bulging buses, and hypermamferous females which have set the tone of campus humor for almost a half decade."
Kansas "I didn't get on the staff. I was it," Coker said of his work in the broadcasting television industry. "Anything I did was perfect because they had no comparison.
"I did any sort of art work that was needed, program guides, some advertising and station identifier things," he said. Coker said he particularly enjoyed being a courtroom artist for the station.
of the station.
Coker then became one of the
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In late October, Iowa released the ames of four potential candidates or the university presidency, including Horowitz. Challoner was added to he list of candidates in November
The other candidates for the position are Nils Hasslemo, protest at the University of Arizona at Tucson; Jonald 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 earch 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 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 said that she was interested in the position because she received her doctorate at Iowa, and the liked the thought of returning to per alma mater as president.
Horwitz 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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