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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
Staff writer
Kansas will begin its once-adecde census this January to reaportion legislative districts according to population.
ing to populate 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.
person.
"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-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
From Here to Eternity . . . by Bus
First person by John Buzbee Illustration by Dave Eames
The Lawrence Bus Station has a lot of places to sit but nowhere to really rest. Stiff fiberglass benches fill its lobby, and torn, patched chairs line the walls near its ticket counter.
The benches are divided into seats by metal bars that double as arm rests. The seats were empty when I stepped into the station on a Friday evening a few weeks ago.
I knew the benches were uncomfortable before I sat down. When I was 10, I spent a night on one just like them in the Fort Smith, Ark., bus station. I had missed the bus on the way to grandmother's house. That was the last long bus trip I had taken.
"Is the 7:45 bus west running on time?" I asked ticket salesman Tim Welsh, a Lawrence resident.
"Oh, iffy iffy," he said. "I
don't know."
"The colder the weather gets," he said, "the more people we get hanging around — vagrants and stuff." And not everyone wants to stay.
The Lawrence Bus Station can be a quiet place. It isn't always busy. But it sometimes gets interesting, Welsh said.
"People come in and say, 'I have $50. Give me a ticket as far as it will go in any direction.' "
Kromm and I left the station and climbed aboard the bus about 8 p.m. We headed down Sixth Street, past the Holidome and through the turnpike toll booth.
I wanted to go to Denver to see my brother. Chris Kromm, Manhattan freshman, wanted to take a photo of me and his girlfriend and do his laundry.
We turned west on Interstate 70. The bus was nearly full. A few
Ron loses his temper quickly,
he said. He has anger fits.
Doug had the trouble.
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passengers turned on their overhead lights, which added to the dim glow of late dusk and the lights of the turnpike.
Topeka looks big at night. Its office towers and Friday night traffic make it seem like a little metropolis. The bus passed a police car that had stopped a driver on a side road. The red lights rolled, and the driver explained.
he said. He has anger fits Does the therapy help?
Ron, a 13-year-old, got on in Topeka. He was headed to Manhattan to spend the weekend with his grandmother. He saw my cassette recorder and told me he'd used one, too, when he was in therapy.
"Yeah," he said. "Sometimes."
When you're riding on a bus, you see the middle of many
stories. You rarely see the end.
stories. You rarely see the end.
The traffic was still heavy west
of Topeka, but the bus was a little
darker.
"Wake me when we get to Manhattan," Ron said. "I'm a heavy sleeper."
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I was dreaming about a girl. Someone was talking.
"Is this Manhattan?" Ron asked.
"Oh. Jeez. I don't know. Yeah, I think it is. Sorry."
At least one other passenger was restless.
"Hey, bus driver, the idea was to stop for some coffee."
We stopped. Ron met his grandmother. But we didn't have time for coffee. The bus still had to cross 500 miles of the Great Plains that night to arrive at the foot of the Rockies at 7:10 the next morning.
The traffic lessened a little
But an occasional flicker of a cigarette lighter added a little light. An occasional bit of conversation rose above the constant hum of the highway. An occasional bump jolted passengers who could sleep only occasionally.
outside of Topeka. A few passengers talked. Two children played in their seats. The bus was dark.
Junction City was fairly quiet at 10:15 that Friday night. A middle-aged black man wearing black pants, a black sport coat, a bright red shirt, a red corduroy hat and a gold medallion stood outside the station. He watched us pull into the parking lot, he talked with the driver, and he watched us drive out.
Not everyone was ready to leave.
"Bus driver, before you start up again, how long is it going to be before we stop for coffee?"
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The other candidates for the position are Nils Hasslemo, provost 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.
In late October, Iowa released the ames of four potential candidates or the university presidency, including Horowitz. Challoner was added to the list of candidates in November
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 said that she was interested in the position because she received her doctorate at Iowa, and the liked the thought of returning to er 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.
Herowitz 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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