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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
Kansas will begin its once- decade census this January to reaportion legislative districts according 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.
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
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.
be conducted by Jan. 8. 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.
Staff writer
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 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.
Yearbook Collector Hunts Down the Stars' Past
in a larger audience.
"It treats students as not being here when they really are." Winter said.
See CENSUS, p. 6, col. 3
Dee Wallace, 1965 homecoming queen at Wyandotte High School
Story by Virginia McGrath
Nancy Landon Kassebaum's senior picture at Topeka High School in 1950.
H high school yearbooks. They're usually relegated to a top shelf, hidden away from
view, interesting only to the person whose book it is, worth little.
But most everyone who has found fame and success was in high school once. And that means they were probably in their school's yearbook, in some club or in some picture that would probably be amusing to those who know them now.
WHO KNOW—UKANSA
Although Kansas may lack the glamour of Hollywood or the power of Washington, it too has produced its share of favored sons and daughters.
Ed Asner, who would go on to have his own successful TV series, was a star tackle and senior letterman for the Wyandotte High School football team in 1947. Asner was also a member of the National Honor Society and the Spanish Club. He was even a page-two editor of the school paper.
Nancy Landon Kassebaum was Student Council treasurer at Topeka High School in 1950, twenty-eight years before she would be elected to the U.S. Senate.
school paper. De Walle, who played the mother in the movie ET, was a varsity cheerleader and homecoming queen at Wyandotte High School in 1966. Don Johnson, the star of Miami Vice, had the lead role in several school plays in 1967 as a senior at Wichita South High School.
Higher School
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole recently announced his candidacy for president in his hometown of Russell. As a high school senior at Russell High School in 1941, Dole played on the basketball team.
Old yearbooks can be found at city library reference desks, high school libraries or from people who have kept their yearbooks. But sometimes they are
just lost. That's where freelance writer Walter Day, of Fairfield, Iowa, steps in.
Day collects yearbooks. And sometimes he sells them. Day says high school yearbooks may be one of the most important, but neglected, national historical treasures. But he doesn't collect just anybody's yearbook.
just anyone. In nine years, he has collected almost 1,000 yearbooks, including those of Johnny Carson, Mickey Mantle, Don Johnson, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Bill Murray, former Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and former astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. Jr.
Buzz, Arun. In addition, he has tracked down the yearbooks of Madonna, Tom Selleck, Stephen Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Janis Joplin and others.
Day thinks that collecting celebrity yearbooks is important because they allow young people to see that everyone has potential. He says yearbook pictures illustrate that many successful people came from the same ordinary surroundings as everyone else and that they were not always as glamorous or successful as they appear today.
For example, Harrison Ford was a member of the Model Railroad Club; Janis Joplin was a member of the Slide Rule Club, the Future Nurses of America and the Future Teachers of America clubs; and Tom Selleck played basketball. Madonna's picture, according to Day, looked cute but very unassuming.
cure bad days.
Day's interest in yearbooks began when he was doing genealogical research in 1975. "I wanted to find out what the people I was researching looked like when they were younger," Day said. "I thought their high school yearbooks would be a place to start."
But Day found out that tracking down the yearbooks wasn't that easy.
"No one was saving them. If the library or high school lost them, they were gone. I found out that people don't care that much about yearbooks."
Day hasn't been able to find every yearbook he looked for. Particularly elusive are those of Roger Maris, Jim Morrison, Frank Sinatra and John F. Kennedy. Even more elusive are Farnall and Oprah Winfrey. "I haven't been able to find where they went to high school."
In 1978, Day began concentrating on celebrity yearbooks with a search for Elvis Presley's 1953 yearbook from Humes High School in Memphis, Tenn. Day found a signed copy in 1980. Last June, he made a profit from that search when the yearbook drew $1,200 at a New York City auction.
It's not only money that keeps Day interested in the collection of yearbooks, though. He likes it. And he thinks yearbooks have an important message for young Americans.
Day buys and sells yearbooks as a business, but it's not a big business, and he does it for fun more than anything. "Apparently I'm the only person who does this. I play private detective. And if I sell the book, I might make a couple hundred dollars.
"If someone is looking for a specific yearbook, I and find it, and if I can buy it, I'll sell it to them."
Americans:
Day hopes to provide a forum for young people to see those yearbooks. He and a partner would like to build a "Celebrity Yearbook" museum in Orlando, Fla. They've located some property in Orlando, he said.
"we'd like it to be a sort of shrine of success for young Americans," Day said. "It could show people that no matter how modest your beginnings, if you shoot for the highest, you can be successful."
Don Johnson with a date at his 1967 senior prom at Wichita South High School.
Bob Dole's graduation picture at Russell High School in 1941.
KANSAN MAGAZINE December 2, 1987 13
ts Iowa r top post
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.
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.
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 ier 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 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.
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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