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WEDNESDAY,JULY11,2001
HASKELL: Tranfer students make transition to KU
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Their native customs, religions and languages were to be left at home.
Many changes have occurred over the years. The biggest change came in 1995 when the school became more than a two-year junior college and changed its name to Haskell Indian Nations University. It is now a fully accredited university that celebrates the diversity and culture of more than 500 federally recognized tribes. One hundred fifty tribal nations are represented at Haskell.
Manny King, Haskell registrar, said the school recently added American Indian studies, environmental science and business administration programs. Haskell continues to offer associate's degrees in 15 areas of emphasis. He said one of the school's strong points is that it continues to weave American Indian culture into all of its curricula.
schools and communities.
Kings said most of the 140 graduates of 2001 - 35 with undergraduate degrees and 105 with associate's degrees - wanted to go back to their tribes after graduation and make a productive impact on their political systems,
"We really strive to produce the most professional and quality-educated Native-American students who can then go out into the work force and be successful-because they are the future of our Indian people," King said.
The University is trying to make the transition as comfortable as possible. Gloria Flores, associate director for the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center, said the Haskell Mentor Program, a volunteer-based service, was designed to anticipate and address the needs of Haskell students.
Upon arrival
Flores said there were nine undergraduate transfer students last year and she expects eight of them to return for the fall semester. The problems incoming
Some of the services the program provides are: enrollment and advising on the Haskell campus in April, a one-time $150 book grant, student mentors, faculty and staff mentors and a special orientation program in August when students are introduced to former Haskell students and Native-American faculty members.
Dianne Yeahquo Reyner, left, and Theresa Milk hope their transitions from Haskell Indian Nations University to the University of Kansas will be smooth, despite the cultural differences.
Haskell students face may vary, but two are common: the size of the student body and financial pressures.
"It's an awesome place to go, even though it's just across town," Flores said about the difference in size between the Haskell and KU campuses. "Financially, it is difficult because Haskell students have not had to seek financial assistance before."
Cornel Pewewardy, an assistant professor in the School of Education, volunteers for the Haskell Mentoring Program. He said he recognizes the financial challenge of attending the University. The only tuition Haskell students are required to pay to attend Haskell was a $150 activity fee. The remaining costs are paid by the U.S. government.
"In return for land altering their livelihoods, Indians received promises of money, goods and certain services, such
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But Peeweardy thinks the meager tuition is hardly a free ride. He said it was paid for with human lives - Indian lives. He said that when white settlers moved farther west, the U.S. government began to obtain legal titles to the land by signing treaties.
as health care and education," Peweward said.
Different point of view
Although KU's efforts to improve conditions for Native-American students continues to grow and expand, some students feel their needs have yet to be met. Dan Dire, a fall 2000 Haskell undergraduate transfer student, became disillusioned with the University after one semester. He returned to Haskell.
"The program isn't as cool as they say," Dire said. He said he was disappointed because much
of his course work transferred only as electives, the class sizes were too big and professors' teaching styles were very different from Haskell teachers. He said that his history professor, in particular, wasn't willing to see his view. He felt as if he had no place at the University.
Dire believes the mentor program let him down.
Dire's recommends that Haskell transfer students think about their career path, see how credit hours transfer and think
"I only got one letter from my mentor--at the end of the semester," he said.
about what they want to do after college. He said Haskell was more conducive to his personality and what he wanted to do after finishing college.
Michael Begay also knows what he wants to do after he gets his bachelor's degree. He hopes to pursue a graduate degree in computer science and then return to the area where he grew up.
He said he wants to teach others that there is a way out of the reservations and a way back.
DOOMED: NCAA men's swimming may come to an end
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Men's swimming is the latest victim of bad financial decisions, said Andrew Zimbalist, Smith College economics professor and author of Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports. He said those decisions have come both from the NCAA and its member schools.
"The collegiate athletics business model no longer works." Zimbalist said. "Right now, men's swimming is paying the price."
The Problem
Frederick cited scholarship costs, operating expenses and a 115 percent jump in travel costs as reasons for cutting the programs.
The Universities of New Mexico and Illinois both cut their men's swimming programs in the early 1990s. Prior to the cuts at New Mexico, the Lobos supported 24 men's teams, making it one of the largest programs in the country.
Frederick joined the national ranks of other athletics directors with similar cost-cutting woes.
"We couldn't fund that many programs and stay competitive," Bill McGillis, New Mexico senior associate athletics director said. "Our decision was based solely on budget issues."
As in all cases, there are gender issues to consider.
"We could not even consider cutting any women's sports because of gender equity issues," McGillis added.
Kent Brown, University of Illinois assistant director of athletics, remembers when the same thing happened to the Fighting Illini.
"The money wasn't there to add new sports, and we had large gaps between the number of men's and women's sports." Brown said. "The only thing we could do was cut men's programs so we could be in compliance with Title IX."
Designed to create gender equity in college athletics, the NCAA passed Title IX in the 1970s but did not stringently
enforce it until two decades later. Title IX requires athletics departments to provide proportional amounts of athletic opportunities and funding to men's and women's sports.
Athletics directors and university officials say universities do not feel they can sponsor all the sports they have and remain competitive in each.
"This was an extremely difficult decision, but, unfortunately, a necessary one," said Harvey Pearlman, University of Nebraska chancellor. "I've watched the arms race of athletic spending force other universities to drop sports, but it doesn't make it any easier when you are impacting your own students and their dreams."
The Bigger Picture
The budget crisis reaches further than men's swimming. Zimbablist says poor financial planning and a cavalier attitude toward spending by university athletics programs has led to a variety of money issues. Some of these include the inability to
improve new facilities, skyrocketing ticket prices of men's basketball and football games and the inability to support numerous non-revenue sports.
"Part of the problem is that they don't have a tight budget constraint like they would if they were a privately held organization." Zimbalist said.
Zimbalist also said he believed that a model in which basketball and football revenues supported all other sports was flawed.
"The players generate money that is going to subsidize all the other sports." Zimbalist said. He explained that except for a few schools, football and basketball don't generate enough to pay for expensive non-revenue programs.
He also cited coaches and expensive new facilities as other financial drains. Zimbalist doesn't necessarily see cutting men's swimming as a problem. In fact, it may be the solution.
"I don't think non-revenue sports are going to disappear entirely," Zimbalist said. "But so
what if, in a particular conference, two or three schools drop a swimming team or two or three schools drop a baseball team? As long as there are a large number of schools that offer those sports so the kids that want to do swimming can do it, there is no reason that every school has to have a men's swimming team."
Dickinson's Dilemma
Back in Allen Fieldhouse, the men's swimming offices are now empty. Dickinson has moved on. Most of the displaced athletes he left behind will stay at KU without a men's swimming program.
"I already have my scholarship here, and KU is just a better place for me to be right now even without swimming," said Chris Clinton, Topeka sophomore.
Nine of the men's swimmers will leave to continue their careers.
"The only guys that are going to leave KU are our freshman and redshirt freshmen," Dickinson said.
versities next year.
"The younger guys weren't getting very much money in scholarships to start with," said former KU swimmer Chris Musfeldt. Musfeldt will receive a limited scholarship at the University of Missouri next season. "The upperclassmen couldn't get scholarships for as much as they needed because the swimmers were told about the cuts so late into the recruiting process."
Dickinson thinks the men's swimming cuts is a national trend.a
"If something doesn't change, I think men's swimming is probably doomed in college," Dickinson said. "Twenty years ago the targets were men's gymnastics and men's wrestling, and basically those programs are depleted. There are hardly any left. Swimming is next."
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