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Thursdav February 7. 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Closed classes frustrate impede foreign students
Some are forced to study longer, postpone graduation
Bv Benjamin W. Allen
Kansan staff writer
In addition to confronting all the problems presented by a new culture, foreign students coming to KU have to deal with a problem other students are familiar with and an ability to get into the classes they need.
The problem is uniquely traumatic for foreign students because they have traveled from other countries and may not be able to enroll in specific classes.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs said that he did not know the frequency of the problem but that it was traumatic when students traveled a great distance only to find that the University of Kansas could not accommodate them
He said the problem had occurred occasionally for foreign students in the past.
"We're looking into it on an administrative level and trying to find the cause." Shulenburger said
He said that the Schools of Architecture and Business were two of the schools that had suffered from this problem.
Lois Clark, assistant dean of architecture and urban design, said the problem resulted from the strong competition for studio assignments
She said that the problem for international students was that stud classes almost always were filled by Feb 1 and that international applications usually did not reach the school until March.
She said international students were disappointed when they could not start in studio classes immediately.
Sometimes it takes foreign stu dent, six years instead of the usual time, to finish the program. Clark said.
Myriantian Astanioti, Nicosia,
Cyprus, freshman, said she was unable to enroll in the architecture
school because she needed to finish the degree in five years.
She said that she had been forced to enroll late because she arrived from Cyprus too late to enroll on the normal time schedule.
Astamioti said that she received a five year scholarship from the International Institute of Education but that she doubted that she could get through the program in five years because it would not be able to enroll in the studio sequence
"By the time I arrived at KU, all the classes were closed," she said.
"It was very disappointing coming here full of hope to work in a studio." Astanioti said. "I'm finally starting to do what I want to with my life. This year for me is just a waste."
Dip in state's income tax revenue fuels worry over budget shortfall
The Associated Press
TOPEKA State revenue dropped almost $28 million below projected estimates during the past three months Chairpersons of the legislative budget committees that the best use was a matter
the legislative budget committees said that the shortfall was a matter
of concern in that it was not cause for panic.
"It's money,
real money
sand State Sen
Gus Bogina
chairperson of
charperson of
the Senate
State Rep George Teagarden, D.LaCyne, charperson of the House Appropriations Committee, said, "I don't think it's something I would want to do, but something to be concerned about. I'm just glad it is not down $12 million."
Ways and Means Committee "But it's not cause for gloom and despair. It's cause for concern
In a memorandum yesterday to the legislative Budget Committee, which includes Bogina and Teagarden, legislative research director Richard Ryan said state revenue totaled $644.83 million during November, December and January, the three months the state Consensus Estimating Group revised its estimates last fall.
That was $27.77 million below what had been projected to come in, worsening the state's financial picture as the Legislature begins the task of putting together a fiscal year 1992 budget
The proposed budget submitted by Gov. John Finney to lawmakers Jan 22 was based on those revenuejections made in early November.
"We could use the $2 million Teogarden said "That would pay for the gifted program and the Margin of Excellence and almost pay for the state employee raise under the governor's program. So it isn't an insignificant amount."
Gov. Joan Finney has proposed eliminating $8.5 million in state money for local school programs for gifted students and has proposed financing the final year of the Margin at $14.75 million.
Bogina agreed with Teagarden, saying, "Twenty seven million is a bunch, and it would be very helpful to have it. But it just means that we're still down a little bit.
The shortfall at the end of December was $28.7 million, so the state actually gained about $1 million during January.
Cause for concern, however, was that nearly all of the shortfall could be attributed to one tax, the indictment tax. A bill of $2,02 million through January
individual income tax receipts were down $16 million in January.
It will take an increase of 13.3 percent in income tax revenue coming in between now and June 30 for that source to make its estimate of $900 million, Ryan said.
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