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'91 applicants top 1990 total
Number of applications to KU increases despite Regents fee
By Eric Nelson
By Eric Nelson Kansan staff writer
Applications for admission to KU are up 10 percent to 12 percent from last year, a KU official said yesterday.
Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, said the increase came after a decrease of 20 percent at this time last year.
The decrease probably was due to a $15 application fee the Board of Regents instituted at the beginning of Fall 1990. Lindvall said.
Although figures were down at this time last year, total applications rebounded to an overall decrease of only 4 percent, he said.
Dave Shulenburger, vice chairman for academic affairs, said he thought the number of applications received in 2015 became more accustomed to the fee.
Lindwall said the Regents implemented the fee to reduce applications and raise money.
"We basically out put people who are shopping and not very serious, he said."
Dick Eikens, director of admissions at Kansas State University, agreed
"I think their idea was to cut back on the multiple applications," he said.
Linda Mullens, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, said the fee raised $190,000 that was used to cover emissions process and for financial aid.
She said the Regents specified that the money could not be used for
recruiting purposes
Lindvall said that it was a goal at KU to stabilize enrollment but that with the number of high school graduates in Kansas decreasing, more KU students were enrolling and KState recruit high school students by traveling across the state.
"It's more competitive," he said.
Gary Watson, a research analyst with the Department of Education, said there had been a decrease in the size of school grading classes on the No. 178
In 1977, 33,216 students graduated from Kansas high schools, he said. The preliminary count for 1990 was 95.057
Watson said the number of students enrolled in the lower grades was higher than the number enrolled in kindergarten and elementary classes averaging 36,000.
Elkins said that applications for admission were down for the second consecutive year at K-State but that they were at the same level as they were in previous years.
K-State does not have a closing date for the acceptance of applications. Elkins said, but applications may be delayed. May 15 do not receive priority status.
Deadlines for KU admission applications vary. Dates include April 1 in state students, Feb. 1 for out-of-state students, and March 4 for transfer students. Lindvall said.
Despite the preliminary figures, Lindvall said it was difficult to predict any enrollment trends for Fall 1991.
Senate considers special programs for sex offenders
Bv. Joe Gose
Kansan staff write
The State Senate Judiciary Committee is considering three bills that would place sex offenders in mental-health programs to the special treatment throughout the trial and incarceration process.
However, concern has been expressed in committee hearings as to how the bills would affect the mental-health field, whether the bills were too broad in scope and whether it would be possible to tell if an offender would repeat a sex crime.
Paul Klotz, executive director of the Association of Community Mental Health Services of Kansas Inc. said that if these bills were passed, they could add a new dimension to mental-health care.
"These people are difficult to work with," he said. "The ideal situation would be to serve these people in separate facilities."
Sandra Snyder, a licensed clinical social worker. agreed.
"The bills lump sex offenders in with people with mental illnesses, but sex offenders are not mentally ill," she said. "They have antisocial personality disorders, and we must respect that distinction."
rate buildings were not provided, then the truly mentally ill might become victims.
Richard Ney, public defender for Sedgwick County, said the bills were targeted at nonviolent crimes that have been treated to make victims of them.
"The people who are going to be affected are the ones that have mental problems, not the really bad ones," he said. "Reading child pornography becomes a violent act under these bills."
But State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R.Lawrence, said that the bills were designed to provide a balance between protecting the vulnerable groups in society and offering treatment to those who needed it, even after they had served their sentences.
"But we want to protect the vulnerable people from those who have committed sexual violent crimes before. Fifteen to 20 per cent of the population have been incarcerated crime again, and we want those people in treatment."
"We want to write a bill to minimize the detrimental impact on these people," he said. "We don't want it so broad that it hurts us or people who make obscene phone calls, which is bad enough.
Reaching for the promised land
Snyder also worried that if sepa-
Cindy Reid, Overland Park freshman, practices a dance movement during a rehearsal for "The Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/Breathe Promised Land," produced and choreographed by Bill T. Jones. Local dancers will take part in the second half of the performance by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company, a national dance troupe. The performance is scheduled for 8 p.m., Feb. 5 at Hoch Auditorium.
Rent prices to increase on campus
Rv Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
The price of rent payments for Jayhawer Towers, residence halls and scholarship halls will increase to keep up with the rise in inflation.
The housing department is expecting an increase in inflation of 7 percent, McElenie said.
Fred McElennite, associate director of student housing, said the increase in contract costs, which will impact in August, will be about 9 percent.
"In general terms, all increases would reflect the type of increases in salaries, food costs and utilities," he said.
The process of increasing the payments began in September when the department began consulting with students, McEllenie said.
"We let them know that this is something that they can be concerned with," he said. "It was our goal to convince them of the imperatives we have."
The process also included consultations with the residential programs advisory board, which comprises representatives of various living communities. Ed Smith, Dean of student life, who serves as chairperson for the board.
the recommendation was then approved by David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, and Chancellor Gene Budig, he said. In December it was approved by the Board of Regents.
MeHienie said that because the process was rather involved, the department not only got many ideas from each consultation but also had
"We have got to do some projections for way down the line," McElhene said.
Jerry Rogers, director of student financial aid, said the increase in student housing costs would be figured into a student requests for financial aid.
This year, Rogers said, the office set the basic budget of a Kansas resident who lives on campus at KU and wants the budget will increase to 86,154 a year.
The budget includes the cost of tuition, fees, housing, books, transportation and spending money for an average student. Roegers said.
In comparison with other schools in the state, he said, KU's housing costs are still low.
Senate finance committee approves day-care bill
Kansan staff writer
By Michael Christie
The Student Senate Finance Committee last might voted unanimously to send a bill to Senate that would allocate $5,115 to establish a day-care center in Stouffler Place Apartments and need services on a part-time basis.
The bill must pass through Senate before the money can be allocated to the center.
In other business, the committee and the Student Senate Executive
Committee voted to give revenue-code status to seven groups and to deny status to one group.
According to Student Senate Rules and Regulations, every two years groups seek two-year financing for their lawdex and the finance committee.
After groups are given revenue-code status, the finance committee votes to approve the budget requests of each group. The committee also can amend the budgets. Senate then votes to approve the budgets.
Consumer Affairs Association Inc. was denied status by both committees in unanimous votes.
If a group is denied revenue-code status, it still may receive money, either on an annual basis or by special request.
Kevin Sigourney, finance committee Kevin member, said he thought many of the services provided by Consumer Affairs could be provided by Legal Services for Students, another organization requesting revenue code status.
Julia Pitner, executive director of Consumer Affairs, said the organization was a level below Legal Services.
Consumer Affairs tries to settle disputes before they get to court, she said.
StudEx and the finance committee voted unanimously to grant revenue-code status to KU Band. Headquarters, JKHK, Hilltop Child Development, University Theatre. Student Bar Association and KU Forensics.
Preschoolers react to and question Persian Gulf War
By Patricia Rojas
Kansas staff writer
By Patricia Hoja
Kansan staff writer
Two preschoolers ran around the playground pretending they were Seuss missiles, while another child sat for them to put on their gas masks.
This behavior is the exception rather than the rule at Hilltop Child Development Center, said Joan Reiber, the center's director. However, it is among the reactions that local parents and teachers are seeing as a result of the Persian Gulf War.
Although teachers seem to disagree over how to discuss the war with their students, many agree that honesty is the best policy.
Gloria Miner, a preschool teacher at the children's House of Montessori, 1900 University Drive, showed a map of Kuwait to her students.
She explained to them that the United States was trying to protect the people in the Middle East.
"I don't think it is good to volunteer any more information than the children want to know." Miner said.
Some children ask more questions than others, she said.
on Baghdad, and she was concerned.
Her father, Kevin Angell, sat down with her and watched the news. He tried to explain what was happening.
One 8-year-old child, Nicole, sat in front of the television 16. It was nighttime and Nicole looked up.
Angell, director of Children and Youth Ministries at First Baptist Church, 1330 Kasol Drive, said Nicole was interested in knowing who Saddam Hussein was and where the war was taking place.
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