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convinced that education in Kansas is so important that we'll just have to find the dollars." Creighton said.
Regent Richard Senecal said that KU's budget problems were not that severe and that Kansas' property tax crisis actually would deter any significant improvements in university financing.
"You have to solve that problem first," Senecal said. "And it's a big problem. It's a problem that goes to the core of downtown Karasas."
The 1909 Fiske Guide to Colleges ranks KU as high or higher than all of its peers except the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Twenty-five of KU's academic programs are in the top 10 available at public universities nationwide.
Education at KU is a bargain compared to its peers, according to the guide.
Tutition is 9 percent lower than its peer average and 30 percent lower than the national average.
John Scarff, director of the KU Endowment Association, said private money had contributed to the University's eminence.
"It provides the extras that make this an excellent university," he said. "We do have a lot of support."
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said last week that private money would become more important to public institutions and that only universities and institutions would survive in the future. If the right, KU is ahead of the trend.
The level of private donations to KU has increased from $14.6 million during fiscal 2018 to $39.3 million about of 43 percent. Scarfe said
KU is fortunate to have generous alumni, he said. Private money can be used to expand the number of scholarship grants, acquire items for libraries, and
Campaign Kansas, the University's $177 million fund drive is evidence that. The 5-year drive began with less than $4 million from its goal.
museums, purchase equipment and finance construction and other improvements.
Finney, who praised Campaign Kansas at a budget appeals hearing last week, has said since then that she thought it would be possible to maintain the quality of KU without spending more money.
Finney said her plan to reorganize and link every level of education in the state would provide a better focus on teachers and a better agenda for students.
Reorganization will not cost any money, she said. She hopes to work with the presidents of the seven Regents institutions, whose talents, are underused, to begin setting new standards for education within a year's time.
KU and Regents official: including Budig, who met with Finney last week during a Topeka budget appeals hearing, said they were impressed by Finney's plan and her commitment to higher education and the Margin.
State money
State dollars spent for each student at each peer school (approximate for fiscal year 1991 and 1982)
1991 1982
North Carolina 5,947 4,825
Kansas 3,905 4,401
Oklahoma 4,405 3,807
Oregon 3,617 3,053
Colorado 2,363 2,242
Iowa 5,884 5,680
fund.
Finney said the money might come from the state lottery, which will become part of the state's general
But for now, there are no guarantees that KU's budget will receive a makeover anytime soon.
"I've made a commitment to theMargin of Excellence." Finney said.But regarding the budget of the University, being at it and doing the best we can.
State money
The percentage of University expenditures that were financed by the state of Kansas.
1981 47.1
1982 46.1
1983 48.6
1984 47.7
1985 46.5
1986 45.1
1987 43.9
1988 39.2
1989 40.0
1990 41.8
1991 40.7
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American Indian students at KU are working to integrate their culture into campus life.
Allan Hayton, a member of the Gwich'in tribe in Alaska, said he and other American Indian students started the Native American Student Association in 1982 as unsuccessful attempt in the 1988-89 academic year.
He wanted to give American Indian students at KU a group to build relationships from.
"Mainly to have some sort of base, because it's easy to get lost at KU," Hayton said. "Just some sort of foundation, that's what we’re trying to build."
Hayton rarely sees another American Indian on campus. He said when he came to KU, he knew only two other American Indian students here and felt kind of lost.
Although the association still is in a formative stage, one of its basic goals is to act as a support group for other American Indian students, Hayton said.
The group also intends to integrate Indian culture with life on campus by promoting Indian awareness, combatting stereotypes and campaigning for an American Indian studies program and more American Indian faculty and staff members.
There are at least two American Indian instructors at the University. One is not on the tenure trent
The association already has won one battle. With the help of the Office of Minority Affairs and the Student Assistance Center, five undergraduate and 10 graduate scholarships for American Indian students, totaing $13,500, will be available for the 1991-92 academic year.
But many more battles may have to be fought on American Indian students get the faculty representation.
One battle went to the field Friday when Rita
Napier, associate history professor; Smith; Hayton; Jim Middleton, another American Indian student; and James Muyksen, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, met to discuss starting a Native American studies program at KU.
Napier said such a program, in addition to allowing students to earn a Native American studies degree, would incorporate Indian perspectives into courses that already exist, including English, Western Civilization, math, physics and astronomy.
"It would be transforming in the University," Napier said. "It would be hard then to feel like you were stereotyped or that you were isolated if you were a Native American student.
"This is simply saying that in the past and in the present there were people in existence who had things to say and had done things that were important to talk about, and that we left them out because history's been written by the people who took over as opposed to everybody."
Napier said American Indian professors must be involved with a Native American studies program.
Hayton said the next step would be for American Indian students to review a 10-year proposal for a Native American studies program and make revisions if necessary. Then they will work with faculty and students to define the goals of the program, including objectives well as from the perspective of the rest of society.
Then another meeting with University administrators can take place in which more abstracts are presented.
Hayton said the meeting gave him hope and his homie realize that the association had come further.
"Last February we were talking on the phone and trying to think of 'What are we going to do now?'?" Hayton said. "I think we're moving toward clearer goals, establishing ourselves, understanding each other, working to be a long-term organization."
University liaison works to answer Haskell questions
Kansan staff writer
By Debbie Myers
Teri Martin, a 1988 Haskell Indian Junior College graduate, said she had heard Haskell students refer to the University of Kansas as "the big white school on the Hill."
Martin, now a KU junior, said she wanted to use her new position in the Office of Admissions as a liaison between KU and Haskell to change that perception.
"There's a lot of stigma involved in it because it's viewed as large and intimidating, and I want to break that down and make them realize they can get a good education as well as get a lot of support from fellow students," Martin said. "I would like them to feel that it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be."
Martin's efforts are part of the University's attempt to bring American Indian students to KU and make them feel welcome. The offices of Admissions and Minority Affairs are also involved in recruiting and retention activities.
Martin, who will be the liaison during the spring semester, said the 20 hours a week she spent in her position would be split evenly between KU and Haskell.
She said she would try to think of ways to attract American Indian students to the University. One way is to work with the Native American Student Association to produce a pamphlet for American Indian graduates of high schools and Haskell.
Pollution may be cause of more cancer deaths
The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Cancer death rates in industrialized nations are rising faster than aging and smoking might account for, heightening suspicion of pollution and other environmental dangers are at fault, scientists say.
Cancer causes 2.3 million of the 11 million deaths annually in industrialized nations, according to one of an international set of reports collected and published by the New York Academy of Sciences.
When lung cancer — most often caused by smoking — is excluded, the cancer death rate among men in industrialized nations has risen 9 percent since 1950, the report said. Cancer death rates for women have risen in some countries and fallen in others.
Brain cancer is among the most rapidly increasing, especially among people over 65, said Devra Lee Davis, an editor of a collection of studies about cancer and a researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. In some cases, the rate in the industrial world has increased more than six-fold in those over age 75, she said. Such cancer has also increased among young people, although at a lower rate, she said.
Research shows that in the United States, the rate of lung cancer deaths among nonsmoking women is now higher than the total lung cancer
death rate in women 30 years ago. she said.
That could reflect exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke as well as to radon, asbestos and air pollution, Davis said.
According to National Cancer Institute figures, the lung cancer death rate among all American women in 1955 was 5.1 deaths per 100,000 women. Davis and her colleagues calculated that the death rate in women nonsmokers by 1955 was 6.1 per 100,000.
Sharp increases also are occurring in a blood cancer called multiple myeloma and the dangerous skin cancer called melanoma. Davis said.
In Italy, Cesare Maltoni and colleagues at the Bologna Institute of Oncology found that cancer causes nearly 40 percent of all deaths in the Bologna area, and the rate continues to climb. That's double the rate for the rest of the country. Bologna is in the most industrialized part of Italy
Although the studies emphasize occupational and environmental exposures, smoking remains one of the greatest causes of cancer. Davis said
In many industrial countries smoking is responsible for 40 percent of all cancer deaths in men and 30 percent in women, the studies show.
The studies are collected in "Trends in Cancer Mortality in Industrial Countries."
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