THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100.NO.96
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY, FEB. 19, 1990
KU sets enrollment record
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By Buck Taylor
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas has reported its highest spring enrollment ever, according to statistics from the department of educational services.
Enrollment at the Lawrence campus and the University of Kansas Medical Center was a record 27,182 on Wednesday, the 20th day of classes. That is an increase of 378 from 1989, the only spring semester since 1966 that KU enrollment declined.
"Demand remains high for the academic programs at the University of Kansas," Chancellor Gene A. Budig said in a prepared statement. "These challenging programs represent opportunity for our students and pride for our alumni and citizens. KU continues to attract and retain large numbers of superior students."
Budig said that enrollment had stabilized and that the increase of
KU is starting the decade with 94 more students than in Spring 1988, the previous peak.
94 students was a continuation of the administration's enrollment plan.
Enrollment on the Lawrence campus was 23,392, an increase of 545 from 1989 and greater than the previous high of 22,992 set in 1988. Med Center enrollment was 2,566, an increase of 66 from 1989.
Bruce Lindvall, director of admissions, said the rise could be attributed partly to a University-wide effort to raise the level of quality of undergraduate students. By raising the quality, University
officials expect to retain more students who will graduate.
"We've seen a slight increase in new students, and we've been trying to keep more students in school," Lindvall said. "The world is a competitive place, and two years ago we embarked on a mission to improve the quality of our students."
The 20th-day head count figures are released each semester and are calculated after compiling the data from each school within the University.
Journalism, liberal arts show significant increases
Bv Buck Tavlor
Kansan staff writer
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences showed the largest enrollment increase of KU's schools this semester.
The college had 12,458 students enrolled Wednesday, the 20th day of classes. That represents an increase in enrollment or 1.9 percent, from Spring 1989.
Kathy Hall, assistant director of the undergraduate center in the college, said the increase might be attributed to strengthened admissions policies.
"The University has started to retain better students now," she said. "This factor reduces the number that drop out or are kicked out, and therefore we have more students."
The School of Journalism had an increase of 129 students, or 15.8 percent, the highest percent among all University of Kansas schools.
Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism, said the school's enrollment had been growing.
"The increases in enrollment are indicating that students perceive quality in the programs within the school," he said.
Kautsch said the school's advertising, business communications and magazine sequences were attracting the most students.
"The students appear to be enrolling in those areas because they tend to be interested in business, entrepreneurship, 'Kautsch said.'"
The School of Social Welfare had the largest enrollment decrease. Enrollment was 582, a drop of 78 students, or 11.8 percent.
Spring enrollment climbs to new heights
social welfare, said the decrease was part of a plan by the administration to lower the school's enrollment.
Edith Black, assistant dean of
"Since 1982, our school has grown by 30 percent," she said. "Our faculty had more than they could deal with, so we have been reducing students each semester to balance out the sizes."
Statistics for the enrollment in each school were included in the 20th-day head count figures. The figures were released Friday by the department of educational services.
Source: Department of Educational Services Stephen Kline / KANSAN
Party keeps strong hold in Japan
The Associated Press/
TOKYO — Japan's conservative governing party held on to its 34-year-old majority in Parliament's powerful lower house, but scandals and an unpopular tax may have cost it nearly three dozen seats in yesterday's national election.
Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu called the preliminary results a form of purification for his troubled Liberal Democratic Party. The largest opposition group, the Socialists, made strong gains.
The political outlook was clouded because the opposition has a majority in Parliament's upper house, making it difficult to pass major legislation or deal with trade problems with the United States.
Former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, 65, seen as a likely successor to Kaife, also won re-election despite links to an influence-pedding scandal that forced him to step down as party secretary general, a post that often is a stepping stone to the prime minister's office.
A 31-year-old doctor said he was no Liberal Democratic Party supporter, "but I just had to choose (them) because nobody else is capable."
Malcolm X's widow speaks at KU
Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, talks about her late husband and the need for racial understanding. Malcolm X, a Black activist, was killed 25 years ago this week. Shabazz spoke Friday at Spencer Museum of Art. See story on page 3.
Lack of KU senators halts hearing
By Matt Taylor
Korean staff writer
Student Senate's Finance Committee did not hear scheduled budget requests Saturday morning because not enough senators showed up.
The committee did not have a quorum, the minimum number of committee members who must be present for the valid transaction of business. Quorum for the committee is one-third of the committee plus one, said Pat Warren, committee cochairman.
Fifteen committee members attended the 8 a.m. meeting, which was two fewer than the 17 needed, Warren said.
Warren said he heard some
excuses from committee members.
Julia Pilner, co-director of Off Campus Center, who was to make a request Saturday, said last night that she had not received a phone call from the committee about a new hearing.
Warren said there would be plenty of time to hear the missed requests. He said no representatives of the organizations that were to make requests Saturday were upset about the absences.
"A couple of them overslept, and a couple went to the game," Warren Snyder told the Kansas-Nebraska basketball game, which had a 3:10 p.m. tip-off.
"I showed up at 11 a.m., and five committee members told me there were not enough people to have a meeting," Mayne said. "I wish they could have called me, but it won't present any problem to reschedule it."
with the game," Pitner said. "It's kind of nerve-racking."
John Mayne, treasurer of Engineering Student Council, said he was not disappointed by the cancellation.
Warren said the committee would reschedule the hearing this week. Other budget hearings already are scheduled throughout the week.
tions making requests not to hold the meeting if there's no quorum. They deserve a fair hearing. We still have some time to hear the request."
Scheduled to make requests were Taiwanese Student Association, Native American Student Organization, Nilson Club, Students Concerned About Discrimination, KU India Club, American Friends of Palestine, Off-Campus Center, Society of East Asian Studies, Engineering Student Council, Campus Vegetarian Society, KU Symphony Orchestra and KU Student Theater Organization.
The committee will hear more budget requests at 7 tonight at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union.
Survey indicates adults have sex 57 times a year
Carl Damon, Senate treasurer,
said, "I think it's fair to the organiza-
The survey also revealed that adults older than 70 have sex less than once a month and one person in five claims to have abstained entirely in the past year.
NEW ORLEANS — Adults in the United States say they have intercourse an average of once a week, according to a survey released yesterday.
The Associated Press
The findings, based on a long-running survey of 1,600 households across the country, suggest that people in the United States are not as sexually adventuresome as they often are portrayed.
"This shows that the sexual behavior of Americans is more circumscpect and traditional than the libertine impression we get from the popular media and fiction," said Tom W. Smith of the University of Chicago, who directed the survey.
Smith's survey found that adults have sex an average of 57 times a year, or about once a
"We don't know what night of the week, but it sounds like the traditional stereotype of every
Saturday night," he said.
Sexual frequency dropped with age from about 70 times a year for those under 40 to eight times for those more than 70 years old. Overall, married people have sex 67 times a year, separated people 66 times, divorced and single people 55 times and widowed people six times.
However, 22 percent of the people said they had no sex partners during the previous year. Nine percent of the married people and 86 percent of the widowed people were abstinent.
KJHK workers claim censorship sponsor concert
Kansan staff writer
Bv Sandra Moran
The Outhouse is about three miles east of Lawrence on 15th Street.
KJHK workers and concerned community members sponsored a benefit concert at the Outhouse on Friday night to protest censorship of alternative music and faculty control of the student-run station, said Grant Fitch. KJHK music director.
KJHK student workers think they are losing control of the station and are being subjected to censorship, as well as being arbitrated at the concert by its sponsors.
About 250 people attended the concert, including Fitch and other KJHK
Jesse Jackson, KJHK disc jockey,
was one of about 10 speakers at
the concert. He spoke against censorship
of alternative bands in Lawrence and
advocated the right of KJHK listens
to hear music by Kill Whitey and
Magic Nose.
Kill Whitey and Magic Nose are two local bands that have said that some of their songs were removed from the station's studio. Station staff members have said that the missing song cartridges were replaced with copies.
Tim Mohn of Kill Whitey said the band was invited to participate in the concert by students at the station.
"We did it because we are firm believers of freedom of speech," he said. "This is really the first time we've been censored. It hurts."
Tim Mensendiek, faculty advises and general manager of the station, said he allowed students to run the station. He said he had never been approached at a staff meeting with worker complaints.
"The staff has been extremely pleased with the atmosphere and progress of KJHK," he said.
Staff relations
But Jason McIntosh, KJKH program director, said the atmosphere at the station between the faculty and students was tense.
"There is a lot of uneasiness at this point among the staff as to the future of KJHK continuing as a student-run radio station," he said.
Free speech
The statement read, "I, the undersigned, believe that KJHK is no longer the free voice of all students because of a system created by the faculty of the journalism school,
The concert pamphlet, titled "Radio Free Lawrence: Freedom of Speech at KJHK," was written by Brian Schwegmann, editor of Disorientation, an underground magazine. It contained statements for people attending the concert to sign and place in a box by the door.
— Tim Mensendiek faculty adviser and general manager of the station
'I don't know what their claim is about freedom of speech. As far as the station being the free voice of the students, I wonder what that means.'
without student input or consent."
About 200 pamphlets were printed and distributed, Schwegmann said. He said the signed statements had not been counted yet.
Mensendiek said the statement was false and open-ended.
"I don't know what their claim is about freedom of speech," he said. "As far as the station being the free student, I wonder what that means."
"For the life of me, I can't figure out how the charge of denial of freedom of speech is substantiated."
Mike Uln, KJHK operations manager, said he did not know about the concert. He said it was not his job to event events that opposed the station.
"If groups wish to go against the radio station, that's their right." Ulin
Faculty control
Schwegmann spoke at the concert about censorship and unfair treatment of the KJHK staff. He criticized the structure of the station.
"The format limits what you are allowed to hear," he said. "Ultimately, the faculty decides what happens at the station."
The pamphlet stated that a June 13, 1989, action by the School of Journalism was an example of faculty control. The school created the Program Advisory Board to review music broadcasts.
The three-member board is comprised of Mensendiek, a faculty member and a student member, the latter two appointed by Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism.
Because board members are appointed by Kautsch, student workers have no input about who is chosen to represent broadcasts, the pamphlet said.
Mensendiek said that complaint was irrelevant because the board had not met since he was hired in August 1989
"If somebody doesn't like what we do, there is another spot on the dial," he said.