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University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 5, 1990
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Enrollment adjustment excluded from budget
By Pam Soliner
Kansan staff writer
Gov. Mike Hayden's budget proposal is sending a message to state universities: Bigger is not always better.
His proposal for fiscal year 1981 emphasizes enrollment stabilization instead of rigorous student recruiting.
Kansas State University may be the first Board of Regents institution to feel the effects of the proposal and to record its record-setting enrollment increase.
Hayden's plan eliminates tuition fee releases and phases out enrollment adjustment money, which promotes the university's primary relief for changes in enrollment.
Fee releases are temporary budget adjustments to accommodate increased enrollment. Because enrollment increases have an immediate impact on institutional costs, fees are released during the fiscal year that the increase occurs.
Hayden's proposal asked K-State to cut $2.1 million from its current budget. This included $73,000 of fee increases, based on previous enrollment.
Last week, K-State registrar Don Foster released first-day enrollment figures for Spring 1990, which reflected an increase of 1.717 student percent. The highest percent increase is the highest preliminary total in the school's history.
With the elimination of fee releases, K.State would not receive financing to accommodate the 12 percent increase. Foster said the final enrollment figures usually were 20 percent higher than the preliminary figures.
"You have to look at it as a proposal at this point," said Bob Krause, vice president for institutional advancement at K-State.
Krause said the elimination of fee releases had forced reductions in courses that students already had to take. Students would have ways to accommodate the students
by looking for drastic budget cuts in other areas.
University of Kansas preliminary figures for Spring 1990 show a 2.3 percent enrollment increase.
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Lindy Eakin, KU budget director,
said KU requested $351,176 in fee
releases to accommodate an
increase of 300 students in Fall 1989.
He said Hayden's proposal would not
affect KU as much as it would K-State.
"Because we were conservative with our management, we didn't go out and spend this money before we got it." he said.
Eakin said K-State took a calculated risk by spending the money before receiving it. Universities planned budgets in October, and Eakin said the schools had no way of predicting how the Legislature would react in January, when it reconvened.
KU used the extra money to purchase better instructional material and equipment. he said.
"K-State has become the example the governor's office is using to say you shouldn't go out and recruit students." Eakin said.
State Budget Director Michael O'Keece said Hayden hoped to begin a sorting-out policy in the state's higher education system. He said instituted qualified admissions at Regents institutions and students with lower high school grade point averages to enroll at community colleges.
Regents universities already have selective admissions for out-of-state students. At KU, those students must have a grade point average of 3.0 in at least six high school semesters, or an ACT composite score of 23 and a 2.0 high school GPA, or have completed the Board of Regents recommended college preparatory curriculum and have a 2.0 high school GPA.
All in-state students that have graduated from an accredited state high school and applied for admission by the deadline are accepted at KU.
Black author, teacher founded national Black History Month
Special to the Kansan
By Jonathan Plummer
Carter Woodson founded Negro History Week in 1926, and the national event has since been expanded into Black History Month.
Widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of Black history, Woodson chose the week of Feb. 11-17 to coincide with the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln and 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
On Dec. 19, 1875, Woodson was born into a poor family in New Canton, Va. Poverty forced him to work in coal mines until he was 20. Then, he entered high school and graduated in less than two years.
Three years later, he founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. The association was founded in 1879 with texts and collected valuable papers
in Black history. The association was considered a breakthrough in an area previously dominated by discriminatory information.
After graduation, he taught high school and studied abroad and in the United States, earning a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912.
Woodson created the Journal of Negro History, which for 30 years remained one of the most respected sources in the study of Black culture.
Woodson returned to teaching in 1919 as dean of liberal arts and sciences at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He kept the post in 1920 when he became dean at West Virginia State College in Institute.
While in West Virginia, he founded and led the Associated Publishers, which sought to circumvent the white supremacist attitude to publish books about Blacks.
Among the books Woodson wrote were "The Negro In Our History," the 10th edition of which was printed in 1862, and the Encyclopedia Africana in his volume work completing when he died on April 3, 1850.
Carter G. Woodson
Born: December 19, 1875 - New Canton, Va.
Died: April 3, 1950 - Washington D.C.
Occupation: Historian
Contribution: Woodson was a pioneer in the field of Black history, an author, and founder of Negro History Week, which is now Black History Month.
Ardra Tippett (left) and Frenchette Garth (right) discuss issues concerning African Americans with KJHK disc lockey Jesse Jackson.
KJHK show incites candid talks
By Mark McHugh
Kansan staff writer
Jesse Jackson, KJHK disc jockey, considers his Saturday night show an open forum for campus discussions of sensitive
"This is college radio," he said. "This is where it is supposed to happen."
Jackson, Topea junior, and known as "Sir Light" on his radio show, has hosted the "Black Music Show" on KJKH for three semesters. The show provides listeners an opportunity to hear music that deals with racial issues, and it invites discussion from students.
After his show ended Saturday night at 9:30, he received a phone call from a critical listener, who described as an "elitist racist."
"He told me I had a superiority complex," Jackson said.
Jackson said he wasn't named
after the political leader.
"I can't imagine anyone who would want to be named after Jesse Jackson right now," he said. "Unconvenient. It's a total dread."
He said he received all kinds of responses from his listeners. Although his talk show segment allows him to explore controversy and Jackson saw the wanted to avoid having a fanatical radio show.
"All our guests are accurate, and I'm very accurate with what I'm doing," he said. "It can be hard to be informative without circum sport."
Jackson plays music with explicit lyrics. Some of the artists he plays on the air are Public Enemy, N.W.A., and ICE.T. These artists are known for having militant messages in their songs.
"I play music that's very lyrically potent. It's politically, spiritually and sexually to the point." he said. "If you're into lyrics at all, what you're hearing is a political message that the music has."
Jackson said it was essential in college radio to avoid the mainstream of commercial radio sta-torious controversial issues are often ignored.
"At times it's very difficult because I stay as far out on the edge as I can," he said.
He said the music he played and the guests he had on the air probably gave his show notoriety.
In the past, he has had speakers representing the Black National Movement, members of the gay lesbian community and psychics.
Saturday night, Jackson had two guests on his show, Frenchette Garth, president of Black Student
"I like to have whoever has something unusual to offer," he said.
Union, and Ardra Tippett, chairman of the Big Eight Council on Black Student Government.
Tippett talked about the political leader. Jesse Jackson.
"As far as I'm concerned, he sold out." she said.
Jackson responded, "He became an American, as opposed to an African-American?"
Tippet said, "No. He became a greedy capitalist."
Tippett said she did not like to be called a member of a minority group.
"I don't like to lump myself in a category like that." she said.
White people think outspoken Black women are domineering, Tippet said. She had a message for white people to break this communication barrier.
"Have some respect for me," she said. "Respect me for who I am and don't try to change me."
Nurse transplants bolster Med Center
Kansan staff writer
By Steve Bailey
Most people hop in a car and drive to work in the morning. But beginning last month, a group of nurses at the University of Kansas Medical Center found a new mode of transportation
Now they hop on a plane and fly to work.
On Jan. 2, 12 nurses from Ulysses, Kan., started work at the Med Center. They are part of a new program that files nurses from rural hospitals, where there are few patients, to the Med Center, where there is a nursing shortage.
The program began when Med Center officials learned that some rural Kansas hospitals could not employ all their nurses full-time because of a lack of patients, said Carol Thiles, assistant director of Nursing Services for recruitment and placement at the Med Center.
Thies said the nurses were flown to the Med Center on its Outreach Plane, which transports physicians and health care workers throughout
the state. The flight does not cost the Med Center non-budgeted money because the nurses are picked up during scheduled flights from southwestern Kansas near Ulysses.
The trip, which would take about eight hours by automobile, takes one hour.
Two or three nurses arrive on each flight for a three to five day stay at the Med Center. Thies said. Several hospital rooms were refurbished for the benefit of patients. Each nurse works about 35 hours in 8 to 12 hour shifts during her stay.
"Every shift they are here is wonderful," Thies said. "They are tremendous assets to the hospital."
The program is advantageous for the nurses as well. They receive full-time benefits and gain nursing experience in a large metropolitan hospital.
Nancy Nicholas, registered nurse, said there were five patients in the 35-bed hospital in Ulysses when she came to the Med Center in January. Last week, she made her second trip from Ulysses.
"There is a definite change in the amount of pressure and what is expected of you here," Nicholas said. "The biggest difference is that you have to gear yourself for the change."
Nicholas said that the experience was overwhelming at first but that everyone around her had been very badly hurt - everyone but her two daughters.
"The kids think mom needs to home every night, but we've managed," she said. "My family has the support I need for me to be gone."
The nurses, who are without their own automobiles, do not leave the Med Center often. However, Nicholas said she attended the Kansas men's basketball game against Colorado last week and loved it.
Nicholas said she enjoyed working at the Med Center but was a little uncomfortable with all the publicity Ulises nurses had been receiving.
"It takes all the full-time, steady workers to actually keep this place
going," she said. "They should be in the spotlight, not me."
Kristy Kossuth, registered nurse from Ulysses, said she was shocked at the size of the hospital and the number of patients at the Med Center.
"When I got here the first day I asked myself, 'Why am I here?'"
Kossuth said. "The readjustment here has been tough. Finding my way around the Med Center was a challenge in itself."
Thies said it was amazing that the program had been successful so quickly.
"The program took only 10 weeks from creation to implementation," she said. "It has really gone without a hitch. Even the weather has cooperated."
Thies said the Med Center had received inquiries from other rural Kansas towns. She said the Med Center might contact nurses from other cities if the program was continued.
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