UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 14, 1997
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Residence halls suffer burglaries during break
By Harumi Kogarimal
Kansan staff writer
Jennifer Urban's winter break ended a nightmare when she opened the door of her residence hall room after three weeks of vacation.
Urban, Topeka freshman, found last Wednesday that her new 20-inch GETD television and RCA videocassette player were missing from her room in Elsworth Hall. The items were valued at $385.
"I was upset because the room was locked," Urban said. "I just don't understand how anybody can get in the locked room and leave the room locked."
Her case was one of three burglaries in residence halls reported to KU police by Jan. 10. A two-year-old Macintosh LC2 and a printer, valued at $2,200, also were stolen from another room in Ellsworth Hall, and
a room in McCollum Hall had been rummaged through, but no items were taken. The three cases are believed to have happened between Dec. 9 and Jan. 8.
Residents closed and locked their doors, and resident assistants double-checked them at the beginning of the holiday. Ellsworth Hall was closed during the break, and nobody could enter the building except staff and maintenance workers.
In McColllum Hall, desk assistants and RAS checked the KUIDs of every person who entered the building.
Fred McElhenie, assistant director for the Department of Student Housing, said that similar incidents in the past had been resolved quite simply. Students often just forgot that they had loaned their items to somebody or had taken them home, McElhenie said. Sometimes it turned out that
their friends borrowed the items without permission.
McElhenie said there had been very few real thefts, and they usually happened when a resident left earlier than his or her roommate and the roommate just forgot to lock the door.
Chris Keary, KU police sergeant, added that sometimes residents did not close the door properly and the door remained unlocked.
McElhenie recommended that residents took valuable items home with them during vacations.
"It is highly unlikely that somebody got in the locked rooms. As far as I know, locking would be enough." McElhene said.
"It would be hard to bring a desktop computer back home," McElhene said. "But you cannot do without it."
College to add summer classes
University attempts to boost enrollment with greater variety
By Mark McMaster
Kansan staff writer
Changes in the way summer school offerings are budgeted mean that students will have the opportunity to select from more classes for the 1997 summer semester.
Richard Givens, associate provost,
said that to attract more students to
the University's summer program,
the provost's office created a policy
designed to encourage departments
to offer more classes and in turn
boost summer enrollment.
"We haven't promoted our summer-school program very heavily in the past," Givens said. "It was felt that we should bring more attention to it, so we're encouraging the schools to expand their programs."
Previously, the Board of Regents' system of budgeting gave each department a fixed amount of money, based on previous summer enrollment, to spend on summerschool programs, said Lindy Eakin, associate provost. While an incentive program existed to encourage expanding summer offerings, it only provided up to 10 percent in additional financing for expansion.
The new budgeting plan, along with the Regents' Tuition Accountability program, allows departments to request as much financing as required based on enrollment demand. Only classes that attract enough students to cover the course costs are actually offered.
James Carothers, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that the new plan would help the college provide more courses.
"It means that we are not restricted in the amount of summer-session courses that we can offer, except by student demand," he said.
Carothers estimated that 20 to 25 percent more classes were available this summer from the college although that figure may change based on enrollment.
"We ought to have classes that would be of value to any student, from freshman to graduate-level offerings," he said.
Because some other schools at the University already have extensive summer programs, the increase in offerings outside of the college may
be less dramatic. Givens said he expected a 10-to 12-percent increase in non-CLAS courses available. However, after this year, the number of offerings could increase even more.
"I think it will take a couple of years to test this out and see the demand. Right now, people are being cautious," Eakin said.
Because the program is in its first year, Givens agreed that all of its benefits may not be immediate.
"This is an experimental year, so everyone's not sure quite what's happening. Either enrollment will go up or we'll drop the program," he said.
Registration for summer classes operates at the same time as enrollment for the Fall 1997 semester. Students will be mailed a permit to enroll for both summer and fall.
Because summer classes are more accelerated than regular-semester offerings, Givens advised students to take approximately half the classes they would in a normal semester for an equal workload.
With the additional classes available, he said that many students could remain enrolled full-time during the summer.
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