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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103,NO.34
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY,OCTOBER 7,1993
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Minority enrollment on the rise
Efforts made to boost diversity
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By Carlos Tejada Kansan staff writer
Enrollment statistics released by the Department of Educational Services on Monday show KU's minority enrollment has increased from 7.5 to 7.8 percent of the student body.
The numbers, based on a head count made 20 days after enrollment, show that total minority enrollment increased from 1,978 to 2,031 since last fall. Since 1987, minority enrollment has increased by 434 students.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the gain was positive for both the University and the student body.
"I'm pleased we have been able to show continued growth in the area concerning minority students," he said.
Hispanic students had the largest gains. Since Fall 1992, the number of Hispanic students increased from 484 to 506; the number of Asian-American students increased to 653 from 630; the number of American-Indian students increased to 180 from 178.
The enrollment rise of African-- American students was the smallest. The number increased to 692 from 686 an increase of .9 percent.
In the meantime, the number of white students enrolled at KU fell for the second straight year from 26,465 to 26,127. White students now make up 84.3 percent of the student body.
The number of international students also increased from 7.7 to 7.9 percent.
Student ethnicity is determined by applications to enter KU, Ambler said. Applicants who don't indicate their race are not counted.
Ambler said pinpointing a reason for climbing minority enrollment was difficult.
"We are making a greater effort in our minority recruiting effort and convincing them the University of Kansas is place to consider," Ambler said. "I'd like to believe those efforts are paving off."
"It's an indication we are continuing to attract minority students to partake in the excellent academic possibilities we offer," he said.
Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said recent positive reviews in publications such as U.S. News and World Report and the Fiske Guide to Colleagues made KU seem more attractive.
Minority enrollment
Here is a look at the percentage of KU minority students by ethnic group.
African Asian
American American
Hispanic American Indian
Source: Department of Educational Services
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CAMPANILE FALLS SILENT
Bells to be removed from the WWII tower after 40-year service By David Stewart
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
Albert Gerken, above, who is a carillonneur, plays the bells in the Campanile. Renovations on the tower's clock, bells, playing and practice rooms will begin Wednesday. Some of the bells in the Campanile, right, which were cast in 1950 in England, are going to be returned by taking layers of metal off of the bell, while others will be recast.
Say "so long" to the old ding-dongs, the campanile bells are dead — for now.
Perched high atop Campanile Hill, 53 bells once chimed out each quarter hour between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m.
But because of the first significant renovation on the tower in more than 40 years, the bells will not ring again until spring.
Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
The inner workings of the 120-foot campanile will be totally overhauled, from the bottom section's memorial room and the middle's practicing and playing rooms, to the top's bell area, said Charles Peterson, project architect for the University's design and construction management.
Built in 1950 and dedicated a year later, the campanile was designed as a memorial to 276 students and faculty members who died in World War II.
Most of the reconstruction's effort would focus on renovating the carillon, said Albert Gerkin, who has been the campanile's carillon-neur for 30 years.
The carillon consists of 53 musically pitched bells, a keyboard that activates each bell's clapper, and a clock that initiates the striking of the bells every 15 minutes.
The carillon also is used for concerts every Sunday afternoon and Wednesday evening. Playing in a tightly spaced room near the top of the campanile, carillonnees ring the bells by pulling levers on a keyboard. Wires connect the levers to the bells above the playing room.
The Verdin Company, which specializes in carillon restoration, will remove three of the middle-range bells next week for retuning at their headquarters in Cincinnati, Gerkin said. It also will recast the 27 treble bells that compose the upper two octaves of the carillon's four- and a-half octave range.
"We won't discard the old bells," Gerkin said.
"All 53 of the original bells are dedicated to the soldiers who died. In some way, they're sacred. Maybe we'll put them in some type of memorial."
The bells range from the smallest, highest-pitched bells, each weighing 10 pounds, to the largest and deepest sounding bells, which weigh 7 tons each, Gerkin said.
In order to raise and lower the bells and mechanisms, workers from facilities operations constructed a pulley system in the campanile's vacant elevator shaft, Gerkin said. Workers
will remove the screening around the campanile's top-level openings to remove the larger bells, he said.
Renovation of the carillon and the rooms will cost more than $450,000. Gerkin said. He all the money for the new construction came from Campaign Kansas, a fund-raising effort sponsored by the University of Kansas Alumni Association.
In addition to the bell work, workers will replace the current manual clock and pendulum with a more efficient digital clock, Gerkin said.
"Each time we got the clock repaired, it broke down again," he said. "Since I've been here, most of the repairs have been done on a day-to-day or week-to-week basis."
To prevent a need for future extensive repairs on the campanile, the Kansas University Endowment Association has collected half of a $200,000 goal for continued maintenance,
Gerkin said.
"There are a lot of campaniles and carillons around the country being neglected," Verdin said. "There's a sense of interest nationally for restoring them."
Because many of the nation's schools also constructed campaniles about 40 years ago, the Verdin Company has received a lot of new business in recent years, said Jim Verdin, company president.
Along with the KU carillon, Verdin said his company had worked to restore campaniles at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
"After we're done with the bells and mechanisms, your carillon should last another 70 to 100 years before more work is needed," Verdin said. "You already have one of the better ones in the country. After this, I'm pretty sure it will be the finest."
Valerie Bontrager/ KANSAN
Clinton is rethinking U.S. role in Somalia
Withdrawal deadline troop increase considered
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON President Clinton is preparing to authorize a shortterm troop increase while setting a deadline for pulling U.S. personnel out of Somalia, a senior administration official said yesterday.
"It is essential that we conclude our mission in Somalia, but that we do it with firmness and steadiness of purpose," Clinton said yesterday. "We are anxious to conclude our role there honorably, but we do not want to see a reversion to the absolute chaos and the terrible misery which existed before."
Pentagon sources said that one option under consideration would call for at least 2,000 new combat troops and more heavy weaponry, in addition to the 650 troops and armored vehicles that will be flown to Somalia this week.
There are 4,700 Americans in Somalia already.
The president, spurred by congressional pressure and public horror over slain Americans being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by supporters of warlord Mohamed Farah Aldid, consulted yesterday with senior national security aides, including Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Defense Secretary Les Aspin and Marine Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, the commander for the region.
Clinton underscored his determination not just to prevent mass starvation, the original purpose for sending troops to Somalia last December, but also to establish security in what had been a lawless land.
Senate leaders put off consideration of a defense spending bill to spare the administration possible embarrassment from amendments demanding a pullout. Clinton said he would meet with congressional leaders today and then announce his course.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole reminded Congress of a resolution passed two weeks ago asking Clinton to state a clear policy on Somalia by Oct.15 and calling for a congressional vote on the deployment of troops by Nov. 15.
In a singing rebuff to the administration, House Minority Leader Bob Michel of Illinois and 64 Republican colleagues sent Clinton aletter branding his Somalia policy a failure. "America's international standing must not be jeopardized by an indecisive and naive approach to foreign policy," it said.
At the State Department, representative Michael McCurry said Christopher believed it was not the proper time to abruptly change U.S. presence in Somalia. "I think that's very clear," McCurry said.
But he said the issues of ground tactics and the degree of U.N. control over U.S. troops in Somalia were under review.
McCurry said Aidid's military strength appeared to be growing, in part because of arms shipments from abroad. A senior U.S. official said weapons were crossing the border from Sudan and also probably from Kenya. The official said that Sudan gets weapons from Iran.
Jordan bows out
NBA superstar Michael Jordan formally retires from the sport he redefined.
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Sunflower drops Fox after negotiations fail
By Tracl Carl Kansan staff write
Chelsea Herring, Herring, freshman, spent last night studying instead of watching her favorite television shows, "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Melrose Place."
Herring discovered yesterday that Sunflower Cablevision, 644 New Hampshire St., had discontinued its Fox network affiliate, KSHB-TV, Channel 41, at midnight Tuesday. Dennis Knipfer, manager of Sunflower, said an agreement with KSHB-TV had not been reached by the negotiation deadline Tuesday night.
"I guess I'll have to call my mom in Oathe and have her tape it for me," she said.
Charlotte English, vice president and general manager of KSBH-TV, said that Sunflower did not have to stop broadcasting the station.
allow us more time to talk about it," she said. "They could put us back on if they wanted to. It's the subscribers that are paying."
"I gave them a six-month extension to
Knipfer said he decided not to accept the six-month extension because it would not change the negotiations.
"We felt we would just be back in the same place," Knipfer said. "I had no indication that six months from now there would be a negotiation in good faith."
Knipfer said he hoped an agreement could be reached soon, but he did not know when KSHB-TV would be back on the air.
English said that Sunflower could continue to carry the Fox network if it agreed to pay 25 cents per subscriber. If it paid, it could pick up Fox's new FX Network for free when it premieres in March. English said Fox had invested $100 million in the new network. Knipfer said he did not want
"It does not involve payment or additional cost to the subscriber," he said.
Jaren Higginbotham, oatl senior, said he thought Sunflower should have taken the extension offer from KSHB-TV and gotten support from the community.
Sunflower also has been negotiating with the ABC affiliate, KMBC-TV, to carry Channel 9 at no charge. At 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sunflower and KMBC-TV reached an agreement, and Sunflower secured permission to carry Channel 9, Knipfer said. Although he could not comment on the terms of the agreement, he said KMBC-TV will receive promotional benefits from Sunflower.
"It kinda sucks, but from a business point of view, I can see their point," Higginbotham said.
to commit to carrying FX Network without knowing what the network was about, and he did not want to pass extra cost on to consumers.
Before the Cable Consumer Protection Act was passed in 1992, federal law required Sunflower to carry KSHB-TV. Sunflower was not charged. Now, KSHB-TV can require Sunflower to pay to use it, and Sunflower can choose to drop KSHB-TV, which it did Tuesday.
No more Fox
Sunflower Cablevision discontinued KSHB-IT, TV Channel 43, at midnight Tuesday, after negotiations between the two fell through. Here's why:
Sunflower wants permission from KSHB-TV to continue using the network for free.
KSHB-TV wants Sunflower to pay 25 cents per customer and promise to carry a new channel, FX Network.
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