FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
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SECTION A VOL.102.NO.83
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
200 equals 'Oh boy' for Roy
With a victory at Nebraska on Sunday, Kansas coach Roy Williams will have 200 career wins. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Put the pedal to the metal
The State House approved a bill to raise speed limits on Kansas highways. Page 5A
10 years later
NATION
The Challenger disaster is remembered by friends of McAuliffe's children. Page GA
Shutdown Avoided
WORLD
Legislation was agreed upon to keep government open. Page 7A
WEATHER SNOW
High 26° Low 20°
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion ...4A
Nation/World ...6A
Features ...8A
Sports ...1B
Scoreboard ...2B
Horoscopes ...4B
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KU student robbed at liquor store
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By Amy McVey Kansan staff writer
Shane Lowe, St. Louis senior and clerk at Edmondson-Berger Retail Liquor store, 600 Lawrence Ave., said that he was stocking the cooler in the back of the store when he heard someone enter the store.
A KU student working at a Lawrence liquor store was the victim of an armed robbery late Wednesday night, Lawrence police said.
Lowe walked toward the front of the store and saw a man standing at the front counter.
"His face was completely covered," he said. "He had a scarf wrapped around his face. I thought that was suspicious."
When Lowe got to the front counter, he realized the man had a knife in his left hand.
"He said something about 'Let's make this quick,' and I said I'd cooperate." Lowe said.
Lowe said he then opened the cash register drawer, and the man grabbed about $600 in cash and checks and put it in his pockets.
"He told me to wait five minutes before I called anyone, or did anything." Lowe said.
But Lowe didn't wait.
"I saw which way he was running, and I called the police," he said.
The suspect ran west, crossed the street and slipped and fell in the Lewis Veterinary Clinic's parking lot, 3101 West 6th St. He stood up and kept running, Lawrence police reports said.
The suspect, a 33-year-old Lawrence man, was found early yesterday morning at an acquaintance's house in the 500 block of Arizona Street, Lawrence police said.
The suspect was charged with one count of aggravated robbery. Bail was set at $150,000.
"We are considering cameras." he said.
John Olson, manager of Edmondson-Berger Retail Liquor store, said that this was the first time in seven years that the store had been robbed.
However, the store had been burglarized several times.
Linear tuition to slow class shopping
Lowe said he planned to continue working for the liquor store and said he was glad he wasn't injured.
By Colleen McCain
Kansan staff writer
Administrators assert that KU students often equate enrollment with shopping at a store that has a liberal return policy.
Students enroll in several classes, shop around during the first week of classes and then drop the classes that don't suit their fancy, administrators said.
But David Shulenburger, vice cancellor for academic affairs, is optimistic that linear tuition will make this type of class shopping more of a rarity in the future. When students enroll for Summer and Fall 1996, they will be assessed a fee for each credit hour they take. And when students drop a class, they will receive only a partial refund for the hours they drop — a 90 percent refund during the first 10 days of class and a 50 percent refund between the 11th and 20th days of the semester.
"It will take awhile for students to become accustomed to linear tuition," Shulenburger said. "But it should cause students to be much more careful about the classes they enroll in because they will be paying for each class."
Administrators at the University of Kansas hope that a new linear tuition plan will keep students from shopping for classes much as they do for their textbooks.
Andy Rullested / KANKAN
Now, students taking more than six hours pay the same tuition rate and suffer no financial penalty for dropping classes. Students know they can abuse the system by enrolling in numerous hours, only to drop the classes they don't like.
Shulenburger said that on the first day of classes, the average student is enrolled in 17 hours. On the 20th day of classes, the average student is enrolled in only 14 hours. So, the net result of the add/drop process is that each student, on average, drops three hours per semester.
And these drons come at a high price.
Shulenburger said that if linear tuition could cut the more than 20,000 drops per semester by 11,000, the University would save an estimated $42,000 per semester. Holding 11,000 class spots that ultimately aren't filled is equivalent to offering 314 class sections unnecessarily, and the University could save that to pay for the instruction of these sections.
"We need to promote an ethic where students very carefully choose their courses," Shulenburger said. "The cost of it is all these students who are in line right now, trying to get into classes."
So students are dropping classes en masse, but do they willfully enroll in classes they don't plan to take?
"Sure, I've done that — a lot of students do that," said Shaun Callaghan. Overland Park senior. "It's so hard to get into a lot of classes, so students will enroll in enough hours to get
full-time status and then get openers for the classes they really want."
Brenda Selman, assistant registrar, said the enrollment strategy Callaghan described created a vicious cycle. Students hold spots in a class they don't plan to take while they wait for openings in another class. So classes remain closed as students who plan to drop the classes hold spots.
"A major problem with class shopping is the inconvenience to other students," Selman said. "It's hard to know who intends to be in what class and how many sections are needed when all the dust setters."
The problem of class shopping was not the only impetus for implementing linear tuition. But University Registrar Rich Morrell said he hoped students and administrators would see the benefits of decreased class shopping with linear tuition.
The Cost of Class Shopping
KU administrators hope linear tuition will cut the number of class drops by 11,000 per semester. Now, there are more than 20,000 drops each semester. Cutting the number of drops by 11,000 would save an estimated $842,000 per semester.
11,000 drops
+ 35 students
per class =
Average number of students per class: 35
unneeded class sections per semester
Minimal cost of instruction per class: $3,000
$3,000 x 314 class
sections = $942,000
saved each semester
Andy Rohrback/KANSAN
KU awaits 'Angels' arrival
Bv Susanna Lööf
Kansan staff writer
Despite the controversy surrounding Tony Kushner's play Angels in America, which will play at the Lied Center next weekend, only about 35 people attended a panel symposium last night at the center.
Angels in America, which is subtitled A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, opened originally in San Francisco in 1991. Since then, it has played in London, on Broadway and throughout the United States.
Karen Christilles, Lied Center director of public relations, said the purpose of the symposium was to give people a chance to learn what the play was about before they saw it.
The play consists of two parts, which each can be seen as separate plays. The first part, *Millenium Approaches*, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1993. Since then, the play has won seven Tony Awards and several other awards.
The core plot of the play focuses on two couples: a gay couple and a Mormon husband and wife. The Mormon man is gay but has not yet come out, and one of the men in the gay couple is HIV-positive.
Elizabeth Schultz, professor of English.
was one of the panelists during last night's symposium. She said that the content of the play could, at a quick glance, make it appear as a soap opera.
Debra Stang, a panelist from the Douglas County Aids Project, said she thought Kushner did a good job portraying the different ways people live with AIDS.
"But Kushner has stated emphatically that he wanted to move the play beyond the domestic arena into the political arena," she said.
She said she was looking forward to seeing the play and thought it would challenge the audience.
Caitlin Boley, a Lawrence High School junior, was one of the younger members of the audience.
"If you go in there with an open mind and come out of there and continue to think about it, I think it can affect your way of thinking," she said.
Although the play has been widely debated nationally, it has not caused much debate in Lawrence. But Christilles said there had been a few complaints about the play coming, and an editorial in Wednesday Laurence Journal-World questioned the play's popularity.
"The play is not without its controversy, but no great work is," Christilles said.
StudEx may cut funding for nonrevenue sports
By Nicole Kennedy
Kansan Staff Writer
Campus fees for women's and nonrevenue sports are coming under scrutiny.
The Student Senate fee review subcommittee will hold a hearing Feb. 8 to decide whether the $20 campus fee should be continued, trimmed or eliminated.
"The goal of this is not to cut and cut and cut," said Chris Lane, subcommittee member, at a subcommittee meeting yesterday.
The $20 fee generates about $800,000 each school year and is used to help finance women's sports and nonrevenue sports, such as men's baseball.
Some subcommittee members want the Athletic Department, not students, to finance these sports.
Subcommittee members also voiced concerns at the meeting about how the fee was being spent by the department.
"I think they could squeeze in $800,000 somewhere," said Ken Martin, subcommittee member and head of the Student Senate Executive Committee.
The senators want to see the projected revenues of the department for the 1997 fiscal year. And they also want to determine how
well the department complies with Title IX, the NCAA's policy of gender equity in athletic and academics, in comparison to other Big Eight universities.
Members said they plan to ask if the department has explored any other financing options for women's and nonrevenue sports.
"This is something that needs to be looked at in incredibly close with incredible scrutiny." said Andy Obermueler, subcommittee member. Martin armed.
Martin agreed.
"I think it's important to see where the money is coming from and where it's going," he said.
Despite these concerns, some subcommittee members warned that they should not be too skeptical during the hearings.
"I don't think we need to have the Athletic Department in here and attack them," said Jade Shopp, subcommittee member. "I think we need to approach this in an open-minded sense."
The women's and nonrevenue sports hearing is the first in a series of hearings that the fee review subcommittee will conduct this semester.
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"What we're trying to do is see if we can take these individual burdens and lighten them," said Scott Sullivan, subcommittee chairman.
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