TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
ADVERTISING 864-4358
SECTION A VOL.102 NO.67
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
A recent cold snap has the No.11 Kansas football team excited about playing in Hawaiian sunshine. Page 1B
Aloha, warm weather
CAMPUS
Twas the night before...
Many KU students put off studying for tests until the very last minute. Page 3A
NATION
The Yankees are coming
President Clinton wants congressional support to send troops to Bosnia. Page 5A
WORLD
Aristide swears to step down
The Haitian president will abide by rules that disallow consecutive terms. Page 5A
WEATHER
COLD AND SUNNY
High 36°
Low 16°
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Campus .3A
Opinion.4A
Nation/World.5A
Sports.1B
Scoreboard.2B
Horoscopes.4B
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Waivers give students tuition breaks
By Philip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
Despite budget woes, the University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Medical Center waived nearly $12 million in tuition last year to more than 3,000 students.
Also, the state's six Regents schools waived nearly $28 million in tuition last year to 7,250 students.
"When you add this up at all the schools, you get a big number," said Lindy Eakin, associate executive vice chancellor.
Eakin said the University had been reviewing its tuition-waiver policies and was trying to narrow the conditions of who qualifies.
For example, tuition benefits no longer are available to resident
"It's too much money to be hap-hazardly distributed," he said.
assistants.
More than 2,000 of the KU tuition waivers, totaling $7.3 million, went to staff members, graduate teaching assistants and graduate research assistants.
"Tuition is reduced for employees who are recruited or transferred to Kansas and for graduate teaching assistants in recognition of the economic benefits these people provide Kansas," said Stephen Jordan, Regents executive director.
An additional 450 students from Missouri and foreign countries received $2.4 million in tuition reductions last year because of special reciprocal agreements.
"Regents universities do not have
1994-95 Waived tuition
Institution Students Tuition Walved
University of Kansas 2,870 $11,274,982
KU Medical Center .204 .701,058
Kansas State University 2,215 10,599,827
Wichita State University 1,273 3,138,757
Emporia State University .251 .666,237
Pittsburg State University 331 1,115,596
Fort Hays State University .122 .310,695
Total 7,266 27,807,152
all the academic programs Kansas students need," Jordan said. "The Regents negotiated agreements with other states and countries or specific institutions to allow Kansas students to enroll in specific programs at reduced rates."
can major in many programs at KU, such as architecture and East Asian languages and cultures, and pay instate tuition. Conversely, Kansas students can attend dentistry and public health programs in Missouri and pay-in-state tuition.
Missouri undergraduate students
Students who graduated from
Kansas high schools but whose parents moved out of state also may qualify for a tuition reduction. Last year, 79 such students received $400,000 in tuition benefits.
One such student is student body president Kim Cocks, Lee's Summit, Mo.. senior.
"My parents lived in Kansas from when I was six months old until a week after I graduated from high school," Cocks said. "It is definitely a program that should be continued."
John Hiebert, Regents chairman, also said the tuition waivers were beneficial despite the cost.
"Clearly, tuition reductions expand opportunities for students to attend college and to enroll in a broad range of programs," he said.
Administrators spent three years and thousands of dollars working on a computer system that would eliminate the hassles of enrollment at KU,but today students are
Still Waiting in Line
Story by Novelda Sommers
--the need for appointed enrollment times, that would give students the option of enrolling at locations other than Strong Hall.
Illustration by Matt Hood
Enrollment has always been a nightmare for Nicki Reno, Westwood junior.
"If there were a reason I would leave KU, it would be enrollment," she said. "The first week of school, I missed half of the classes I was enrolled in because I was in the add/drop line."
Three years ago, KU administrators promised a new system that would allow students to enroll at their convenience, that would end
Reno has dreaded enrollment every semester since her first, and she dreads it now.
Distributed enrollment was supposed to eliminate those lines.
Office of Student Affairs personnel and University programmers spent thousands of hours and thousands of dollars on the project. The end result, some administrators have said, is an embarrassment to the University.
Now administrators admit they are hardly further along the road to distributed enrollment than they were two years ago. There is no distributed enrollment system, and it will take years and millions of dollars to get one.
A calculated risk
Distributed enrollment was supposed to bring the University of Kansas into the 1990s. The University would have joined most of its Big Eight peers. The University of Colorado, Iowa State University, the University of Missouri, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University and the University of Nebraska all have some form of decentralized enrollment. Only Kansas State University hangs on to a system like the one at KU.
Asproposed in 1992 and
See ENROLLMENT, Page 6A
Sidewalk prophet dead at 65
By Scott Worthington Kansan staff writer
Thomas S. David, 65, a longtime KU graduate student known for walking all over Lawrence and scribbling anti-divorce messages around campus, died of complications stemming from a heart attack.
A representative of Warren-Meilian Mortuary, 120 W. 13th St., said yesterday that David died either late Saturday night or early Sunday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The representative said the staff would meet with his surviving family members today to gather details.
David suffered a heart attack Oct. 31 and was hospitalized Nov. 1, a family member said.
Douglas Atkins, coordinator of graduate studies in the department of English, said David had been completing course work for a doctorate degree in English. He enrolled in KU's doctoral program in 1988.
David was born in Bombay, India. He immigrated to the United States, married and later divorced. In 1971, David earned a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at Cornell University, the family member said. He was a graduate teaching assistant in English at Kansas State University in the mid-80s.
David had long silver hair and typically carried a pink blanket with him while he walked around campus and Lawrence. He wrote chalk diarizes on campus sidewalks that often cited the Bible and described remarriage after divorce as a brothel. David frequently slept on campus.
Stanley Roberts, a member of KU's facilities operations staff who lives in Ottawa, said in an interview earlier this year that he frequently saw David walking along U.S. Highway 59 to and from Ottawa. He offered him a ride, but David refused.
David's two children and former wife attended KU.
The mortuary representative said yesterday no services had been planned.
End-of-the-semester crunch demands strategy, stamina
By Sarah Wiese Kansan staff writer
When Matt Tobin left for Thanksgiving break last week, he packed a bunch of books in his backpack, sincerely thinking he could get a lot accomplished.
But it didn't quite work out that way. Tobin said the only studying he did was on the plane on the way back to school.
"I thought I would put myself in a good position for finals," said Tobin, Plano, Texas, sophomore. "I tried to set it up so I wouldn't have to cram as much."
Tobin is just one of many students who actually treated the break as a break instead of as a much-needed opportunity to catch up on course work. For such students, getting back in the swing of things hasn't been easy.
Even though Jamie Lehman,
Lawrence sophomore, studied during the break, that didn't make it any easier for her to get back into the school mode. She said she hit the snooze button four times yesterday morning.
The closer it gets to finals, the more stress Lehman said she felt. For the third semester in a row, her grades hinge on her final exam scores.
"I'm basically cramming a semester's worth of studying into one-and-a-half weeks of preparation for finals," she said.
Getting through the next eight days will be difficult for many students, said Lorna Zimmer, director of the Student Assistance Center. Tests, term papers and, of course, final exams tend to pile up near the end of the semester, leaving some students paralyzed by the fear that they can't possibly finish it all.
"Doing nothing is the worst possible choice," Zimmer said. "The most important thing is to maximize the time and effort you've invested this semester."
That means assessing what requirements remain in each class and creating a realistic plan of action, she said.
And doing it all may not be possible.
"If you find yourself in a logjam, you better start today by negotiating a later paper due date," Zimmer said.
The sooner instructors know about a student's situation, the more likely they will be to work with the student, she said. Extended deadlines, incompletes and even withdrawal from a class still can be negotiated.
Park said he rewarded himself for hard work by watching a movie or playing video games.
Getting through the last two weeks and finals isn't easy, but a variety of motivations enable students to get through.
Although Tom Park, Overland Park senior, is doing well in all his classes, he said he had four papers due and a test in the next eight days.
He said he used a huge calendar to schedule his tasks, allowing three days for each one.
Students who need help sorting out academic problems can get free advice from the Student Assistance Center, 133 Strong Hall, or call 864-4064.
"I think I've worked pretty hard so far, and I'm not about to blow off my classes in the last couple of weeks," he said.
Lehman must maintain good grades to keep her scholarships. Park is trying to get into medical school. Tobin simply isn't willing to throw in the towel.
Easing Stress
With eight days of school left, some students with papers to write and tests to take are beginning to panic. The Student Assistance Center offers these tips to help ease the unavoidable stress of the semester's end:
Figure out what requirements are left in each class and come up with a schedule to get them done.
Break each task into small pieces. Don't try to research and write a paper in one day.
If meeting a deadline is impossible, talk to the instructor as soon as possible to negotiate a solution.
- Reward yourself for studying.
- Self-bribery is a good way to ensure your work will get done.
Remind yourself that one day, you'll be done with school.
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