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as result of policy

By STEPHANIE “ALLNI‘IR
Managing Editor

Editor's note This is the first
of u four part series on the Uni
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The first shock wave of the

i newlyimplemented selective adv
: missions policy has been mea-
‘: sured. as [K posted a 3.4 percent

1 decrease in fall enrollment over

last year and a two-point in-

: crease in the average American
. ('ollegeTest score

The main campus enrollment
dropped from 2.055 last fall to
213300 this year. according to fig-
ures‘ released by the University

i yesterday

' "The biggest drop is the Size of
the freshman class." said PT8S1~
dent Hits A Singletary Last
year‘s freshman class numbered
2.707 students. compared to an
estimated 2.300 this year.

"What that amounts to is a 15
percent decline of the freshman
class." Singletary said

Other enrollment figures re-
leased by the l'niversity showed
a 9 percent decrease in enroll-
ment in the College of Arts & Sei-
ences Enrollment in dentistry
and law were also down. Sin
gletarysaid

The College of Business 3.- Eco
nomics saw an increase in enroll-
ment. as did the (‘ollege of Social
Work and the graduate pro
grams Singletary also said the
College of Allied Health and the
College of Nursing enjoyed about
a 10 percent increase

The greatest decline occurred
in freshman enrollment. and the
admissmns policy had a measur-
able effect. Singletary said "It's
a direct and indirect result of the
selective admissions policy The
figure you Will never know is the
number of those who did not
apply for fear of being turned
down."

He said. however. the quality of
the incoming class "is very good
indeed."

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"That's better than last year's
class by two Whole pOints. We are
really pleased With the im-
provement in the quality." Sin-
gletary said. “I think part of that
has to do With the policy itself
It's a mixed bag In terms of
numbers. we're not very far off
of what we thought."

had predicted a 7004500 person
difference. "give or take a ltun
dred "

taken place in the freshman class
and retention rate. Selective ad-
missions tends to improve your
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AOPi sorority sisters decide it’s time to move

By NATALIE CAL'DILI.
Staff Writer

The t.‘ K Kappa Omega chapter of
Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is going
to have a new home.

“It will put us right in the heart of
campus. “said Susan Van Buren.
former Vice-president and alumnus
of the chapter

Kathi Hume. corporation presi-
dent for the chapter and AOP alum-
nus. said that the chapter was defi-
nitely planning on building a new
structure but that they still need to
make some decisions concerning the
move

“We‘ve rented the Gamma Phi
Beta home for the past two years
and we had entered negotiations to
purchase the house and we were in
negotiations until this July

"We just couldn't reach an agree-
able price . . . that's what it boiled
down to. We found that we could
build a new structure for what they
were asking for the existing struc-
ture.

“For about 3600.000 we could build
a new structure and a larger struc‘
ture with things like air conditioning
that we don‘t have now. “ Hume
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of the Gamma Phi Beta house was
not exactly suitable to the chapter's
needs.

”It wasn't bad . , it had it's ups
and dovms I'm led to believe that it
wasn‘t equipped for a large amount
of people. "she said

“We could have rented again this
year but that would have been sink-
ing a lot of funds that we would
rather put in the new house because
we will get a return on it." Van
Buren said.

Hume said that the chapter hopes
to have the foundations established
by December.

“We plan to be in it by August 1 of

next year. "she said

The new structure should house
between 54-56 girls and the three-
year-old chapter has an idea of what
they want.

“We know what we want it to look
like." Hume said.

The site for the new sorority house
is debatable.

"We're not sure. There's a possr
bility of purchasing the Rose Street
property which is approximately
across from Coliseum Mallt or
working out some kind of agreement
with the university concerning I'K
property. ‘ ‘ Hume said.

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Independent since I971

By JOHN VOSKl'Hl.
Edll0r~ln‘Chl€i

Vice preSidential candidate Ger
aldine Ferraro brought the Demo-
cratic ticket's campaign to Lexmg-
ton yesterday. where she promised
Kentucky Democrats “a clearcut
choice in November.“

Ferraro stumped for running mate
Walter Mondale and critiCized the
Reagan administration at a recep-
tion at the Holiday Inn on Newtown
Road.

Surrounded by Kentucky Demo
crats - including Gov. Martha
Layne Collins and Sen Wendell H
Ford , Ferraro addressed a hall
packed With supporters who chanted
her name

"I must tell you that when l was
”I Kentucky last May for the Derby.
l told Governor Collins that it was
the most ethting race I'd ever
seen." she said But she predicted
the pres‘idential race Will be even
better

Ferraro said the most important
issue of the 1984 election is the ques
tion of nuclear weapons

“We must build a more enduring
peace for our children.' she said
"You can't help but wonder what
kind of world we are going to leave
for them if we don't do something
about arms control right now "

Ferraro assailed the Reagan ad-
ministration for its foreign policy
stances. particularly in Lebanon

"A president must know Where to
use force and when. but he must
also know when it should not be
used."she said

Tuesday, September 11,1904

es and stances

"Let‘s send the diplomats in be
fore the Marines Lets try negotia
tion before confrontation And let s
understand the world before we arm
it ”

She also criticized the administra
lion‘s stand on the national debt A
deficit isn t easy to understand. she
said "You cant see It. you can‘t
smell it But you sure can feel it
And you re feeling it right now

She said Mondale would propose a
plan for cutting the deficit and
added that it could l.'1\'t)i\t' both a
tax increase and a decrease iii fed
eral spending

About the tax increase. Ferraro
said. 'lMs do it and let's do it
fairly

' lit the last four years. taxes for
the wealth} time been slashed.
while about t; million people have
fallen to the poverty level. she said
The blame for the situation can be
traced to the Reagan administra-
lion's philosophy of "surviial of the
richestf shesatd

Ferraro also attacked what she
called Reagan s lack of support for
education "I nfortunately under
Ronald Reagan. our schools have
had a river of r'netorit and only .1
trickle of support

After the speech. Ferraro visited a
local felt-Vision station where she
took part in a telwonference with it
local family Mondale appeared iii
the conference front Philadelphia
with two families and Joan Mondale
appeared with a single-parent fami
ly in Chicago

Handicapped students
plagued by inacessibility

B) I).\RRELI.( LEM

Staff Writer

David Allgood cannot get into
I K s .-‘~.t'lttiiinstratio'i Building

Allgood. 19. was "horstng around ’
“Ith some friends on a sWimmiiig
pool deck two and one-half years
ago when he was tossed into the
pool Hts neck was broken when he
hit the pool's bottom. and injuries
from the acctdent left him in a
wheelchair.

For him. the Administration
Building , along With several other
campus butldings — is tnaccesstble

Allgood entered l'K this semester
as an undectded freshman He said
he feels the l'niverSity is the best al
ternative in the state for hand-
icapped students and that residence
hall attendants. students. and Hand»
icapped Student Services are sensi-
tive to the speCial needs of those stu~
dents

"All the people are nice - I like
the atmosphere here.” he said “The
attendants do a good )Ob I know all
their first names "

About 50 students in wheelchairs
attend the l'niversity Of that num-
ber. about half live on campus in
Holmes and Blazer halls or Greg
Page apartments. while those living
off campus commute to and from
school

l'niversities by law must provide
adequate housmg and building ac
cessibility to handicapped students.
Passage of the 1973 Rehabilitation
Act set forth long-term guidelines
and established deadlines for meet-
ing codes

Section 50-1 of the act requires that
all new buildings be acceSSible to
handicapped students and mandated
“program accessibility " In essence.
universities must ensure that all
programs are available to the stu-
dents Classes may be relocated
from an inaccessible building to one
which has been renovated.

Young people becoming patriotic
and conservative, researcher says

By DOUGLAS E. PITTENGER
Staff Writer

Editor's note: This is the first of a
two-part series on patriotism among
UK students.

An American flag hangs in the
window of a Kirwan Tower room.
“Red Dawn." 1: movie about youths
who fight an invasion of Soviet
troops is becoming one of the late-
summcr box office hits. And Bruce
Springsteen's latest album. "Born in
the USA." has teenagers listening to
songs dealirg with Americanism
rather than social rebellion.

Are America's young people be-
coming more patriotic?

Alessandro Bomnno. a sociology
imtructor who has done research on

patriotism. believes young people
are patriotic because they did not
experience the tntemal frustrations
of the late ’605 and early ‘705.
“Young people are brand new info
the political arena," he said. “They
didn't experience the past problems.
College freshmen. age 17 or 18. they
don‘t remember the Vietnam War "

Bonanno said that young adults
are also being affected by the wave
of conservatism that started four
years ago. “There was a change in
political climate. First of all. the
country turned conservative with
the election of President Reagan in
190 and the Republican Party car-
ria traditional conservative values
and one of those values is patriot-
13m."

A praiduittel poll conducted last

spring by the Student Government
Assoctation reflected the conserva-
tive mood. The results of the poll
placed Reagan at the top with 1.469
votes compared to Sen. Gary Hart's
493. Walter Mondale had 214 votes.
while Rev. Jesse Jackson received
only 162.

Alan Holt. a political science and
history senior and vice president of
College Republicans. believes Presi~
dent Reagan appeals to young peo-
ple because of the sense of confi-
dence he gives to America. "I think
it's became he's confident in what
he'sdoingandhehasasenseofdi‘
rection." Holt said.

“College-age students are going
through a period of their lives.
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If the building contains a lot of
equipment. proceeding With renova-
tions may be more feasible than
moiing llll resources into anothei
building Jacob Karnes. director of
Handicapped Student Sernces.
named Kastle Hall as an example

A university could technically lose
federal funding for refusing to com
ply With the law. but Kames said he
knows of no such instances

Most buildings at [K have been
modified but several remain inac-
ceSSible. said Karnes Of those still
needing renovation. the MattheWs
Biiilding is one of the most tmpor~
tant because career planning and
placement services are there. he
said

tither inaccessible buildings in
clude the (itllis Building. the Alumni
House. Bradley. Bowman. Kinkead.
Breckinrtdge. Miller. and Scovell
halls. arid the Engineering Quadran-
gle.

Some buildings are partially renor
vated and Karnes hopes some of the
remaining problems Will be alle-
Vtated before winter For instance.
the Journalism Building is eqUtpped
with a modified elevator. but res
troom stalls need to be widened
Also. handicapped students entering
the building must push down on a
button With one finger while pulling
back on the door

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