University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus When Fall Quarter Classes Begin Thursday

MT(? University News SelVice University ofMinnesota. 6 Morrill HaD • 100 Church St. S.E.• Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 September 3, 1986 Contact GWEN RUFF, (612) 624-5228 U OF M SUMMER ENROLLMENT UP (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Summer session enrollment at the University of Minnesota was up, compared with the same time last year. Total enrollment for the first five-week session of classes increased by 507 students, from 15,480 last summer to 15,987 this year. During second summer session, 9,561 students attended all university campuses, up 681 from last year. Enrollment increased at three of the university's four coordinate campuses both sessions. On the Twin Cities campus, first summer session enrollment was up by 458 students, from 13,189 last year to 13,647 this year. During the second session of classes, 7,697 students took classes, up 693 from last year. At Crookston, tne number of students attending first session classes increased by 173, from 172 to 345 this year. Second summer session enrollment increased by 68 students, with 35 attending last year at the same time and 103 attending this year. Duluth's first session enrollment dropped 127, from 2,000 to 1,873. During second session, 147 fewer students attended the school, making enrollment 1,076. At Morris, three more students enrolled in first summer session classes than did last year, making enrollment 122. Second summer session enrollment increased by 67 students to 148, compared with the same time last year. Waseca has only one quarter of summer classes and enrollment was tne same as last summer with 537 students. -UNS- (Summer Enrollment/A1,3;B1,6;C1,3) .,/ I ~) /"-) '/":' University News Service University ofMinnesota • 6 Morrill Hall. 100 Church St. S.E.• Minneapolis. Minnesota 55455 September 5, 1986 Contact PAT KASZUBA, 624-8520 or GWEN RUFF, (612) 624-5228 MEMO TO NEWS PEOPLE A mission and value statement on intercollegiate athletics will be up for a vote by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents Thursday (Sept. 11). Spelling out the role of athletics at the university is one of the recommendations of a task force that delivered a report to President Kenneth H. Keller in May. Adopting a mission statement and a set of operating. principles would reverse a trend toward separation of intercollegiate athletics from other university departments, the report said. The documents "are intended to signal ~ new focus on intercollegiate athletics as an integral part of the university," it said. Regents also will discuss intercollegiate athletics' budget during a Thursday committee meeting. A plan to provide fifth-year scholarships to student-athletes, summer school scholarships and a drug and alCOhol program will be discussed. Regents are expected to take action on a proposal to allow the university to become self-insured as a way to handle skyrocketing liability insurance costs. The finance and legislative committee will discuss the plan during its 1:30 p.m. meeting Thursday. Action on the university's 1987-89 legislative budget request is scheduled during Friday's committee of the whole meeting. Regents will continue discussion of 1987 capital requests at that meeting. A request from the University Radisson Hotel to lease additional land just south of Memorial Stadium will be voted on at Thursday's physical planning and operations committee meeting. (OVER) SEPTEMBER MEI-fO -2- A proposal to bUild new recreational sports facilities on the Twin Cities campus will be discussed at the same committee meeting. Here is a sample of other agenda items. Thursday, Sept. 11 --Staff and· student affairs committee, 1:30 p.m., 300 Morrill Hall. Mission and value statement on intercollegiate athletics; athletics department budget. --Finance and legislative committee, 1=30 p.m., 238 Morrill Hall. Insurance plan. The following committees will meet after the 1:30 meetings adjourn. --Educational planning and policy committee, 300 Hor'rill. Discussion of the mandatory farm credit mediation program. --Physical planning and operations committee, 238 Morrill. Recreational sports and pnysical education facilities; Radisson University land lease request. Friday, Sept. 12 --Committee of the Whole, 8:30 a.m., 238 Morrill. 1987-89 budget requests; 1987 capital requests. --Regular board meeting after commi t tee of tne \'lhole adjourns, 238 Morrill. Final action on committee votes. -UNS- (September memo/A1,3;B1,6;C1,3) tl '1 i _t1 ;., ., University . I News Service University ofMinnesota. 6 Morrill Hall • 100 Church St. S.E.• Minneapolis. Minnesota 55455 September 8, 1986 Contact PAT KASZUBA, (612) 624-8520 or GWEN RUFF, (612) 624-5228 FUTURE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IS LECTURE TOPIC (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) The public is invited to hear education demographics expert Harold L. Hodgkinson discuss college students of the future and how they can be better prepared during a seminar Thursday (Sept. 11) sponsored by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents and the State University Board. Hodgkinson, a senior fellow at the American Council on Education, will speak at an 8: 30 to 11: 30 a.m. seminar in tne Hubert H. Humphrey Center aUditorium on the west bank of the Minneapolis campus. He will address University of Minnesota regents and State University Board members, state legislative leaders and representatives of Minnesota's private and pUblic education systems and the governor's office. A consultant to 600 colleges and universities, Hodgkinson is widely known as a lecturer and analyst of educational issues. He has directed eight major researCh projects, including the Carnegie Commission study of institutions in transition and projects for the U.S. Office of Education and the Exxon, Ford and Atlantic Richfield foundations. Hodgkinson has held several positions in education and was appointed by President Ford to head the National Institute of Education in 1975. He earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota, a master's degree from Wesleyan University and a doctorate from Harvard University. To attend the free seminar, Which is oeing co-hosted by Cnarles McGuiggan, regents chair, and Rod Searle, State University Board president, call the regents office at (612) 625-6300 or tne State UniverSity Soara at (612) 296-3717. -UNS- (PUBLIC/SUB/A1,3,16;B1,6~C1,3,16) ,. j' University News SelVice University ofMinnesota. 6 Morrill Hall • 100 Church St. S.E.• Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 September 8, 1986 Contact LEE EDDISON, (612) 625-3471 BLANDIN FOUNDATION GIVES $5,000 TO HHH INSTITUTE'S LEGISLATIVE STUDY (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) A three-year University of Minnesota study on how state legislatures can become more effective has received a $5,000 boost from the Blandin Foundation. The gift will be used to help complete studies on budget and leadership processes in the Minnesota House and Senate and to further examine the conference committee system and the representative functions of the Legislature, according to Royce Hanson, project director and associate dean of the university's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. "We consider this research an important opportunity to help state governments across the country think about how to improve the processes of representative government in these challenging times," Hanson said. Since the project's beginning in 1984, researchers have issued working papers on such topics as the Legislature's size, the role of conference committees, the legislative veto and the unicameral option. Legislative hearings have been held on each working paper and each has received considerable discussion in the Legislature and the media. The project will conclude in early 1987 with a final report containing recommendations for nationwide legislative improvements. "The Future of the State Legislature: Making Representative Government Work in a Changing Society," was launched with $8,000 grants from each house of the Legislature. The project has received more than $90,000 from 44 individuals, foundations, associations and corporations. -UNS- (Legislature StUdy/A1,14;B1,6;C1,14) University News SelVice University ofMinnesota. 6 MorriU Hall • 100 Church St. S.E.• Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 September 9, 1986 Contact MARY STANIK, (612) 624-5100 ULTRASOUND PROBE DOES BETTER JOB OF DETERMINING CORONARY DISEASE (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Ultrasound technology is being used by University of Minnesota researchers for a more accurate assessment of coronary damage, which could aid doctors in deciding which patients will benefit from heart bypass surgery. The method uses a type of ultrasound crystal that can be placed directly on or in an artery and -- through ultrasound emissions -- gives a much better picture of an artery's actual obstruction than has been available through use of coronary arteriography, a method that involves dyes and X-rays. Researchers Carl White and Robert Wilson developed a device called a Doppler velocity probe while they were at the University of Iowa, in conjunction with that university's bioengineers. They are currently the only researchers in the world who have approval to use the probe. The probe has also been found to be useful for patients who have vessels that are anatomically correct but may be physiologically unsound. White, co-director of the university's Heart and Lung Institute, clin1cal cardiology services director and heart catherization director, and Wilson, co- director of heart catherization, have approval for clinical trials of the probe to be done at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic. A multi-center test that should include about 400 patients is scheduled to begin later this year. Medtronic Inc. will manufacture the probe when the study is completed. (HORE) ULTRASOUND PROBE -2- Coronary bypass operations were performed on 170,000 people in the United States 1n 1982 to treat cardiovascular disease, which is still the leading cause of death in this country. In most of these cases, the decision to operate was based on the results of coronary arteriography, which involves injection of a radiopaque dye to obtain X-rays of coronary arteries so the extent of any blockage can be determined.

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