Eric Sexton Column

[SHOCKvalue]

Personally, I thought Mayans was one of Wichita's more incompetent mayors in some time. You can look at the dumbed-down mess we have in downtown called Waterwalk and note a direct correlation to it's current state, and his total and complete lack of leadership with regards to ALL public development. But that is another discussion, for another time.

Simply, the quotes were listed to give a degree of validity to a figure that a certain poster weakly lambasted. When the football issue was brought front and center those couple of years ago, the net loss of 3K students (over time, since the loss of football) was widely circulated in our media. 15K current, plus 3K loss, equals 18K.

[60Shock]

Yeah, and a quality coach like GM went to the dance out of a weak conference 8 out of nine years. Then after getting bad seeds he got tired of getting beat in the first round and decided to leave for greener pastures.

Think again if you thing losing CU and SIU and replacing them with SLU and KC and winning a lackluster conference is a really smart move.

[DUShock]

Yeah, and a quality coach like GM went to the dance out of a weak conference 8 out of nine years. Then after getting bad seeds he got tired of getting beat in the first round and decided to leave for greener pastures.

Think again if you thing losing CU and SIU and replacing them with SLU and KC and winning a lackluster conference is a really smart move.

:lol:

I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'

[SubGod22]

I'd much rather be in a stronger conference than beat up on a really weak one.

[rrshock]

I'd much rather be in a stronger conference than beat up on a really weak one.

I'm with ya on that one. Being in a weak conference will get you nowhere.

[dregn]

We went through the enrollment issue when Mayans made those comments. People went out and get the actual numbers and I believe the highest enrollment ever was around 15k with the lowest around 10k. One of the highest enrollment totals in the past 30 years was 2002 when it got back up over 14k I believe after Sept 11.

[WstateU]

We went through the enrollment issue when Mayans made those comments. People went out and get the actual numbers and I believe the highest enrollment ever was around 15k with the lowest around 10k. One of the highest enrollment totals in the past 30 years was 2002 when it got back up over 14k I believe after Sept 11.

dregn, I'm almost certain that enrollment was well over 17K somewhere between '77-'81.

"President Lindquist was followed in 1968 by the the second alumnus to be appointed president of the University: Clark D. Ahlberg. The new president oversaw nearly all of the University's phenomenal growth over the first two decades of its tenure as WSU. Enrollment increased from less than 7,000 in 1963 to over 17,000 in the early 1980s, with a rapid growth in the number of graduate student enrollments. Undergraduate programs in women's and minority studies were added to the curriculum as well as computer science and entrepreneurship. Other additions during the period were the College of Health Professions, the Elliott School of Communications, the Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs, and the National Institute of Aviation Research. The physical appearance underwent profound change during this period as well, with the addition of over one million square feet of new buildings, a new perimeter roads system, development of the former Crestview Country Club, and the addition of the Martin H. Bush outdoor sculpture collection."

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/university_archives/hist.html

[Anthony2]

Surely nobody believes a bad football program was responsible for the growth in enrollment in the 1960s and 1970s. WSU was changing from a small municipal university to a state school. There are many factors for the enrollment, not just football.