Wrong emphasis
To the editor:
Why, in a school with over 29,600 total students, is a difference in overall enrollment of 11 students from one year to the next regarded as a top-of-page 1B headline-worthy “drop” (“KU enrollment drops …” Journal-World, Sept. 22)? And why was this change of .04 percent, statistically insignificant by any measure, given more emphasis than the 5.6 percent increase in enrollment at Kansas University Medical Center or the 2.3 percent increase in minority enrollment reported in the same article?
By that standard, with the Journal-World’s circulation of about 20,000, each subscription cancellation ought to be headline news.
Noel Rasor,
Lawrence