UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 16, 1994
5A
K.IHK student sports director resigns
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
Cole Pepper's faculty advisers thought he was doing a good job as KJHK's student sports director. But last month, Pepper was asked to resign.
Ironically, Pepper's resignation had nothing to do with his job performance. It had everything to do with the fact that Pepper is not enrolled as a KU student this semester.
Gary Hawke, JKHK general manager, said Pepper resigned amidst personnel problems.
"I'm not at liberty to discuss the specific circumstances of his resignation." Hawke said.
Pepper, though, is not listed in the student directory, and University directory assistance has no record of Pepper.
"Well, those would be pretty good indications of his status," Hawke said.
According to KJHK byaws, all staff members must be students at the University.
"Obviously, this is a student activity, and it's hard to control someone who's not a student," Hawke said.
Any staff member who was not enrolled as a student would be asked to resign. Hawke said.
How, though, did Pepper convince everyone that he was a student for the first two months of the semester?
Tom Hedrick, instructor for radio-TV and adviser for the KJHK sports staff, said he had been convinced that Pepper was enrolled in his sports broadcasting class this semester.
"He was a student last semester, and I had no clue that he was not enrolled this semester," Hedrick said. "His name did not appear on my roster, but he was in my class, and I just assumed that it was a computer error."
Hedrick and a board of student staff members made the decision to hire Pepper as this semester's student sports director. Although all applicants are required to be students in good academic standing, Hedrick said it never occurred to him that an applicant would fail to enroll at the University.
Eventually, an administrator alerted Hawke to the fact that Pepper was not a KU student this semester, Hedrick said.
"He was doing a superb job as sports director, but when we determined that he was not a student, we informed him that he needed to rectify the situation at once," Hedrick said.
Pepper then was asked to resign, Hedrick said. Jason Lamb, Great Bend senior, was named student sports director.
"From now on, we will require all applicants to submit current transcripts," Hedrick said.
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