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Thursday, October 20, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Officiating keeps jingle in students' pockets
By JERRY JONES Staff Writer
They're also students, working part-time to whittle away chunks of college experience. They're members, create controversies, make temporary friends and grudging
Intramural refs
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
KU intramural referees such as Steve Gripp, Wilmette, III., junior, work as many as four one-hour intramural football games each Sunday. Some students also refer for area junior high football and basketball games, as well as for KU intramural basketball, volleyball and softball games.
enemies—sometimes for infantile wages.
Some people succumb to the hassles and give up. Others are invigored by the responsibilities. Some just like the monev.
Whatever the motivation, nearly everyone involved agrees on one point: Officiating is perhaps the best part-time job available.
enemies—sometimes for minimum wages.
"I's great," Mike Heaton, Merriam graduate student in recreation, said. Heaton has been a registered Kaiser high school basketball and basketball for the past five years.
"THE best part-time job you can
have is to work where you only have to
work when you want to."
"It's the best money for the amount of time you work."
Students are kept busy as officials at the University of Kansas in basketball, football, volleyball and softball intramural programs.
Supplying officials for these programs is a concern of Richard Marches, director of
"Officiating is just as a big a part of our intramural loream as slaving." he said.
Marcks said that the physical education department offers courses in officiating, but that very few of those students work in the intramural program.
Most intramural officials, he said, come from the student body at large.
Prospective officials are brought together before the beginning of a season for a two-day clinic, administered by a registered Kansas official.
"We're always trying to find more," he said. "We're always welcoming anybody who wants to join us."
Intramural officials are paid $2.30 an hour, the federal minimum hourly wage. An official may work from two to 10 games a week, earning a maximum of $28 weekly.
Linda Munroe, graduate assistant in intramural sports, said officials could make more money working volleyball, basketball or 150 volleyball teams competing this fall.
MARCKS SAID several of his officials have worked games at Lawrence junior high schools, which meant even more money.
"You can make a lot of money when you consider that junior hires are paying $14 a week."
Nelson Hartman began as a college intramural official and is now the executive secretary for the Kansas High School Activities Association. He also leads an international committee for the National Federation of State High School Associations.
One of Hartman's responsibilities is overseeing the network of officials who manage his office.
Hartman said he encouraged college intramural officials to move into interscholastic programs.
"I got my start that way in college," he
said, having a gift a need for people
in interested with him.
Some sports, such as football, now have enough officials, Hartman said.
"There's not a need for pure numbers," he said.
He added, however, "While we have enough numbers this year, we may need
FOR PEOPLE interested in moving up rapidly, Hartman listed gymnastics, wrestling and volleyball as the three sports most in need of officials.
them next year. We have an attrition rate of one-third of our officials each year."
Hartman outlined the procedure for becoming a registered high school official.
"A new official must attend on rules meeting," he said. "He can register at the building."
The rules meetings are held on different days throughout the state. Although no meetings will be held in Lawrence this year, the Kansas City area will host several.
At the meetings, a film is shown on rules and officiating mechanics. New rules and officiating mechanics.
The registration cost is $10 a year for one sport and $7 for each additional sport, Hartman said. A rule book, case book, officials' manual, illustrated rule book and insurance against injury all are paid by the registration fee.
An open-book test—a difficult one, according to Hartman—is administered to all officials. A score of 90 per cent or better is required of the official to maintain his registration.
Hartman recommended that a new official join an officials' association. Through such a group, he said, a person will get additional training and have a greater opportunity for game assignments.
HARTMAN MENTIONED three area associations: the Topeka Officials Association, the Lawrence Officials Association, and the Johnson Officials Association of Johnson County.
Joe Ensminger, commissioner of the Sunflower Association, was asked whether there was a need for new officials, particularly from the college level.
"We need officials in every sport," he said. "In intramurals are a good start."
"I would say that a college student today could make a career out of officiating. There are officials today who are making $50,000."
Jim Erdman, secretary for the Sunflower Association, estimated that nearly 25 of the group's 327 members are KU all of them registered high school officials
Erdman said officiating assignments fit well into a college schedule.
"We have a lot that come in and work weekends," he said. "We use students over the Christmas holidays and during the summer."
ENSMINGER ALSO mentioned the advantage a student has. Many junior and senior high school games often are scheduled at 4 p.m. or earlier. Most officials cannot have regular jobs to ensure they game be safe. Students usually are available in the afternoons.
Ensminger said that, although the state association might not need increased numbers of officials, the local association took a different perspective.
"We look at it a little differently than
he says." We need numbers, we have
taken the word "many" from
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Although the training program still is in the development stage, Whitaker said, the program will include Red Cross first aid, a course on basic medical section and behavior management.
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Whitaker said she was looking for
Speaking at a meeting of the Douglas County Association for Retarded Citizens, Whitaker said the program would train volunteers with experience in working with the handicapped. The volunteers will either return to the community or be mentally retarded person to a foster house.
"would also like to see a stable group of "local people," she said. Such a group would be able to afford the kind of education."
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The director, Lorita Whitaker, said the program would provide relief by giving the relatives an evening out, time to travel or help during a family emergency.
McCoy said Walker would be invited to a soon-to-be-scheduled question-and-answer session, which would involve members of the faculty and any senators or other interested persons.
Although only McCoy, as sports committee chairman, has voting privileges on the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) board, McCoy said he would be aware that members would be aware of what was happening with the proposed price increase.
A third subcommittee was formed to investigate the use of Senate funds in the buying of equipment for sports-related organizations.
In other action, three subcommittees were formed at the meeting. The first subcommittee was organized to investigate the possibility of reinstating a ticket subsidy for KUAC. The Senate last year cut off a ticket subsidy that had funded KUAC.
THE FORUM, in part, would deal with the rising cost of KU football tickets. Walker recently proposed a $50-cent-a-game initiative that would cost $2 million renovation of Memorial Stadium.
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In an open letter to the school boards of Kansas, the officials said smaller class room sizes were needed to help teachers improve students' writing skills. The officials also said that no competition teacher should have to teach more than four such classes.
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