The University Daily Kansan
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Final Summer Edition
Inside: The road trip of the week goes to the Kansas City Zoological Park in Kansas City, Mo., to see a baby chimp and giraffe.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2000
(USPS 650-640) • VOL. 110 NO. 154
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Spelling error delays diploma distribution
A minor spelling error sometimes can have a major impact.
By Karen Lucas writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Such was the case last week when Bob Turvey, associate registrar, learned that about 2,750 spring semester KU diplomas would have to be reprinted because of a misspelling.
"Registrar" had been spelled "Rigistar" on the diplomas of all May graduates except for those who had received doctorates or degrees from the schools of Law and Medicine.
"I was surprised and then disillusioned," Turvey said. "We can't have any mistakes, period, and so this is a very visible mistake to a very significant document."
"You're more likely to find an error in the spelling of a student's name or the spelling of the actual degree," he said. "And we do find those. I would estimate one to two dozen a semester."
Turvey said this type of spelling error was unusual.
Turvey said that fewer than a dozen graduates had claimed their diplomas before the Office of the University Registrar stopped distributing the misprinted diplomas.
Bob Turvey
"I was surprised and then disillusioned. We can't have any mistakes period, and so this is a very visible mistake to a very significant document."
Associate Registrar
Becky Rogers, a recent Lawrence graduate with a master's degree in education, said that although she was eager to get her diploma, she was willing to wait.
"Id rather have it corrected," she said.
Turvey said yesterday that the office had received a number of calls about the diplomas.
"Students have been very understanding." he said.
Turvey also said the spelling mistake could be traced to the printer — Jostens in Red Wing, Minn., about 50 miles southeast of Minneapolis.
Mark Cassutt, manager of corporate communications at the company's headquar-
ters in Minneapolis, said on Monday that the diplomas had been reprinted and delivered at no cost to the University.
"It's unfortunate, and we apologize for the error," Cassutt said. "We moved pretty quickly to correct the error."
He said the University would continue to honor its contract with Jostens.
"It's been a very good relationship in that they are a premiere company;" he said. "It's a quality product."
The University used to hand out diplomas on commencement day, but Turvey said that had caused complications.
"The problem was you were forcing the schools to make decisions on graduation when all of the data had not yet been collected," he said.
Under the current arrangement, the office gives out diplomas a few months after students graduate. They can get their diplomas at the office or have them mailed. If diplomas go unclaimed for a year, the office destroys them for lack of storage space, Turvey said.
- Edited by Mindie Miller
Diploma distribution for all May graduates, except for doctors or law or medicine degrees, will begin today because of a printer's error at Jostens in Minnesota. Photo illustration.
Playing in the championship game Sunday of the Sunflower State Games, Mortgage Plus, led by former Kansas forward, Nick Bradford, defeated the TS Jays 73-57. Photo by Aaron Lindbergh/KANSAN
Jayhawk leads team in championship
By David Perico
Special to the Kansan
Former Kansas forward Nick Bradford returned to Allen Fieldhouse this weekend and led his amateur basketball team to the championship of the 2000 Sunflower State Games Five-Man Basketball Tournament.
Bradford's team, Mortgage Plus,
 defeated the Tabor-Strathman Jays
73-57 in the championship game
Sunday in front of 350 fans.
The Mortgage Plus team got off to a strong start in the tournament with a 30-point win over Prompt Care Bomber. Bradford's team continued winning with four solid victories over the TS Jays, Carlon Oil and The Tom Dogs.
Bradford led the team in scoring with 19 points, including several high-flying dunks. Former Kansas player Todd Alexander scored 16 points.
"The Haskell team was the toughest team to beat," Alexander said. "They are a scrappy team, and people should come out and watch them play. We were hoping to play them because they beat us last year in the finals."
Mortgage Plus defeated Haskell in the semifinals, 71-70, with a last second shot.
Alexander said this was the first time his team had won the Sunflower championship since he started playing in 1989.
Mortgage Plus never got the chance to play a much-anticipated game against the Kansas Pride team, which featured Iowa State University for
ward Paul Shirley. Haskell defeated Kansas Pride, last year's championship team, in the semifinals.
Teams in the women's college division also faced tough competition. Players from Wichita State, Emporia State, Fort Hays State and Pittsburg State battled against each other and players from Rockhurst University for the title.
Former Oklahoma State University guard Chad Alexander was unable to play for Mortgage Plus because of an injury. Alexander's father, Jerry, said that Chad sprained his ankle in the AAU tournament and had to skip the Sunflower tournament for the first time in years.
Kansas center Kristin Geoffroy said one of the girls on the ninth and 10th grade Hawk Squad asked her to coach the team. She said she asked former player Heather Fletcher and KU guard Jennifer Jackson to help her with the coaching duties.
The Emporia Hornets defeated Rockhurst 78-61 in the championship game.
Present and former players on the Kansas women's basketball team also participated in the Sunflower tournament.
Emporia's team, which played without a coach, had a 3-2 record going into the championship game.
"They all had a good attitude and played hard, but I think we were a little overmatched in some of those games," Geoffrey said. "We only had three practices, and it was not enough time to make a good team [in spite of] their good individual skills. We lost our last game in overtime."
Rockhurst guard Lisa Gangel said, "There is so much history here and so much talent."
Geoffroy said the Hawk Squad had a tough time in the tournament because they played against AAU teams that had been playing together all summer.
The Sunflower Games will continue on Friday and last through Sunday.
Vicki Hill, director, said that the games could still use more volunteers this weekend. She said more than 300 volunteers and 6,000 athletes had participated so far and more athletes were expected. Hill said athletes can sign up for the Governor's 5k run between 6:30 and 7 a.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium for $23.
Upcoming events include three-onthree basketball, soccer, hardcourt volleyball, a 5k run and slow-pitch softball.
Organizers also will have a Family Fun Fest on Saturday evening for members of the community. This free event will be from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in front of the fieldhouse. Free drinks and snacks will be provided. Guests also will have the opportunity to participate in sports contests and drawings for prizes.
Hill said that 500 people attended last Saturday's Fun Fest.
"Last week, the weather was great," she said. "Hopefully we'll have some more good weather this weekend."
Hill said the staff and advisers would pick a male and female Athlete of the Year after the games were over. She said they would accept nominations until the end of the games.
- Edited by Ben Embry
Journalist, Jayhawk dies at 63
By Karen Lucas writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
John Husar, a journalist and University of Kansas alumnus, died Thursday, at northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He was 63 years old.
The cause of death was a post-operative infection, said his daughter Laura. Husar had received a partial liver transplant.
A native of Chicago, Husar earned his bachelor's degree in journalism in 1959.
In Spring 1959, John Husar works in the Kansan newsroom. Contributed photo.
"He was so proud to be an alum of KU," said his daughter, a KU alum and employee at the Chicago Tribune. "They were some of the greatest years of his life."
She said that Calder Pickett, professor emeritus of journalism and columnist for the Lawrence Journal-World, had inspired her father.
"He absolutely loved Calder Pickett," she said.
She also said that her father had encouraged her to take Pickett's class on the history of American journalism.
Pickett recently recalled his former student, who had worked on The University Daily Kansan.
"He was a wonderful guy to have in class," Picktell said. "He wrote really interesting editorials and columns. I always expected that he would be likely to have a really fine career in journalism."
In the Oct. 6, 1958, issue of the Kansan, Husar published an editorial about an upcoming visit of the poet, Langston Hughes.
"Langston Hughes will bring his famous poetry to the Kansas Union Ballroom at 4 p.m. Tuesday along with a discussion on "The Making of a Poem," he wrote. "The ordinary college student will not fly into an ecstatic coma over this."
"But the majority of those who have an idea of Mr. Hughes' accomplishments should darned well make sure they bring their cups of coffee to the lecture instead of rotting out
run-of-the-mill Hawk's Nest conversation"
While he was a student at the University, Husar also got to know Wilt Chamberlain, who then played basketball for the Jayhawks. Shortly after Chamberlain's death, Husar wrote a column for the Tribune that also appeared in the Oct. 14, 1999, issue of the Journal-World.
freshman athlete," wrote Husar, who played football at the University. "We would tease each other about having a non-competition pact. I would let him make the basketball team as long as he left me alone to mash out my brains in football.
"My only real claim to athletic fame at the University of Kansas was the year I spent in Wilt Chamberlain's considerable shadow as a
"Yeah, Big Man.' Wilt retorted. 'Whatever you say.'
"I would have been flattered except he genially called everyone 'Big Man,' largely because he had trouble remembering all of our names."
After graduating from Kansas and before beginning his career at the Tribune in 1966, Husar worked for newspapers in Clovis, N.M.; Okinawa, Japan; Pasadena, Texas; Topeka and Heilton. He also served in the U.S. Army.
Husar wrote about golf and other sports for the Tribune, and since the mid-1980s, he had an outdoors column.
"I think the thing that distinguished John was his passion about what he wrote about," said John Cherwa, associate managing editor for sports for the *Tribune*. "He was an advocate for conservation and was not afraid to take an unpopular stance."
In addition to his daughter Laura of Chicago, he is survived by his wife, Louise of Willow Springs, Ill.; another daughter, Kathryn Coyle of Dixon, Ill.; a sister, Jez of Dixon, Ill.; four brothers, Michael of Chicago, Frederick of Chicago, Matthew of Chicago, and Edward of Quincy, Ill.; and three grandchildren.
Dancing queen
At a concert sponsored by Revolution magazine, a female dances to the music late into the evening. The concert was Monday night at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
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