THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Jayhawks defeat Shockers, 71-60
Vol. 90. No. 96
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Eligibility rules differ for sexes
By STEVE YOUNG Staff Renorter
Female athletes can attain and maintain academic eligibility at the University of Kansas and other schools more easily than male athletes. Female and women's athletics are so different.
And unless differences are worked out, athletic officials predict, lawsuits and other problems will confront many groups involved in intercollegiate athletics.
To be eligible to compete, a male athlete—whether a new student, transfer or upper-classman—feeds tougher rules and more frequent cheks than female athletes.
National College Athletic Association and Big Eight conference rules, which apply to all colleges with at least a 2.9 grade point average to be allowed to play.
After a male athlete is admitted, and he has given a copy of his high school transcript to the athletic department, the department of admissions and records department of the university transcript from his high school, Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records at KU, said.
"I'm not saying that people are dishonest. I'm just saying we think it's best to get independent certification," he said.
If the minimum grade point average is verified, the student is eligible to compete that semester.
Female athletes need only be admitted by a university to be eligible to compete, according to rules of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletes for Women, the
Similar requirements exist for male and female transfer students.
Male junior college students who wish to participate in athletics at KU must have graduated from high school with a 2.0 minimum grade point average, and have graduated from junior college or have a minimum grade point average with a minimum 2.0 grade point average.
If the transfer athlete could not meet the minimum high school grade point, he must have graduated from junior college, or be placed in a professional at corresponding grade point averages.
The higher the number of transferable hours, the lower the required grade point, ranging from a 2.5 for 24 hours to a 2.0 for 48 hours.
As with freshmen, the department of admissions and records runs independent checks of transfer students' high school and junior college work, Dyck said.
FEMALE TRANSFER STUDENTS,
however, are immediately aligned to
requirement and meet the required
requirements and if they meet "normal
progress" standards at their previous
The AIW defines normal progress as the minimum number of hours and minimum grades required of any full-time student at each institution.
Other differences exist in the separate rules governing men and women's athletics.
When female athletes are declared eligible at the start of their season, their eligibility lasts until the end of the season.
Male athletes, however, can lose eligibility at any time during the season if they do not continue to meet all eligibility requirements.
SUCH DIFFERENCES already have caused legal problems for universities with athletic programs that must use two different sets of rules.
The University of Missouri is being sued by one of its star high jumpers who was declared academically ineligible at the start of this semester.
Nat Page, the MU 1979 NCAA champion high jumper and winner of five Big Eight high jump titles, is using the school on the basketball team as discriminated against because he is male.
If equal rules were applied to women, Page contends, many female athletes at MU-including Page's sister—would be tolerable
A judge has issued a temporary restraining order allowing Page to compete until the case is decided.
Sandy Bahun, KU women's golf coach and assistant academic counselor, predicted that the Page suit would be followed by others due differences in NCAA and AIAW scores.
"The lawsuit at Missouri is just the beginning," Bahan said. "And unless we want HEW to step in and decide it, we're sure we will work it out ourselves."
"I think there can be a middle ground. The differences aren't so great that they couldn't be worked out easily.
"Right now it's difficult because there's so much anti-female (sentiment) on the male side and so much anti-male (sentiment) on the female side," she said.
BAHAN SAID she thought the "middle ground" would include sections of both sets of rules.
Prentice Gautt, assistant Big Eight commissioner, said the conference was watching the Page suit with interest.
"There are a lot of problems that (the rule differences) could cause. All of the other problems have been addressed, but until there is a decision, I think the conference still has to follow (NCA)."
He said academic eligibility rules were necessary to prevent exploitation of athletes and to provide a uniform set of guidelines for schools to follow.
"Some of the rules that the women are abiding by now are as good, if not better, than rules being used by the NCAA IAA," he said.
Gautt agreed with Bahan that a compromise was necessary.
"I'm hoping we can iron our differences out," he said. "I don't think the problem is insurmountable."
KU is a division IA school. Division IAA schools are smaller schools.
Capt. Donald Knight of the Lawrence Fire Department ducks through a hole in a plastic partition after inspecting damage caused by a fire yesterday afternoon in the southeast corner of the new addition to Mallett Hall. Construction workers and students were terminated from the building while the smoldering fire was extinguished. No one was injured.
Malott fire
Fire in Malott Hall damages new wing
A fire on the first floor of the Maltol Hall damage to the uninhibited Maltol wing and $100 in damage to construction equipment, a Lawrence Fire Department official said.
the official, Capt. Don Knight, said the fire began about 1:30 p.m., after sparks from a cutting torch fell on some pipe insulation. The fire caused damage to ventilation ducts.
The fire call came into Fire Station No. 1
at 1:43 p.m. A pumper and ladder truck
from station No. 1 and twoump trucks
from station No. 2 arrived at the scene at 1:47 p.m. The fire was brought under control two minutes later.
"We'll give the sub-contractors three days to respond with the amount of damage," he said. "We won't be able to say much more until then."
The cost of the damage will be determined in the next three days by the building's general contractor, B.B. Andersen, as well as to公司 sponsor Jim Tidikum.
The new wing was scheduled to be completed this summer with occupancy by the fall semester.
State fire officials check student-occupied buildings
A state fire inspector was in Malot Hall yesterday when a fire broke out in the unfinished wing of the Malot addition.
"No one left the building when they saw smoke from the fire," the inspector, Bill Shelton, said yesterday. "They all wanted to see what was going on."
Shelton and four other state fire investigators arrived at the University of Kansas Monday to begin a two-week inspection of about 150 camus buildings.
The inspection will include only student-occupied buildings, Shelton said. He is leading the investigation and inspection.
He said the student-occupied buildings included laboratories, residence halls, scholarship halls and buildings that contained classrooms.
Some office buildings, shops, garages and maintenance buildings will not be inspected now. Shelton said.
He said he wanted to inspect student-occupied buildings when they had students in them.
"We like to inspect buildings when students are in them so we can watch the traffic patterns," he said.
Shelton said the inspectors began Monday with inspections of Flint and Lippincott hills. Hesterday, Shelton's team completed inspections at Waco and Wescoe Hall and Facilities Operations.
Although he noted a few minor violations, such as a shortage of storage space for supplies and some fire extinguishers in need of equipment, he had found no major violations so far.
“Storage of supplies in corridors is the biggest problem I have found so far,” he said. “Storage areas were not taken in account when buildings were constructed.”
Shelton said his crew was scheduled to inspect Hoch Auditorium, Haworth Hall, Murphy Hall, Learned Hall, the Kansas Union and the rest of Mollah Hall. The medical Center was inspected two weeks ago and had no major violations, he said.
KU gets gasohol grant
By DON MUNDAY Staff Renorter
Gasoloh research will begin in March at the University of Kansas, as a result of a recent $10,000 grant from the Phillips Bank, to the KU School of Engineering.
Stanley Walas, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering and head of the gasolon project, said the goal of the project is to provide an easy way to separate water from alcohol.
alcohol accounts for most of the cost of gasolol production.
Gasolant is 90 percent gasoline and 10 percent alcohol. Manufacturing alcohol produces a water-thanol mixture, the base of which is the alcohol can be combined with gasoline.
The process of removing water from
Walas said his research would initially focus on two methods of separating the water and alcohol, comparing the cost and efficiency of each process.
Phillips, which has been selling gasolat at service stations in the Midwest for several months, has granted research licenses to be used for gasolat experimentation.
"Phillips wants to make gasolob economically competitive with gasoline," Walas said.
Finding more efficient ways to prepare the alcohol would help to lower its production costs, he said.
Distilling patent pending
By CINDY WHITCOME Staff Reporter
A Kansas State University professor has filed for a patent on an alcohol distilling process that could save 7.4 cent a gallon on rascal for consumers.
The process, developed by Benjamin Kyle, professor of engineering, distills ethanol alcohol by using less energy than alcohol but thus cutting production costs.
In Kyle's process, the second distillation is eliminated, being replaced by an extraction process. The concentration of ethanol in the solution and easier to remove from the solution.
The present production method requires two distillation steps to separate water from alcohol in a fermented solution.
"The saving of $f$ of a cent probably won't be noticed by consumers, but the process is an advantage because it is energy efficient." Kyle said.
The Kansas State Agricultural Experiment Station gave Kyle an $8,000 grant in December to continue his studies. If the patent is granted, KState would benefit by receiving a certain percentage of the patent royalties, and the money would go into research.
"I think gasohol has been overphasized as a source of energy, especially by its proponents," Kyle said. "But it also has to be viewed in perspective."
"Gasolub who only 10 percent alcohol. That does not seem like much as far as percentages go, but it is a fair amount in barrels."
Students appeal parking tickets to law school court
Legal lesson
Defense attorney Richard Medven, far right, Pittsburg first-grade law student, explains his client's story to judges Walt Confer, left, Wichita second-grade law student, Rosie
O'Leary, middle, Prairie Village second-year law student, and Jim Willis, right, Lawrence second-year law student, in a university of Kansas Parking and Traffic Court case last
By JON BLONGEWICZ Staff Reporter
Everyone has an excuse. The justices of the University of Kansas Parking and Traffic Court have heard them all.
"One girl applauded her ticket for parking a fire lane. Bob's sister was dressed in red and wore a week. "She that she had swallowed a contact lens and that she had to park and run up updates before they arrived."
While some of the excuses may seem like jokes, the atmosphere of the parking court is serious. These are not mock trials, with judges pretending to be lawyers and judges.
"We take it very seriously," Waters said. "After all, the attorneys know that their clients might lose some money."
The parking court is sanctioned by the Board of Regents and Kansas administrative regulations. It is the only student-run court in the state.
"This is an official state court. Do you swear to tell the truth, so help you God?"
No gavel raps begin the proceedings, but the justices call for the first case, and the court reporter moves swiftly and asks the witness to raise his right hand.
The witness, in this case and in most cases, is the person appealing the ticket. He answers affirmatively.
THE THREE JUSTICES sit in the back of a Green Hall classroom, dressed in suits, abandoning the omnious black robes. The attorneys receive high ratings as attorneys the previous year. The attorneys are some of the students who participate in the program.
During a typical trial the defense presents its case, then the prosecuting attorney cross-examines the witness. The attorneys then make brief summary statements and
the justices leave the room to discuss the case and vote. The process takes about 30 minutes.
This evening, the cases are dated from Aug. 27, the week before school started last fall.
"Our goal this year is to get the case load down to zero for next year," Waters said. "This year we started out with a big case load."
He said the court tried to hear 15 cases a night. On this night the judges finished about 10:30, completing 12 cases.
The witnesses had many excuses. "I've never been to GSP before," I didn't see the no parking signs." The curb was pained yellow, I thought fire lanes were red."
THESE EXCUSES were not successful in convincing the justice, but according to last year's statistics, one-half of the 1,184 faculty students by students and faculty were granted.
"You have a 50-50 chance if you appeal," Waters said, "although this year's court might be a little more conservative."
After the students are told that their appeals have been denied, they are in court and are called to appear to the Court en bane, a higher appeal court. Either nine or all 15 justices will hear the case.
The fact that KU has more than 22,000 students and limited parking spaces necessitates an orderly and fair system, Waters said.
Waters said that although the court worked with KU Parking Services, the Parking Services did not have direct jurisdiction over the court.
And so is the student who loses an appeal,
even though she swallowed a contact lens.
"They are bound by the rulings we make." Waters said.