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University Daily Kansan, May 1, 1981
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"I won't kid you," Lewis said. "A lot of athletics, especially football players, enrol in GCU."
GUY HAS TAKEN CALCULUS and accounting classes in the past.
"There are two kinds of athletes," Guy said. "The student-athlete, who will take classes that lead toward a degree. And the athlete-student who does not have a degree, where he can just get by and remain eligible."
Harry Sydney, a senior football player, said athletes could only be pressured if they allowed themselves to be. He said most players could get a high quality education if they wanted one.
"It's the athletes' responsibility," Sydney said. "They're 21 or 22 years old and supposed old enough to make their own decisions. It's their job. They can't let them else live it for them."
IN DISCUSSIONS WITH athletics about course loads, several other classes were mentioned frequently as attracting large numbers of athletes.
One mentioned was a class called the Psychology of Satire, taught by Maynard Shipman of swashbuckling of swashbuckling.
Shelley, who meets with his students only two times a semester, said that his class used to be heavily populated by athletes. But because he computerized it and made cheating more difficult, the number of athletes has dropped significantly, he said.
"If that's what has reduced the athletes in my state," Shelley said, "it's the 'a pretty sorry stint.'"
Shelley said several athletes in his class this semester were flunking "because they haven't turned any work in yet." He also said he had been involved problems with cheating among athletes.
John Wright, a KU professor of psychology and human development, teaches a class, Children and Television, that is heavily populated by athletes.
STUDENTS CALL Wright's course "Kid Vid."
"We do have a lot of athletes in the class," Wright said. "We have from the beginning and we continue to. We have every single time we've offered this course.
"Ironically, it's not an easy course, but it might sound like one from the title."
Wright said he usually had seven or eight major sport scholarship athletes in his class, and that their performances were "more sharply dichotomized than any other group of students."
"I think I can see that, but I think any other professor could too." Wright said.
Wright told the Kansan, "I am willing to speak out because I know that something needs to be done to change the system, but at the same time, I very willing to have athletes in my classes.
Susanne Shaw, chairman of the KU Athletic Corporation board and associate dean of journalism, said that it was difficult to judge the
“It’s hard to say whether this class or that is particularly attractive to athletes.” Shaw said. “To avoid the abuse you can't just close the class for athletes.”
educational content of a class and that "easy"
classes weren't abused only by athletes.
Lewis said athletes often enrolled in directed study classes to accommodate their schedules.
AIDE FROM TEACHING one section of Business 479, Organizational Behavior and Administration, the only other courses Lewis taught. But he said the same are often heavily populated by athletes.
Credit varies from one to six hours, and the student and instructor work together on a one-to-one basis.
Lewis said that directed readings had become an issue with him and that he thus had removed them from the library.
"I already have 50 students taking them," he said. "Some say it's not fair to allow some students to take them and not others, but I also do them for students who work 30 hours a week at school." Some of the students want to enroll in a directed reading, they can ask any other member of the faculty."
Lewis said that teaching athletes was sometimes a problem. He said that he had taught a directed reading class for a woman whose children were born in the city, recommended that she take a class from Lewis.
"Now I'm doing three hours of directed reading with a girl who I'm not sure can even
read," Lewis said. "I can justify this because students come back and say, 'That was the best experience of my life. I learned something about myself.'"
ASIDE FROM TEACHING athletes, Lewis said he devoted numerous hours to advising athletes. But, he said. "I did not advise one kid, nothing would change my status or pay."
Lewis said he believed his experience benefited the athletes he advised. "I've been dean for 18 years," Lewis said. "I know the entire system probably better than anyone else."
Bobby Skahan, former KU athletic academic adviser, led the Kansan in 1976 that many universities, including KU, were losing sight of the academic priority in college athletics and emphasized that the phrase "student-athlete" was becoming hypocritical.
FIVE YEARS LATER, players here are still finding it difficult to graduate on time.
"I't tough and it's hard to graduate in four years, I'll guarantee," Art House, a senior KU basketball player said. "I worried a lot of times whether I would. But for those athletes who can do it, that's great. And even those who can't do it, that's great too.
"Sometimes you just fall behind and need
a hard to expect an athlete to
gratitude on time."
Besides getting their tuition, fees, books and room and board paid for, scholarship athletes have access to special advisers and free tutors to help ease the problems of being both a student
Skahan had questioned whether the department's purpose was to assist athletes along the road to a degree, or to keep them eligible for four years. He said the two goals were often inconsistent.
and an athlete.
Acting Chancellor Del Sanders said he thought athletes should be entitled to some special treatment.
"I think we have an obligation to provide basic special services for groups of students." Shankel said. "We need to help advisers for honors students, disadvantaged students and others."
IN FISCAL YEAR 1979-80, the KU athletic department authorizes $14,000 to open on campus.
However, it seems that often KU athletes reep few long-term benefits from the special attentions they receive. The high-pressure pampering and hollow dreams leave some with little academic achievement or career potential to prepare them for life out of the limelight.
"You see a lot of athletes after school and after college just hanging around," Walter Mack, junior KU football player, said. "Maybe they get a job at McDonald's. If you don't want to end up the same way, you've got to do something more than play football.
"Maybe you ought to start thinking about it in high school, but maybe you don't. When you get out of college, you have to think like that."
"I'm talking about staying up at night thinking about what your options are."
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