The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 30,1981 Vol.91,No.143 USPS650-640
Game first, grades second for student-athletes
Editor's note: This is the second part of a three-part series examining the state of athletics at the University of Kansas.
Part Two examines the problems of being a student-athlete and explores the dilemma that faces black athletes.
Faces black mathes. The series will examine football and basketball—the two major sports involving the majority of alleged violations.
Some sources thought that by speaking out, they would be subject to harassment or even lose their jobs. For this reason, the names of some of the sources have been withheld.
By REBECCA CHANEY and CINDY CAMPBELL Staff Reporters
Days always begin before 6 a.m. for Walter Mark, a tumor KU football player.
every day during the football season, Mack gets up at 5 a.m. to drink a cup of coffee. At 6 a.m. he lifts weights for two hours. The remainder of the morning and early afternoon hours is spent in
Team meetings usually start at about 2 p.m.
and practice is from 1 to 6 o'clock. He eats at about
6:15 and has a 7 p.m. class on Mondays and Wednesdays. After a few hours of studying, Mack goes to bed.
Then it's time to start all over again the next morning.
MACK, AS WELL as most of the football and basketball athletes contacted by the Kansas, says that a lack of time is just one of the problems that college athletes face during their academic careers.
"When you come to college and get a scholarship, you're coming first to play football, and second to go to school. And that's the way it is."
"When a coach is recruiting, a player doesn't really have his mind on where he's going to get the best education," Harry Sydney, a senior KU football player, said.
Yet KU coaches and administrators say that academics comes before athletics.
KU athletic academic coordinator Mike Fisher said many athletes came to the University of Kansas with "an attitude problem," thus the athletics to take precedence over academics.
EVEN THOUGH FISHER tells the 400 male and female athletes for which he is responsible that "in all cases, academics come first," many KU athletes say that realistically, it's the other
the Team.
"We tell the athletes from day one that athletics is not the end. It's the lever to get you where you want to go."
"As they go through their lives, for most of these kids, athletics is their priority," Fisher said. "Most of the time, they be eased through school to make it easier for them to perform on sports."
In addition to struggling to make a mark on the field or on the court and trying to keep up in the classroom, KU student-athletes said they must have their own chronic fatigue, travel and disruptions of classes.
KU players also say they cannot concentrate on their classes the day before or the day of a game because they are too caught up "getting emotionally involved" in preparation for the game. Both Mack and Sydney explained that when out-of-town games were involved, athletes only had three or four days to do the things regular students had a week to do.
FRANK SEURER  freshman quarterback, said mandatory study halls three times a week during the season for freshman players "made you study" when classes got tougher to keep up
Yet in the off-season, the pressures linger.
"I get up by 6:30 every morning during the whole year and play basketball, football, year round. I enjoy doing it the same thing."
KU senior basketball player Art House, who still plays three hours of basketball a day in the off-season, said that being a student-athlete had adversely affected his studies.
"I missed a lot of crucial tests and handing in lots of big papers, and that really bothered me," he said, "but I'm here for one thing, to get an education and play ball."
Head football coach Don Fambrough said that when he recruited athletes, he tried to instill the idea that academics came first.
KU ATHLETIC OFFICIALS emphasized that they will continue college athletics and go to school at the same time.
"I tell the recruits that we can't do it for them," he said, "but we offer the opportunity there's no guarantee in this life for anybody—to get a first-class education at a first-class institution and the opportunity to play for a first-class football team.
"Then I go on to explain that to excel in both athletics and academics is extremely difficult. It's not easy and will not come easy."
KU STUDENT-ATLETS say they must balance not only athletics and an education, but they also must face isolation from the rest of the students.
Scholarship athletes are placed in common living quarters, and, therefore, most don't get a taste of residential hall. Greek, or scholarship hall live at Jayhawke Towers, 1003 W. 15th St.
The merits of this set-up have been debated lately. Many athletes, administrators and coaches contend that isolating student-athletes from the team will give them a chance to be a part of the student body.
Sources said student-athletes should be as much of a part of the student body as other students who were involved in special activities or studies.
**NILLIAMS, former KJ. basketball**
ODD WILLIAMS, former KU basketball player and one of the founders of KU's Williams Fund, the athletic scholarship fund, said. "My
See ATHLETICS page 5
House, Senate still debating fee increase
ByGENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—The House-Senate battle over the proposed increase in student fees, set for a conference committee today, bolts down to whether lawmakers want one increase—or not, by 1983.
Paul Hess, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, supports the right of the Board of Regents to raise tuition next year by more than what the Legislature wanted, to spend the extra money and possibly to require two back-to-back fee increases.
But Mike Hayden, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, charges that the Senate's policy will give university students "the raw end of the deal."
THE CONFORTATION stems from the House panel's action taken Wednesday to deny the Regents permission to spend the extra money.
Instead, the Regents added 7 percent to that figure and came back to the Legislature to seek permission to spend the extra $2.6 million.
The Legislature pressured the Regents to raise tuition by 15 percent next year by cutting almost $4 million in state general fund money.
The Senate committee approved the spending of the money Monday. It ordered the money to be spent on operating expenses and on student wages, with KU getting almost $1.1 million.
But the Legislature forced the Regents to propose the higher figure, according to State Rep. John Solbach, D-LaWrence, by presenting him with a plan to have two consecutive increases.
SOLBACH SAID yesterday that the Legislature proposed a 15 percent increase for next year and another 15 percent increase for the following year.
following year.
The board feared that the second 15 percent increase would also be forced by cuts in state funds, Solbach said.
"Between the two plans, I favor the lesser tuition increase to get the money to where it's needed this year," Solbach said.
The tuition issue is part of the catch-all-annuity funding bill, which is being rushed through during the three-day wrap-up session that started yesterday.
The Senate will consider the bill this morning, and the House will consider it this afternoon, the fee increase argument to be settled in an all-night conference committee meeting.
NEITHER SIDE would say what it would take to clear the logjam, preferring instead to keep the battle lines fuzzy.
"With the Senate spending more money, it does not mitigate another increase," he said. "We're going to have to have another one somewhere one or two years down the road."
respective committee.
"We did not ask the Regents to go beyond 15 percent of our funds and their hand on 15 percent," Hess, R-Wichita, said. "But since they had the courage to make the decision, we should not deter their ability to make a decision that benefits faculty and students."
But Hayden, R-Awood, said that although the policy of making students pay 25 percent of the total cost of their education should be pursued, the Senate panel's decision would force another
But both Hess and Hayden defended their respective committees.
HESS SAID the difference between the 15 percent increase and the 22 percent increase was only $19 a year for each student.
"I don't anticipate an increase close to what occurred this year," Hess said. "We're looking for a gradual increase to the 25 percent level. I don't think that's too much to ask."
The 22 percent increase would boost fees at KU by $124 a year for in-state tuition starting this fall.
The late afternoon sun turns Irving Hill Road into a ribbon of light yesterday as a lone figure makes her way across the street.
Indians still face many old problems
By PENN CRABTREE
Staff Reporter
In 1994, LENora Blandin, a full-blooded Potawatomi Indian left her reservation to attend Haskell Institute, a government-supported high school for native Americans.
According to Kreipe and some of the estimated 1,588 native Americans living in Lawrence, the same institutional and social attitudes that made life difficult for Indians 77 years ago still are prevalent today.
"Anything Indian was discouraged," Mary Kreipe, Blandia's granddaughter and a KU graduate student, said. "Once, my grandmother was caught speak Potawatomi. They had her write 'I will not talk Indian' several hundred times on her slate."
One of the hardest lessons she had to learn there was how not to be an Indian.
"When my grandmother went to Haskell, the system was terribly oppressive," Kreipe, who is a graduate of Haskell Junior College, said. "Now Haskell at least has an Indian language and crafts department, but it's still not encouraged."
"There are stereotypes about Indians that give us a bad concept of ourselves," Benjamin Birdcreek, a Haskell freshman from Lawrence, said. "The stereotype I always heard about was the drunken Indian. When I was little, my father and I would be on a liquor store. And I would say to my father that I hated being an Indian, I was so ashamed."
MANY DISCRIMINATORY attitudes, some Lawrence native Americans said, are held by Indians as well as whites.
Birdereck, one is two-thirds Creek and one third Apache Indian, said that discrimination
against humans in Lawrence was mild, but still present.
"I think that there could be good relations between whites and Indians here, if they didn't stereotype themselves," Birdrueck said. "But they should body all the killers and drunk, and lie around the reservation."
"Indians are taught to be generous and share; it was the way of the old times," King, a full-blooded Oglala from South Dakota's Pineridge Indian Reservation, said. "If a white has something that someone else asks him think hard about, ask his parents or grandparents." The Indian parent tells his child that you don't even have to ask—just share. This gets misunderstood by whites.
Another Haskell student, Josephine King, said that whites often mistook Indian generosity for a spendthrift way of life.
A COMMON COMPAINT among Lawrence Indians, particularly students, is that the federal government, despite its good intentions, is ineffectual in dealing with Indian problems and needs.
One Haskell instructor, Don Ashapakne, said that government-sponsored Indian schools and programs often worked at cross purposes with the Indians themselves. The federal ment, he said, fosters programs to educate Indians with culture, which many Indians don't wish to do.
"The government would like nothing better than to be rid of the 'Indian problem,'" Ashaphanek, a biology instructor, said. "The best way to do that is to assimilate us into the white culture. But Indians want to keep their own values and way of life.
"I've heard the government talk a lot about self-determination, but I haven't seen the
government place into the tribes' hands the land and money needed to accommodate it."
GOVERNMENT INDIAN SCHOOLS hinder as much as help the native American, in the opinion of some native Americans.
"The kind of education Indians receive in Indian institutions is much less substantial than what they'd receive at any other community college," Nanette Routeaux, assistant to the executive vice chancellor's office and a Haskell graduate, said.
"Haskell is a government school for Indians, not an Indian school. Many of the faculty members don't even have their master's degrees, and there are some teachers at Haskell who are holding the same position they held when it was a high school."
Roubideaux, a Danforth Fellow and doctoral candidate, said she was an academic achiever "not because of Haskell, but despite it."
"Haskell students who transfer to the University of Kansas are unprepared socially and academically." Roubideaux said. "As a result, 75 percent of them drop out of school."
ACCOUNTING TO A SPOKESMAN for the regional branch of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which is located in Muskogee, Okla., the national drop-out rate for native Americans entering non-Indian high education institutions is equally grim.
"Presently, there are close to 30,000 native Americans attending a higher education institution," Turner Bear Jr. financial assistance officer for the regional BIA, said. "The national Indian drop-out rate is between 70 and 80 percent. The reasons for those figures are varied: lack of motivation, a poor economic situation and a lack of sensitivity on the part of college personnel to the American Indian's background."
See INDIAN page 11
Staff Reporter
By KATHRYN KASE
Shankel plans to plow funds into budget
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel is a man with a plan that hinges on an "if."
If the Kansas Legislature allows the University of Kansas to keep all the additional revenue from next year's 22 percent tuition increase, Shankel said he would plow a portion of the increase back into funds for student employment.
payment.
"If we can get all of the increase, we will put $250,000 into student employment on campus," he said two days ago.
But the same day the House Ways and Means Committee decided not to allow Regents institutions to spend the extra money from the fee increase.
ON MONDAY, the Senate Ways and Means Committee had given the institutions permission to spend the increase. Final approval must come from the full Legislature sometime this week.
The additional money also would be channeled into library acquisition funds and various areas of the operating budget.
"If we get the money, we'll have an additional $1,070,000." Shankel said. "That's the amount we'll collect if enrollment stays the same, if the state sets a state mix stays the same and that sort of thing."
Jerry Hutchison, acting vice chancellor for academic affairs, confirmed that but could not say exactly how the increased amount of money would affect acquisitions.
"We'll put $250,000 into library acquisitions," he said. "I think it will mean that we'll probably not have to reduce journal subscriptions as much."
No specific departments, offices and programs designated to receive the money. Hutchison said.
ADDITIONAL OPERATING FUNDS will be allocated in two ways, Shankel said. Departments, offices and programs will receive targeted for equipment replacement and repair.
"It is a little bit early to know how we would allocate the money," Hutchison said. "It is a definite breakthrough compared to the situation we found ourselves in a month ago."
However, Hutchison said he expected his office to meet with department and program chairmen to determine priorities.
Fine arts and biology programs probably will be offered at universities operating budget funding, according to Shapiro.
"It if increase goes through," he said, "we will probably withdraw our two requests to the Board of Regents for an additional fee for biology and fine arts students to cover equip-
See TUITION page 11
Weather
It will be clear today with a high temperature of 88, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be from the south at 5 to 10 miles an hour.
Tight skies will remain clear, and the low temperature will be in the 60s. Winds will be from the west at 10 to 20 miles an hour.
Tomorrow will be extremely hot with
high humidity and mild-80s.
Snow will be more clear.