MONDAY, MARCH 25. 2002
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
Final Kansas Basketball thoughts
NEWS
By Caroline Boyer
Korean staff writer
Q: Do you think we'll be able to win the championship?
"I bet on KU for my brackets, so they'd better win."
Amber Backus Overland Park senior
"I'll be crushed;
I'll cry for a week."
Q: How will you react if we don't win the championship?
Brett Parr
Wichita senior
Q: What will school be like if we make the Final Four?
“It's gonna go crazy. It will be a crazy campus
of the week." Carrie Wilson Beloit sophomore
A prayer for victory
Students ask God to help Jayhawks win tournament
By Maggie Koerth Kansan staff writer
Students do it. Lawrence residents do it. Even ministers do it.
People from all walks of life ask God to help their favorite sports teams. Some pray especially hard now as the Jayhawks work their way through the NCAA tournament.
Julie Robinson, Hill City sophomore, said she thought praying for the Kansas basketball team helped.
"We went to spring break in Mexico and went to mass at a
church there," Robinson said. "After mass, the priest blessed the lavihawks, and they won that day."
Mike Zybko, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, agreed with Robinson.
"I've been praying for them all season long," he said. "There have been times though when I haven't prayed and then they lost."
Robinson said she was worried when Kansas played Holy Cross in the first game of the tournament.
"When KU started losing we all thought it must have been because they were a Catholic school and had all those people praying for them," Robinson said.
Robinson and Zybko said their priest had prayed for the basketball team during mass yesterday.
But other Lawrence ministers
don't think sports prayers belong in church.
"I wouldn't pray for a sporting event in Sunday worship," said Rev. Sharon Howell, senior pastor at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont.
Howell said both she and her parishioners followed Kansas basketball closely. She said she thought God looked at sports as a way for people to enjoy life and interact with each other.
"I just don't know if God cares about who wins," she said.
St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road, parishioner Tom West, Topeka junior, said he didn't pray about Kansas basketball games but knew people who did.
"I think the only thing God really cares about is that nobody
gets hurt and everyone has a good time." West said.
Herb Friedson is a Lawrence resident and member of the Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive. Friedson said he thought it was appropriate for people to pray for anything they cared about.
"Basketball is important to many people and those people will pray about that. I don't think there is anything wrong with it," he said.
Friedson said he knew people who prayed about basketball, but he cared more about last weekend's World Figure Skating Championships.
Contact Koerth at mkoerth@kansan.com. This story was edited by Molly Gise.
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society returned phone calls last week.
Preservation officer tied to KU
The University could appeal Powers' decision, but Bretz said no action would take place now except for protection of the houses. She said the gas lines would be shut off at the houses and a fence put up around the properties to keep out vandals. Bretz said the University still wanted to build the two scholarship halls.
"The neighborhood would benefit from new scholarship halls," Bretz said. "We think we could construct halls that are esthetically pleasing and an asset to the Lawrence community."
Hayley Rumback, Wichita senior and Sellants Scholarship Hall resident, said she agreed with Powers' decision.
"The scholarship halls are a wonderful program and they should try to develop it, but maybe at another location."
Contact Beaty at lebeaty@kansan.com. This story was edited by Sarah Warren.
By Lauren Beatty
Kansan staff writer
Ramon Powers had a relationship with the University of Kansas long before he decided March 15 to not let the University tear down three houses on Ohio Street to make room for scholarship halls.
That decision was the 62-year-old Powers' last act as the state historic preservation officer — before retiring that day. It concluded a spirited debate that began last year among the University, the Oread Neighborhood Association and the Lawrence Preservation Alliance over the fate of the houses.
Before Powers started working as state historic preservation officer in 1988, he worked at the University from 1963 to 1967. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Fort Hays State University and was a KU Western Civilization instructor from 1963 to 1966. During the 1966-67 school year, Powers served as assistant director of the
Western Civilization program.
James Seaver, professor emeritus of history, was director of the program when Powers was an instructor. Seavers said he remembered Powers well and had followed his career after he left KU.
"Ramon was very well organized, the best of all the professors." Seaver said.
Seaver described Powers as an elegant person who was always diplomatic and got along with his fellow professors.
"He has made decisions that people haven't agreed with, but you can't please everyone," Seaver said.
Powers received his doctoral degree from KU in 1971. He also taught at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and Haskell Indian Junior College.
Powers became the state historic preservation officer in 1988, appointed by then-governor Mike Hayden.
Hotel in Wichita, which was eventually demolished. Some said he didn't try hard enough to preserve it.
As the state historic preservation officer, Powers continued to work with members of KU's faculty. Michael Shaw, associate professor of classics, worked with Powers as a member of the Kansas Preservation Alliance to preserve historic buildings in the state.
"He's done well," Shaw said. "He is known for his calmness, even in our being impatient with him."
Shaw said he had personal respect for Powers, but didn't always agree with him.
"We need to have preservation ordinances and someone must make a decision," Shaw said. "Should it be him? I don't want to comment on that."
Powers declined to be interviewed for this story.
Contact Beatty at lbeatty@kansan.com. This story was edited by Eve Lamborn.
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