THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.111
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Expectations soar for 'Hawks hoops
By Greg Farmer and Jay Williams Kansan staff writers
Most Jayhawk fans expect the Kansas men's basketball team to play in the Final Four at the Metrodome in Minneapolis.
But opinions differ on whether fans expect too much
Yesterday, Kansas added the Big Eight Conference tournament championship to its regular season conference championship by defeating Oklahoma State 66-57.
As a result of the team's regular season success, the Jayhawks, 27-4, are seeded No.1 in the Midwest Regional of the NCAA tournament and play Friday in the first round at Dayton, Ohio.
The Jayhawks are featured on page 113 of the March 16th Sports Illustrated.
In the magazine, Coach Roy Williams called the expectations of some fans unrealistic.
More than 100 Kansas fans, including Ray Hill, Leavenworth senior, gathered yesterday at Benchwarmers Sports Bar and Grill, 1601 W. 23rd St., to watch the Kansas-Oklahoma State game.
Hill said he expected this year's team to play the Duke Blue Devils in the championship game.
"I understand why Coach Williams doesn't want expectations to be too high," he said. "When expectations are too high, the team tends not to play as well as they would otherwise. But this year's team has played better during the regular season than last year's team. This team could go all the way."
John Carrico, Omaha, Neb., junior, said the talented players on the team created the high expectations.
Maurice Fanty, Leavenworth senior, said that students expected a lot but that the Jayhawks could exceed those expectations.
"This is simply a great basketball team," he said. "It's that simple. We have the best bench of any team in the country. We don't have a starting five. We have a starting nine."
"Patrick Richey is back, and other players are contributing more than they have throughout the season," he said. "This team could move it up another level."
Rob Dowell graduated last year from Kansas State University but now cheers for the Jayhawks.
"If you can't beat them, join them," he said. "This Kansas team can go all the way to win."
LeeAm Laskey, Lawrence junior, said Kansas fans had to expect a lot from their team because
NCAA BASKETBALL
The Kansas Jayhawks, who captured the Big Eight Conference tournament title with a 66-57 victory against Oklahoma State, are the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Regional. They play Friday in Dayton, Ohio, against Howard University.
Although the Kansas women lost the Big Eight tournament title game to Colorado, they received the No. 9 seed in the Midwest Regional. They open tournament play Wednesday night at Southwest Missouri State.
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other people did not
"People have expected us to do absolutely nothing for so long, so we as fans have to have high expectations," she said. "It's not like we are going to stop roping for them if they lose. We just hope for a lot of success."
Julie Marburger, Western Springs. Ill.. junior, said that Kansas fans expected too much but she thought the team could win the NCAA championship.
Brebcca Boston, Chicago junior, said she thought the girls' expectations were fair.
"I think we have a good team, but we expect too much out of them," she said.
"People have good reason to show good faith in this team," she said.
Boston said she expected Kansas to win the
ninth-seed, based on last year's results and
eighth-seed status.
Sheryl Henderson, Kirksville, Mo., junior,
transferred from Missouri to KU this year.
"I would be ecstatic if they won the championship, but I'd be happy if they went to the Final."
College athletics are not as important in England as they are in the United States, said Stephen Hall, Birmingham, England, junior, while reading in the library.
"I think basketball is hyped up here," he said, "nursuring how college sports have such a message."
Hall said he did not follow basketball closely but expected Kansas to go far in the tournament.
"Maybe what people expect from the team is as important as the good spirit for the game."
Elizabeth Morrow, Breinigsville, Penn, graduate student, said she thought the high expectations on campus came from the large numbers of students who attended the University.
"What else is there to do in Kansas?" she asked.
Celebrating Kansas 'first Big Eight tournament victory since 1986, members of the Kansas basketball team hoist the Big Eight trophy after their victory against Oklahoma State.
Second quake shakes beleaguered Turkey
The Associated Press
ERZINCAN, Turkey — Another strong earthquake struck eastern Turkey yesterday, just two days after one that killed as many as 800 people and left 180,000 homeless. Panicked residents ran into the streets and power was knocked out.
The new shock came as tents and food aid poured into this city, a quarter of which was reduced to rubble by Friday's earthquake. A government official said many of the collapsed buildings were poorly constructed or higher than the city's three-story limit.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from yesterday's quake, which was centered in Tunceli province and felt from the Soviet border to Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported.
The first quake left up to 800 people dead, according to Turkish figures cited yesterday by the Office of the U.N. Disaster Relief Coordinator in Geneva. Some relief officials said the toll could climb into the thousands as more bodies were recovered.
Turkey also tripled its estimate of people left homeless to 180,000, the U.N. officesaid.
Search efforts in Erzincan concentrated on big buildings, most of which included restaurants full of people breaking a day-long fast observed during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Cranes lifted tons of concrete at the collapsed City Club, a five-story building where up to 200 people were thought to be in the restaurants and tea houses.
"Since we don't have enough heavy equipment we have to set priorities based on the number of people," said a police officer, Rifat Aksoy.
A score of doctors were still treating the injured in the open air yesterday, on cots set up in the mud outside the city's damaged hospital.
"Some have been found alive. There
is still hope," said Kurt Keller, a rescue specialist with Swiss Disaster Relief, which sent specially trained dogs to help the search.
But with temperatures below freezing, hope of finding many more people alive faded. Some families kept vigil outside a makeshift morgue, sagging against the building with sobs when they learned a loved one had died.
Two survivors were dug out of the rubble yesterday and rescuers said at least one and possibly two young women were still alive in a collapsed dormitory at a nursing school
Aslan Yildirim, the governor of Tunceli province, said the hardest-hit town yesterday was Pulumur, a town of 6,000 people about 60 miles from Erzincan. He said there were no known casualties, adding that residents had abandoned damaged buildings after Friday's quake.
In the city's cemetery, a stream of victims brought in by their families threatened to overwhelm grave diggers working frantically with shovels and backhoes.
The latest quake measured 6 on the Richter scale, according to the Kandili Observatory in Istambul.
Rescue efforts were proceeding slowly after Friday's minute-long
Officials said about 300 bodies had been recovered yesterday. They feared many bodies buried remained in Erzincan, a city of 150,000 people, which was rebuilt after a 1939 earthquake that killed 32,000.
earthquake, which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale.
Several newspapers yesterday blamed faulty construction for the high
death toll.
State minister Erman Sahin said that badly constructed buildings were part of the problem but also said the construction of structures too tall for the quake-prone region was a factor.
"For that reason, we will definitely not allow high-rise buildings when we prepare a development plan for the city," Sahin said.
Pro-life activists plan rally
Governor expected to speak at Statehouse
By Gayle Osterberg Kansan staff writer
Anti-abortion activists are expected to descend on the Statehouse at noon today to encourage the Senate to defeat a bill that would legalize abortion in state law books.
The bill, which the House passed 82-14 on March 2, would keep abortions legal, with limitations on late-term pregnancies, if Roe vs. Wade were overturned.
Gov. Joan Finney is expected to speak in opposition to the bill at today'srally.
David Gittrich, executive director of Kansans for Life, said that because the rally was scheduled during a work period, attendance might be lower. But he estimated that 2,000 people would participate.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee conducted hearings on the bill last week and is scheduled to begin discussion at 11 a.m. today.
Gittrich said Kansans for Life helped sponsor the rally because members were concerned that the House already had passed the bill, and they did not want the Senate to do the same.
"This bill is the most liberal abortion law ever introduced in the U.S.", "Gittrich said. "It makes Roe vs. Wade look wimpy."
He said the bill protected doctors who performed abortions.
"This thing is like legalizing
Auschwitz on unborn children," he
measured.
But State Rep. Kathleen Sebelius, D-Topeka, who heads the House committee that sponsored the legislation, has called for more air and reasonable policy for Kansas.
*This is not by any means a perfect
step toward legalization, but it is
a step toward legalization.*
Knapp
Specific terms in the bill would prohibit late-term abortions unless a woman's health were threatened or if the fetus was severely deformed.
It would require women younger than 16 to receive counseling before an abortion and that they be accompanied by an adult who is at least 21 when getting an abortion.
The bill also would prohibit blocking access to and from clinics where abor-
gement is involved.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee conducted hearings on the bill March 9 and 10 will and will not be heard, neither to pass the bill to the Senate floor.
Sen, Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, who heads the committee, said he did not know whether the committee would actually vote.
"There's never any assurance of anything when you're dealing with a subject of that magnitude," he said. "At this point, I'm planning on at least bringing it up."
If the committee endorses the bill, it will go to the Senate for floor debate possibly as early as Thursday, Reilly said.
The Associated Press contributed information to this report.
Kansas Union enters second phase of face lift
Joseph Ashlock, Lawrence junior; Ian Duff, Prairie Village junior; Carlos Tejada, Lawrence freshman; and Saul Epstein, Prairie Village junior (from left to right), talk near relocated automated teller machines.
By Erik Bauer
Kansan staff writer
The Student Union Activities box office, the candy counter, the post office and outside automated teller machines have been moved to the west side of the main lobby at the Kansas Union to allow for Phase Two of the Union renovation.
Maupintour Travel services will open on the third floor of Burge Union today, said Jim Long, director of the Kansas Union.
"Obviously, what we're doing is maintaining our services," Long said. "We said all along that we would provide the same services."
He said workers from Ferrell Construction, Inc., of Topeka worked on the temporary relocation of the services during spring break to avoid inconveniencing students.
Long said the relocation would allow the renovation of the south half of the lobby to begin in April, which is a part of Phase Two plans.
Long said that the first half of Phase Two was scheduled to be completed by September 1992, but that renovation of the north half of the main lobby would not be finished until September 1993.
The second half of Phase Two also will include refurbishing the ballroom, parlors A, B and C on the fifth floor, and the Kansas, Curry and Century rooms on the sixth floor, he said.
Union and a patio dining area on the third floor.
Long said the renovation of the north half would not begin until the south half was completed.
Phase Two of the Union remodeling master plan, conceived in 1984, will expand and improve some features of the Union, including an increase in the size of the main lobby and improvements to the candy counter, post office and SUA box office. The renovations also will include the construction of a plaza in front of the
SUA will move to the third level of
the Burge Union on April 1 until the first half of Phase Two is completed, he said.
Long said that he hoped the relocation of services would not inconvenience the University community.
"You've got to take advantage of the space you've got to work with," he said.
Diana Dyal, Lawrence graduate student, said the renovation was a minor inconvenience, but services were still intact.
"I'm glad it's finally going through," she said. "When they finish the renovation, I think services will be expanded."