THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.106
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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'Hawks clinch Big Eight title
Women defeat Missouri, gain No.1 spot
By Cody Holt
Kansan sportswrite
When the Big Eight Conference coaches were polled at the beginning of the season, they voted the Kansas women's basketball team as the favorite to win the conference title.
What they did not know was that less than two weeks into the conference schedule, injuries would sideline three Kansas starters for the remainder of the season.
Kansas coach Marian Washington said if she could have foreseen the injuries, she would not have thought that the Jayhawks would be conference champions.
"I don't know that anybody would have believed it," she said.
Nevertheless, the Jayhawks are the conference champions.
No. 17 Kansas defeated Missouri 70-57 Saturday at Allen Field House to avoid a tie with second-place Colorado. Kansas has not won the conference title outright since 1980-1981.
Senior guard Kay Kay Hart said the championship was especially nice for the team's four seniors because of the success the team had before they arrived.
The Jayhawks won two conference tournaments in 1987 and 1988 and six national titles.
Junior guard Stacy Truet sparked the Jayhaws scoring 16 of her game-high 20 points in the second half. She said she did it for the seniors.
"I was worried it would never happen." she said.
"I had it in my heart and mind to be the seniors with the Big Egtitle title he has."
Senior forward Terrilyn Johnson said she was relieved that the Jayhawks had won the title.
"I guess I knew eventually it would come," she said. "I knew we would gel one day and it would all come together. Faith in each other paid off."
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Kansas senior guard Kay Kav Hart (center) kisses the Big Eight Conference trophy after the Jayhawks beat Missouri Saturday to clinch the conference title.
Rock Chalk raises $50,000
By Katherine Manweiler
Kansan staff writer
Record-breaking donations and a sellout crowd made the Rock Chalk Revue awards ceremony on Saturday night one bright moment for hundreds of KU students.
Despite having to cope with a change of venue, the participants in Rock Chalk Revue 1992 this year announced a record estimated donation of $50,000 to the Douglas County United Way. Last year's show raised $33,000.
Living groups involved in Rock Chalk also donated almost 3,000 community service hours to the United Way. The total community service contribution including work for other volunteer agencies in Douglas County was 10,386 hours.
When Hoch Auditorium burned last summer, many people thought the tradition of Rock Chalk Revue would be severely damaged, too.
The group also started Friends of Rock Chalk, a national mailing campaign that asked for donations from 3,800 Rock Chalk Revue alumni and raised $5,000.
The show relocated to Lawrence High School. To compensate for an anticipated loss in ticket revenue because of limited seating, Rock Chalk Revealed three extra performances to its usual three. It also received $5,000 from two corporate sponsors, U.S. Sprint and the Lawrence Journal-World, and increased advertising sales.
Todd Miller, executive director, said the challenges of this year's show made people work together more than in past years.
The awards
"For what could have been the worst year, just due to random disasters like the Hoch fire, this has turned out to be the best year for Rock Chalk Revue—certainly the most rewarding year," Miller said.
Scott Iverson, business manager,
said the donation to the United Way
definitely would be close to $50,000.
"This is a number we pegged down, but we haven't finished totaling our expenses yet," he said. "There might be some unexpected costs that we didn't anticipate, but if the donation is not $50,000, it will be very close."
Hoch could seat about 3,000 people, while the Lawrence High auditorium can accommodate about 1,000. But
The Rock Chalk Revue raised a record $50,000 for Douglas County United Way.
**Most Charitable - Community**
Service - Alpha Chi Omega / Phi
Kappa Psi - 1,350 hours
**Most Charitable - Financial**
Gamma Phi Beta / Phi Gamma Delta -
$12.63 ticket sales
Best Original Song - Alpha Gamma Delta / Lambda Chi Alpha - "The Best Opera is a Soap"
Best Supporting Male Performer - Shane Bell - Delta Delta Delta / Sigma Epsilon
Best Supporting Female Performer - Dianne Spies -
Alpha Gamma Delta / Lambda Chi
Alpha
**Best Use of Sets** - Alpha
Gamma Delta / Lambda Chi Alpha
**Best Use of Costumes**
- Delta Delta Delta / Sigma Phi
Epsilon
renting the auditorium cost $2,000,
substantially less than the $6,500 price tag for renting Hoch.
Best Production Number
Delta Delta Delta / Sigma Phi
Epsilon - "I'm a Fungi"
Best Male Performer-Jamey Welch-Alpha Gamma Delta/ Lambda Chi Alpha
Andy Martin, executive producer.
Best Female Performer-
Kelli Curtis - Alpha Gamma Delta/
Lambia Chi Alpha
Best Overall Production -
"Dial Soap for Murder" - Alpha
Gamma Delta /Lambda Chi Alpha
Community service hours
10,386
said performin' the show at Lawrence High School was not much different from Hoch Auditorium." I hate to say that no one really missed Hoch, but think it went fantastic here," Martin said.
For the 41- time in the 43-year history of Rock Chalk Revue, a
Fults said her group donated about 300 hours to United Way agencies.
Kelly Fults, community service representative for Alpha Chi Omega, estimated that 160 people participated in the group's effort, donating time to agencies such as The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence and Douglas County Senior Services.
Members of Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Kappa Psi completed more than 1,350 hours of community service to capture the Most Charitable Award for Community Service.
Fifteen groups, including scholarship halls, fraternities and sororities, participated in the community service effort.
group that did not make it into the show won one of the awards.
Rock Chalk managers expect revenues from the event to reach $50,000.
Lisa Krigsten,
co-coordinator
for community
service, said she
was amazed at
the response
from the groups
that were not in
the show.
"During the first month, we had no idea what to expect," Krigsten said. "It was very good to see people doing this community
"Dial Soap for Murder," a satirical look at the world of soap opera stars performed by Alpha Gamma Delta and Lambda Chi Alpha, received six of the 11 awards, including Best Overall Production.
Jamey Welch, Dallas sophomore and director for "Dial Soap for Murder," won't the award for Best Male Performer for the second consecutive year. He said it was enjoyable to see his group's hard work pay off.
"We worked really hard and put a lot into it, and I guess it really showed," Welch said.
service and not just for Rock Chalk."
Athletic department says no to saving seats at field house
By Lyle Niedens
Kansan sportswriter
If you are planning on saving blocks of seats for friends tonight at Allen Field House for Kansas' game against Oklahoma State, don't bother.
Beginning with tonight's game, the practice of saving seats at Kansas home games in the field house no longer will be tolerated.
The decision to halt the practice wasmade Friday afternoon ata staff meeting of the Kansas Athletic Temple, assistant athletic director.
He said the decision was made after several complaints from students who had been unable to take empty seats at Kansas games. Those students were told by other students that the seats were being saved for people who had not yet arrived at the field house.
Students generally put newspapers or other items on the bleacher seats that are being saved.
"The last two or three games, it's
really been getting out of hard." Temple said. "We've had a lot of complaints from students who wanted to take seats and saw nothing sitting there but a bunch of newspapers.
"It wasn't fair to the kids who wait in line to get good seats, then get told they are being saved for someone else. I think it's a fair decision."
The new rule is aimed at discouraging the practice of saving blocks of seats and entire rows, Temple said. He said a decision had not been made about whether saving one or two seats would be allowed.
Two or three extra security personnel will be at tonight's game to help enforce the new rule, he said. If students are not complying with the rule, an usher or security officer will tell the students that they will not be able to save the seats.
Temple said the decision was intended to avoid confrontations between students who wanted to sit in the classroom and students who were seated the seats.
"I'm not anticipating a big problem with it," he said of the saving-seats ban.
Reaction to the ban from students camping outside the field house yesterday for tonight's game was mixed.
Mike Stanley, Prairie Village freshman, said he thought the ban was a good idea.
"You feel like you deserve good seats when you wait in line," he said. "If those seats are saved, you don't end up unsettling good seats."
However, Stanley said he might save a few seats anyway, depending on how strictly the policy was enforced.
Heather Welborn, Valley Falls freshman, said she disliked the new rule.
"I think we have every right in hell to save seats," she said. "It's not like the seats are going to go to someone who hasn't paid for a ticket."
She said saving seats helped students who had to work or had class and were not able to come to the game four or five hours before it started.
Police arrest homicide suspect
Kansan staff writer
By Jay Williams
Two years to the day Christophen Bread was found dead in a shallow ditch east of Lawrence, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office arrested and charged a Lawrence man in connection with the death.
Marvin Schaal, 19, was arrested at 5:10 p.m. yesterday at his residence at the Gaslight Village mobile home park,
1900 W 31st St
He was charged with one felony count of aggravated vehicular homicide and one misdemeanor count of leaving the scene of an injury accident, according to a written statement from the sheriff's office.
The statement said deputies made the arrest in connection with the March 1, 1909, death of Bread, who was 19. Authorities found his body in a ditch on 15th Street a mile and a half east of Lawrence.
Bread died from injuries sustained in a hit-and-run accident, but sheirf's officials said Bread might have been assaulted.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation completed an investigation of the death in spring 1991, but three sheriff's officials and one KBI agent continued to investigate the case until the arrest.
"It is rewarding to finally know the sequence of events leading to this death and also know that someone will finally be held accountable," Sheriff Loren Anderson said in a statement.
A forensic pathologist found that
Schaal is being held in the Douglas County Jail without bond. His first court appearance is scheduled for March 3.
The statement said a petition had been filed requesting Schaal be tried as an adult.
Anderson said last night that Schaal had been a suspect for the past few months, but that authorities had not spoken to Schaal for about one year.
some point this would be solved," he said. "We got the information earlier this year and it allowed us to form the conclusion we had today."
Anderson would not say last night what information the office had received.
Schalah was not a suspect at the beginning of the investigation two years ago.
"All along, we've had a feeling that at
He said he would not give a motive for the crime because it would be brought out during court proceedings.
Anderson said he did not think Schaal and Bread had known each other.
No other arrests were made in connection with the Bread death, he said. He would not elaborate further about the arrest.
Marilyn and Don Bread, Christopher's parents, would not comment last night about the arrest.
"It kind of difficult and all, this being the anniversary date," Marilyn Bread said.
Noted feminist returns 20 years after inspiring KU's women
Rv.lav Williams
Kansan staff writer
Robin Morgan returned Friday to a place where 20 years ago she spoke and helped spark a movement.
Morgan spoke in the Kansas Union Ballroom room Feb. 2, 1972. Within 48 hours, the February Sisters, a group of about 30 women, presented the KU administration with a list of demands involving women's issues after they had overtaken the East Asian studies building.
"I did not doit," said Morgan, now editor of Ms. magazine. "The February Sisters made it happen. I happened to be at the right place at the right time."
Morgan's speech Friday was interrupted several times by aplause from an enthusiastic audience. She wiped tears from her eyes while talking about the February Sisters.
members of the disbanded group to join her on the stage. Seven women went to the stage and the group embraced as the rest of the audience gave a standing ovation. Morgan called the evening an amazing night.
Near the end of the speech Morgan asked
Robin Morgan
ebrate and remember, but to inspire and push on," she said.
"Wearehereincelebration,butnotonlytocel"
Her speech touched on the progress and problems of the women's movement in the United States and abroad.
Morgan said the feminist movement had been declared dead every year since 1968 by members of the mainstream media.
"Our demise has been greatly exaggerated," she said.
Morgan said others believed there were few young women involved in the women's movement today. She said she found that statement puzzling.
"In my old age, I must be hallucinating," the six-year-old Morgan said. "In my audiences,
most are women, most are young. I must be making it up."
More can made an analogy to colonization.
Twelve years of Ronald Reagan and George Bush have hurt the movement, she said. The era of conservative presidents and a conservative Supreme Court created an assault on abortion rights and birth control, she said.
"I'm is our land. It is our choice whether or not how and when to bear children."
"You know, if you have read any history, what happens to colonized people ... the colonizers mine it for natural resources," Morgan said. "Women are colonized wherever we are. We are mined for basic natural resources: children.
The women's movement is now worldwide,
Morgan said. She said activism in the Arab world was special to her.
"Two years ago, 40 Saudi women, in a country where women are not permitted to drive, drove eight blocks," she said.
Morgan is a noted author and poet, and her 14th book, entitled, "The Word of a Woman," will be available in October.
At the beginning of the decade, Morgan began revaming Ms. magazine's format.
Emily Taylor, former dean of women, introduced Morgan.
"For many of you, the word introduce is a misnomer," she said. "Robin Morgan is one of the most visible and endearing leaders of the feminist movement."