THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101,NO.96
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY17 1992
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Lawmakers question NCAA's expanded role
By Gayle Osterberg
Kansan staff writer
When Don Fambrough was Kansas' football coach, he spent days traveling so he could be with future players when they signed letters of intent.
That was in the old days, he said. The days before the National Collegiate Association established guidelines prohibiting a player's attendance at a player's signing.
"It's such a small thing, but it is a perfect example of something they've taken away," Fambrough said. "They have done a lot to take some of the fun out of coaching and playing."
Fambrough is one of a growing number of people nationwide who are questioning the NCAA's role in collegiate athletics.
He counts himself among supporters of a local lawmaker's recent efforts to protect the rights of students and uni-
ties, including themselves under the NCAA's scrutiny.
A bill introduced last session would require the NCAA to provide players and universities with due process if it
imposed a sanction or penalty on a Kansas university.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee is scheduled Wednesday to meet.
Fambrough said he could support the bill because he had firsthand experience dealing with the NCAA's guidelines.
In 1971, Fambrough's first year as head coach at Kansas, the NCAA penalized his team because a player had been outgrown earlier than regulations permitted.
"It is no example that if one individual is guilty, it penalizes too many people," he said. "In my experience with them, the (NCAA) is the only organization in the whole United States system where you are guilty before you have a trial."
One freshman team member that year was State Sen. Wint Winter, Jr., JR.
He remembers sitting in one of the season's first meetings and seeing a teary-eyed Coach Fambroub announce that there would be no post-season play that year.
It was an image that did not fade fast from Winter's memory.
He wrote about NCAA due process for the University of Kansas Law Review in 1977 and kept up with the organization's activities.
During the 1991 legislative session, he introduced the bill requiring due process for students and universities. He vetoed the bill, and it now awaits House action.
"My concern mostly is with punishment," Winter said. "The NCAA finds an individual who is doing something wrong and then punish the whole institution. This hurts not only the student athletes but all students because of the very big impact on revenues those programs have."
The University's latest brush with NCAA violations was in 1988 when the basketball team was prevented from defending its national championship the following year because of recruiting violations.
Winter said other states and the U.S. Congress also had looked into the NCAA'spolicies.
Justin Knuppi/KANSAN
Greg Ostertag, freshman center, helps members of the Special Olympics teams with their free throw shots during a practice with the Kansas men's basketball team. About 300 Special Olympians participated in practice yesterday.
Big help
Kansas diver beats pain, finishes third after hitting board
By Chris Jenson
Kansan sportswriter
He did not know how far he would have to go.
Tim Davidson planned to give his all to help Kansas win the big Eight Conference Swimming and Diving Championships this past weekend.
Saturday morning, Davidson was competing in the men's three-meter diving competition when his arms struck the board. He could not complete the dive and fell to the water in pain.
Davidson was attempting reverse
2 divides somersault, his most difficult
divide.
After the accident, Davidson met with Kansas swimming and diving coach Gary Kempf and diving coach William Pfid did not want to leave the competition.
"When I was kicking out of the dive I hit both my arms from the knuckles to about 3/4 up my forearm, "Davidson said. "I just came a little closer to the board than usual. I had a slight pull with my shoulders. I was leaning into the board when I should have been pushing away."
"This team is really special, and we had a great shot at the title, so I wanted to do my part in getting points." Davidson said. "It was for the team and all the fans. I think anyone would have done the same."
With his mind set on competing, a doctor examined him and gave him the
"As soon as it happened I knew I
could go on." he said.
Hitting the board left Davidson's arms virtually immobile, especially in the wrists. A trainer taped Davidson's wrist to give him support for his entry into the water. But this did not stop the pain, which started in his fingers and traveled up his arms.
Kempf said he admired Davidson's fortitude.
"The attitude of the team is really portrayed by Tim," Kempf said. "It was a big part of what I grew up with. I have ever seen. That is the kind of attitude I am of our proud人of me."
Davidson's comeback was not easy.
After hitting the board he still had eight dives to complete in the preliminaries and six more in the finals that evening.
Davidson was in the fourth place overall after the preliminaries. He finished in third place. But Davidson said he wanted more.
"I am happy with my finish, but I
said, "I can capabl doing better,
he said.
Earlier in the four-day competition, Davidson finished second in the one-meter diving event.
X-rays taken yesterday showed that neither arm was broken. He will receive a diagnosis today.
Davidson was pleased with his decision but upset that the men came up short in their quest for the conference and they were its team finished second to Nebraska.
"I would do it again in a second," he said. "I never had a doubt about what I had to do."
Tim Davidson, Ann Arbor, Mich., sophomore, prepares to dive during a recent practice.
Israeli air assault kills Muslim leader
The Associated Press
SIDON, Lebanon — Israeli helicopters yesterday blasted a convoy carrying the leader of the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah, killing him and his wife and son. Shiite Muslim leaders vowed revenge and called for a holy war against Israel.
The dramatic strike, which could damage the Middle East peace process, capped a day of Israeli air attacks on south Lebanon that left eight other people dead and 29 wounded.
The raids came less than 48 hours after an attack on an army camp inside Israel, in which three Israeli soldiers were hacked to death.
In a terse statement issued at the group's headquarters in Beirut, Hebollah said its leader, Sheik Abbas Musawi, 39, his wife, Siham, and their 5-year-old son, Hussein, the youngest of the couple's six children, were "martyred" in what it called "a cowardly air attack." The statement gave no other details.
In addition to Musawi and his family, four other people were killed, and 18 were wounded, police in Lebanon said. They said eight of the wounded were in critical condition.
Sheik Mohammed Fadallah, spiritual mentor of the Shiite militants, called the attack a "barbarian crime" and said in a statement, "I call upon all resistance fighters to escalate their jihad (holy war) against Israel."
Hezbollah, or Party of God, was considered the umbrella group for the Shiite Muslim holders of Western hostages in Lebanon. It opposes the Middle East peace talks, the next round of which are to begin Feb. 24 in Washington.
In Washington, President Bush declined comment on the effect the attack might have on peace talks. He said he did not have detailed information on the raid.
In Jerusalem, the Israeli military acknowledged it had carried out the convoy attack, but suggested it had not specifically targeted Musawi, who was in a convoy that was carrying militia leaders from a meeting.
But Defense Minister Moshe Arens told Israeli television the attack was designed to harm Hezbollah.
It was "a message to all the terrorist organizations; that if any of them opens an account with us, we will settle that account." Arens said.
In its statement, the army blamed Hezbolli for 52 attacks on the Israeli-controlled zone in south Lebanon in 1991 and said the group had stepped up attacks in recent months to try to scuttle the Middle East peace talks.
Arens called Musawi "a man with a lot of blood on his hands" and said, "One may assume that the fact that he was killed isn't entirely confidential."
The attack on Musawi's convoy followed air strikes earlier yesterday on Palestinian refugee camps at Ein El-hilweh and Rashidiyah, in which police said four people were killed and 11 wounded.
At Rashidiydeh, the Israelis struck an empty two-story military base that had been used by Fatah, the mainstream Palestinian Liberation Organization faction
Israel had blamed Fatah for the fatal raid early Saturday on an Israeli army camp near the West Bank, in which three soldiers were killed by Arab assailants armed with knives, axes and pitchforks.
Overall enrollment is down — slightly
Spring 1992 enrollment figures taken at the 20th day of classes shows enrollment dropped by two this semester.
University of Kansas Medical Center numbers:
(spring enrollment)
0 500 1,500 2,500
Source: Division of Student Affairs,
Department of Educational Services
Jeff Moesey, Daily Kansas
Celebration marks Spanish recognition of expelled Jews
By Shelly Solon
Kansan staff writer
In March of 1492, the Spanish government issued an edict expelling Jews from Spain. This year, Spain is recognizing the Spanish Jews with a special celebration and exhibit of their Sepharadic, or Jewish-Spanish, culture.
Locally, Hillel and the Lawrence Jewish Community Center on Saturday remembered the 500-year anniversary with their own celebration.
The program at the center, 197 Highland Drive, included a religious service, music and the burning of the community center's mortgage, which recently was paid off. About 70 people attended the celebration.
Javier Martinez, teaching assistant in Spanish and Portuguese, said Spain was having Seafard '92, a celebration to commemorate the expulsion and recognize the Spanish Jews. He said seafard meant "Snain" in Hebrew.
Martinez said the Spanish celebration also would include an exhibit of Sephardic culture.
However, David Katzman, professor of history, said that the official recognition began two years ago when Spain
"There is a large amount of Jews of Spanish origin all over the world," he said. "Spain wants to recognize them, and it may be a way to look for forgiveness for what happened in 1492."
Martinez said having the Middle East peace conference in Madrid, Spain, could have been the first step in recognizing the
allowed the existence of synagogues
He said that until that time, it was illegal to have synagogues or Jewish services in Spain.
Daveen Litwin, Hillel director, said the local program was in remembrance of the expulsion but was also a celebration marking the permanence of the Jewish community in Lawrence.
"We want to celebrate how we all came to be here," she said. "Jews are dispersed all over the world and have found a place in America. We want to celebrate that in this community."
Gerard Edery, a singer and classical guitarist, performed folk songs of the Sepharadic tradition, which originated in Spain.
"After the expulsion, the Jews spread across the world," he said. "In most places they adapted to the culture of the country they ran to. Some traditions were supported, but most died out."
Edery said Turkey was the only place where Sepharadic Jews continued all the traditions and the language. He opened his performance with a song that originated in Turkey.
Leni Salkind, president of the Lawrence Jewish Community Center, said the celebration commemorated the anniver-
"Everyone is celebrating the quincentennial of Columbus discovering America," she said. "But this time marks quite a different experience for the Jews in Spain. While he was exploring for Spain, Jews were being expelled from Spain."