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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 4, 1998
NBC sports announcer to speak
By Brandon Copple
By Brandon Copley
bcopple @kansan.com
Kansas staff
Kansan staff writer
Tom Hedrick cannot forget the first time he heard Bob Costas call a basketball game, and he cannot forget the next night, when he offered the young Costas some advice about the broadcasting business.
"I told him 'you were super last night,' said Hedrick, a lecturer in journalism. "But you made three dumb-ass political statements."
Costas, an all-sports television personality and NBC play-by-play announcer, will be on campus tomorrow speaking to broadcast journalism students and the press. His visit is something he and Hedrick have been trying to arrange for years. Hedrick said.
"Every time I see him he says,
'When are you going to let me talk
to your class?
This is the third time he's been scheduled, and he told me he'd be here no matter what," Hedrick said.
Costas: Will be on campus to speak this week.
Hedrick and Costas have been friends since 1975, when Hedrick called University of Kansas football and basketball games and Costas was the radio voice of Missouri.
Hedrick had heard good things about Costas, but he had never heard the future star until that year's Big Eight Tournament. Hedrick listened to Costas' call of the Missouri-Oklahoma State
game.
"I thought, 'Oh God, he's great.'" Hedrick said. "He had the voice, the sentence structure, the syntax, the irreverent humor — the whole package."
But he did notice that Costas made several wise cracks about the Missouri program that might be offensive to some in the Missouri Athletics Department.
Hedrick, the University of Kansas' play-by-play man at the time, was back at the tournament the next night. He introduced himself to Costas and warned the budding announcer about the political statements.
Costas walked away, looking a little shocked, but came back later to thank Hedrick for his candid appraisal. The two broadcasters have been friends since.
Hedrick said Costas was one of the best in the business, and broadcast students would benefit from listening to what he had to say about preparation and developing.
Chad Speaker, Cimarron graduate student in broadcasting, said he would be interested to hear Costas.
"He's one of those world-class communicators," Hedrick said. "I've only heard one other announcer with his genius, and that's Vin Scully."
"He's obviously a guy you want to emulate in some ways," Speaker said. "I don't want to become Bob Costas, but I'm sure I can learn a lot from him."
Broadcast students in news and sales will get to see for themselves tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. at 200 Dole Human Development Center. At 11 a.m., Costas will address sports-casters and guests in the KUH television studio, and then meet the press at the All-America room in the Adams Alumni Center.
Students, center to honor top teachers
By Emily C. Forsyth
eforsyth@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Center for Teaching Excellence will recognize 51 outstanding faculty members during a banquet from 5 to 7 p.m. today in the Kansas Union.
Fred Rodriguez, director of the center, said that his office contacted each department on campus and asked it to identify at least two graduating seniors.
The center then contacted the seniors and asked them to nominate at least one teacher who exemplified outstanding teaching in the classroom.
Both the graduating seniors and the teachers were invited to attend the banquet.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Provost David Shulenburger also will attend.
Rodriguez said about 170 guests were invited.
"It's kind of unique because the students nominate the faculty." Rodriguez said. "It's one way that we can recognize outstanding teaching on campus."
The students will present each teacher with a framed certificate and explain why the teacher is outstanding.
Although this is the first year for the banquet, Rodriguez said the center hoped to make it an annual event.
James Orr, chairman of the Biological Sciences department, said he was honored that his students nominated him to attend the banquet.
"It's an effort by the Center for Teaching Excellence to extend or broaden the recognition of teachers at KU," he said. "It gives you a good feeling to be recognized by the students as a good teacher."
Christina Walter and James Hummell, Devano, Minn., senior, nominated their English teacher Michael Butler to attend the banquet after taking his British and American literature class.
Walter, 1997 graduate from Wichita, said that Butler was open to the direction his students wanted to take the class.
"He was always really passionate about what he was talking about." Walter said. "He was receptive to things that students were saying, and he was open to individual students molding the curriculum to their particular interests."
Rodriguez said that this year's banquet focused on teachers of undergraduate students and that next year the focus would be on graduate students and their teachers.
TEACHERS TO BE HONORED
Rohini Ahluwalia, School of Business Chris Allen, electrical engineering and computer science
Melissa Birdy, School of Business
Suzanne Boyd, School of Social Welfare
Anne Burgess, Applied English Center
Michael Butler, English
Bill Carswell, architecture/urban design
Joe Coate, School of Business
Tonvort Bellcott, classics
Ray Davis, health services administration
Shantanu DuttaAhmed, interdisciplinary
nary studies
Dietrich Earnhart, economics
Dietrich Earnhardt, economics
Tom Eblen, School of Journalism
Eric Elsinghorst, microbiology
Gunda Georg, medicinal chemistry
Sandra Gray, anthropology
John Gosse, geology
Jane Hacking, slavic languages/literatures
Chris Haulfer, botany
Bill Keel, Germanic languages / literatures
Van Kelly, French and Italian
Paul Koch, School of Business
Thomas Heilek, political science Charles Himmelmeyer, mathematics Phil Huntingstor, health, sport and exercise sciences
Cheryl Lester, American studies Jerry Lewis, School of Business Don Marquis, philosophy
John Michel, speech, language/hearing Charlene Muehlenhard, women's studies Jim Orr, biolaryx
David Parr, civil/environmental engineering
May recommend no further engineering
Jon Roskam, aerospace engineering
Elizabeth Schultz, humanities
Chris Segin, communication studies
Prakash Shenoy, School of Business
Terry Slocum, geography
Val Smith, environmental studies
Robert Sorem, mechanical engineering
Robert Spires, spanish and portuguese
Joey Sprague, sociology
Dan Stevenson, religious studies
Galen Suppes, chemical and petro-
lum engineering
Fusao Takusagawa, biochemistry Bill Tsutsu, history
Peter Ukpokudo, African and African- American studies
Barbara Woods, pharmacy practice Lawrence Wrightman, psychology
Smiling for the smartcard
Big Jay gets his picture taken for a smart card in the Kansas Union. Later, he walked around campus showing off the card. This event was filmed for a promotional video for Commerce Bank. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Executive staff decides to divide Senate listserv
By Melissa Nao
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate listserv will change tomorrow.
The listserv, at senate[
@raven.cc.ukans.edu, has meeting and event announcements and discussion. The Student Senate executive staff decided Friday that the listserv will be divided.
The first listserv will be only for announcements from the Senate executive staff. Anyone who wants an announcement to be posted must talk to Scott Kaiser, student body vice president and listserv moderator.
The second listserv will be for discussion. Also, the Student Senate Web site's chat room will have statements from the discussion listserv posted. Any statements posted to the chatroom also will be sent to the discussion listserv.
Nicole Skalla, transportation coordinator, said the changes would increase Senate outreach, which was the reason the listserv was created in the fall of 1997.
"This will make Senate more accessible," Skalla said. "We'll have fewer problems with people who just want to find out the announcements being frustrated because they have to sort through discussion they don't care about."
Matt Bachand, former off-campus senator, said there were problems with creating two listservs.
"It creates a distinction between official and unofficial knowledge," he said. "It creates the impression that just because a person is on the executive staff, he knows better than anyone else what's of interest to students."
Bachand said this impression might lead to the executive staff becoming a filter for student knowledge.