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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 21, 1998
SUA presents: Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
CARL BERNSTEIN
Alumni Weekend Lecture 8p.m. Saturday April 25,1998 120 BUDIG HALL
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Bulls shoot for three as playoff favorites
They have been the InvinciBulls, the VulneraBulls and now the PerishaBulls.
The Associated Press
They won three straight titles from 1991 to 1993, missed out in 1994-95 and 1995-96 when Michael Jordan was playing minor league baseball, then won the last two.
They want to become the Repeat-Threepeat Bulls before they are finished.
When the NBA playoffs begin Thursday night, the Chicago Bulls will be favored to win their sixth championship of the 1990s, a run of success that has
made them one of the greatest dynasties in professional sports history.
Not only that, they dominated the league the past two seasons, going a combined 141-23 in the regular season and 30-7 in the postseason.
Their record dropped to 62-20 this season, the same record as the defending Western Conference champion Utah Jazz. But the Bulls built their mark despite playing through the distraction of Jordan
threatening to retire, Scottie Piper vowing to leave, coach Phil Jackson finishing out a one-year contract, general manager Jerry Krause trading
Jason Caffey and other sideshows that would shake any other team. Not this one.
Atlanta Hawks
"We feel really comfortable with
the team, and we're better than we were last year going into the play-offs." Jackson said.
At the very least, several of the Bulls
will not be back next season. That mood of finality will permeate this postseason.
The best-of-five first round begins Thursday night with four games:
Atlanta at Charlotte, Cleveland at Indiana, Houston at Utah and San Antonio at Phoenix.
Other matchups
Other matchup
begin Friday night: New Jersey at Chicago, New York at Miami, Minneapolis
hesota at Seattle and Portland at Los Angeles.
The Bulls will have the home-court advantage through the Eastern Conference finals, and the
odds are against anyone beating them — at least until the finals.
"I guarantee this team is going to come back and look good. The mundane look will be gone," Jackson said.
"As a guy experienced in going
through threepeats, our third championship series in the early 90s followed a year that was much more difficult than this year
was. We were younger and more athletic, yet had a much harder struggle, and that team didn't look half as good as this team," Jackson said.
The Bulls will be playing a New Jersey Nets team that slumped during the second half of the season and didn't qualify until the last day of the season.
For most of the
For most of the Nets, including coach John Calipari, it will be their first playoff game. For Jordan, on the other hand, Friday night will be his 159th career postseason game.
"The critical point is easy for these guys to focus on. They are veterans who have been in play."
offs, and they know a team has to beat you in a majority of games." Jackson said. "That makes this team enormously cozy.
enormously confident to take on comers and beat them in a series. It's entirely different from the regular season."
From the East, the Pacers, Heat,
Hawks and Knicks also bring a good degree of playoff experience into the first round, although flaws are apparent in all of the teams.
In the West, there are three legitimate title contenders in Utah, Seattle and the Los Angeles Lakers.
"And there's also two 56-win teams
right behind us in Phoenix and San Antonio. I think everybody knows there are five teams that can come out of the
West," said Seattle coach George Karl. "Uthab is the top dog; Seattle and LA are next; the other two are a step below us."
Study Abroad Club's 2nd Annual International Olympiad
Time: 1pm-5pm
Date: SUNDAY, April 26th
Location: soccer field behind Robinson
Events: tug of war, mock soccer, potato sack race, water balloon toss, races, and relays...
The Olympiad is a tournament consisting of several fun and crazy games between many teams. Each team will present a different country: France, Germany, Japan, Russia, China, Malaysia, Brazil, Spain, and a lot more...
☆Do I have to be an international student to compete? NO
☆Do I have to already have a team to sign up? NO
Registration Deadline: Friday, April 24
Lippincott Hall!
Registration Fee: $2/ person ($3 at event)
Sign up at the Office of Study Abroad in 108
Linningeett Hell!
For more information please contact: Juliana, 864-2295 or Mariana, 838-3949
Mariana, 838-3949
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ATTENTION GRADUATE STUDENTS
**positions available**
GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL
STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
If you have a genuine interest in improving the quality of graduate student life across the University. The Graduate and Professional Students Association (GPA) has 3 staff positions you should consider:
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
Duties include serving as liaison between the GPA and other University offices, including the Chancellor, Provost, and Deans, as well as Student Senate. Incumbent must be willing to actively advocate for a variety of graduate student concerns. Knowledge of University governance and campus programs helpful. Experience in directing meetings preferred.
Duties include managing the GPA budget and handling all disbursements for the organization. Also, processing spending allocation requests for 40 graduate student organizations (GSOs). Must plan and deliver training workshop for GSO Treasurers. Must have budgeting/accounting experience. Familiarity with State Purchasing rules desirable.
COMMUNICATION DIRECTOR
Duties include compiling and editing the Graduate News Paper (GNP), maintaining the GPA homepage on the WWW, taking and distributing meeting minutes, maintaining e-mail distribution lists for various graduate student constituencies, and sending electronic and surface mail communiques. Layout experience required, as well as knowledge of PageMaker and HTML.
ALL POSITIONS REQUIRE EXCELLENT VERBAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS,
AS WELL AS THE ABILITY TO WORK WITH DIVERSE GROUPS OF PEOPLE
ACROSS A VARIETY OF CONTEXTS. ALL POSITIONS ARE 12 MONTH (7/1/98-6/30/99),
50% APPOINTMENTS WITH STAFF RATES. EOE.
Applicants should submit a resume and cover letter plus three letters of recommendation to Bill Stuart, Position Search Chair, Graduate Executive Committee, 400 Kansas Union, Lawrence, KS 66045.
Deadline for applications is 5pm, Friday, April 24, 1998.
If you have any questions about the application process, call 785-864-9895, or inquire via e-mail at bstuart@falcon.co.ukans.edu