SPORTS: The Kansas baseball team took two of three games from Kansas State this weekend, Page 11.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102.NO.150
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY, MAY 3, 1993
Waiting for Wilt
Illustration by Asher Johnson / Special to the KANSAN
Athletic Department, friends try to recruit Chamberlain one more time
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By Brady Prauser
Kansan staff writer
High in the recesses of Allen Field House, the numbers in crimson and blue cluster along the south wall. They are the icons of Kansas basketball.
No. 10, Charlie Black... No. 16, Clyde
Lawrente... No. 25, Danny Warning
Dovette et. No. 25, Danny Sallam.
Seven banners herald the retired jerseys of Kansas basketball legends. Hallowed reminders of decades of sweat and grace, they hover in the darkness as if guarding the silent field house.
But No.13 is not among them.
No. 13 has never been among them.
No. 13 has never been among them.
And despite continual encouragement from the Athletic Department, friends and at least one former teammate, it is not clear when No. 13 will band in the field house rafters.
Wilt Chamberlain, the two-time Kansas All-American and the greatest scoring machine in National Basketball Association history, almost came back to Kansas last February but did not.
No one knows when — or if — he will show up to see his number honored.
"They would retire his jersey in a minute if he would come back," says broadcaster Max Falkenstein, radio voice of the Jayhawks for more than 40 years.
But Wilt has not been in Lawrence since 1975.
Why won't Wilt come back? Only he knows for sure. But clues to the feelings of this complex and solitary figure are sown throughout his career.
--mate and close friend since their freshman season in 1955-1956, knows a side of Wilt unknown to outsiders.
March 23, 1957. Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Mo. With six seconds left in the third overtime of the NCAA championship game, coach Frank McGuire's No. 1 North Carolina Tar Heels lead Dick Hart's No. 2 Jayhawks 54-53.
What might have been one of the greatest moments of Kansas basketball history is only a painful
But there is hope for the Jayhawks. Kansas has the ball at half court and the greatest college player in the nation waiting for the ball under the basket.
Every one in the auditorium knows that Harp will call for the 7-foot-1-inch Wilt to catch the pass high in the air. It does not matter. Wilt will dunk it, and Kansas will win.
Johnny Parker tosses the ball to Ron
lowski, tuck.
The noise is deafening.
Loneskidribblestwice...tick.
Loneksi lofts a soft high pass to Wilt
...tick ...
But Wilt never gets the ball.
"Wilt was not happy with us," Harp says. "It was very very difficult for Wilt to understand the fact that we didn't win the national championship, for him not to have been the one who brought us the national championship.
Thirty-six years after that fatal pass, Harp says Wilt's wounds still might not have healed, and that may help to explain his reluctance to return.
North Carolina center Joe Quigg leaps into the air in front of Wilt and deflects the ball to teammate Tommy Kearns, who throws the ball toward the rafters as the buzzer sounds.
Kansas' championship dies with the echoes.
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"It's really sad it couldn't be that way.
I'm sure that was a very difficult thing."
--mate and close friend since their freshman season in 1955-1956, knows a side of Wilt unknown to outsiders.
Billings, a Lawrence real estate developer, owner of Alvaram Golf and Country Club. Wit's team.
Billings and Wilt remain close, but it is a long-distance friendship.
"The last time he officially was in Lawrence was for football homecoming in 1975." "Billings says." "He was visiting. We spent some time together."
The recent recruiting for Wilt's return, orchestrated by the Athletic Department, has been spearheaded by Billings.
we were shooting for a couple of dates last February, but his schedule just wouldn't allow it," Billings says. "He hopes to come back as soon as his schedule permits. He'll be back sometime.
Story continues, Page 9.
Peace plan could end ethnic war
Serbian leader agrees to divide country into 10 autonomous provinces
The Associated Press
VOULIAGMENI, Greece — The leader of Bosnia's Serbs, abandoned by friends and hounded by foes, relented yesterday and signed a plan designed to divide up the troubled region and end more than a year of ethnic bloodshed.
But the backing of Radovan Karadzic does not guarantee his compatriots will capitulate.
The agreement must be ratified by the Bosnian Serbs' self-proclaimed parliament, which has twice rejected it and whose speaker denounced the plan immediately after Karadzic signed.
Peace also seemed distant in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where numerous cease-fire agreements have been broken. Fighting continued yesterday in scattered areas.
Cyrus vance and Lord Owen, the envoys who have been pushing the plan for months, appeared confident it would succeed this time.
The plan's essence — and the part most opposed by Bosnian Serbs — is the division of the country into 10 largely autonomous provinces.
The country's three main ethnic groups — Serbs, Croats and Slavic Muslims — each would control three provinces, and the 10th, including the capital Sarajevo, would be jointly ruled.
Karadzia and the Serbs had rejected the plan because it would give them only about 40 percent of Bosnia's territory. In fighting, they have captured more than 70 percent. Also, their regions would not be contiguous to Serb-dominated Yugoslavia or Serb-held areas of Croatia, dashing dreams of a "Greater Serbia."
Bosnia's Muslims and Croats, whose secession from Yugoslavia in February 1992 touched off the war, have agreed to the divisions.
Karadaz told reporters he signed the plan after receiving "guarantees for the Serbian people" and "promises ... that the maps would be changed." He later told Serbian TV that the plan's boundaries were provisional.
"I believe our parliament will show the necessary understanding and may accept the signature we put down today," Karadzic said.
Resign. In signing the plan, Karadzic apparently yielded to his mentor Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and to threats of Western military intervention.
But he later told the British Broadcasting Corp. it would be difficult to persuade the Bosnian Serb assembly to accept the plan when it meets Wednesday. He said that he would resign if it was not ratified.
Milosevic said yesterday that ratification of the deal by Bosnian Serbs was "necessary and right." He said an immediate cease-fire "has priority over all other priorities."
See related stories, Pages 3, 6.
Day On the Hill
Day On the Hill, an annual event sponsored by Student Union Activities, drew about 10,000 for the campus conference Saturday afternoon.
See story. Page 3.
Lied Center guests like what they see
By Kathleen Stolle
Kansan staff writer
Woros such as grand and exquisite floated throughout the passageways of the nearly completed Ernst F. Lied Center as an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 guests filtered in and out during Saturday's open house.
On West Campus, the $14.3 million facility will feature the KU Concert. New Direction and Swarthout Chamber Music series, as well as other special events. The touring Broadway production, "The Secret Garden," officially will kick off the 1963-94 season September 28.
Visitors padded throughout the 69,000-square-foot facility, checking out everything from the dance rehearsal studio behind the stage to the spotlight booth above the second balcony.
University productions and ensembles, such as the Rock Chalk Revue and the KU Symphony Orchestra, also will be presented
at the center.
It's about time we got something that matched the quality of the program," said Leawed sophomore Pat Beesley about the performance center.
Beesley, who plays tuba in the KU's concert and university bands, said both the concert and hall in Murphy Hall's Crafton-Preyer Theatre were too small for major ensembles.
"I think the most important thing this is going to give us is we can bring in big bands like the Navy band, the Marine band and other services bands, and we can accommodate the crowds that come with them," he said.
Mark Greene, Shawnee senior, also gave the center high marks. Greene, who uses a wheelchair, the gradation of the aisles was gentler than in Hoch Auditorium and the reserved handicapped seating was superior to that in Craft-Preyer Theatre. Overall, he said, access was good.
The hall's seating which accommodates
2,030 persons, got a thumbs up from Michael Michnick, a KU researcher who, at 6-foot-4, can appreciate spaciousness.
"This is much more elegant," Michnick said, comparing the Lied Center with Hoch. "The leg room is excellent."
Conductor Robert Foster said he thought the new center would someday be seen as a turning point for performing arts in Lawrence.
The KU Symphonic Band demonstrated the hall's acoustic quality with a piece composed by kU professor James Barnes and John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever." The tuxedo-clad ensemble then delighted the crowd with a short rendition of "I'm a Jawkawk."
To have a place like this, a state of the art facility, designed for no other purpose, I think is going to improve the quality of the cultural performances to a level people cannot imagine," he said.
Visitors inspect the foyer of the Lied Center, 5,000 to 6,000 people attended the open house Saturday.