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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
VOL.102,NO.132
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1993
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Major league majors
Business is most popular degree among athletes
By Matt Doyle
Kansan sportswrite
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MaryBeth Labosky, a high jumper on the University of Kansas track team, pulls out her notebook in 2074 Malott Hall, preparing to hear professor Carole Zebas' lecture on afflictions of the legs, knees and ankles.
Zebas, however, starts class by congratulating Labosky and her teammate, Julia Saul for winning individual championships at the Big Eight Conference Indoor Track Championships the previous weekend in Ames, Iowa.
in here," Zebas says with obvious delight.
The class, which includes several other student athletes, breaks out into a round of amplause.
"We've got two Big Eight champions
It's another morning in kinesiology, HPER 670, a required class in sports science, a popular major among student athletes at KU.
It wouldn't be too hard to turn the scene into the old stereotype — athletes majoring in physical education with a fancy name.
But hold on. Sports science is not the most popular major among student athletes at KU, a fact that may surprise some students and does surprise some academic administrators. In fact, a comparison of top majors for jayhawk athletes and those most popular with the entire student body shows that, at least in their studies, student athletes are not too different
While the stereotype may not hold for many student athletes, a large portion of KU athletes still end up getting their degrees at Robinson Center. But even those majors — sports science, recreation and physical education — are not the academic cakewalk that their names imply, academic administrators say.
from other students on Mount Oread. Athletes like to major in business, psychology and communications all heavily enrolled majors across the University.
Of the 400 or more athletes at KU, only about 150 have officially declared a major, according to figures from Student Support Services. The service is funded by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation and was formed in 1985 to assist KU's athletes in completing their degrees.
The NCAA requires student athletes at member institutions to officially declare a major at the beginning of the first semester of their junior years to show that they are making significant progress toward a degree. If the athlete does not declare a major, he or she risks losing eligibility.
"We are accountable to the NCAA and KU to show that the students are actively pursuing degrees," he said.
"Every fall, we have to turn in to the NCAA a record of the number of athletes who have officially declared a major," said Paul Buskirk, assistant athletic director in charge of Student Support Services.
Buskirk and his staff do not serve as academic advisers for athletes but do help them find an academic adviser in
Andrew Arnone / KANSAN
Story continued. Page 9.
Paul Buskirk, assistant athletic director in charge of Student Support Services, helps find academic advisers for student athletes. Student Support Services also offers tutoring, counseling and long-term planning.
6,000 fans salute Jayhawks
Basketball seniors say goodbye
Kansan staff writer
By Mark Klefer
Coach Roy Williams waves to the crowd as it shows its support for Williams and the Kansas men's basketball team. About 6,000 fans showed up yesterday at Memorial Stadium to welcome the team back from the Final Four in New Orleans.
Put the team on a stage at Memorial Stadium's 50-yard line and they will come. They will come to give one more standing ovation to their beloved Jayhawk basketball team. They will come to say goodbye to their graduating seniors - Adonis Jordan, Rex Walters and P Eric Pauleu.
And they did. An estimated 6,000 of them — KU students, adults and children
packed into the west-side stands of the stadium yesterday afternoon to welcome the layahaws home from their Final Four trip to New Orleans.
"This is your day," said Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, as he introduced the team to the cheering crowd. "It's our opportunity to thank you for a great season."
Chris Colly, Leavenworth freshman, said. "I came to celebrate our team. We were really far this season, and we all should be proud."
The team's run for the Final Four surpised some students.
"I thought that they should have done better in the season, but they had a great tourney," said Nick Generalovich, Sara-sota, Fla., senior.
Most students, like J.P. Stoneestreet, Gardner junior, showed up yesterday to voice their support.
"We're here to show our patronage," Stonestreet said.
"You've been the greatest fans in the world.A lot of people questioned us and our abilities. You guys never did."
A cloudy afternoon seemed to set the proper atmosphere for the rally. It was not a celebration but a "thank you." The cheers did not have the zip and flavor of the normally rancous Allen Field House basketball crowds. Appreciation, not celebration, filled the breezy air.
The first player to take the microphone was Rex Walters.
"You've been the greatest fans in the world," Walters told a clapping crowd. "A lot of people questioned us and our abilities. You guys never did. We did all we could to make you guys proud. It has been the greatest two years in my life."
Rex Walters
Kansas senior guard
Eric Pauley said, "It's a great feeling to know that you're loved by so many people. You guys are second to none."
Perhaps the loudest aplause during the team's twenty-minute appearance came when senior Adonis Jordan
"When I chose Kansas, my friends and family members told me I was crazy. 'Why are you going to Kansas?' Jordan said, and the crowd rolled with laughter. 'There's one reason why, and his name is
The crowd greeted Jordan's, "I'm feeling kind of down," with sympathetic laughter.
stepped up to the microphone.
Roy Williams."
Williams evoked a loud cheer with his closing comment.
Williams acknowledged the graduating seniors by saying there was "no way that you replace those three guys."
As the team slowly walked back to their bus, the band played, and the crowd chanted the season's final round of "Rock Chalk Jawhawk."
"Last night I watched my alma mater win a national championship, and it was great," he said. "Our goal is to work as a team, and we'll win." He can win a national championship.
And as the KU battle cry softly lifted over the stadium, the Jayhawks entered the bus, bound for the field house as a team one last time.
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Museum of Natural History to receive money for addition Dyche Hall to receive $790,000 for fire safety improvements
By Ben Grove
Kansan staff write
TOPEKA—It appears that there may be state funds after all for the Museum of Natural History, where thousands of bottles of specimens stored in ethyl-alcohol have made the building a fire hazard.
Both chambers of the Legislature yesterday approved a bill that included $780,000 for an addition to the museum in Dyche Hall. The addition would
separate from the rest of the building animal specimens preserved in glass bottles by the highly flammable ethyl alcohol.
The state funds would match a grant from the National Science Foundation for the $1.58 million project. The state money would be allocated in two $395,000 chunks during the next two fiscal years.
In the next day or two, the bill will go to Gov. Joan Finney for her signature.
Museum director Philip Humphrey said in February that he was worried the federal grant money might be lost if the state's matching funds did not come through this year.
Humphrey said yesterday he was "terribly pleased" that money for the project had finally received the Legislature's approval.
"I was hoping that it would be perceived as a logical choice on the part of the Legislature." Humphrey said. "Had they not recommended this funding, given the current state of the economy, I would have understood."
in rebury, the Legislature's Joint Committee on State Building Construction did not approve the request because legislators were leery about how much money the state would have for new projects.
The Committee on State Building Construction recommended the project's approval March 30. It then passed the Senate Ways and Means Committee and the full Senate, and was approved by a joint-chamber conference committee. The bill received the necessary final House and Senate approval yesterday.
But as the legislative session wraps up this week, the head of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Shawnee, said there was just enough available money for the Dyche addition.
State Sen. Ben Vidricksen, R-Salina, a member of the Legislature's State Building Construction Committee, said the committee on April 13 would take up the issue of another KU fire safety improvement project. On that day, a $1.9 million request will be considered for the construction of fire exit stairwells on three corners of Allen Field House, he said.
HOUSE RELEASE A 1991 state fire marshal's report said that the field house's upper balcony seated more people than could safely exit the building in an emergency.
New commission majority
Three new Lawrence city commissioners will be sworn in Tuesday after being elected last night. Jolene Andersen, Bob Moody and Doug Compton, all first-time commissioners, were the top three vote-getters.
See story, Page 3.
UNGANISHA seeking to unify students
Editor's note: This is the third in a series of four articles profiling Student Senate presidential and vice presidential candidates.
Bernard Cox and Charles Frey, UNGANISHA presidential and vice presidential candidates, have done their homework on Student Senate, and they think they know the system well enough to get the job done.
By Brett Riggs
Kansan staff writer
Cox, Palatine III., ill., junior, and Frey. Brockport, N.Y., junior, have never been on Senate but said that they have been attending student executive committee and Senate meetings since deciding to run as a two-man independent ticket in September.
By choosing to run independently, Cox and Frey are not backed by a coalition of Senate candidates like
reyed that experience was important but that he thought that the efforts he and Cox made in becoming familiar themselves with the system and getting on the ballot showed their determination to win.
"Yes, it is important to break a certain threshold of experience, but it is more important to be in touch with the student body and listen to the student body," Frey said.
Cox said that he was tired of hearing past candidates say how they had wanted students involved and then not following through once they were elected.
In order to get more student involvement, Cox and Frey said they wanted to fund more cultural programs for all students.
Another theme of UNGANISHA, which means "unify" in Kiswahili, is one of Senate cost effectiveness, and
"It would be more fuel efficient and nicer for the environment." Cox said.
Cox said he thought that the Saferide cab service could cut costs by operating with electric cars.
Cox and Frey said that they thought that campus transportation could improve in this area.
"It would be more merit in court and裁判 for the environment." Connell, Cox said. He contended the Company Co of Albentuk, Calif., a company that manufactures electric cars, and found that the idea was both feasible and affordable.
Frey said that the plan, which would eliminate eight buses, could cut costs for the service by as much as $83,000.
Another change Cox and Frey would push for would cut KU on Wheels' bus routes, including all routes from Daisy Hill to campus. Rather than dropping students off on Jayhawk Boulevard, the buses would stop at Learned Hall and Memorial Stadium.
Bernard Cox, left, and Charles Frey