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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102.NO.113
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
HURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1993
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Jayhawks take conference title
Men's team wins third consecutive Big Eight crown
Renee Knoeber / KANSAN
By David Dorsey
Kansas sportswriter
Sophomore center Greg Ostertag grabbed the net in triumph after the Jayhawks cut it down and swung it above his head like a lasso, signaling the end of this season's Big Eight Conference race.
The Kansas men's basketball team clinched the conference championship last night with a 94-83 victory against Nebraska. The Jayhawks won their third consecutive conference title for the first time since Phog Allen coached the 1952, '53 and '54 teams to championships.
Renee Knoeber / KANSAN
"Greg Gurley was complaining because I was too loud," Walters said. "I was happy that we at least got that. But we're the type of team that doesn't set for things being given to us."
Kansas, 23-5 overall and 10-3 in the conference, will play its final regular season game at Oklahoma State on Sunday. The Cowboys are 8-5 in the conference and would have been in contention for a co-championship had the Jayhawks lost last night. The Jayhawks clinched at least a share of the title Tuesday when the Cowboys lost at Oklahoma.
last season, the Jayhawks learned they had won the championship after losing a game at Iowa State. Missouri had lost the same night, giving Kansas sole possession of the title.
Senior guard Rex Walters left he rooted for the Sooners Tuesday night while watching the game with his roommate and teammate, sophomore guard Greg Gurley.
Senior guard Adonis Jordan said the victory took some pressure off the Jawhaves.
The Jahawks shared the 1991 title with Oklahoma State.
"If it's given to you, it doesn't mean a lot," Walters said. "We want to go out and earn everything we do. That's what we did tonight."
"It was important that we won tonight, just because we want to win every game that we play," Jordan said. "Plus, we don't want to go down to Oklahoma State thinking. We've got to win, we've got to win. But we're still going to play hard against Oklahoma State."
Roy Williams, who has coached the Jayhawks to conference championships in three of his five seasons at Kansas, said he was excited for the players.
"This was a great accomplishment for those kids," he said. "Adonis Jordan has three Big Eight championships. Each and every player pulled together for the seniors so they could go out the right way. This was a fantastic night. This was the way to go out."
As the team put on their new Big Eight Championship T-shirts, Walters told the Allen Field House crowd that the Jayhawks' season was far from over.
Men's basketball regular season conference champs
The Kansas men's basketball team defeated Nebraska last night and improved its conference record to 10 — 3. While other conference games remain, no other team can now obtain a better record.
TopLeft: As members of the Big Eight Conference championship team, seniors Rex Walters, Eric Pauley and Adonis Jondon accept the trophy. The Jayhawks defeated Nebraska 94-83.
TopRight: Andrew Margolio, Northbrook, III., senior and Julie Newman, Lincolnshire, III., senior hold up a sign they made to show their support.
Above: Jordan is the first Jayhawk to cut the net after the victory. Kansas clinched the championship but still must face Oklahoma State on Sunday.
Right: Waving to the crowd, senior guard Walters is introduced with his parents, Monte and Yoko Walters, in the pregame ceremonies.
See related story, Page 9.
Seniors bid their farewells to field house
By Matt Doyle
Kansan sportswriter
Renee Knoebeer / KANSAN
Adonis Jordan was not sure if Kansas was the place for him to play basketball coming out of high school in Reseda, Calif. In Fall 1988, during Jordan's senior year of high school, the Kansas basketball program was placed on NCAA probation.
Jordan gave serious thought of turning down a basketball scholarship to Kansas and accepting one from P.J. Carlesmo, basketball coach of Seton Hall.
"I was always a phone call away from telling P.J. that I was becoming a Pirate." Jordan said. "But Coach (Roy) Williams assured me that this was the right place, and I have no regrets."
The three seniors combined for half of the Jayawk points. Walters had 19, Pauley 18 and Jordan 10.
Jordan and fellow seniors Eric Pauley and Rex Walters capped their Allen Field House careers last night with a 94-83 victory against Nebraska. The victory clinched a third consecutive Big Eight Conference regular season championship for the Jayhawks.
Kansas coach Roy Williams was proud of the accomplishment of winning a third consecutive conference championship but was even prouder of coaching Jordan, Pauley and Walters.
"I feel privileged to be their coach," he said. "To coach people like that isn't fair."
"Those guys are better young people than basketball players."
Walters, who transferred to Kansas from Northwestern after the 1989-90 season, said the victory last night just added to the best three years of his life.
three years with the greatest group of guys and the greatest basketball coach in America," he said. "I hope to be a coach someday, and when I am, I'm going to try to incorporate 99.9 percent of the things he (Williams) does."
Pauley sat out the Feb. 22 contest at Iowa State with a strained patella tendon in his left knee. After returning to action Saturday against Colorado, the Buena Park, Calif. senior responded last night with an 18 point and nine rebound performance against the "Huskers in his final home performance."
"I can say that all my greatest memories from Kansas are in the field house," Pauley said. "I feel proud to be a part of the basketball team and Kansas basketball."
Jordan has been a part of 106 victories in his four-year career at Kansas. Only Danny Manning, with 113, has participated in more Jayhawk victories.
Walters and Pauley have been a part of 50 of those victories with Jordan in their two years at Kansas.
"Westerday I did some research, and the last four years we have been 56-4 in this building." Jordan told the Allen Field House fans in a post-game ceremony honoring the seniors. "I say 'yea' because you have been a big part of that."
Despite the loss, Nebraska coach Danny Nee had nothing but praise for the three Kansas seniors.
"Eric Pauley is a very solid basketball player, and Rex Walters is winner," Nee said. "What Adonis Jordan has done here in the last four years is remarkable. He really has given Kansas an identity."
Senate OKs admissions legislation
By Ben Grove
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — For the first time ever, qualified admissions legislation was passed by full-chamber vote yesterday.
The Kansas Senate voted 27-13 in favor of a bill requiring students to meet certain standards before being admitted to a Board of Regents university.
Students would need any one of the following to be admitted: a 2.0 grade point average, a composite ACT score of at least 23 or a ranking in the top third of their high school class.
The bill must now move through the House of Representatives, beginning in the House Education Committee.
During floor debate, Dave Kerr, R Hutchinson, argued that the state's universities were providing remedial education for students not prepared for a university curriculum.
Qualified admissions legislation originated in 1983 but had never been to the Senate floor for debate.
Kerr said it was possible that the Senate's new members, 21 of the 40 members, were part of the reason the legislation passed.
Kerr also spoke on behalf of a separate bill that would require high school students to pass a basic skills test before graduation in order to gain admittance to a state university.
That bill also passed.
"If you can't cut the mustard, then you go back home," he said.
State Sen. Al Ramirez, R-Bonner Springs, opposed both bills. He argued that state tax payers should not be deprived of the option to send their children to state universities.
The qualified admissions bill passed with two amendments, including one that would exempt 10 percent of a university's incoming students from the admissions standards. That 10 percent "window" was changed from 5 percent in an amendment made by State Sen. Jerry Ran, R-Hays.
Moran said the state was moving in an extremely new direction with qualified admissions and should give a few more "bloom years" a chance.
The students who would be exempted are not described in the bill.
Three senators said they had children who would not have met the admissions requirements when they entered a state university.
State Sen. Don Steffes, R-McPhern, voted for the bill although he said he had a son who would not have met the requirements. Steffes said the bill would have encouraged him to stress education more as a parent.
But State Sen. U.L."Rip" Gooch said his son, who would not have met the qualified admissions requirements, eventually was graduated with a master's degree in aviation management. Gooch said he opposed the bill.
"I think it's a discriminating process we could do without," Gooch said.
we could win wibush, *GOODMAN*
Lawrence's only state senator,
Sandy Praeger, R-Lawrence, voted in favor of the bill.
See related story, Page 5.
Comic inspiration
Surveys say cheating common
Adam Sandler, who will perform at 8 Saturday night at the Kansas Union Ballroom, talks about the inspiration for his "Saturday Night Live" characters and his life on the road as a comic.
See story. Page 7.
Cathleen Siecha
When Lawrence Sherr, professor of business, gave his students a test on their integrity in January, more than 45 percent of them failed.
Special to the Kansan
"I conduct this survey every semester that I conduct my statistics class," Sherr said. "On the average, approximately one half of the students admit to cheating on at least one exam during their college career."
Sherr's survey, an anonymous random response survey, asked the 274 students in Business 368 if they had ever cheated on a test at the University of Kansas.
Sherr, who teaches the statistics class, did his first student survey in Fall 1985.
"I was shocked and appalled at the results." Sherr said.
Sherr used his class as a sampling for
the University as a whole. According to the 1985 survey, 50 percent of KU students had cheated on an exam.
"I kept my mouth shut, because sometimes statistics turn out strange," Sherrn said. "But when I did it again in the spring semester, it was higher."
According to the University's Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities, students could face a grade reduction, a warning, disciplinary probation, suspension or expulsion if caught cheating on an exam.
However, some students do not think of the consequences.
A student who wished not to be identified admitted to cheating on a final.
"The only way to study for an essay final is to write it out, and you can't memorize a whole essay," said the Lawrence senior. The student used a written and reduced copy of his essay for a final.
For others,the risks are too high.
Lance Wright, Salina junior, said, "I would never cheat on an exam because that's risking your entire education."
"it's not just a problem at KU; it's a problem throughout all education," Sherr said.
Sherr said he had lectured to his students about cheating and shown faculty the results of his surveys, but that they were still disturbing high.
Sherr's personal punishment for students caught cheating is an automatic F in the class and a recommendation to the dean that the student not be allowed to enroll in the School of Business for one academic year.
"A substantial number of students don't think their cheating hurts them," Sherr said. "But if society catches on to this problem, what will interviewers think when they're interviewing graduates? They don't know if you earned your degree or not."
Cheating on exams
Cheating on exams
Business 368 students responded to a questionnaire asking, "Have you ever cheated on an exam at Ku?"
Sean Tenvis / KANSAM