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UNIVERSITY DALLY KANSAN
Thursday, February 18, 1993
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Students help kids play ball
By Brian James Special to the Kansan
It's the night of a Kansas home basketball game, but Brandon Hamm, KU men's junior varsity basketball player, is nowhere near Allen Field House. Nor does the activity on the floor look anything like KU basketball.
Hamm, Lawrence freshman, is one of a few KU students who devote their time and patience to coach Lawrence area youth basketball teams.
This team is asking a lot of patience.
His team of eight junior high boys is getting pummed in a scrimmage with an older, more experienced club of high school freshmen.
And tonight is taking a lot of patience.
"I could be home watching the KU game," he reminds his team during a timeout.
Hamm said that working with his team, one of six in a Lawrence Parks and Recreation youth league, was his first experience with coaching.
"It's frustrating," he said, smiling. "It'll set up a simple offense and have them do it in practice, but in a game they'll just run around anywhere.
"Those are the times you just want to head for the door."
Hamm said the boys on his team relate well to him because he is younger than coaches on the other teams.
"I think they like me better than an adult coach because I can joke around and have a
little more fun." he said.
Michael Honeyman, a team member, said Hamm's experience helped the team. "He knows what will work since he plays, not like if some dad was coaching."
Mike Andress, league director of Salvation Army "Biddy" Basketball, said college students coaching teams had been popular.
"Their enthusiasm is really helpful in working with the kids, and the kids love it," he said.
ing with the RUs, and the RUs love it, he said. Andress said that 12 to 20 KU students, not including assistants, coached teams in the league. Eighty-five teams are in the league.
Jennifer Potts, Prairie Village junior, coaches a girls team from the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence in the Salvation Army league. The eight members, from six to eight years old.
The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence has two teams, three boys' teams and two girls' teams.
Potts said coaching the team took less time each week than past volunteer work.
"I usually spend an hour for practice, an hour for the game, and another hour worrying about the game," she said. "The good times outweigh the bad. Sometimes, though, you ask yourself, 'What am I doing?' Other times, you just wonder what the girls are doing.
"The biggest challenge for us is shooting, so whenever they make a basket they just go nuts. I think our highest scoring game was 20 to 14."
Eighth-graders participating in the Lawrence Parks and Recreation youth basketball league take a break from practice and listen to their coach. Brandon Hamm, Lawrence freshman, give some offensive strategies.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
KU N.O.R.M.L. will sponsor concert to benefit fund for seamstress
KU N.O.R.M.L, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, will sponsor a concert tonight at Liberty to benefit the defense fund of Debbie Moore, a Wichita seamstress and hemp activist.
The event will feature live music, speakers about hemp, and a wide array of hcmp products.
Moore's hemp clothing store in Wichita was seized after she was arrested on the charge of marijuana possession, according to David Aulmquit, a N.O.R.M.L. member who is helping organize the benefit
Tickets purchased at the door will cost $6, with advance tickets available at the Phil Zone, Creation Station and Wescoe Beach for $5.
Doors will open at 7:30 tonight, with entertainment beginning about an hour later. Speeches on hemp will be followed by music by Motherwell, Monterey Jack and an acoustic performance from Darrell Lea of the L.A. Ramblers. The Salty Iguanas complete the lineup and will play until about 2 a.m.
Booths at the benefit will display hemp products, brochures, and N.O.R.M.L literature.
Senate elections commission to offer candidates' workshop
The meeting will be for anyone interested in running in the Senate elections this spring
The Student Senate elections commission will sponsor a candidates' workshop at 7 tonight in the Malott room of the Kansas Union.
The workshop will discuss the Senate elections code, the rules for the election process this spring, and deadlines for filing for candidacy.
The filing deadline for presidential and vice presidential candidates is March 10, and the deadline for senator candidates is March 17.
The workshop will also cover the campaign activity forms and budget forms that candidates must file. The activity forms report on the campaigning candidates have done prior to the deadline, and the budget forms report on the candidates' spending.
Another workshop to discuss the campaign process is scheduled for March 30.
Compiled by Kansan stringer Philip Alfano and Kansan staff
writer Brett Riggs
Memorial to honor Naismith, basketball
By Mark Kiefer
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Wes Santee is building a memorial to James Naismith that would provide a place for KU basketball fans of all ages to experience the tradition of KU basketball.
Santee is the director of Lawrence Memorial Park Cemetery, 1517 E. 15th St., where Naismith is buried. He said he wanted to build the memorial because he thought something should be done to honor the inventor of basketball.
"Other than Naismith Drive and Allen Field House, there really isn't anything to honor Naismith and KU basketball," he said. "It just seemed like the right thing to do."
Naimish coached basketball at KU from 1899 to 1907. He died in 1939 at the age of 6
78.
Santee graduated from KU in 1964. He ran for the track team and set several records all of which were broken 15 years later, he said with a laugh. He spent two years in the U.S. Marine Corps, then he returned to Lawrence. He has worked at the cemetery since 1988.
Early designs of the memorial, which will be placed near the north entrance of the cemetery, show a nine-foot statue of Naismith smiled in the middle of a circular floor of granite. A short walkway connects the statue to an 18-foot-by-35-foot rectangular granite floor. The floor will hold eight benches and three bronze plaques commemorating figures from KU basketball history.
Each bench will hold a plaque telling the history of KU basketball. One will tour the
accomplishments of Ralph Miller, who won 674 games while head coach at three different schools. Another will honor John McLendon, the first African-American coach selected to the basketball Hall of Fame. Both graduated from KU.
The three plaques laid into the granite floor will honor Phog Allen, Dean Smith and Adolph Rupp. Smith and Rupp played at KU and graduated from the University before beginning coaching careers. Smith has been the head coach at the University of North Carolina since 1961. Rupp was head coach at the University of Kentucky for 41 years, between 1931 and 1972.
"A lot of people associate Rupp with Kentucky," Santee said. "But they forget that he graduated from KU and was born in Kansas."
Allen, the winningcoach in KU history, and Smith and Rupp combined have won 2,386 college basketball games. Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas each have won more games than any other school in the country.
"You can talk about Bobby Knight at Indiana and UCLA's titles, but they don't come close to the people that have Kansas connections," Santee said.
Santee estimated that the project would cost about $200,000. He said he expected a lot of the money to come from local businesses.
Santee said the memorial, which will be known as "Naismith Gardens," will probably be dedicated on Memorial Day weekend in 1904. He said he hoped the memorial would attract tourists.
Shivering astronomists scan heavens from Lindley's rooftop
Kansan staff writer
By Terrilyn McCormick
Stars twinkled in the clear, moonless sky above 19 KU students on the snowy roof of Lindley Hall.
Bundled up in scarfs, hats and gloves against the five-degree cold, they huddled in shivering groups. Two students peered at Venus through eight-inch telescopes.
Staring at the stars on a Wednesday night might seem like an easier way to fulfill a science laboratory requirement than dissecting a frog, but for Heather Farris, Richardson, Texas, freshman, it was not all what she had expected.
"When I took the class I didn't know that we would be standing in subzero weather, just to look at pinpoints of light," she said.
Last night was the coldest night that the Astronomy 196 laboratory class
had ever gone outside to observe the stars, said Jeff Deane, teaching assistant. He brought Hot Hands, hand-heat heat packs, to combat the cold.
The lab meets one night a week at the observatory to practice some of the theories taught in the lecture class, said Jacquelyne Milingo, teaching assistant.
Milingo said that observation was not always possible because of the Kansas weather. In addition to the shock of standing in the freezing weather, some students were also surprised by the amount of physics and chemistry in the class.
"There is a general misconception
about the class." Milingo said. "Most students think that it is going to be a party-conversation type of thing."
Andrew Murphy, Lawrence senior,
said that he thought the class would
entail more observation, but that it
still was better than biology.
Mark Stuart, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, said that astronomy combined several sciences.
"It is the beautiful combination of chemistry and physics observed under the night sky," Stuart said. "Imagine what this would be like if the weather was warmer."
Most students took the class for a laboratory requirement, but one student had an ulcerion motive for learning about the stars.
"I took this class so that when I go camping, I will be able to look at the stars and be able to know something about them," said Molly Parnell, Shawnee freshman.
Irene Lanier / KANSAN
An Astronomy 196 laboratory class spends an evening at the Clyde W. Tombaugh Observatory, which is on the roof of Lindley Hall. The students were studying the movement of the planet Venus.
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