UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 13, 1994
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Debate squad speaks its way into third place at Tournament
By Stephen Martino Kansan staff writer
If the University of Kansas men's basketball team had finished third this year, most fans of the University would have been ecstatic.
However, another tournament squad, whose history is just as colorful as the court-pounding Jayhawks, has quietly won third place in the nation.
Josh Zive, Reno, Nev., senior, and Ryan Boyd, Lee's Summit, Mo., junior, of the Kansas debate squad finished third at the National Debate Tournament in March. Also, Zive was named the fourth-best speaker of 150 participants in the tournament.
The tournament was conducted at the University of Louisville, and 75 teams participated.
Zive and Boyd's final ranking is the highest for the University in 11 years.
"Ryan and I had been waiting all year for this tournament," Zive said. "Getting to that level is a combination of work and luck."
The National Debate Tournament has a policy-oriented format that requires teams to provide plans for
solving a proposed resolution. This year the resolution dealt with curtailing the commander-in-chief powers of the president.
"It's not an easy thing to do," Donn Parson, professor of communication studies, said of getting third in the tournament. "It's like making it to the Final Four. You have to dribble well."
Scott Harris, associate professor of communication studies and debate coach, said he was thrilled with the success Zive and Boyd had achieved.
"They are the most successful team I've ever coached," he said. "I expected them to do well. You have to have a certain amount of talent to get to that level, but it also depends on getting the breaks and taking advantage of those breaks."
In the elimination rounds, KU defeated George Mason University and a Harvard University team, which was ranked No.2 in the tournament's seedings.
However, in the next round, Zive and Boyd lost to another Harvard team, ranked fourth in the seedings. Kansas went in the tournament ranked fifth.
The Harvard team that defeated Kansas ended up taking second place, and a team from Northwestern University defeated it to take first.
"The Harvard team that beat us had two of the smartest and most persuasive people I've ever met," Zive said.
"I wouldn't be surprised if we did as well or nearly as well next year," Zive said.
Both Harris and Zive said they thought that Kansas had started building a good foundation for future accomplishments.
In fact, the only loss to the team will be Bize, a graduating senior who will be attending Baylor University next year as a graduate student in communications. He also will be a debate coach.
However, he said that if his teams ever came up against Kansas, he would not forget where his loyalty lies.
"I'll always be a Jayhawk, and my allegiance will always be to Kansas," he said. "If one of my teams comes up against KU, I'll probably have to abstain from coaching those rounds."
Candidate promotes cost cutting
By Roberta Johnson Kansan staff writer
Frank Kerr, former Kansas Senate majority leader and one of five Republican candidates for governor, said he wanted to cut down on some of the overlap in the state's university systems to save money.
"We have a disjointed system that invites extra costs of administration," said Kerr, who spoke to about 15 members of the KU College Republicans last night at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union. "I believe that in the next several years, there will be the challenge of reorganizing higher education in Kansas."
Kerr said that the state supported four systems: the Board of Regents, community colleges, vocational and technical schools and Washburn University. He said he supported combining programs, such as the way that Kansas State University and Kansas Technological Institute in Salina did.
He said cutting back on administrative costs would take away some of the burden of increasing tuition for faculty salaries. However, Kerr said, he will support tuition increases at the rate of inflation.
Kerr said that another way to save money in the university systems was to implement a set of requirements for college entrance.
"There are freshmen located in the system that aren't ready to succeed," he said. "It's a waste of money."
Other issues Kerr supported included: an increase in police staff and community policing, education based on set curriculum goals and use of a boot camp as an alternative punishment for some crimes.
Janez Lomshek, Pittsburg freshman, disagreed with his abortion stance.
"He is trying to ride the fence on the issue," he said. "But I do like his ideas on higher education, and I think he could bring more leadership to Kansas."
Other candidates for the Republican ticket are: Rich Becker, mayor of Lenexa, Gene Bicknell, Pittsburg businessman, Bill Graves, secretary of state, and Owen Sully, former Wyandotte County sheriff. The primary will be Aug. 2.
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