University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Friday, April 8, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 130 USPS 650-640
Larry Brown named to replace Owens
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Larry Brown, head coach of the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets and former head coach at UCLA, is the new head basketball coach at the University of Kansas, Athletic Director Monte Johnson announced last night.
"I WOULDN'T CONSIDER just any job," Brown told reporters in New Jersey. "Kansas is special. It had to be a special job."
Brown, KU's sixth basketball coach, will replace Ted Owens, who was fired on March 20.
In a prepared statement, Brown said, "It is a tremendous thrill for me to be able to accept this position and to be connected with such a prestigious program as Kansas."
Brown has been the head coach of the Nets for the past two seasons. He has guided them into the playoffs last year, and the Nets have won five games in each season. He has two years left on a four-year contract.
Brown will arrive in Lawrence today for a press conference at 2 p.m. He will also meet with the basketball team this afternoon.
Johnson said in a statement released at 6 p.m. yesterday, "To say we are pleased with Larry's decision would be an understatement. We feel that we kept with our main objective of finding a coach with proven credentials and we feel fortunate to have Larry as our coach.
"Kansas has a tremendous basketball history, and we are sure that Larry will add to that."
JOHNSON WOULD not comment further about the details of the contract.
Del Brinkman, faculty representative to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, said,
"Just based on his reputation and the things I've heard, I think he's a good selection for KU. I'm sure he'll do well."
Bob Frederick, director of the Williams Educational Fund, said, "I think it's great. I think he'll be received well by all of our people with an excellent style of play to Allen Field House.
He said he thought the alumni would react positively to Brown because he was a proven
Laurence Rose, chairman of the search committee for the head basketball coach, said, "He's a great coach. I can't say whether he was sure of the committee, but he was sure my first choice.
my new job
ROSE SAID THAT BROW was chosen from a list of 10 finalists made on Wednesday. About 80 coaches applied for the job.
Rose said he did not know the terms of the contract that the athletic department had made with Brown, who was reportedly earning $225,000 a year as coach for the Nets.
"I think it is safe to say he will be taking a pay cut." he said.
Rose said he did not know whether former assistant coach JoJo White would be reheared as an assistant to Brown. He said Brown would name his own coaches.
White, who was visiting several basketball players at Jahawker Towers when he received news of the new coach, said, "I'm not at liberty to talk about it at this time."
BASKETBALL PLAYERS were excited about the announcement.
Greg Dreiling grinned when told who the head coach was
"I'm just glad we have someone we can go to now," said Dreiling, a 7.1 center who transferred from Wichita State University last year.
"Brown's got a lot of pro connections. He's been around. He knows a lot."
Carl Henry, 6-5 forward who made the second All-Big Eight team this year, said, "If we would have gotten Ralph Miller, a lot of guys would have left. We're all going to stay here and play together."
CALVIN THOMPSON, 6-6 freshman forward, said, "I'm sure everyone will stay here and play."
Brown, 42, has never had a losing season as a coach. After a five-year career as an All-Star player in the ABA, Brown started coaching in the Cowboys, Cougars, where he compiled a 104-64 record.
In 1974, Brown went to Denver where he coached for five years for both the ABA and NBA teams there. During his first seven seasons as a professional coach, his teams made the playoffs every year. He was named Coach of the Year twice in the ABA.
Brown moved into college basketball in 1979 when he followed John Wooden at the University of California at Los Angeles. During his two seasons there, he was in the NCAA championship once, leaving Louisville 59-54. His records at UCLA were 22-10 and 20-7.
"HE'S PLANNING on staying here a long time." Rose said. "He's the sixth basketball coach at KU. There won't be a seventh coach for a long time."
Rose said he didn't think that Brown's frequent moves during his coaching career meant that Brown would leave KU after several years.
Brown will leave the Nets immediately to take the coaching job at KU. Bill Blair, an assistant coach, was named interim coach starting last season, Detroit, where the Nets played the Pistons.
KU's new head basketball coach Larry Brown, formerly with the New Jersey Nets, is shown here directing traffic from the sidelines. Brown, who has never coached a losing team, will be in Lawrence this morning to meet the Jayhawks and the press.
Tonganoxie folks get behind Hiney Winery hoax
spoofing Hiney Winery radio ads, which are already a farce themselves, Linda Thompson (right) and Gina Coriston, waltresses at the Green Lantern Cafe in downtown Tonganoxie, show off the sign offering their version of "Heinie" specialties. KFKF-FM 94 radio of Kansas City, Mo., has brought notoriety to the town with its tongue-in-cheek advertisements for the non-existant winery.
By SUSAN STANLEY Staff Reporter
Sorry folks, but there is no such thing as the Hiney Winery in Tonganoxie.
According to Mildred Friday, owner of Friday's Liquor Store in Tonganoxie, the ads say that the winery is located in the building behind the library.
Advertisements for the non-existent wine, played as a joke on Kansas City radio station KFKF-FM 91, are bringing business searching Tonganostic business owners said yesterday.
"THAT WOULD make it manufactured in the police station," she said.
"It doesn't bother business here," he said. "But people put it seriously. Last week we had a call from the bureau worth Job Center $30 million to get the help of them to see if they were doing any hire."
Mike Vestal, a police officer, said that people had called the station wondering about the location of the winery.
Vestial said that Tonganoxie did not mind being the butt of the jokes, and that many local businesses were taking advantage of the publicity.
One businessman has started selling bumperstickers and another is considering
ONE RESTAURANT has named some of the foot on its menu after the non-existent wine.
Rose Smith, owner of The Green Lanter Restaurant, said that the menu now includes the Hiney Burger and the tiny Hiney breakfast.
For $24.5, a customer can get French fries and a hamburger on a long sesame roll. "The roll is so long," she says.
The items have been popular with Kansas City residents who drive to Tonganoxie to look for
The two liquor stores are plagued with people looking for the winery.
Friday said that she had many calls and visits from people looking for the Hiney Winery.
Carol Larimore, owner of Larimore's Liquor Store, said that she had between six and eight bottles of wine.
"I EXPLAIN TO them that it's just a joke," she said. "Most people don't get upset. They
Friday said that she met a couple from In
dependence, Mo., who drove to Tonganoxie on Saturday to find a Hiney wine and cheese tasting party.
Smith said Tonganoxie residents were amused by the ads more than offended.
"I say that if this don't give Tongue on the map then nothing will."
then nothing will.*
*Paul Sabastian, programming director for the station, said he was hesitant to say that the commercials were misleading.*
"EVERYBODY HAS a hainy," he said. "We are just having fun. I have always loved Tonganoxie. It reminds me of Los Angeles. They are both in the United States."
Smith said that Tonganoxic residents did not mind the ads and many enjoyed them.
"We haven't had much of a negative reaction at all," she said. "Every once in a while someone will say something about 'how can they see you' advertising, but they are few and far between."
"We can have a full house and when the commercial comes on it gets dead quiet. If people would really listen to the commercials they see in movies that aren't real. Wine does it come in pop-top cans."
Karen Allford, information officer of the Federal Trade Commission in Denver, said that claims against the advertisements would be made more difficult because the ads were done in a humorous manner.
SABASTIAN SAID the station had received hundreds of calls from interested listeners who had heard about it from Dan Roberts, the morning disk locker on the station.
"Roberts gives the advertisements their
teal flavor." 'Sabastian said.
He said few people had called the station saying the ads offended them.
"Sure they are suggestive," he said. "But we are not trying to offend our listeners."
The inexpensive ads are purchased from an agency in Dallas and are localized for the area.
THE END OF THE Hiney wine promotion is not in sight. Sabastian said.
A raft race, scheduled during April, will feature a wet winthe contest, he said.
"Everyone should bring their hinders down to the race and enter the contest," he said. "But we will not accept any dry hinders. We mean that."
Soon, Hiney-lovers will be able to get T shirts and ashtrays printed with the slogan, "Don't put your butt out in my Hiney."
Regents plan approved by committee
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Reluctant House members on a bargaining committee yesterday agreed to the final draft of a $1 million high-technology research package for four Board of Regents universities.
A six-man conference committee of Senate and House lawmakers included the high-technology package in the fiscal 1984 Regents budget it sent to the House and Senate for final approval.
If both chambers approve the compromise package of House and Senate proposals, the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Wichita State University and Pittsburg State University would divvy up $610,000 of the $1 million package.
Of that $610,000, KU would gain $220,000. The money would be governed by the Kansas Department of Economic Development and would have to be used to finance new equipment.
The remaining $390,000 would be sent directly to three "centers of excellence" — KU, K-State and Wichita State. Each university would receive $130,000 — $75,000 for higher instructors' salaries or more teaching assistants and $55,000 for new equipment.
State Rep. Mike Meacham, R-Wichita, designed the "centers of excellence" program. He has said the state's three largest universities were already best equipped for high-technology research and deserved additional funds.
State Sen. Wint Winton Jr., R-Lawrence, worked with Meacham on the high-technology package and pushed Senate Ways and Means memorial originally originate $1.4 million for program.
However, House bargainers could not come to terms on the Senate and Senate bargainers to drop them.
we didn't get the whole apple, but we got the meat of it," Winter said. "I don't like the notion of the outside agency having the high-tech appropriations in its budget."
During the Regents budget trip through the Legislature, Winter said that Regents universities were poorly financed and had been left to run on one of the state's tightest fiscal 1984 budgets.
During the conference committee's two-day negotiations, the legislators increased operating expenses budgets at the Regensburg schools by 6.5%. The increase in expenditures as a House-recommended increase of 5.5 percent.
Also, the committee agreed to deal with student, faculty and classified employee salary increases in a separate omnibus appropriations bill.
The committee also decided to include an undecided increase for Regents utilities budgets in the omnibus bill.
In other agreements, the committee decided to delete a state work-study program from the Regents budget. In response, the department will allocate $700,000 to the program but the House reduced that sum to $622,000.
There is an 80 percent chance of snow today with some accumulation possible, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high temperature will be in the mid- to upper 30s with winds from the east to north at 10 to 20 mph.
Snow will continue tonight with lows of 30 to 35 degrees.
Spacewalkers test new suits in successful shuttle mission
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first American spacewalkers since 1974 paved the way yesterday for ambitious plans to turn the Challenger shuttle's open cargo bay into an orbital repair shop.
Challenger astronauts Story Musgrave and Donald Peterson spent about 3 hours and 40 minutes in the shuttle's bus-size freight compartment during 3/4 times around the 17,500 km.
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THE SPACEWALK was the second big assignment of their ship's maiden flight, and the astronauts completed it with the same flawless precision that marked the launching of the world's largest communications satellite Monday during Challenger's first day in space.
It was the first spacewalk of the space freighter program and the first by U.S. astronauts since Gerald Carr and Edward Gibson stepped outside Skylab 3 nine years ago.
Pilots Paul Weitz and Karol Bobok stayed inside Challenger throughout the walk. They monitored the operation through the rear cabin windows, occasionally cautioning their crewmates outside to avoid sharp edges that might puncture the gleaming white spacesuits.
With the spacewalk completed, Challenger's crew was ready to start looking toward home. The five-day, $266 million mission — sixth in the space freighter series, and one of the best yet — is scheduled to end tomorrow with a runway landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
MUSGRAVE AND Peterson successfully tested $2 million pressure suits that had never
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Student Senate wants fee hike referendum
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
Student Senate wants to give students a chance to vote on a proposal $15 fee on Monday and Tuesday, but under Senate rules, if at least 3,900 students do not vote the referendum will be void. Brown away.
Although most student leaders agree that they do not want to pay the additional student fee next year, many have said they would support it because the high quality of education at the University.
THE PROPOSED academic services fee would generate about $550,000 for KU academic computing and instructional equipment and library acquisitions.
The Student Senate approved the $15 fee at its March 23 meeting on the condition that students be allowed to vote on the fee before the Board of
Regents meeting next Thursday and Friday at the University.
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Michael Woods, president of the Biology Club, said, "Fifteen bucks is not that much money, as long as it's used for what it's supposed to be used for."
Robin Rasure, president of Sigma Delta Pi, the national Spanish honorary society, said the state is in the financial hardship that the state is in
currently. I feel that as a student, I would rather pay the additional money for my education while I'm in school, rather than later when I'm a taxpayer of the state."
Brian Raleigh, Student Union Activities forums chairman and co-chairman of the Senate
JEFF SIGLER, past president of the Kappa Psi pharmaceutical fraternity, said that he wouldn't mind paying the $15 fee, but that it might be a little steep for some people.
Communications Committee, said that he supported a $5 library fee, but that he was against the $15 fee.
Woods said, "The library fee would be fine and I'd probably be more receptive of it than a $15 fee, but if the need is there and it would help the animals in the long run, I don't see that much of a problem."
Tracy Thompson, a member of the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee, said, "I wouldn't mind paying the $5 fee for the library. But a $1 fee is setting a horrible precedent. It's ridiculous and cruel." She said she's Sidney I. Communications major and I haven't seen a great need for more equipment.
"ID BE PAYING for things like computers
that aren't computerized. It's not far to
palliate all the students," she said.
Chris Coffelt, journalism senator, said, "If we do this, we are going to be expected to do it in the
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