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University Daily Kansan, April 7, 1983
Rumor mill has run its course
Final decision lies with Johnson
After today, the rumor mill will be laid to rest.
it's served its purpose for the last two weeks or so, but its time has come.
After today, no one should be wondering who the new basketball coach at KU is. The search committee has done its job, and turned over a list
of those they deem appropriate for the high honor of KU, neppei.
NOW IT'S UP TO MONTENJO Johnson to name the price to the right man (we do know that there are no women in the room). I should have set his name on the dotted line.
And that signals the end of the hours of entertainment I've gotten out of hearing the names and prices that the rumor mill has produced.
I thought I'd pass on the most entertaining, and perhaps the most credible. Maybe you'll get as good a
laugh out of them as I did. But don't laugh too hard, because one of them was dead.
The one the most easy to discredit is that Al McGuire wanted to make a comeback at KU. That's about the last one that we can really assume wrong.
THE NEXT MOST prevalent rumor was the great Dean Smith story. Go ahead and laugh, but not for too long. At last count, Dean Smith was on the list of 18 who had been contained. That which had come through a faithful credible rumor mill specialist, the former Kansan sports editor.
Of course the latest names, Larry Brown of the New Jersey Nets and Ralph Miller from Oregon State, were the talk of the town, and the press as well. They were both on what I'll just call the Final 18.
Last night, when I was really trying to pin down one name, Denny Crum's came up the most often. It was fun getting calls from all the Louisville papers. They said that Crum had caught a flight to Kansas City on his way to Lawrence, and I heard anything.
THAT WAS NEWS to me. But I
checked it out. I called every hotel in the Lawrence and Kansas City phone books, asking for Crum, Monte Johnson, Lonnie Rose and even Gene Budig. It was a waste of time and Kansan long distance money. But keep Crum on the roll of the Final 18.
There were others that I heard once or twice, and again in the Final 18. Eddie Sutton from Arkansas, Dana Kirk of Memphis State University, Terry Holland of Virginia and Purdue's Cady. They all sound real good.
Of course, as you already know, my favorite is delo White, and I was happy with it.
NOW SOME OF these people would be surprised that we printed their name in connection with the job, and many of them have already denied having spoken with KU officials about the opening, but then that's what they're expected to do until somebody gives them a firm offer.
Just remember, Mike Gottfried denied that he was taking the Kansas job just a few months ago. The rumor mills does serve its purpose — it keeps us all busy while the slow wheels of KU bureaucracy turn.
Swimmers hitting new marks in meet
Jayhawk swimmers set five KU
recorders yesterday with performances at the U.S. Swimming Short Championships in Indianapolis.
The KU women were in sixth place at the end of the first day of competition. The men finished in seventh and meet continues through Saturday.
Tammy Thomas, who went into the meet holding two NCAA championships and American records, took first place in her only event of the day, the 100 yard freestyle. Her record of 48.8 was just off her record of 48.
ONE OF THE varsity record-bakers was Ron Neugent, who swam to a ninth place finish in the 1,000 freestyle and fourteenth in the 200 butterfly. His times of 1:48.4 in the 1,000 freestyle and 1:49.4 in the freestyle are new KU marks.
Chuck Neumann took eight place with his 2:00.24 in the 200 breast-stroke, which was slower than his KU record-setting performance in
the preliminary heat earlier in the day.
Brad Wells also set a new KU mark in the preliminary heat and went on to place fifteenth in the finals of the 200 backstroke.
JENNY WAGTAFF also broke a KU record, taking fifth in the 200 battery with a 2:04.4 time.
KU had eight swimmers qualify for 34 events, including six relays and 28 individual events.
At the meet, which is open to amateurs, not just collegians as were the recent NCAA Championship national teams will be selected.
Four men and four women will be chosen to represent the United States at the Hapag Games in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 24, and for the World University Games in Edmonton, Canada, July 27.
Also, four teams will be selected for the 1983 National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs, Colo., June 25-27.
Royals lose to Orioles
BALTIMORE — John Loewenstein drove in three runs with a pair of singles last night to lead a 14-hit attack that carried the Baltimore Orioles to an 11-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
Pitcher Mike Flanagan, 1-0, scattered seven hits, including a home run by Hal McRae, over eight innings, and the Orioles tagged starter Dennis Leonard, 0-1, for five runs and eight hits before picking on Bill Castro for a five-run seventh. Tim Stoddard pitched the ninth for Baltimore.
Lowenstein hit a single to send home Eddie Murray, who had doubled, in the second inning for a 1-1 tie. Lowenstein hit a two-run, bases-laden single in the third inning by Al Bumry, a double by Cal Ripken and an intentional walk to Murray.
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Rookie third baseman Leo Hernandez, Dan Ford, Rich Daucer, Rick Dempsey, Bumby and Ripken drove in the other Oriole runs.
for improvement as artist, athlete
By BOB LUDER Sports Writer
Most people are satisfied if they can do one thing really well. But not Greg
When he isn't out running and lifting for the KU cross country and track teams, Leibert is honing his skills as a graphic artist.
"WHEN I'M RUNNING, it's the most important thing and when I'm drawing, it's most important," he said. "But when I get out of school, art might come
Although Leibert, a Kansas City, Mo. junior, said that he kept the two occupations separate and did not favor one over the other, he said that drawing would probably become the biggest part of his life in the future.
first because it's going to have to make my living for me."
Leibert's drawings have, however, affected the Jayhawk track team in an indirect way. The track coaches were so impressed with Leibert's work that they have often asked him to draw up cards to send to recruits and KU track patrons, such as Wichita oilman Hershberger. And it came as a big thrill, Leibert said, when KU Athletic Director Monte Johnson asked him to lead a track coach Bob Timmons, who was hospitalized after suffering a mild stroke. Johnson later wrote Leibert a personal note of thanks for making the card.
"I like giving my work to others," he said. "The reactions on their faces
LEIBERT SAID the reactions and replies from those he gave cards to pleased him the most.
when they see my cards is what I like the best about my artwork."
Leibert credits his interest and talent in art to his mother, an art teacher in Kearns.
"I also had a really good graphics teacher in high school that worked hard with me, and Diek Varney here has helped me a lot with my illustrations."
"My mom always had us drawing things," he said, "so we doing it as well."
IT IS THE crowd's feedback that helps keep him running. But during Leibert's first year at KU, it appeared doubtful that he would ever run again.
At the end of his junior year in
high school, while training an average of 20
miles a day, Leibert suffered what he
thought was a pulled hamstring in his
right leg. But the leg kept bothering
him throughout his senior season and
by the time he was a KU freshman, in the fall 1980, he could hardly run a step without pain.
"I went to several doctors, but none of them could tell me anything except that it was a pinched nerve in my back that was causing the pain in my leg," Leibert said. "One doctor even told me that I'd either get better, get worse, or stay the same. I wonder how much I paid him to say that?
"ONE DOCTOR EVEN told me that I'd never be able to compete on a collegiate level again. That really made me mad. When someone tells me I can't do something, that's when I want to do it the most."
When Leibert arrived at KU, Timmons promptly stopped his training and sent him to the University of Kansas Medical Center, where it was
determined that Leilbert had muscle imbalances in his back which were pulling his vertebrae out of place and pinching the nerves in his legs.
Lebert spent the rest of his freshman year training with weights and swimming. When summer rolled around, he was running again, pain-free.
HIS RECOVERY appeared complete the following year as he finished 15th in the Big Eight cross country championships and anchored the second-place distance medley relay team in the conference indoor track championships. Last fall, Leibert finished 16th in cross country and again anchored the fifth-place finish. The fifth-place finish. In the process, he lowered his best times from 4:21 to 4:10 in the mile, and from 9:17 to 9:00 in the two-mile.
The same intense mental concentration that Leibert puts into his running also goes into his drawing, he said, but not in the same way.
"DRAWING COMES more naturally to me," he said. "If I put as much practice into drawing as I do running, I be pretty good I guess. I put a lot of time into drawing, but don't put forth the effort I do running."
Leibert said that he eventually wanted to be a freelance illustrator and possibly start his own printing business. As far as running goes, he said he would like to move up in distance from the mile to the 5,000 and 10,000-meter championships. He still wants to break the four-minute barrier in the mile and is looking forward to a good cross country season next year.
31st Annual
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Banquet at 8:30 p.m., Kansas Union Callcenter
Cultural Show at 7:00 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union.
Exhibition Starts at 3:00 p.m., Big 8-Jayhawk Rooms,
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Sunday, April 10, 1983
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Displays of artifacts and slide shows from several countries.
TICKETS FOR BANQUET
Food from around the world.
Song and dances from different countries.
$5.00 Adult
$3.00 Children
Tickets are available at SUA Office, KU International Club (B115, Kansas Union) and Office of Foreign Students Services (112 Strong Hall). For information call 864-4824.
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