University Daily Kansan, March 24, 1983
Page 9
Group named to select new coach
By ANDREW HARTLEY
Staff Reporter
At a time when most college athletic departments will be recruiting high school seniors to play basketball, the University of Kansas will be trying to
A search committee of University faculty, athletes and alumni has been formed to seek a replacement for head basketball coach Ted Owens, Athletic Director Monte Johnson said yesterday.
LAURENCE ROSE, professor of law,
will be the chairman of the committee.
Rose was also chairman for the search
committee that sought a replacement
for head football coach Don Fam-
pson was fired by Johnson in December.
Committee members include Maurice King, Kansas City, Mo., alumnus; Ned Cushing, Lawrence alumnus; Angie Snider, Roeland Park junior and women's basketball player; Jeff Dishin, Medicine Lodge senior and men's Gerhard Zuther, chairman of the department of English; and Johnson.
Rose, King, Cushing and Zuther are
all members of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board.
Deadline for applications for the coaching position is April 6. Johnson said he would name the new head coach in days after the application deadline.
Ross said that by tomorrow the search for a new coach would be in full swing. Letters have been sent to all 275 teams and will be posted at Athletic Association's Division I.
ADVERTISING IN newspapers and professional journals for the position will begin tomorrow and nominations to reach committee members, he said.
As of yesterday afternoon, Rose said he had received 10 telephone calls from people interested in applying or in making nominations. He said he expected other members of the committee to send such names in the next few days as well.
The first meeting of the committee will be Monday, Rose said, when the committee members will compile and discuss the nominations and applications and decide whether more candidates must be sought.
"After Monday, the number of good candidates we have will determine
whether members will have to go out and get more," Rose said.
"But I'm not sure the committee will need to actively recruit. We probably won't have to go out and convince them that this is prestigious and part of a tradition."
JOHNSON HAS SAID that both assistant coaches, Jo White and Bob Hill, who were fired with Owens Sunday, were welcome to apply for the position of head coach.
However, Hill has said that he will not apply for the position.
He said that the names of the candidates would be kept secret until one is selected because most of the coaches would not want their schools to know they are being considered for the job.
"Most of the coaches don't like people to know they came in second," Rose said. "If they do, we won't be interested in them."
Rose said the applicants for the job must be a head coach or assistant at an NCAA Division I school or for a professional franchise. Applicants with head coaching experience are preferred, he said.
THE DEPARTMENT WILL follow the same pattern in seeking a head
basketball coach as it did in the football coach search, he said. The department will be willing to offer competitive and benefits to lure the best coaches.
"Naturally, we don't want to lose any candidates," Rose said.
He could not say what salary increase might be offered.
Owens was paid $47,300 a year and had one year remaining on his contract when he was fired. Athletic department officials said the team will obligate to Owens will be honored.
The search committee does not have any binding authority to hire the preferred candidate; the decision is that of the athletic director.
HOWEVER, ROSE said he did not think the committee would be ignored on the ground.
"My experience with Monte Johnson in the football search was that the committee's recommendation was boned," Rose said.
"If I didn't think it would be a fair and open search, I wouldn't do it. I'm not going to rubber stamp somebody else's decision."
Johnson said, "The search committee has been helpful to me in the past. But at some point, someone has to make a decision."
Fewer problems expected for enrollment
By JOEL THORNTON
Staff Reporter
The second semester of computerized enrollment should be easier for students than the first, the director of records and registration said yesterday.
Gary Thompson, the director, said that not only would the second semester of the new system be easier for students but that those stuck at the end of past enrollment lines would be among the first to enroll this semester.
EARLY ENROLMENT for the fall semester starts April 11 and continues
Students should get their folders, see
students' planner, see the deans'
plants before they pay attention.
Thompson said he planned out the new system of alternating enrollment times, partly because some students were new to the school; they always enrolled in the last groups.
"This is a hell of a lot fairer to individual students than the old sys-
he said. "You don't have one group of people always ahead of another group."
He said he knew of instances in which a computer science major was unable to enroll in computer science for the first time, because all the sections were closed.
Under the old enrollment system, he said, the alphabet was divided into six groups. Students in the group that would enroll were told they would enroll but the following semester.
IN SEMESTERS AFTER that, students in that group have moved up one grade each week.
And in the new enrollment last fall, enrollment was again divided into six sections, this time by the last three digits of student numbers, he said. Students whose student numbers ended with "000" until "166" enrolled first. Those whose last three numbers ranged from "834" to "999" enrolled last.
This semester, instead of having each group advance one place, he said, students who were among the first in their class will be moved into the last three groups.
"The problem was that if you were in the last group and had a bad year, the next semester the prospects of having a better job were not much better," he said.
A student who enrolled first for this semester's classes would enroll fourth for next semester's classes, third for spring 1984, fifth for fall 1984, second for spring 1985 and last for fall 1985, he said.
LINES AT THE enrollment center should also run smoother than last semester, he said, because flaws in the computer that caused a few one-hour delays have been fixed.
In addition, lines late in the day,
reserved for students who did not enroll
at their scheduled times, should also be
shorter, Thompson said. Students who
missed their scheduled enrollment
times will only be allowed to enroll
from 3:30 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. on the day
they were scheduled to enroll, instead
of any day after they were scheduled,
as done last semester.
If students miss this 50-minute late period, he said, they will be able to enroll the Saturday morning after their scheduled enrollment time.
Changing to a new enrollment system was part of the University's effort to make enrollment less of a headache for students, Thompson said.
KU'S_COMPUTERIZED enrollment
system was modeled after a system at the University of Iowa, he said. Unlike Iowa's, however, KU students are allowed to sit down during enrollment and look at the screen while enrollment workers make out the schedules.
Thompson said that when he visited Iowa, he had noticed how uncomfortable students were when they were not allowed to schedule lunch.
"We wanted high credibility," he said. "We wanted students to see what happened."
With the new system, far fewer students enter the enrollment area at any one time than entered the Fieldhouse. About 17 students enroll each six minutes, instead of 500 each hour, as occurred in old enrollment system.
STUDENTS IN THE College of Liberal Arts and Sciences can pick up their folders Monday and Tuesday. Undergraduate business and journalism students can pick up their folders all of next week. Graduate business students can pick theirs up Tuesday and Wednesday.
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This robin might have had its feathers ruffled by some of the recent cool weather. This picture was taken in the late afternoon west of Memorial Stadium.
WSU leader discusses sports
Armatrong said he was aware of problems in Wichita State's athletics.
By United Press International
On his first official visit to the university, Armstrong said that in another visit he would have a long tenure with new Athletic Director Lew Porkins.
WICHTI — New Wichita State University President Warren B. Armstrong said yesterday athletics can spawn community support and school spirit, but only if they do not discredit the institution.
"There are very few things that a university does together. Those few things we do together as a university, that build a spirit within the university community and build the support of the larger community, include athletics."
The Board of Regents named Armstrong Saturday. He replaces Clark Atkins.
"I BELIEVE AN athletics program can be highly beneficial to a university
if it's conducted in a way that does not bring any discredit to the institution," said Wren.
In response to a question about the role of a university in attracting high-technology industries to the area, Armstrong said a school must maintain students. He said it should educate students beyond training them for careers.
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