University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 24, 1988
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Club members windsurf Kansas
3y Jeff Euston
Kansan sportswriter
The popularity of windsurfs has boomed on the West Coast and in the South. But the sport is also catching on at the University of Kansas.
Alan Cardozo, president of the University of Kansas Windwinder Club, said interest in windsurfing. Cubs had doubled during the last year.
Cardozo, Prairie Village junior, said Clinton College offered winders' shoes, also known as sailors, a convergence place to become involved in the sport.
"When you're out on the water and the wind is blowing and you're going mph with back near touching it when it all wilt," Cardozo said.
Though windsurfing began in California more than 20 years ago, the sport became popular in Europe before it caught on in the United States.
Windsurfing became an Olympic sport in 1984, and Scott Steele of the United States won a silver medal.
The club's basic membership fee is $15 a semester. Members without a board pay a one-time board fee of $10 per semester to purchase and maintain the boards.
Beginning sailors must complete an instruction course with a professor (or instructor) of the marine. The instructor for club members is $0, which is half of what lessons would cost a non-female sailor.
Cardozo said a new member could learn to sail in about three hours with
the help of a qualified instructor
The price of a long board, which is used by beginners and ranges from about 10 to 12 feet in length, starts at $500. The board is faster short boards, which are usually to 8 to 9 feet long and may cost one to two thousand dollars.
Though windingurs may appear to be demanding physically, Cardozo said that technique was more important than physical ability and regardless of age or sex, wherever there is wind and water. Learning from a qualified instructor also is required.
Cardozo started the club during the spring semester with three other sailors.
"We're here for the students, Cardozo said. "We love windsurfing,
and we want to show more people how much fun the sport is. It's also a great opportunity to meet some new 'friends.'"
Cardozo said his goal was to get 60 members in the club this semester.
Cardoon said that windingsoir was gaining popularity at other area colleges, including Kansas State and Wichita State.
The club meets weekly at Clinton Lake. The club plans to organize three variations of racing competition, including sprinting, speed sailing and slalom racing.
The club will have a table outside of Wesco Hall during registration this week. Saturday the club will hold a demonstration day at Clinton Lakes.
K-State AD wants to 'win a few' this fall
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The program has won three games in three years. Last season, only a 17-17 tie against a winless Kansas squad stood between Kansas State and an 0-11 campaign.
Steve Milleer, Kansas State's newly installed athletic director, did not hire Stan Parrish as football coach. The man who did is gone now, he must secure and creating a vacancy for Miller to step in.
Although Miller's years as KState track coach and assistant athletic director have given him an historical perspective on KState's football woes, he says he is not prepared to endure forever the slings and arrows of bearing the poorest won-lost record in the conference.
So what exactly does Kansas State's new athletic director have in mind for the football program"?
In all fairness, it should be pointed out that he's trying to succeed where no man has ever succeeded before. But is Parrish in danger of being kicked out of the football coach to lose his job in Kansas in two years?
Miller says he fervently hopes not. Does Miller foresee changes? What will he expect?
'We've got to win a few games. There's no doubt
about that," said Miller, who gave up a job with the Pennsylvania Special Olympics to return to K-12.
"I think we're foolish to say we can keep the que so quo and everything's going be fine. That's what I want."
Winning, of course, is defined differently depending on where you hang your shoulder pads. A 7-4 season would touch off wild celebration in Oklahoma at Oklahoma State or at Oklahoma almost cost Barry Switzer his job.
"Is it two games, or three or four if five! I can't tell you that," said Miller. "I don't know. We've got to win some games. But there's got to be some other variables, too."
How many games must Parrish win?
K-State's new boss vows not to focus entirely on the won-lost mark.
"We've got to play with intensity, and it's got to be visual intensity," he said. "We can't say we're trying hard and have it not be perceptually evident.
"We've got to be well-disciplined. Our team has to get to the point that it's like a doing good things. You've got to perceive the world."
"The third thing is, if we're not doing well, we've got to be playing young players so that we look.
again, like the future is brighter."
Miller also wants to see fewer blowouts like the 59-10 and 56-3 beats the Wildcats absorbed on successive visits last fall with Oklahoma and Nebraska.
"We've got to be competitive, and we've got to be a factor in the games," he said. "And if we are losing, it can't be because we're letting down or making mistakes.
"Finally, you've got to convince the people who come to the games that we have future. I think they will."
"If we don't meet those minimum expectations, then we've got to take a look at the bigger picture. We're not only talking about winning vs. losing, talking about a well-defined, visible direction."
Failure is new to Parrish's resume. He was 13-8-1 in two years at Marshall University in Huntington, W. Va., and averaged better than eight victories in five years at Wabash, Ind. College.
"Stan Parrish is a bright, forlorn man who's never ducked anybody," Miller said. "He's got great integrity, and I really want him to succeed for a number of reasons.
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