Page 6 University Daily Kansan, September 21, 1981 Big Eight withholds vote on proposed TV pact By EILEEN MARKEY Staff Reporter Big Eight Schools, including the University of Kansas, have said they would not vote on the College Football Association's proposed television contract until after the National emblem uncleverly placed in front of it, scheduled for Dec. 3 and 4, in St. Louis. CFA A member schools, including the Big Eight Conference, were supposed to respond to a proposed $180 million contract with NBC television by Sept. 17. The contract is in direct conflict with the NCAA's proposed contract with ABC and CBS television. JIM SCALLY, administrative assistant to KU Chancellor Gene A. Budig, said that KU and other conferences have notified the CPA of their position. "We're not going to make a decision on either contract until after the NCAA addresses reorganization issues at the December convention," Scaly said. The CFA schools have been unhappy with the structure of the NCAA's IA division, which includes the largest sports facilities and restructuring, and their other complaints about NCAA policies initially led to the formation of the CFA in 1977. Most of the big football powers wanted more TV revenue and more voice in deciding television contracts, since they were the most television appearances. The CFA dealt the NCAA a big blow when it proposed its television contract and ratified it on August 21. ALL CFA SCHOOLS were to be included in the plan unless they had notified the CFA to the contrary by Friday. NBC has not yet announced what teams, if any, are participating, or if the contract will be approved without participation of all CFA members. At the convention, the biggest issue to be discussed will probably be the Ivy League amendment. Adopted at the 1978 convention, the amendment opened division I-A. to schools that sponsor 12 intercollegiate sports, and greatly expanded the size of that division. Without the amendment, division I-A would only be open to schools with a stadium capacity of 30,000 or more and an average attendance of at least 17,000. The amendment has let about 40 schools without those criteria slip into the division, and the big football powers say it makes the division too large. BOB MARCUM, KU athletic director, said that reorganization and property rights would most likely be the main items on the convention agenda. RUSH OVERLAND PHOTO Meanwhile, CFA schools will be protected from sanctions by the NCAA for considering other contracts, or for agree to their proposed contract. U. S. District Judge Luther Eubanks issued the temporary restraining order on Friday. The order will continue until after a final hearing on the merits of a class action suit regarding the property damage in connection with the University of Oklahoma and the University of Georgia filed the suit last week. COLOR AND B & W SOUTHERN HILLS Floral&Gift SOUTHERN HILLS SHOPPING CENTER 749-2912 FREE DELIVERY CASH FOR USED TEXTBOOKS Monday-Friday 9-4:30 Kansas University Bookstore Level 1 KANASAS UNION Tie In With Us Recreation Services Intramural Water Polo Why not make a big splash by playing intramural water polo? Entry deadline and managers meeting Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 6:30 p.m.在 the Robinson new pool lobby No entry fee is required. THIS WEEK Wednesday Thursday The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy DAVID ALLAN COE Advance Tickets Going Fast! Get your now at kiefs, Better Days and The Opera House Blues Legend Saturday MUDDY WATERS with guests GLORY BOYS Advance Tickets Now Available Don't Miss These Great Shows - Sept 25—Glory Boys 27—Searve (Free in 7th Spirit) 29—Clarence "Gatesmouth" Brown a 6 on 2 - 3 - The Secret 10 - Willard Dean 10 - Ivy Klein 21 & 22 - Foose Foe 10 - Kelsey Williams 30 & 31 - Blue Hibiscus Band KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Doctors don't mind making house calls to the three-story yellow colonial home across from the University Medical Center —even on Saturday. Where the stars are 7th & Mass. 842-6930 Lawrence Opera House Ronald McDonald House for parents opens Saturday was the grand opening of the Ronald McDonald House, a home for parents and families of children with autism, dementia, cancer and other serious illnesses. Joane Sorrentant, whose daughter Cara has been undergoing treatment for leukemia for three of her three-and-one-half years, said she once spent a month sleeping on the edge of her daughter's bed at the Med Center. However, hotels are expensive, and not the best places for children who are embarrassed that their hair is falling out because of chemotherapy, or whose treatments make them nauseated and that they eat a hall-kozen times daily. "I never let her alone," she said. SHIRLEY LANSKE, professor of pediatrics and psychology, said that there are usually 15 to 20 families like Corentinus staying with their children at the Med Center or at nearby hotels. "Not so long ago, most of these children would have died within a year of diagnosis." Lansky said. "Now they are living in places where being alive and well in three years." Cara's illness was the hardest, but now she seems to be getting better. Sorrentino said that the first year of Cara balanced on one foot and stared with wide eyes as she stood next to Ronald McDonald and helped him cut a piece of ice cream across the front porch of the house. Inside the house are 11 bedrooms, a double kitchen, a laundry room, a playroom, a recreation room, a library and a living room. The bedrooms are small, with two beds and a half-bath in each. "The idea is to make the rooms small for sleeping," said James Neff, associate professor of surgery and a surgeon. "They're not for hiding." Each family is responsible for cleaning its own room, preparing its own meals and doing its own laundry, he said. "There's a great deal of therapeutic value in the fact that people will participate in activities exactly as they would at home," said Larry Corrigan, vice president of Children's Oncology Services of Mid-America, Inc., in Kansas City, Kan., which raised the funds for the house. IN THE COMMUNAL setting, parents can receive a great deal of emotional support from other parents and provide care, suffering from catastrophic illness. "There's a great deal of sharing that goes on in a house like this," said Gilhausen, president of COSMA. THE KANSAS CITY house, which will serve the Med Center and all other metropolitan area hospitals, will be the twenty-seventh house to open nation-wide, one opened in 1974 in Philadelphia. Other 35 houses are being planned. "One guy me last night that he was amazed they didn't get into fistfights here," she said. "We're lucky we don't have a striped house." The teenagers' recreational room, with a pinball machine, television and stereo, is downstairs next to a playroom for younger children. "So, the kids can make a lot of noise and not bother their parents," Neff said. The upstairs library does not have a television set to disturb the quiet, and only a few magazines and books are scattered on the tables. "We need more books," Neff said. And eventually we would like to have more books. THE HOUSE also needs contributions of toys, port-a-cribs, strollers, wheel chairs, playground equipment, blankets, area rugs, canned vegetables, heavy-duty mixer, coffee makers, high chairs, chairs and gardening equipment. There is also $200,000 more to pay off on the mortgage. Almost 500 individuals and organizations contributed. In addition, 56 individuals and companies contributed directly to the house's renovation, which started last April. The general contractor was J.E. Dunn, but Gilhausen said that many other contractors worked on the house and the yard using 26 different painting companies. "I would expect that three years from now there would be an excess of 50,000 or 60,000 people staying in our houses each year," said Edward S. Baum, who is on the national advisory board of Children's Oncology Services, Inc. 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