University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 18, 1990
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Women's team young but confident, Washington says
Bv Juli Watkins
Kansan sportswriter
Coach Marian Washington is expecting great things from the women's basketball team this season.
Women's Basketball
Kansas goes into the 1990-91 season picked to finish fourth in the Big Eight. Washington said that although the team was relatively young with only one senior, Sandra deJustin, she will be to compete this season.
"I have a lot of players who know what they're doing, and that's really nice. Washington said." "I think we are still better to be stronger, but we are still young."
"We're going to open up with a real tough schedule. At the end of the year, we can have to demonstrate that we can play a tough schedule."
Kansas opens the season Nov. 15 with an exhibition game at home against the Australian Junior National team.
Kansas' first NCAA opponents will be UCLA, Louisiana State and江亚, who they will play Nov 24-25 at the University of Louisville. Three teams were ranked in the
top 25 last year, Washington said. Kansas will begin conference play Jan. 9 in Lawrence against Oklahoma.
Last March, the University of Oklahoma decided to discontinue its women's basketball program because of financial problems and lack of support from the students and university.
The program was reinstated April 4 after mounting public criticism and legal threats from the team forced university officials to reconsider.
"I hope no one ever forgets the Oklahoma situation," Washington said. "Right now they're ranked eight (in the Big Eight Conference) but talent-wise they have some great athletes."
Picked to finish ahead of Kansas are Oklahoma State, Kansas State and Missouri, in that order.
Washington said that point guard Liz Smith was a strength for Oklahoma State and that the experience and maturity of K-State's team, which has been playing together for three years, would give the Wildcats
"After that I think it's going to be interesting." Washington said. "We have more confidence."
Ten letter winners return to the lineup this season including deBruin and junior forwards Tanya Bonham,
Terriyl Johnson, Martheen McCloud and Danielle Shareef. Sharef also played with the traveling Big Eight team this summer.
"I think it increased my confidence," Shareef said. "They are very physical and I think that is something that will carry over."
Washington said the experience could help the Big Eight in its recruiting efforts.
Also returning for Kansas are junior guard Kay Kay Hart, sophomore forward Miki Chenma of Miami. "I truitt, Shamon Kite and Joo Witherspoon."
New faces to the women's basketball team include junior guard Darci Bieber, who transferred from Johnson County Community College; sophomore center Lisa Tait Shear; out last season under selection 48; sophomore center Eric Archer Mueyen, a basketball and track star from Lexington, KY.
Washington said the Kansas women's basketball team would conduct an open locker room policy this season.
Another change in the team involves all the players.
She said that interviews would normally be in the press room, but that in the event they should set up in the room, it would be open to all reporters.
Kansas balances athletics, grades
Kansan sportswriter
Bv Juli Watkins
Academics and athletics are a big part of the Kansas women's basketball team, coach Marian Washington said yesterday at the annual Media Day at Allen Field House.
Washington said she thought Kansas was doing a good job with its athletic/academic program.
Seven players and two former players will be recognized at Saturday's football game against Colorado for their academic achievements. Senior Sandra deBrun, junior Laura Bonham, Terrylyn Johnson and Joshua Shareef and Kay Kay Hart, and sophomore Mili Chenault will receive the Jayhawk Scholar Award for earning the minimum of a 3.0 GPA last semester. Former players Michelle
"In terms of the academic base program, no program in the United States is doing what we're doing," she said. "We are going to provide the support that most of these young people need."
Arnold and Elizabeth Roark were also named Jayhawk Scholars.
On the other side of the coin, a Kansas signee, Tawana Jackson, a three-time Parade All-American who was one of the most highly recruited players in country, left Kansas last week under the effects of Proposition 42.
Proposition 42 states that an athlete is either a qualifier or a non-qualifier with a minimum high school GPA of 2.0 and a minimum SAT score of 700 and ACT score of 18. It replaced Proposition 48 at the 1989 NCAA convention and went into effect this August.
Under Proposition 48, if the athlete had been a partial qualifier, meaning he or she had met only one of the requirements, the athlete would be eligible for an athletic scholarship even though ineligible to participate in the sport for one year.
non-qualifier. An athlete could be a partial qualifier by meeting only one of the academic requirements.
"Proposition 42 eliminated the partial qualifier status such that non-qualifiers could not get athletic scholarships." Konzem said. "The NCAA amended Prop 42 so that non-qualifiers could not have athletic scholarships but can apply for need-based financial aid."
Washington said that Jackson was a partial qualifier. Her GPA met the requirement, but her test scores did not.
Under Proposition 42, the athlete may regain eligibility only after passing 24 credit hours at the university maintaining theimum GFA.
The Big Eight minimum GPA is 1.6, but Konzem required the requirement varied from conference to conference. He said that once the athlete passed 60 credit hours, the standard increased.
Waterski Club places 10th at 12-team national meet
By Derek Simmons
Carlin to bring comic act to KU Comedy performance offers change in usual Parents' Day activities
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Kansan staff writer
By Jamie Elliott
From Doris Day to Bill and Ted, from Carnegie Hall to "Car Wash," George almost has taken his comedy almost everywhere.
Carlin brings his act to the University of Kansas for Parents' Day at 8 p.m. Saturday in Hoech Auditorium will be Carlin's first at KU since 1997.
“He's hilarious. He really has his own style,” said Dean Newton, SUA vice-president of University Affairs, who compared him to any other comedian.
In the 30 years he's been in the business, Carlin has recorded 14 albums (one of which won him a Grammy award) and seven HBO comedy specials.
Anita Baja), SUA president, said SUA chose Carlin for Parents' Day for a variety of reasons.
"We felt the University needed some event to strengthen Parents' Day," Bajaj said.
Usually parents would go to a football game and dinner but had no University event to attend that would allow students of faculty and parents, she said.
Carlin's career, which spans three decades, also made him a logical choice for Parents' Day. Baji said
"He appeals not only to a lot of parents, but a lot of students are interested as well," she said. "We've also been trying to schedule different kinds of groups and events, but we haven't done that much comedy."
Bajja said SUA had put a lot of work into the event.
"We were kind of nervous," she said. "It's the first time SUA has sponsored an event this large in a city where it isn't so common." Tickets went on sale Oct. 1, and were
sold out by the 10th. At 8 a.m. the morning they went on sale, there was a line."
Financing for the concert came from the SUA allocation from the MWE, whose directors, which oversales the operations of the Kansas and Burge Unions. Newton said that although tickets are sold, ticket sales should cover the cost.
"We haven't gotten the exact figures yet, but that was the plan, to break even," he said.
Bajaj said she was happy that SUA could provide students with big-name comedy for a low price. Student tickets to the show were $10.
"It's a very expensive show, and we were a little nervous," she said. "But it's been a great success, and we've had so many people come up to be such a big name entertainer. In
other cities the ticket price would be so much higher. It's really an exciting deal."
Carlin's comedy career started in radio, when he was 19. By 1960 he had quit radio to work on stand-up comedy.
For the next few years, Carlin developed his satiric, irreverent style in folk clubs and coffee houses. He finally gained widespread television exposure between 1965 and 1970, appearing on the Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas shows as well as the CBS series "The Recording career," and his second album, "FM and AM," won a Grammy in 1972.
Carlin's first acting role was in Carlin's first guest shot on "That Girl," and a part in the Deryn Day movie. From these beginnings, Carlin
gone on to appear in movies such as "Car Wash," "Outrageous Fortune" and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure."
Carlin also branched out into cable television. In 1977, he tapped "On Camera" as his show that started a string of seven concert comedy broadcasts including one in Carnegie Hall. The most popular was "It Again." aired on HIO in June.
In addition to more than 100 stand-up performances a year, Carlin continues to further his acting career. On Nov. 26, he will star in "Working Trash," a Fox TV movie of the week, and in early 1991, he will appear with Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte in "The Prince of Tides."
In 1991, he also will reprise his role of Rufus in the sequel to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure."
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