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
*Canaas went 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 deBruin, she came out to compete in a competitive this season.*
"I have a lot of players who know what they're doing, and that's really nice. Washington said, "I think we need 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 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, State State and Iowa, who they will play Nov. 25 at Baylor. The team will compete in City, Iowa. All three teams were ranked in the
top 25 last year, Washington said.
Kansas will begin conference play Jan. 9 in Lawrence against Okla homa
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 spy.
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 eighth 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.
Terrill Johnson, Martheen McCloud and Danielle Shareef. Shareef 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 Kary Hart, sophomore forward Misti Chennaul and junior guard Sammy Witherspoon. Shannon Kate and Jolo Witerspoon.
New faces to the women's basketball team include junior guard Darci Bieber, who transferred from Johnson County Community College; sophomore center Lisa Tate, who sat out last season under Proposition 40; and freshman guard Ericka Muency, a basketball and track star from
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 in that the event they should set up in the room, it would be open to all reporters.
Kansas balances athletics, grades
Kansan sportswriter
By 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.
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."
Seven players and two former players will be recognized at Saturday's football game against Colorado for their academic achievements. Senior Sandra deBrun, Juniors Tanya Bonham, Terrilyn Johnson, Martha Teehan, Shaun Shepherd, Kay Kay Hurt, and sophomore Misti Chenault will receive the Jayhawk Scholar Award for earning the minimum of a 3.0 GPA last semester. Former players Michelle
Arnold and Elizabeth Roark were also named Jayhawk Scholars.
On the other side of the coin, a Kansas signee, Tawanna Jackson, a three-time Parade All-American who was one of the most highly recruited in the 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 athletic 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 minimum in maintaining the minimum GPA.
Konzem said the NCAA was currently considering implementing a minimum GPA 2.0 as its standard for all conferences.
Orchestra to feature guest solo
By Jamie Elliott
Kansan staff writer
Orchestra music may sound like a synonym for elevator music to some people, but symphony conductor Gregory Fried promises that Sunday's concert will be anything but Muzak.
"I're really an exciting concert," Fried said. "For anyone who thinks they hate orchestra, come to this band. They will all anywill change their minds forever."
Both a pianist and composer, Dukewitz's works have been performed in various concert halls in New York City. As a performer, he is especially well-known for his piano arrangements.
By Derek Simmons
Andruz Dutzewicz, a visiting professor from the Chopin Academy at Warsaw, will be the featured solist at the concert, which will be at 13:00 p.m. Sunday at Cation Art-Prevea Theater in Murphy Hall. The concert is free.
The concert also is Fried's KU debut.
"I'm excited, not nervous," Fried said. "The orchestra has worked diligently, and I'm just looking for performance. I'm concert. I sure it will be great."
Dutkiewicz will be featured in the orchestra's performances of the Overture to "Russian and Ladmilla" by Glinda and "Krakowak" by Chopin. The 72-piece orchestra will then play the "Harry Jones." Suite by Hammett, Sonata by Satie from the film "On the Waterfront" by Leonard Bernstein.
Orchestra member Craig Robinson practices flute at Murphy Hall
Fried said he chose the more contemporary pieces for a reason.
Fried said he chose the more
"I wanted to do things that haven't been done here, or not at all," he said. "We're working hard, and things are really coming together. We won't sound like just a great college orchestra — we'll sound like a
Waterski Club places 10th at 12-team national meet
Cello player Erinn Walsh agreed.
"We really prepared and excited for it," Walsh said. "We're going to do the Bernstein really well. Since this week, as sort of bounce to him."
'Thunder Rock' keeps relevance despite time gap
said. "You get to watch the big guns
By Jamie Elliott
Kansan staff writer
"Thunder Rock," a symbolic fantasy about a young man's disillusionment with war, had its first KU after the bombing of Pearl Harbor after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
On Tuesday, the play will be staged for the first time since 1941 as part of the William Iraq memorial Theatre in Kuwait. It will be performed in Saudi Arabia in the background.
"It deals with the dilemma of a world in crisis," said Ron Williams. "We've had the director of the play "The dilemma is, what do you do? Do you take an activist stance? If you are interested in becoming a player, this play has some relevance."
"Thunder Rock," written in 1899, is set between the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Willis said that he felt compelled to "thunder Rock" for 15 years.
The plot revolves around a young man disillusioned by the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.
"He sees so many troubles in the world, he decides to just withdraw," said cast member Michael Brandt. "he takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on Thunder Rock, a Michigan town that essentially avails all the problems."
To combat the loneliness of his isolated job, the young man creates a world for himself.
"He populates his world with people from his imagination who have been dead for 99 years." Willst said. "He finds that the problems that they thought insoluble are soluble by his time. And he sees he needs to have faith and take a sight to see that he helps solve some of the problems of this world."
Willis said that the play was relevant for a lot of different reasons.
"The play was picked before the words 'Desert Shift' were a part of our vocabulary, so it takes a special heed," he said. "The play advocates activism. But it ends optimistically." Brandt agreed that the play con-
"But at the same time, it leaves the decision open," Brandt said. "You can just avoid all the problems, or some people might see the point is to go into the world and try to solve them."
"I think it's really coincidental that we're doing this at the time all this year," she said. "In 1939, the play was written in 1939, so there's nothing in it to do with the Middle East. But some people might believe that we know what they're talking about."
Tickets for "Thunder Rock" are on sale at the mall H麻 Hall Box Office. All seating is general admission with limited seating available. Tickets are $3 for KU students, $6 for the public, and $8 for senior citizens and other students.
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 18, 1990
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