University Daily Kansan, November 26, 1984
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Athletes
vising of athletes is done by faculty members of the school in which the student is enrolled, instead of by athletic clubs. Students must all types of students and not just athletes.
As a result of another recommendation, the office of admissions and records now tallies credit hours and grade point averages for athletes to verify eligibility in accordance with the National Collegiate Athletic Association rules. That information used to be compiled by the athletic department.
Johnson pleased, cites input
"I've had nothing but good input and counsel when we needed it," he said.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson, who came to the University in 1982, said he was pleased with the relationship between the faculty and the athletic department since he has arrived. He notching but good input,
Head basketball coach Larry Brown said he thought the relationship between the athletic department and the faculty had improved since last year.
"What happened with the football players and what happened with Cedric and I could have a good effect," he said. "I think we were hard to keep it from happening again."
Brown was referring to the controversy he and guard Cedric Hunter became involved in after Brown met with David Katzman, professor of history, on Jan 8 concerning Hunter's failing grade in a course taken during fall 1983.
Katzman said then that he thought Brown was pressuring him to change Hunter's grade so he would be academically eligible to play. At the time, Brown said he was not trying to pressure Katzman. He said he had accidentally tried to pressure Hunter and only wanted to see whether Hunter's eligibility could be restored.
Some faculty members say the controversy between Brown and Katzman and the 10 integrable football players may even improve the relationship between the
athletic department and the faculty
Norm Yetman, chairman of the Academic Committee of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board and professor of American studies and sociology, said the short run, these in the early weeks were very easy, but in the long run they will help."
Other faculty members said that the changes made during the past few years were positive and that the impact was just beginning to be felt.
Marie Cross, associate professor of human development, said that because of changes in recent years, she now perceived the athletic department to be less like a professional sports program. She said her thoughts about the program changed when she became an adviser for several athletes under the new system.
Revenues. other pressures
However, other faculty members * maintain that athletics at KU really are professional athletics because of the large sums of money involved. Yetman cited the large increase in television revenues flowing to college athletic programs.
Last year, each of the final four teams in the NCAA basketball tournament received about $850,000 in television revenue. In the fourth, the final four, it received about $450,000.
Because the stakes have increased so much, some faculty members say the pressure on athletes to perform is too great.
"I think there's a perception on the part of many faculty members that intercollegate athletics — the way it's run now are incompatible with higher edu
He said he thought the relationship between the faculty and athletic department still was distant.
"It's been that way for a number of years," he said. "I think there's always room."
Some of the faculty members who had tried to bridge the gap in the past became
That is all in the past, he said, but it has made faculty members cautious about becoming involved with athletes. Because of this, he said, faculty members who advise athletes also must advise non-athletes under the new system.
known as angels, Yetman said. Others perceived that they received special favors from the athletic department for receiving grades and advising athletes, he said.
Because of the changes in advising, tutoring and grade tallying, Yetman said, progress is being made and the relationship is slowly improving.
Renate Mai-Dalton, KUAC board member and associate professor of business, said the faculty was split in its perception of the role of the athletic department and the rest of KU.
"one group is enthusiastic and generally informed," she said. "The other group could not care less. It's the right of them to want or not want varsity athletes."
Some faculty and staff become concerned when the competitiveness and stress of athletics becomes too much for athletes, she said.
Students may be interested in academics, Max Dalton said, but they find it hard to keep up.
"They have more contact with the coaches and peer athletes than their professors, so the pressure is strong. Athletics come first. They make the
She said that a tradeoff wasn't necessary and that she knew of several athletes who had graduated from the School of Business in four years.
Brown agreed that athletics and schoolwork could coexist.
"I asked them to come to KU and promised to help them by doing everything I could to help them get a degree," he said. "I saw that players since coming to the University
Some don't want players
"I've had kids come in and say they've had instructors say. If you are an athlete you should be."
wasn't always there.
Faculty members didn't deny that discrimination against athletes could happen, but said they were not aware of it. The team was being told they weren't wanted in courses.
However, Brown said faculty support
Del Shankel, professor of biology, former activer athletic director and former acting chancellor, said, "To the extent that any faculty member would take that attitude toward any student would be very distressing."
Another side of the problem, Mai-Dalton said, was athletes deceiving their coaches about professors' attitudes toward them and about their individual performances.
"I have the suspicion that some athletes who have not done well are snowing their knees."
Deceiving a coach is less likely with biweekly progress reports, Buskirk said. The athlete, the coach and the office of academic affairs each receives a copy of an athlete's progress report from the athlete's tutors.
In addition, professors fill out progress reports three times a semester on the atletes they have in class, said Lanny Rose, an assistant athletic director.
Marian Washington, head women's basketball coach, said she had not any problems with faculty members in the program that she appreciated the progress reports.
Occasionally, she said, she encountered instructors who were extremely stringent about test times and assignment deadlines; others are exceptionally flexible, she said.
"I hope eventually there will be better understanding and appreciation of what is happening in our society."
James Carothers, professor of English and presiding officer of the University
The players' dilemma
senate, said, "If you treat a grant-in-aid as a form of employment, it'd be difficult to imagine a comparable form of employment."
Grants in aid, commonly known as scholarships, for athletes, room, kitchen, and bed.
"These young people are at the peak of their physical strength, fed well and worked to the point of exhaustion three to five times per week," he said. "It's difficult if not impossible to perform academically."
Yet, he said, part of the problems among the faculty, athletes and the athletic department came from some faculty members who were not exempt exceptions must be made for athletes.
Tony Redwood, KUAC chairman and professor of business, said, "Nobody wants preferential treatment, but in some instances differential treatment might be just like for a student whose work begins with a band member who needs to practice."
Other faculty and athletic staff members agreed. Part of the friction comes from lack of communication and grows more bitter rather than philosophical ideals, they said.
Carothers said improved communication would help the relationship between parents and students.
Mai-Dalton said a survey the KUAC board was planning to conduct soon would allow faculty members to share their concerns and beliefs about KU athletic
This fall, the relationship between the faculty and the athletic department has improved. Redwood said, because the board is working to comply with University regulations more than it has in the past.
Also, he said, the relationship has improved because the faculty members on the board have been working hard to make things better.
"I see a commitment by the athletic director and senior staff to be much more accessible and interactive with the University staff, too," he said.
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who was described as a fighter not ready to die, then was dependent on the 10-ounce machine in his chest and the desk-sized device to which he was linked by two air hoses.
The primary concern was for bleeding following the surgery. Lansing said there was some excessive bleeding and Schroeder was given two units of fresh plasma and also
DOCTORS ALSO WERE concerned about infection, which Schroeder was particularly vulnerable to because he has diabetes, and whose blood loss blood clots that might lodge in the lungs.
a transfusion of platelets, cellular components that help the blood coagulate to form clots.
Schroeder, a heavy smoker for 30 years.
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were wheeled into the operating room at 7:57 a.m. EST. An assortment of classical music and jazz played in the second floor surgical suite to reduce tension.
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SIMILAR CUFFS THEN were sewn to what was left of the natural heart — the upper blood collection chambers called atriums.
aorta that feeds oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the rest of the body.
DeVries snapped the artificial heart, about the size of two elenched fists, into the four awaiting cuffs. The heart consists of two
300 mm plastic tubes providing the air pulses that drive the heart were led through the skin of the upper abdomen and protruded into the chest designed to minimize the risk of infection.
The drive lines connect to two eight-foot
hoses that run to a 323-pound console.
pamping chambers held together by a Velcro patch.
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