The scribes' choice
Being named the Associated Press' Big 8 Coach of the Year isn't Mike Gottfried's first such honor, but it might be his sweetest. Academic ineligibility, injuries and suspensions claimed more than a dozen 'Hawks, but KU finished a healthy fourth in the Big Eight. Gottfried's next goal: a winning season. See story, page 10.
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Vol. 95, No. 63 (USPS 650-640)
Athletes, faculty working to bridge gap
Dave Hornback/KANSAN
Monday, November 26, 1984
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
yesterday. Please, who swims the 100 meter butterfly and 100 meter, freestyle on KU's swim team, is one of several athletes who use the tutoring service.
A bridge between the athletic department and the rest of the University of Kansas has been under construction since the early 1980s.
Jeff Spires, Lawrence junior, goes over a French lesson with Jacqueline Pease, Rolla, Mo., freshman, during a tutoring session in the Supportive Educational Services building
Its builders are KU administrators, athletic department officials and faculty members. Their efforts were prompted, in part by a 1981 Kansas City Times story charging the football and basketball programs with impropieties, including having athletes into easy classes and having other students do athletics school work.
The builders have been spurred on, despite the resignation of two athletic directors and recent rashes of ineligible players on major teams.
These days, many within and outside the building crew say significant sections of the bridge have been laid in place. Others have not. The gap between the land and the gap onwards as wide as ever.
Those who maintain that progress has been made say a key part of the bridge was built earlier this month when the University of Oklahoma athletic director for academic support.
Richard Lee, the new assistant athletic director, also is the director of supportive educational services in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He will work half-time for both educational services and the athletic department.
Lee said, "I hope to alleviate the separation that some people perceive as being a problem between the athletic department and the academic community.
Lew said he thought the separation could be overcome.
"I is not my job to make them eligible," he said, referring to KU athletes. "My job is to teach."
Adviser sees change
One of the first steps toward bridging the gap between the athletic department and the University was the hiring in 1982 of a graduate student named Eve the chancellor for academic affairs.
Earlier this fall, the academe ineligibility of 18 football players slowed that down.
Paul Buskirk, the current special assistant, said his role was to be a liaison between the faculty and the athletic department. His work had not been an immediate remedy, Buskirk said, but the relationship between the faculty and the athletic department has improved during the past year.
"The feelings have settled down some," he said. "We're beginning to get back to work."
The committee was formed the semester before the Times story came out, but its work took on more significance after the story was published.
Buskirk's position was created in response to suggestions from a 1980 Committee on Academic Standards for Intercollegiate Athletics, composed of faculty members, administrators and athletic department staff.
Most of the committee's recommendations have become policy. Recruits visiting the campus now meet with academic advisers. Also, academic ad-
See Athletes, p. 5, col. 1
Tutoring service to help athletes
By BRENDA STOCKMAN
Staff Reporter
It's a whole new ball game this semester for the athletic department's tutoring program.
For the first time the athletic department contracted Supportive Education Services to test, monitor and tutor students. Larry Rose, an assistant athlete director,
"It itens to be working out real well," he said. "We want to be sure our athletes are more than just going to class, but learning. It's a two-step process."
Rose said he knew the new system was working because athletes' grades and progress reports were improving
PAYING SES, WHICH is part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to handle tutoring for athletes will save the department money. Rose said. In the past, the athlete department hired the tutors, taught sessions and monitored athletes' progress.
Last year many of the tutors were paid for idle time because athletes did not come in for help. In an effort to solve the problem, the athletic department last semester reduced the number of hours tutors were available, but one tutor estimated that he still worked only 75
"It is not an economical process to pay
or someone to sit there when they possibly
will be a victim of it."
percent of the time he was being paid for.
percent of the time he was being paid
TUTORS WERE PAY $6.50 an hour last year.
In fiscal year 1983 the athletic
department spent $42,171 on salaries for tutors — $15,851 more than its budget called for.
Rose said that the new system would help reduce tutoring costs, but that until the fiscal year was completed he couldn't say by how much.
He estimated the department would spend 50 to 75 percent of what it spent last year for tutoring alone. The estimate does not include the hiring of Richard Lee, director of SES and an assistant athlete in the school's track team, the new academic coordinator, he said.
IN THE PAST, TUTORS WERE available at certain times for athletes to ask questions. Rose said, which allowed some students to use the tutors only for cramming sessions before tests.
The department pays SES, which is responsible for hiring the tutors, giving diagnostic tests and contacting the althcare monitor to monitor their progress in class. Rose said
Monetary savings is not the only reason for the change in the tutoring system. Rose
Another problem with the old system was that tutors could not prepare for questions because they did not know in advance which athletes would be coming in or what subjects they would require help in. Rose said. Students did not have to
make a commitment to meet a tutor at a set time, he said.
Also, Rose said, many faculty members and students thought that the old tutoring system was in some way tainted because of its association with the athletic department. Some people thought the tutors did the athletes' work, he said.
That was not true, he said, but the incorrect impression gave athletic department officials an additional reason to improve the tutoring and monitoring system.
LEE SAID THE ADVANTAGE of using SES was that it had the staff and established programs for working with students who needed help, which the athletic department did not.
"Our track record speaks for itself," Lee said. "Eighty to 92 percent of the students who use our services pass their test." The letter "Only 1 to 2 percent show failure."
More than 169 of the nearly 400 athletes are using SES. Lee said. The majority are freshmen, sophomores and juniors and are from almost all sports.
Rose and coaches Larry Brown and Mike Gottfried said they were pleased with the results.
One of the reasons for SES's success, Lee said, is the athlete is given a diagnostic test to see whether the student has the necessary background for a particular course.
Schroeder is returned to surgery
By United Press International
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Surgeons implanted an artificial heart yesterday in the chest of a man whose natural heart was expected to fail within a week, but returned him to surgery six hours later to stop excessive bleeding.
William J. Schroeder, 52, of Jasper, Ind., had been awake four hours after the $6\frac{1}{2}$-hour implant operation when doctors decided to implant again and reopen his chest to stop the bleeding.
"They have found the source of (bleeding) and have corrected it," Humana Hospital Audubon spokesman George Atkins said one hour and 25 minutes after Schroeder was returned to surgery. The second operation lasted a little more than an hour, Atkins said.
SCHROEDER'S FAMILY WAS kept informed of the nature of his work with a dedicated heart, Adams said.
Schroeder was the second person to have a mechanical heart sewn permanently in the cavity left by the removal of a severely diseased heart.
Dr. Allan Lansing said earlier the clicking, air-driven, plastic and metal device was working "beautifully" in Schroeder's chest.
The $18,500 Jarvik-7 heart was implanted by Dr. William DeVries, the surgeon who placed the first permanent mechanical heart in Barney Clark at the University of Utah two years ago. Clark survived for 112 days, dying suddenly was no longer able to cope with an infection.
LANSING, ONE OF Schroeder's surgeons and chief medical spokesman at Humana Hospital Audith Kirkpatrick, who returned to surgery that 'we are very satisfied with his course right now'.
"We'll be happier at this time tomorrow." Lansing said in the news briefing early last evening. "But as of this moment, I would say I would off it as we could possibly hope he would be."
Schroeder's blood pressure several hours after the operation was 115 over 60 - normal for a younger man.
DVries, lured to Louisville in July by Humana Inc.'s promise to finance 100 artificial heart implants, said a week ago his "realistic hope" was that the second person to receive an artificial heart would be able to leave the hospital and even swing a golf club.
Dr. Robert Jarvik, developer of the device, said yesterday's operation was "amazingly routine" compared to the 1822 operation on the retired dentist from Seattle. The device is also less expensive and identical to the device in Clark, but Schreed was in better health overall than Clark.
"There was never a point where we felt we might lose him," Jarkiv sand of Schroeder "I remember very vividly feeling that Dr. Clark was operating table I felt the opposite today."
DEVRIES, WORKING particularly slowly because of scar tissue left over from earlier coronary bypass surgery, first removed the two main pump chambers of Schroeder's own enlarged, diseased heart. Then the surgeon installed the artificial heart and disconnected the heart-lung bypass machine during maintained circulation throughout the operation.
surroeder, a former munitions inspector
See HEART, p. 5, col. 1
geron Nieder, 2 son of Sheri and Mike Nieder, 761 Grant St., plays peek-a-boo behind an evergreen tree while shopping for a Christmas树 with his parents at a lot operated by the Breakfast Optimist Club, a local non profit organization. The lot is adjacent to Kroger Super Store, 23rd Street and Naismith Drive.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Evergreens await tinsel trims
People buy trees in spirit of season
By ERIKA BLACKSHER Staff Reporter
Filled high on parking lots around Law-
rence, they wait.
Tall ones, short ones, bushy ones and
scrawny ones wait for buyers to give their
recommendations.
The lucky ones — those that pass inspection in the ranks of green will be
MONDAY MORNING
taken to cozy living rooms and adorned with strung popcorn and tinsel.
For many people, buying a Christmas tree is the first step in preparing for the holiday season. But the tree-picking process can be lengthy and difficult for choosy shoppers.
Here they know what I mean,
"I DON'T LIKE STRINGY trees," she said, as she pointed to the bushy tree that she and her husband had just picked out.
Jeff and Terie Tevis, Lawrence residents
The couple left their little boy, Justin,
home with a babysitter. "He's going to have
enough fun pulling off the ornaments." Terie
Tevis said.
for the past seven years, picked out one of the biggest trees yesterday on the parking lot adjacent to Kroger Super Store on 23rd Street, where trees are being sold by the Breakfast Optimist Club.
To make sure their tree stays fresh, the Tevies said they would recut the bottom of the tree and keep it well-watered.
Don Sheriff, past governor for the Breakfast Optimist Club and a volunteer worker for the Christmas tree sale, said that the club would sell the sale the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
The Breakfast Optimist Club, a non-profit civic organization, has 1,290 trees ranging in price from $10 to $32. The money will be donated to organizations such as the Boys
"YOU DON'T USUALLY BE busy until the first snow and then everybody gets in the Christmas spirit. Sherif said he was a "trailer stationed on the lot for the volunteer workers."
Club of Lawrence and Boy Scouts of America
Sheriff said business had been steadily since the lot opened Saturday despite the lack of the holiday season's traditional companion — snow.
Trees also are available at a lot in the Hillcrest Shopping Center at Ninth and Iowa streets, and at some greenhouses and nurseries.
Shoppers like Carol Brown, a Lawrence resident for seven years and part-time KU student, braved the wind to find the perfect tree.
SHE STUDIED TWO trees, one being held up by a young volunteer worker, and decided on the taller one. "This one is too squaty," she said. "It's better to give good shape and the branches go up evenly."
She usually doesn't put up a tree until the first week of December, but watching the Plaza lights go on in Kansas City. Mo., this year prompted her early Christmas spirit.
"They really put you into the spirit," she said.