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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vof. 95, No.14 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, September 13, 1984
KU football loses six more players to academics
By BRENDA STOCKMAN
Staff Reporter
Six of seven football players temporarily declared academically ineligible last week will be ingible to play this season, the University of Kansas athletic department announced yesterday.
This brings the total number of ineligible football players to 10. Four players were declared academically ineligible in mid-August.
Until yesterday, the eligibility of the seven players was uncertain.
REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL other schools in the Big Eight Conference said their schools had two or fewer ineligible players this season.
Lonny Rose, assistant athletic director, said in a prepared statement. "We examined the academic records for these players and evaluated the status of any petitions they had filed. From this we determined that they would not be eligible this fall."
The six ineligible players are:
Darnell Williams, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore and linebacker. He was listed on the depth chart as a starter.
- Eldridge Avery, Carson, Calif., sophomore and defensive guard. He was listed on the second string
- *Dane Griffin, Lawrence junior and
lineman. He was listed on the second string.*
- Joe Masiani, Honolulu senior and defensive tackle. He was listed on the second seas
*Derek Berry, East St. Louis, Ill., sapmorthe and free safety. He was on board at the crash.*
John Brunet, Fremont, Calif., junior and quarterback will return to the roster this week. He is not listed on the depth chart
At practice last night, KU head football coach Mike Gottried said, "I'm not talking about it. It doesn't matter what you try and do." And he said that the team sounding right. I just want to concentrate or
one thing now, and that's the Florida State game on Saturday.
ANTHONY REDWOOD, CHAIRMAN of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporate Board and professor of business, said, "I think it's unfortunate that this is being sorted out so late and that it affected so many."
Athletic Director: Monte Johnson could not be reached for comment last night.
University and athletic department officials have struggled in recent years to improve the academic performance of the athletes.
In 1981, a special committee report on athletics and academics suggested changes that have transferred the monitoring, certification and advising of student athletes from the athletic department to the office of academic affairs.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS SAID then that they hoped the changes would improve the academic performance of athletes.
Three years later, however, the changes
have not yielded all that was expected, some KUAC board members said.
Redwood said, "There have been a lot of positive changes. It's unfortunate that the positive elements of those haven't born fruit.
"If all the steps are in the right direction,
the hell are we in this mess?" Redwood slopes
"I don't think we have this sort out anywhere near as well as it needs to be sorted out," said Redwood. "That's what we're going to do by hook or by crook this year."
Rose said that most of the uncertainty in determining the players' permanent eligibility resulted from delays in processing the naperwork required to certify the players.
The certification process begins when the athletic department sends the list of athletes to the office of admissions and records. After that, the athletic department and the
GIL DYCK, DEAN of educational services,
oversees the certification process. He said
that he did not know what caused the delay in
determining the eligibility of the athletes.
department of educational services work together to certify each student athlete.
To be eligible for intercollegiate competition, student athletes at KU must meet standards of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Big Eight. Dyck said.
A student must have a 1.6 grade point average if he has fewer than 60 credit hours. Dyck said. If a student has taken more than 60 credit hours he must have a 1.8 to be eligible. Each student must complete 24 credit hours during the year preceding the sports season.
ROSE SAID THAT some of the reasons for the current eligibility problems were under the control of the athletic department and that some of them were not.
"Clearly it is up to the student to complete the (class) work." Rose said, "but we have to be sure they're getting proper advice.
Word play translated
"It appeared in this instance that six of the players on the surface didn't do what they needed to, but were led to believe if they did a
KU students decipher campaign year jargon
See ATHLETE. p. 5, col. 1
Staff Reporter
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Students in Communication Studies 553. "The Rhetoric of Political Campaigns," say they now pay more attention to the race than before. Neither Mondale and President Ronald Reagan.
Students in a communications studies class at the University of Kansas are learning to penetrate the political word play of the 1984 film *Nightmare*. Students learn that devices as metapheta, repetition and humor
Wendi Shelton, Lawrence senior, said the class had made her more aware of each candidate's "speaking strategy."
"I WAS WATCHING the 30-minute Reagan commercial the other night," she said, "and I started laughing because I recognized several of the things we'd learned about in
"All candidates use language as their basic resource to win votes," she said. "They have to like to talk in order to be politicians."
Ellen Gold, an associate professor of communication studies who has taught the class since 1974, said voters had to be aware not only of what politicians say, but of how
The students taking the class represent a variety of political views, Gold said.
"The class is 40 percent Republican because we're in Kansas; it's 40 percent Democrat because we're at the University of Oklahoma," she said, whose coursees of the nature of the course," she said.
THE COURSE FOCUSES on speeches and debates dating back to 1960, with pays particular attention to this year's presidential election.
Students began the semester by reading speeches from this year's Democratic and Republican candidates.
Geoff Helley, St. Louis senior, said that studying texts of the acceptance speeches given at the nominating conventions had strengthened his support for Reagan.
"The class helps you look beyond what you
see on TV," he said. "Looking at the reprint of Mondale's speech in the Congressional Quarterly made me want to support the Reagan Bush ticket even more."
Students also will watch videotapes of the 1960 and 1880 presidential debates and read speeches by candidates ranging from Barry Goldwater to John Anderson.
DURING YESTERDAY'S CLASS, Gold passed around several editorial columns and cartoons, sparking a 20 minute discussion of this week's political rhetoric.
Class members interpreted the implications and hidden meanings of Mondale's defect reduction plan by the candidates recent performance in issue 2 and Reagan's 30-minute commercial.
The Reagan commercial. Gold said, is an excellent example of how a candidate can use technology.
"You see snaps of Reagan's acceptance speech at the convention, snaps of on the street interviews with Reagan supporters. You see pictures of Mr. Obama and Glenn America in the background," she said.
"It's a selective view, but it effectively reagan Reagan's campaign theme."
From a rhetorical perspective, this year's campaign is interesting. Gold said
After discussing current events, the class delved into a paragraph by-paragraph analysis of a speech John F. Kennedy gave to President Roosevelt in Ministerial Association in September 1990.
Rhetorical strategy depends on the context of the speech, Gold said. When Kennedy spoke to the group of ministers in Houston, he purposely downplayed his ties with the Roman Catholic Church and stressed that the campaign involved more important issues.
"REAGAN HAS CLEARLY communicated his vision of America to the people," she said. At the same time, Monday is a day of innovative strategies to get back in the race.
"It's important to understand the history of campaigns." Gold said. "The best information we have about how politicians work is by looking at past campaigns."
Mike Wolf, a sophomore on the KU tennis team, throws himself off balance to return a shot from Patrick McEnroe. John McEnroe's brother, Walt challenged McEnroe last night at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo., in front of the largest crowd in his career. Patrick McEnroe is a freshman at Stanford University. See story, p. 16.
Senate nips beer boycott, ends burger debate
Rv. 10HN HANNA
Staff Reporter
senators by a unanimous voice vote defeated a petition calling for the Union Memorial Board to stop buying Coors beer or Coors products because of remarks made in February by William K. Coors, chairman of the board of the company.
Plans for a boycott of the Adolph Coors Co. and a skirmish overburgers in the Kansas Union ended last night at the Student Senate's first meeting of the semester.
The vote followed an hour-long presentation of a report by Labile George, Richmond Heights. Mo. senior and David Epstein, a former member of the Minority Affairs Committee.
THE REPORT CAME from their trip on Aug. 30 to Coors' main plant in Golden, Colo. Coors invited the students after hearing of a possible boycott, and the company paid for the trip.
because they had made their feelings known to company officials.
Epstein and George said the trip was more effective than a boycott would have been
During the presentation, some senators questioned the credibility of an investigation from a trip that was paid for by Coors. But the senator, who allowed them to see the other side of the issue.
During the trip, George and Epstein met with Coors officials, employees and members of groups such as the National Organization of Women and B'nai B'rith. They also investigated the company's hiring and employee relations practices.
Epstein said, "He has learned the hard way. Now that the lesson has been learned, what is the point of a boycott? There is none."
"An outside boycott will never compare to an inside conversation." George said.
'AND GEORGE SAID.' 'I don't think my
friend was swayed by dinner or one night
aparture.
The Rocky Mountain News reported that during a speech in February, Coors said that blacks "lacked the intellectual capacity to succeed" and that African blacks were
"infectiously interior of American banks." Epstein and George said that Coors' choice of words was offensive but that they did not reflect the company as a whole.
"intellectually inferior" to American blacks
BUT EARLIER IN April, the Association of University Residence Halls, the hall government of five residence halls and the KU Panhellenic Association approved boy-
In April the Senate tabled the petition against Coors until after the trip The interfraternity Council also tabled a boycott proposal.
Hashinger Hall, one of the five residence halls to support a boycott, rescinded its decision last month because its government denied that he was involved, said Mark von Schlemmer, hall president.
James Jeffrey, president of AURH, said last night that he did not know how the Senate's action would affect the other boycotts.
Also last night, the Senate narrowly missed overruling a veto on a petition calling for the Union Memorial Board to include a
corporate-owned fast food franchise in its plans for renovation of the Union
TWENTY-THREE VOTES, or a two-thirds majority of the senators present, were necessary to override the veto by Carla Vogel, student body president, and Dennis "Bog" Highberger, student body vice president. The Senate voted 20-13.
Highberger and Russ Placek, Nunemaker senator and co-sponsor of the bill, agreed that the vote had accomplished nothing because the petition already had been passed on to the Union Memorial Board.
Senate rules require that a petition that is vetoed be placed on the agenda of the next
PTMCEK SAID. "ML that it does is that it allows Boog and Carla to make a political statement about their anti-capitalist feelings."
"I was just following the rules that were there when I took office." Highberger said. "I think all of the rules are silly, but I was offended by offend anyone by throwing the rules away."
Tapes offer alternative for students
Staff Reporter
By DAVID LASSITER
A novel idea for students and their Walkmats has just hit the KU campus.
"People could blast their cardrums with literature instead of music, said Andrea Bohm. "You can have a life of yourself."
The Oread Bookshop will begin selling cassette recordings of popular literature today, making it possible for students to tap into the required readings for some classes.
This is the first time the companies have started mass producing these kinds of tape.
"NOW COMMUTERS CAN do homework while traveling or walking to class." Furst said. "They can do other things while they listen to these tapes."
Martha Furst, trade buyer for the book shop, said that the tapes were being made for people who didn't want to sit down and read the book.
"They were produced before, but it was kind of a drag to get them," she said.
Metacam tapes include the complete work, Furst said. The Metacam tapes, which are 60 minutes long, will sell for $5.98. The Metacam collection will include such classics as "Moby Dick," "Jane Eyre," "The Grapes of Wrath," and "1984."
two companies, Metacam and Cliffs Cassettes, make the tapes. Cliffs Cassettes is a
Cliffs Cassettes also has condensed taped versions of popular literature.
"THEY ARE BASICALLY the same as Cliff's Notes, but there is no commentary included about the work." Furst said.
The bookshop carries 12 different Cliffs Cassettes, which include popular Shake speare plays such as "Hamlet" and "Macbeth." The 60-minute tails sell for $7.95.
Both collections of tapes are recorded by actors and include sound effects.
"Sounds like it might reduce the amount of imagination it takes to read a novel," denounces the author.
Other students had different ideas about the use of the tapes.
"I'm just the sort of person who feels that if you have your studies to do, you should study," said Lisa Schaefer, Green Bay, Wis. freshman.
"I've used Cliffs Notes before, but I'd rather read the book," Schaefer said.
John Seestrub, Wichita junior, said. "Think the tapes are a good idea for people who have to go back," he said.
"YOU COULD LISTEN to the tapes at the same time as you read the book. You'd be enhancing your ability to comprehend the book. It would be worth buying the tapes (or not)."
Jennifer Sparkman, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, didn't think the tapes would be a great convenience to students. She thought it would be just as easy to read the book.
Sparkman said, "I'd be willing to try it, though."
DeVarennes said, "It would take just as much attention to listen to the tape as it took to read."
If the tapes become popular. Furst said, the bookshop will continue to market them as they become available.
Cliffs Cassettes already has started to produce five more of the tapes, including "Crime and Punishment."