New crew
KU football players are taking their cues this season from several new coaches on Mike Gottfried's staff, but Gottfried isn't brooding over the turnover rate. Losing some
assistants is just the price of success when a coach has built a good staff, he says, and he can often go to his friends in the business to find replacements. See page 16.
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 4 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday, August 29, 1984
KUAC report says changes necessary
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board called yesterday for broad changes in athletic department policy, including methods to improve athletes' academic performance.
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
The report highlights weaknesses in the academic support program for athletes, saying, "The present academic support program for student athletes is perceived to be inadequate relative to need."
After a year of study, the board's long-range planning committee released a report that cited several problem areas and offered solutions to these problems.
The plan's solution was to recruit athletes with sound academic backgrounds and improve the academic support system for those who need it.
DEL BRINKMAN, FORMER KUAC chairman and dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, said "If you recruit athletes who are marginal students, then you have to step up the support services."
"The current status of the KU athletic program is mixed." the report said.
four players on the KU football team are academically inelegible for this season.
"The low academic standing of many athletes in revenue sports is, given their relative visibility, a source of some public and intra-university apprehension in light of the University's educational mission," the report said.
The plan calls for the University and the athletic department to more closely monitor the academic progress of athletes and to offer more effective counseling.
The plan also said that the athletic department relied too heavily on private contributions, which account for 33 percent of the department's financing.
THE PROGRAM WOULD be in a lot of trouble without private support, but it's carrying too great of a percentage," said Anthony Redwood, director of the Institute of Economic & Business Research and professor who was elected KUAC chairman yesterday.
Although the plan sought to reduce the percentage of private contributions, it made increasing the overall athletic department budget a high priority. Without more money, the report said, making KU teams competitive is impossible.
To help boost the budget, the plan calls for increased student and faculty financial support. The committee suggested a drive to increase ticket sales to students and faculty as well as raising students' activity fees.
The report also said the athletic department had an image problem among students and faculty members.
"To many within and without the University, the Athletic Department appears to be run apart from, rather than as a part of the school, and tends to the lack of support, the report said.
THE REPORT PLACES part of the blame for lack of University support on suspicions about the athletic department's intentions and goals "because of recent NCAA sain
The University was placed on a one year probation last November for football recruiting violations.
The report said the lack of support was manifested by the low number of student tickets purchased, especially for football.
"In 1973, 50 percent of the student body purchased football tickets; since then, student football ticket sales have declined every year," the report said. "In 1983, only 22 percent of the students purchased football tickets."
Improving competitiveness in individual
See KUAC, p. 5, col. 1
Police sources say 25 dead after Israeli raid
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — the second Israeli air raid on Lebanon in two weeks flattened a three-story jail in the Bekaa Valley, trapping 70 people under the rubble and killing 25 others, police sources said.
The raid on a suspected Palestinian guerrilla base in eastern Lebanon yesterday came hours after gunmen fought heavy street battles in Beirut and Tripoli.
State-run Beirut radio said the Israeli attack killed more than 15 people and wounded 25. But police sources said 25 were killed in the village of Rawdah, where four people died in the last Israeli raid on Lebanon Aug. 16.
"Iraeli warplanes this afternoon attacked a terrorist base in the area near the town of Madel Anjar," said an Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv. "All our planes returned safely to base and pilots reported good hits."
THE DEAD WERE caught in the rubble of a three-story jail operated by Col Abu Moussa's dissident faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, security sources said.
Bulldozers were used to help remove 70 others who were trapped under debris in the jail and those badly wounded were flown by helicopters to Syrian hospitals.
Witnesses said Syrian and Palestinian anti-aircraft guns fired on the Israeli
aircraft during the 2-3 minute air strike but there were no reports of any aircraft being hit.
"Syrian and Palestinian forces have cordoned off the area. The raid was brief but the attacking planes were confronted with heavy anti-aircraft fire from the ground," a witness said.
Gunmen in mostly Muslim west Beirut battled for four hours after militiamen from the Shite Muslim Amal movement raided a gambling den run by the Sunni Muslim Mourabitah group and the owner was killed, security sources said.
Units of the Lebanese army brought the fighting under control and Amal militia leader Nabih Herri, who is also a government minister, later said his men would try to avoid fire-fights with the Mourabiatun
In northern Lebanon, artillery pounded the port city of Tripoli two hours after clashes between rival Muslim militias in the city killed at least seven people and wounded eight others.
"IT'S THE WORST I've ever seen here," said a spokesman for the security forces. "It started very suddenly and it is very strong."
Last week, rival gunners of pro-Syrian and anti-Syrian militias, vying for control of Lebanon's second largest city, shelled Tripoli for three days, killing more than 100 people and wounding 300.
The shelling, which shattered a cease-fire called earlier in the day, died down after about two hours.
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Todd Hobanson, Overland Park senior, and Allison Bassett, drop-add line yesterday in Strong Hall. Bassett and others in Wichita sophomore, rest against a wall as they wait in the the line found the drop-add cards doubled nicely as fans.
KU enrollment may break record
By CHRISSY CLEARV
Staff Reporter
Fall classes at the University of Kansas opened Monday with 24,558 students enrolled — 215 more students than were enrolled last fall — possibly a record-breaking number for the semester. KU officials said yesterday.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said KU officials would not know whether this fall's enrollment would be a record-breaker until final statistics are compiled Sept. 21, the 20th day of classes.
"Right now things look like they're going in that direction," Thompson said "But we won't know until the 20th day of classes."
The first-day count includes enrollment at the main campus in Lawrence and the College of Health Sciences campus in Kansas City, Kan. It also includes off-campus activities in Wichita, Kan., and in Kansas City, Kan. and the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita.
YESTERDAY'S COUNT REPORTED that 21,148 students were enrolled at the Lawrence campus, compared with 21,113 students last fall.
At the College of Health Sciences, 2.254 students were enrolled, compared with 2.272 last fall
Off camp, 1,156 students were enrolled,
compared with 958 last fail.
In a prepared statement, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said KU would be one of few large universities to experience enrollment growth this fall.
"Iincreased enrollments in this day and age represent a significant vote of confidence in the academic program." Budig said. "The brightest students are gravitating to those colleges and universities that offer an intellectual and professional edge. KU is such an institution."
BUDIG SAID THAT KU's continued strong enrollment was due to a rigorous academic program, the "best and brightest faculty" and reasonable tuition costs.
and reasonable caution. The KU budget is computed by using 20th-day enrollment statistics. Those statistics help determine full-time equivalent enrollment, the figures that determine the budget.
For undergraduates, full-time equivalent enrollment is computed by dividing the total number of credit hours undergraduates are
taking by 15 — the number of hours
considered to be normal for undergraduate
For graduate students, full-time equivalent enrollment is computed by dividing the total number of credit hours graduate students are taking by nine, the hour load considered to be normal for graduate students.
The total number of hours law students are taking is divided by 12, which is considered to be the normal load for those students.
FIGURES FOR UNDERGRADUATE,
graduate and law school students are added to determine full-time equivalent enrollment.
Thompson said the increase in enrollment on the Lawrence campus did not cause the long lines at the Strong Hall enrollment center during late enrollment Thursday and Friday. Enrollment center workers worked an extra five hours Thursday because of the backup.
"What happened Thursday was a disproportionate number of people enrolled compared to the same day last year." Thompson said.
See ENROLL, p. 5, col. 3
Shuttle launch delayed until tomorrow
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL FLA. — Sbble problems with an "improved" computer program for the first launch of the shuttle Discovery last night forced a delay until tomorrow for the new spaceship's orbital debut.
"We felt it would be prudent to let us study the data another 24 hours before we decided to launch," said Jesse Moore, NASA associate administrator for space flight.
"I think it was prudent, and given that the weather holds, I'm confident we're going to go Thursday morning."
go Thursday but back
Discovery had been scheduled to blast off at 8:35 a.m. EDT today on a mission to launch three communications satellites insured for nearly a quarter of a billion dollars.
Discovery and its six-member crew were to spend six days in orbit before gliding to a high-speed touchdown on a dry lakebed landing strip at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
BUT MOORE SAID tests of a similar software package for the shuttle's next mission in November led to questions about the programs loaded aboard Discovery for its first mission.
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The software is an improved version of earlier editions and is designed to precisely time when the shuttle's solid rockets ignite. It also controls when the spent rockets are kicked away from the climbing orbiter and the separation of the huge external fuel tank when it is empty.
where it is empty.
Engineers were concerned yesterday that the timing might be off under the most adverse circumstances.
adverse circuits," "the circuits that we're talking about are primarily in the orbiter and they're the most critical circuits in the orbiter," said Arnold Aldrich, Johnson Space Center shuttle projects manager.
MOORE SAID THE 24-hour delay was needed to make sure the computer program “patch” to get around the timing problem would work properly. The changes will add 350 millionths of a second to timing margins, more than doubling the safety factor to
ensure that critical functions will occur in the proper sequence.
Commander Henry Hartsfield, co-pilot Michael Coats and crew members Judy Resnik, the second American woman to get a shuttle ride, KU alumnus Steven Hawley, Richard Mullane and Charles Walker were told late yesterday the flight was postponed.
Moore said the astronauts were disappointed but agreed the delay was needed to fully solve the problems.
The astronauts face an ambitious mission once their flight gets off the ground.
THEIR FIRST MAJOR chore will be to launch SBS 4, a communications satellite owned by Satellite Business Systems that relies on a commercially developed solid rocket booster blamed for the loss of two satellites in February.
Discovery's primary payload is made up of what was to have been flown on the shuttle's first two missions.
But the second flight, also scheduled for Aug 29, was canceled after the shuttle's
See SHUTTLE, p. 5, col. 1
KU junior awaits permission to study in Poland
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
Paul Septykyi's hopes of visiting Poland are heightened one day and dashed the next.
anything else.
Szeptycki had applied in the spring semester to participate in a one-year academic exchange program between the University of Kansas and the University of Warsaw in Poland.
are tugging on me.
"I am right now very emotionally strung out," Szeptky, Lawrence junior, said yesterday. "I'm just sick and tired of waiting to hear anything. I don't know how I feel about anything anymore."
Warsaw in Poland.
He was accepted then for the program. He
does not know whether his months of anticipation have been in vain, he said.
the ministry of education in Poland refused to extend an official invitation for Septycki to study at the University of Warsaw, he said. KU officials received that information by telegram about two weeks ago.
ONE KU PROFESSOR involved with the exchange program said she was unsure of the refusal's implications.
"We're still negotiating," said Jadwiga Maurer, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, and Soviet and East European studies. "We don't know where we stand."
Sseptyki said, "I was more than expecting them to welcome me with open arms. These exchanges are more valuable to them than they are to us."
Members of a KU Polish studies committee
More concrete details about Szepytki's plight might be available when KU officials speak with a professor from Poland participating in the program, she said. The professor arrived from Montreal yesterday.
will meet tomorrow to discuss the situation, Mauer said.
However, for the past month, Szepczyki's participation in the exchange program, which KU has been a part of for about 14 years, has been riddled with question marks.
ABOUT FOUR WEEKS ago, a request for Skepvtyl's visa was denied. But a week
later, after KU officials replied by telegram,
Szepczyk got his visa.
"All of these procedures are supposed to be routine," Szeptycki said.
Then about two weeks ago, the Polish ministry of education issued its refusal to give Szepytcki an official invitation to study in Poland.
explanation of the
Pozorski added that occasional "hitches
David Pozorski, Polish desk officer at the U.S. State Department, said that Szeptycki's circumstances were odd.
"It's unusual. Usually the matter of the visa wraps up matters." Pozerski said. "It seems very strange. There's no obvious explanation to me."
and snugs" were encountered in academic exchange programs with Poland.
MEANWHILE, PUZZLING COMPLICATIONS are preventing Szeptyk from attending school in the land of his ancestors His parents were born in Poland. His mother, Teresa, left the country during World War II His father, Pawel, a KU mathematics professor, left Poland in 1958
"My family is Polish," said the 19-year-old Szepytki. "I want to learn to speak Polish. I have a lot of relatives there."
This trip would be his second visit to Poland. Four years ago he traveled there with his family, he said.
"I learned to love the place," he said.