By PAM CLARK
Women athletes learn to juggle sports and classes
Sports Writer
Women's intercollegiate athletics programs are moving toward the "big time" and many observers fear that the
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women are now beginning to learn the same hard lesson their male counterparts have learned: studies and big-time sports mix as well as oil and water.
When there was little or no scholarship money available for women athletes, athletic participation was just one facet of their education.
But now, more women are being "paid" to play college sports. According to Sandy Bahan, academic coordinator in the College of Arts and Sciences program at the University of Kansas had
$120,000 for scholarships in 1979-80. That total is up from $68,000 last year.
As women's programs continue to expand a swirl of spirit, we will be watching the changes in sports and athletics growth of education with a athletics will mean that education will again take a back seat to
WASHINGTON SAID athletics played a very important role in the educational process
Marian Washington, women's basketball
coach and former director of women's
athletics for the University of
conferencelike Athletics for Women has
always placed a high emphasis on education
and sports.
"Athletes acquire many qualities that the business world looks for—leadership, teamwork, independence and self-confidence," she said.
The person in charge of helping KU's female athletes cope with the difficult task of balancing classes and sports is Bahan.
Bahan helps the athletes make out a schedule that will serve their needs in both areas.
"My primary responsibility is to make sure the girls are enrolled in enough hours to be fully prepared. I have always supposed to help them maintain their grade point averages and make normal progress."
"It is our goal, along with the men, to insure that all of the girls graduate."
Bahan bakes the athletes an information sheet to give to their teachers. It includes a
However, it is the student's responsibility to tell the teacher before each scheduled appointment, and arrange to make up what she missed. Bahan also must keep up with the teacher.
copy of their schedule so the teacher will have some idea when the student will miss class.
"The AIAW won't let us make any tougher on the women than it is on the men." The effect of this effect had to lower our eligibility requirements to comply with the National Anti-Sexism Law.
ALK. BU athletes must be enrolled in at least 8 U.S. colleges and hours the previous semester, from sports season to sports season, must pass at least 24 hours. FNE needm at G.1.6, of least 24 hours.
Before the merger, women athletes needed a 2.0 GPA to be eligible. Baker said.
Budgeting the time well seems to be the key to balancing the scales. Most athletes mention the make-up work they must do of missed classes as a major problem.
Rose Rader, a junior on the KU softball team, said she had missed several tests because of rames.
"I have to make up tests during a time that doesn't conflict with softball or another class." Rader said. "When that happens I 1 get pulled and usually end up pulling all nighthoppers."
Louise French, a sophomore who played on the softball team last year, said she often wished the team had spent less time practicing and more time studying.
"WE ONLY HAVE so much energy," French said. "But the sacrifices needed are
something that you have to accept. You know beforehand that you have to put in so much time."
For the most part, KU instructors have been very cooperative with the athletic department, Bahan said.
"You have some instructors who don't like athletes, won't give them a break and are less understanding with them than other students," she said.
"Then you have some teachers who are very careful to treat everyone alike. They are not unreasonable with the kids.
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"And we have some really super-good teachers who are very cooperative, especially some speech teachers. They are genuinely concerned.
When we passed out the information sheets last year, one of the speech teachers
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Proposed bill could open records
Staff reporter
By TONI WOOD
The snarled path leading to public records might be made clearer during the 1980 state legislative session, according to State Rep. John Solbach-D lAwrence.
As a member of the Federal and State Interm Interm Intern Committee of the Kansas Legislature, I preliminary bill this summer that declares all public records, unless exempted by law.
"The trick is to balance the public's right to know with the individual's right to privacy." Solbach said Tuesday.
Current state law makes available only those public records that are required by law to be kept. The proposed bill would be a requirement of the public access to more records.
The bill states that the "custodian" of the public records would have the burden of keeping those records available for public made available. It also states that if a case involving public records is to be tried, it will take precedence over all other court cases. The Bill's final word is Wichita Eagle-Beacon, said yesterday.
David Marritt Jr., executive editor of the Wichita Eagle-Ebeacon, said yesterday, "The new bill changes the whole atmosphere on the open records law.
"It TAKES the presumption that all records are open, which is something we don't have now."
Merritt was one of several journalists who testified to the conference on June 28 and 29, when he was accused of blocking all levels must understand that everything the government does, it does at the behest
people's money. This contract implies that the public must be able to oversee how well or poorly its partner—government is—perform, and the present law interferes with that process.
Mike Kautsch, assistant professor of journalism, also testified at the June committee hearings. He said, "Honors are given to the making of tax money that have a great impact."
"NEWS REPORTERS see the door swine shut when they try to background government decisions on zoning, land use, highway construction and the like."
"Citizen groups seeking to assess the efficiency of government bureaucracies despair of setting the data they need.
"And, most importantly perhaps, with the
W. Robert Alderson, first deputy attorney general, told the committee, "As the laws are currently interpreted, the so-called
Merritt said the fire marshal had no basis for his denial, but had relied on his predecessor's opinion that the inspection records were not public.
on example, one reporter was denied access to records on fire inspections of city buildings. The fire marshal told the reporter that the records were not public.
Merritt said yesterday the Eagle-Bacon reporters had faced many difficulties obtaining public records that state laws entitled them to have.
`'open records act' could more properly be labeled a 'closed records act.' ``
Arraignment set for Norwood murder suspect
RECORDS ALSO were denied to the editor and publisher of the Hays Daily News, John Lee.
A co-defendant in the 1977 trial for the murder of Sam Norwood was bound over for trial after a preliminary hearing yesterday at the Bremen Superior Court by Associated District Judge Mike Ewell.
Lee said he asked the local school board for certain public documents, but the school
By MARK SPENCER
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During the 34-hour hearing, Terry Aery, 21, Denver, testified that she had been with Moore and a second man, Lee Harris, on the day of the murder. She testified that they
Staff Reporter
Norwood, who was manager of the F.W. Woolworth Co. store, 911 Massachusetts St., was found dead on November 28, 1977, at his home in Oakland. Trains at the end of New York Street.
If Moore enters a plea of not guilty at the
arrangement a trial date will be set
Harris, also of Denver, faced a preliminary hearing January 14th, 1979. He was charged with conspiracy to guilty to first degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison and is now in prison for the first conviction. He had fought extradition from Colorado, has been held without bond in the Douglas County Jail.
Responding to questions from District Attorney Mike Malone, Avery, who was the former director of the FBI in Denver with Moore and Harris on November 27, 1977. When they arrived in Colorado, they were surprised.
staked out the Woolworth's store, and abducted Norwood in a robbery attempt. Norwood was then driven to another town, where he was ordered to retell of the car and knee.
"I COULD SEE the manager's feet, then all of a sudden they started shooting, then got into the car real fast," she said.
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That evening, Harris asked Moore to show him the "store," she said, and Moore drove them to the Woolworth's store. The next month, he bought a new apartment and shipped downtown, she testified.
The second time she returned to the car, she testified, she saw Moore sitting in the back seat of the car with a gun in his hand. Harris, who had left the car and was standing by the store's exit door, walked up to the car and forced him into the back seat of the car.
AFTER RETURNING to the motel, the group drove back to the store and parked in the lot in back, she testified. Avery said she was shocked by how many people remained in the building.
at the College Motel, 1703 W. 6th St., under false names.
After discovering that they could not rob the store, Avery testified, to drive to various points in Lawrence and eventually to an area that she said was across some
Avery testified yesterday that the vehicle they had been driving was a four-door brown and beige car. Berkowitz produced an earlier statement to Colorado
David Berkowitz, Moore's attorney,
focused his cross examination on in-
consistencies between Avery's testimony
and that of his lawyer, who she gave
police after the murder occurred.
railroad tracks near some warehouses, bushes and rushing water, which she could hear. She said she then heard the shots there.
"THE MANAGER was saying he didn't want any trouble, he just wanted to go home because it was his little boy's birthday," she said.
After leaving the area, she said they drove to Kansas City where they purchased bus tickets to California. Avery later returned to Denver, where she eventually turned up.
Discrimination to be discussed
By DAVID LEWIS
ByDAVID LEWIS Staff Reporter
The Committee to Reduce Sex and Race Risk: Stakeholder at the University of Kansas will convene a group of faculty members, could meet as early as next week to discuss the implementation of the program.
The committee, formed in 1978, made recommendations aimed at "eliminating both personal and institutional forms of racism and sexism at the University of
In their Aug. 31 meeting, the University Senate executive committee, because of a request by administrators, delayed action on the recommendations until they receive a
James O'Neill, assistant director of the KU counseling center, is chairman of the committee.
The committee, appointed by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, will focus on 15 recommendations that call for a graduate and undergraduate programs.
INCLUDED IN THE recommendations are requests to evaluate recruitment methods, tutorial services, academic programs, and staff training of students by race and sex in each school.
Evelyn Swartz, professor of instruction and curriculum, was appointed Aug. 31 to represent SenEx at the committee's meetings.
The committee must determine if the recommendations are necessary, she said.
Swartz said yesterday the committee would discuss the recommendations and determine what future steps might be taken. The committee must determine if the
"We need to see what Affirmative Action should and can do." Swartz said. "I dislike seeing the proliferation of committees when we develop an affirmative Action office."
Pat Henry, acting assistant director of Affirmative Action, said the office's job was to change behavior and attitudes.
"WOMEN ARE being subly
grade school on. For example, the general
recruitment to get students to come here
shows live women walking around the
school."
Henry said many of these discriminations had been worked out at the undergraduate level.
"A woman can be channelled into the liberal arts area, like speech communication, rather than exploring sciences."
The Office of Student Affairs is cautious about blatantly discriminatory questions on KU application forms, she said.
The 15 recommendations are:
SWART2 SAID Student Affairs and various offices could help Affirmative Action carry out the recommendations.
Henry said Affirmative Action could not handle the job of eliminating discrimination by itself.
Swartz said a review of all academic coursework was an example of an unmanageable recommendation.
"Ethically, we must look at these recommendations," she said. "Some of them are unmanageable. Some of them are too complicated and women for certain fields is obvious."
"We have a fairly limited staff," she said.
"I don't know if we have the staff or the funding to carry out a laundry list of recommendations included in the report."
"We need to find out if the recom mandates were based on data," she said.
"Part of the report is worded poorly. Many could not comprehend what was going on."
- To review how each graduate department recruits and admits students.
- To provide an annual report of the total number of students in graduate programs, by sex, race, and age.
- To assess how each department provides remedial services for those
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Oil discoveries up, but production drops
Staff Reporter
By JEFF SJERVEN Staff Reporter
Crude oil production in Kansas continues to dwindle despite skov琢 pricing that has already driven up oil drilling for oil and natural gas, Shirley Paul, research assistant for the Kansas Department of Agriculture.
Paul conducted a study on oil production in Kansas, using statistics from the American Petroleum Institute and the Kansas Corporation Commission. Her conclusions appeared in the August issue of Petroleum Geologists.
Paul said that although oil and gas discoveries had increased 27 percent in 1978, crude oil production had fallen by 1.6 percent. This decrease, however, is the smallest in several years. Also, production of natural gas increased 4.3 percent, she said.
Kansas oil production, Paul said, has steadily decreased in recent years, because easily obtained reserves have been deleted.
"So even though we have more wells in Kansas now, it takes more wells to maintain the production we had in the past."
Kansas oil producers have decided to shut down some wells, she said, because of the increased expenses in extracting oil.
"If your electricity bill for running a well is greater than your profit," she said, "that will shut your operation quickly."
"Kansas is a very mature production area," Paul said. "We hit our production peak in 1956 and we've declined steadily ever since."
However, r she said that rapidly increasing prices of imported oil had slowed the decline in Kansas oil production by increasing the profitability of marginal wells.
"PRICES for Kansas oil are very responsive to the prices for imported oil."<sup>[1]</sup> The oil prices are organized by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries approaches $4 a barrel; the price varies by location.
Price increases for Kansas crude can be attributed to the removal of price cottings on oil, a finding Paul said. As imported oil becomes more expensive, competitive forces that hold down prices may exacerbate it.
Despite cuts in production, Paul said, Kansas still is ranked eightth in the United States in oil production and third in the country in drilling.
Kansas crude oil production in 1978 was 56,586,111 barrels, or about 2 percent of all oil produced in the United States, she said.
PAUL ALSO said 77 percent of oil produced in Kansas came from the state's 42,373 stripper wells, which are wells that produce less than 10 barrels a day.
Although it is overshadowed by the state's agriculture industry, oil production in Kansas plays a significant role in the state's economy. Zarley said.
Zarley said crude oil production yielded $734 million in 1978.