SINCE 1889
One thing missing
Season records of KU, Mizzou dampen rivalry this season. See page 13.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, NOV. 22,1985,VOL. 96,NO. 65 (USPS 650-640)
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Campus has Common Sense
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Common Sense Coalition's presidential and vice presidential candidates grabbed the biggest victory in Student Senate elections history as two days of voting ended last night.
David Epstein and Amy Brown were elected student body president and vice president by 1,109 votes. They received 1,601 votes, or 76.5 percent of the ballots cast, according to unofficial results.
Their opponents, Milton Scott and Ruth Lichtwardt of the Chrysalis Coalition, received 492 votes.
Results are unofficial until the Senate Elections Committee audits campaign spending.
Common Sense candidates also won 44 of 58 open Senate seats. Chrysalis candidates took five seats, independents won two and seven seats are unfilled. Some of the unfilled seats will be filled after write-in candidates are confirmed and ties resolved.
Fifteen minutes later, there was no 'probable' about it.
For Common Sense members, news of the landslide came at 8:45 p.m. when the phone rang at Phi Delta Theta fraternity, 1621 Edgehill Road, and an unofficial source proclaimed a "probable landslide."
A house full of Common Sense senators and supporters chanted "Common Sense! Common Sense!" after a phone call from the ballot counting headquarters at the Burge
President/vice president
RESULTS:
Common Sense 1,601
David Epstein, pres
Amel Robyn, a.p.
Chrysalis 492
Milton Scott, pres.
Ruth Lichwardt, v.p.
Senate seats
■ Common Sense 44
■ Chrysalis 5
■ Independents 2
■ Undecided/unfilled 7
Union sent corks flying.
Source, Student Senate Elections Committee
Common Sense senatorial candidates had to wait about an hour longer than Epstein and Brown before they knew whether to break out the champagne.
"I've been stressing out all day," said Stephanie Quincy, victorious candidate for a Nunemaker seat. "My roommate hates me."
But no Common Sense candidate waited for results of individual races to start celebrating. They all celebrated with Epstein and Brown.
John Lechliter/KANSAN
"I'm just so damned happy!" yelled Martie Aaron, even before she found out that she had won a liberal arts and sciences seat. Beer and champagne doused the candidates and soaked the floor soon after the first calls came in.
See WINNERS, p. 6, col. 1
Complete elections coverage, p. 6
Chrysalis candidates intend to stay active in campus politics.
David Epstein and Amy Brown, new student body president and vice president, clasped hands after learning that their coalition, Common Sense, won in a landslide. Their victory party last night was at Phi Delta Theta fraternity. 1621 Edgehill Road.
- Chrysalis candidates intend to stay active in campus politics.
- Winners, losers and vote totals of 51 Senate seats listed.
- Write in, ties have been seven Senate seats temporarily vacant.
Write-ups, we keep seven Senate seats temporarily vacant
Wednesday's polling problems weren't repeated yesterday.
Students support Epstein, Brown at all six polling places.
8. 5 percent turnout ties Student Senate record for lowest.
Request to dismiss players' suit denied
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
OLATHE — The University' motion for dismissal of a lawsuit filed-by two football players was denied yesterday by a Johnson County district judge, leaving the suit unresolved a day before the season's last football game.
Because tomorrow's game against the University of Missouri is the last season, it is uncertain whether tailback Lynn Williams and linebacker Dane Griffin will continue their suit against the University.
The suit alleges that the players were academically misadvised, which led to their being declared ineligible.
Lynn Williams said after practice yesterday that he planned to continue the suit but that he might change his mind over the weekend. An injunction issued Sept. 27 has allowed Williams and Griffin to practice and play in games at the discretion of head football coach Mike Gottfried.
The two players were declared academically ineligible Sept. 12 for failing to make satisfactory progress toward a degree.
Ed Collister, Griffin's attorney,
was not sure what action the players
would take. He and J. Stewart
McWilliams, Williams' attorney,
will have to make a decision whether to
continue the suit, he said.
Johnson County District Judge Phillip J. Woodward denied the motion for dismissal, filed Oct. 8, by saying there were still unanswered questions in the players' suit.
"The thrust of the defendant's motion has missed the point of the lawsuit." Woodworth said.
Vickie Thomas, University general counsel, said, "We thought the motion was entirely appropriate and raised the appropriate issues of law."
Thomas has until Dec. 6 to file an answer to the players' allegations.
Rose Marino, associate general counsel, said in court that the general counsel had addressed the pure legal issues in the players' suit because the University thought the suit could be dismissed on those grounds.
"As of this Saturday, the case becomes moot, because there are no more games for the plaintiffs to participate in." Marino said. "That's why it's imperative for the court to
decide today or by Saturday whether to dismiss or not."
McWilliams called the last three hearings "futile" because he and Collister have had to travel to Olathe to argue the same motion.
the players have never said they had a constitutional right to play football, McWilliams said.
Marino said the players' lawyers were contending that the players had a constitutional right to play football because due process sprung directly from the Constitution.
Judgeship is delayed by senator
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
An objection yesterday by a Delaware senator over judicial appointment procedures has delayed for two weeks a vote on President Reagan's nomination of Deanell Tacha to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary was expected to vote yesterday on the appointment. The committee's vote is needed before Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, can be considered for final approval by the full Senate.
Brent Bahler, press secretary for Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., said yesterday that the delay was caused by a disagreement among Democrats and Republicans over the procedures used to review federal judge nominees. He said Sen. Joseph Biden Jr., D-Del., posted the objection.
"He asked that the vote be delayed for one week," Bahler said.
The delay, however, will amount to two weeks, Bahler said, because of Congress' Thanksgiving recess.
Bahler said several appointments besides Tacha's were delayed. He said any senator had the right to ask the committee to delay action.
"We understand that Sen. Biden has nothing against Mrs. Tacha," Bahler said. "She just happened to be in the right place at the wrong time."
Peter Smith, Biden's press secretary, also said that the senator's decision had nothing to do with Tacha. Instead, Smith said, the decision dealt with the time it took to review judicial nominees.
Smith said the committee had 90 judicial nominees under review. He said that in order to handle the large number of cases, the review time had been shortened.
"A review is now taking 24 days," he said. "In the past, before President Reagan was president, the average was 60 days."
Laurie Westly, chief counsel to Sen. Paul Simon, D.-III., said Biden's argument had been brought up about three months ago.
"The Democrats and the Republicans on the committee had for some time been trying to work out procedures that were workable for all of them," she said.
The problem, she said, finally was bad enough that both sides decided to stop and do something.
"Finally everyone put their foot down and said, 'No one is moving until we get this straightened out.' "
Gottfried will stay put despite hard times
Despite a season filled with frustrations on and off the field, KU head football coach Mike Gottfred says he has no intentions of coaching game," he said.
KANSAN file photo
By Jeff Cravens Special to the Kansan
"Some guy wrote that I was going to take the Memphis State job," Gottfred said recently. "That is the furthest thing from the truth. Their athletic director came here and asked me to help put together a package for a coach. I recommended Ray Dempsey, a good friend of mine."
KU players' academic problems during the past two seasons supposedly have been too much. And after tomorrow, the football team will lose 14 seniors, most of them key performers on a squad currently struggling with a 5-6 record. Then there is Gottfried's history of changing jobs.
Notre Dame, USC, Memphis State. Rumors have had Mike Gottfried coaching football at any of these universities next season.
The KU head football coach has heard the rumors. All he can do is shake his head.
Tomorrow's game against Missouri won't be his last on the sidelines in Memorial Stadium if he has anything to say about it.
But Gottfried has heard all the rumors before. Kansas is his third rebuilding job since he took over at Murray State in 1978, followed by the University of Cincinnati in 1981. His contract at KU runs through 1988, and he says he is not about to start a fourth job.
"I've been in three tough jobs, and they've taken their toll," Gottfried said. "To go to another college situation would not be in my best interests or the best interests of my family.
"When I first came here, I said that the only place I would go would be to the pros, and I
"When I first came here, I thought it would take five to seven years. I knew it would be a long job, and that's what I committed myself to.
still think that's where I'll end up. But I don't think that time has come yet."
Gottrud has had plenty of opportunities to leave. Missouri and Louisville called and wanted to know whether the "football fix-it man" would be interested in a job. He says he also has been offered two jobs as a professional assistant.
"I haven't applied for one job since I've been here." Gottfried said. "I think I'll be here to see Kansas go to a bowl game. I've got a long-term contract, and right now I'm thinking about recruiting and how close we were and being a little frustrated. But I know the job is going to get done."
He points out that those people always have come to him.
Gottfried thinks this way because he always has pushed himself to be a winner.
"He's a driver," said Gottfried's brother Joe, athletic director at the University of South Alabama. "If you beat him, he wants to come back and get you the next time. He's that way in everything he does."
Gottfried admits it.
"From the day I pitched my first ball game or shot my first basket or played my first football game, I felt like that was what you were supposed to do — you're supposed to win," he said. "I've always been competitive."
Gottfried is no different with his two daughters, Marcy, 13, and Mindy, 14. He often battles Marcy in a game of gin rummy.
"People say I ought to let her win, but I'm not going to do that," he said. "She's got to learn like everybody else that she has to play well to win. I'm not going to give her a win. If she beats me, then that bothers me."
It is that competitive spirit that thousands of people see in Gottfried on game days. They see him on the sidelines, berating officials, slamming his program to the artificial turf
See COACH, back page, col. 1