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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 54 (USPS 650-640)
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Player
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Two football players arguments at a hearing to that the College of Liber Sciences interpreted satisfactory progress rigors give them any chance of ble to play this season, or show.
According to document tailback Lynn Will linebacker Diane Griffin County District Court or the players also say that lege decided how it was judged and wrong criteria to dete- status.
The court document
players' response to the
motion for dismissal of U
on Oct. 8. The Universi-
for a change of venue for
a case by B. Douglas County.
The players had filed the University Sept. 1 were declared ineligible plying with the satisfact rule.
The National College Association established
Offici
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Faced with a Michigan prohibits the men's play by playing a game with Louisville unless it all the University of Detre play neither, an Athletic said yesterday.
Gary Hunter, assist said no final decision he Athletic Department & ploring their options.
"However, it appear playing either Detroit
StudE
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Student Senate elec as scheduled. The Student Sen Committee last night same Senate seat di rejected last week. See related story
David Day, Elect
StudEx rejected the first time numbers were based in University school rather than on the o enrollment figures they used, Tony Arnol StudEx, said last night. The 20th-day figure official enrollment of They are used in figu- sity's budget.
Prof denounces choice of Tacha for court judge
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
The attorney of Myra Hinman,
associate professor of English for 25
years, sent a letter by express mail
to the editor of The Journal of R.S.C.
R.S.C., chairman of the committee.
A KU associate professor of English opposed the nomination of Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs; as judge for the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in a letter mailed yesterday to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Tacha was nominated for the position Oct. 30 by President Reagan. If confirmed by the Senate, she will be the second woman in history to be appointed to the 10th circuit bench.
The letter, written by Hinman's attorney, Fred W. Phelps Jr., Topeka.
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Phelps said that Hinman filed a sex discrimination suit against the University of Kansas and some faculty members in the late 1970s, before Tacha was appointed vice chancellor in 1881. The lawsuit, which is pending in the S. District Court in Topeka, criticized the suit's inclusion promotion, recruiting and tenure deficiencies for women and other minorities.
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Hinman said Tacha wasn't upholding an agreement signed by the University with the U.S. Department of Labor in 1982 that emphasized equal employment opportunities at KU.
Phelps said Tacha hires few minorities and underpays the ones who already work at the University.
"Myra feels that Deanell Tacha has been a full-time employee who
Pursuit of the trivial is multimillion dollar business
United Press International
NEW YORK — Even rabid players of Trivial Pursuit are not likely to know the name of the first French whisky or how many mailboxes there are at the Tokyo Disneyland
They would have to travel to France and Japan to find versions of the game that explain the first French whiskey was called Binou and there are 10 mailboxes in Japan's Magic Kingdom.
That's because the trivia in Trivial Pursuit, which has sold a whopping 35 million copies since its introduc-
four years ago in Canada, are
changed for each new country
it enters, although everything
else about it remains the same.
Trivial Pursuit's manufacturers, Horn Abbot Ltd, hire journalists who hastily leaf through reference books to find regional trivia, preferably facts that have a humorous twist to them.
In Australia, where Trivial Pursuit has sold more quickly than in any other country in the world, game players are asked where a Vietnamese sticks his dong. The answer: "In the bank."
In the British edition, one card asks what the operator at Buckingham Palace says to the queen when her mother telephone her. The answer is — no kidding — "Your majesty, your majesty, your majesty."
Chris Haney, 38, one of the three Canadians who created the game, said Trivial Pursuit is, or will soon be, available in 28 countries, including China, where all the questions are approved by the Communist Party.
Sometimes the humor is decidedly dark. A question in the Japanese set asks about the success rate of kamikaze pilots during World War II.
The game, which is called Trivial Pursuit in every market except for Quebec (where it is known as Quelques Arpent de Pègle), is the first Western game to be sold in China, he said.
Although the profit margin is slim in most communist countries, Haney said he and his partners wanted to sell the game in the Soviet Union "more than any other country, as a point of principle."
"We want to be truly worldwide and we won't be until we get into the
East bloc," he said. "We want to do it for the fun of it."
In the meantime, he is enjoying the millions he has made from Trivial Pursuit and exploring new ways to make millions more, such as Trivial Pursuit calendars, towels, stationery and other merchandise.
He's also learning on telling the story of how he, his brother John, and Scott Abbott created the game and their company. Horn Abbot, in an MTV movie to be called "Horsesmothers. The Trivial Purse Story."
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