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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 54 (USPS 650-640)
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Two football players w arguments at a hearing to that the College of Liber Sciences interpreted t satisfactory progress rule give them any chance of able to play this season, co show.
According to document tailback Lynn Willi linebacker Dane Griffin I County District Court on the players also say that on lege decided how it was g terperpt the rule, the College wrong criteria to determ status.
The players had filed suit the University Sept. 19 if were declared ineligible for flying with the satisfactory rule.
The National Collegiate Association established the
The court documents players' response to the Umpotion for dismissal of the c on Oct. 8. The University for a change of venue at th asking that the case be m Douglas County.
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By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Faced with a Michigan j prohibits the men's basket playing a game with it Louisville unless it also p of the University of Detroit, play neither, an Athletic De said yesterday.
Gary Hunter, assistant said no final decision had b Athletic Department office ploring their options.
"However, it appears no playing either Detroit or I
StudEx
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Student Senate electio as scheduled.
The Student Senate Committee last night a same Senate seat dist rejected last week.
- See related story
Prof denounces choice of Tacha for court judge
StudEx rejected the tion the first time numbers were based. in University school rather than on the of enrollment figures that used, Tony Arnold StudEx, said last night.
The 20th-day figures official enrollment of it They are used in figur. sity's budget.
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
David Day, Electio
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.
The attorney of Myra Hinman,
associate professor of English for
25 years, sent a letter by express mail
to the Board of Directors of R.S.C.
,R.S.C., chairman of the 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 art.
Phelps said that Hinnan 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 1981. The lawsuit, which is pending in the U.S. District Court in Topeka, criticizes KU employment policies. The suit includes promotion, recruiting and tenure deficiencies for women and other minorities.
Phelps said Tacha hires few minorities and underpays the ones who already work at the facility.
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.
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Kansan Magazine
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1985
Memories abundant for Lenexa man, 101
A century of memories condensed into one tiny apartment is Amel Hartley Stubbs most valued possession.
The books, papers and photos, neatly stacked through the rooms in his Lexa home, are all he needs to transport his memory, still sharp after 101 years, to any time or place he has traveled during his long, long life.
Stubbs' only secret for his longevity has been to enjoy the people he's been with.
"I tell you, if you've got a lot of friends, well, you can't enjoy your friends if you're gone, he said. "And I played pool, and you can't play pool if you're dead. So I stick around."
Stubbs was born on July 14, 1894, and was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1913. He admits he isn't as steady on his feet as he used to be. He walks slowly and carefully in the apartment, steadying himself on the furniture as he draws what he is looking for from the neat stacks of well-orned books and oft-offoked-at photos piled around the place.
He knows where everything is, and as his discourse takes him from one memory to another, he can pull a book or photo from his resources to show the visitor.
when he was one year old to a white pine honeestead south of Garden City, where Stubbs said his father started the Garden City Herald.
The University was a quite different in 1911. Enrollment stood at little over 1,000 in the University's 48th year. Women's suffrage was still be-
people were forced to move from their land over a century ago. He can quote the speech given by the Kaw chief to the secretary, and remember — although he won't repeat them — the unkind words the secretary returned.
Stubbs is a student of languages. He said his interests eventually led him to study German while a freshman, on a full scholarship, at the University of Chicago. He continued studying and eventually taught German at KU.
One of the high points of his life, Stubbs said, was carrying the Olympic torch as it passed through Kansas City Mo., in 1984. He pauses and thrifts through a photo until he extracts a photo of the event — an eight-byten-inch, full-color memory.
that he used to pass on his way home every day.
"Growing up on the homestead didn't seem hard to me," he said. "I didn't mind living on pork and cheese — we had that three or four times a week because it cost 15 cents in those days."
Stubbs was a dedicated student and had precious little time to spend away from his books. He didn't go to his first KU football game until several years after he'd graduated
In Emporia, his father worked as a city editor for the Emporia Republican, and later the Emporia Gazette. They moved from Emporia
He and his wife Theresa lived on Kentucky Street. She worked to help pay expenses as he spent his days studying.
He received the honor because, he said, he is the oldest living member in the Kansas City, Mo. of YMCA, an organization he has belonged to off and on since 1899.
"I wasn't able to jog with the torch," Stubbs said. "A year or two sooner and I would have been able to jog OK. I walked it maybe a hundred feet or so."
"Stubbs" interests are many and varied. His interest in botany led to a book published on wild mushrooms in the area. It has sold thousand copies and he said it was probably the most definitive book on edible mushrooms ever printed in this country.
"I said, well, I was not an athlete, and they said yes, but you played volleyball until you were 86," did, "Stubbs said. I was playing against men half my age when I was 88 and having not a bit of trouble."
"The fact that I can hardly walk at all now didn't happen to me until three or four years ago. I was walking three or four miles everyday, and enjoying hunting mushrooms, hiking. Enjoying all kinds of exercise."
"I figured if I wrote him he wouldn't get my letter, but it was very nice of him to do it," Stubbs said.
. Stubbs recalls his words when he heard he was to carry the torch.
Stubbs said that President Reagan mentioned Stubbs' name in his 1984 election acceptance speech in connection with the Olympic event.
Ansel Hartley Stubbs
John Lechliter/Kensan Magazine
"Although I was still an undergraduate, a senior, I was made a member of the German department. The courses that I taught were conversational German and scientific German.
ing debated, and when one courageous young woman wore a "harem skirt" to campus, it literally made headlines.
A visit from President Taft merited a story only a few inches long in the University Kansas.
"All those PhDs made me the recording secretary for the department. I guess you could say I was underwhelmed because of being a student in that kind of a job—with all those PhDs around.
Stubbs remembers the campus during his years at KU.
"KU, it was all on the Hill back then. The old North College building was still standing. Fraser Hall was the main building that we had. That's where we had our German department. And it's where I spent a lot of my time."
Stubhs remembered the snack shop and bookstore on 14th Street
Stubbs graduated from KU in 1913 with a bachelor of arts degree.
"I didn't have much time outside of my classes and my teaching for any fraternity work. But I was elected to Phi Delta Kappa. I also took some courses in education," he said.
His mind moves easily across the decades; he recalls stories of the 1800s as easily as he lists the names of his grandchildren who went to KU, who they married and their spouse's majors.
He is proud of his family tree, a tree he says is laden with PhDs and even a World War II bomber pilot.
Stubbs recalls stories of his grandfather and father, who came to Kansas in 1865. His grandfather, a Quaker missionary, came to Council Grove to teach the Kaw Indian children to read and write. He later became a U.S. agent for the Kaw nation, Stubbs said.
His father, then 18, acted as interpreter for the Indians when the Secretary of the Interior met with the leader of the Kaw people in the mid-1300s. Stubba" voice rises in indignation as he tells of how the Kaw
'I tell you, if you've got a lot of friends well, you can't enjoy your friends if you're gone. And I played pool, and you can't play pool if you're dead. So I stick around.'
— Ansel Hartley Stubbs,
Class of 1913