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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 54 (USPS 650-640)
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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.
StudEx rejected the first time numbers were base in University school rather than on the enrollment figures they used, Tony Arm StudEx, said last mid-The 20th-day figure official enrollment of they are used in figs i.y.a budget.
The attorney of Myra Hinnam, associate professor of English for 25 years, sent a letter by express mail to the United States Senate, R.S.C. chairman of the committee.
Prof denounces choice of Tacha for court judge
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.
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By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
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 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 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 University.
Kansan Magazine
I-70 Series gave fever to Midwest
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1985
By Mike Snider Kansan Magazine writer
'And there's the Topeka student who goes to Royals Stadium just because the fountains are nice. But for a scant few of us, baseball is an obsession. This season, the ranks of the obsessed grew.'
It began harmlessly enough on April 9. The Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays met in Royals Stadium for the opening game of the 1965 baseball season. It was cold and baseball wasn't on our feet.
minds.
exciting KU basketball season had just ended. Final exams were approaching_ Who wanted to think about baseball?
Little did we know that about six months and 168 games later, on Oct 16, another Royals-Blue Jays game, Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, would become so important to us.
so important to them.
That game and the following World Series only culminated a 1985 Mets-Legacy Baseball season that had touched and taken over many people's lives for a few, brisk October weeks.
over water.
Sure, most of us are baseball fans in captivity or another. There's the Chicago student who checks the Tribune to see how far back the Cubies are. There's the business management professor from New York who follows the Yankees because he would get bored watching the same players or manager week after week. And there's the Topaike student who goes to Royals Stadium just because the fountains are nice.
but for a scant few of us, baseball is an obsession. This season, the ranks of the obsessed grew. Championship baseball knocked on our doors and we let it in.
The number of Royals-rooters and Redbird-watchers multiplied while the eyes of the baseball world slowly focused on Missouri. The Royals and the St. Louis Cardinals were taking their fans on a heart-stopping and blood-pressure-raising trip to a baltuit until Oct. 27, when the Royals trounced the Cardinals 11-0 in Game 9 of the World Series.
The only recent sports phenomenon that seized our emotions like this Series was the 1900 Olympics, where the U.S. hockey team took the gold medal from the
claws of the mighty U.S.S.R. team
claws of the mighty U.S.S.R. team. That youthful team captured the hearts of many Americans as they took on the bullets of international hockey. The Royals and Cardinals snared us much the same way, as they battled to reach the World Series.
Before the playoffs, symptoms of baseball fever began to show on campus. Studying for tests had to wait until the final out of that crucial game was recorded.
To justify watching or listening to games, students said, "This game will never be replayed. There will always be another test to study for."
People with jobs jockeyed their work schedules so they could watch or listen to games. They had to because the teams tightrope over already all of elimination over to build the balance of the league's teams.
league's teams.
"I'll cover you during the Cards game this afternoon if you cover me for tonight's Royals game."
Study breaks includes catching late night baseball highlights on ESPN and early-morning baseball reports.
reports.
"Did you say the Royals came back again?"
The teams collected fans as both scratched their way past formidable opponents to make it to their respective League Championship Series. The two teams were reworked by being designed underdogs in the playoffs against the Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
On Oct. 16, both teams clinched a spot in the Series and the diagnosis was complete — World Series fever bad bit KU.
When both teams dropped the first two games of the playoffs, hopes fell, but never hit rock bottom.
Some fans were just happy that both Missouri teams made it to the Series. Perhaps it was revenge against the rest of the country.
The rest of the country had been talking about a Subway Series between the Mets and Yankees. Some brought up the possibility of a Freeway Series between the Dodgers and Angels or a true "world" Series with at least one Canadian team.
Folks in these parts knew the rest were dreaming. We got ready for the I70 World Series that people had been whispering about all summer. When the teams won, we quit whispering. Most of the KU community prepared itself for a weeklong baseball brotha-h. And if the rest of the country wasn't interested, nuts to 'em.
Students arranged their schedules around the Series. Professors and staff discussed their predictions. Betting pools were engineered in campus offices, businesses, dorms, halles, fraternities and sororites. Everywhere, the World Series was the talk of the town — on radio and television, in newspapers, bars, restaurants, gyms and classrooms.
Games 1 and 2 seemed like a family reunion. There was no one to hate. No Gary Carter. No Reggie Jackson. No Mike Schmidt. Royals' fans were happy that Whitey, Willie and the boys were in Kansas City.
boys were in Ramsdale. And after the Cardinals won the first two games, 3-1 and 4-2, we were glad to see the teams head down I-70 for Busch Stadium. Whoever wins the Series, it's stay'n in the family.
When the Royals won game 3, 6-1, Cardinals fans didn't really worry. The Royals' power was a fluke. Besides, they had two more games at home, where they hadn't had a series swept from them in the regular season, and their ace Card, John Tudor, to pitch game 4.
Sure enough, Tudor shut out the Royals 3 in Game 4 to win his second Series game. It looked pretty grim for the Royals and the Cardinals felt victory. But they didn't realize that history was repeating itself. The Royals had them right where they wanted them.
where they play.
Before Game 5, third baseman George Brett said on TV, "We're not giving up. We really want to win this
thing." You had to believe that he was going to find a way to do it. The Royals walloped the Cardinals 6-1 and sent the Series back to Kansas City.
The fun was over. At Game 6 in Royals Stadium, the Cardinals felt that Royal magic in the breezes from the fountains. They realized that the Royals were serious. The Cards took a 1-1 lead into the bottom of the ninth. Abracadabra. Exceeded. And the Royals showed that turnabout was fair play by winning the game in the bottom of the ninth.
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The Royals seven seemed anticlimactic.
The Royals looked invincible with the momentum of their last two victories and the Cardinals nursed their hangovers from the previous night's plastering.
The frustrated Cardinals were stuck on the field in a long game that was never really in doubt after the third inning, when the score stood at 5-0. One tough Dominican saw red and the rest of the Cards were blue. Meanwhile, the Royals fans danced in the aisles as their Royals danced around the bases on their way to an 11-0 victory.
The Royals had done it. Their scrappy comeback rivals any performance by a sports team in decades. Maybe any decade. And their home is only 45 minutes down the road from Lawrence.
At the pop rally the day after the Series victory, center field Willie Wilson joyfully shouted to the crowd surrounding the Liberty Memorial in downtown Kansas City, "We shocked the house!"
the boat.
These Royals not only shocked the bridge they shocked the whole baseball neighborhood. They brought us joy and made us proud to live in the Midwet. But they created a dilemma.
What to do with all that spare time that had been devoted to the Series?
Perhaps it's time to study. That could fill some of the time. I just hope it isn't too late.