SINCE 1889
Scalpers, sippers
The crowd scene at the Series is painted in garish hues. See page 11.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCT. 21, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 41 (USPS 650-640)
A man sitting in a campfire.
Mild Details page 3.
Insurance issue changes hands
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
The Kansas Board of Regents wants the Kansas Legislature to solve the University of Kansas Medical Center's malpractice problems.
During their monthly meeting Friday, the Regents voted to recommend to the Legislature two ways of solving the Med Center's problem of providing malpractice insurance for its 250 residents.
Richard von Ende, KU executive secretary, said yesterday that KU's first choice would be to return to the office, the insurance was handled before.
"The first preference would be to make money available to purchase malpractice insurance for the residents." von Ende said.
If the state would not accept that, von Ende said, the Med Center would stay with its current method, that of the state's own insurance to residents.
He said that if this method was used, KU would want money to be
available through the state Health Care Stabilization Fund. The Med Center then could provide legal defense if a malpractice suit was against a resident. Money also would be available for settlements and awards
The stabilization fund, into which Kansas physicians pay, supplements their malpractice insurance.
The Regents met in Pittsburgh. They were asked by University and Med Center officials to ask the Legislature to remedy the problem caused by Senate bill 362.
The bill became law July 1 and changed the Med Center's longstanding policy on malpractice insurance for its residents.
In the past, the Med Center bought malpractice insurance from St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co., Kansas City, Kan.
KU officials said the rising cost of providing insurance for its residents led them to ask the Legislature to find an alternative.
KU officials have said the cost of
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Good. clean fun
See CENTER p. 5 col. 6
After watching the KU-K-State football game Saturday afternoon, a group of sittings, sitting on the hill overlooking Memorial Hall, decided to participate in a sport of their own — sliding in the mud. See related story on p. 3.
Football game story appears on p. 11.
World Series fans pack hotels
Of the Kansan staff
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
As World Series ticketholders packed Saturday's and yesterday's games in Kansas City, Mo., the bases were loaded at hotels and motels, causing action in the bulpins of Lawrence and Topeka.
The 192 rooms at the Holiday Inn
Holdeme, 200 McDonald Drive, were
booked last night and Saturday night,
with front desk assistant, said
yesterday.
"We're getting some overflow," she said. "I know, because we're usually not full on Sunday nights."
Schreiner said that Saturday night had been particularly busy because of the KU-Kansas State University football game and the World Series.
Don Schreiner, desk assistant at the Travelodge Motel, 801 Iowa St., said several fans who were going to the World Series over the weekend staved in the 70-motel motel.
But baseball fans stayed at the motel even during regular season play.
Not all Lawrence lodges were booked this weekend, however.
David Ptak, desk clerk at the Westminster Inn, 2525 W. Sixth St., said the motel had been only half full during the weekend.
"Kansas City's pretty much booked," Ptak said. "There are a few fans stuck from Kansas City, but there are none specifically here. Our reservations are mainly from the KU-K State game."
Dennis Shaffer, manager of the Econologue of Lawrence, 2907 W. Sixth St., said the motel had plenty of rooms left and only knew of one customer who was in town for the World Series.
Karen Bailey, a desk clerk at the Hallmark Inn Motel, 730 Iowa St., said the motel still had some rooms that were full. "There were ones had been filled by baseball fans."
She said it would be difficult to tell whether the 60 rooms would be filled with baseball fans next weekend, if the series lasted that long.
game because they wear buttons," Bailey said. "Also, they will chat about it."
"You can tell they're here for the
Next weekend's KU-Oklahoma State University football game probably will fill the rooms, she said.
Some World Series ticketholders
some World Series as fast as Topek to find a baker
Bryan Johnson, front office manager for Topeka's Holiday Inn Holidome, said about 15 rooms had been reserved by baseball fans on referrals from the filled Lawrence Holidome.
Johnson said that of the 197 rooms in the hotel, 11 already were reserved for last night, although 75 reservations were the usual number for a Sunday night.
See ROOMS, p. 5, col. 6
Depression Centers offer experienced ear
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
If there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
Robert Burton wrote that passage in "Anatomy of Melancholy" in 1821, and the melancholy he described so many years ago still looms, striking millions of men and women each year.
Today, melancholy is still used to describe severe depression, and it is
the most common mental problem in the United States, according to psychiatrists John H. Greist and Ian B. Book "Depression and Its Treatment."
They say about 10 percent of any population suffers severe depression at some time. Ten percent of the people with severe depression will end their lives by suicide.
Greist and Jefferson wrote that depression spared no segment of the world's population, and Lawrence is no exception. About 26 percent of the
adults who sought help this year at the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, 336 Missouri St., said they were depressed.
Depression also is prevalent on campus. Linda Keeler, a psychiatrist and coordinator of mental health services for Watkins Memorial Hospital, said it was the most common problem among the students she counseling.
Doug Witt, director of program evaluation for the Bert Nash Center, said depression eventually was diagnosed in about 70 percent of all clients.
Although most people may be downcast occasionally, mental health professionals say there is a difference between the blues and depression.
"It's normal to be down in the dumps if you flunk a course or break up with someone you love," said Fowler Jones, a psychologist in the department of psychiatry at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Kansas City, Kan.
Jones said depression was more than "feeling sad." It also can include sleeping difficulties, appetite changes, fatigue, feelings of guilt and hopelessness. The loss of interest in things that are ordinarily pleasant, he said.
"Depressed people move to a position of hopelessness and helplessness, he said. "They are unable to imagine that change may not even know what to change."
"The key is how long it lasts and how much it affects your life."
It may be those feelings of hopelessness that lead a person to seek refuge.
"They are helpless because they are not up to changing anything."
"Someone may want to commit suicide because he thinks life is so hopeless and worthless and thinks it will never feel any better," she said.
In 1984, five people in Lawrence
See DEPRESSION, p. 5, col. 1
Mat men a smash at Union
1,000 fans cheer pros into frenzy
By David Silverman Of the Kansan staff
Students wanted to see blood. Grandmothers stood on chairs and yelled, "kill him." Mild mannered people were transformed into a screaming, crazed mob Friday night.
Professional wrestling had arrived at the University of Kansas.
More than 1,000 wrestling fans crowded into the Kansas Union Ballroom to watch "Bulldog" Bob Brown, Rufus R. Jones, "Mr. Pogo" and more of their favorite "All-Star" wrestlers.
Monday Morning
"I came out here to see some heads get bashed," said Chris Wilkens, Liberal junior. "I've seen these guys on TV, but it's nothing like seeing them in person."
Anna Trout, 62, 141 Maple St., has been a wrestling fan for more than a decade.
Brad Weber, public relations chairman for Student Union Activities, sponsor of "All-Star Wrestling," said, "It was the biggest thing we were tired. I've never seen people so involved in an event we've had."
"I love it," she said before the wrestling began. "I can't wait to see these guys throw each other around."
The first match featured "Mr. Pogo," a Japanese wrestler whose face was painted like a zulu warrior. He also played "American boy." Burt Batten,
The fans weren't disappointed either. For almost two hours they were treated to a display of body slams, aerial drops, nose biting, eye gouges and belly-back suplexes.
A chorus of boos and hisses greeted Gpoas as he entered the ring, and he responded by throwing handwalts of salt into the crowd.
Chants of "U.S.A., U.S.A." filled the room as Batten, dressed in royal blue, entered the ring.
The crowd inched closer throughout the match as it tried to get within shouting range of the ring. Before long, most of the spectators had abandoned their seats.
Crowd reaction reached a fever pitch when Marty Jannett, Central States heavyweight champion, was defeated in the second match of the night.
The crowd went wild when Jannetty grabbed Royal by the hair and dragged him around the 18-foot ring, stopping at each corner to introduce Royal's face to the crowd. The jackets that held the ropes together.
In the final match of the night, Brown met Jones. He pinned Jones but was disqualified for illegally using the ropes.
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"Bulldog" Bob Brown, right, prepares to give Rutus R. Jones a toss during their wrestling bout in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Jones won the match Friday night after Brown was disqualified.
'Bulldog' Brown attends the school of hard knocks
By David Silverman Of the Kansan staff
For 20 minutes, he's been pelted with tomatoes and insults. He's been picked up and thrown down. He's had to chase a 300-pound man in circles, throw him down and keep him down.
It's just another day at the office.
At 46, "Bulldog" Bob Brown is in a business that was intended for men half his age — professional wrestling
He talked about his 20-year career as a professional wrestler Friday night before and after his "All-Star Wrestling" match against Rufus R. Jones in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
"That's where I got the
Brown grew up in Winnipeg, Canada, where he played high school hockey and wrestled.
He said he was unsure of what he wanted to do after he graduated from high school. So after several odd jobs, he decided on hockey.
"I played minor league hockey, although I really could not skate that well," he said. "I played defense, and my job was to make sure nobody scored. I did what I had to. I spent a lot of time in the penalty box.
nickname 'Bulldog.' I just wouldn't give up."
After deciding that he wasn't going to be the next Guy LeFleur, Brown said, he began to referee professional wrestling matches in Winnipeg. That's when he began thinking about a professional wrestling career. It was 1963.
"I went to a training camp in Minnesota," he said. "I don't think any professional training camp — football, basketball, anything — could be harder. We worked eight, 10 hours a day."
He left the camp a year later and began wrestling professionally, against his family's wishes.
"My mother didn't like the violence in professional wrestling," Brown said. "It made her nervous."
In the 20 years since turning pro, Brown said, he's wrestled every world champion since Dick Hutton won the crown in 1964.
"Every time I get into the ring, I learn something new," he said. "Anytime you get into the ring, plumbing, it's like going to school."
Sometimes school has been rough on Brown. His nose is as wide and flat as a four-lane
See 'BULLDOG,' p. 5, col. 3