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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 14 (USPS 650-640)
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7 players ineligible for season
By Chris Lazzarino Sports editor
Seven of the eight football players held out of the Hawaii game because they were not academically certified have been declared inelegible for this season the KU sports information office announced yesterday.
Four of the seven ineligible players did not meet the NCAA's new satisfactory progress rule, a statement released yesterday by the sports information office said. The rule, which was passed at the NCAA convention of member schools in January 1984, went into effect Aug. 1. Those four are senior tailback Lynn Williams, senior offensive guard Doug Certain, senior defensive lineman Guy Gamble and junior linebacker Dane Griffin.
The college careers of Williams and Certain are over now that they have been declared ineligible. Both are fifth-year seniors, and NCAA rules allow only five years to complete four years of competition.
The statement said the three others had been declared ineligible for the remainder of the year, but it did not specify academics as the cause. The three are senior tailback Robert Mimbs, sophomore linebacker Warren Shields and senior defensive back Alvin Walton.
Certification for the eighth player, sophomore strong safety Marvin Mattox, is pending.
In the statement, athletic director Monte Johnson said, "In my $2_{1/2}$ years as athletic director, this represents my greatest disappointment because it deals with the academic and eligibility opportunities of student-athletes.
"Every effort and every resource will be applied to guarantee this type of problem does not exist in the future."
None of the eight players have practiced since the season opener,
Mimbs, Walton, Shields and Mattox did not travel with the team to Honolulu. The other four traveled to Hawaii but were held out of the game.
Head football coach Mike Gottfried,
"I said, 'I sympathize for them, and I
hope something good comes out of this."
Janice Wenger, a legislative assistant with the NCAA in Mission, said two parts composed the satisfactory progress rule.
The first part of the rule offers two options. Either the student-athlete must have satisfactorily completed 24 semester hours since the beginning of his last season of competition, or he must have an average of 12 hours each semester for all terms since the student first enrolled.
Wenger said the first half of the satisfactory progress rule was designed to prevent the athlete from committing one semester and sitting the next.
The second half of the rule says that once the student-athlete begins his fifth semester of school, he must declare a major. Past that point, the athlete must satisfactorily complete 24 hours in that major each year.
"That rule was designed to safeguard against students being in school just to play sports and not also work toward a degree." Wenger said.
Last season, 10 football players were declared academically ineligible. Griffin is the only player declared ineligible this year who also was ineligible last year.
Because none of the seven played against Hawaii, Gottfried said he had an idea how his team would fare without the ineligible players.
"Life is full of disappointments." Gottfried said. "Either you handle the disappointments, or they will handle you.
"We're going to try to play the same way that we did against Hawaii. Everybody's handled this thing well. We have a good group of players and they have responded well."
The Jayhawks, who defeated Hawaii 33-27, will play Vanderbilt Saturday at 11:40 a.m. in Memorial Stadium.
Certain, Williams and Walton were listed as probable starters during the pre-season, and were listed as probable starters on the depth chart released Aug. 26 for the Hawaiii game.
Shields, Gamble and Griffin were listed as second-string on the Aug. 26 depth chart, as was Mattox.
None of the eight are listed on the depth chart for the Vanderbilt game, dated Sept. 6.
Williams was the team's leading rusher last season with 776 yards in 112 carries.
Senators block attempt at vote on sanction bill
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate, under heavy White House pressure, yesterday repelled the second Democratic challenge to President Reagan's foreign policy and refused to consider tough economic sanctions against South Africa.
More South Africa news p.12.
Democrats, angry that Reagan invoked milder sanctions against Pretoria by executive order earlier in the week, again challenged his foreign policy and political leadership by fighting to shut off a filibuster in the Republican-led Senate.
Democrats filed a petition for another vote to end the filibuster today and force a floor vote on the bill. The 57-41 vote fell three votes shy of the required 60.
Republican leader Robert Dole of Kansas rallied his forces and prevailed yesterday.
"This is not longer an issue of what is good for South Africa, it is a raw political issue," Dole said. "Let's give the president a chance."
A vote was taken Sep. 9 to force consideration of tougher sanctions. It failed by seven votes, 53-34. Twelve Republicans had joined the 41 Democrats on the earlier vote.
Yesterday, 11 Republicans voted with the Democrats, but Sens. Mack Mattingly, R-Ga., and Robert Stafford, R-Vt., who had voted to cut off debate earlier in the week, switched their votes, assuring Reagan's victory.
Stafford issued a statement after the vote, saying he would support tougher sanctions in the future if they were needed.
See SENATE, p. 5, col. 4
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After his resignation last night as chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee, Reza Zoughi says farewell to Alison Young, who was appointed last night as executive secretary of Student Senate. At right is Jeff Polack, student body vice president.
Chairman of StudEx resigns
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
The chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee resigned his post and Senate seat in the semester's first Student Senate meeting last night, citing Senate infighting and personal politics.
"I want to save my sanity," Reza Zoughi, the StudEx chairman, said last night. "In my opinion, the committees are stacked."
He said his complaints were aimed at the Senate's standing committees. In the spring, the board was "put on trial" by the Senate to answer questions of misconduct, he said.
The Committee Board consists of five senators appointed by the Senate for the purpose of choosing committee members.
Zough said only three of the five Committee Board members were notified of some meetings and those three were from the "& Toto Too" coalition.
Michael Foubert, graduate senator and member of both StudEx and the Committee Board, said, "& Toto Too is not the majority of any single committee."
He said the Committee Board was appointed by the Student Senate.
"We were put on trial and the Senate found us not guilty." Foubert said.
coughi said the board was not acquitted, but people just gave up trying to fight when the board members were questioned about their conduct in front of the Senate in the spring.
The Senate debated last night whether StudEx or the Committee Board should appoint replacement members to committees and interpreted a section of the Senate Code to mean that the board had that right.
The Senate voted to ask the opinion of the University General Counsel on the interpretation of the code, but her decision would not be binding.
Although he resigned his positions, Zoughi said he would not be absent from student government.
"I'm going to expose as much as I can now that I can speak," he said.
"It comes down to a matter of trust," Foubert told the Senate. "You check us every step of the way."
Asexual student forced to fight unique form of discrimination
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
In the bureaucratic blizzard of forms and documents that accompanies many people on the journey through life, to indicate one's gender is as simple as checking a box — male or female.
However, one KU student's inability to choose either option has caused him nothing but trouble.
Simha Ruben, Lawrence graduate student in human development and family life, was born with neither internal nor external sexual organs. Ruben said the most likely explanation for his condition was his mother's use of steroids during pregnancy.
Raised as a female from birth, he now leans more toward the male role, but described himself as asexual in an interview Tuesday.
"I've just developed more of an aversion to the female role because of my experiences growing up," he said.
Ruben has a serene, intelligent face. His brown hair flows in soft waves to his shoulders and enhances
the youthful appearance of his slender, almost elfin frame.
"When I complained, I was told you have to be male or female to be protected by that kind of legislation — that I don't have the same rights as a male or female," he said.
He said he had spent the most recent of his 23 years battling sexual discrimination. He said it seemed laws designed to combat such practices did not apply to him.
Ruben obtained medical proof of his unique sexual status when he was 18 years old. He had the sexual designation on his birth certificate changed legally from female to asexual in 1982.
Now Ruben is preparing to lock horns for the second time with the Selective Service. Because he is not a male, he did not register for the draft.
He received a letter, his last warning from the Selective Service, on Monday. The American Civil Liberties Union will defend him if he must go to court, he said.
"What I would hope would be the outcome is that the court would rule that I am not male or female, and
that I could use that in later encounters with the government," he said.
Ruben had his first encounter with the Selective Service in his home state, Michigan, when the registration law went into effect in 1980. He said he did not oppose draft registration but registered to hold jobs, not just men, should register because the current law discriminates sexually.
His name was removed from the Selective Service rolls at that time, after he struggled nearly four years to prove to the government that he was not a male. A simple trip to an Army recruiter in Michigan did the trick, he said.
The recruiter received Ruben with enthusiasm, but soon began to peer at him suspiciously. Ruben said. The embarrassed recruiter asked Ruben whether he was male or female.
"I said the Selective Service said I was male, so that's what he'd have to consider me," Ruben said.
The bewildered recruiter called a medical officer.
See GENDER, p. 5, col. 1
Tuition increase is double Index
NEW YORK — College tuition this fall increased by more than double the rate of the Consumer Price Index for the fourth consecutive year, rising even faster than health care expenses and well ahead of gains in disposable personal income. Fortune Magazine reported yesterday
United Press International
"While smokestack industries across America have slashed costs in recent years, most colleges have not, arguing that they can't. As their budgets have spiraled upward, two traditional sources of revenue
Twenty-five years ago, tuition for the parent's of today's student was 43 percent less in inflation-adjusted terms than it is today. Since 1967, however, tuition at the eight Ivy League schools has more than twice as much while the Consumer Price Index has risen little more than threefold.
federal aid and endowment income — haven't kept pace," the magazine reported.
"Paradoxically, the Reagan administration's cutbacks in federal student aid has itself driven up tuition. Federal assistance is still
huge — an estimated $14.1 billion in loans, grants and loan guarantees, according to the College Board, an organization that provides various services to college bound students.
"But by stiffening requirements and eliminating special grants to the children of Social Security recipients, the Administration has managed to get aid down by 15.6 percent in real terms since 1981."
Other factors driving up tuition costs are a vast expansion of knowledge and the computer mania that has taken hold of academia, the magazine said.
Lefties feel left out of righties' world
Of the Kansan staff
By Susie Bishop
Some students think that being a lefty isn't all right.
The lack of table chairs built for left-handed students in KU classrooms seems to bother some lefties, but others have adapted well to a world dominated by righties.
"I don't feel open discriminated against, but I don't think it's fair," one left-handed student, Steve Pope, Prairie Village freshman, said yesterday. "It's beet like this a long time — no one notices anymore.
Another left-handed student, Curtis Gilbert, Tucson, Ariz., senior, said he was used to using right-handed equipment.
"It bothers me very much that there aren't more left-handed chairs. I have to turn to the right and lean up against the back of the chair to take notes."
equipment.
"After all my life using righthanded desks, it doesn't make any difference," he said. "Being left-
"There's not much difference between a right- and a left-handed pencil." Gilbert said.
handed is kind of a handicap because it's harder to write, and you have to move your stuff all around."
Those left-handed students who have used tablet chairs for lefties have had varying reactions.
"I sat in one today." Ralph Sandry, Columbia, Mo., sophomore said. "I was late and it was one of the few left. Sitting in a left-handed desk was strange. I had to get used to it."
Bob Sherwood, Los Altos, Calif,
freshman, said. "It would be nice if
there were a few in each room."
"Being left-handed you just learn to use your right hand," Sandrey said. "I think left-handed people are more ambidextrous than righthanded people.
When talking about the difference between school materials for right- and left-handed students, Gilbert said, the greatest difference is in desks and notebooks.
that sells only left-handed things. I bought pens that don't smear when my hand goes across the page, a left-handed notebook that has the rings on the right side, scissors, a baseball glove and golf clubs."
Only tablet chairs designed for right-handed people are placed in KU classrooms unless an instructor places a special request for chairs like Leane's Wales, a clerk at Room Reservations in Strong Hall.
"There is a store in San Francisco
When an order is placed, it is turned over to Facilities Operations, she said. Facilities Operations takes on the task of identifying the number and type of chairs into a room.
Besides the table chairs, Pope, a graphics design major, said that drafting tables posed a problem to lefties.
"I have to find a drafting table with a metal piece on the right side, or else my T-square won't be parallel with my paper." Pope said.
Pope said that he had seen a few desks designed especially for the
left-handed student, but not enough. He said that when they are gone he had to look for a drafting table that didn't have a jagged right edge.
"Most drafting tables are made with the metal strip on the left side, but some have them on the right," said Frank Reiber, professor of design. "It shouldn't be a problem unless the desk gets really chopped up as they do in time."
Although some left-handed students complain that their needs aren't accommodated, some KU nurses have addressed their problems.
"The portable tables that are used for second-year graphics students we build ourselves," Lucas said. "If a person thinks he needs a strip on the other side, it's no big deal to put one on the right side."
The School of Architecture in Marvin Hall has tablet chairs for both right and left-handed people. The drafting tables that were purchased have no right or left side, said Max Lucas, dean of architecture.
Suzy MaM/KANSAN
Lefthander Kelly Hogan, Kansas City, Mo., senior, struggles to write notes on a desk made for right-handed students. Hogan was taking notes yesterday in her Law of Communications class in Stauffer-Flint Hall.