KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, November 17, 1980 Vol.91, No.60 USPS 650-640
Phone abuses old news basketball coaches say
Athletic department officials said Friday that the telephone credit card missuses by three basketball teams.
The Kansan said Friday that three basketball players, Ricky Ross, Darnell Valentine and Tony Guy, used Assistant Coach Lafayette Norwood's play to make long-distance calls to friends and relatives.
"We were aware of the situation quite some time ago and we took the appropriate measures in compliance with NCAA policy to handle the situation," Bob Marcum, KU athletic director said.
The calls were made in October 1979 and January 1980, and were paid for by the athletic department. Norwood circled several calls on January's bill and wrote at the bottom of the bill that the athletic department should not pay for the calls.
None of the players were available for comment over the weekend. Head Coach Ted Owens
"We were aware of the problem concerning telephone misuse," Owens said. "At the time we became aware of it, we immediately took appropriate action."
ACCORDING TO Susan Wachter, business manager for athletics, a repayment plan for the calls had been arranged. She did not specify the plan's terms.
Asked about Ross's absence, Owens said,
"Hey this is my basketball team. If I have anything to say about a member of our team, I'll say it."
Ross was not at KU's practice Friday afternoon.
Of persons contacted by the Kansan, only Rosa Smith, Ross's mother, would talk. She said the athletes were told that calls could be made in an emergency.
"I know Ricky made those calls," Smith said. "I didn't know it was against any rules, though. They said we could make the calls in an emergency."
The Kanan reported that use of a telephone credit card number was a violation of the NCAA's extra benefit rule. Dave Berst, enforcement director for the NCAA, would not say whether the calls violated the rule or whether any investigation was being planned. It is NCAA policy not to confirm or deny if an investigation is being conducted.
Smith felt her son was wrongly accused.
"They should get to the top man in all situations like this across the country," she said.
"Not necessarily just coach Owens, but every coach in the country."
"The people in charge, the coaches, should explain the details and tell people if there would be any problems."
Bundled against the cold, three fishermen spent Sunday afternoon casting about the intake tower of the dam at Clinton Lake, Larry Klusman, Lenexa, (left) and John Forsland, Paola, (right) don't appear ready to help Carl Klusman, Paola, (right) as he hauls in another crane.
Caribbean relations conference topic
By KATHY BRUSSELL
For the wealthy, the word cruise may come to mind.
Those who have a more worldly outlook might think first of continual political turmoil. Pumping up the pressure, they
Such thoughts, however, characterize precisely the problem that the United States has had in its past attempts to deal with the countries of Latin America, according to the participants of KU's first conference on international affairs.
The conference, which focused on the Caribbean this year, ended Friday after two days of presentations and discussions on their effects on U.S.-Arabian relations.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS-KU professors, students or educators from Latin American countries—seemed to agree on one point. The most important is the portant and rapidly changing areas in the
world, but U.S. citizens remain generally apathetic or ignorant about its nations.
"The Caribbean is thought of as a place of tourism, sun and beaches," said Leslie Manigat, a member of the Latin American Institute of Higher Education at Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, Venezuela. "It's the land of holidays and vacations."
The Caribbean is becoming more and more crucial in global relations, and it needs to be taken into account.
The Caribbean countries differ greatly from one another, but despite their diversity and their complex histories, they share a common identity, he said.
"These countries have a feeling of weakness," Manigat said. "Therefore, they must be sensitive against any move to control them and take their power."
Ironically, the United States, which often is seen as Latin America's enemy, has been one of the most unifying forces in the Caribbean, he said.
Despite the political complexities in Caribbean dealings, U.S. policymakers
MANY LATIN American nations have grown closer in their fight against U.S. intervention,
generally neglect that area of the globe, аc-
centricly. It is known that Pearson, the
speaker at Friday's lunchmen
"The reason for this is understandable," he
said, "the manager is paying in-
attention to some other crisis."
"Then, also we have a sort of frustration with the political instability and economic difficulties in the area. There's the feeling that we have no chance to rally achieve anything."
"I think it's indicative that after years and years on the (Senate) Foreign Relations Committee, I never got really involved in the Caribbean."
U. S. foreign policy has had both positive and negative results in the past few years, Pearson
Many of America's foreign affairs program stem from its refusal to accept the fact that it can no longer control the events in all other parts of the world, he said.
"Since World War II, we haven't seen a dissolution of our own power, but rather we've seen other blocs growing stronger. There's not a lot we can do to stop that."
LATIN AMERICAN countries discussed at the conference included Costa Rica. Cua. El
Referee views work as trying but challenging
Staff Reporter
By PATRICIA Staff Reporter
The air was hot as football poured into
the stadium and we watch the Sept. 29 KU-
Pittsburgh football game.
They were too busy to notice the group of men in black and white in a circle on the edifice.
They would notice them soon enough.
As the visiting team scrambled onto the field, referee Howard Roe waited patiently on the sidelines for the Jayhawks. It was game time and time for the coin loss.
"B000000000000000!" A low hum came from the stands.
"At this time the University of Kansas wishes to welcome the University of Pittsburgh football team and their fans, who are attending today's game," announcer Jim Gillips said.
THE BOOS STOPPED and the roar of clapping echoed throughout the stadium.
"Welcome Panthers!"
His hand made a windup motion and KU
changed into a defensive defense was stopped on
the Parksburgh 20-year-old.
Both teams lumbered onto the field and the players, KU to kick off, Pittsburgh to PENNY.
The Sept. 20 game was the first home game for the Jayhawks and the fans wanted their team.
Roe took his place behind the offense.
Roe currently works as Employee Relations director for Energy Management Corporation, a Denver oil and gas exploration company. He officiates in his spare time.
Officiating is nothing new to Roe, who started 12 years ago, when he left his teaching and coaching job at Wichita Heights High School to work for a bank.
THE WHISTLE SOUNDED and the game stoned. Roe called KU offside.
One play and a gold flag later, he penalized Pittsburgh for illegal motion.
Penalizing football teams is just part of Roe's job. Once he even penalized an alumni band.
Neither team showed any emotion after the penalties, but the crowd didn't hesitate to show its disappointment or joy in either case. (Please scroll down.)
See REFEREE page 5
KEN COMBS/Kansan staff
Howard Roe steps off a 15-yard roughing-the-kicker penalty against the Pittsburgh Panthers during the Sept. 20 game against the Hawkeys in Memorial Stadium.
Freedom of speech's existence questioned by SenEx members
By CINDI CURRIE
Staff Reporter
The existence of freedom of speech at the University of Kansas and efforts to encourage the expression of opinion were questioned by the executive committee of the University Senate executive committees.
At its meeting Friday, SenEx members expressed concern about an Israeli diplomat who was unable to give a scheduled speech on the issue of use of an apparently hostile Moslem audience.
The speaker, Ehud God of the Israel Consulate in Chicago, and the group that sponsored the speech, B'nai B'rith Mivel, moved the lecture from Satellite Union to a home west of campus.
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said that if he had been notified of the problem before the speech, he would have provided police protection for Gol.
However, SenEx members were disturbed by the need to move the speech.
"I'ts not really one incident," Ernest Angino, SenEx member, said. "It’s a cumulative effect. The University of Kansas is not able to provide sufficient security for a forum. Groups think that if you make enough noise at the beginning, the speaker will simply so away.
"Any speaker should be given the opportunity to voice his or her opinion."
NOT ONLY DID SenEx members think there was not an opportunity for people with different opinions to speak on campus, but they thought it would be better presenting an underlying message of conformity.
George Worth, SenEx chairman, said that the recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Committee on the Freedom of Expression to encourage all students to the University was being pushed under the rug.
"They urged the University to invite as broad a spectrum as possible, all views could be considered."
He said that the committee's report could not solve the issue of free speech on campus.
During the early '70s, he said, a minority opinions forum was scheduled at KU which gave "strange people with strange ideas" a chance to speak at the University.
"No one liked them being here but they heard them anyway," he said.
ANGINO SAID THE University would save itself embarrassment if it would admit that free speech was being encouraged.
"They (the University) should either stop and
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sit it doesn't exist," he said, "or say it does and be sure it is protected.
"There's a pattern emerging that only particular points of view are gradually going to coexist," she said.
THE MEETINGS will last one hour. Cobb said,
and begin at 3:00 p.m., before the regularly
scheduled closing time.
Felix Moos, SenEx member and adviser of the International Club, agreed with Angino.
"Increasingly it's not one instance," Moos said. "It's a 'pattern', and it's escalating. There may be a point on this campus when we may no longer be able to hear what we want to hear."
The University was given approval last month by the Kansas Board of Regents to develop its own guidelines for freedom of speech on a campus. The University has a policy with a debate before the end of the semester.
Action on the final schedule is dependent upon Shanker's decision to change the date of Company meeting.
ROBERT COBB, executive vice chancellor,
said that the University was obliged to provide a
forum for public discourse and that the Gol en-
sistence is contest of wills between two
university groups.
He recommended that foreign student groups combine with the University Senate Committee on Foreign Students to provide in-house opportunities for students in the nature of public discourse for foreign students.
Cobb told SenEx that the University would make an effort to communicate with foreign students to reduce the likelihood of a similar incident in the future.
Moss said, "The level of frustration in some groups of foreign students is very high. Foreign students feel in some ways not part of the University."
He said it might be beneficial for foreign students to be required to take courses in American society so they could understand the roles and responsibilities of people in the United States.
In other business, Cobb said he would begin an open forum each month to discuss topics concerning the company.
Shankel has received recommendations from SenEx and a special Commencement committee to change the Commencement ceremony from day to day so more families would be able to attend.
Until Shankel approves the changes, the committee cannot submit the final schedule for University Council's approval or printing in the spring Timetable.
SenEx also discussed the new withdrawal policy that will be effective next semester.
The policy, which divides the withdrawal period into 5-week sections, allows each school to decide how to designate student withdrawals after the initial 5 weeks.
Worth also said that the once-a-semester University Senate meeting scheduled Nov. 20 was canceled because a special session was called earlier this year to pass the Student Senate resolution reducing the number of senators to 85.
Skies will begin clearing tonight, with an overnight low in the lower 29s.
Tomorrow will be mostly clear and not quite as cold. The high will be in the middle 40s.
It will be mostly cloudy today with a high around 40, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the north at 5-15 mph.
The extended outlook for Wednesday through Friday calls for dry and cold weather, with highs in the 80s to lower 80s and lows in the 20s to lower 30s.