Academics vs. sports goals is athlete's dilemma
Editor's Note: This is the last in a series of three stories studying what it means to be a student-athlete at the University of Kansas. Today, how well an individual can carry out the roles of student and athlete is analyzed, and what is involved in leading both lives at once.
By MARK ZELIGMAN Kansan Staff Reporter
For the past two days the problems of being an athlete in college have been examined, including the pressure on his school to keep him eligible and the pressure on the athlete to maintain his grades.
An underlying conflict exists concerning the concept of student-athlete that hasn't been resolved and probably never will be. In fact, athletes and coaches disagree on an answer.
This conflict revolves around the basic reasons that athletes are in college. Former head football coach Don Fambrough says the No. 1 reason is to get an education and the No. 2 reason is to earn a scholarship. An athlete earns his scholarship by doing everything he can to help his team win but often at the expense of his education. An athletic department's primary goal is to win, yet as Fam-
brough says, an athlete's main reason for being in college is to get an education.
THE QUESTION IS: Can both goals be reached without a disserving being done to one them?请回答：
You can win at both of them, he says. "You can win on the football field and win at schoolwork."
"You can't overemphasize winning. That's what life's all about, whether in athletics or in the classroom. There's plenty of time and room to accomplish both of them."
J. Hammond McNish, KU faculty representative to the Big Eight conference, agrees with what Famartini said.
"Athletics shouldn't interfere with the academic aspect, but academics shouldn't interfere with football. That's the philosophy of the University of Kansas," he says.
Many athletes from poor educational backgrounds are recruited, however, solely because of their athletic ability. The University and these athletes care little about their educations, yet the University's official policy is to provide the athletes with an education.
"THIS MIGHT APPEAR hypocritical, but isn't," McNish says. "We're not going to tell you that all the athletes get degrees, but they're certainly aimed that way."
"I see nothing wrong with taking people who don't have great academic potential. You may recruit somebody who is a super football player but might teach it academically. But then again, maybe he will.
McNish mentions former KU players Delvin Williams and Gale Sayles, who both came from Ohio.
"We do have to admit that all aren't great academic achievers. But we're not saying in order to play on our football team that you have to be a Phi Beta Kappa."
McNish fails to mention the many athletes from impoverished backgrounds who have no interest or ability in school, yet somehow remain eligible for their sport.
ALTHOUGH MOST PEOPLE the Kanas in-
laughed in knowing that they were in-
keeping in keeping athletes, some said they
had heard rumors and had concluded that some rule-breaking existed.
Typical of the responses is that of swim coach Dick Reasonn.
"I don't really know what gifts are extended to athletes." Reasonam says. "Maybe preferential treatment and financial rewards are. I know neither are supposed to be."
But does some rulebreaking go on?
Reason replies with a small, slow nod of the head.
"I don't care for it, but what do you do?" he says. "have to if you want athletes to stay with you." He asks standardists. That's one of the evils of the system. If you wear your do everything you can, I disagree with that.
"The system forces you to be biketrical to survive. I would like to think you could be honest in everything, then you wouldn't have to do that. It would be easier to live with yourself."
REAMON IS LUCKY because most of his swimmers are in college for an education and the pressure of winning isn't as great on a swim team as it is on a football team.
"I don't want to be a party to having the responsibility of getting a guy through. My position is unique. I don't have to sweat getting a guy shit-Ne." he says.
Track coach Bob Timmons usually don't have to worry about eligibility problems either. Timmons knows the pressure that coaches go through, however, especially coaches of major sports.
"I think it makes it terribly difficult for a football coach," he says, "especially if he is aware that maybe there are institutions around that have good sportsmanship. It is possible that they may be bending rules. It puts us in a philosophically speaking, but what does one do?" Indeed, what one does in the current state of bachelor college athletics has become an irreconcilable issue. The department's answer seems to be to recruit the department's possible, to tell the public that education comes first, to preach that line to the athletes in hopes it will provide good educational opportunities and to provide their fingers in hopes that the athletes stay eligible.
See ATHLETES Page 11
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
First day totals low in election
Vol. 85-No.90 Thursday, February 13,1975
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
First day vote totals in the student elections were low again this year and appeared to be following first day vote patterns of previous years.
Joyce Huda, elections chairman, said 1,188 students voted Wednesday. That total compares with about 1,700 first day voters last year and about 1,300 in 1973.
If the trend holds, about 2,500 students should vote before the polls close tonight at 7 p.m. In 1974 2,344 voted, in 1973 2,436 voted and in 1972 3,835 voted.
The candidates for student body president all said they were surprised at the low turnout.
Another candidate for president, Barbara O'Brien, Borner Springs junior, said a lack of publicity might have contributed to the low first-day vote totals.
Lewis Gregory, Wichita senior, said that he expected a much larger vote turnout for the student body president and vice president. Paul Sherbo, Colorado Springs junior, agreed. He said he expected more student votes than he was such a bit difference in the candidate.
She said she talked to many students who
didn't even realize there was an election. Many graduate students didn't know they could vote, she said, and many students needed their registration cards to vote.
O'Brien also said that she thought the campaign had lacked the flare that ennounced its strength.
"I don't think there were many fiery issues," O'Brien said. "There were some important issues, but not the kind that get people interested in voting."
Ed Rofls, Junction City junior, said he thought the poor weather and the basketball game might have kept people away from school. The team had pledged a much bigger voter turnout today.
Hudson said no major problems had been encountered in running the elections so far. The heaviest voting took place at the polls on campus, she said.
The final results of the election won't be known until sometime after midnight.
Students are electing a student body president and vice president. 83 Student members serve as chairperson of the student body.
See ELECTIONS Page 7
Under the new agreement the University would probably file charges in county court
'Tis the season
Faculty members who want to buy new passes must pay all previous fines. The major problem is dealing with the small number of faculty members who decide not to purchase parking permits the year after they have accumulated fines. Fricke said.
Under the new proposal, Davis would have the option of sending any case he wanted to the courts, but said that alternative processes used only and the other collection processes had failed.
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Marlon Brando might also appear, Edgar Heap of Birds, a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs (CIA), said Wednesday. Brando's appearance is only tentative, Heap of Birds said. Brando is a close friend of the Banks and it is only an assumption that he will come to KU, he said.
With Valentine's Day only two days away and spring not far beyond, both love and a small tree seemed to be budding yesterday at Wescoe Hall. Roger King, Hong Kong
AIM leaders to appear at rally for prisoner
New collection plan for profs' fines likely
John Behnser, student body president, and Phil Frickey, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, met Wednesday with Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and Michael Davis, general counsel, to discuss the problem.
The year-long controversy over the cooled parking fines may finally be coming to a stop.
Russell Moans and Dennis Banks, national coordinators of the Day School, are scheduled to attend at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Hoch Auditorium.
The rally, sponsored by CIA, is in opposition to the imprisonment of Joyce Guerrero at the Kansas State Pentagon at Lansing. The CIA
The administration is expected to release a statement within the next week supporting an effort to collect all student and faculty parking fines.
senior, and Denise Jones, Overland Park junior, take time out for a little pre-Cupid romance.
Frickey said this would encourage payment of interest because the expense and time involved in product procurement were less.
Last fall a plan was developed that sent all parking violations to county court, but the system failed because the court was unable to handle the case load. Since that time the collection procedure has been unclear.
Beisner, Frickey and Davis agreed that the new procedure would probably close the loopholes in the present system. Shankel was unavailable for comment.
Students who don't pay fines have their transcripts withheld.
Guerrero is a 28-year-old Prairie Band Potawatomi from Topeka. She was the only Indian sentenced to prison as a result of the takeover of the tribe in 1963.
"I think this is about the only legal and forceful matter that's available right now," Fricke said.
Bruce Jessep, secretary of the CEA, said the main reason for the rally was to inform the public of Guerrero's situation.
Speakers at the rally will discuss the Wounded Knee incident and the recent siege of an abbey by the Menominee Warrior Society in Gresham, Wis. Indians from Haskell Indian Junior College will present a drum and song ceremony.
Valentine's Day has rich heritage
By ROXL TAY LOR
Kansan Staff Reporter
Women, watch for the first man you see tomorrow. An old English legend says that a girl will marry the first man she sees on St. Valentine's day.
There are many legends concerning Valentine's Day. The first started about 270 A.D. shortly after the death of St. Valentine.
According to one legend, Valentine, or Valentinus, was a priest in Rome who assisted Christian martyrs during their persecution under Roman Emperor Claudius because it was a crime to help Christians, Valentine was arrested and imprisoned.
After one year, he was taken before the emperor, whom Valentine tried to convert to Christianity. Claudius was impressed by Valentine's dignity, and attempted to save him by converting him to the Roman religion.
But Valentine told the emperor that the Roman gods were evil, mortal men. The Emperor ordered that Valentine be beaten with clubs, stoned, and beheaded.
WHILE WAITING to be executed,
Valentine befriended the blind daughter of
the jailer. Valentine was able to restore the
daughter's sight and on the eve of his death,
Feb. 14, he wrote her a farewell message
and signed it. "From your Valentine."
A few years after Valentine's death, Christianity began to spread throughout Rome. The Christian priests decided to keep most of the pagan feasts, but gave them Christian meaning and titles. The feast of Laperus began to become SL. Valentines' Day in this way.
Another legend says that Valentine's name became connected with the day of love because an ancient Roman paan feast Lupercalia, was celebrated on Feb. 14. At the feast, boys would draw lots to see which couple be their partner at the celebration.
THE BELIEF THAT birds would mate around the middle of February also became connected with St. Valentine's Day. It was believed that human beings should find their mates on this day because birds would mate then. Although tokens and centuries are present in ancient centuries, the reasons behind the traditional Valentine's Day are obscure.
Some authorities also think that the word valentine came from the Norman word valentien.
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it was customary to give one's valentine expensive gifts, from gold brooches to expensive white gloves. In the seventeenth century, only the gentlemen would give gifts, Drawing names for valentines was also a tradition, and many times the matched couple would marry.
By 1760, the tradition of giving expensive
gifts was disappearing. A love token, letter,
and money were the main means.
One type of love token in Wales was a spoon carved out of wood. It would be threaded on a piece of ribbon and worn as a girl's neck as a sign of engagement.
THE BUNDLE VALENTINE was also a popular gift. It was worked with exquisite craftsmanship and attention to detail.
wear as a heart scar or reticule for carrying an item. If a garment given to sailors to wear the carry belongings, it is also called a berg.
Another love token of this time was made out of pieces of tusk, wood, or bone. Sailors would carve designs on the wood, and often would be used as a stiffener for corers.
Other tokens were locks of hair, rings or garters. They would usually be acutely visible to the camera.
In the 1840s, the penny post began. A letter weighing half an ounce could be sent anywhere in the United Kingdom for a penny. The valentine card and envelope business flourished and the post offices were overworked on Valentine's Day.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Valentine's Day traditions in England were
vanishing. The only valentines that were bought were primarily picture postcards. By the time World War I broke out, valentines in England were almost a thing before the United States were still on the market in the United States and increasing in popularity.
By the end of World War II, valentine sentiments in England and the United States became the tradition they are today. Telegraphs, flowers and candy became the most popular ways of expressing valentine sentiments.
Some of the traditions of KU students include exchanging cards with friends, placing ads in the Kansan directed to a sweetheart, sending a message to your beau or belle through the campus radio station, KUOK, sending candy and flowers.
High gas prices are hit and miss sav city service station managers
By RICHARD HIRD
Kansan Staff Reporter
Recent increases in gasoline prices have affected some, but not all Lawrence service stations. Most gasoline retailers blame the increased prices as the reason for the increased prices.
Though gasoline prices generally have risen in the last two weeks, several stations reported no increase. One station, the Site service station, 946 E. 23rd St., reported Wednesday that prices had been lowered to be more competitive.
Mobil Oil Corporation stations haven't increased their prices for about a month, according to Wayne Hannibal, manager of Bills' Mobil. 1206 W. 23rd St.
"In the last few weeks it hasn't risen a penny," he said. "We were high about a month ago, and the rest of the stations are just now catching us with us."
Hannibal said that, according to the law, retail stations couldn't make more than 10 cents a gallon profit. He said his station earns $69 a month, $59.6 cents a gallon to trade, 10 cents profit.
Richard Craig, manager of Craig's Fina,
1819 W. 23rd St., said the last price increase at his station was Monday evening. In addition to the one-and-one-half cent increase
Monday, he said, his station had another two-cent increase one week ago.
Craig said he predicted another three-cent increase in another week. This increase would depend on what the central office for Fina stations decided, he said.
Several station manager indicated they had increased prices frequently, but by any measure.
Roger Daum, manager of the Fisca Oil Co., 740 N. 2nd St., said he increased last week the price of regular and unleaded in steel oil, which increased in steel oil, because it was four cents.
In spite of current increases, Daum said that he expected prices to drop.
Clyde Cramer, manager of Cramer's Phillip's Service, 1002 New Hampshire, said two weeks ago he had increased prices by two cents. He said he predicted another seven to eight cent a gallon increase by April.
Most station managers said business hadn't been hurt. Most customers interviewed indicated that they were displeased with the increase, but that they would like to do so.
"It all depends on the success of Ford's proposals," he said. "But I look for the price to be low first, and then they're down to 43.8 to 45.9 cents per gallon. I think we'll probably be next to lower ours."
J. B. Hinz, 2716 Ridge Ct., said he needed the gasoline for business trips.
"I don't like having to pay such a huge price for gas, but I have frequent business trips to Kansas City that I have to make," he said. "Unless the price get too ridiculous, I wouldn't." Bard Lovett, 3020 Iowa, said he thought the major oil companies were to blame.
"With profits as large as theirs, they ought to be able to sell gas cheaper. They could buy with less cents a gallon for gas when the oil companies are making so much of that in
Most of the station managers contacted said their increases were caused by in- service changes.
Bob McBride, Phillips Oil Company distributor, said increased costs before February were caused by increased costs from suppliers.
"Some retailers have been cutting their own margins to keep the price low," he said. "Some companies haven't passed all of their targets, like Lawson. We get another big increase."