Tuesday, February 11, 1975
Academic counseling ...
From Page One
—The basketball teams compiled the highest four year graduation rate at 35.3 per cent and the worst rate of nongraduates, also 35.3 per cent.
—The football teams compiled the worst four from a production of 8,096.
—The track teams compiled the lowest nongraduate rate at 10.7 per cent.
The study concluded that it took some time for KU to become superior but that most KU athletes finally graduated.
The athletes' basic complaint about Skahan and the athletic department is that maintaining the players' eligibility shouldn't be the only thing that counts.
A KU baseball player says, "Skahan really doesn't know what's going on. He might check an athlete's grades or a player's health. He just wants to keep him alive."
Football linebacker Steve Towle says, "I don't think there is a close and healthy relationship between the athletic and educational aspects here."
Bonny, for example, thinks he's been treated fairly.
There is no consensus among the players concerning this point, however.
"They've upheld their promise to me to give me a chance to get a good education," he says. "They've made several efforts. It could have been an out of college, the opportunity is there."
To remain eligible for a sport, Skahan says, the NCAA requires the passing of 24
credit hours a year with a 1.6 grade point average during the freshman and sophomore years and a 1.8 G.P.A. during the junior and senior years. Basketball is the same, he says, except that eligibility must be maintained by the semester instead of by the year. Therefore, he says, there is more pressure on basketball players.
"If I recruited a guy, I'd go into his home and tell his parents that education came first and that I'd look out for him when he got to school," Buda says. "If parents give you a good kid, we hope to give him back in good shape academically."
Former head football coach Don Fambrough also puts education as his main priority. He says the athletes who think college is the reason they're in college are making excuses.
Sandy Buda, an assistant football coach at KU last year, now holds the same position as Michael O'Reilly and recruits while he was here. Buda has some strong ideas about the student-athlete.
A lot use that as a crutch, "Fambrough says, 'They have the opportunity. Nobody can make you go to class. If they don't want it, then that's something else. No athlete can tell me can't get an education at the University of Kangas."
"We didn't supply tutors just to keep them occupied but had a B, then we'd put him tutor if he wore glasses."
give you an education, "he says." But I can help in every way possible. If you listen to what I say, go to class, keep up on your work, then you'll get a degree."
Skahan says part of his job is to keep players eligible by letting them know eligibility requirements. But, he says, that isn't his main interest.
Skahan is in a difficult position and he knows it. If he provides too much help, he can teach him of babysitting. If he tries to make an athlete dependent, he says, his accused of not caring.
"This is an animal of a job," he says. "The kids' being critical is fine. Maybe I need do some help. Time will tell. I wish I could please everybody, but I can't."
"I'm sure this office isn't perfect. But I'm sure it has done a helluva lot more good than it has done."
"I tell the new recruits that I can't get or
Wednesday: How different athletes handle the role of student.
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Kansas House considering advisory board
The Council of Student Body Presidents met last weekend and consulted with some of Bennett's aides. The council decided on a plan that would give each of the student body presidents at the six regent universities a seat on the advisory board.
A bill is being considered by the Kansas House of Representatives that would create a student advisory board to the Board of Regents.
The legislation was introduced by Rep. Lloyd Buzzi, R.Lawrence. Gov. Robert F. Bennett supported development of such a board in his budget message, so some type of consolidation is expected before action is taken on the proposal.
John Beinser, student body president,
said the bill called only for the creation of such a board, but no specific plans for its structure had been developed yet.
The new program would also be better than having a student on the Board of Regents because it would allow presentation from all six universities, he said.
Under the council's proposal, the presidents would serve terms from June 1 to May 31. They would sit in on Board of Regents meetings and could make comments at any time during the decision-making process. The presidents would also be assigned to standing committees as advisory members.
Beiser said that although the presidents could now sit on in meetings, they weren't represented on standing committees. The president would be valuable to the rehearsed, he said.
Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents, said he wouldn't comment on the proposal until he could review it.
Junior Women!
The eight-member Rockefeller Commission also heard testimony today from William F. Raborn Jr., who headed the CIA for 14 months in 1965 and 1966.
Today, former CIA counterintelligence chief James J. Angleton appeared before the Rockefeller Commission, which is investigating domestic spying by the CIA.
Angleton, who was forced to resign from the CIA in December, has been named in published reports as the mastermind of a CIA spy operation in the United States.
However, a well-placed source indicated that Angleton has told the commission staff that he had no knowledge of the day-to-day workings of a special counterintelligence LA Director William E. Colby has acknowledged kept files on 10,000 American citizens.
Angleton's forced retirement after 31 years of intelligence work has been widely linked to allegations of domestic spying, although sources familiar with agency affairs have said the case is being handled with that of three of his top allies, stemmed from a sharp policy dispute with Colby.
Helms admits concealing data on CIA spying
The Torch Chapter of Mortar Board, Inc. (an national senior women's honor society) will be making selections for 1975-76.
Applications are available in the Dean of Women's Office (220 Strong) and must be returned by Feb.14, 1975.
Helms' admission was made in secret testimony last month before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A censored copy of his statements was released Sunday.
PEACE CORPS/VISTA RECRUITERS ON CAMPUS February 17-19
WASHINGTON (AP)--Former CIA Director Richard M. Helms admits he intentionally failed to tell Senate committees all he knew about CIA work in Chile and withheld information about the Nixon administration's desire to have the Marxist government of Salvador Allende overthrew.
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