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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 20,1992
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Clinic helps kids learn basketball
Former players call the shots for youngsters
By J.R. Clairborne Kansan staff writer
Mary Myers, an assistant director at KU's Organizations and Activities Center and former Lady Jayhawk, created the clinic to teach the fundamentals of basketball for third-grade through eighth-grade players.
It seems hard to imagine a problem with basketball instruction in a city that is home to a winning college basketball tradition. But for the past six Saturdays, a group of nine athletes and students at the University of Kansas awoke at 6 a.m. expressly for 88 young basketball enthusiasts in Lawrence.
The group coached for the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department's Instructional Basketball Clinic, which concluded Saturday.
The former KU athletes were Sean Alvarado and Milt Newton, members of the 1988 National Championship team; and Tanya Bonham, Kay Kay Hart and
Danielle Shareef, members of the 1992 Big Eight Championship Lady Jayhawks.
The clinic also served as a way for Myers and other former KU athletics to express their appreciation to the Lawrence community for its years of support, she said.
"The neat thing about this was that the kids had the opportunity to work on an almost one-to-one basis with former KU basketball players." Myers said.
The stress that Myers put on learning the basics was what appealed to the parents of the clinic's participants.
Courtyard to replace pool for relaxation at Towers
"These kids walked away from here loving basketball and the clinic" said Harold Nelson, counselor at Quail Run Elementary School and father of 9-year-old Said. "If anything, they have been taught to love the sport and its fundamentals.
Dee Jefferson, mother of 8-year-old John and wife of KU assistant football coach John Jefferson, said that the $25 fee charged for the clinic was a bargain.
"With all these KU athletes conducting the clinic, the children are really at an advantage," she said. "The ratio of players to coaches is nearly 3 to 1."
By Christine Laue Kansan staff writer
A new courtyard will make a big splash at Jayhawk Towers, even though the Towers' swimming pool has been removed.
Although Towers residents no longer will be able to sunbathe, students will have an area to relax, meet or study in, said Charlene Engleking, Jayhawker Towers manager.
"It will give us something we can use all year round," Engleking said. The courtyard is expected to be completed in December.
She said concerns about liability also affected the officials' decision to remove the pool. The Towers had no way of patrolling the pool 24 hours a day.
Student housing officials decided to remove the pool because of high maintenance costs and extensive repairs it required, she said.
But Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the project is not just addressing the problem of the swimming pool.
The construction, which began in August, will improve lighting around the apartments and include ramps to improve accessibility for the elderly and the physically and visually disabled.
Stoner said the completed project, expected to cost about $28,300, also will give trash trucks easier access to the Towers and relieve congested
traffic near there. The trucks will pick up trash from one bin farther away from the buildings rather than individual bins at each building.
Moving the bin and redirecting the trucks' route should keep the noisy trucks from awakening residents in the morning.
Yet noise from jackhammers and construction crews has bothered some residents, Engleking said.
"The noise, of course, draws complaints," she said. "But considering we have 880 residents, we haven't had many complaints."
"I've been woken up a couple times because of the construction," he said.
Cameron Huffman, Wichita freshman, said the noise from the construction posed an inconvenience to Tower residents.
Walking around the construction site also is a hassle at the Towers, he said.
Huffman's roommate, Jeff Ham, Wichita freshman, said that the two were expecting a pool when they moved to Lawrence in August and that they were disappointed to discover it was being removed.
"The construction is kind of annoying, but I don't know if people are really missing the pool or not," she said. "I'm not upset about it because I never used it."
Jenny Eisele, Olathe junior, said that in the three years she had lived at the Towers, subbathers at the Towers often did not use the pool.
Holly McQueen / KANSAN
Penny Construction foreman Mike Puckett, foreground, carpenter Marc Cronin, left, and carpenter Stephen Edwards construct stairs on the south side of Jay-hawker Towers. The stairs are part of the construction for a central courtyard, which will include a lighted fountain, benches and walking paths behind the Towers. The project is expected to be completed by December.
Local candidate forum spotlights talk of tuition increases
Kansan staff writer
By Kristy Dorsey
Kenwood staff writer
Financing higher education was a recurring topic during last night's televised debate between 14 Kansas state Senate and House of Representatives candidates.
The forum, cabcled by Sunflower Cablevision Channel 6, allowed candidates from the 2nd and 19th district Senate races and the 10th, 44th, 45th and 46th district state House races to field questions from Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and Lawrence Kids Voting representatives.
Candidates for the 46th district House seat were asked about tuition increases at Board of Regents schools. Independent candidate Richard Small said that he had not researched the issue but that he probably would not support increasing taxes.
"I'm not sure, quite frankly, that the answer lies in more taxpayer support," he said. "It may, but I don't know."
Small's reluctance to endorse tax increases to support Regents schools was in line with his stated theory that a bigger government was not the answer to the state's problems. He emphasized that as an independent candidate, he was free to choose from the best ideas offered by both parties.
ishment, Charlton was the only candidate who said that she firmly opposed it. Entrikin said that she supported capital punishment because most of the voters in her district supported it, and Small said he would support it only if it was broadly and fairly implemented.
"If we have state institutions, then the state must pay for those institutions," she said.
Barbara Ballard, Democratic candidate in the 44th House district and director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said she thought that the most pressing problem facing higher education was financing faculty and staff salaries. She also said that it was important to make higher education available to those who were unable to go to college.
In response to a question about capital pun
Republican candidate Brian Kubota said that if he were elected, he would support continued funding for the Margin of Excellence program, the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of Regents institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Republican candidate Neva Entrikin also said that she did not support increased tax money to offset Regents schools tuition increases. However, she said that she did support increasing scholarship and loan opportunities for students.
Second-grade panelist Luke Thompson struggles to stay awake while ninth-grade panelist Sarah Dreiling looks on.
Incumbent Democrat Betty Jo Charlton said that although she supported the increasing of faculty salaries at state schools, she did not think that the increase should be financed by students.
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
On the question of qualified admissions for Regents schools, 45th district House candidates Bob Skahan, Republican, and Forrest Swall, Democrat and also an assistant professor of social welfare, both agreed that qualified admissions were necessary in order to manage state funding properly.
However, the two were divided on the issue of abortion. Skahan said that he opposed abortion except in the case of rape, incest or when the mother's health was in danger. Swall said abortion was the most important issue separating himself from Skahan.
Other candidates at the debate included Sandy Praeger, Roger Woods, Joyce Wolf, Walter Myers, Anthony Hensley, Walker Hendrix and Tonia Salviin. Channel 6 will air the forum again in its entirety 7 p.m. Friday.
"I have an unqualified position on women's reproductive rights," he said.
Public school students get moment in limelight
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
Students from three Lawrence public schools got the opportunity to question Kansas Legislature candidates about several social issues during last night's televised forum.
One elementary student, one junior high student and two
high school students were invited to form a question panel as part of the Lawrence Kids Voting program. The program is designed to educate students about the electoral process.
Panelists included Luke Thompson of Hillcrest Elementary and Hemant Bhana of Lawrence High School.
Bhana said he noticed a differ
case in the kinds of questions asked by the students and by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce panel.
"Their questions were very politically motivated," he said about the chamber of commerce's questions. "They were questions geared to an older crowd."
many candidates appeared at the forum. He said that none of the candidates had enough time to express their views.
Thompson said he was not pleased with all of the answers given to his questions.
Bhana said he thought too
"They were sort of mixing up everything, and it didn't make much sense," he said.
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