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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 5, 1992
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Field house floor ready for season
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
Allen Field House is ready.
After more than a month of construction, the new maple floor has been installed and is ready for play.
The field house underwent a transformation last spring when the old floor was dismantled and sold to Kansas students and alumni. The sales from the pieces of the old floor were used to finance the installation of the new one.
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Darren Cook, facilities supervisor for Kansas athletics, said that the new floor was put in as a safety precaution for the plavers.
The floor covers more than 17,000 square feet and covers over twice as much area as the peroid.
At an estimated cost of $125,000, the maple floor was installed by Hart Floors, a company based in Doniphan, Neb. The company began work in August.
The new floor at Alien Field House will be used for the first time at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday evening when the Kansas women's volleyball team takes on Nebraska.
"The new floor was needed to provide our basketball teams with a larger practice area." Cook said. "The old portable floor was raised five inches off the floor and was not much larger than the actual playing court dimensions. This was confining for practice situations."
D. W. Acker, the graphics designer for the Kansas athletic department, worked with a computer to create several different designs for the floor.
"Most of the designs I had were pencil sketches," Acker said. "From there, we (began) eliminating those which we didn't care for. Then I began work on the computer."
Cook, along with athletic director Bob Frederick and Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams all shared their input with Acker.
The finished floor includes a yellow state of Kansas in the middle, with a white star marking the location of Lawrence. The words "Allen Field House" appear at the top of the state. On each side of the floor, "Kansas Jayhaws" is written in crimson letters. The free throw lanes, as they were last year, are painted blue.
Acker said that a lot of consideration was put into the final product.
"All of the lines had to be measured correctly, and none of the lines could be interfered with by artwork," he said. "I personally thought that the old court didn't have that sporty look to it, so for this one the lettering on Kansas Jayhawks is slanted.
"We did not like the blue Kansas on the court. I made it yellow with a shadow of blue. People need to understand how symbolic the color of yellow is with the state of Kansas."
Acker listed the yellow brick road, corn, and wheat as symbols of the state that he thought should to be represented. He said he tried other colors for the state, but yellow was the popular choice.
Another new addition to the artwork are two Jayhawks painted on the playing surface. There were two Jayhawks on the previous floor, but
they were placed off the playing surface and could not be seen by television cameras.
Williams was unavailable for comment, but Acker said that the coach had seen the final design two weeks ago and gave it high marks.
he lakes junior forward Richard Scott said he
likes the new floor better than the one used last
season.
"It's fun," Scott said. "I liked playing on it and it looks better. You don't have to worry about running into the cameras or hitting the rubber part of the floor like we did last year."
Kathleen Driscoll/ Special to the KANSAN
Rolling on
Kelly Fuits, left, St. Louis junior, and Tony Hain, Wichita junior, kick off the community services campaign for Rock Chalk Revue. The Advisory Board for Rock Chalk painted a disabled Lawrence resident's home yesterday afternoon.
Peers provide support system
list of 50 adults and youths, the group is looking for any volunteers who meet the few requirements.
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A volunteer must be 18 years old, provide references, have access to a car, and make a yearlong commitment. Students can commit to meet with their clients weekly for nine months and to correspond for the three months they may be away from Lawrence in the summer. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation conducts background checks to ensure that the volunteers are suitable to work with the clients.
Competer requests that volunteers pay $10 to cover investigation costs, but does not turn away volunteers who cannot pay. The only additional expenditure is the time spent each week.
Marozas said he would miss the time spent with Brandon if he decided to go to graduate school away from KU, but one thing would remain the same.
But Marozas said seeing Brandon change from a boy with few interests to one focused on a serious goal was worth his time.
Special to the KANSAN
"No matter where I go, if we're far apart, it's not going to affect our friendship," he said.
Brian Erb, Lawrence resident (left), takes staging directions for a drowning scene from Jeff Hopkins, Prairie Village senior, at Clinton Lake. The scene was filmed in late August as part of Hopkins' play, "Coverage," which will be performed at 8 p.m. tonight at Brewster Auditorium in Strong Hall.
Student's play looks at future of television
By J.R. Clairborne
Kansan staff writer
Tonight, students at the University of Kansas will get a glimpse of what broadcast news could look like in the future.
The English Alternative Theatre will perform a staged reading of "Coverage," an original script by Jeff Hopkins, Prairie Village senior. The play features the titulararium in Strong Hall. Hopkins is a theater major.
Prompted by the graphic, realistic depictions of death and devastation seen on news broadcasts today, Hopkins' play addresses the perceived changed code of ethics used in today's television programming.
"In my generation, TV and what is shown on TV was changed." Hopkins said. "In general, TV has been the best thing."
Hopkins said he had noticed that even children's programs had content that had not been acceptable on TV in the past. The code of ethics used by the networks today seems to have changed to include nudity, profanity and graphic violence, he said.
"If they want to keep up with the ratings, TV has to show the violence," Hopkins said. "The play shows where this type of journalism may be in 10 years."
The play centers on the life of Porter, a former TV foreign news correspondent who has been out of work since his son drowned one year earlier.
Porter has been approached by Phil, a cameraman and former associate, who is trying to convince Porter that he should join the new network, "CNN-Crisis News Network." A 24-hour news network, CNN televises explicit violence, including mutilated bodies and victims cut down by sniper-fire.
Hopkins said "Coverage" was a one-act play in which three characters were struggling to cope.
Toward the end of the play, CNN also broadcasts the drowning of Porter's son, which he and the audience see.
Hopkins said the play also would touch on the subject of "video vigilantes," people with video cameras who film news events such as natural disasters and incidents like the Rodney King beating.
Scenes filmed by these people generally are sold to local television stations, resulting in news broadcasts with graphic depictions of murders that wereATERed-down versions seen in the past, he said.
"TV is becoming more of a mirrored reflection of reality because of the proliferation of video equipment," Hopkins said. "What they show is real life."
Following the staged reading. John Ginn, Knight distinguished professor of journalism, will lead a discussion on media ethics.
KU names scholarship nominees
KC Trauer
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas announced Friday that it has nominated four students to compete for the prestigious Rhodes and Marshall scholarships, which provide for graduate study in Britain.
The nominees are eligible to compete on state and national levels for the 32 Rhodes and 40 Marshall scholarships, said Michael Young, director of the KU Honors Program, which organized the selection process.
The scholarships do more than allow students an opportunity to study in Britain's finest schools, Young said.
"Both scholarships attempt to help students develop their leadership capacities," he said. "The prestige that goes along with the scholarships will help those acquire positions of leadership they aspire to."
Among the past recipients of the Rhodes scholarship are Supreme Court Justices Byron White and David Souter, Sen. Bill Bradley, D.N.J., and Democratic presidential nominee Gov Bill Clinton.
Jason Wittmer, Emporia senior in chemistry and Rhodes scholar nominee, said the scholarship would give him an opportunity to study a way to link ethics, economics and politics in pursuing health-care reform.
Wittmer, who is planning a career in medicine, said the time-consuming process of writing the Rhodes application helped define his career goals.
"My ideas started to come together in preparing for this," he said.
The University's nominees were chosen for their excellence in academic and extracurricular activities. They are:
Ronald Mallon, Salina senior in English and philosophy, who was founder and co-president of Students Tutoring for Literacy. He plans to seek philosophy and law graduate degrees and to become a university professor.
Mallon is the sole Marshall nominee and if selected, may study at any university in Britain, whereas Rhodes scholars study only at Oxford.
Pamela McElwee, Lawrence senior in environmental studies and political science, who is working for U.S. Sen. Al Gore, D-Tenn., this semester as an assistant legislative aide for environmental affairs.
McElwee seeks graduate study in forestry and a career in tropical forestry development in Third World nations.
Michael Schreiner, WaKeeney graduate in business and history, who was student body president during the 1900-91 school year. He is now a graduate student at Indiana University.
Schreiner wants to combine a career in researching, writing and teaching with public service.
Wittner, who worked as a certified emergency medical technician at St. Francis Regional Medical Center Emergency Room and Trauma Center in Wichita.
A KU student last won a Rhodes scholarship in 1983 and a Marshall scholarship in 1988.
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