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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.29
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1992
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3,000
Brett reaches hitting plateau
Milestone!
Kansas City Royals player George Brett became the 18th player in major-league baseball history last night to reach the 3,000 hit mark. He hit 4 for 5 against the California Angels in his first game back since sitting out two games because of a muscle strain injury. The Royals won, 4-0.
| Hit | date | opponent | type of hit |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1 | August 2, 1973 | vs. Chicago | hi |
| 400 | Aug 27, 1976 | vs. Milwaukee | hi |
| 500 | Aug 27, 1976 | vs. Milwaukee | hi |
| 1000 | Aug 29, 1982 | vs. Chicago | hi |
| 1,000 | May 25, 1986 | vs. Chicago | hi |
| 2,000 | Sept 1, 1986 | vs. Minnesota | hi |
| 2,000 | Sep 10, 1982 | vs. Minnesota | hi |
Source: The Associated Press.
source: the associated Press,
1991. Royal Media Guide
Sean M. Tevis / KANSAN
ANAHEM, Calif. — George Brett, who fought through an injury-filled career to become one of the most prolific hitters ever, singled off Tim Fortugio in the seventh inning last night to follow Robin Yount of Milwaukee into the 3,000-hit club.
The Kansas City Royals star became the 18th player to get 3,000 hits in the major leagues, adding his name to a list that began this season with Pete Rose at the top and Roberto Clemente at the bottom. Brett did it with the 59th game of his career in which he had four or more hits.
Brett hit the first pitch he faced in the seventh inning past second baseman Ken Oberkell into right field for his four hit of the night. Royals play at home, but to hug him, and took first base back to the dugout.
Fortugio, a 30-year rookie left-hander, threw a football right down the middle, and I just swung right.
"But it was amazing how relaxed I was," he said. "I couldn't believe it. Usually, I envisioned what the 3,000th hit would be like and all the pressure and tension in my arms and all the nervousness in my body, but there was none tonight. I felt very, very relaxed all night."
"It's a relief and I am the happiest man in the world right now," said Brett, who was playing for the first time after missing two games with a sore shoulder.
"Tonight before the game, I hit off the tee. I felt comfortable but not good. I didn't take any live batting practice. I was hoping before the game to get hit and not go backwards in the progress I had made."
Instead, he burst forward into baseball history three weeks to the day after Yount reached 3,000 and 20 years to the day after Clemente achieved that figure.
Brett remained in the game after an ovation that lasted about five minutes. He then reached on an error in the ninth and came out of the game for a pinch runner.
The 39-year-old Brett thus added one of the final jewels in a 19-year career that includes the distinction of being the only player to win batting titles in three decades: 1976, 1980 and 1980.
Brett had a slicing double in the first innings off
Jibre Valera, a drive to left that rookie Rob Duceney
In the second, Brett followed Wally Joyner's lead off single with a ground single through the right side of the infield.
After sailing on 1-1 pitches his first two times up, Brett awning at a 1-0 pitch leading off the fifth. He
The Kansas women's tenis team will travel to Manhattan this weekend to play in the Kansas State Invitational.
Kansas is ranked 19th in the nation by Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The Jayhawks are the only Big Eight Conference team ranked.
Jayhawk tennis
See story, Page 9.
MindvWeiner
University casts critical eye at itself
Kansan staff writer
From hours of meetings and piles of paperwork soon will emerge proposals on how to modify some of the programs KU offers.
In the last eight months, faculty and administrators have scratinized every academic program at the University of Kansas in well those programs serve the University.
Administrators call the effort an exercise in fiscal responsibility and an opportunity to make the University stronger. But others argue that they should not about whether the process of program
The process is called program review, and its purpose, administrators say, is to find out how the University can best spend its money.
review will produce fair results.
In theory, program review should pro- vide a blueprint for making the university stronger. Important programs that need strengthening could be improved with money saved from eliminating smaller, more peripheral programs. Some programs may be merged or reorganized with others, and some may be created.
Program review began in January when the Board of Regents mandated all six of the state universities to evaluate their programs to ensure each program fulfilled its mission. Dr. Paul Stanley, the Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, said this year's program reviews
Academic programs are not the only ones under the microscope. KU's non-academic programs such as faculty operations, offices and administrative offices also may undergo change.
were partly an effort to boost the punics confidence that Kansas universities were fiscally responsible.
In recent years, the Legislature has not provided enough money to fulfill the Regents universities' needs, he said.
But the aim of program review and the changes that will result is not to save money or find ways to reduce the universities' budgets, said Ed Meyen, KU's executive vice chancellor.
"Financial reality was that our budget requests were not being met," Kopfik said. "We didn't think those requests were too high." The CEO said the very bright for meeting those demands.
"The net result is not that we're going to give back a dollar but that we may end up finding a better use of the dollar we have,"
See Programs. Page 12.
Restructuring the University
The University of Kansas is examining every program and its function at KU. The changes that result from this examination, called program review, will affect every student, university employee and faculty member.
Tomorrow the Kansas looks at how students and faculty adapt to programs reorganized and eliminated through program review.
Daron J. Bennett/KANSAN
In front of a lunchtime crowd outside Wescoe Hall, Sylvia Stone, staff member in the department of women's studies, reads anonymous testimonials of sexual harassment. The testimonials, which were delivered by several people yesterday afternoon, detailed accounts of harassment by employers, coaches, instructors and peers. Details that may have led to identification of those involved were deleted
KU speaks out on harassment
Bv Kristv Dorsev
Kansan staff writer
A crowd of about 200 gathered in yesterday afternoon's sunshine to listen to accounts about a dark problem - sexual harassment.
The Women's Studies Program sponsored a sexual harassment speak-out at noon in front of Wesco Hall. Third-two individual, anonymous accounts, including stories about sexual harassment in grade school, high school, college and the workplace, were read by members of the Women's Advisory Board.
Betty Campbell, board member and speak-out organizer, said the purpose of the event was to heighten awareness of sexual harassment.
"I think a lot of people were shocked at some of the accounts," she said. "There were some guys sitting near me, and at first they weren't really listening, but as they kept listening I think they became shocked by some of the stories."
Campbell said she thought the speak-out helped some people realize the impact
harassment had on victims. She also said the even might make potential harassers come to her defence.
One of the stories was an account from a woman who was accosted by a woman, and another story was from a man who was harassed by a woman. The other 30 accounts were all from women who were harassed by men, Campbell said.
Many of the stories, though not all, described incidents at the University of Kansas. All of the accounts dealt in some way with the effects of harassment.
Another account from a woman who was a junior at KU in the fall of 1991 described the effects of being raped. The woman said that before the incident, she was doing well in school and was confident in her future.
help from Lawrence police and threats she received from the assailant's friends. It also described the nightmares she had after the rane and her struggle to return to campus.
"There has not been one day when I don't think of what happened, and the nightmares that have occurred."
"I have been sexually harassed on the Ku campus more times than I can count," one account said. "I could write a book, but I won't."
"That world ceased to exist when I was raped by another KU student after an off-campus party," the account said. The story told about the woman's difficulty in getting
Students attending the speak-out said they felt it was important that people hear the stories of sexual harassment victims.
Marcie McCoy, Lawrence graduate student, sat through the entire one-and-a-half-hour presentation. McCoy, who teaches a course in college, hoped the many of her students had attended.
"I think it's so much more valuable to hear the actual stories," she said. "I can talk about the power issues, but to hear the actual stories brings it alive."
Deb McGill, Lawrence freshman, said the speak-out should not alienate men from
"Sometimes I think men take it like it's us against them, and it shouldn't be like that," she said. "We should all be together on these issues."
After leaving race, Perot spent millions
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Ross Perot, continued to spend millions after he dropped from the presidential race in July, maintaining a 50-state organization and quietly preparing campaign advertising.
Those expenditures — $4 million in August alone — have put Perot in position for an "October surprise" return if he chooses to make that move today.
But they also underline a stark contrast between what the Texas billionaire has said publicly and what he has done privately since ending his independent bid for the White House.
At the same time he was spending the money, Perot was declaring that he would not play a spoiler's role, that the chances of his returning were comparable to the likelihood that a hurricane would go straight up in the air today.
"It smacks of double dealing," said Stephen Hess, a political analyst with the Brookings Institution. "He said he was leaving the race, not I'm leaving the race but I'm going to be creating some 30 ads and getting my name on ballots just in case I decide to come back."
Campaign finance reports filed with the government show Perot has spent $18.5 million — $16.1 million of it his own money — since first mentioning the possibility of an independent campaign in March.
More than half that total has been spent since he withdrew: $6.6 million in July and $4 million in August.
That fact is not lost on the political professionals who worked on his campaign before it disbanded and who now wonder whether Perot was planning an October surprise all the time.
"Perot doesn't throw money away. If he was paying after he dropped out to get himself on the ballot in all those states, then he clearly had something in mind," said Elizabeth Maas, Perot's former director of press operations.
Ral Suso, a California consultant who works briefly for Pertot said he had learned to be patient.
"I don't think he wants to go out as the guy who cane in, got everyone excited and then quit," Russo said.
Assistant director eases path for minorities
By Mark Martin
Kansan staff writer
Sixteen years ago, working under the glaring Texas sun, 12-year-old Roland Diaz and his cousins would joke about having
corn for $12.50 a day, the idea of working in an office seemed out of reach to Diaz and his fellow Mexican-American cousins.
Now 28, Diaz, assistant director of the office of minority affairs, leans back in the unhindered
chair in his air-conditioned office. On the wall opposite him are three important pieces of paper: a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Texas, a masters degree in drama from the University of North Texas and another masters degree in
Roland Diaz
English from Texas Women's University, which allows men in its graduate programs. A fourth degree, a doctorate in English from KU, is six credit hours away.
Diaz, whose parents met in a Wisconsin
field field, cannot help but think about how
he might succeed.
"I realized early on in life that working in the fields was not what I wanted to do," he said. "I liked school a lot as a kid, especially English. It was a good way to escape."
Diz grew up in the small border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, dreaming of being a writer or an actor when he was in school. He was one of the '60s as an illegal alien and he became the
first of his family to graduate from high school.
"Through all the hardship, my family always remained stable," he said. "Dad vowed that he would do everything he could to send my brother and myself to college, so that we could have a better life then he had."
Like many first generation college students, Diaz felt a pull to leave his Hispanic heritage and assimilate to Anglo-American ways.
Diaz's father worked as a salesperson in Eagle Pass during the winters and kept his promise. Diaz vividly remembers his first day at college.
"There I was, from a small town, standing in front of this huge dormitory with its own zip code," he said. "My parents had never known anyone who had gone to college, so they didn't know what to tell me. As they pulled away, I remember thinking that I was really on my own."
"I wanted desperately to fit in," he said. "I tried to dress like everyone else and be like everyone else. It wasn't until years later that I realized I am a Mexican, and I am an American, you don't have to choose. I am both and proud to be both."
Diaz said that when he returns to Eagle Pass now, many people in the town of 22,000 think he has left his heritage behind.
"But usually, I can start speaking Spanish to them, in their dialect," he said. "I tell them that I am trying to work for the bet-ter in our Spanish-Americans and other minorities."
Diaz said the job he has now, which he began this semester, has enabled him to help ease the transition into KU for Hispanic American and other minority students.
"KU is a big place," he said. "We try and help anyone in any way we can. We like to think of this office as the home away from
See Director. Page 10.