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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday October 15,1987 Vol.98,No.39
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Kansas basketball players Danny Manning and Scooter Barry sing their own version of "My Girl."
Wide-awake fans enjoy a 'Late Night'
By DARRIN STINEMAN
Staff writer
Although it came as early as NCAA rules allow, "Late Night with Larry Brown," the event that celebrates the beginning of basketball season, couldn't have come any sooner for nearly 16,000 rabid Kansas basketball fans.
The first team practice, which is really an intrasquad game, got under way at 12:01 a.m. today, the first day that the National Collegiate Athletic Association allows Division I schools to practice.
The practice was preceded by a variety show that included KU players Danny Manning and Scooter Barry singing "My Girl," performances by the Kansas cheerleaders and the Crimson Girls, and songs from Michael Beers and the Late Night Band.
Allen Field House rocked from the time the show began at 10:45 p.m. yesterday until the teams took the floor just after midnight. Despite the hour of the event, the crowd was enthusiastic, looking for any reason to make noise.
"This is crazy — this is incredible," Kevin Baughman, Wichita freshman, said as the show was getting under way. "If we're late for class tomorrow, we'll just say we were with Larry last night."
A basketball practice in the middle of the night was a new experience for him.
"I was talking to some of the new guys," All-America senior forward Manning said yesterday afternoon.
"They've seen some films and they've been to a couple of games when it was packed and when it's really loud, but it's a totally different
feeling when you're on the court and you're a part of it."
Freshman center Mike Masucci got an idea of what it was like to be part of it last night.
"I played in front of 19,000 people once," he said, "but not in front of 19,000 wild people. I've been looking up to tonight ever since I got here."
"This is something I've never experienced, I know that," he said. "I have looked forward to tonight because all the guys told me how fun it is playing at 12-midnight in front of so many people."
So had junior Marvin Branch, a center who transferred from Barton County Community College at Great Bend this year.
During the performances before practice, Manning and Barry brought the house down taking turns
with the lines of "My Girl." The rest of the team, clad in trenchcoats and dark sunglasses, swayed and backed up their teammates with "doo-hawh," although it was hard to hear them over the din of the crowd.
Later, as the players were coming back onto the court to play the game, the band played and Beers fittingly sang "Kansas City," the site of the 1988 NCA Midwest Regional basketball tournament.
The players did slam-dunks to the oobs and aahs of the crowd until the field house clock ticked down to the time when it was time to get the season under way.
After seven months without KU ban, the crown of baka will wait eager to be the
5 residence halls lacking required smoke detectors
By BEN JOHNSTON Staff writer
Staff writer
Six years after state fire codes were changed to require university residence halls to have smoke detectors in halls or rooms, five KU halls are equipped.
Dean Milroy, associate director of maintenance for the office of student housing, said Lewis, Templin, Hashinger, Ellsworth and McColmhalls did not have smoke detectors, but the housing office did plan to install them in those halls.
Paul Markley, chief of the fire prevention division for the state Fire Marshal Department in Topeka, said that since 1981, state fire codes have required residence halls to either have a smoke detector in each room or 30 feet apart in each corridor.
"I am rather surprised KU still has five dormitories that do not have fire detectors, because fire detectors are located in fire safety," Markley said vestuary day.
"We compare one year to another year." Markley said. "We kind of look at the overall picture to see what is accomplished."
The fire marshal's office also considers the amount of money being spent by housing to improve fire safety and if enough is being done, Markley said.
Markley said he had thought the University was making sufficient progress to install the detectors, but because he learned alarms had not been installed in five halls he would probably contact the housing office.
The fire marshal's office plans to inspect KU residence halls in November.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the housing office began installing smoke detectors in each room of the residence halls in the summer of 1986, but so far only Joseph R. Pearson and Gertrude Sellards Pearson halls had functioning smoke detectors. Smoke detectors now are being installed in Oliver Hall. Stoner said.
Stoner said that by installing alarms in each room, the housing office was doing more than is required by the state, which only requires residence halls to have alarms in hallways.
Installing smoke detectors costs about $4,000 for each hall, he said.
The housing office plans to install smoke detectors in Lewis and Temp-
lin in 1988, in Hashinger and Ellsworth in 1989 and McCollum in 1990. Stoner said.
"I had been operating under the assumption that the plan is acceptable," Stoner said.
But Markley said the housing office was violating state law by not having alarms in the five halls. He said the housing office could be liable if someone was injured or killed in a fire in one of the halls.
I am rather surprised KU still has five dormitories that do not have fire detectors, because
priority in fire safety.'
Paul Markley
Of the state
Fire Marshal Department
"A jury would probably have to answer that question." Markley said. "If they believed the University was negligent, or not making enough of an attempt to comply with the law, they could possibly be held responsible."
Two halls are about the most that could be wired with smoke detectors in one year because the housing office has a limited number of electricians. Also, the cost of the installation would take money away from other projects such as roof repairs, Stoneer said.
Don McConnell, assistant director of maintenance for student housing, said that Oliver still was being wired for the smoke alarms, and that the project would be completed by the beginning of next semester.
Milroy said smoke detectors were installed in the scholarship halls in the early 1980s.
Stoner said smoke detectors had been installed in Jayhawker Towers some time after the housing office began operating the Towers in 1980.
Basketball player may lose 1 year of his eligibility
By MIKE CONSIDINE
Staff writer
Kansas men's basketball player Joe Young may lose one year of athletic eligibility because he mistakenly received financial aid, associate athletic director Gary Hunter said yesterday.
On Oct. 3, KU declared Young, a transfer from Dodge City Community College, academically ineligible to compete this season. Young was seven credits short of the National Collegiate Athletic Association requirement for junior college transfers.
Hunter said that Young, Chicago junior, had received scholarship payments for September and October, which could cost him a year of schooling. He's AA regulations. That would leave him with only one year of eligibility.
"Joe Young slipped through the cracks." Hunter said.
Young could not be reached for comment.
Hunter said he had filed an appeal with the NCAA to prevent Young from losing any eligibility over what he termed a bureaucratic mix-up.
"I feel we have a very strong moral obligation to assist him," said Hunter. "I hope the NCAA will look with us to restore the wear of eligibility."
Young, a 6-foot-6 forward, averaged 16 points and nine rebounds a game last year at Dodge City Community College. He and 6-foot-10
junior college transfer Marvin Branch were expected to help improve the Jayhawks' rebounding this season.
"He can fill that role. He's a terrific athlete and a good kid." KU basketball coach Larry Brown said. "He has some of the same qualities he had as a college player, quickness and is a phenomenal jumper." Marshall is a KU forward.
The NCAA requires that the athletic department ask Young to return the scholarship payments to regain eligibility in the future. Hunter said
"We've got him here for awhile," he can sit and learn, and be ready next.
But Young is at KU and making progress toward a degree, Brown
Hunter said that he planned to meet with Kansas Athletic Director Bob Frederick and assistant athletic director Richard Lee to prevent future occurrences. He said that it was important for the athletic department to have better contact with the admissions office.
"We have put him in an incredible bind," Hunter said. "We have really done that young man a disservice. We haven't taught this in the athletic department."
"The key is to communicate better and make quicker decisions," Hunter said.
See YOUNG, p. 6, col.1
MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE
public universities such as KU don't operate with public money alone. They also rely on private contributions to buy equipment and to finance research. It is a dependency some say is necessary if schools are to excel.
Budig says KU needs support
By JULIE McMAHON Staff writer
The Margin of Excellence would be a source of more state money for the University of Kansas, but state money is not enough without donations from alumni, corporations and other private citizens.
State universities across the country must raise money privately, even though they are public institutions, because state finance is not adequate to let them afford for good students and faculty.
The Kansas University Endowment Association, which raises
money for KU from private sources, will begin a $100 million fundraising drive called Campaign Kansas in May. But Chancellor Gene A. Budig said last week that the campaign was based on the assumption that KU would receive money and that Legislature. It is not designed to relieve the state of its responsibility he said.
"To have real quality, a state university must have a blend of both public and private support. This is a necessity," he said. "In order to make needed progress, we need increased levels of support
Even though the amount of money KU receives from the state is 85.9 percent of the average amount received by peer schools, KU has the largest private endowment. KU's endowment totals $196 million. North Carolina has the second largest endowment at $105 million and Oklahoma has the smallest at $23 million.
from both. The load has to be shared."
KU's total spending for fiscal year 1987, which ended June 30, was $183.99 million. The Endow-
See PRIVATE, p. 14, col. 1
TOMORROW
Chancellor Gene A. Budig says KU will lose its best professors if the Kansas Legislature fails to approve Margin of Excellence this spring. What do legislative leaders say?
Also, the Board of Regents discuss Margin of Excellence and open admissions.