University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 24, 1987
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Life off the bench no rest for Hunter
By MIKE CONSIDINE
Staff writer
Gary Hunter has found a way to simplify his life. He no longer commutes between a part-time job in Prairie Village and his full-time job as an associate athletic director for administration at the University of Kansas. Now his 70-hour work week is a more manageable 60 hours.
This summer Hunter, 43, resigned his job as a municipal court judge in Prairie Village. For the previous $1 \frac{1}{2}$ he had managed both responsibilities.
During the first year of moonlighting, he lived in Overland Park. His wife, Pam, and daughter, Shannon, a senior at Shawnee Mission East, still live there and spend weekends in Lawrence.
His son, Shawn, is now working on his masters' degree in business administration at the University of Kansas.
Hunter, who friends call "Bear," decided that after six months of commuting between Lawrence and Denver, he would be a longer feasible to hold both positions.
"When I was living there it was much easier to go to the courthouse and perform the regular functions of my job," Hunter said. "And it's better to have someone in the community (on the bench)."
The decision to abandon his law practice left a few people scratching their heads, Hunter said.
"A number of friends and associates thought I'd gone nuts," he said. "But all of my attorney friends told me that I should like one of the innmates has escaped."
Thomas Hammill, who served as a municipal court judge in Prairie Village with Hunter, spoke for both factions.
"Obviously it was a radical career change, and to some extent it came as a surprise. Hammill said, "But we've had a long time of blue churning through his veins."
Hunter, who received his bachelor of science and law degrees from the University of Kansas, said he had been asked to work in athletic administration.
administrator.
"Most young people dream on bringing an athlete or possibly a coach." Humana said. "I always wanted to be an athletic director or the general manager of a major-league franchise."
The Council Grove native came to the University on a football scholarship and was a safety for the Jayhawks under Coach Bob Mitchell for two years. Hunter also played on the freshman basketball team.
Hunter, who won no varsity letters, quit football when he realized that he had little chance for playing time until his fifth year. He had a wife and son to support and planned to be enrolled in law school by that time.
Kansas City area, specializing in malpractice insurance defense.
After earning his law degree in 1968. Hunter practiced trial law in the
Hunter served as a trial lawyer until 1985 and as a municipal court judge from 1976 to 1987.
`o do miss it from a trial lawyer standpoint,' Hunter said. 'I'm the excitement and competition of the court room. I also miss some of the more interesting cases I tried in bench, but we're very busy here.'
He said that his duties as judge required 5-10 hours per week. Hunter handled the trial arraignment docket on Tuesday mornings, the trial docket Thursday evenings and administrative functions during the evenings. Hammil assisted when the case load became too heavy.
"It gave me an opportunity to think about some of the things that needed deeper thinking," Hunter said of his commuting. "On the way home, I'd relax, listen to music and catch up on the news. It was not as unpleasant as it might appear."
Hunter said that the two jobs complemented each other in some ways. He said he was in Kansas City on athletic department business twice each week and could plan his schedule accordingly.
Despite his heavy schedule, Hunter said he still found time to run, bike, swim or play racquetball on his lunch hour. He spends his evenings at KU athletic events or games at his daughter's high school.
In 1982 Bob Frederick, then an assistant athletic director, offered Hunter the presidency of the Greater Kansas City KU Roundball and KU Quarterback Clubs. He headed both teams for full-time volunteer for three years.
Hunter told Monte Johnson, then athletic director, in 1985 of his desire to work in athletic administration "five to 10 years down the road."
He was hired as an assistant athletic director six months later, replacing law professor Lonnie Rose who was employed on a part-time basis.
Johnson said that Kansas was the first school he was aware of to hire someone with a legal background in the athletic department.
"I was absolutely delighted that an opening occurred," Johnson said. "Gary is absolutely one of the most men I know in athletic administration."
In 1986, Hunter was promoted to his present title. His duties are to assist in the administration of athletic programs; coordinate NCAA, Big Eight Conference and University rules interpretations to maintain compliance; to assist in contract negotiations and event scheduling and to supervise the department's marketing efforts.
"Surprisingly enough there is a great deal of law involved." Hunter said. "A law degree is helpful in
See HUNTER, p. 6, col. 1
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
Associate athletic director Gary Hunter stepped down from his position as a municipal court judge this summer to devote his full time to KU athletics.
Gubicza pitches five-hitter as Royals defeat Mariners
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Mark Gubica pitched a five-hitter and Bill Pecota and Larry Owen honored in the fourth innning Wednesday night as the Kansas City Royals beat the Seattle Mariners 9-0.
Gubicza, 12-17, struck out a career-high 11 and walked five.
Mark Langston, 18-12, took the loss. He gave up seven runs on 11 hits in six-plus innings. He struck out seven and he missed his American League lead to 244.
The Royals scored in the first inning when Willie Wilson led off with a triple and Kevin Seitzer singled.
Pecota, the eighth-place batter in the line-up, hit a two-run homer in the fourth after a walk to Lonnie Smith. Pecota missed an just inside the left-foul field 40.
Chiefs' strikebreaker hunt ends in laughs
Kansas City scored three times in the seventh on a two-run double by Danny Tartabul and an RBI single. A third hit gave him a two-run single in the ninth.
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For a fraction of a second, onlookers were startled. A pickup rolled past as two big guys stood in the bed, held shotguns and shouted, "Where's the scabs? We're looking for scabs."
but the grinning faces of tight end Paul Coffman and linebacker Dino Hackett were instantly recognized, and everybody got started with a laugh on the Kansas City Chiefs' first day of picketing.
Driving the pickup was noseguard Bill Maas, who was also given credit for the idea.
"We thought it would be a nice light-hearted way to start the day," Hackett said.
Most of the Chiefs, along with reporters, photographers and representatives of sympathetic unions were assembled outside the main door when Coffman and Hackett made their entrance.
The joke brought hearty laughter from the crowd. There was never any hint of real danger
"Billy Bob's the one who thought of it," said adding that the weapons were "unloaded, of course."
"At first we were going to fire a few shots in the air," said a grinning Coffman, "but we decided that would be unwise."
"We just wanted to keep this as light-hearted as possible. Hackett said, but this is serious
The nearest thing to violence was when center Tom Baugh's labrador retriever caught sight of quarterback Todd Blackledge's rottweiler.
With ears erect and hair bristling, the two large, powerful dogs faced off nose-to-nose and stared, neither making a sound. A moment later, both tails were wagging and everybody went back to the
Golf coach goes back to basics to prepare team for tournament
business of setting up the first day of picketing at Arrowhead Stadium.
The Chiefs, joined by members of several unions, carried signs saying, "NFL Fair" and "Negotiate. Don't Procrastinate." No non-union players were visible outside the main entrance.
Gary Heise, director of public relations, said the non-union players were given their physicals yesterday afternoon and were bused into the stadium past the pickets this morning for their first practice.
"May we can vent our frustrations by yelling at them, and that would make us feel better," center Rick Donnalley said.
By a Kansan reporter
The Chiefs, like their counterparts around the NFL, spoke contemptuously of the strike-breakers, who are scheduled to play their first games Oct. 4.
Injury list brings good, bad news to football team
Weiser said he had been working with the players on mechanical adjustments to help them improve.
"I think that when you're having problems like the kids are having, you've got to go back to square one," coach Kent Weiser said.
The Kansas women's golf team members will try to improve on their mediocre fall season when they go to Edmundson for the All College Tournament.
"Mechanically, we have made some small changes that have made the kids more confident," he said.
"During the fall season we try not to mess with the kids mechanically, but we're not going to get used to it. So far, the hands-on system hasn't worked, so we've worked on some things."
Weiser said the team would have to play well to compete against Texas A & M, Southern Methodist, Lamar, Duke, North Texas State, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
By CRAIG ANDERSON
Staff writer
Heading into Saturday's game against Louisiana Tech, the Kansas injury list includes several players.
Three players will definitely miss the next game — junior cornerback Johnny Granderson, with knit knee ligaments; senior center Rob Foster, with knee ligaments; and safety John Autenreith, with an ankle sprain.
Sophomore wide receiver Quintin Smith, who sprained an ankle Saturday against Kent State, will probably play, said Lynn Bott, director of sports medicine. Freshman tailback Hatch-
ett, who suffered a lower-back bruise in the home opener, is also listed as probable.
The biggest news concerning injuries was the status of senior tackle Bob Pieper. Bott said Pieper was expected to play against Louisiana Tech. The six-foot five, 285-pound Pieper missed the Jay-Z game, the second one of a knee injury. The news about Pieper was especially pleasing Kansas coach Bob Valesente.
"We look at Pieper on the offensive line like the basketball team looks at Danny Manning," he said. "He means that much to our success. He'll make us a better team by being out there playing."
Valesen said the fan support they received last
week against Kent State was something else that helped make his team better.
Last Saturday's crowd of 33,700 at Memorial Stadium, he said, showed him that the football team did have dedicated fans.
"I appreciate all the fans, especially the students, who came out to see us play. he said." I很 recently exited when I walked on the field and saw the stands full of people cheering for us. I'm just so disappointed that we couldn't come through for them."
Freshman center Chip Budde said the crowd helped pump up the Jayhawks at the beginning of the game.
Playing time attracts freshman to KU
Rv CRAIG ANDERSON
Staff writer
Kansas freshman fullback Maurice Hooks was involved in a sort of tug of war game last spring when he had to decide where to attend college the next fall. Playing football at Omaha South High School in Nebraska didn't help ease any of the tension.
To the east of Omaha was the University of Iowa, with its tradition of contending for the Big Ten Conference title. Hooks' parents were well known in college basketball mainly because he already had a brother going to school there.
To the west of Hooks was the University of Nebraska. With the Cornhuskers' string of 18 straight years of going to a bowl game, it seemed assured that he would play for winning teams throughout his career if he went there. Hooks' classmates in high school wanted him to play there so they could watch him perform.
Hooks suprised them all and took the south route out of Omaha. He knew that while everyone else had an opinion about where he should go to college, only he would have to live with the final decision.
There were times during his senior year at South when he wondered if he would ever get the opportunity to play at any college. In fact he wanted to wonder if he would wanted to玩 play high school football again.
"I wanted to go somewhere where I could make a name for myself," said Hooks. "I knew KUW the best opportunity to do that."
The circumstances that led to Hooks' doubts occurred at an early morning pre-season workout. He had skipped the team's stretching exercises and went straight into the offensive drills. Running down the field, with no players around him, Hooks fell to the ground with
a burning pain in the back of one of his legs. The diagnosis from team trainers was a severely pulled hamstring.
Nebraska, which had earlier offered him a scholarship, now wanted him to join the team as a walk-on. Hooks decided that becoming a Cornhusker could be fun, but he wasn't before he got a chance to play for the varsity. He said he didn't want to wait that long.
oddenly, in what was supposed to be his most glorious season, Hooks found himself a spectator on the sidelines. It was during this time that self-doubt began to creep into his thoughts.
"When it first happened, I really considered giving (football) up altogether," he said. "When I started getting closer to the old school, though, old feeling of enjoyment football started to come back."
After missing the first three games of his final high school season, Hooks was back, but some self-doubt still stingered. He won against the scouts would stop looking at him because he had been injured.
It was the chance to play early in his career that helped Hooks decide to sign a letter of intent with Kansas. He also said coach Bob Valente impressed him as someone who was concerned with his players as individuals, not just as athletes.
Hooks didn't have wait long before he got extended playing time at Kansas. Last Saturday he was started the second half at fullback.
"I'm glad glad we've got him now," he said. "He's going to be a great player, he's just a super kid."
Valesente said he wasn't sure if Hooks had been overlooked by the scouts during his senior year.
Kansas freshman tailback, Maurice Hooks, runs downfield during a punting drill. Hooks and the special teams worked out Tuesday afternoon behind Anschutz Sports Pavilion. The Jayhawks face Louisiana Tech Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
"I was also glad that I played well because my family was watching the game," he said. "They were all kind of worried
when I left home about whether or not I would be able to play down here. I think they felt a lot better after watching me play."
Meeting starts dialogue among KU sports clubs
By ROBERT WHITMAN
The most important event surrounding yesterday's meeting between sports clubs' representatives, the Student Senate vice president and two members of the recreational services staff may have occurred after the meeting.
Some of the sports clubs' representatives gathered in the hall outside the meeting room in Robinson Center to discuss issues to discuss issues from the meeting.
"To my knowledge it's never been done before," KU Creep president Scott Klaus said. "If we are entering this new funding procedure, I think this will be the start of talking between sports clubs."
Scott Sites, a member of the KU Rugby Club who attended the meeting said, "Any kind of communication between sports clubs has been of a casual nature. We talked about our feelings on how this is going to affect us before. I had known some Crew members but never any of the top officers."
Seven sports clubs' representatives attended the meeting, along with Mary Chappell and Gordon Kratz, coordinators of sports clubs.
After Quincy outlined some of the proposed changes, she listened to questions and comments from club representatives.
The meeting was called by Stephanie Quinny, Student Senate vice president, to clear up some misinformation that had been circulated about the activities of the sports clubs' task force. The task force is investigating changes in administration guidelines and funding procedures for the clubs.
One of the questions concerned the proposal to make recreational services advisory board the first step in the budgetary process when sports clubs request Senate funding.
After the board hears the funding request, the request would go through the same process it now goes through in the finance committee and then to the Senate.
Quincy said the board would be made up of students who had an interest in sports. She hoped the board's opinion of the clubs' funding request would be given as much consideration as if the Finance committee had heard it themselves.
Klaus said the procedure that is now used, where clubs request funds directly from the Senate, was a good one. Going through another committee just added another layer to the procedure.
Klaus said after the meeting that he was satisfied with possible proposed funding procedure.
"I think we still have a chance to get the funding we have had in the past," Klaus said. "It's pretty much the same procedure, just a different twist. I think it's better going to accent it more. I also think the Finance committee. The sports clubs can talk to someone who knows what you're talking about."
The possible proposed funding procedures deserved to be put in effect and given a chance to work, Stites said.
"I'm more than willing to give them the benefit of the doub," Sites said. "At this point, I think the task requires the best interest of the of clubs in mind."
Sites, who represents Rugby Club when it works with the Senate, said he liked another idea proposed by Kratz — the creation of a sports clubs' council. If created, the council would be composed of all sports clubs' presidents and could be a united front presenting the concerns of sports clubs to the recreational services advisory board.