University Daily Kansan, October 19. 1982
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Med students rec facilities few Med Center still without gym
By VICKY WILT Staff Reporter
Nearly two years after a proposal for a recreational center was drawn up for the University of Kansas Medical Center, students are still without one
Med students now take full advantage of what recreational facilities are available to them. Some students see this as an indication that more are needed, while others said what was available is adequate.
Rick Brummet, second-year med student, said, "There's a place eight blocks from the Med Center that opens up on Friday evenings for us to play sports or eat dinner in its noteworthy place for us to do that and it's not even associated with the Med Center.
"We would especially use raquette courts. A lot of students have memberships with raquette clubs, but that's pretty expensive."
ANN SCHULZE, fourth-year nursing student, said she thought a gym was needed because many of the students had memberships with local YMCA and WYCA clubs. She said she thought she would be interested in educational facilities if they were available.
Brad Bruner, second-year med student, said having the basketball courts available to students on Friday evenings was adequate to the students' needs. He said he did not think med students needed a recreational facility because they do not have a lot of extra time.
A. J. Yarmat, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said interest for a recreational facility still existed, and that he would put on hold because of a lack of money.
BUT CHANCELLOR Gene A. Budig said yesterday that the need for a recreational facility remained a very small part of that he was reminded of constantly.
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"The state and the University have come under a financial crunch. The atmosphere has not been favorable for our funding for a new building," he said.
Budig said, "It is apparent that we need improved recreational facilities at the Med Center. This has been a major issue with both faculty and students.
"I share their concern and frustration. This represents a significant deficiency at the University of Kansas and it has implications for the very best faculty and students we will have to address the issue in the near future."
FINANCING FOR a recreational facility will have to come from private funding, he said. The state would not be receptive to financing a facility now, he
"We would welcome any money for the project." he said.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said that the expansion of Robinson Gymnasium was granted by the Legislature in 1975, but its priority had been established by the University a couple of years before that.
Last year, the Med Center branch of the Kansas University Endowment Association and the University of Kansas Alumni Association had both expressed an interest in helping to finance a recreational facility. Now, funds for the facility are not available from the Endowment Association.
"It's important to say, even though we use Robinson as a recreational facility, it was primarily built as a teaching facility," he said.
JACK ENGLISH, KU Endowment Association vice president, said the facility was certainly important but not a priority of the administration.
Chris Corton, student union president, said interest for a gym, had not died, but the student union members had stopped pushing for one because
He said, "We need donations from outside and support from the administra-
"It would be impossible after funding the library and the Orr-Mar building in the Med Center. After that, the Legislature won't fund it."
Wiechert said a committee was formed five or six years ago to decide on the key needs of the students and faculty.
THE COMMITTEE proposed a large multi-purpose building that would include a recreational facility, faculty club and a continuing education facility with meeting rooms and kitchen space, he said.
The proposal recommended a basketball court, weight room, handball and raquetball facilities and a swimming pool in the recreational facility.
Yarmat estimated last year that the proposed facility would cost between $3 million and $4 million. Tom Wilkerson, director of recreational services on the Lawrence campus, said that just the cost of the weight room equipment at Yarmat University was $35,000 two years ago and had probably increased 10 or 15 percent.
Last year, a committee for developing a final proposal for a recreational facility outlined the recreational needs of the students.
Corton said the student union organizes volleyball and basketball leagues and had between 10 and 14 participating teams.
THE WOODSIDE Nautilus Club, approximately one mile from the Med Center, offers memberships to Med students and employees, said Susie Stone. The club advertises at the Med Center and gains members by word of mouth.
This was good, he said, because med students usually do not have time for extra curricular activities.
Bv DARRELL PRESTON Staff Reporter
Suit could end AIAW,official says
A civil antitrust suit brought by the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for women against the National Collegiate Athletic Association could defeat the death of the ALAW, an official that organization said yesterday.
"The question is which organization can give the athletes the best athletic program," said Marlene Mawson, AIAW Region XI president and KU professor of health, physical education and recreation.
"The AIAW operates to give the female athlete the opportunity to compete in a profit-making organization. It's going to come down to whether each
IF THE NCAA takes over women s athletics, women would compete under NCAA rules, which emphasize more than scholastics, she said.
"In my opinion, the NCAA will treat the woman athlete like it treats the male non-revenue athlete: like it doesn't exist," Mawson said.
The trial began yesterday in federal court in the District of Columbia, and is expected to last at least a week
The AIAW is suing the National Collegiate Athletic Association to recover losses the AIAW claimed it suffered as a result of NCAA-sponsored women's athletic tournaments.
Bill Cramer, the NCAA's Washington, D.C., attorney handling
the case, said the AIAW was seeking $6 million and a permanent injunction to prohibit the NCAA from having any involvement in women's athletics.
Donna Lopiano, AIAW president,
said the group was inactive while
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the AIAW won the case. If it loses, it will be permanently disbanded.
THE AIAW has organized women's tournaments since 1971. Mawson said that the AIAW had been established initially because the NCAA had not taken an interest in promoting women's athletics.
In the suit, the AIAW claimed that the NCAA bought this year's women's tournament away from the AIAW by taking travel expenses of women's teams.
Prof honored by telephone industry
By BRET WALLACE Staff Reporter
Frank Pinet, professor of business administration, received the Facesetter Award from the United States Independent Telephone Association to associate dean of external affairs at the School of Business said yesterday.
Fitch said USITA gave the annual award to the person who, although not a member of the independent telephone industry, had contributed the most to it. The award usually goes to a businessman involved in another business
PINET RECEIVED the award at USITA's 1982 national convention in Los Angeles.
Gordon Fitch, the associate dean, said Pinet received the award for initiating and directing a management education program for 25 years at the University of Kansas for independent telephone companies.
"I was overwhelmed," Pinet said. "Suddenly my picture flashed up on the screen in this auditorium with 2,000 people in it." He did not find out he was the recipient of the award until it was presented at the opening session of the convention. "They did a good job of keeping it a surprise," he said.
Pineau said he attended the convention every year for a breakfast with the alumni of the program, so he did not attend anything special would happen this year.
John Tollefonf, dean of the business school, said, "This is a very fine recognition of what the school has been doing through Dr. Pinet's work.
Pinet was associate dean until August
Pinet he resigned to return to full-time
work.
PINET SAID he resigned because he would be 62 this year and he wanted to step down a little at a time. He still will teach in the program and act as an adviser for Fitch, who replaced him as associate dean.
Fitch said the program was designed for people in management positions who had not had formal training in management skills. Many of the people who attend the classes graduated from junior colleges or business schools.
About 50 management people come to KU the last three weeks of June for courses in marketing, finance, quantitative methods, labor relations and accounting, he said. "It is a pretty rigorous. They attend classes all day and have homework in the evenings, just like regular students."
THE PROGRAM also offers an advanced class for people who went through the three week program a few years earlier and who want to expand on what they learned then, Fitch said. Classes are taught by KU professors, executives in the telephone industry and professors from other universities.
Pinet let USITA went to 14 universities in 1957 to submit plans for management education and then chose the plan submitted by Pinet.
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