Page 8 University Daily Kansan, September 24, 1982 KU hires athletic adviser Student athletes should get better advising since the University hired a new special assistant for athletic university administrator said yesterday. Patricia Cleveland was hired to coordinate academic advising for athletes, Deannell Tacha, vice chair of the academic affairs, said yesterday. "Her job will be to make certain that student athletes have advisers and to make sure that the advisers have sufficient information to assist in planning academic programs for athletes." Tacha said. THE JOB was created following findings made in the Report of the Commission on the Improvement of Graduate Education, issued last year. The report pointed out strengths and weaknesses in the KU's academic programs, including problems with advising athletes. 'IT IS the University's authority to make sure that the academic sector is appropriately prepared in athletic advising,' she said. Cleveland was interviewed and hired this fall after 40 to 50 applicants were interviewed, Tacha said. CLEVELAND will make sure that athletes' advisers know the rules of the Big Eight and the National Athletic Association, Tacha said. She said that a good academic record, experience with athletics and the ability to coordinate athletic activities would have helped she had looked for in the assistant. "Cleveland is spending a lot of time making sure she understands the rules herself," she said. ACADEMY INSTITUTE ECONOMICAL CARS & ECONOMIC RATES 800 W 24th St. PASSPERSON AVAILABLE 800 W 24th St. (411) 659-3700 The Greeks Are Coming! Former hostage recalls ordeal wants life as normal citizen By VICKY WILT Staff Reporter A former Iranian hostage says he has been tortured by a hero and wants to be normal citizen. Rocky Sickmann, a Marine security guard at the time of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, will be in Lawrence today to autograph his newly published book, "Iranian Hostage: A Personal Diary." While a hostage, Sickmann started a diary out of boredom, he said Wednesday night, and the writing helped keep him sane. SICKMAN left the Marines and is now employed by Anheuser-Busch Inc. in St. Louis. For his wife's sake, he said, he did not stay in the service. "After something like that, why should she want to go through it again? But the experience has helped me it. It really disciplined me," he said. Sickmann and 51 other Americans were held hostage for 444 days by Iranian students who protested the government's admittance into the United States. ADJUSTING to the attention that was lavished on him after the hostages were released and returned to the United States was rough, he said. "I remember the Vietnam War. Nothing like this ever happened. The State Department tried to prepare us but I couldn't believe it." he said. he likes it when people do not remember who he is because the attention can be frustrating, he said. This was especially true when he worked for a St. Louis radio station. He said recognition helped him to get in the door when he first started selling advertising for KMOX radio, but then it began to bother him. "When people didn't recognize me I tell great until someone would say, 'I'm not sure.'" "I didn't want to make a scene. I felt its instead of selling, I was telling my sister." HIS STORY will appear in future history books, but Sickman said he did not. “It’s like a movie that I’ve seen and that I’m just telling you about,” he said. “My wife and me are normal people in the history books, well, I’ll believe it when I see it, well.” He said he was detached from the situation now, but there were still certain aspects of his days of captivity that stayed with him. When he was by himself one evening after returning to the United States and all the attention, it struck him that he was alone and it scared him, he said. He gotten over that fear by spending small amounts of time by himself. ANOTHER FEELING that remains with him is skepticism born from being told countless times by the Iranian president to believe that it was not true, be said. "When told something, I jokingly say, 'I will believe it when I see it,' " he That is also what he says about the compensation that the U.S. government pays for it. Government officials still are mulling over the amount of money they should receive. Sickman said he had抓迷 his life waiting for the money. "MAYBE IN 10 years we'll get compensation. The president is still declaring if we should get $12.00 or 50 for each day we were held," he said. Sickmann would not say how much he thought he deserved. "Let me ask this," he said. "How much is your life worth a day?" When they were first taken hostage, Sickman said, they were hoping for release each day. They then set goals of Thanksgiving, and then Christmas. "The torture was having a rifle put to your neck, having to strip and not knowing if this time you were going to kill him." It "it was all mind-ranking games." DURING THE early months of their capture, Sickmann said, he felt abandoned by the U.S. government. He said he felt that the government was not working for their release, but did not realize until later that negotiations were impossible because there was no formal government in Iran. CASHEW TURKS ON SALE NOW it Could Only Happen at THE HAWK • 1340 OHIO Price Candy Company and Chocolate Unlimited have a special offer just for you. Whole Coshews with soft, chewy Carmel dipped in chocolate. The hostages did not find out about an attempted rescue mission until a couple arrived. Reg. 6.95 lb. 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