Friday, October 31, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 7
Intramural pool games give students a break
By Sara Anderson sports @kansan.com Special to the Kansan
"The Color of Money" it's not, but the University of Kansas intramural program's inaugural eight-ball pool tournament promises to be a good time.
The tournament will be one or two days long and will begin Nov. 17 at the Jaybowl in the Kansas Union. Registration will begin Monday and will continue until Nov. 12. The single-elimination tournament will consist of a men's and women's singles division.
Jason Krone, intramural sport director, said the cost of the event had not yet been decided.
"It will probably cost $5 at the most," Krone said. "We don't make any money off of the event, so it just
needs to cover the cost of using the Jaybowl."
Krone said the pool tournament was the result of responses to student survey questionnaires that asked what activities should be added to the intramural program.
Team managers responded to the survey last year by marking the programs they felt would interest students the most. The survey included: disc golf, weights, card games and one-on-one basketball. Pool was one of the most popular requests.
Lindsay Laricks, Overland Park junior, said she thought the tournament sounded laid back and fun.
"I'm surprised that they haven't had it before," she said. "There are so many people that are really into it."
Burke Wasserman, Leawood junior, agreed and said he had heard
Intramural Pool
Registration for the inaugural eight-ball pool tournament will be accepted from Monday until Nov. 12 at Recreational Services in 208 Robinson. The fee has not been set by officials, but it will be $5 or less.
about the tournament.
"I think it will be exciting," he said. "There are lots of people who would like to show off their talent."
Krone said that spring and summer golf and bowling also were added to the program this year. He said that the home run derby, field goal contest and trivia bowl were dropped to make room for the new programs.
Gentle persons:
It is abundantly clear, at midseason, that something drastic needs to be done to curb the awesome power of the Kansas Jayhawks' punishing offense. I mean, such displays of might as minus 46 and plus 11 yards rushing, first downs of four and nine per game, four fumbles — all lost — and a couple of touchdowns scored via the "grind-it-out" pass interception and fumble recovery route must surely strike fear in the hearts of the defenses of KU's remaining opponents. Like the Big Red of Nebraska — quick, somebody, call 911!
There are two ways to approach a football game: 1. Committed passionately to beating the hell out of the opponent; 2. Hoping to log enough quarters of playing time to win that pretty chenille "K." Can there be any doubt, at this juncture, that there'll be a lot of lettermen on this year's KU football team?
Sympathetically,
William S. Koester
Class of 1940
Orange, Calif.
Harley Ratliff — Your columns are terrible! How did you get this job? Let me clear some things up for you. The "Kansan" is KU's student newspaper, which my student fees help pay for. I do not want to open the sports page and read about how good OU is. What a joke, they are as bad as your columns. I don't want to read about how they are going to beat KU in football, sorry about the loss — is that three in a row?
If you are an OU fan that's great, but you're at the wrong school. If you like OU so well, go there and write for their paper. I want my student funds to pay for a paper that is going to cover the school that I attend and cheer for. If you don't like KU, don't write for our paper. Oh sorry, I forgot that you are a KU basketball fan. What a joke. You're just like all of the guttless Nebraskan's who will gladly cheer for our national powerhouse basketball team, but refuse to have anything to do with our football team. We do not need your bandwagon support. Cheer for your pathetic OU basketball team if you have any loyalty at all. Choose a school Harley and until you do, quit wasting my money with your anti-KU articles.
People like you make me sick and I resent the fact that you write for our paper. I don't want to see one article from on your in basketball team because you are not a fan, you are a fair weather fraud who does not have the loyalty to stick with one university in every sport - good or bad. Who is your favorite NFL team? The Packers? What about the NBA? The Bulls? What a joke.
Finally, the sports page is not a place for you to cry to the campus about your rough life. We don't care!!!! The new Coke bottles? Is this sports related? The opinion page is 4A, not 1B. Keep your nonsports related opinions and your dictionary definitions to yourself, because they don't belong in the sports page. I want to read articles about KU sports in the sports page — preferably those supporting KU and its teams.
Frazzled???? The only thing frazzling is your terrible articles!!!
Brandon L. Jones Lyndon law student
Anti-Nike group seeks coach
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith plans to meet today with a student group that opposes the school's $7.1 million contract with Nike.
The Associated Press
In a letter sent last week to the student-run Nike Awareness Campaign, Smith said he wanted to hear more about alleged sweatshop conditions in the shoe company's overseas factories.
"Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person," Smith wrote. "Certainly we will listen to any new information you may have."
Todd Pugatch, a member of the
campaign, said the purpose of Friday's meeting was not to persuade Smith to join their cause.
"The purpose of the meeting tomorrow is just to speak with him and present him with our point of view. It's not necessarily to enlist his support," Pugatch said. "That would be fantastic, but we assume he's already formed his position on the situation."
Smith signed a personal contract with the shoe company before retiring earlier this month. His first public appearance after announcing his retirement came at a Nike-sponsored coaches' clinic in suburban Cleveland.
A representative for Nike said the company welcomed a chance to further explain plant conditions in its overseas plants.
seas, we would be happy to give him that information," said Vizhier Corpuz, Nike's chief representative for basketball.
"It seems to me that if your quote is correct that Dean Smith really would like to know more about Nike's labor practices over-
Last month, Nike severed ties with four Indonesian factories for refusing to comply with the company's standards for wages and working conditions.
The students' group wants the school to seek out more information about Nike's working conditions overseas. They also want the chancellor to form a committee of faculty and students that would review all future contractual agreements with any corporation.
"A lot of members of the university community see corporate contracts as the future, for better or worse," said Marion Traub-Werner, a member of the activist group. "If it's going to be that way, then we should mediate it before corporations have way too much at stake in a public, state university."
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