University Daily Kansas
Friday, October 1, 1976
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Athletes' academic life checked
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
If you can get an athlete up for breakfast,
there's a good chance he'll go to class.
Hank Hettwert, athletic recruiting and academic coordinator at the University of Kansas, uses that theory to encourage athletes in the academic side of college.
"WE HEAR OF someone going back to
be on us we have a coach check it out,
on us."
"The training table has a checker so we can determine who was there," Hetter said last week. "It's rare for an athlete to miss breakfast, and since he's dressed, up and reasonably awake by then, he might as well go to class.
He said the athletic department doesn't seek special privileges for athletes and exceptions to usual class requirements made at the discretion of the instructor.
"We ask the student athletics to arrange their schedules around practice times--like the football players can't have classes past 2:30 p.m. Generally a department will try to accommodate the student if he has a scheduling problem." Hettter said.
He said reports that student athletes received early access to enrollment and therefore got the first choice in classes were inaccurate. All athletes enrolled this fall according to their assigned letter and class schedule, Hettwer said.
He added that KU athletes were enrolled in many fields, from prediensty to architecture, with relatively few in physical education.
"WE HAVE NO specific figures or listing of the number of athletes in each school, but physical education is certainly not at the ten." he said.
Student-athletes are no different from
other college students who select their
job, with the job market in mind,
Hettwer said.
"It's part of my job," he said, "to direct it and inform it about what a particular case might be."
Hettet began his duties as academic coordinator Sept. 1 when he replaced Bob Skahan. Skahan received his doctorate in education and resigned his position.
Skahan had said there was a need for increased emphasis on academics among students.
HE SAID many universities, including KU, were losing sight of the academic priority in college athletics and emphasized that "the athletic athlete* was becoming a hypersocial one."
Skahan also said the present system of intercolegiate athletics failed to prepare the student-athlete for life off the football field or the basketball court.
Hettner said he disagreed with Skahn's philosophy and said communication with each athlete about what he must do to remain eligible for competition and to work for a particular degree was the most important function of an athletic counselor.
HE ALSO SAID he thought Skahan's previous statements that universities were too often "professional training grounds" for future super stars was incorrect.
"Many of our athletes realize they may not become professional athletes, so they are definitely concerned about pursuing a specific academy program." "Heltter said.
Tutoring and study sessions are available to the athletes through specific departments within the University and at residence halls, be said.
"We hold study hall five nights a week, which is mandatory for all athletes and
for some designated individuals who need supervision," he said. "Our coaching staff supervises these sessions and they're just like a team meeting—if you're supposed to show us, we make appropriate arrangements to ensure it doesn't happen again."
HETTWY SAID tutors were available to the athletes at the study halls and that he talked with each tutor every two weeks to get acquainted with them. The athletes buying trouble in certain areas.
"English seems to give student-athletes the most trouble," he said. "So the coaches and tutors try to help them by suggesting the basic organization of the theme."
Hetter also took issue with an earlier statement by Skahan that a high percentage of incoming athletes had been spoon fed and ill-prepared in high school.
He acknowledged that study halls were organized primarily for freshmen athletes because the transition from scheduled daytime study periods in high school to the increased free time available in college was often difficult.
HETTWER SAID pressures on student-
leaders relate to the strictly scheduled bus
arrival.
"Of course when there are 75,000 people watching you, you're under tremendous pressure. But I think the main type of pressure we see is self-inflicted because we can do best his rest. That's only normal—we all subject ourselves to pressures like that."
Hettner said his office wasnt 'the only source of academic direction for student
He said he worked closely with Don Kouras, associate professor of history, who also was a senior editor for *The Atlantic*.
athletes and to help them with class scheduling.
"He helped me a lot because I just jumped into this new position and he'd and previous experience working with the studentworkers he told us. All student-athletes work with me, and Koums carried the major portion of the load this fall since I was so new."
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sportation of the sick and injured to best serve the needs of the public.
That's not the case, however, with Gary Brann, Lawrence junior. His father, Travis, is Douglas County's new Civil Defense director.
The emergency preparedness office will be in the basement of the new city-county law
But Kay Kent, health department director, said recently that KU students should go to Watkins Hospital for most of their medical care. The family planning clinic but can attend the venereal disease clinic and get travel immunizations at the health department. And students who have children younger than 18 can participate in the well-child clinic.
Braun found out about the job this summer when he visited Gary. He said Monday that he wanted to come to northeast Kansas after quitting his position as an ARMY ROTC instructor at Warren High School, Warren, Ark.
He has been studying the county's facies and facilities before making changes.
Many parents visit their children at the university of Kansas, but not many come to college.
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"We will have, in the new jail building,
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County health says services not for students
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