THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1995
NEWS 864-4810
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SECTION A VOL.102, NO.3
ADVERTISING 864-4358
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
Making a comeback
Kansas junior Bryan Schultz is recovering from a knee injury he sustained last season. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Regent resigns
Karen Krepps Maillard, Sprint vice president, has stepped down from the Kansas Board of Regents. Page 5A
NATION
Troops sent to Middle East
U. S. soldiers are conducting exercises in the Middle East to deter Iraqi aggression. Page 6A
WORLD
Deadly fire in South Korea
Thirty-seven women at a South Korean reform center died in a fire apparently set by some of the women. Page 7a
INDEX
On Campus ...2A
Campus ...3A
Opinion ...4A
National News ...6A
World News...7A
Sports...1B
Horoscopes ...2B
Classifieds ...3B
Scoreboard ...4B
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Lineman fights KU over right to play
Court to decide whether doctors' findings should end football player's career
By Scott Worthington
Kansan staff writer
Alani Pahulu will have to wait a couple more days to find out whether his lengthy quest to play football at the University of Kansas will be successful.
Judge George Van Bebber of U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., decided yesterday afternoon that he would wait until tomorrow to rule on Pahulu's case against the University. Pahulu has petitioned for an injunction against KU's ruling that he was medically unfit to play.
Pahulu, a 6-foot-5, 310-pound defensive lineman from Euless, Texas, was disqualified in 1994 after University doctors discovered that he suffered from an abnormally narrow neck, which, according to
doctors, gave him a greater risk of paralysis or other serious spinal injuries on the field
With the help of attorneys Mike Maddox and Bill Skepnek, Pahulu led a petition in late July that asked the court to force the University to give him a chance to compete.
After a full day in court, Pahulu said he
Alani Pahulu
could wait a couple more days to find out his football future.
I'll be able to sleep at night," Pahulu said. "I'm fine. I just want to get this gray period in my life over with."
Pahulu's lawyers argued that he was protected by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The federal act provides people who are disabled
or regarded as disabled the right to participate in major life activities, Pahulu's attorney said.
The defense argued that football was not a major life activity. Under the law, Pahulu is
not disabled because he is not substantially limited from performing that activity, the defense said. Pahulu could gain such leadership and teamwork skills from other activities, such as intramural or club sports, they said.
Pahulu began a national search for medical answers in 1994 after Stephen Munns, an orthopedic surgeon and director of sports medicine at KU, medically disqualified him. Pahulu suffered a hit in a spring game that caused stinging in his arms and legs and rendered him unable to move for a short time. Shortly afterward, Munns diagnosed the condition.
After Paul O'Boynick, chief of neurosurgery at University of Kansas Medical Center, agreed with Munns' disqualification, Pahulu received conflicting opinions from three other doctors. Robert Watkins of the Jobe Clinic in Los Angeles, Joseph Tog of Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, and Craig Bingham, the spinal consultant to the Charlotte Panthers, all concluded that Pahulu's condition did not put him at greater risk of suffering paralysis.
Because the case involved conflicting opinions from qualified doctors, Pahulu's attorneys argued the decision to play should be Pahulu's.
"This is what it comes down to," Skepkn said. "Does Big Brother get to decide what we can and can't do, or can we decide for ourselves?"
Pahulu has said he was capable of playing. "I kept on hearing all these stories about how I couldn't play," Pahulu said. "But I didn't know what was wrong because I felt fine."
Pahulu will remain on scholarship regardless of the outcome, said Bob Frederick, KU athletic director.
If he were granted an injunction, Pahulu would gain only the right to compete, not playing time. KU football coach Glen Mason testified he would give Pahulu a chance to compete.
If Pahula is denied an injunction, his college football career would be over. This is his last year of eligibility, and he has ruled out the option of transferring to a Division I-AA or II school.
Matt Flickner / KANSAM
Students wait at the Enrollment Center in Strong Hall. Distributed enrollment, or enrollment by computer, would someday allow students to get on-line instead of in line.
Enrollment change delayed, again
Switch to quicker enrollment can't be implemented; systems are found to be incompatible
By Novelada Sommer
Kansan staff writer
Students who are tired of waiting in long lines to enroll might as well get used to it.
Distributed enrollment, which would have allowed students to enroll at computer terminals around campus or through modems with home computers, has been delayed indefinitely.
Matt Flickner / KAWRAN
"We have determined that as originally conceived, it is not a do-able project," said Rich Morrell, university registrar.
They thought the mainframe lacked the memory and processing power to run the database-management program they had chosen, which was called Huron.
Originally, distributed enrollment was to have been implemented by Spring 1995, but computer programmers discovered what they thought was a problem with the university's mainframe computer.
Jeremy Mohn, Hillsboro freshman, fills out a form to add a class before getting in line. Drop/add continues through September 1 at the Enrollment Center in强 Hail.
John Dillard, assistant director of administrative computing, said Huron was supposed to help integrate existing files with new files created at enrollment. Instead, for unexplained reasons, Huron caused the mainframe to lock up.
As they experimented with the program, they discovered that Huron, not the mainframe, was the problem.
"Until we had some of the distributed enrollment system actually developed, we were unable to test it," Dillard said. "Once we were able to see how it really behaved, we were able to see the problems."
When it became apparent that Huron would not work, the search for a distributed-enrollment program was back to square one, Morrell said.
Wes Williams, dean of educational services, said the University was looking at other systems that would facilitate distributed enrollment.
seeing what's out there," he said.
"We're just at the point right now of
But standing in line isn't all that bad. At least students get to know one another. Williams said.
"Eventually, enrollment will be something where we sit down at a telephone or a computer terminal and don't get all of that wonderful interaction," he said.
Morrell said the University would be looking at programs in the next few weeks, then sending out bids to software vendors. One of the final steps will be to find funds to buy a programs. Morrell said he hoped to settle on a program by early September.
Occupancy Increase
Occupancy in residence halls is up this year Internet wiring, convenience are cited as possible reasons
By Laurie Hudson
Kansan staff writer
His room could use some carpet and wallpaper, but Antonio Wright, Topeka freshman, and some 3,190 other students decided that a residence hall room was worth the cost, which ranges from $3,344 to $4,428.
The number of students who claim a room in one of the eight residence halls on campus is down by more than 30 percent from five years ago, but the official count a week before school started was up 185 people over last year at the same time, according to Fred McElhenie, associate director of housing.
One asset that may have attracted a few extra students to sign a residence hall contract for the fall is new wiring that was installed in Ellsworth and McCollum halls this summer, McElhenie said. It allows students to connect to the Internet simply by plugging in their computers.
"You no longer need a modem, so the phone is never tied up." he said.
The total number of freshmen enrolled at the University of Kansas decreased from 1990, so a decreased residence hall enrollment is expected since freshmen are a target market. McEhlennie said.
Another reason McElhenie gives for the decrease is that people live in nicer houses today.
"As a colleague of mine puts it, 'There are some students who come here who have never had anyone touch their light switch.'" he said.
Cheaper apartment and housing choices in Lawrence draw many students away from residence halls, said Nick Walker. Templin Hall desk assistan
"Price weighs into it a little bit," Walker said. "A lot of times the rent might be the same, and it just depends on how much you spend for food."
This brings up one of the conveniences of dorm living, Walker said. Meals come prepared, and dirty dishes can be dumped on a revolving belt for someone else to do.
Wright likes the diversity of people living in the residence halls.
"I'm meeting people from different places — Kansas City, Colorado, South Carolina," he said.
wright said he was starting to learn people's names and was finding out about their interests. "Wake up starting to be a family here." he said.
After moving to Lawrence from another country, Vanessa Liu, Taiwan freshman, said the residence halls provided a place for her to meet people who were familiar with the campus and the city.
"I don't know the environment," she said. "I can make mary friends in the dcrm."