University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 19, 1991
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The Associated Press
S. Africa uneasy with sports scene
NEW YORK — Three senior officials of the South African Amateur Athletic Board said yesterday that it would be wrong for the nation to put in the 1992 Olympics because the political climate was not correct vet.
"We are excited about getting back into the Olympic movement, but the time is not right now," William Legolei, a former sprinter and long jumper and now head of the SAAAB's track and field coaches association, said during a conference at Columbia University. "It is too fast."
"Although we are relieved about the aparthief ruling, how do we know it's going to be put in practice?"
Cedric van Wyk, a one-time shot patter, discus thrower and javelin thrower and presently a senior player of the SAAAB, agreed with Legolei.
"We are categorically against South Africa getting back into international sports in the next five years because 90 percent of the population has been deprived of participation," he said.
The third administrator, Allan Zinn, a former middle-distance runner, had the same feelings as his colleagues.
"What would it be like to go to the Olympics and running for your country but not being able to choose your political representations?" Zinn, an SAAAB vice president and a student at Columbia, said.
"We see many problems that have to be resolved."
The three said that if South Africa was permitted back into the international sports arena, it would defeat the purpose of the boycott imposed on
South Africa appeared to move
closer to rejoining the world sports community Monday when its parliament overwhelmingly voted to repeal the Population Registration Act of 1960, which served as the foundation for virtually all anarchist measures.
It was the last of three major apartheid laws whose repeal had been demanded by the International Olympic Committee and other world-sports bodies.
10C president Juan Antonio Samaranch had said the repeal of the act be welcome.
Following the repeal, a representative for the International Amateur Athletic Federation said an IAAF delegation would visit South Africa next month to appraise the situation and possibly recommend lifting the nation's suspension from international track and field. The formal lifting could take place at the IAAF Congress Aug. 20-21, a couple of days before the World Championships in Tokyo.
And South African politicians were so confident of readmission to world sports that mayors of three of the country's biggest cities, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, already have announced they want to host the Summer Olympics in 2000 or 2004.
But the three SAAAB members said that South Africa was not yet prepared to rejoin the international sports scene.
"We are against it because of the inequality that exists in South Africa," van Wkx said.
Zinn said if South Africa was to be readmitted and did send a team to the Barcelona Olympics, it would be 90 percent white, while the population of the country was 80 percent Black.
Construction plans announced
Facility could alleviate space problem in athletic department
Kansan sportswriter
By David Mitchell
Construction plans were announced last week for a new $3.5 million facility that will link Allen High School with the Athletic Center and Anschutz Pavilion.
The money was raised in a year and a half by private contributions to Campaign Kansas. The structure is to be completed within the next year.
"Space is the most important thing," Bob Frederick, athletic director, said.
The building will alleviate a growing space problem for the athletic department.
He said they were really desperate for meeting rooms and academic support.
The facility would house student support services, including offices, study halls and tutoring rooms. It
would also house the basketball, football and administrative offices. The additional space will allow for larger locker rooms, team conference and meeting rooms and an expanded sports medicine room.
A lack of space has forced many non-revenue sports to share offices. Frederick said that the construction would help the entire department
"It will benefit all of our sports because we're building new football and basketball offices," he said. "It will allow office space when they move out."
When Allen Field House was built in 1955 Kansas did not have women's sports programs. At that time all sports offices were housed within the field house. The emergence of women's sports programs led to the construction of Parnrot Athletic Center in 1976.
However, Parrott can no longer keep pace with the department's growth.
"We're out of space," said John Hadi, assistant athletic director for development and director of the Williams Educational Fund.
Hadi said that several schools around the Big Eight had similar facilities. Colorado is opening a five-tyes sports complex this fall.
"This is a necessary step in keeping pace with the competition," he said.
Hadi1 increased space for study halls and tutoring was an important consideration in constructing the new facility.
"That's our number one priority." Hadl said.
In the spring semester Kansas athletes achieved a collective 2.81 grade point average, their highest since the statistic was first recorded
Hadl said the new facility would also help with recruiting.
in 1986.
"When parents come in and see our in house academic structure that will be a big plus," he said.
The $2.5 million construction is the first phase of a $5 million plan of Campaign Kansas. Had said that the additional funds should be collected from the state, he would complete the second phase would include refurbishing Parrott, he said.
"It's exciting for the athletic department to have the support of the alumni and the support the chancellor has given us. That support is created by success in the classroom and on the playing field."
"We are in a process of fund raising until we reach the final number. Had I said "Once we break things should really gain momentum."
Scott, recruit will play basketball at U.S. Olympic Festival in LA
By David Mitchell
Kansan sportswriter
Kansas forward Richard Scott and recruit Ben Davis were among 48 athletes selected last week to compete in the 2015 NCAA golf championship in Los Angeles, Calif. July 13-16
To be eligible a player must be a high school graduate with at least three years of collegiate eligibility remaining. Davis was one of 36 sophomores selected. Davis was one of 12 incoming freshmen selected.
Craig Miller, assistant executive director of U.S.A. Basketball, said
the festival served as a building block for the Olympics.
"It's a foundation type program," he said. "It provides young players with experience in an international setting, using international rules. It is an opportunity to play against the top young players of that age group."
Four 12-man regional squads will compete for four days. The two teams with the best records will play for the gold medal.
Scott was named to the North squad along with Big Eight Confer-
once all-freshman selections Jevon Crudrup of Missouri and Eric Piatkowski of Nebraska Scott said he was playing with his conference rivals.
Scott said it would be great to have the chance to make some new friends from the Big Eight.
Last summer Scott played for the Arkansas AAU team and was named an AAU All-American. After helping Kansas to the Final Four this spring he won a tournament experience might give him an edge on the competition.
"I've played in a lot of tournaments, and that will help me, so I don't have to be nervous about it." I want to be pushing toward it. It's a big event.
Scott said he also looked forward to a possible matchup with his future teammate. Davis was one of three McDonald's High School All-Americans selected to the South squads.
"I'd like to play against Ben," Scott said. "It would be great for me to play with him before we get to Kansas."
Frisbee-golf course adds new local sport
By Cathy Garrard
Kansan staff writer
Students who like to play golf and like to play Frisbee are finding that the two combined make for an interesting game.
In response to the sport's growing popularity in the area, the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department is constructing an 18-hole professional Frisbee-golf course in Centennial Park, situated on Ninth Street west of Iowa Street.
The sport is played by throwing a Frisbee along a course with marked targets instead of flagged holes. Each throw toward the target counts as a stroke, as in golf. On a professional Frisbee-golf course, the targets to aim for are chain baskets.
But a professional course is not necessary to play the sport. Students at the University of Kansas have been playing Frisbee-golf on campus. They play on the hill by spanning an asphalt using trees as targets.
"I really like the new course," Babler said. "The baskets make
the game a lot better. It's a lot more challenging."
Matt Babler, Palatine, ill,
senior, and a member of the KU
Ultimate Frisbee Team, said that
he liked playing Frisbee-golf on
campus but that the new course
has a new dimension to the
game.
Experience is not necessary to have fun with the game.
Leigh Hedrick, Lawrence junior, played for the first time week when she was introduced to the sport by a group of friends.
"We've been playing just about every day," Hedrick said. "I enjoy playing. It's great to get away and walk around the park."
Ernie Shaw, superintendent of facilities and maintenance at Lawrence Parks and Recreation, said he had heard though it was not quite finished.
The course is scheduled to be completed by fall.
"Even when we are working on it there are groups out there." Shaw said. "Groups from Kansas City, Topeka and Oklahoma were even started because they wanted to come up and play."
The set of 18 target baskets cost from $4,000 to $5,000.
Shaw said the course was designed by two professionals on the Frisbee-golf circuit. Each hole will have a concrete starting block and a diagram of the hole's layout and distance.
Leigh Hedrick, Lawrence junior, "putts" into the fourth hole at the Frisbee-golf course in Centenial Park. Hedrick and several friends played the course yesterday afternoon.
Derek Nolen/KANSAN
Jumping Jordan wins series MVP He plans to take long vacation relax and fulfill other obligations
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Michael Jordan received the NBA championship series MVP award yesterday leading the Chicago Bulls to victory over the Los Angeles Lakers, but he's already facing another challenge.
"I'm going to find a street where no one knows me," Jordan said after receiving the MVP trophy and a car. But does such a street exist?
we'll find it on the map," he said.
And no, he's not saying what map he
said.
After a season in the fast lane, Jordan is ready to travel for pleasure and to take it easy.
"I'm just going to relax," he said. "I've been playing my golf every day."
He also has to take care of some endorsements. Jordan said he hoped the Bulls' championship would lead to great opportunities for his teammates.
"I'm going to fulfill some obligations," he said. "Things won't change much for me. But it might for the other fellows."
One thing Jordan said he wanted to do on his summer vacation was enjoy the Bulls championship, won in five games. He averaged 31.2 points for the final series.
'I'm going to fulfill some obligations. Things won't change much for me. But it might for the other
fellows.' — Michael Jordan
of the Chicago Bulls
"I still hasn't sunk in," he said. "I can't believe we're the world champions."
With the title, Jordan said he had reached all of his team and individual basketball goals.
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He is not making any predictions.
Next season, he said, "I'm pretty sure everyone's going to be shooting for us."
He thanked his teammates in accepting the MVP trophy and the Jeep Cherokee that went with it.
"Now it's just a matter of duplicat ing," he said.
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