WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL.102, NO.2
（USPS 650-640）
TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
Draft dodger leaves KU
Kansas baseball recruit Damion Rolls signs with the Dodgers, spurning Kansas. He was picked in the first round. Page 8A
CAMPUS
James Sally, former assistant dean, remembered at memorial. Page 3A.
Scally remembered
Dole bids Senate farewell
The Senate majority leader resigns to focus on winning the presidency. Page 4B.
NATION
WORLD
Europe tries to end slave trade
A two-day conference results in plans to control the smuggling of female slaves. Page 6B.
WEATHER
SUNNY
High 87° Low 65°
AAAAAHHH
Pam Dishman / KANSAN
Weather: Page 2A.
INDEX
KU Life ...1B
Sports...8A
Opinion...4A
National News...4B
World News...6B
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Provost finalists visit campus
Marilyn Yarbrough and Richard Edwards, candidates for the office of KU provost, spoke to students yesterday in the Big 12 Room of the Kansas Union. Faculty and students will get a chance to meet with the other three provost candidates tomorrow and Saturday.
By Spencer Duncan Kansan staff writer
Two of the five provost finalists visited campus earlier this week, and the final three candidates will have come and gone by Saturday.
On Sunday and Monday, finalists Marilyn Yarbrough, associate provost at the University of North Carolina, and Richard Edwards, dean of the college of arts and sciences at the University of Kentucky, interviewed on campus.
This week will determine who will be hired as provost, according to Leonard Krishtalka, search committee member and director of the Natural History Museum.
"This is the time when everyone gets a chance to meet these finalists in person," Kristhtalka said. "During the visit is when you find out what a person is really like and that means all the difference."
The provost position was created by Chancellor Robert Hemenway in January as part of a restructuring plan. The job combines the duties of executive vice chancellor and vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Meet the provost finalists:
Yarbrough and Edwards met with students, teachers and administrators and were also interviewed by Hemenway and the search committee.
David Shulenburger: Forum 1:45-
2:45 p.m. Thursday at the Frontier
Room at the Burge Union
Student group 8:15-9:15 a.m.
Thursday at Sunflower Room at the
Burge Union
"These finalists have a lot of things to do when they are here," said Jeff Weinberg, associate vice chancellor. "They go through a number of interviews and get a chance to meet
Marlene Strathe: Forum 4:15-5:15 p.m. Thursday at the Frontier Room at the Burge Union Student group 9:30-10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Sunflower Room at the Burge Union
Nancy Marlin: Forum 10:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium Student group 4-5 p.m. Saturday at the Malott Room at the Kansas Union
the people who make up this campus."
During their visits, Yarbrough and Edwards participated in public and student forums. They answered questions and had the opportunity to outline some of the things they would bring to the University.
Edwards said he believed restoring public confidence in the University is a priority. That means emphasizing undergraduate education and advancing research beneficial to the
state of Kansas.
"The University can improve if people are willing to support it," Edwards said. "Support is what makes an institution better."
Yarbough was a law professor at the University from 1979 to 1987.
"This is the area where I pretty much grew up," she said. "I would love to return home."
Yarbrough said her style of administrating was hands-on, and she held each employee accountable.
"I don't like to tell everyone how to
do their jobs, but at the same time I want the job done right." Yarbrough said. "If someone cannot handle something, then I will help them pull back a little, not take everything away. I want people to feel comfortable."
Yarbrough said she also believed that the University did not communicate well with the students.
The last three candidates to go through the interview process are David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs; Nancy Marlin, vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Northern Iowa; and Marlene Strathe, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of North Dakota.
The chancellor plans to make a decision by July 1.
Weinberg said, "When all the finalists have been interviewed, the committee will make their recommendations and Chancellor Hemenway will make the final choice."
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Giving nature a boost
Pam Dishman/KANSAN
Donna Putnam shows off an osprey at the Operation WildLife Center. Putnam has volunteered at the center for the past two years. She and other volunteers rescue injured animals and nurse them back to health. Seventy percent of the animals recover and are released in their natural habitat. See story on page 2A.
Student recalls brush with death
By Sarah Wlese Kansan staff writer
Few people can say they became famous overnight. And Mark Pullen wishes he wasn't one of them.
Pullen was the 24-year-old Overland Park sophomore who nearly drowned before being rescued by firefighters after his car was swept into a drainage ditch at the southeast corner of 23rd and Naismith by flash floods following last Wednesday's torrential rains.
Pullen has been unable to escape the ordeal, even on a weekend shopping trip to a home furnishings store in Overland Park. Two women in the store happened to be talking about Pullen while he and his girlfriend, Suzanne Norris, were looking for rugs.
"We heard it, and just looked at each other and started laughing," Norris said.
It has been hard for Pullen to believe that he nearly drowned.
"It's hard to mesh such an extreme situation with me sitting here talking," Pullen said.
A puncture wound on his left hand and a one-inch scab on his right arm are all he has to show for it.
The electricity was out when Pullen left his apartment to get doughnuts at Dillons at 11:15 p.m. He'd heard that
the thunderstorm and tornado warnings had expired; he hadn't heard about the flash flooding and didn't have a non-electric radio.
It wasn't raining hard, and there wasn't
standing water outside his apartment, near 15th and Iowa streets, Pullen said. He didn't encounter standing water until the intersection of 23rd and Naimsom. When he tried to turn in to the first entrance of the Dillons parking lot, his car hit the curb. Within seconds, his car was floating down a drainage ditch.
Hancock runs for Congress, again
Mark Pullen
Pullen's 1984 Mercury Marquis died as water surrounded the car, preventing him from rolling down his electric windows. As water began to come in through the door handles, he got out of his seatbelt and crawled into the back seat and tried to kick out the back window.
In less than two minutes his car was wedged against a bridge at the lot's west exit and the front end was submerged.
By Paul Eakins
Kansan staff writer
Judy Hancock announced her intention to run for U.S. Congress on the Democratic ticket yesterday at the Campanile, Hancock, a Prairie Village resident, ran for the same position two years ago.
"I begin this campaign," Hancock said, "because I have an unshakable faith that we can overcome any obstacle, meet any challenge, achieve any ambition, when we rise above narrow interests and extreme ideologies, and we work together to reach common-sense solutions for our common good."
See Student, page 5A
Hancock spoke to an audience of about 60, stressing her support of education and of the working class to give opportunities to all Americans.
"I was appalled recently when I heard one of Newt Gintrich's chief lieutenants say on national TV that he supported tax cuts for those who need it least; the wealthiest Americans," she said. "And he would pay for those tax cuts by cutting education, denying opportunity to people who need it most."
Hancock is running for Jan Meyers' seat. Meyers is retiring.
Hancock blamed the Republicans in Congress, led by Speaker Newt Gingrich, for an agenda that attempts to close the doors of opportunity for lower-class Americans.
For the past 11 years, Hancock has practiced law in the Kansas City area. In 1983, she formed her own law firm devoted to assist U.S. companies in exporting goods and services to the global marketplace.
Hancock said that more available education for Americans would benefit future generations' ability to compete in the world market.
Hancock's experience is what makes her attractive to supporters.
"She has the knowledge of how to fit Kansas into the rest of the world," said Kurt Thurmaier, KU assistant professor of public administration.
Her character is also an important factor to her supporters.
Forrest Swall, former representative and chairman of the Democratic Party, said he supported Hancock because she knew the issues and was opposed to those in Congress who would close the doors of opportunity for Americans.
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"She has a decent chance," said Burdett Loomis, professor of political science. "She raised a couple hundred-thousand dollars this year, and when she ran against Jan Meyers two years ago, she got 43 percent of the vote. She has strong support."
Hancock's supporters are optimistic about the campaign.
Pam Dishman/KANSAN
Judy Hancock announced her candidacy for a Democratic seat in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday at the Campaign.
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