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Monday, April 15. 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
1996 KU Graduates STAY TRUE TO THE CRIMSON AND BLUE
Wherever you go after that memorable walk down the Hill, KU will be with you. Your KU Alumni Association includes more than 45,000 members, grads like you who carry the KU banner worldwide.
These special benefits are Yours!
- Free six-month Alumni Association membership for all 1996 graduates. Your benefits begin automatically April 1 and last through Sept. 30. You'll receive three issues of Kansas Alumni magazine featuring news from the Hill and Class Notes on the activities of your fellow alumni. Let us know your new address so we can keep your benefits coming.
- Free six-month Learned Club membership from April 1 - Sept. 30. Sign up at the Alumni Center.
- Put a 'Hawk in your pocket.
Apply for the Jayhawk
bank card. 1-800-222-7458. BONUS! Sign up for a bank card at the Graduate
Cookout April 24 and receive a FREE Jayhawk license plate frame.
Plus fun and free events!
· Meet alumni staff on Wescoe Beach April 15 and 16.
- Enjoy free burgers and 50¢ draws (with I.D.) at the Class of '96 Graduate Cookout sponsored by the Student Alumni Association April 24. (RSVP form in Commencement packet).
- Tour the Alumni Association May 9 and 10.Call 864-4760.
for the Hill hike at the Commencement Breakfast May 19. (RSVP form in Commencement packet).
- Get psyched for the Hill hike at tl
KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3169
Watch for your 1996 New Alumni Handbook coming soon to your mailbox!
Northwestern coach recounts Cats season at football clinic
Barnett said success due to players' faith
By Evan Blackwell Kansan sportswriter
Gary Barnett knows his job as head football coach at Northwestern won't get any easier this season.
But considering where the Northwestern program has come from, Barnett and his staff will have motivation not to repeat the past.
Barnett was named the 1995 Associated Press National Coach of the Year after the Wildcats completed one of the most startling turnarounds ever. With their 10-2 record and trip to the Rose Bowl after decades at the bottom of the college football totem pole, Barnett and his team were the talk of college football.
Barnett was in Lawrence on Friday night to speak about Northwestern's historic year at the annual Kansas football coaches clinic.
"Most critics look at us right now and say maybe we were a one-shot deal," Barnett said.
Barnett, in only his fourth season as Northwestern's head coach, said the key to rebuilding the program was getting the players to believe.
"You have to avoid listening to the people that doubt all the things you're trying to do," Barnett said. "We had to shelter our kids from that."
There are parallels between the Job Barnett has done at Northwestern and the resurrection of Kansas' and Kansas State's programs. All three teams finished last season in the Associated Press' top 10.
However, Barnett said that Northwestern, located near Chicago in Evanston, Ill., had been in a situation unlike most others.
"I had no idea if we could get it going," Barnett said. "We had a situation where there was very little appreciation of athletics."
The Wildcats gained plenty of excitement by breaking 6,100
"I didn't plan on us capturing Chicago," Barnett said. "That's what happened."
Barnett is no stranger to the Jayhawks. Barnett played college football at Missouri in the late 1960s and was an assistant coach at Colorado from 1984 to 1991.
Barnett said when Kansas defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz, who worked as an assistant with Barnett at Colorado, asked him to be the featured speaker at the clinic, he never hesitated in accepting.
"We are obviously pleased to have a coach the caliber of Gary Barnett speak at our clinic," Kansas football coach Glen Mason said.
Barnett said the job Mason had done at Kansas, a traditional basketball school, was to be equally admired.
"Mase did one of the most difficult things to do — build a program in the shadow of another sport," he said.
"Last season definitely got us into some kids homes," Barnett said.
The football program now casts the biggest shadow at Northwestern, and the attention can only help the Wildcats in the intense recruiting wars.
He even threw out the first pitch for the Chicago Cubs home opener at Wrigley Field this season.
After the Wildcats' success of a year ago, Barnett became an overnight celebrity.
Barnett said his secretary got bombarded with hundreds of requests for him to speak every week.
"The demands on my time I can't even begin to tell you about," Barnett said. "So many of the requests are from charitable groups, groups that I'm very vulnerable to."
PAST THE COMPASS Posters in the AIDS crisis
An exhibit of posters on AIDS, HIV, and Safer Sex
April 14 - 20
Kansas Union Gallery Level 4, Kansas Union Gallery Hours
"It strains me past the compass of my wits" Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Mon. - Thur., & Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Fri. 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sun. 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Jayhawk HOMEwork this week:
1) Kansas Baseball
Tues. vs. Nebraska · 7pm Wed. vs. Nebraska · 3pm
2) Kansas Softball
Tues. vs. Missouri · 3 & 5pm
3)Kansas Relays
Wed. thru Sat. • All Day
Adults $5 • Children $3 • Students Use Combo Pass Events at Memorial Stadium
Attendance Required!
For Information, Call 864 - 3141
CELLULARONE
Jump Right Into Student Senate
. STUDENT SENATE IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING 1996-1997 POSITIONS
- Stud-Ex Chair
- Assistant Treasurers
- Assistant Treasurers
* Executive Secretary
- Executive Secretary
*The Center for Community Services
Outreach Co-Directors
- Legislative Director
APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE STUDENT SENATE OFFICE, 410 KANSAS UNION
QUESTIONS? 864-3710 APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 19, 1996 5:00pm
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