University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, May 2, 1989
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High-scoring guard now fourth recruit to sign intent letter
by Mike Considine Kansan sportswriter
Kansas has added another player to its men's basketball roster, according to the player's junior college coach.
nortwestern Oklahoma A&M College coach Larry Gibson said Terry Brown, a 6-foot2 guard, signed a national letter of intent last Tuesday. Gibson said the letter then was sent by certified mail to Brown's mother in New York for her signature.
Gipson said Brown chose Kansas over Pittsburgh, Boston College, Texas Christian and Southwest Missouri State.
"I think the sincerity of coach Williams and the staff concerning academics was a deciding factor." Gipson said, "Terry likes this part of the country and he likes the program."
The Kansas sports information department was unable to confirm Brown's signing. Under NCAA rules, coaches are not allowed to comment on recruits until they received a signed letter of intent.
Kansas coach Roy Williams said the Jayhawks had not finished their recruiting and would continue for the remainder of the season. They would not comment on recruiting until the process is completed.
Brown was the most valuable player of the National Junior College Athletic Association tournament and a first-team NICAA All-American. The Clyde, N.Y., native averaged 22.1 points and 5.6 rebounds a game. He made 52.2 percent of his field goals, 43 percent of his three-point attempts and 92.2 of his free throws.
"He's a big-time scorer with unlimited range," said Jerry Mullen of Mullen's Roundball Report. "He is a good athlete who is very quick and puts good pressure on the ball defensively."
Kansas is limited to 12 men's basketball scholarships by terms of the NCAA probation the program received last November Brown is the fourth player to sign a letter of intent for next season. The Jayhawks had nine returning players, and Kansas Baylor signed could put Kansas over the NCAA limit.
Former tennis player Reggie Hodges directs "Sexual Perversity in Chicago."
There are several ways Kansas could expand its roster without giving more than the allotted number of scholarships.
One option is that a player could give up his basketball scholarship and arrange for his family to pay for his tuition or to receive an academic scholarship or other financial aid. Another possibility is that a player on the roster might transfer to another school.
Proposition 48 requires incoming freshmen to have at least a 2.0 grade point average in core curriculum courses and to exceed minimum standardized testing requirements. The minimum requirements are 700 on the SAT exam and 15 on the ACT exam.
One player, Adonis Jordan of Reseda (Calif.) Cleveland High School, has yet to meet NCAA proposition 48 standards for incoming freshmen, Cleveland coach Bobby Braswell said.
exam and final 42, which will take effect next year, would require players who are under proposition 48 to lose their athletic scholarship and be ineligible for competition for one year.
Jordan had satisfied the core curriculum requirement but had not met the SAT requirements, Braswell said.
Braswell said Jordan scored 680 on the SAT. He said Jordan had more shots than Kyle. He saidinement and would take the ACT for the first time in May.
Former tennis player directs play
“Adonis had an outstanding
team,” Braswell said. “He was a
team leader. He's going to be an
outstanding college point guard.”
Jordan was named to the Los Angeles all-city first team and scored 13 points in the McDonald's western regional all-star game. He averaged 23.0 points, 13.2 assists and 5.5 steals.
Student finds competitive edge carries over from sports into acting field
by Laurie Whitten Kansan sportswriter
Gazing down from his director's chair onto the darkened stage below. Reggie Hodges began to smile.
"You have to have such a complete eye for this." Hodges said as he watched an assistant push a ladder across the floor. "So many details have to come together. You can't be concerned with what the actors are doing. There's a million technical elements to take care of. Basically, you are required to to have a hand in everything."
with rehearsals and shows, you just can't pull off and say, 'Hey, I'm playing in the Roize tournament this weekend.' So I postponed taking my performance credits until my eligibility was over. I wanted to make
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For Hodges, a fifth-year senior from Washington, D.C., juggling many responsibilities at once is nothing new. The 22-year-old theater major played four years of Kansas varsity tennis, acted in several university productions and is now directing the play "The Play." In Chicago, by David Maret, in production with his Theater 609 class.
The play is free to the public. It begins at 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets.
sexual Perverness In Chicago is about relationships with friends, our own sexuality and some of the stereotypical influences that affect the way we treat each other," Hodges said.
The play inspired the popular 1986 movie, "About Last Night."
"With all the traveling and practicing involved with tennis, I could never commit to theater, as far as performing or directing," said Hodges, who was team captain of the Jayhawks won the Big Ten championship last year. "Theater is like a sport as far time demands."
"People think the title refers to *perverse sex*, but that's not what it 'about,' he said. "It illustrates how relationships may exist in our own lives."
Hodges said that when he was recruited to come to Kansas in 1984, he had no purpose to pursue a career in acting or directing. Playing tennis year round left him no time to consider it.
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'With rehearsals and shows, you just can't pull off and say. 'Hey, I'm playing in the Rolex tournament this weekend.' So I postponed taking my performance credits until my eligibility was over.'
- Reggie Hodges former KU tennis player
sure I could commit to it 100 percent."
His theatrical talent was first discovered in an English 102 class, Hodges said. The students had finished a reading of *Death and Friend*, then read *The Teacher* and the teacher, Paul Steven Lim, suggested that he take an acting class.
"I took an acting class my sophomore year, and I really liked it." Hodges said. "Before, I knew that I
wanted to go into some sort of broadcast or communications field. After that class, I started to lean toward theater. I dove in with both feet this year once I knew I had the time."
Last fall, he auditioned for his first play, "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" and won the role of Dr. Emerson. Although auditioning was a terrifying experience for him, he said that tennis had helped prepare him for performing under pressure in front of an audience.
Directing a play has been an even greater challenge, he said.
"The best thing about directing is the opportunity to collaborate with others and be creative." Hodges said. "There are a lot of people involved in this, and it's been more than rewarding to work with them. They're people who I really respect and feel good about being around."
Laura Kirk, who plays Joan, a bitter and callous woman who tries to change the lives of children with a man, said that directing seemed to come naturally for her.
Hodges.
Hodges,
he's great at working with people and communicating," Kirk said.
"Rather than being condescending, he gives us positive reinforcement after each rehearsal and gets the cast after peped up."
Kirk, who worked with Hodges in *Whose Life Is It Anyway?* and in the three Ryan acting competition, was confident when performing.
"For the Irene Ryan finals, we did a scene from 'Great White Hope,' she said. "There were 300 people milking for the first round, and I was pretty intimidated. The interesting thing about Reggie, however, was that because of his tennis background, he had a competitive edge.
Brenda Yungeberg, who plays Deb. Joan his friend, said Hodges had a good job of explaining his ideas about the play to the cast.
"Riggie is like a peer to us when he's directing, so it's really easy to understand his ideas." Yungeberg said.
Body and spirit explored in Tae Kwon Do
Members striving for black belts
by Beth Behrens
Kansan sportswriter
Although Cheah did not break the board on the first attempt, applause filled the room when the first degree was awarded to the board in half on the second try.
Silence spread across the McCollum Hall lobby as Shaun Cheah, president of the KU Tae Kwon Club, sailed over six people crouched on the floor and kicked a board held by two people on the other side.
The club held an exhibition last night to explain the bases of Tae Kwoen Do, a Korean martial art with a heritage of nearly 2,000 years.
Overland Park senior Paul Ebner said the art is learned with five basic principles in mind: courtesy, integ-
ration, control and indomitable spirit.
“It’s kind of like the boy scout’s pledge.” Ebner said. “it’s a code to perfect yourself with a person may start out wanting to learn some kind of self-defense, but there’s much more to it than punching and kicking. There’s a certain spirituality, a striving for perfection.”
Ebner said students of Tae Won Do strived to perfect forms and techniques to gain status in the organization of ability is achieved by贝色 colors.
He said the beginner started with a white belt, symbolizing purity and innocence. He added that once tech
niques and forms were mastered, the student was allowed to be tested to advance in levels. The next step is yellow, green, blue, black, and green.
The black belt symbolizes the highest level of ability, but there are various levels within the black belt division.
Cheah said Tai Kwon Do was a form of martial arts which used 70 percent foot techniques and 30 percent hand techniques. But Lawrence policeman Jim Hirsch said the Tae Kwon Do group, said both KU and the Lawrence groups were trying to change the emphasis to a 50-60 ratio.
"You always hear myths about black belts having to register their hands and be asleep at lethal weapons, but there's no truth to it. The goal is to stay alive, but we do have a certain responsibility. The trick is to avoid confrontation any way you can, but sometimes you can't avoid it."
"We want to be as strong with our upper body as we are with our legs." Frink said. "Proper application and a good mental attitude is key to any exercise. We should not have an attitude that (my opponent) can beat me physically but not spiritually.
The Kansas club is a branch of the American Korean Tae Kwan Do Association headed by Grand Master Choon Chu Lee. Lee is an eighth degree black belt who instructs the club once a week.
Shaun Cheah, Malaysia senior, attempts to break a board during a Tae Kwon Do demonstration.
Carlesimo decides Kentucky job isn't for him
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. — Seton Hall's P.J. Carlesimo, who there's no place like home, ended talks with Kentucky yesterday and sent me back to touch of the school he took within one point of the NCAA championship.
The Associated Press
"I really like it here. I've been treated well," Carlesim said as he left campus. "Kentucky is kind of a situation you have to look at, but it never got as far as people speculated it did."
Though he called the Kentucky job a "tremendous situation," the 39-year-old coach said, "I've got a great situation here."
Carlesimo ended a week of soul
"My relationship with them is not newsworthy anymore. In my mind, it never was," he said. "It was a situation and that was the extent of it."
First word of the decision from John Paquette, Seton Hall's assistant athletic director, who said, "He's staying."
"I am extremely comfortable living in the metropolitan area, competing in the Big East, and I am certain that my position is attractive to me," Carlesmo said.
searching when he announced his decision in a locker room meeting with six players.
He said the Kentucky job was never offered to him.
He said salary was never a factor or were the possible NCAA sanctions. Kentucky faces because of alleged recruiting violations.
Carlesimio has been mulling a possible move to Kentucky since visiting the Lexington campus April 24 for more than a day of interviews.
The Associated Press initially quoted two unidentified sources that day as saying Carlesimo was going to be interviewed until he talked to Seton Hall officiates.
On Friday, however, one of the sources quoted in the original report said Carlesimo seemed to be having second thoughts about the job.
second thoughts about the job.
The same source also said Carlesimo never definitely accepted the
job and it never was formally offered to him.
Sports Briefs
Kentucky is trying to replace Eddie Sutton, who resigned under pressure in the wake of an NCAA investigation.
"If everything was as wonderful down there as everybody says, he would have taken it right then and there," said Rok Baker, a Seton Hall assistant coach. "He had the intelligence to come back and balance what was there and what he has here. At least here he knows the answer. He has have made himself comfortable down here. He is comfortable here."
Kentucky spokesman Bernie Vonderheide said Carlesimo "expressed
strong feelings about family connections up in New York and decided to stay there."
Kentucky athletic director C.M. Newton, in London, KY., for an alumg gathering said, "P.J.'s withdrawal as a candidate was a lapse of pointment to me because I take many of the things we're looking for."
"I understand P.J.'s reasoning. I had a good visit with him the last couple of weeks and knew when it got down to making a move, the family ties, the extreme loyalty he developed at Senat Halo and their friend Sam in through some tough times — you know, I understand that exactly."
Tommy John, 2-3, and Mark Gubiza, 1-2, who had been scheduled to pitch against each other last night, were moved to other tonight in Yankee Stadium.
ROYALS GAME POSTPONED: Last night's game between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Yankees was postponed because of rain. The rebounding for the Royals second trip to New York, on July 13 to 16.
O'REILLY RESIGS: Boston Bruins coach Terry O'Reilly resigned yesterday after two full years behind the bench. The team will final according to Bruins players.
The news came after a closed-door meeting with Bruins general manager Harry Sinden. Boston was knocked out of the second round of this year's NHL playoffs by Montreal in four straight games.
"We had no forewarning really," Bruins forward Bob Joyce said. "He told us and it is a surprise."
Neither O'Reilly nor the Bruns could immediately be reached for confirmation of the players' reports.
While Joyce called the resignation a surprise, other players who gathered at Boston Garden yesterday said there had been indications for weeks that O'Neilly was considering stepping down.
"He let us know toward the end of the season," that he was considering leaving, said Bruins rookie forward John Carter.
Center Ken Linseman said, "I think during the middle of the year he was getting pretty frustrated with all the injuries ... He was a player's coach. He tried to work real hard and treat the players really fairly."
Bruns said they enjoyed having O'Reilly, himself a recent Bruns player, as their coach. But they said the job took a toll.
Among the pressures off the ice, O'Reilly has a son who is battling a liver ailment and may need a transplant.
GRIFEFF JR. RECEIVES HONOR:
Rookie Ken Griffey Jr. of the Seattle Mariners has been named American League Player of the Week after hitting 600 for the period ending April 30.
Griffey, 19, was a unanimous choice for the award after hitting safely in all six games. He tied a record with eight consecutive hits and another club mark with 11 hits in four games.