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VOL.104,NO.127
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Owners, players say, 'Play ball'
Strike ends after 234-day battle
The Associated Press
CHICAGO - After 234 days, 921 games wiped out, more than $800 million in losses, no World Series for the first time since 1904 and not even a settlement, America has its baseball back.
The longest and costliest work stop
page in the history of professional sports ended last night when owners accepted the union's offer to play without an agreement.
The season will begin April 26, and each team will play 144 games, 18 fewer than usual.
However, the owners did not obtain a no-strike promise from the union, leaving open the possibility that players could walk out again late this season if owners again threaten to impose a salary cap. Both sides agreed such a promise, at this time, would raise legal complications for players and owners.
Though it has faced work stoppages before, this time baseball returns battered and berated by fans who grew weary of what President Clinton described as "just a few hundred folks trying to figure out how to divide nearly $2 billion."
Players will begin voluntarily reporting to training camps in Florida and Arizona starting Wednesday. The mandatory reporting date is Friday.
The sides still must work toward a deal that would replace the collective bargaining agreement that expired on Dec. 31, 1993. Players, who walked out Aug.
12, ended the strike Friday after U.S. District Judge Sonia Sotomayor issued an injunction forcing owners to continue the work rules of the expired agreement.
The owners tried to impose a salary cap Dec. 22 but withdrew it on Feb. 6 after the National Labor Relations Board threatened legal action. When teams refused to restore the old rules, the board filed a complaint on March 15 and then obtained the injunction.
The sides also have to work out the dates for salary arbitration filing and hearings, which probably will run into the first few weeks of the season.
THE ULTIMATE SPORT
Photos by Jarrett Lane
More than 200 people, some wearing costumes to celebrate April Fool's Day, gathered at the Shenk Complex at 23rd and Iowa streets this weekend for the 14th annual Fools Fest Ultimate Tournament. Sixteen men's teams and four women's teams competed in the two-day event. Players drove from as far away as Madison, Wis., for the event. Both the Kansas men's Ultimate team, the HorrorZontals, and the women's team, the Bettys, were hosts for the festival. Go Dog Go, a men's club team from the Kansas City area, beat Big River, a men's club team from St. Louis, in the championship game on Sunday. The Prairie Tarts, a team made up of former Bettys players, won the women's competition on Saturday.
TOP: Aaron Brown (center), Wichita state, battles with Lester McKrak (right), Pella, Iowa, for the disc. Brown plays for the Kansas men's Ultimate team, the Horror Zontals.
RIGHT: Gina Cameli (center), Lawrence, bats the away from Tina Cameli (right), Omaha junior, as Laura Lancaster (left), Minneapolis junior, gives chase. Tina Cameli and Lancaster play for the Bettys, the Kansas women's Ultimate team.
KU student is Truman scholar
Student body president wins prestigious award
By Virginia Marghelm Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas can add one more student to its list of Truman Scholars.
Sherman Reeves, Manhattan senior and student body president, will accept a 1995 Harry S. Truman Scholarship June 4 at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Mio.
Reeves was among about 200 finalists competing for the scholarships, which were established by Congress in 1975 as a memorial to President Harry S. Truman. Scholarship winners receive up to $3,000 for their senior year and up to $27,000 for graduate school studies.
Sherman Reeves
"We congratulate Sherman on being named a Truman Scholar," Shankel said. "He joins an outstanding group of scholars from the KU campus and nationally who are dedicating themselves to public service."
Reeves said that he had thought about applying for the Truman scholarship since he came to KU. Applying for the scholarship took about as much time as a five-hour class, Reeves said.
But time-consuming activities are not new to Reeves.
As student body president, he has had to limit his class load to eight hours a semester to keep his work load manageable. He serves on the Kansas Board of Regents Student Advisory Committee and was a student representative on the search committee to select a new KU chancellor.
In addition, Reeves was a volunteer three hours a week in the emergency room of Topeka's Stormont Vail Regional Medical Center during the fall semester.
As part of the scholarship competition, Reeves had to write a paper related to the profession he wanted to pursue. He wrote a public-policy analysis called "Assuring Access to Primary Health Care for Rural Kansas."
Reeves' career goal is to be a health care policy administrator. He plans to go to medical school and then to seek a master's degree in public policv.
Reeves said that his interest in science stemmed from his father's career as a biochemist at Kansas State University. Growing up, he was surrounded by science.
"We'd sit around the dinner table and talk about what Dad did in the lab today." Reeves said.
Although Reeves shared his family's interest in science, he also had a strong interest in humanities.
Reeves' older brother, who is in medical school, encouraged him to branch out in his undergraduate studies, so Reeves decided to get his undergraduate degree in political science.
Cowboys poke Jayhawks
The Kansas baseball team dropped three straight games this weekend to Oklahoma State. The Jayhawks were outscored 36-12.
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Candidate says lack of industry a problem
Barnes wants bigger local tax base
By Sarah Morrison Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
As the city puts the finishing touches on a land-use plan to take Lawrence into the 21st century, Barnes, who is running for city commission, wants to make sure the city does its part to increase the industrial tax base.
Jo Barnes is concerned about the pattern of growth in Lawrence.
Bringing basic industry to the community is something the city has neglected, said Barnes, who owns Acres Realtors.
"According to the census, in the decade of the '80s, in manufacturing, we had a net gain of only 31 jobs," Barnes said. "Without good jobs, people are shut out of home ownership."
Barnes said a lack of industry in the community meant that the industrial tax base was too small. The result is that the burden of taxes falls primarily on homeowners through property taxes she said.
erty taxes, she said,
"Those who do own homes are burdened unnecessarily by taxes," Barnes said.
"We need good, solid.
When the city completes Horizon 2020, a developmental land-use plan city commissioners will use as a guide during the next 25 years, land that would be better used for industrial growth should be identified, she said. Future city commissioners also should be instructed to interpret the plan flexibly so that unanticipated changes can be handled effectively.
basic industry in the community."
"Far thinking visionary aspects of the plan are very important to make Lawrence attractive to business prospects," Barnes said.
Sean R. Crosier / KANSAN
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Jo Barnes, one of six candidates running for city commission, is new to city politics.