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**Above:** Kansas head coach Roy Williams cuts the final strand of the basketball net after the Jawahires defeated Oklahoma State 78-62 for the Big Eight championship title.
**Below:** Kansas junior guard Charlie Samspson tries to keep the ball away from two Missouri defenders. The Jawahires defeated the Tigers 74-67 Saturday.
Valerie Crow / KANSAN
Men take Big Eight Conference; Women to face Colorado in finals
By Jennl Carlson and Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan sportswriters
For the Kansas men's and women's basketball teams, yesterday was all about revenge sweet revenge.
The No. 3 Kansas men's team defeated No. 18 Oklahoma State 78-62 for the Big Eight Conference championship on senior day in Allen Field House. The Cowboys had defeated the Jayhaws 79-69 on Feb. 6 in Stillwater, Okla.
"This was like a storybook for it to come down to winner take all," said Kansas senior center Greg Ostertag.
Meanwhile, the No. 23 Kansas women's team avenged losses to another Oklahoma school at the Big Eight Conference Tournament in Salina. The Jayhawks downed Oklahoma 88-81 after the Sooners dominated the Jayhawks during the regular season.Oklahoma defeated Kansas 84-69 in Lawrence and 103-83 in Norman, Okla.
"It took a lot of effort tonight," said Kansas women's basketball coach Marian Washington.
After winning the conference championship, the men's team will be the No.1 seed in the conference tournament. The Jayhawks will play eighth-seeded Kansas State at 12:10 p.m. Friday in Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
SUNDAY VICTORIES: Complete coverage of the men's and women's basketball teams' weekend play, Page 1B
The women's team will play the No. 1 seed. No. 3 Colorado, in its conference tournament championship tonight at 7 in the Salina Bicentennial Center.
Although Kansas basketball had a successful weekend, Kansas sophomore forward Scot Pollard may have spoken for both teams when talking about the difficult road ahead.
"We're going to be facing a team that's one of the best in the country, without question," Washington said. "I guarantee you we'll go out and play with a lot of spirit and a lot of effort."
"It's an emotional day, but the season isn't over vet." he said.
The men's team displayed spirit and emotion in winning the conference title for the fourth time in five years. The women's team could win the conference tournament title for the second time in three years tonight.
Stolen signs are found in apartment
Repairman helps police recover loot worth $1,400
By Teresa Veazey
Kansan staff writer
A repairman who was sent to fix a loose doorknob in an apartment in the 1400 block of Apple Lane on Wednesday helped Lawrence police recover almost $1,400 worth of stolen street and traffic signs.
In addition to 17 street name signs and five traffic signs, police seized a city parking meter, a newspaper rack and a wooden tee box sign from Alvamar Golf Course, all of which were stolen sometime between August 1 and March 1, police said.
According to police, Mastercraft Corporation, which owns the apartment complex, received a maintenance request from residents of the apartment to tighten the
doorknobs. The repairman, Dan Hadl, noticed some of the stolen property in the apartment and called police.
Matt Uhart, a former KU student and one of the apartment's residents, said he had stolen a Lawrence Journal-World newspaper dispenser from the sidewalk behind the apartment complex.
"I adopted it," Uhart said. "It looked lonely, so I gave it a home."
Uhart told the stolen parking meter came from Massachusetts Street.
"All it took was three guys, a lot of liquor and a little initiative," he said.
Duncan Ferber
Lawrence senior
Uhart said he was upset about the incident because the repairman reported the stolen signs to police.
"He took it on his own merit as a pissed-off taxpayer to turn us in," he said.
Brian Hartzell, Gladstone, Mo., Junior, said he helped steal several of the street signs and was the only one home when police arrived.
"They told me I could get the stuff or they'd get a warrant," he said. "So I rounded up the stuff."
Another resident of the apartment, Duncan Ferber,
Lawrence senior, fears being fined.
"I'm waiting for whatever the district attorney decides to do," he said. "I knew eventually we'd get caught."
Sgt. Rick Nickell of the Lawrence police department said stolen streets signs usually were used for decoration.
"Theft of street signs is a big problem," Nickell said. "In a college town like this, it is not uncommon for stuff like that to turn up in people's rooms."
Nickell said it was legal for Hadi to report the property to police because Hadi believed it was stolen.
At this time, police have not made any arrests. Uhart said he hoped he and his roommates would be arrested.
"I love court" he said. "I don't mind going."
"I love court," he said. "I don't mind going."
Net action
Camera crew traces students' lives
The Kansas women's tennis team played host to Syracuse and Alabama this weekend.
When Jennifer Graham went to wake up her best friend, Cory Taves, on Friday morning, she was not alone. The Misawa, Japan, freshman had six other people with her — one of whom was toting a television camera.
Bv Paul Todd
Kansan staff writer
"They got the shot of me waking up in the morning," said Taves, Hutchinson freshman. "I didn't look very good."
Taves and Graham were among seven KU students who were filmed last week for the pilot episode of "Generation Check."
The show's producers and camera crew followed students on campus, in classes and at home to catch a glimpse of how a college student lives.
doing what they normally did every day.
Without a script or staging, the crew had to catch the students
Because the show is a non-fiction, "Real World"-type show, the students were encouraged to act and speak as if they were not being filmed.
"They didn't give us lines," Taves said. "It was completely natural."
Chris Lazarino, one of the show's producers, said that the camera crew made plans with the students last week to tape the students' daily routines.
"We planned in terms of who had what happening," said Lazartino, a Lawrence resident. "We ended up with a full day of shooting for each subject."
Lazzarino said the students had done a good job of ignoring the camera.
"We taped a student in a student-
teacher conference with a poetry professor and one going to her midterm," he said. "They were very unconscious of the camera."
John Fekas, the show's director, said the real-life portrait of college students' lives would make the show easy to market.
"Study a little. Party a lot," he said.
"That's just not the way it is."
"That's one reason we are confident that if we can put the show together correctly, it will be embraced," said Fekas, also a Lawrence resident. "They're waiting to see an accurate portrayal of themselves."
Fekas said the TV pilot would try to destroy the stereotype that college students were lazy.
Fekas said he would begin pitching the show to television syndicates next month.
Ex-Rwandan king to speak
Kansan staff report
The exiled king of Rwanda, Jean-Baptiste Nadhindurwa, will visit the University of Kansas today as part of his 1995 North American Peace Tour.
The 7-foot, 2-inch king,
whose title is Kigeli V, will
speak at 7:30 p. m. at Alderson
Auditorium in the Kansas
Union. His talk, "Rwanda:
Then, Now and the Future," is
free.
Jean-Baptiste Nadhindurwa
The purpose of the tour is to create awareness of Rwanda's problems and to raise money for the Rwandan Refugee Social Welfare Organization, which Nadhinduwa founded in 1992.
Nadhindurwa was refused re-entry into the country by Belgian officials in 1961 after a meeting with then U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold. He has lived in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda since then.