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VOL.101, NO. 111
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Sunday Showdown'
By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan sportswriter
The conditions couldn't be better for Sunday's game against Oklahoma State for the Kansas seniors.
The Big Eight Conference championship will be decided at the last game in Allen Field House for center Greg Ostertag, forward Greg Gurley and walk-on guard Scott Novosel.
The No. 3 Jayhawks enter the game with a 21-4 overall record and a 10-3 conference record. The No. 18 Cowboys are 20-8 and also 10-3.
Iowa State had Monday, Kansas would have automatically been guaranteed a share of the conference title, but Gurley said he had wanted the Cowboys to win.
"It's got a kind of national championship-type quality to it," Gurley said. "You want those types of games. You want it all on the line."
If Iowa State had defeated Oklahoma State on
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"I didn't want to already have clinched a share of the title," he said. "It's just more fun when there's that much more on the and you get that much more pumped up."
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Kansas coach Roy Williams also said he liked Sunday's scenario but would have preferred a different outcome.
"What I really would've liked to have happen was to settle it five or six games ago," he said. "But knowing this league, that's never going to happen."
"I didn't show up for that game," he said. "I got my rear end kicked from one end of the court to the other."
Williams said Kansas didn't lose that game because of Ostertag's play but because of how well Oklahoma State played.
"You can never count out somebody that's got Bryant Reeves, particularly, and Randy Rutherford, maybe the best inside and best outside threat in the league," he said. "Bryant has really had an outstanding year, and Randy's had that same outstanding year, but it's a lot quieter."
Standings
Most of the points came against Oerstert, something that the "Big O" hasn't forgotten.
The field house most certainly won't be quiet on Sunday when, after 13 games, the conference regular season will come down to one game.
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Although Williams picked Iowa State at the beginning of the season to claim the conference title, he said he wasn't surprised to be playing the Cowboys for the championship.
"One of our goals at the start of the season was to try to have a chance to win the conference championship, and we've put ourselves in a position to have that chance," he said.
What the Jayhawks hope doesn't happen on Sunday is a repeat performance by Oklahoma State senior center Bryant Reeves. Reeves has a career-best game with 33 points and 20 rebounds against Kansas in a 79-69 Cowboy victory Feb. 6 in Stillwater, Okla.
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Kansas center Greg Ostertag tips off against Oklahoma State center Bryant Reeves. The two last met Feb. 6 in Stillwater, Okla. Ostertag and Reeves will match up again Sunday in Allen Field House.
"We understand that we didn't play as well as we wanted to play down in Stillwater, and we also realize that they had a heck of a lot to do with it," he said.
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Allen's Anniversary
At halftime during Sunday's Kansas-Oklahoma State game, a ceremony will celebrate Allen Field House's 40th anniversary. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen was a force in building the field house that bears his name.
Compton calls for vote on ordinance Commissioner says he opposes adding 'orientation' to code
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
City Commissioner Doug Compton, following a fourth-place finish in Tuesday's primary election, announced that he did not support adding the words "sexual orientation" to the city's human relations ordinance.
He plans to call for a vote on the issue a soon as possible.
Ben Zimmerman, co-chairman of Simply Equal, the coalition that requested the change in November,
criticized Compton's move on unfair.
"We should have a public hearing before it goes to a vote," Zinnerman said. "They have really jacked us around."
The proposal would not pass
Doug Compton
if it were called to a vote. Compton and fellow commissioners Bob Schulte and Bob Moody have said they would vote against it. Mayor Jo Andersen and commissioner John Nalbandian have said they would vote for it.
The commission in January asked city staff to study the issue. Compton had said there were too many unanswered questions about the proposed amendment.
The commission set an April due date for the study in an attempt to prevent the proposal from becoming the sole issue in the April 4 general election.
Zimmerman said Compton's decision to put the issue to a vote after he had agreed to wait until April was an example of the the unfair treatment of Simply Equal. He said the coalition had difficulty getting the commission even to agree to hold a study session about the issue.
"Compton, Schulte and Moody stonewalled us," he said. "We had to bombard them with phone calls before they set a study session date. We haven't gotten a fair shake."
Compton said he was not being deceitful by calling the issue to a vote before April.
At the January study session, Compton announced that he would be ready to vote as soon as his questions were answered. A Feb. 15 preliminary report on the issue sufficiently answered his questions, he said.
Compton said he believed he
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Field of Dreams
Lawrence artist Stan Herd uses pieces of the earth from Kansas to New York City as his canvas.
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Affirmative action needed to enhance education
By Eduardo A. Molina
Without affirmative action, non-minority students at the University of Kansas could lose an opportunity to get a better education, a University administrator said.
"We are educating students about a world that has different perspectives and values," said Maurice Bryan, director of the Office of Affirmative Action. "If we learn to deal with different points of view, all of us could get a better education. With a more diverse student body, you will learn more because you will have rich conversations in the classroom."
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Having a diverse student doesn't necessarily mean bringing less qualified students to KU. Bryan said.
"Affirmative action offers incentives to minority students to come here. It's not about bringing people who are unqualified."
Bryan's comments are in accordance with the 1991 University affirmative action statement, which aims to promote equality regardless of race, religion, color, sex, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, and to the extent specified by law, age and veteran status.
However, opponents of affirmative action seem to be growing in number. They propose the elimination of what they call preferential treatment of minorities through affirmative action.
But Bryan said helping minorities didn't mean special treatment.
"it's a misunderstanding to equate affirmative action with preferential treatment," he said. "But the overall goal of affirmative action is giving equal opportunity to everybody."
To combat discrimination using only the law is a passive approach, Bryan said.
"Affirmative action is to take the initiative to change the environment," he said.
Bryan said that mistakes had been made with affirmative action but that it still was needed.
"Affirmative action is about building bridges and not about building walls," he said.
"We don't need to throw the whole thing out because of mistakes," he said. "People are against affirmative action because they have a fundamental problem with the concept. Part of this discontent is because affirmative action challenges the privileges these people have enjoyed."
"We definitely need affirmative action
Terry Bell, Tampa, Fla., senior and former president of the Black Student Union, said that affirmative action hadn't worked at KU because some University regulations had prevented affirmative action from being effective.
Joe Perez, St. Louis senior and president of the Asian-American Student Union, said that affirmative action didn't mean excluding others.
Gloria Flores, associate director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said that KU must take an active role in support of affirmative action.
at KU," he said. "Sometimes, the law has prevented people in charge of affirmative action to do an effective job."
"It is imperative that KU takes the lead and not follow the national trend against affirmative action," she said.
Many people forget that women have benefited from affirmative action, Flores said.
"There were exceptional women who were role models before the existence of affirmative action," she said. "Affirmative action has allowed society to know the average woman's perspective and contributions to society."
Flores said that without affirmative action, many women would suffer from more discrimination.
"There is already a glass ceiling," she said. "Without affirmative action we wouldn't be able to even see that ceiling."