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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 118 (USPS 650-640)
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Ease on down to Dallas
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Forward Danny Manning takes part in the post-game celebration after the Kansas victory in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Midwest Regional at Kemper Arena.
Wait ends; team goes to Final 4
By Frank Hansel
Greg Dreining, KU center, is greeted by a sea of hands outside Allen Field House. About 70 fans gathered last night to welcome the 'Hawks home after they won an invitation to the Final Four in Dallas.
Associate sports editor
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The speculation and anticipation is over. The Kansas Jayhawks are in the Final Four and heading for Dallas
For five months Jayhawk fans have expected Kansas to make the Final Four. They made their intentions known on shirts and signs that flooded the campus even before the end of the Big Eight Conference season. And yesterday all of those expectations were met when the Jayhawks defeated North Carolina State, 75-67, to win the Midwest Region and an invitation to Dallas
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The win propels Kansas into a rematch with the Duke Blue Devils, winners of the East Region, on Saturday in Reunion Arena in Dallas.
When the Jayhawks met the Blue Devils in the finals of the Big Apple NIT tournament in December, Duke defeated Kansas 92-86.
In the other semifinal game, the Louisiana State Tigers, champions of the Southeast Region, will meet the Louisville Cardinals, the winners of the West Region.
The winners of the two games then will meet March 31 in the champion-
"We've already had 2,500 ticket requests for Dallas," Doug Vance, Kansas sports information director, last night.
Many KU fans want to travel with the team to Dallas in hopes of staying for a championship game. It is the Jayhawks' first trip to the Final Four since 1974 and its seventh altogether. But the law of supply and demand will not allow everyone to descend upon Dallas.
Kansas fans seemed to have an easier time obtaining tickets to the regional final game yesterday. Most of the 16,800 fans were pro-Kansas — including some Iowa State fans who stayed in town after the Cyclones were eliminated by the Wolfpack on Friday night — as they cheered on the Jayhawks.
The cheering in the second half, which sometimes reached deafening tones, was reminiscent of the excitement that has rocked Allen Field House during the Jayhawks' third season under head coach Larry Brown.
"I've never seen the such enthusiasm as I've seen here," Ken Wagmion, 47, a KU fan from Wichita, said. "I think this brings KU basketball tradition back to where it was in the past."
N. C. State head coach Jim Valvano repeated his objection to playing on what he called KU's home court.
"I still wholeheartedly support my concept to play at a neutral site," Valvano said. "But we could have won the basketball game here or any place else."
Brown said the National Collegiate Athletic Association was correct in putting the Jayhawks in the Midwest Region.
"We got the Number one seed in the Midwest because we've got the best record here," Brown said.
"Where else are they going to send us?
"I felt the game would be close. At times I thought we might not be able to hang on. Playing at home was a big factor. Our fans were great and they kept us in the game."
"We camped out for these tickets and we're going to camp out again
For many of those fans, it was the last time they would see their championship.
"I'd go in a second if I could get tickets." Marty Keenan, a lawyer from Wichita, said. "I tried to get them in the lottery last year, but I was turned down. It was disappointing."
Norman Harrigan, Toledo, Ohio senior, whose face was painted with a red and blue "KU," said he was going to the field house to camp out for Final Four tickets.
Other fans are not giving up quite as easily — especially KU students.
Harrigan has plenty of company in search for tickets. At halftime of the game, there were about 30 people already camped out in front of the field house.
for tickets," Harrigan said. "We're going down (to Dallas) no matter what. We'll have a good time and cheer them on, and we'll still have our faces painted."
In Kemper Arena, the Kansas pep band helped encourage the mood by playing the theme song to the television series "Dallas" as the fans and team soaked up the excitement.
"The only comparison to this is the World Series, but this is more exciting because I am a student," Rob Hense, Leauw junior, said. "I may have to skip classes tomorrow or maybe the whole week."
Tickets or no tickets, Kansas fans were ready to celebrate the success of the Jayhawks.
Fans rally behind 'Hawks as they near the No.1 spot
By Russell Gray Staff writer
A blue beacon beamed brightly as Dallas beckoned the Kansas Jawhavens southward.
Even the blue light — normally white — from the Memorial Campanile celebrated the Jayhawks' 75-67 victory over the North Carolina State Wolfpack.
Chants of "Lar-ee, Lar-ee" prompted head men's basketball coach Larry Brown to speak to the 70 fans. He told them, 'House to welcome the team home.'
After he thanked them for their support, Brown said he was worried in October when he saw "Destination Dallas" T-shirts, but the team made it.
Senior Calvin Thompson, accompanied by fellow seniors Greg Dreiling and Ron Kellogg, climbed into the back of a pick-up truck and thanked the fans for their support.
On the other side of the field house, there appeared to be a shanty town. But these students were waiting for Final Four tickets to go on sale at 8:30 Tuesday morning.
Three students had arrived by 6:15 a.m. Sunday. By tip-off, the number of eager fans outside the field house had grown to about 20. Surrounded by tents, sleeping bags and lounge chairs and despite the poor reception and the glare from the afternoon sun, they watched the game.
The campers passed around a goodwill list of line numbers, guaranteeing the order in which tickets would be purchased, said Shari Reade, Hutchinson junior.
At halftime the crowd had grown to almost 40, and by the game's end, there were about 130 people.
Students only get 10 percent of the 1,700 letters allotted for KU, Reade
said. She came as soon as she was sure she knew the 'Hawks had won.
Other students had more on their minds than a Jayhawk win - they wanted to make money.
Rob Rattliff, Bucyrus, Ohio sophomore, said he couldn't afford to go to Dallas, but wanted to buy three buses. He said he would and use the money for the trip there.
James Reynolds, St. Louis freshman, said he was being paid $1.50 an hour plus pizza and beer to hold a friend's place in line. He said he would like to go, but didn't have enough money.
Down the street in Naismith Hall, about 20 students gathered in the lobby to watch the game. Other students walking by stopped to catch a glimpse of the game.
Lorna Thompson, Overland Park senior, was working at the desk during the game, but said it didn't bother her because she could see the big screen television from the desk.
She said it was a tradition for her to work during big sporting events — she had worked there during the World Series and the Super Bowl.
Yesterday she found herself again behind the desk because the other staff members went to the game, she said.
But not all students could watch the same. And some didn't care.
Tricia Peavler, Waverly senior, who was working at the information desk in Watson Library, said, "I didn't even know there was a game. I don't care anything about basketball."
But Peavler's fellow employee, Debra deNoyelles, Lawrence junior, wasn't too happy she was working at the circulation desk.
"I have tickets, and I have to work," she said. "It kills me."
She sold the tickets, which she bought from a Michigan State fan, to a friend, she said. She listened to the game on headphones while she worked.
Business at the library was not as slow as she thought it would be, but she said there was a big rush leaving at 2:50 p.m.
KU students working at Dillons,
1740 Massachusetts St., did their best
to duck into the backrooms to catch
the score and tell the others.
Bryan Rose, Hutchinson junior and front end supervisor at the store, said he tried to get employees on break to listen to at least five minutes of the game.
Business was slow, he said. But he still was upset at the number of people in the store. It kept him from listening to the game more closely.
One of those employees updating the others was Pat Easum, Lawrence sophomore. As Easum wrapped heads of lettuce in the back of the store, Max Falkenstein, color commentator for the Jayhawk Network, blared from a nearby radio.
Every chance he got, Easum said,
he went to the front of the store to
notify the other employees.
When Larry Brown smiled near the end of the game, Jack Moorhead, an employee at Kansas Sports Bar and Grill, 7th and Massachusetts, leaned over to a customer and shouted, "He smiled. It's over."
For almost 50 customers there, the game was over long before that. For the last two minutes, chants of "Jayhawks," "Final Four," and "Dallas" rocked the place as the people pounded the bar and tables.
Local cabs to provide nightly service
Rides set up for students in trouble
By Barbara Shear
Staff writer
Students who either study late or get too intoxicated to drive now have a safe means to get home.
SecureCab, a project put together by the Transportation Board and Student Senate, will begin operating at midnight tonight, David Epstein, student body president, said yesterday
The program, which is common at campuses across the country, will pick up students from any on- or off-campus building and take them home. The program is designed to cut down the number of drunken drivers.
"We are thrilled and very excited about it," Epstein said. "We have finally done something with tangible results. Tangible results are not easy to get, especially in Senate."
Epstein said that last year in Lawrence six people were killed in alcohol-related accidents and 190 people were tested for driving while intoxicated.
"We are getting behind the national trend," Epstein said. "The emphasis of the program is to get people who have been drinking off the streets."
Despite the intended emphasis of the program, Tim Boller, Lawrence senior and transportation coordinator, said he hoped people would use the service whenever they thought they were in trouble.
"If someone is on a date and they feel intimidated or threatened, they can call and have the cab pick them up. I said, "It is not just for people at bars."
The service operates from midnight to 3 a.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday through Sunday while school is in session. Although students don't have to pay, they do need their KUIDs to ride. A person is allowed only one ride a night.
The idea behind the program is to help students if they find themselves in danger — not as a mode of transportation. Boller said.
"If people abuse the service, we have the power to place a hold on a student's transcript until they pay for the rides." Boller said.
Boller said the dispatcher at the cab company would keep a record of the people who used the service each night to make sure it was not abused.
Amy Brown, student body vice president, said she did not expect any problems.
"I think most people would ap-
preciate the service," she said.
The City Cab Company in Lawrence won the contract for SecureCab. Each ride costs the cab company $3. The entire cost of the project is under $4,000. The telephone number for the service is 843-2401.
"A few guys in our house had DUIs so I know it will be emphasized in our house," he said. "There are four or five of us in the house now that buy a cab when we go out."
Brady Stanton, Nunemaker senator, said he thought the service was a great idea that would be encouraged in his fraternity house, Phi Delta Theta, 1621 Edgehill.
Epstein said he expected the program to start slowly but become more popular as more students heard about it.
Kids learn Chinese, language of parents
By James Larson Special to the Kansan
"Ni dır ming tsi chai shan mer?" as she asks a child his name.
"OK," he said starting to laugh, but finally saying, "Chu Cher-Huei."
As Lisa Lai scratches marks on a blackboard, she utters the sounds, "he . . . pa . . . jo . . gu." Children then repeat the sounds and trace characters in the air with their fingers.
Monday Morning
The children are taking part in a cultural exchange program begun in January in which they learn to read, write and speak Chinese. The program is taught by five graduate
students from Taiwan on Saturday mornings in Wescoe Hall.
Some students work merely to write a letter to their grandparents, while others strive to converse with someone who once lived next door.
Lan Chuan-Tau, a professor of aerospace engineering, said he hoped the program would make visiting his former residence, Kang shan in southern Taiwan, easier for his children.
"We've been to Taiwan before with the kids and they were frustrated when they couldn't understand, for instance, when they wanted to buy something," he said. "I think it's a good program. However, we don't want to pressure our kids into it."
See CHINA, p. 5, col. 3