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University Daily Kansan
Sports
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1986
Deliberations begin in Georgia lawsuit
United Press International
ATLANTA — A federal court jury began deliberations yesterday in the lawsuit of a former University of Georgia professor who charged she was fired from her job because she protested preferential treatment of athletes.
The jury of seven women and two men, which has three alternates, began deliberations, at the end of a six-week trial.
The trial produced testimony about athletes unable to read or write who were administratively exited from a remedial program so they could play in revenue-producing sports.
If a verdict is returned in favor of plaintiff Jan Kemp, it is sure to have repercussions at colleges across the country at a time of an uneasy balance between academics and athletics.
Kemp, who was fired as an English teacher in the university's developmental studies program in 1962, filed her suit against the director of the program, Leroy Ervin, and Virginia Trotter, vice president for academic affairs.
Kemp alleged that her dismissal violated her constitutional right to free speech and is asking restatement, back pay, actual and punitive damages.
Ervin and Trotter contend that Kemp was fired because she was insubordinate, created dissension and refused to do scholarly research.
In closing arguments delivered in a packed courtroom, Kemp's attorney, Patrick Nelson, urged the jurors to speak to school officials "in the only language they understand — money." He added, "I ask you to make it hurt."
Nelson said university officials never denied that Kemp was a good teacher. But he said Ervin began building a file on Kemp after she complained that he and Trotter were exiting failing students from the remedial program so they could play football.
Hue Henry, another of Kemp's attorneys, said Trotter and Ervin were "engaged in wrongdoing that they did not want to see the light of day." He said that after Kemp filled her suit, they set about to discredit her.
He said Kemp and other instructors did not object to tutoring athletes and helping them in every way.
Henry said that, had it not been for Kemp, "we would never, ever have known what is going on in that university."
"You do have to send a signal beyond this courtroom," Henry said. "It's got to be a substantial verdict or they won't hear it."
Hale Almand, representing Ervin and Trotter, asked the jury, "Was her conduct and actions. a reason for Ervin to remove her?
Almand said Kemp "is essentially assuming the role of the English knights of folklore, going out to do battle against evil."
"At the same time," Almond said, "she is portraying herself as absolutely without blame."
Almand maintained that Kemp was not fired because she protested preferential treatment of athletes but because she created dissension on the staff and refused to do scholarly research.
People often look down at a racquetball game.
Drawn to the noisiest court, they fold their arms against a three/foot wall, lean over the edge and observe the action in the nit below.
By Robert Rebein
Racquetball sparks fierce competition
Sports writer
At the Recreation Services racquetball tournament Sunday in Robinson Center, the people looked down on some very keen competition.
Thirty-eight students participated in the tournament, which featured one women's bracket and three men's brackets — novice, intermediate and advanced.
As the matches progressed on the courts below, those waiting to play scrutinized the action from above.
"Now there's a real head game going on down there," said Ted Eubanks as he watched an advanced
division match between Phillip Reed, Kansas City sophomore, and Greg Krentzman, Beverly Hills, Calif. senior.
"It's just like a game of chess." Eubanks said. "You got to think when you're playing racquetball, or the other guy will checkmate you."
Eubanks, 48, said he had enrolled in a racquetball class so he could compete in the tournament. He reflected on his own play as he watched the action below.
"I took third last year, second two years ago — now, nothing," he said. "I got beat by a kid I taught a lesson to last year. That's him over on court seven. I'm the old player here by 30 years. You'd think I'd be more patient."
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He said that when in the pit, a player must have patience.
Krentzman took the best of three semi-final match in straight sets, 15-3 and 15-3.
"A big part of raquetball is timing, speed and endurance." Krentzman said. "But more than anything else you must be patient, waiting on the ball, knowing when to hit it. You have to think about your opponent, but you're also playing against yourself."
The players in the women's division very nearly had to play themselves — there were only two entries. Becky Randall, St. Louis junior, defeated Leslie Leece, Lawrence sophomore, 15-4, 15-0, to win a first place T-shirt.
"I love to play," Randall said. "It's a good stress release. When I'm mad, I come here and slam a few balls."
Vaulters take turns setting record
United Press International
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
World record holder Billy Olson
credits Sergei Bubka of the Soviet
Union with the recent increasing
number of world bests in the pole
vault.
Olson cleared 19 feet, $5\frac{1}{2}$ inches (5.93 meters) Saturday at the Vitalis/U.S. Olympic Invitational to top Bobka's nearly day-old world mark of 19-5.
Olsen's record also re-established the indoor pole vault best for the seventh time this season, a first in the history of the event. The world indoor mark has improved $3\frac{1}{2}$ inches, from 19-2/4 at the start of the season.
ching Sergje jump 19-8½ and thinking I couldn't do it."
"Like I said, Sergie revolutionized jumping, and it was a matter of adapting with him or getting out," Olson said.
"Sergei changed the outlook of the event," Olson said. "He revolutionized pole vaulting. I can remember sitting last summer in Paris and walt
Obviously, Olson and Dial adapted successfully to Bubka. The most noticeable change for Olson this year is his grip on the fiberglass pole. Instead of holding the pole at 15-9, the former two-time Indoor Track Athlete of the Year began holding the pole at 16-5. Bubka holds his pole at 16-10.
Since the Sunkist Open, held in January in Los Angeles, Olson said, he had been holding the pole at 16.5 and had broken the record three times.
Olson, who now has 11 world records in the pole vault, also pointed to an athletic feud between Dial, Bubka and himself as contributing to the recent number of world records.
Another change for Olson has been his health. Olson said moving to Dallas last year from Abilene, Texas, had helped him overcome his allergy problems, something he said hampered him in the past.
"I could spot him a little on the pole, but not a whole foot," Olson said. "When I first cleared 19 feet, I was holding the pole at 15-9."
"It's a very competitive group," Olson said. "On any given day, any one of us can break the record."
And with the rate that the world record has been failing, Olson said, he expected a new race to develop between the trio to see who could be the first human to vault 29 feet.
However, the men's intermediate division had 24 entries, and play progressed only to the quarter-final. A play is scheduled to be completed by Friday, according to Craig Mostafa, tournament supervisor. Mike Wade, Fontana sophomore, won the novice division
All other play was finishing when Krentzmian and Ross Halsey, McCook, Neb, senior, took to the court for the final in the men's advanced division. Krentzmian took the first game 15-7, but Halsey came back in the second game to tie it at six apiece.
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