Wednesday June 15, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 147 (USPS 650-640)
Brown resigns basketball post to join Spurs
San Antonio's lucrative offer lures Jayhawk coach to NBA
By Tom Stinson
Kansan sports editor
Everything's bigger in Texas. Most notably for Kansas Jayhawk basketball fans, NBA coaching contracts.
A lucrative, "once-in-a-lifetime" offer made to Kansas coach Larry Brown by the San Antonio Spurs caused him to pack his up 1988 national championship ring, his yellow ties and his new red BMW and head on down to the Lone Star State.
Brown, who compiled a 135-44 record along with two Final Four appearances at Kansas, accepted the offer of $2.5 million over five years on Monday after resigning from the Kansas position.
Brown's annual salary of $700,000 will make him the highest-paid NBA coach.
See related story p. 13.
"I think that money was a significant factor." Kansas athletic director Bob Frederick said. "But it's hard sometimes for an educational institution to compete with a private concern in an NBA franchise."
Brown's yearly income at Kansas was estimated at $300,000, which included his summer camp and a shoe contract.
The contract with the Spurs also allowed Brown to bring his assistants, Ed Manning, Alvin Gentry and R.C. Burford, to San Antonio as well as naming, or possibly being, the team's general manager.
It also started a week of speculation over who would become the school's seventh basketball coach.
Brown's decision ended a week of speculation, during which off-the-record sources from around the country confirmed his move, that Kansas would be searching for a new coach.
Frederick said affirmative-action guidelines went into effect on Monday, setting the deadline for applications as next Monday, and a new coach will be hired no earlier than June 27.
A source close to the Kansas athletic department said Wichita State coach Eddie Fogler, Purdue coach Gene Keady, Ohio State coach Gary Williams and former Kansas assistant coach Bob Hill were possible candidates.
In two seasons at Wichita State, Fogler has compiled a 42-21 record and guided the Shockers to the NCAA Tournament both years.
Keady, a Kansas State graduate and a former coach of Hutchinson Community College, has taken Purdue to six straight NCAA Tournaments and has a 178-69 record with the Rollermakers.
Hill, an assistant coach under both Brown and his predecessor, Ted Owens, recently signed a three-year contract with an Italian team. He served as the coach of the Topeka Sizzlers of the Continental Basketball Association last year.
"I think that our job will be able to attract somebody (with a proven record)." Frederick said Monday.
I think that money was a significant factor. But it's hard sometimes for an educational institution to compete with a private concern in an NBA franchise.'
— Bob Frederick Kansas athletic director
"There are a number of things that are important. A proven record of success is obviously important. The ability to relate to a number of different constituent groups, particularly the students, I think is important in this case, because obviously Larry did a great deal in attracting record interest from the students on the campus."
Frederick was to announce a search committee today.
The committee of about eight will include athletic corporation members and a faculty, student and player representative, an athletic department official said.
"Our head basketball position is one of the most attractive collegiate jobs in America," a statement from Chancellor Gene A. Budig said. "We are in a place to attract another exceptional coach, and that is exactly what we'll do."
"I don't think I could have turned something like that down myself," Indiana transfer Ricky Calloway said. "I can understand where he's coming from.
Most of the Kansas players have expressed both disappointment and happiness in Brown's decision, but none of them said they would consider transferring because of the coaching change.
"I'm not upset. I'm a little disappointed. When I first came here, the reason was that I wanted to play for Coach Brown. But since I've been here, I've met some pretty nice people, gotten to know some of my professors in summer school and been accepted by my new teammates. I'm going to stay the summer and see who they bring in."
"I hope he'll be open and look at everyone the same way," guard Scooter Barry said. "I hope he'll be someone who knows people and builds a good off-court relationship with his players.
Forward Milt Newton said. "As far as I know, no one is leaving. We love KU. There's no reason for us to leave."
Some of the players expressed interest in a new coach's style of play, but none of them mentioned any favorites for the job.
"I think Ricky (Calloway) said it best in the meeting. He said, "The coaching staff would change next season, but the locker room will be the same."
A sign at 1625 Kasold Drive reflects the feelings of disappointed Brown, Travis Lippert, 15, his brother Darren, 11, and Elston Kassas basketball fans over the departure of basketball coach Larry 15, put the sign in the Lipperts' front yard Monday evening.
2 frats charged for fire code violations
By Karen Boring
Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Prosecutor last week filed charges against the Triangle fraternity for violations of the city fire code.
Tom Mulinazzi, chapter adviser, was served the violation papers. Charges for code violations must be filed against the property owner involved, said Fire Marshal Rich Barr. The fraternity's corporation board owns the house, but because papers must be served on an individual, Mulinazzi has been named.
At a preliminary hearing June 7, Mulinazzi pleaded not guilty to the charges. A trial date of Aug 19 has been set.
Mulinazzi was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Charges also have been filed and a July 22 trial date has been set for Paul Horvath, landlord of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity during 1987-88.
"The difference between Phi Kappa Tau and the rest of them is that their fraternity is a rental, and the landlord has been cited," said Barr.
The Phi Kappa Tau fraternity will not be living in Horvath's rental house at 893 Mississippi St. in the fall. The fraternity has bought a house at 1232 Ohio St., where sprinkler and alarm systems are being installed, said Matt Brisch, chapter president.
housing corporation board," said Brisch. "It should be all ready by fall."
"The fire department has been working with our
Barr said that he had waited through the team with prospective corporation board members and had made verbal recommendations for fire code compliance before it was bought.
All 37 active greek houses at the University of Kansas have been included in a project for fire code compliance, said Barr.
The Lawrence Fire Department inspected all the houses last summer and required them to submit acceptable plans of compliance to Barr by January. The fire department has reached agreement or is negotiating with all of the sororities and all but five of the fraternities.
Flag Day ruined:
Thief steals flag
Summer enrollment up 4.4 percent; WSU, ESU also see first-day jumps
PARSONS, Kan. (AP) — A Parsons business was flagship on Flag Day after a thief shinned up the flag pole to cut down Old Glory.
It was the second time in several months that a thief has stolen the flags at Heck and Wicker. Last fall, someone took the company and Kansas state flags from the business, said Steve Caldwell, director of planning.
"It's a pretty sad state of affairs when you can't even display the American flag without it being stolen," said Caldwell.
By a Kansan reporter
Summer enrollment at KU is 4.4 percent higher than last year, according to a report released by the department of educational services.
First-day figures show that 8,341 students were enrolled at the University of Kansas on June 7. Last year, the enrollment was 7,972 students.
KU experienced a drop in summer enrollment last year because of budget cuts. The University had to
offer fewer classes, and fewer students were able to enroll.
Money was reinstated earlier this year, and the University was able to offer a full summer session.
"There were no surprises." Chancellor Gene A. Budig said. "With the reinstatement of the budget cuts, the University is better able to meet the student needs."
Enrollment at the University of Kansas Medical Center dropped by 212.
Other schools in Kansas also have experienced an increase in their summer enrollments.
Wichita State University had a 2.8 percent increase, said Terri Haddock, assistant executive director of university communications.
Emporia State University experienced an increase of 101 students, said Kim Trout, secretary for university relations.
Enrollment figures for Kansas State University were not available.
Andrew Morrison/KANSAN
A backhoe operator from Gene Fritzel Construction demolishes the Phi Delta Theta house, 1621 Edgehill Road. The building was being razed so that the fraternity can build a new house at the same location.
Down with the old . . .
Convoy delayed at Mexican border
By Lisa Sheikh
Kansan staff writer
The U.S. Veterans Peace Convoy of food and medical supplies for Nicaragua is making a second attempt today to cross the Mexican border after a weeklong delay in Laredo, Texas.
A bus with several University of Kansas students, who initially were part of the 100-member convoy, are believed to have left the convoy in Austin, Texas, and driven on to Nicaragua.
The convoy, which assembled from around the country, was halted at the Mexican border on June 8 by officials who said the mission violated the Nicaraguan trade embargo.
Tom Hansen, convoy member from Washington, D.C., said the students had grown impatient with the convoy's proceedings and decided to strike out on their own.
"My understanding is that they're somewhere in Central America, but I really don't know," he said.
David Higgerson, supervisory customs inspector at the border station in Laredo, said a bus headed for Nicaragua had gone through sometime last week, but he could not confirm that it was the student's bus.
Wayne Cogswell convoy member
"They ran one through just to see if we would stop them, and we didn't. It was too hard."
Higgerson said that the customs officials were not empowered to stop
We will not sign the document that they want us to sign. We will approach the border at 9 a.m. and prepare to suffer the consequences.'
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In present case When the 41-vehicle convoy arrived in Laredo last week, it was informed by U.S. customs officials that it could take the supplies to Nicaragua, but that the trucks and buses carrying the supplies must be returned to the United States. The group had intended to donate the vehicles to the Nicaraguans.
the vehicles from crossing the border but that failing to comply with the government regulations could result in prosecution.
lore was our friend.
"We will not sign the document that they want us to sign," he said.
"We will approach the border at 9
Wayne Cogswell, convoy member from Maryland, said that complying with the demands of the trade embargo would be a step backward in U.S. aid to Nicaragua and, therefore, was out of the question.
Cogswell said that, in the past, the U.S. Treasury Department had given a much more liberal definition to the trade embargo, allowing vehicles to be left in Nicaragua. He said he did not know why the government suddenly was taking a more restrictive stance.
a. m. (today) and prepare to suffer the consequences."
But Charles Conroy, a U.S. Customs spokesman, said this was customary procedure. He said he had not seen the present regulations as a stricter interpretation of the embargo.
In order for the convoy to cross the border, Conroy said, members would need to do three things. First, they must provide identification for themselves as well as for the vehicles they were driving. Second, they must agree to return the trucks and buses to the United States within 30 days of their arrival in Nicaragua. Third, they must acknowledge that they were aware of the penalties for violating the Nicaraguan trade control regulations, which could be up to a $50,000 fine and ten years in prison, he said.
Conroy said the requirements were in accordance with regulations administered by the Foreign Assets Control of the Treasury Department and dictated by U.S. foreign policy.