Thursday April 14, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 134 (USPS 650-640)
Parade welcomes champions
Lineup features Brown, the team, Cinderella and a fat la
Sue Schellie/KANSAN
Walt Disney's Cinderella rode in the parade to honor the KU basketball team's fairy-tale climb to the national championship.
By Elaine Sung
Kansan sportswriter
Yesterday's parade for the 1988 national champions featured all the important elements of the Jayhawks' road to victory more than a week ago.
It started with Cinderella, in her powder blue ball gown waving sweetly from her perch atop a convertible.
KU coach Larry Brown grinned and waved from the second car as everyone strained to get a glimpse of the team's performance in difficult season into a championship.
Kansas fans came out in full force to cheer on the 1988 NCAA men's basketball champions in a parade that stretched down Massachusetts Street from Seventh to 17th streets.
There was a truck with the Kansas basketball band. The three senior forwards, Danny Manning, Archie Marshall and Chris Piper, rode in one car. Little children tagged in along in attempt to get an autograph. Several managed to get into the car with the players.
Bruce Elliott of the Lawrence police department said that about 60,000 people turned out along the parade route. Alumni came to Lawrence from all directions, and many Lawrence schools let out early so the students could attend.
The city used 25 to 35 Lawrence police officers to cordon off parts of the route.
"This is a tremendous support," she said. "I'm pleased. They're very deserving of this."
Marian Washington, Kansas women's basketball coach, watched the parade from her sports store on the 10th block of Massachusetts Street.
Brown and the players weren't the only main attractions. The Jayhawks' lucky bus driver, Jimmy Dunlap, rode in the parade. He had returned to Michigan last week, but Greyhound flew him to the parade for a parade told him to stay as long as he needed.
"I don't know how I got into this," he said.
There were long gaps in the middle of the parade. The players, some of whom were riding at the tail end of the procession, stopped their cars frequently to sign autographs.
It ended with a fat lady—actually a fat man, Lawrence High School English teacher Art Sloan —dressed in a Viking costume and singing the Kansas alma mater. On his truck was a banner that said, "The Hawks Spread Their Wings As The Fat Lady Sings."
Kansan reporter Ric Brack contributed information to this story.
Stephen Wade/KANSAN
Kansas forwards Archie Marshall, Chris Piper and Danny Manning ride down Massachusetts Street.
Jayhawk fans line Massachusetts to cheer team
By Brenda Finnell
Kansan staff writer
While people staked out good viewing spots or set up lawn chairs in the back of pickup trucks, the infant twins Cailan and Sean O'Grady slept in their stroller in the cool shade near a Massachusetts Street sidewalk.
Their parents, Keven and Gayle of Overland Park, said good fortune had been a part of their family's life recently. Not only had
they become parents of the twins eight weeks ago Friday, but their favorite team won the national championship.
"This is our lucky year," Gayle O'Grady said.
The enthusiastic feelings remaining from a magical Jayhawk basketball season spread throughout the parade crowd, which was six to eight people deep along parts of Massachusetts Street.
Some of the kids might be too young to understand the parade, said Billings, Lawrence resident. "But even the ones that don't remember, we can tell them they were here when they get older."
Peggy Billings and the five children with her had a good view. The children sat on top of a station wagon that a friend of Billings' had parked on Massachusetts Street about 9:30 a.m.
The championship excitement
was not confined to Lawrence. People came from the Kansas City area and surrounding towns. Some traveled even greater distances.
"I wouldn't miss this for anything," said Lacy, who is in Lawrence for a reunion at Miller Scholarship Hall. "When I heard
Carol Lacy, Cheyenne, Wyo,
quickly changed her travel plans
when she heard about the parade.
See CROWD, p. 5, col. 1
KU lacks funds to make repairs and renovations
By Ric Brack
Kansan staff writer
A student was surprised and, luckily, uninjured when a water-soaked ceiling tile fell on her head while she was studying on the fourth floor of Wescoe Hall two weeks ago.
The roof at Wesco Hall has been leaking for the past two years, said James Modig, campus director of facilities planning.
"That's the kind of danger you face when you're addressing an $8 million problem with a $500,000 budget," Modig said. "That could just as well have been a plaster ceiling as a lightweight ceiling tile, and that woman would have been hurt."
the University needs about $8 million to correct all the items on its list of repairs and improvements. The list includes such things as roof repairs and minor modifications and renovations.
University officials estimate that KU will receive only about $500,000 for repairs and improvements in the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1.
According to Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, the Regents will divide about $2.5 million between the seven Kansas Regents schools for repairs and improvements this year.
A roof repair project alone, such as the one needed at Wescoca Hall, could cost more than $500,000. Ramaley said
Every year at this time, a committee composed of the vice chancellors of student and academic affairs, the executive vice chancellor and officials from facilities planning begin to study the repair and improvements list.
The committee decides which items can be repaired using money that is already in the University's budget. The remaining items are listed according to priority so that the most pressing needs will be at the
top of the list that is sent to the Regents for funding.
"We normally put our highest priorities on health and safety," Ramaley said.
Also included in the list are items in campus buildings that were cited by the state fire marshal as being in violation of fire codes.
Last December, inspectors from the state fire marshal's office found at least 25 campus buildings in violation of state fire codes.
"Some of those items will go on the list; others are just housekeeping items," said Allan Wiechert, University director of facilities planning.
But buildings lacking items that are more expensive to install or replace, such as fire detection and alarm systems, emergency lighting, emergency exits and fire doors, probably won't be brought up to code in the near future.
"There are some things you don't have to respond to until major renovations are done," Ramaley said, referring to the fire marshal's list of code violations.
Many other repairs and renovations also stay on the repair and improvements list until a major renovation is financed. Ramaley said the University's budget for maintenance had been reduced before the University had tried to maintain academic programs before funneling funds into upkeep.
"We are so underfunded that we are always behind on upkeep." Ramaley said. "A list of those items are too many to repair) is millions of dollars long."
Both Ramaley and Modig said that a shortage of funds for maintenance can lead to more expensive problems.
"We simply don't have enough resources to do routine maintenance." Ramaley said. Routine maintenance.
Hijackers refill supply of ammunition in Iran
The Associated Press
ALGIERS, Algeria — Passengers released from the commandeeed Kuwaiti jet said yesterday that one of the hijackers boarded the plane after it had been diverted to Iran and that the gunmen got a new supply of weaponns there.
It spent three days on the ground in Mashhad, Iran, flew to Cyprus on Friday and arrived here early yesterday.
One freed passenger, who holds U.S. and Egyptian citizenship, said he hid his U.S. passport from the gunmen, and another said the hijackers had booby-trapped the Boeing 747's doors with explosives.
The passengers were among 12 Arabs freed by the hijackers Tuesday before the plane took off for Algerians.
Algerian officials yesterday blamed Kuwait's "intransigence" for the deadlock in negotiations with Shiite Muslim hijackers for the release of the remaining 32 hostages.
Food and water were taken in the afternoon to the Boeing 747, which the hijackers call the "plane of martyrdom."
The six to eight gunmen, who have killed two passengers, demand that Kuwait free 17 pro-Iranian extremists convicted in the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies there. The hostages included three members of the Kuwaiti royal family.
Sheik Nawaf al-Ahmed al-Sabah, Kuwait's defense Minister, said his country had an "unwavering and principled stance of rejecting blackmail. We would not change our attitude."
RACISM AT KU
'Black' churches build unity
Religious leaders spur community
Today is the fourth part of a five-day series on racism on campus. Tomorrow the Kansan will examine the problems faced by American Indians and Hispanics.
By James Buckman
When the Ku Klux Klan came to KU, the black community came together.
Kansan staff writer
For the black community in Lawrence, unity is found in the church. And in turn, the church sets the pace for the black community, which is about 6 percent of the city's
in Lawrence, there are 10 "black" churches, though white families attend almost all of them. And the church's ministers say that they don't preach a black message to their congregations, but rather to white mothers and other converts. "I don't care if whites go to black churches
Through the churches, the message of the Klan's visit was spread. In the churches, meetings were held to plan the opposition. Out of the churches, leadership emerged.
or if blacks go to white churches," said the Rev. William Dulpin, pastor of the Calvary Church of God in Christ, 646 Alabama St. "There is only one Jesus."
The Rev. Leo Barbee, pastor of Victory Bible Church, 1629 W. 19th St., said, "The church has been the glue that has held the black community together because it has been the only organization that the black community can say is really theirs without any outside interference."
But the church has a unique place in Lawrence's black community. Not only do members say that the worship experience is different in predominantly black churches, but they say that it creates a special bond among its members.
Much of the reason for the church's strength can be attributed to its history. When no one else would help, the church saw to the welfare of its people. When white schools wouldn't acknowledge the contributions of blacks in history, the church educated its youth and tried to instill a sense of history and pride.
At times, there was simply no place else for blacks to go.
The Rev. Calvin Jackson, pastor of First Regular Missionary Baptist Church, 1846 Vermont St., said, "It has always been our rendezvous place, our meeting place. We could talk about things that we couldn't talk
The church assumes a place of authority partly because of the lack of other organizations for blacks in Lawrence, leaders say. Although there is an active chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the city, it is the church that meets every Sunday and frequently has something going on. Just about everything affecting the black community comes out of the church. Jackson said.
Part of the reason for the importance of the church is that it provides much of the leadership for the black community. The pastor is not always agreed with, but he is respected and often becomes the voice of the black community.
about any place else."
That pastoral influence was visible during the recent campus visit by the Ku Kluan Klan.
Wayne Webb, president of Black Student Union, said the ministers were motivated to become involved in the issue because they had experienced racism before.
"They lived during the civil rights movement, and they felt they were able to handle the situation much better." Webb said. "They felt that it was their prerogative so they acted upon their intuition and experience."
For many of the city's black pastors, along
See CHURCHES, p. 7, col. 1
Joining gre Blacks hesitate to pledge system
Kansan staff writer
Nancy Tollefson still feels an occasional pang of resentment and anger when she thinks of her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega, and the women who were supposed to be her sisters.
By Kim Lightle
Korean staff writer
"A black went through rush recently, I was discouraged about how she she was treated as a person and an issue," she wrote in the letter.
Almost 10 years after she was shunned by members of her sorority for pointing out discrimination and racism within the greek system at the University of Kansas, Tollefon, a 1977 KU graduate, still remembers the pain of being shunned for doing what she believed to be right.
Tollefson wrote the letter after some women in her house objected to pledging the woman because she was a former sororite to the university's sororities, she found out that there had been similar discussions in
In January 1977, Tolleison wrote a letter to the Kansan about a black woman who had been discriminated against while going through rush.
other houses.
The University Senate Human Relations Committee made an investigation after the incident and concluded that many houses' alumni were a factor in keeping blacks from attending the university, suggested that the houses try to advertise more to make the system open to black women.
As a result of the letter, Tollefson was shut out by her sorority sisters and put on probation.
But even today, many black students say that they still would not be accepted as members of the 38 predominantly white fraternities and sororites.
"Blacks seem less welcome at fraternities and sororites than they do at the residence halls," said Andre Player, president of Oliver Hall, who is black. "Blacks don't want to rush white fraternities because they don't get in. You kind of know that some houses are not kept black members. All you have to look is look at many black members they have."
KU has 46 fraternities and sororites. Thirty-eight of these are predominantly white. Of about 5,000 members in those 38 fraternities and sororites, there are three blacks who are members and one who is a pledge.
See GREEKS, p. 6, col. 1