Monday
February 1, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 86 (USPS 650-640)
Goodbye to home streak
Kansas State forward Mitch Richmond leaps over the outstretched arms of Kansas forward Milt Newton. Richmond led the Wildcats with 35 points as they beat the Jayhawks 72-61 Saturday in Allen Field House.
Hawks see first defeat since 1984
Kansan sports editor
By Anne Luscombe Cansan sports editor
Allow the shock to wear off, reevaluate your thinking, and then start counting all over again, beginning with zero. The inevitable finally happened — the Jayhawks lost at Allen Field House.
After 55 consecutive victories at home, elapsing a time span just shy of four years, the nation's longest Division I home-court winning streak is over. Kansas State, which hadn't beaten the Jayhawks since Kansas coach Larry Brown took the helm in 1983, defeated its intralarge rival, 72-61.
"I can't believe we lost, I really can't," said forward Chris Piper. "I never thought we'd lose here. You've got to give K-State a lot of credit. The streak is something nice, but it doesn't win games for it. It obviously didn't win it for us tonight. Kansas basketball is used to prosperity, now it's going to have to get used to scratching to win."
During the years of prosperity, the Jayhaws defeated such top-ranked teams as No 8 Temple, 67-64, in 1987; No 3 Memphis State, 75-17, in 1851; and Louisville, 71-69, the same team that eventually won the NCAA championship in 1986. The last time the Jayhaws had lost at home was Feb. 22, 1984 against Oklahoma, 92-82. Kansas is now 67-3 at home under Brown.
The spell the team held over Allen Field House seemed impenetrable, until Saturday afternoon.
"Of course it's a great feeling." said Wildcat coach Lon Kruger. "There have been a lot of good teams come through here and leave with a loss. It's an honor to be the team that beat them."
K-State's Mitch Richmond, whose six free throws in the last minute of the game and 35 total points helped clinch the game for the Wildcats, ranked this victory over the Oklahoma upset last weekend.
"It's a great feeling stopping KU's winning streak," he said. "We knew we were going to beat Kansas coming into the game. This was one of my best games. I think this is our biggest win so far."
Big for the Wildcats, devastating for the Jayhawks. The defeat weighed heavy on the Kansas team, none of whom had ever experienced defeat as a Jayhawk in Allen Field House. Danny Manning lost there during the 1984 High School 6A state tournament as a senior at Lawrence High and Piper had seen the Jayhawks lose as a
freshman redshirt, but none had played in a game that ended in defeat.
“This is a very awkward feeling to come out of this locker room after a loss,” said guard Scooter Barry. “I don't think this is rock bottom but I think it's a slap in the face. You're going to see us playing a lot more intense.”
After the game the Kansas locker room was nearly silent as the
players sat staring off into space in disbelief. Manning kept his back to the horde of reporters that surrounded him as he dressed. When he turned to face them, he only said, "I have nothing to say," and quickly left.
Guard Kevin Pritchard sat staring at the floor, his eyes red.
"I feel very bad," he said. "I took responsibility with Danny and Chris. I blame the game on myself."
I was 3-12 with 15-footers. I should have hit them. That's the game right there to me."
Forward Milt Newton spoke even softer than his usual barely audible whisper.
"This is the first time in four years. They're saying this is behind us, but I think we're gonna remember this every time we play," he said.
Slattery offers warning to FBI
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
The FBI overstepped its authority in conducting surveillance on U.S. citizens in the early 1980s, Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., said yesterday.
In a telephone interview from his Topeka office, Slattery offered a stern warning to the new FBI director, William Sessions, who was sworn in Nov. 2.
"He needs to be very, very careful." Slattery said. "If you're going to get involved in monitoring U.S. citizens, you'd better have some darn hard evidence."
Documents released Wednesday indicated that the FBI investigated hundreds of U.S. citizens beginning in 1981, apparently because they were opposed to the Reagan administration's policies in Central America. Two men affiliated with KU were under surveillance.
Slatterly said he wished the FBI would find something better to do with its time than to monitor citizens exercising their freedom of speech.
"Candidly, I was a little bit surprised, and I want to learn more about what they're doing." Slattery
said. "There is a very fine line the FBI needs to walk when they monitor Americans, and I think they crossed that line. With their limited resources, I would rather see the FBI monitor the wide drug trafficking in this country."
Slattery said he was concerned about the investigation and he would like authorities in Washington to delve into the FBI's operation further. U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III said Thursday that he would order a review of FBI activities.
Slattery said, "I hope the appropriate committees will look into this and get to the bottom of it."
The Center for Constitutional Rights in New York obtained the documents from the FBI under the Freedom Of Information Act. According to the documents, the FBI investigated many major Universities throughout the country, including KU and Wichita State University.
Bernice Crane, a spokesman for the lawyers' group, said almost all the information pertaining to surveillance at KU had been blacked out, including dates and names.
KU has meal deal
By Kim Lightle
Kansan staff writer
Single file they move atong, surveying each cellophane wrapped morsel with the expertise of the most seasoned food critie.
Each egg salad and tuna fish sandwich with stands merciless examination, waiting to be picked up off the stainless steel shelves and
Soui Mansour, Olathe freshman,
pauses in between crunching on a
deli sandwich.
"The food is pretty good," she says.
Students don't find the prices of the food hard to swallow either. A survey of four universities and several Lawrence restaurants shows that campus cafeteria food prices on the average are lower.
A quarter-pound hamburger, 4.5 ounces of french fries and a 12-ounce soft drink at the University of Kansas cost $2.20. At the University of Colorado's union cafeteria the same meals cost 50 cents more.
Students can expect to dig even deeper into their pockets to eat that meal in area restaurants.
Bob Richeson, manager of food services for the Kansas and Burge unions, said his goal was to provide the best food for the lowest prices.
The meats cost $2.89 at Bucky's Drive In, 129th W. w10 St. & 59c Drive In, 101st E. 23rd St.; and $2.68 at Wendy's, 52nd W. 23rd St.
The prices are determined by costs
A survey of four universities and several Lawrence restaurants shows that campus cafeteria food prices on the average are lower. There have been no across-the-board price adjustments during the past two years.
to food services, he said. "We're basically non-profit."
Richeson said that the KU cafeterias try to make up to one percent profit to pay for overhead such as equipment.
At least one item will cost students more on campus.
The salad bar at Wesco cafeteria costs students 19 cents an ounce. The salad bar at both Food Barn, 1900 W. 23rd St., and the three Dillon grocery stores cost 12 cents an ounce.
The cost of the salad bar at Wescoe has gone up from 10 cents an ounce last year.
Richeson said the grocery stores had an advantage.
"Salad bars at grocery stores are strictly take-out," he said. "We have people eating inside the building and that means more expenses like the upkeep of the dining room."
See FOOD, p. 11, col. 5
NYC provides nanny jobs
Midwestern girls sought to care for kids in East
By Julie Adam
Kansan staff writer
Wanted: someone willing to move in with rich New York family for one year, air fare paid, salary $600 a month, room and board free, must like children.
Then she found what the "must like kids" part meant. Peters, an El Dorado junior as of September 1987, works about 60 hours a week and takes care of two children, ages $3^{\frac{1}{2}}$ years and $3^{\frac{1}{2}}$ months, in Manhasset, N.Y., a suburb of New York City.
When Darcey Peters saw a similar advertisement last year in the newspaper, she checked it out. In September, she was on her way to the "Big Anole" to be a nanny for a year.
Peters decided to take a year off from college to make extra money to be able to come back to KU in the fall, and to have the chance to see and live in New York.
"I have the baby in the morning and both of them until nine at night," she said. "I have to work a lot of extra hours compared to other nannies."
She is one of many women from the Midwest who go to the East Coast to be a nanny.
Claire Cassidy-Sussman, a 1979 KU graduate, has her own nanny service in Connecticut. She and her husband, who is also a KU graduate, have lived in Connecticut for three years, and she has been president of her company, Au Pairs of America Inc., for two years. She said she recruited most of the nannies in her service from Kansas and placed about 80 nannies last year.
“Au pair” is a another word for nanny, she said.
"I find that you have better odds of getting someone from Kansas than Connecticut. A lot of girls that live here are interested in going to California or Europe."
She places her advertisements for nannies in newspapers in small- to medium-sized towns in Kansas, such as Salina, Hays, Pittsburgh and Manhattan, she said.
She said she placed ads only in Kansas newspapers because it was easier for her to build a reputation for her company in one area than trying to expand to other states. Also, because she is from Kansas, she is more familiar with the people.
But most women from the Midwest are interested in seeing the East Coast, she said.
Peters said that the family she is living with was looking for a nanny from the Midwest because they thought people living here were raised with better moral values and greater concern for others than people in the East.
"The they think you are brought up to respect people more, and they hope you'll pass it on to their children," she said.
Peters said she worked five days a week, and her duties included bathing, feeding and looking after the children, and cleaning up their rooms. The only bill she pays is her telephone bill, but she also pays for her trips to New York City, where she goes with two nanny friends for fun, she said.
She said the trips to the city make her stay there worthwhile. But she gets homesick.
Cassidy-Sussman said nannies were in demand on the East Coast because both parents usually have to commute to New York for work, which is usually about a 45-minute trip from the suburbs. She said that day care centers usually weren't favored by parents because they were gone from about 7 a.m. to about 6:30 p.m., and day care centers usually were open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
"The hardest part for me is missing my boyfriend and my family," she said.
She said parents also were looking for somebody who could provide more extensive care for their children than a day care center.
"The au pair really becomes a third parent," Cassidy-Sussman said.
She tries to match personalities of the nannies with those of the families, she said. If a nanny has certain hobbies or interests, Cassidy-Sussman tries to find a family with similar likes.
She said the average age of a nanny was 19 or 20 and that about 75 percent of nannies stay with the family for a full year.
Dave Niebergall/KANSAN
Dean Henderson, Pratt junior; Todd Mason, Wichita junior; Tim Henderson, Lawrence resident; Leon Staab, Great Bend junior; and Heather Cooper, Overland Park senior, cheer as the Washington Redskins score their second touchdown to steal the lead from the Denver Broncos. The group gathered at the Kansas Sports Bar and Grill, 701 Massachusetts St., to watch the game.
Fans celebrate Superbowl Sunday
By Jeff Suggs
When the players were introduced at the beginning of the game, Julie Smith was whooping it up for her favorite team.
Kansan staff writer
"Go Broncos." she velled.
"Go Broncos," she yelled.
And after the Denver team took a 10-0 lead, she was confident that things were going well.
"It's a good game," said Smith, Shawne junior and a bartender at the Kansas Sports Bar and Grill, 701
Massachusetts. "It's their third Super Bowl and they need this win."
In the first quarter, Denver fans dominated the cheering when the Broncos jumped out to an early lead. But thatcheering grew uncertainty.
Smith, along with about 60 customers, hooted and hollered for their favorite teams at the sports bar yesterday, as they watched the Washington Redskins play the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl. The Redskins defeated the Broncos, 42-10
when Washington started to make a comeback.
"It's great until about now," said Mark Simmerly, Denver senior and Broncos fan, when the Redskins scored their first touchdown to make the score 10-7. "If they lose, they'll get the tag the (Minnesota) Vikings got — that they can't win the big one."
The cheering of Redskins fans became louder with every Washington possession in the second quarter.