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VOL.101.No.125
KANSAN
TANSAST STATE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
TOPEKA/ KS 66612
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1991
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New rules cut tournament money
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All Big Eight schools receive same amount
By Lana Smith
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas Jayhawks may have made it to the NCAA championship game, but their performance does not mean KU or the Big Eight Conference will receive more money from the NCAA this year.
Susan Wachter, KU assistant athletic director for business, said that KU would receive $299,578 from the NCAA this year but that that amount was decided upon before tournament play.
Before this year, the NCAA determined how much money each conference would receive after the tournament was finished. The further a team advanced, the more money it received.
In August, the NCAA Revenue Committee set up new rules for the distribution of money to all of the conferences
Instead of basing the allocation of the funds on just the performance of
the basketball team, the committee decided to divide the money based upon three additional areas as well — academic enhancement, number of sports sponsored and number of grants-in-aid.
"It was the opinion of the members of the NCAA) that we needed to reduce emphasis on winning," said director of the NCAA, executive director of the NCAA.
Spyr said the revenue committee, established in December 1989, invited suggestions from NCA4 members on how to divide the money among the conferences and who emphasize and bespoke while attending conference.
After the committee received more than 300 responses from coaches, athletic directors, university administrators and the general public, it began forming a plan.
Based on a six-year revolving
The plan
period, each university is evaluated and the NCAA determines how much money the governing conferences pay for research pools based on the four reportable metrics.
One aspect of a conference that the committee reviews and equates in units is the performance of individual universities in the conference
"For example, Kansas gives more grants in aid, so Kansas should benefit from the breadth of its program." Sory said.
Spyred say the maximum number of units each school could receive each year was five. This maximum number can be obtained by advancing to the semifinals of the Final Four each game won in the tournament.
Even if a conference does not fair well in tournament play, it may be rewarded if it offers more than 12 awards or gives numerous grants in aid.
However, how the revenue com
mittee will decide the amount each conference will receive based on the grants-in-aid pool has not yet been determined.
"If Kansas is giving more grants in aid than, say, Notre Dame, for example, that's one thing, but because of the cost of the tuition at Notre Dame, they may be giving more money," Syed said.
He said the committee would decide within 30 to 45 days whether to base the distribution of the money on the grant and to determine the grants or on the value of the grants
The amount of money the NCAA budgeted to distribute is more than what was available last year
This year, because of a more lucrative contract with CBS, the NCAA was able to allow $0 million to be divided between the four pools for
NCAA has more money
all the conferences
Some of the pools' money is fixed. For example, the basketball pool was placed at $250,000, and the sports sponsorship pool was placed at a given amount for every sport over the required 12. But each conference can divide the money among its schools as it chooses.
Big 8 gets equal shares
The Big Eight Conference will divide all of the money given to it by the NCAA event between its schools, Coach Frederick, KU athletic director
Frederick said that although KU was getting double the amount of money it received last year, the University probably could have generated more money if the old NCAA rules were still intact because the Jayhaws advanced to the championship game.
"In 1988 when two Big Eight teams made it to the championship game, our conference did really well — he played very well the long haul. It think it's equitable."
Parade seeks to prolong the Final 4 dream
Kansan staff report
A parade in 1990-91 Kansas Jayhawk men's basketball team will take place at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
The parade will begin at Seventh and Massachusetts streets and will end at the gazebo in South Park.
The players and coaches from the team will be in the parade, as well as the KU pep band, a dia-land band, the Olathe Marching Jaguars and local dignitaries.
Seniors Mark Randall, Kirk Wagner, Terry Brown, and Mike Maddox and coach Roy Williams will speak.
Anyone interested in entering the parade should call Peggy Johnson at 842-3299, or Laura Schulte at 842-3883. Entries will be accepted until 5 p.m. today.
Bright light
Elden Tefft, professor emeritus of sculpture, completes preliminary welding of a stainless steel base that will support a fountain. The fountain will have two tiers with decorative metal birds. Tefft, who taught sculpture at the University of Kansas for 40 years before he retired last spring, built the sculpture of Moses that is in front of Smith Hall. The sculpture was installed in 1982 and took 15 years to complete.
Report says unemployment claims have hit highest level in eight years
The Associated Press
The bleak jobless claims data from the Department of Labor, showing applications topping 500,000 for the third straight week, came after more favorable recent reports indicating rebounds in consumer spending.
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims jumped to the highest level in eight years last month, the government said yesterday in a report that numbers of a quick end to the recession.
Meanwhile, a private study said a smaller percentage of jobless Americans received benefits in 1990 than their recession year since World War II.
"For those who might have been hoping for a quick end to recession, I think that notion should be shattered. And the chief economist at the Boston Co.
"It can be a long time between the first signs of life and when the economy actually starts to recover." Sinai said.
His legislation would force states to ease eligibility requirements so that more laid-off workers could qualify for assistance. The legislation also would reinstitute the extended bene- tuary provisions of the law, people could receive benefits for longer than the current 26-week limit.
The study, based on Labor Department figures, was compiled by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal research organization that studies government social programs.
The separate study, which showed that only 37 percent of the nation's jobsbelt received unemployment benefits, said it would call for Bush administration action
"President Bush needs to take a trip beyond the Bellway and discover the naked truth about unemployment in 1991," Rep. Tom Downey, D-N.Y., who has introduced legislation to shore up the unemployment insurance system, said as the report came out.
Because of the scarcity of jobs, Downey and others have complained, Americans who are laid off need employment tests to find another source of income.
In advance of today's report, many analysts estimated the unemployment rate had jumped from 6.5 percent to 6.7 percent and that businesses had cut as many as 200,000 more jobs. As of February, more than 1.6 million had lost their jobs since last June.
Yesterday's report on jobless claims was seen as a dismal prelude to the overall unemployment report released Tuesday, and the nation's jobless rate for March.
Two coalitions rack up 21 complaints before election
the jobless claims report, though it can be erratic, has continued to show persistently high levels of new claimants. Analysts take that as a sign that the recession continued in March despite other, more positive reports, such as one showing that the government's chief economic forecasting gauge reversed course in February and surged up by 1.1 percent.
By Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Elections Commission has filed 21 official complaints about campaign activities, on Poor, elections commissioner.
The majority of the complaints involve poster violations. Peer said.
FACTS!; led by Jason McIntosh and Giles Smith, has had 17 complaints filed against it by the commission, and Impact, led by Darren Fulcher and Alan Lowden, has had four.
Any person can claim a coalition has violated the elections rules. Poer,
as elections commissioner, investigates the complaints. If he sees reason to formally file a complaint, he does so.
Poer said FACTS! had filed one other complaint against Impact that he could not verify. The commission petitioned the commission to the other 21, after the election.
Curt Winegarner, elections comm mission chairperson, said complaints that Poor investigated and verified had validity.
The 22 complaints are the only ones that have been filed, Poer said.
Winegarner said none of the complaints involved serious charges but
could result in monetary fines. More serious violations, such as illegal attempts to sway votes, could result in the disqualification from Senate.
According to the Senate elections code, the elections commission is supposed to consider complaints which are Wednesday and Thursday.
The elections commission has the authority to levy fines against coalitions after the elections are over.
Weingartner said that monetary fines could range from $10 to $50 for each member of the coalition.
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Turkish troops sent to border to stop flood of Iraqi refugees
The Associated Press
Military officials told reporters that at least 400 additional troops were sent to the border, adding to thousands already there.
ANKARA, Turkey — The government rushed hundreds of additional troops to its border with Iraq yesterday to block the flood of refugees and forces of the United Nations. Officials said about 100,000 Kurds had pushed in nevertheless.
President Turgut Ozal told Britain's Independent Television News in an interview last night that there are 10,000 Iraqi Kurdish refugees in Turkey.
The semi-official Anatolia news agency said Ozal was referring to groups of at least 30,000 and 70,000 refugees at different points inside the border, which was closed Wednesday.
They were among the hundreds of thousands of people trying to escape from Kurdish areas in Iraq, fearing that they would be for the short-lived Kurdish rebellion.
A kind of genocide is being carried out by Iraq, Ozal said.
Some 150,000 remained at the border, Ozal said, adding that the number could grow to 600,000 in the next 10 days, according to Anatolia.
The president said Turkey could not admit more Kurds because it lacked the means to care for them. But he offered to let them in if European countries agreed to accept half of the refuences.
"I asked to the European countries, you should take half, and I will give the other half." Ozal said in the interview with the British network. "If they agree, 400,000 people, you should half of it. Will you accept that?"
"Nobody helped us, and nobody is going to take some of those refugees." Ozal said.
He said Turkey had taken in 60,000 Kouries fleeing chemical assault on the Baghdad regime three years ago. About 27,000 of those Kouries remain.
Turkey, which has been fighting its own Kurdish guerrillas for seven years, has asked for an urgent session of the Council to discuss the Iraqi refugees.
State television said 40,000 Iraqis were massed at Isikren village, a few hundred yards inside the Turkish border. The discrepancy between that number and the 30,000 that Ozal could not immediately be resolved.
Details about the Iraqi's push into Turkey were difficult to obtain because the government has barred respondents from the border region
State television showed the Iraqi Kurds in Isikerven cooking and warming up around small fires. The television showed some tents raised by refugees, and several suburbs apparently were blocking their way farther into the country.
A doctor told television—that some refugees had wounds from gunfire and burns that could be the result of a terrorist attack. But many were suffering from malnutrition.
Turkish newspapers reported that hundreds of Iraqi Kurds who were shot and wounded by Iraqi troops on their way to the Turkish border.
According to the Cumhuriyet, an Istanbul newspaper, about 500 Iraqis died on the road.
The daily said an unknown number of people also has died when they stepped on mines.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
The news agency Anatolia said 200 children died from cold in the mountains as they traveled toward Turkey.
Turkish officials said Wednesday that Iraqi troops were attacking the fleeing Kursites with mortar fire and heavy machine guns to territory but did not cause damage.
A government official in the border area said Turkey was treating at least 1,000 sick or wounded refugees at the border.
Reporters saw about 200 Kurds who sneaked into Turkey on foot being carried by Turkish army trucks to Cukurca township near the border, where they would spend the night. Their fate was unclear.
"Please tell them not to send us back," Abdelisel Salil Muhammad told reporters. "It is better that they kill us."
Daylight-Saving Time!!!
Date: Sunday, April 7,1991
Time: 2:00 a.m.
What to do: Set your clocks ahead one hour. Yes, it's time to lose an hour of sleep again!
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