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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 103, NO. 55
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5.1993
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A PROFILE OF
BOB DAVIS
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While some might recognize his face, thousands recognize his voice. Bob Davis gets in touch on the action down on the football field through binoculars. This year marks the 10th year Davis has worked for the Jayhawk Network.
The Man Behind the Mic
Davis and ball spotter Norm Stopple, who has been with the Jayhawk Network for more than 25 years, team up for another football game.
When they aren't playing them together, Davis and his 12-year-old Steven love to watch sports on television.
A steady rain starts to fall on Memorial Stadium at 10:30 on a Saturday morning. The weather has slowed the usual activity before the Kansas football game, despite the excitement of homecoming against Iowa State.
Nevertheless, preparations continue through the precipitation as two men across from the stadium, clad in crimson and blue, continue to piece together a grill for a tailgate party.
It is college game day in Lawrence.
GAME DAY
For one sports fan, preparations started in the Jayhawk Network radio booth at 9:30 a.m. In three hours, Bob Davis, also known as "the Voice of the Jayhawks," will project to all of Kansas. Supermarket managers, bar owners and Kansas fans throughout the state faithfully tune him in every Saturday.
"I don't use that, but some people do," Davis says of his nickname, "I think anybody that does ball games for a team gets that tag eventually, but I don't have a business card that has on that it."
Story by Gerry Fey
He might as well.
He walks down to the Kansas locker room at 11 a.m., people he has associated with throughout the years greet him. He does a pregame show with Coach Glen Mason, but there is still enough time to tell a couple of jokes with friends and coworkers.
Making friends is one of his perks.
After his interview with Mason, it is time to head back to the booth. Waiting for him is his partner, Max Falkenstein. This year marks the 10th season the two have worked together, and the relationship couldn't be better, on and off the field.
"I'really like getting to know the athletes and the coaches," Davis said. "I've got a lot of good friends now, whose games I did in college or high school. That's kind of neat."
"It's great," Falkenstien said. "He's just a fun guy to be around. We get along great together. He is a caring and a considerate person."
Photographs by Melissa Lacey
As the 1 p.m. kickoff time approaches, the radio booth becomes cramped, as a familiar crew fills the four chairs facing the field. From left to right are retired salesman Norm Stopel, the spotter; Davis, doing play-by-play; Topea attorney John Wachter, the statistician; and Falkenstien, the color commentator.
Stoppel's job includes telling Davis what players made a tackle and who is on the field for the next play. Stoppel points to the player's number on a sheet of paper, and Davis immediately says his name on the air.
Stoppel, a former high school football coach, began working with Davis in 1985 but has spotted in the press box since 1956.
"I've reached the point where I almost anticipate what he's going to say," Stoppel said. "He's easy to work with."
One thing that is not easy for Stoppel and Davis is controlling their cheers. Cheering of any kind is discouraged in the press box.
Early in the Iowa State game, a penalty is called against Kansas. Davis shows his disgust by
See MICROPHONE, Page 9.
Six degrees on chopping block
Committee proposes saving one program, restructuring others
By Christoph Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writer
The Academic Policies and Procedures Committee recommended the elimination of six degrees yesterday to the University Senate Executive Committee.
The academic committee made the recommendations based on interviews and information from open debate hearings, said Bob Anderson, associate professor of French and Italian and head of the committee.
The hearings allowed students and faculty to speak for or against the proposed degree eliminations.
The University originally had recommended during program review that seven degrees be eliminated.
The committee recommended that the B.A. in comparative literature be eliminated and instead be offered as a concentration in English.
Anderson said that although the program had been first rate, its lack of finances and dependence on other faculty had been the deciding factors in the committee's decision.
The committee recommended that the B.A. in Italian be renamed the B.A. in French and Italian. Anderson said that students would still be able to get a French or an Italian degree but that both degrees would be under the
What was decided
The Academic Policies and Procedures Committee recommended the elimination of:
B.A. in comparative literature;
B.A. in Italian;
B.A. and B.G.S. in computer science;
B.A. and M.S. in atmospheric sol-
The committee recommended that the University keep the B.A. in humanities, University Council will review the committee's recommendations and make its own decisions.
Then, Council will send its recommendations to David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs. Chancellor Gene Budig will make the final decision about the eliminations.
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same name.
To maintain the high academic quality of the Italian program at the University, the committee recommended that Jan Kozma, the only full-time professor in the program and the head of the department of French and Italian, devote her time to teaching and research. The committee also recommended hiring another faculty member to teach in the department.
Because of the merger of the department of computer science into the School of Engineering, the committee recommended the elimination of the B.A. and B.G.S. in computer science.
The committee said that the B.S. in computer science sufficiently served
See DEGREES, Page 3.
By Shan Schwartz Kansan staff writer
Parking Board plan limits campus access
A committee of the KU Parking Board has developed a recommendation that would further restrict campus traffic next year.
The recommendation by the Parking Board rules committee would lengthen the amount of time Jayhawk Boulevard is closed next year to 7 a.m. until 6 p.m.
The committee met three times in the last two weeks and will make its proposal to the full Parking Board at its Nov. 16 meeting.
This year, Jayhawk Boulevard is closed to most traffic from 7:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The traffic on campus is limited to buses, service vehicles and faculty and staff holding blue campus entry permits. Those permits are sold to faculty and staff members whose age plus years of service is more than 60 and whose offices are located near Jayhawk Boulevard. The blue permits cost $80 and campus entry passes cost an additional $40.
However, parking and traffic problems still have existed since that change. Hultine said.
Until 1991, the restricted hours on campus were 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Those hours were changed due to concerns for students getting out of class at 4:20 p.m. and faculty parking in the morning, said Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking.
"The morning concern is the ability of faculty and staff to find parking places at 8 in the morning." Hultine said. "If a student has a 7:30 class, they can get on campus and risk getting out at 8:20 before they're ticketed.
The proposed evening restriction was developed because of heavy traffic after campus opens at 4:45.
"Apparently at 8:30, the faculty and staff don't have a problem, but if they want a parking spot at 8:00, they can't always find one."
"The traffic on campus after it opens is horrendous," said Susanne Shaw, associate professor of journalism and head of the rules committee. "The streets just can't handle that much traffic."
The automobiles are dangerous to pedestrians, bicyclists and bus traffic, which is also heavy at that time of day. Shaw said.
Along with the extended hours, the rules committee will propose increasing the blue campus entry pass price to $45 and creating a new $10 campus entry pass for those who drop off and pick up campus employees before 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m.
The money from both those passes would pay for parking staff to work in the booths during the extended hours. Shaw said.
Hultine said the parking department was planning to conduct a traffic count to see how much traffic went through campus from 4:45 to 6 p.m. to examine the need for the extension.
Chalk it up
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Student groups scramble to get their final production presentations together for the Rock Chalk Revue committee.
Ideas sought for vacant cafeterias
Housing officials asking students about new uses
The opening of the Ekdahl Dining Commons in Lewis Hall in August shut down three dining halls on Daisy Hill.
By Brian James
Kansan staff writer
Housing officials and student representatives agree that the extra space in Templin, Hashinger and McCollum halls is valuable. But what remains unclear is how the large, vacant dining halls will be used.
Karen Shindler, St. Louis sophomore, is the head of an Association of University Residence Halls committee that is taking suggestions from KU students and faculty about what to do with the space.
"We're just in the brainstorming stage and nothing has been seriously discussed yet," Shindler said. "We're taking all those suggestions that might be useful or even those
that may be a little off the wall."
Students have some interesting ideas, she said.
"We've had suggestions for putting in a gym, a bowling alley, swimming pool and I think at one point someone suggested bumper cars," she said.
More reasonable ideas, like a large laundromat or study room, have been proposed also. Shindler said.
AURH and the student housing department will be posting signs next week encouraging students to submit ideas, Shindler said.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said he would not speculate on future use of the space until he had seen the committee's proposals.
He said the final decision would be based on a consensus agreement between AURH representatives and housing officials.
"Whatever goes in those three dining halls has to benefit the broader segment of the student population residing in the
halls." Stoner said.
Stoner said installing another computer lab was a reasonable idea, but funding the lab would be difficult.
After its dining hall closed in 1991, Ellsworth Hall installed a $120,000-computer lab in its place in January 1993.
"The Ellsworth lab has been popular, and if another lab is something students think they need, we would consider it," he said.
He said other residents had suggested ideas to him.
But Mike Owens, Shawnee sophomore and president of Templin Hall, said some residents were frustrated that the student housing department had not decided on a plan before the new dining hall opened.
Stoner said he hoped that the student housing department would have "some concrete plans in the works" by the beginning of next semester.
"One guy told me that an ice-skating rink would fit nicely in McColm, "Owens said.
Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
Jim Hughes, Chesterfield, Mo., freshman,
sends a message using electronic mail in
Ellsworth Hall's computer lab, which was
once the dining hall. The lab has 30 computers and is open to residents of the hall.