VOL.100,NO.111
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSTAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY MARCH 19, 1990
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Bruins shut door on 'Hawks
Season closes with tourney defeat, 71-70
Kansan sportswriter
By Molly Reid
ATLANTA — The fate of Kansas' basketball season hung in the balance with just nine seconds to play yesterday.
Guard Jeff Gueldner lies on the court after his last-second shot was blocked by forward.Don MacLean of UCLA
UCLA freshman forward Tracy Murray tipped the scales in the Bruins' favor by sinking two clutch free throws. UCLA won 71-70 in the second round of the NCAA East Regional in Atlanta.
After double dribbling on the previous possession, guard Kevin Pritchard sank two free throws, putting Kansas ahead 70-69 with 29 seconds left.
Two Kansas time outs froze the one-point lead at the nine second mark after Murray was fouled by Pritchard. Murray was rebounding a missed attempt by Bruin sophomore Darrick Martin, who shared game-high scoring honors with senior Trevor Wilson by scoring 18 points.
Martin's shot could have won the game for the Bruins.
"It was a situation where I was supposed to help the helper," said Pritchard, who along with guard Brown scored a team-high 15 points.
"The guy drove baseline, I think it was Trevor, and the girl underneath went over to help him. If he would have gotten the ball he would have had a layup. I was just trying to check out."
Murray, a 78.8 percent free-throw shooter, hit the front end of a one-and-one with a short shot that bounced three times before falling to the ground. The second shot hit only the net and shot ULA into the lead by one. 71-70
On Kansas' final possession, the ball was inbounded to Calloway, who took the ball down the court and put up a 16-foot shot with three seconds left. Guard Jeff Guelden rebounded the miss and, while falling back, took
Elimination disappoints fans
See KANSAS, p. 9
'It hurts when they lose. That's the bitter-sweet part of following a college team.'
Marty Wall Lawrence grad student
Bv Sandra Moran
Kansan staff writer
KU students and faculty expressed unhappiness and frustration after Kansas' 71-70 loss yesterday to UCLA in second round of the NCAA tournament.
"It feels really lousy to go 30 and 45, lose in the second round," said Marty Wall, Lawrence graduate student.
Wall said he felt especially bad because he had played in the men's basketball pep band from 1983 to 1988 and been a longtime supporter of them.
"It hurts when they lose," he said. "That's the bittersweet part of following a college team."
He did not speculate about why
Kansas lost but said he still supported the team.
"I have great respect for Coach Williams," he said. "I'd rather be Kansas and lose than be Oklahoma and lose. I'll take my 'Hawks.'
Bruce Bublit, director of the accounting division of the School of Business, said he watched the game with his family.
"My wife is very much into basketball and was in tears," he said. "I'm depressed not only for KU but also for Eight. None of us made it very far."
Sarah Hannah, Emporia sophomore, said that she had not missed a home game since coming to the University of Kansas and that she was upset about the loss.
"I was heartbroken," he said. "I was terrible. We are a better team than UCLA, and we should have won."
Tony Adamopoulos, Hanover Park, Ill., freshman, said he also was upset about the loss.
"Everybody fell on the floor, and there was silence," he said, describing student reactions at the end of the game.
Adamopoulos said he watched the game with members of his floor at McCollum Hall.
About 35 people waited last night outside Allen Field House for the team to return.
"I wanted to give something back to the 'Hawks,'" said Holly Neuman, Overland Park sophomore.
E. Germans count votes
The Associated Press
EAST BERLIN — A conservative coalition, bolstered by promises from West Germany's government for a brighter and richer future through speedy unification, swept to victory in East Germany's first free elections.
Yesterday's vote culminated a peaceful, democratic revolution that toppled hard-line Communists five months ago. Officials said that 93 percent of the voters turned out.
The victorious three-party Alliage for Germany had received massive backing from Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his West German Christian Democrats.
The Christian Democrat-led coalition won 48.2 percent of the vote, final official results showed, giving it 193 seats in the new 400-member Parliament and putting it just short of the majority needed to govern alone.
The Social Democrats, advocates of slower unification who were preservation favorites, received 21.8 percent of votes.
The transformed and renamed Communist Party — the Party of Democratic Socialism — won 16.3 percent for 65 seats. They had cautioned that under rapid unification the East Germans' social safety net would be pulled out from under them as West German industrialists swallowed up their country.
The Union of Free Democrats, sister party to Kohl's coalition partner in West Germany, gained 5.3 percent or 21 seats.
Baseball
Lockout ends with contract
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Baseball players and owners agreed to a new four-year contract last night, ending the 32-day lockout and paving the way for the start of the season, a source involved in the negotiations said.
The settlement brought an end to a bitter dispute that kept players locked out of spring training since Feb. 15.
The key issue emerged as salary arbitration eligibility, and it dominated the negotiations the last few weeks.
Word of a settlement came about 10:30 p.m., after the players and owners had spent the entire day working on a formula to solve arbitration eligibility.
There was no immediate word if opening day would be on April 2 as scheduled. A news conference was scheduled for early this morning.
The immediate terms of the deal were not announced, but the two sides came to an agreement on additional players eligible for salary arbitration.
Hospital Med Center wiring zaps transformer
Hospital loses electricity
By Pam Solinner
Kansan staff writer
Electrical power was restored yesterday at the hospital at the University of Kansas Medical Center after a power outage that lasted 23 hours.
Randy Aftwood, director of University Relations at the Med Center, said about one-third of the hospital operated on emergency power until 3 p.m. Power was restored after facilities operations employees temporarily repaired a 15,000-volt transformer wire.
He said the power went out at 4 p.m. Saturday in the north end of the hospital, where the emergency room and some patient-care areas are situated. The hospital is one of about 40 buildings at the Med Center.
Bruce Johnson, emergency room
physician, said hospital employees in one intensive care ward quickly had switched the electrical plugs on the patients' ventilators and monitors to auxiliary outlets. The auxiliary outlets are connected to an entirely separate set of wiring, ready for immediate use in power outages.
'There was blazing light out of all the examining rooms.'
emergency room physical
equipment was operational
Bruce Johnson emergency room physician
All equipment was operational except a few specialized machines, he said. For example, hospital employees calibrated intravenous machines by counting the drips, a process used five years ago in medicine. The manual process was used to conserve auxiliary power.
Johnson said ambulance services were asked to go to other area hospitals unless the patients were critical. He said the emergency room could have handled those critical patients.
Johnson said five acute-care, stable patients were moved to other areas of the hospital. Another 11 patients were scheduled to be moved yesterday afternoon, but power was restored.
Attwood said the emergency room did not close while the power was out.
He said doctors huddled around a 60-watt light bulb in an office when they needed to write. The auxiliary lamp, which would be lighting except in the examining rooms.
"There was blazing light out of all the examining rooms," Johnson said. The outage occurred when a 15,000-volt transformer wire on the primary side of the transformer shorted out, Attwood said.
The wire was temporarily repaired yesterday. It will be permanently repaired when a new wire arrives.
Governor would lose to Democrats if election held now, survey shows
if the election were being held today, according to a poll published in yesterday's editions of the Topeka Capital-Journal.
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Mike Hayden would almost certainly lose his bid
Hayden almost certainly would
lose to either former Gov. John Carlin or 2nd District U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, both Democrats, the news media, and hundreds of 600 voters from across the state.
Hayden, a Republican, would have to win more than two-thirds of the votes of those who are undecided now to keep his office.
Forty-four percent said they would
vote for Carlin and 33 percent said they would vote for Hayden. Twenty-three percent said they had not yet decided. The poll has a 4.4 percent margin of error.
Juniors Mike Metz, left, and Russ Testa pick up after working.
If Hayden were to run against Slattery, who said he would seek the governor's office but then changed his mind, Hayden would get 33 percent of the vote and Slattery would get 67 percent. Ninety-five-four percent had not decided.
Hayden wore fare better if he were to run against State Treasurer Joan Finney. Against Finney, respondents gave Hayden 38 percent of the vote and Finney 32 percent with 29 percent undecided.
Against Topeka minister Fred Phelps Sr., Hayden would receive 43 percent of the vote, Phelps would get
In the race for the Democratic nomination, the poll showed that Carlin drew 31 percent, 37 percent were undecided and Finney drew 7 percent. Phelps drew 3 percent of the vote.
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21 percent and 36 percent would be undecided.
Slattery, who has said he won't seek the nomination, was supported by 22 percent of the voters.
The poll was conducted by telephone interviews. It included proportional numbers of respondents from each congressional district and from rural and urban areas within those districts. Respondents were chosen by a computer-assisted random selection.
The poll was conducted by Central Research Corp. of Topeka, a market and consulting firm.
Students spend spring break repairing houses, giving food
By Jonathan Plummer
Some KU students actually gave the shirts off their backs to needy people they met during spring break in Mexico.
Because of customs restrictions,
students in Spring Break Alternative
had to pack and wear the
clothing they wanted to donate to
charities in Mexico, the
Vince Irice K孝 of the St.
Louis Catholic Center.
Kansan staff writer
The center sponsored trips to Mexico, Pineville, Ky., Woodland, Tenn., and Kansas City, Mo.
"Last year we left the clothes we wore," Krische said. "When we were passing out food (this year), a woman came down the line wearing a big Jayhawk on her sweairtshirt. I don't think that she understood what all our commotion was about."
Krische said that during the three member group's five-day trip, they also donated medicines, beans and toys, which were collected by group members and international church organizations.
"It was not really charity," Krische said. "Their friendliness, their openness, their simple way of interacting with much more than we gave them."
Werth said that on March 12 and
13, their second and third days in
Mexico, they and about 52 students
took a trip to food to about
3,000 regale a day.
Tami Werth, Hays junior, said she felt the same as Krische by the end of the Mexico trip.
"In the very beginning of the trip, there was no way I would come back," Werth said. "By about Wednesday, I told Father Vince that I couldn't have enjoyed a trip more. This is a really beautiful thing, and I will be going back."
On another trip, Michelle Myers,
'Their friendliness, their openness, their simple way of life gave us much more than we gave them.'
- Father Vince Kirsche of the St. Lawrence Catholic Centre
Despite their great need, the people did not want handouts, Myers said.
Wichita junior, went with about 30 KU students in two vans to Pineville, Ky., to assist residents of the area, which has been economically devastated by the decline of coal prices.
"We sold boxes of clothes for a quarter because the people were very proud," Myers said. "They don't like charity."
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"There was one family with 12 kids. The father was out of work, and the mother was in the hospital, but we knew if we tried to give them charity,"
Myers said the volunteers divided into groups that performed different tasks, like delivering and clothing or repairing houses.
She said that the people's pride had changed the way she viewed the poor.
"It's really different than the way people picture poverty," she said.