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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103,NO.33
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1993
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Jordan to leave storybook career
NBA superstar expected to unveil decision today
The Associated Press
Michael Jordan, the world's most popular athlete, will retire today after nine seasons, leaving the NBA without its greatest player and biggest star just days before the start of training camp.
His departure strips the league of its biggest box office attraction, a breathtaking acrobat who led the league in scoring the last seven years and carried the Chicago Bulls to three straight NBA titles.
"Dateline NBC," the Denver Post and the Chicago Sun-Times reported the news almost simultaneously last night. A source in the Bulls organization later confirmed the reports for The Associated Press.
The Atlanta Journal- Constitution quoted NBA deputy commissioner Russell Granik earlier
Michael Jordan
today as saying Jordan, 30, informed commissioner David Stern of the decision in a telephone call early yesterday.
"David called me as soon as he heard," Granik told the newspaper late last night. "At first I wondered if he was serious. But David said Michael had made up his mind. Whether it's permanent or not remains to be seen. But it's true."
Jordan, NBA scoring champion the last seven years, leader of the three-time champion Chicago Bulls, two-time Olympic gold-medal winner and NCAA champion as a freshman at North Carolina, is expected to cite his father's slaying this summer as the reason for his retirement.
"The thrill is gone. I've done it all. There's nothing left for me to do," Chicago Sun-Times columnist Iry Kucinet said Jordan told him.
His father's death apparently robbed Jordan of his desire to play, the Post said in a copyright story. The Post said that Bulls coach Phil Jackson confirmed Jordan was retiring but was unable to say if the decision was irrevocable.
"Dateline NBC" producer Neil Shapirosaid the show learned of Jordan's plans from "sources close to the NBA."
The Bulls have scheduled a news conference for 10 a.m. today to make what they called a "major announcement."
"If it's true, it will be a bad day for the entire NBA family," said Tom Wilson, president of the Detroit Pistons. "In my mind, he's the greatest player who ever played the game and the most special athlete I've had the pleasure of watching."
Jordan threw out the ceremonial first pitch at last night's playoff opener between the Chicago White Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays at Comiskey Park in Chicago. He left after the seventh inning.
Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the White Sox and Bulls, said he would make a statement sometime today.
The NBARefused comment, deflecting queries to the Bulls.
Jordan began his NBA career in 1984 after being named college player of the year at North Carolina in both 1983 and '84. In 1982, Jordan, then a skinny freshman, helped Dean Smith win his first NCAA title at North Carolina when he hit the game-winning shot in the final seconds of the NCAA championship game.
Jordan led the Bulls to their first NBA title in 1991. The Bulls won their second title in 1992, with Jordan again winning MVP honors. He made it three in a row when the Bulls beat the Phoenix Suns, winning the NBA title in June.
University asked to pay off share of lobby group's debt
Kansan staff writer
By Donella Hearne
Associated Students of Kansas, or ASK, the Regents schools' student lobbying group, recently announced that the group is more than $14,000 in debt.
The University of Kansas and Kansas State University will each be asked to pay more than $2,600 of the debt when group representatives meet on Friday, said Nate Halverson, student body president at Fort Hays State and head of the ASK Board of Directors. Wichita State University, who left ASK last year, will be asked to pay about $600.
KU and K-State both left ASK this year to form a lobbying group for the larger Kansas schools. The new group, Kansas Students for Higher Education, includes KU, K-State, Wichita State and Washburn University.
The universities remaining in ASK, Fort Hays State University, Emporia State University and Pittsburgh State University, will not be able to settle the debt alone. Halverson said.
Halverson said he was unsure how such a large debt was accumulated because he first learned of the debt when he took office the summer.
Wichita State, where the account is held, sent Halverson a letter congratulating him on his position as chairperson and told him ASK owed Wichita State $14,000. he said.
KU's lobbying group first learned of the debt when K-State sent them a copy of an article from the Sept. 14 edition of the Pittsburg State Collegio.
Halverson said he did not contact KU because
he did not have enough information.
"We wanted to get all of our ducks on the water before we made a public statement," he said. "I wanted to figure out what happened."
John Shoemaker, student body president, said he could not comment on the debt because he did not have enough information. But he criticized ASK for releasing the information to the Collegio without having contacted him.
"I think it is extremely unprofessional to comment to the papers and not comment to me," Shoemaker said.
Halverson said he still did not have enough information about the cause of the debt. He said he hoped to have figured out what happened when schools will meet on Friday to discuss the debt.
If the debt is not paid, ASK will be declared defunct, Halverson said, because the ASK schools would have to use all of their money to pay it off, leaving them nothing for lobbying expenses, which include office equipment, traveling to Topeka and payment to a professional lobbyist.
Joe Peterson, director of ASK at Pittsburg State, said they are investigating the debt.
"We're having a credit card check of ASK credit cards," he said. "We are also doing a line-item check of all expenditures."
Halverson said he hoped KU, K-State and Wichita State would do their part to pay back the debt.
"I just hope we can settle this peacefully and without causing any bad blood between schools," he said.
John Gamble / KANSAN
Heavy reading
B萨迪 Burid, Prairie Village senior, works on her metalsmithing project in the Art and Design Building. Budin has been working on the project for one week and was adding texture to a sheet yesterday that will become a metal book when it is finished.
Professor cites location of University as reason for recruiting difficulties
Number of Hispanic professors low
By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan staff writer
In other words, the country
1991, Christine Arguello left as a partner in Colorado's largest law firm, Holland and Hart, and joined the KU School of Law as an associate professor.
"They just really rolled out the red carpet and made me feel wanted," she said.
Arguello is one of 16 Hispanic professors at KU, a number that many people at KU, including Arguello, want increased.
She said the administration needed to sell the University and Lawrence a lot more and make Hispanic professors feel wanted at KU.
"When you're in a state like Kansas, you need to sell yourself," she said.
She said recruiting Hispanics to come to KU was difficult because they made up only 3 percent of Lawrence's population of 65,608.
Angel Rivera, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, said KU had a small number of minority professors.
Before Rivera came to KU, he lived in New Jersey, where Hispanics made up 9.6 percent of the state's population, compared to Kansas' 3.8 percent Hispanic population.
"I think we are under-represented, but so are other nationalities," he said.
Rivera said KU's location was a factor in recruiting Hispanics.
"I don't know if professors want to come here," he said. "I think the University has to be more concerned with programs that deal with minorities."
"The atmosphere in general was more
rewarding," he said. "We have our Hispanic community, but they don't seem to be very visible."
Juan Velasco, assistant professor of Latin American Studies, said KU did not reflect the state's Hispanic population very well but was trying to improve the situation.
"They're working really hard trying to recruit Hispanic faculty members," he said. "I think the administration is figuring out how to open the University to more diversity."
Monique Garcia, Wichita senior, said more Hispanic professors at KU would provide leadership for young Hispanic college students.
"There's not enough role models for Hispanics to look up to," she said. "There's a lot of qualified Hispanics out there who can
teach."
"I don't think they ought to be categorized in what they do," she said.
Utley Bush, Miami senior, said the lack of Hispanic professors and lack of recruiting was hurting KU.
Arguello said most Hispanic professors taught Hispanic-related classes, which was fine, but the professors should be considered for other teaching positions.
"I don't think they have enough, and if they're trying to recruit the people, I don't know about it," he said.
Garcia said KU could easily recruit more Hispanics.
"They have the resources," she said. "It would be great to see more Hispanic professors on campus."
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Speak-Out gives voice to harassment issue
Volunteers read stories of abuse to Union crowd
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Stories of sexual harassment and abuse greeted KU students leaving the Kansas Union at noon yesterday.
The second annual Sexual Harassment Speak-Out, sponsored by the KU Women's Studies Program, featured anonymous accounts of sexual harassment. Volunteers read 12 confessions of sexual harassment in about an hour. About 80 people showed up to hear the stories, which were sometimes graphic and direct.
"I am alone," read Ra Willits, a secretary in the School of Social Welfare. The account she read was an anonymous account of a rape. "He got four and a half years in prison. I have gotten a life sentence."
Students stopped on their way to and from classes to listen with the audience. The electricity of the sound system failed midway through the Speak-Out, but the audience did not leave as the speakers stepped closer to compete with traffic noise on Oread Avenue.
Some accounts were localized. One spoken account took place in an office at KU, while another involved a teaching assistant who was sexually harassed by a professor.
Catherine Ushka, Danbury, Conn., senior and volunteer reader, said that hearing the confessions was beneficial to the victims, who often find themselves blamed for the abuse.
"If you've ever been harassed, abused or assaulted, society blames you," she said. "It's part of being a woman. You deal with it."
Ushka said the accounts took an emotional toll on the reader as well.
"I'm intimately familiar with the silence that surrounds sexual abuse, harassment and rape," she said. "For me, working for change is something I think about with every action."
"It's relating to past experience and having friends," Campbell said. "Just about every woman over the age of 13 has been harassed in some way. Every woman can relate to that."
Betty Campbell, assistant professor of English and coordinator of the Speak-Out, said the purpose of the Speak-Out was to reach out to other victims of sexual harassment. She said she guessed that most of the women in the audience had been harassed or abused at one point in their lives.
Joe Glotzbach, Hammond, Ind., senior,
Campbell said attendance was better than last year when the Speak-Out was held on Wescoe Beach.
Finding help
Headquarters inc. — 841-2345,
1419 Massachusetts St.
Victims of sexual harassment can receive help from groups on and off campus.
University Ombudsman—Robert Shelton, 864-4654, 104 Smith Hall
Office of Affirmative Action—Maurice Bryan, 864-3686, 13 Strong Hall
Source: Betty Campbell, coordinator of the Sexual Harassment Speak-Out
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said that he felt as if men were blamed by the speakers. But he said that was not necessarily bad.
"You've got to be aware of what you might be doing," Glotzbach said. "You have to be aware if you're causing a problem."