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Vol. 99, No. 59 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 188Q BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday November 17.1988
200 protesters stage rally at Liberty Hall
By Daniel Niemi Kansan staff writer
"The Last Temptation of Christ," the film that has sparked protests across the country, tempted about 200 people into the cold last night to demonstrate at albury Hall, 642 Massachusetts.
To protest the local showing of the film, "The Last Temptation of Church gathered in front of Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., last Christ," about 200 people from St. Mary's Academy, College and night.
The protesters, most of them from St. Mary's Academy, Church and College in Leavenworth sang hymns, carried banners and knelt in prayer in front of the theater for about an hour. They arrived about one-half hour before the 9 p.m. showing of the film.
The Rev Herve de la Tour, headmaster of St. Mary's, said the protesters were there to pray and serve penance in compensation for an offense against God, to protest the film and to distribute fliers to dissuade people from seeing it.
"It mocks our Lord. It insults him. It's sickening. It's porno-
directed by Martin Scorsee and based on a book by Nikos Kazantzak, have focused on a scene from the movie by his lust toward Mary Magdalene.
De la Tour said he hoped the protest would halt the showing of the movie at Liberty Hall. It is scheduled to run through Dec. 3
Jerry Kramer, a senior at St. Mary's, said he hoped the protest would keep people from seeing the movie.
The protesters, however, did not stop Sarah Buchmuller, Overland Park sophomore, from seeing the movie.
"I hope we're blocking the doors enough." he said.
"This guy was grabbing me and trying to get me to read this stuff," she said. "I said, 'I just want to see the movie.'"
"It made me want to see the movie more."
for the film earlier in the week.
Rob Fitzgerald, assistant manager at Liberty Hall, said earlier yesterday that three to four people had protested the film almost
want. They have the right to protest."
John Winfrey, KU assistant professor of Army ROTC, also was protesting the movie.
testify for Christ," he said.
Many of the students refused comment. De la Taure said the policy stemmed from a similar protest of the movie "Hail Mary."
On Probation
The Jayhawks celebrate after winning the 1988 NCAA title in Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
KU basketball endures turbulent times
Compiled by Tom Stinson
Associate sports editor
The ride lasted more than eight months and took virtually every twist and turn imaginable, but it would appear that it has come to a end. The Kansas men's basketball program can step off and move on.
ship in the area also lost its coach, received three years probation for NCAA recruiting violations and was placed in a negative spotlight across the nation.
program for the Jayhawks. During those eight months, the Jayhawks went from winning the national championship to nearly losing their program.
The ride began to intensity on June 11, when coach Larry Brown ended weeks of speculation and added to his reputation as a climbing man by accepting the San Antonio Spurs' head coaching job. Brown received $5.5 million over five years for the job and took with him his three Kansas assistants — Alin Gentry, Ed Manning and B.C. Rofford
Ainn Gentry, Ed Manning and R.C. Buford.
Kansas fans were relieved when on July 8
North Carolina assistant coach and Dean
Smith-protage Roy Williams was named the
Jayhawk's seventh men's basketball coach
But that celebration quickly turned to frustration and bevelerment on July 11.
The 14 violations, at least eight of which the University self-reported, occurred between June 1986 and April 1987. They included buying an airline ticket for a recruit, lending a recruit's family money to pay a utility bill and giving a recruit $200
Gentry said after the meeting that "90 percent" of the violations involved Vincent Askew and that former Jayhawk player Mike Marshall was a Kansas athletic department representative mentioned in the violations.
instruction and bewilderment also helped Bob Frederick, athletic director, revealed
"As I understand it, if you had nothing but minor violations alleged, it would not end up before the enforcement committee for infractions," he said at the time.
utnat Kansas had received an official NCAA letter of inquiry concerning recruiting violations.
Askew was a former Memphis State University player who considered transferring to Kansas during the summer of 1966. He lived in Lawrence that summer, and the
Although the infractions were downplayed at the time, Frederick admitted that some of them were serious.
Kansas' response to the NCAA Committee on Infractions was due Sept. 3 and Jayhawk officials met with the committee on Sept. 30.
student who was in the seventh grade, and he didn't give the right answers. I think sometimes the younger students know what to do de la tour said.
violations involving him all occurred during a 10-day period that summer.
Marshall played for Kansas in 1983-84 before transferring to McNeese State.
On Nov. 1, 30 days after the hearing, the results of the investigation were released:
"The men's basketball team is on three years probation, including banning three unnamed individuals from involvement in Kansas athletics. Brown later identified the three individuals as Marshall, Ralph Light, president of RAL construction company in Kansas City, Kan., and Jerry Collins, who had produced the Larry Brown Show."
- Kansas loses one scholarship for 1989-90, dropping the Jayhawks to 12 scholarship players, three less than the NCAA limit.
- Kansas is banned from postseason play
■ Kansas is not allowed to pay for recruits to visit the Kansas campus in 1989.
But, the Jayhawks could have received the "death penalty" because it was the second major infractions case involving the institution within a five-year period. The Kansas football program was put on a two-year probation in 1983.
one of the protesters intervened had seen the film or used to see it.
The "the death penalty" is an NCAA ruling that can shut down a program for a speci-
period if that institution was involved in two major infractions cases in five years
The Kansas staff and fans thought the ride was officially over, but it once again gained speed on Nov. 9 when Marshall said in a Sports illustrated article that he gave for American Donny Manning small loops when Manning was a student athlete at Kansas.
"It's true," Ron Grinker, Manning's agent, said. "He gave him $5, $7 and $10 when (Manning's) father was out of town."
David Berst, NCAA director of enforcement, said, "Those are not significant violations if that's all that was involved and he was the only eligible player from the
On Nov. 11, the NCAA confirmed Berst's comments and the ride officially ended.
The NCIA announced that it would not reopen its investigation of the Kansas pro-
Its reasoning was that the loans occurred before Marshall would have been an athletics representative.
No more twists, no more turns and almost no more Kansas basketball. The ride halted just in time, and Kansas' program stepped off onto secure ground.
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ed that discontinuation was a students because many wanted he program. Also, he said no d in the program's curriculum with the program's discontinu-
complain it is academically weak courses to continue," he said; y, Fairfax, Va., senior, and who attended the hearing, said with Drury that the program discontinued.
d with a lot of freshmen and who were interested in majoring "he said. "When told the major a lot of people were really
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