Vol. 99, No. 59 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday November 17, 1988
200 protesters stage rally at Liberty Hall
"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 Hall Mall, 642 Massachusetts St.
By Daniel Niemi Kansan staff writer
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 their sins. They also filmed the film and to distribute fliers to dissuade people from seeing it.
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"It mocks our Lord. It insults him. It's sickening. It's porno."
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.
directed by Martin Scorsec and based on a book by Nikos Kanzantzakis, have focused on a scene from the film by lust toward Mary Galdenle.
Jerry Kramer, a senior at St. Mary's, said he hoped the protest would keep people from seeing the movie.
"I hope we're blocking the doors enough." he said.
The protesters, however, did not stop Sarah Buchmuller, Overland Park sophomore, from seeing the movie.
To protest the local showing of the film, "The Last Temptation of Christ," about 200 people from St. Mary's Academy, College and
"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.'
Jill Johns, a theater employee.
"It made me want to see the movie more."
for the film earlier in the week.
Debbie Pitt would, assistant man
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."
Church gathered in front of Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., last night.
John Winfrey, KU assistant professor of Army ROTC, also was projecting the rogue
testify for Christ." he said.
Many of the students refused comment. De la Tour said the policy stemmed from a similar
The Championship
Champs can still keep the memories
Associate news editor
By Elaine Sung
During a particularly low point in the 1987-88 basketball season, former Kansas coach Larry Brown often insisted he was the only coach in the nation who had two football players on a basketball team.
It was true. Brown was worried about the number of players he had and pulled up strong safety and guard Marvin Mattox from the junior varsity squad to join free safety and guard Clint Normore.
defeat.
But there is no doubt that the highlight of last season was winning the national championship in Kansas City. Mo. The players and Brown have the championship ring on their fingers and the week of April 4 forever in their memories.
It was just one example of how turbulent a season it was for the Jahwaws.
It was a sweet victory, made sweeter by beating Oklahoma, the Big Eight Conference regular season and tournament winner, in the title game. The Sooners, with their run-and-gun, high-scoring game, faltered and lost 83-79.
Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs could only watch as his five main men failed in the clutch, and while the Jayhawks celebrated on the court, the Sooners wandered around in shock and stumbled off to the dressing room, not able to accept the enormous
doubt.
"When the horn finally blew and we were all running out on the court, I just started to realize what we had done and how much further we had gone than anybody thought we could go," said guard Jeff Guelden. "We got together as a team at just the right time and there was a lot of pride."
Kansas was the Cinderella team, a team that had somehow overcome injuries, academic ineligibilities and other personnel problems. The Jahayhaws won their second national title using a lineup that took Brown 11 different starting combinations to establish. And they had suffered through several weeks of uncertainty. They were considered "on the bubble" in terms of making the NCAA tournament.
"I think just being the underdogs and then coming out on top, that's a memory that will be with me for the rest of my life," said forward Milt Newton. "We were the team that wasn't supposed to make the NCAA. We were supposed to go to the game and we got in the game, but then we went all over. Beating Oklahoma, I'll remember that for the rest of my life, too, because they were such a powerful team and we played together and we won the game."
the celebrating continued for days afterward, including a rally at Memorial Stadium and a trip to the White House to see
President Reagan.
Then the rumors started again. Where was Brown going to go?
was Brown going to the first answer came a little more than a week after the title game. Brown was going to return to UCLA.
Then he changed his mind, and decided to stay at Kansas. For whatever reason, be it financial or otherwise, Brown decided to stay with the Jayhawks.
stay with the wayne.
But the decision wasn't final.
Milt Newton guards Oklahoma's Dave Sieger during the national championship game. Kansas won 83-79 last April.
But the decision wasn't clear. On June 13, Brown took a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, becoming the highest paid coach in the NBA when he accepted the head coaching job with the San Antonio Spurs for $3.5 million over five years.
Splurs for $350 "There are no hard feelings on my part." "There was a great coach and obviously I'm going to miss a lot of things about him because he knew what I could do and what other players on the team could do. We wouldn't have to go through the whole learning process all over again. Everybody was a little upset, of course, because we had just lost our coach right after we had such a great year.
after we had such a situation for him. He had a lot of things offered to him. He sincerely told us he wanted to stay here but it was such a great offer. But everybody knows coaching is a business, the same as everything else is and he had to go where the best opportunity was."
"I knew eventually it had to happen. I was sad to see him go, but I wasn't at him at all because it was something that he wanted to do." Newton said. "I've been around coach Bong long enough to know that sacrificed a lot for this time, our community wanted to go to the pros. I'm just happy that he got the chance to do that. I'm happy that he had the chance to stay here and give the University of Kansas the championship."
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It wasn't much of a surprise to the players, who, like the rest of the University, had heard of the rumors about Brown's impending departure.
And winning the title also tends to block out the bad parts of the season.
And there! It all started out in a bad way. Before the season got under way, Joe Young, a transfer from Dodge City Community College, was declared eligible because some of his junior college hours did not transfer to Kansas. It left him short of the 48 hours required by the NCAA for a junior college transfer to compete. Young, a 6-foot-7 forward, eventually transferred to Washburn University in Topeka.
"When you win the championship, you forget about the bad memories. You just remember the good ones." Newton said. "So I attribute winning the national championship to wiping out all those bad memories." And there were a lot of those.
The good news was that Kansas and the highly-touted Danny Manning were in the pre-season spotlight, with most publications awarding the Jayhawks a Top 20 ranking.
The players and fans soon learned to never assume. The excitement of being ranked in the Top 20 faded away and reality settled. The players traveled to Hawaii for the Maui Classic.
HAWKINS a disappointing beginning. Kansas defeated Chaminade and then promptly lost 100-81 to Iowa and 81-75 to Illinois for a 1-2 start.
"It woke us up to all the hype about us being good and finding out we had a long way to go," said guard Lincoln Minor.
student who was in the seventh grade, and he didn't give the right answers. I think sometimes the younger students don't know what
anyone imagined. On Dec. 30, playing St. John's in the ECAC Holiday Festival at Madison Square Garden in New York City, senior Archie Marshall collided with another player and fell, tearing ligaments in his right knee.
his right knee. He ended his season, and most likely his playing career. Marshall was forced to sit out the entire 1968-87 season when he injured his left knee. He had waited patiently for his comeback, only to see it slip away again.
Marshall was a crowd favorite and an stabilizing force for the team. When he went down, the team was devastated Manning started wearing a white wristband with No. 23 — Marshall's number — written on it in black marker, a tribute to his friend for every game.
The road turned out to be a lot longer than
While Marshall rehabilitated, he told his teammates to go on and look for the future. Part of that future was a junior swinger named Milt Newton out of Washington. D.C.
court winning streak. The Jaybawks took revenge, though, when they arrived at Ahearn Field House in Manhattan three weeks later. It was Kansas' last game against K-State in Ahearn, because the Wildcats were planning to move into the newly built Bramlage Coliseum for the 1988-89 season.
Times got tough in early January, with senior forward Chris Piper still nursing a groin pull and center Marvin Branch being declared academically ineligible. Branch was a 6-10 junior college transfer from Barton County Community College and his ineligibility forced Manning to take over at center.
Newton had seen little playing time in the days before Marshall's injury. But Newton blossomed into one of the bright spots of the season. By the end, he matured into an emotional leader and won the fans' support with his aggressive high-flying style of play
lone of the protesters intervened had seen the film or used to see it.
The Jayhawks, who had never lost more than two consecutive games under Brown, lost five in a row, dropping to 12.8. It bottomed out on Jan. 30, when intra-state rival Kansas State stormed into Allen Field House and broke Kansas' 55-game home-court winning streak.
That, and memories of the broken 55-game streak were all the Jayhawks needed to struggle past the Wildcats 64-63 with a key rebound from Gueldner and the resulting three-pointer from guard Kevin Prichard.
It was the turning point for the Jayhawks, who made a strong showing in the end despite playing against three Top 20 teams in a four-game stretch.
The teams met one more time, which proved to be the charm. The Jayhawks, behind Scooter Barry's 15 points, defeated K-State 71-58 at the NCAA Midwest Regions in Pontiac, Mich., to make the Final Four.
It all revolves back to the championship game. The Jayhawks won the title, and the game will be remembered as one of the best in tournament history. But for the players, six of whom remain on this year's team, it was how they got there that makes the victory even sweeter.
every event. "We don't talk about it so much and we don't dwell on the exact things we did," Guelder said. "More of it is just the little things you reminisce about, not so much winning the championship and how great that feeling was. There are a lot of little things that are going to stick in my mind and a lot of it are memories we had coming together as a team."
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