Vol. 99, No. 59 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 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
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 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 Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts.
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 key, heave up a lot,
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.
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 Scorsese and based on a book by Nikos Kazantzakis, have focused on a scene where Christ is tempted by lust toward Mary Magdalene.
"It mocks our Lord. It insults him. It's sickening. It's porno-
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 Buchmuehl, Overland Park sophomore, from seeing the movie.
"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."
Jill Johns, a theater employee.
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 Wintrey, 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."
grade, and he didn't give the right answers. I think sometimes the younger one knows what to do on the lea赴 tour.
Picking up the pieces
one of the protesters inter-
erved had seen the film or
used to see it.
Williams next in coaching tradition Ex-UNC assistant is prepared to take on Kansas challenge
By Arvin Donley Kansan sportswriter
Drew Williams loves tradition
After working for 10 years at North Carolina under Dean Smith, Roy Williams was named on July 8 as the seventh basketball coach at Kansas.
Roy Williams owes travis Hirsch. His office in Parrrot Athletic Center surrounds him with 90 years of University of Kansas basketball球场. As he stares at the wall in front of his desk he sees portraits of the six previous coaching legends he will follow at Kansas. The faces of Naismith, Hamilton, Allen, Harp, Owens and Brown remind him of the great basketball teachers who have sat in his chair.
who have sat in his chair. Peering over his shoulder are the faces from the Jayhawks' 1952 and 1988 NCAA championship teams, reminding him of the great players, such as Chamberlain, Lovelate and Manning, who have graced the floors of Hoch Auditorium and Allen Field House.
House.
"I was the one who decided how I wanted this office to be decorated," the 38-year-old Williams said. "I do believe in tradition. I do believe there were some great people in this basketball program here in the past.
For the past 10 seasons, he worked as an assistant at North Carolina under coach Smith, a Topeka native, who was a reserve guard on Kansas' 1962 championship team and graduated from Kansas in 1963.
"Those things are important to me. I don't know that I can ever reach the level of those coaches on that team, but I know that I'm going to try. The teams behind me here — I was fortunate enough to be in one national championship (as an assistant coach at North Carolina in 1982) and I didn't know how to act. Instead of walking around with my hands in the air after the game, big tears were rolling down my face. So I'd like to be involved in one more to see if I know how to act a little better this time."
When Williams was hired as the seventh basketball coach in Kansas history on July 8, he brought much of Smith's influence with him.
act a little better this game. Williams learned the game under a basketball legend, who also is a part of Kansas basketball tradition.
N.C. , native, said.
"Also, I was such a big North Carolina fan before that. I was there as a student at North Carolina for five years (1968-73) and coached high school ball (in Swannanoa, N.C.) for five years (1973-77) after that. So for 20 years he was the most significant influence on my basketball thinking."
"I think when you coach with somebody for 10 years you're going to have a lot of their characteristics," Williams, an Asheville, N.C., native, said.
He is outstanding in all areas of coaching," said Smith, who recommended that Kansas athletic director Bob Frederick hire Williams. "He's a pro crerer and an excellent floor coach. He coached the junior varsity for eight years and consistently won with 6-foot-1 and 6-foot-2 centers going against guys like former 6-foot-10 North Carolina State center) Chris Washburn and (former 6-foot-10 Kentucky center) Melvin Turpin. I was amazed at some of the wins."
The respect is mutual.
Tarquin I was amazed at Smith's Smith said that although Williams had received six coaching offers from Division I schools during his tenure as a North Carolina assistant, Kansas was the right school for him.
"It's the top university in the state and the people there are crazy about basketball." Smith said. "Roy's also very family oriented and it's a great place to raise family."
On July 6, Williams, his wife Wanda, and his two children Kimberly, 9, and Scott, 11, left for a vacation in Bermuda. The next day he was contacted by Frederick and left for Lawrence to accept the job.
Lawrence to accept a job. Williams' wife and children were happy that he had landed his first college head coaching job.
coaching job.
"I had told Roy for years and years that wherever he wanted to go, if he thought it was a good job, that I could live there," she said. "And I know the kids are happy for him. Roy called at 12:30 a.m. (July 8) after he had gotten the job, so I had to wait until morning to tell the kids. Scott came in that next morning asking, 'Are we going, are we going?' I said, 'Congratulations, you are now the son of the new head basketball coach at the University of Kansas,' and he yelled, 'All right,' and started slapping hands."
hands. Williams also brought his close friend and golfing partner Jerry Green from his head coaching position at the University of North Carolina at Asheville to serve as his assistant.
Although the Jayhawks are coming off a national championship, Williams inherited a program with only 10 eligible players and that, two weeks ago, was put on a three-year probation by the NCAA. Green said Williams had done a tremendous job handling the adversity.
"I take adversity."
"I think he's one a marvelous job," Green said. "It would take a strong person not to just sit down and start pointing fuggers — that this was caused by this and this was caused by that. It takes a very strong person to say that this is the situation that exists here, now let's get on with it." Green said had
side.
"I have a temper." Williams said. "I believe in doing things the right way. If I feel like somebody has done some things they shouldn't have done toward me, my family, or my basketball team, I'm going to be upset. And I'm not going to call them back one-half hour later and apologize for what I said because I'm not that kind of person."
Green said, "People who think here's this nice, quiet, easy going guy, really don't know the competitiveness that exists in him. He is really a 101 percent competitor. I think sometimes you can talk softly and walk slowly and it doesn't really show what's inside a person.
caring, sincere manner.
"There are not many people who can meet him and be with him very long and not like him." Green said. "He can go into a room where he knows absolutely nobody and it won't take him long before he is recognized. Not just as a coach, but as a person. He has a very warm personality."
with it.
The soft-spoken Williams, Green said, had the gift of dealing with individuals in a caring, sincere manner.
"He's the type of guy you want to go to war with. There's a lot of people I know that I would say, 'Gee,' I'm not sure whether I
a boy with ponytails, poised in a
Williams, however, does have a tough,
side.
know IT'M YES!
Because of Kansas' rich basketball tradition, Jaimeyahaws rank fourth in all-time victories — the pressure to produce a winner is intense.
Williams admits that he has worried about living up to the high expectations.
should do this or not." But when I'm next to somebody as competitive as Roy Williams, I know I'm ready to go."
about living in town.
"I worry," he said. "I worry if we're going to win or not, I look out there and we have some good players. But I'd like there to be more of them and I'd like them to be bigger. I do believe that I worry probably too much. But I just try to keep it inside me because there's no sense in spoiling everybody else's day."
body else's day
The love affair between Kansas' basket ball coach Chad McCormick his student body is a long tradition. Williams got his first taste of that affection at a midnight basket ball practice, Oct. 15, simply called "Later with Roy Williams."
As he walked onto the Allen Field House floor to make a brief speech, he received a two-minute standing ovation, in which the
He had been baptized into Kansas basketball.
students repeatedly chanted "Let's go Roy."
"When I went out there and the crowd, particularly the students, gave me such a warm ovation, shoot, it was one of the best feelings I'd ever had in my life," he said. "If I could have gone up there and personally thanked every one of them, I would have done it. But there's no way I could do that. The only way I can thank them is to try to do the best I can possibly do."
After most week-night practices, Williams rushes off the court, changes clothes and heads to a dormitory, fraternity or civic function, for speaking engagements.
When asked why he does so much of that type of work, he said, "It's part of my job.
"I'll see students on campus, I'm going to say hello to them." Williams said. "I'm not a reacuse. I'm not going to ignore the fans. I'm definitely not going to ignore the students. I'm old-fashioned. I think the students, after the basketball team, are the most important people."
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1987.
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