Vol. 99, No. 54 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday November 10, 1988
Manning took loans at KU, agent says
The Associated Press
MIKE MARSHALL
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Danny Manning's agent confirmed yesterday that the former Kansas basketball star took loans from another former Jayhawk player who reportedly admitted he was involved in violations that led to NCAA probations for Kansas and McNeese State.
"I't is true," agent Ron Grinker said of (Mike) Marshall's reported statement that he gave Manning small loans. "He gave him $5, $7, $10 when (Manning's) father (former KU coach Ed Manning) was out of town."
Grinker was interviewed by telephone from his Cincinnati office by the Kansas City Star.
In its Nov. 14 issue, Sports Illustrated said the name of the former player, Mike Marshall, was withheld after investigations of Kansas as part of a deal Marshall made with the NCAA. The NCAA's investigation resulted in a three-year probation for the defending national champions.
Marshall, 26. played one season at Kansas in 1983-84, then transferred to McNeese State, which is also on NCAA probation. Marshall said he received payments from McNeese State boosters during his year there, the magazine said, helping put that school on probation.
Marshall's identity was not revealed after the investigation
because he wanted to be a coach and did not want scandal in his background. The magazine said. The interview anonymity in return for information.
The magazine said that Marshall, who was closely associated with former Kansas coach Larry Brown, made a cash payment and bought a plane ticket for a potential recruit to take loans to Manning and other players.
"I'm sure if you ask Mike Marshall, he'll tell you Danny always paid him back." Grinker went. "Danny thought nothing of it. He
didn't consider Mike Marshall to be a part of the basketball program."
Marshall's whereabouts yesterday were not known.
Manning was the first pick in the NBA draft this year but has not signed a contract with the Los Angeles Clippers. Brown has returned to the NBA as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs.
In an interview with an NCAA investigator, during which a Sports Illustrated reporter was present, Marshall said Brown knew about the plane ticket and cash payment to the family of Vincent Askew, 40, who wanted to transfer to Kansas. Askew wound up not transferring.
David Berst, assistant NCAA director for enforcement, confirmed yesterday that a Sports Illustrated newspaper as present at two NCAA interviews.
interviews." He did sit in on two interviews but did not explain to our person that he was a writer. He was represented to be a friend . . . or someone who was going to work out with the player, the person we were going to interview." Berst said.
"I am somewhat concerned that an individual would participate without identifying himself. I have already made those thoughts known
Please see MANNING, p. 10, col. 6.
By Arvin Donley Kansan sportswriter
NCAA investigation might be reopened
The NCAA might reopen its investigation into the Kansas men's basketball program because of the possibility of additional NCAA rules violations, NCAA director of enforcement David Berst said last night in a telephone interview from his home in Kansas City, Kan.
Berst said that because he was leaving today for an NCAA Intractions Committee meeting involving another school, the Kansas situation would be reviewed sometime next week.
In the Nov. 14 issue of Sports Illustrated, former Kansas basketball player Mike Marshall said he gave former All-American basketball star Danny Manning small loans while Manning was a student-athlete at
Marshall was not a student when he loaned money to Manning, and that constitutes a violation of NCAA rules. Neither Marshall nor Manning could be reached for comment.
Manning's agent, Cincinnati-based lawyer Ron Grinker, confirmed that Manning had received $5, $7 and $10 loans from Marshall while Manning was at Kansas
Bert first said the NCAA would compare information in the article with information the NCAA had in order to determine how much the NCAA should pay.
determine whether we are experts.
"Those are not very significant violations if that's all that was involved and he was the only eligible player from the team involved." Berst said.
herst said that if the case were reopened and the NCAA found violations had occurred involving members from last year's team, the NCAA could strip Kansas of last season's national championship.
"That's a possibility." Berst said. "But I don't want to include it among the likely alternatives, at this point, until we review the article and our findings."
Berst also said that Kansas could receive the "death penalty" if the case was reopened but that was a remote possibility based on the information he had heard so far. The death penalty would eliminate basketball as an intercollegiate sport at Kansas for an undetermined period of time.
Berst said it was possible that Manning would have to testify if significant violations had occurred.
testify.
In a telephone interview from his home last night, Cancellor Gene A. Budig said, "The University of Kansas spent 18 months working with the NCAA staff, responding to all of the inquiry in great depth. We had never heard that Danny Manning had borrowed any money."
Kansas Athletic Director Bob Frederick said last night that he had not expected to hear of the possibility of additional violations.
"I would not presume to speak for the NCAA staff. I do believe it is time for us to look forward and put the matter behind us and unite with Coach (Roy) Williams. He is committed to high standards with student-athletes on the court and in the classroom."
"We were really shocked at the new information," Frederick said. "We've cooperated daily for almost $1 \frac{1}{2}$ years with the NCAA. What we knew, they knew."
Frederick said he hoped that the NCAA could reach a decision quickly.
Please see NCAA, p. 10, col. 3
Stephen Wade/KANSAN
As term paper and project deadlines approach, students crowd the stacks in Watson Library looking for a quiet place to study. LEFT: Akin Falaaiye, Iole-Ekiti, Nigeria, graduate student, works on his dissertation in political science. ABOVE: Library windows are aglow in the nighttime air.
Study by night
Democrats add 9 seats many hope for Margin
Rv David Stewart
Kansan staff writer
Several Kansas legislative seats changed hands in Tuesday's election, and many political watchers said the new governor was a better fit for the Margin of Excellence.
Ed McKeechin, press secretary for House Minority Leader Marvin Barkis, D-Louisburg, said that the Margin benefited from the election.
"The Margin of Excellence's chance to be considered more widely," McKeech said.
The Margin is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring Regents schools to 95 percent of their peer schools in total financing and to 100 percent of their peers in salary salaries. The board will be under a motion for its second year of financing during the 1889 legislative session.
Mark Tallman, state legislative director of Associated Students of Kansas, said that a survey taken before the election showed that support among all the candidates for the Margin and other higher-education issues was strong but that support was stronger among Democrats.
Was it stolen, among
Of the 22 new representatives, 13 are Democrats. Of the 11 new senators, seven are Democrats.
The new composition of the House is 58 Democrats and 67 Republicans; the Democrats gained seven seats. In the Senate, there are 18 Democrats and 22 Republicans; the Democrats gained two seats.
Although Tallman said that support for the Margin was bipartisan, he said that one casualty of the Margin issue was the House Majority Leader, Joe Knopp, R-Manhattan. Knopp was defeated by Sheila Hochauer, D-Manhattan.
"I had made a judgment call not to oversteep our bounds," Knopp said.
Nopp said that Democrats had made a campaign issue out of his vote against a floor amendment to add more money to the Regents
He said that the Margin might not have received any financing because
conservative Republicans were against allowing too many increases.
"People were more concerned with rhetoric than with results," he said.
against allowing too many increases. Knopp said that although Kansas State University had received most of its budget requests, his opponent still was able to convince voters that Knopp was against higher education.
theoretic than with results, he said.
As for the future of the Margin, Knopp said it was positive. The addition of two Democrats to the senate would help but that the trick would be to convince conservatives to spend money on higher education, he said.
Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, who was re-elected over Mike DuPree, D-Lawrence and in the fight for the Margin's second year
"He was certainly a strong advocate in a position where he could help." Winter said.
He said that he could not think of any Senate participants in the fight for Margin financing who had lost the election. However, Winter said that Robert Talkington, R-Lawrence, who decided not to run for re-election of his Senate seat, would be missed.
"He was a KU graduate, and he had been very supportive," Winter said.
Rep. Jess Branson, D-Lawrence, who was re-elected over Renee McGhee, R-Lawrence, agreed that Talkington would be missed, but she said that at this time it would be hard to reach the Margin would do in the Legislature.
"I just think it's difficult to determine at this time," Branson said. "There's always a chance that with new blood things are going to get better."
Branson said that the Lawrence representatives would be ready to fight for the Margin. But the fight will be a difficult one because Margin money next year will have to come from the state's general fund. Last year, financing for the Margin came from state general fees and hospital revenues.
Bush picks James Baker to be secretary of state
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — President-elect George Bush picked James A. Baker III, a Reagan administration stalwart, as his secretary of state yesterday but at the same time pledged a major turnover of personnel.
pet. Moving with unusual speed barely 11 hours after claiming victory, Bush announced a handful of key appointments.
of Rey Appointed Craig Fuller. Bush's vice presidential chief of staff, and campaign pollster Robert Teeter will share authority as co-chairmen of the transition team that will plan the takeover of power from Reagan.
In a declaration sure to send shudders through the ranks of the 5,000 political appointees at work in the Reagan administration, some of them have been bringing in a brand new team of people from across the country.
The president-elect said he wanted to announce the rest of his Cabinet soon and think about the possible choices during a Florida vacation this weekend.
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However, he carefully left room for some Reagan holdovers to join his administration.
"In my view that will re-invigorate the process." Bush said.
Please see BUSH, p. 6, col. 1
Political parties analyze Kansas election results
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — In post-election "spins" on what Kansas election results meant, Republicans claimed victory yesterday because of George Bush's big win and because they didn't lose control of the Legislature. Democrats crowed about their gains in the state House and Senate.
galls in the state House and GOP Gov. Mike Hayden and GOP Chairman Fred Logan Jr. held separate Capitol news conferences to stress that the loss of nine Republican legislative seats was less than the party holding the governor's chair historically has suffered in years in which there are no elections for statewide offices.
House Democrat Leader Marvin Binkis also held a Statehouse news conference, while his party chairman, Jim Parrish, telephoned his comments to reporters. The Democratic leaders said Republicans were putting up a brave front, but actually were stunned by Tuesday's losses.
were students of Pennsylvania. Parrish pointed to five Senate races, each decided by fewer than 1,000 votes, all of which were won by Republicans. If Democrats had won
Both sides also agreed there was nothing surprising in the fact Kansans voted overwhelmingly to send four U.S. House members who had opposition back to Washington with new two-year terms.
three of the five, they would have taken the Senate, he said.
terms
Republican 3rd District Rep. Jan Meyers scored the greatest victory, with 74 percent of the vote over Lionel Kunst, while Democratic 2nd District Rep. Jim Slattery got 73 percent over Phil Meinhardt, Republican 5th District Rep. Bob Whittaker collected 70 percent against John A. Barnes and Democratic 4th District Rep. Dan Glickman gained 64 percent over Lee Thompson.
he sat.
Both sides agreed Bush backed up a pre-election GOP contention that he would score a solid presidential victory in Kansas. Bush finished with an unofficial 532,253 votes, or 56 percent, to Democrat Michael Dukakis' 423,166 votes and 43 percent. Minor party candidates Ron Paul and Lenora Fulani got 12,464 and 3,907 votes, respectively, to account for the other percent.
The two parties' 'spin doctors' disagreed sharply, however, over the significance of the Democrat's gains in the two houses of the Legislature. Republicans saw their Senate advantage reduced from 24-16 to 22-18 and their House margin dwindle from 24-16 to 67-18.
Parrish called it amazing that Democrates, with fewer registered voters and less money, could wrest nine seats from the GOP — two in the Senate and seven in the House — and come within 100-200 votes in several other races.
Barkis, who had been targeted for defeat by the Republicans but ran up a 62.38 percent win over Carl Gump, a candidate Hayden campaigned for, predicted Democrats would win control of the House in 1990.
Loss of two Senate seats represented 8.3 percent of the 24 seats the GOP now holds in the upper legislative chamber, and loss of seven House seats represents 9.5 percent of the 74 seats the party now holds in the lower body.