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Vol. 99, No. 50 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday November 4,1988
Johnson expresses frustration
Kansan sportswriter
By Arvin Donlev
Former University of Kansas athletic director Monte Johnson expressed anger yesterday that the University did not invite him to attend the NCAA Infractions Committee hearing Sept. 30, and that former coach Larry Brown had been treated as a scapegoat since the NCAA gave the Jayhawk basketball program a three-year probation Tuesday.
Under the probation, Kansas will not be allowed to participate in the NCAA or NIT tournaments at the end of the season. It will not be allowed paid internships in the NCAA or NIT. A scholarship reduced from its total next season.
In a telephone interview from his home in Lawrence yesterday morning, Johnson said that although University General Counsel Vickie Thomas briefed him about the allegations before the hearing, he was angry that he and former staffers of the university Hunter had not been invited to attend the hearing.
"To be in a position where you're accused of things and not being given the opportunity to respond is not a great feeling," Johnson sad. "And to have a person (Hunter) whose day-to-day responsibility is to overlook the program not invited to the hearing is inexcusable."
Hunter, who is athletic director at University of
KU didn't ask him to NCAA hearing
Idaho at Moscow, said he was not angry about not being invited to the Infractions Committee's meeting.
"Chancellor Budig and Vickie Thomas talked and decided they would be able to pass on the information without my presence." Hunter said. "I didn't want to interfere, and would do a good job in presenting the case."
Thomas said, "The way we've always proceeded is that we invite the Chancellor, the faculty representative, the athletic director and myself."
Cancellor Gene A. Budig said "appropriate university personnel were involved" in the hear-
Athletic Director Bob Frederick refused to comment on Johnson's statements.
Johnson, who served as Kansas 'athletic director from November 1982 to March 1987, said he also was disappointed that the University had sat "idly" over the Larry Brown out to be the culprit in the matter."
"Not one person from the University has defended him, but I kind of expected that," Johnson said.
Johnson said he had no regrets about hiring Brown. Brown, who was hired in April 1983, took the Jayhawks to five straight NCAA tournaments, two Final Four appearances and last year's national championship.
"Larry did more for the basketball program at this University, with the exception of (coach Forrest C.) 'Phog' Allen, than anyone," said Johnson, who played on the 1956-57 Kansas basketball team that finished second in the NCAA tournament. "For him to be pictured as somebody who has hurt the University is totally unfair.
"That the University has done nothing to support him does not surprise me, though. No one has even attempted to defend Larry. I'm so sick of it I could puke."
Johnson said he knew nothing of the rules violations until several months after they had occurred.
"We found out about it after the fact," Johnson said. "Gary Hunter told me what had happened and we self-reported the violations soon after."
Please see NCAA, p. 16; col. 6
KU student,24,dies after liver transplant
Bv a Kansan reporter
A KU student died early this morning after undergoing a second liver transplant operation at a Nebraska hospital.
The student, Rick Castaneda, 24, Kansas City, Kan., senior, died at 5:02 a.m. today from complications following a second liver transplant, according to Tom O'Connor, media coordinator for the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Castenada had been in surgery for six hours last night and this morning for the second transplant. After the surgery was completed.
Both livers were donated through the United Network for Organ Sharing program.
Castaneda had been transported to Omaha on Oct. 24. He waited a week for a donor liver before
undergoing nine and a half hours of transplant surgery Monday morning.
0'Connor said doctors removed the first liver transplant yesterday morning after it was discovered that there was bleeding and that his body was rejecting the donor liver.
Castaneda was born March 28, 1964 in Chicago. He is survived by his parents, David and Mary Castaneda of Kansas City, Kan.; a brother, David of Chicago; and a sister, Elena of California.
Castaneda attended Kansas City Community College before coming to KU. He was a broadcast sales major and worked as a sales representative intern at KLZR radio in Lawrence.
Funeral arrangements have not been made yet.
A house and hay barn are razed and burned by Darrell Robertson, Ottawa resident, one block east of Haskell Avenue and 11th Streets. Dunbar Trucking and Excavating Inc. was contracted by the city of Lawrence to clear the site yesterday.
Emporia wife pleads guilty to '83 murder
The Associated Press
Burning down the house
JUNCTION CITY — Lorna Anderson Eldridge, whose story was featured in a television mini-series last year, pleaded guilty yesterday to second-degree murder in the 1983 death of her husband.
Eldridge, 35, a former Emporia resident, is already serving a term of 5 to 18 years in prison for solicitation to commit murder in an earlier unsuccessful attempt on her husband, Martin K. Anderson.
She was charged last year with first-degree murder in Anderson's death.
Thursday, during an appearance in Geary County District Court for a hearing on a series of motions, she entered the plea of guilty to the lesser charge.
Anderson was shot to death on Nov. 4, 1983, in a farm field in southeast Geary County. He was traveling with his wife and their children and stopped after his wife said he had been hit while man wearing a skirt mask appeared and shot her husband.
In a statement yesterday, she told the court that Thomas P. Bird, the former Emporia minister who was described in earlier testimony as her lover, was the man who shot her husband
She said that she and Bird, for whom she served as secretary, had agreed that she would stop her van on a road or highway in Geary County.
"I would pretend to lose my car keys so that my husband, Martin Anderson, would have to get out of the van to help look for them," she said.
This, she said, "would enable Tom Bird to come up and shoot him."
"I did as we had planned and my husband was killed, Nov. 4, 1983, and I gave Tom the .22-caliber Woodman that he used to shoot my husband."
Eldridge, who re-married shortly before she pleaded guilty to the earlier criminal solicitation charge, had been scheduled for trial Dec. 5 on the charge of first-degree murder.
Stephan evidence fabricated, expert says
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A documents expert testified to evidence that an important piece of evidence introduced by attorneys for Maria Tomson Stingley, who is suing Attorney General Robert T. Stephan for breach of contract, is fabricated.
Louse Marvin of Topeka said a photocopy of 240 $100 bills in eight stacks is not authentic. Marvin testified that a close examination of the photocopy shows the same bills were used in more than one stack.
Attorneys for Stingley introduced the photocopy as evidence that Stephan paid the former file clerk $24,000 in cash to settle an earlier sexual harassment suit and that he knew of the settlement.
The present suit stems from the earlier sexual harassment suit, filed in on Dec. 24, 1982, shortly after Stingley was fired from her job at the attorney general's office.
Marvin said that between 30 and 100 bills, were used to make the photocopy — not 240 bills.
Stingley is suing Stephan for $5.2 million for breach of contract and for placing her in a "false light" before the public because of that news conference.
KU, K-State rivalry may have lost spirit intensity of the past
By Jill Jess
By Jill Jess Kansan arts/features editor
They have shaved cows, painted statues purple, dropped an airplane-load of red and blue underwear on the Kansas State University campus, burned the building, moved the Memorial Stadium and roped in the streets.
But the hate-hate relationship may be waning Jane Demby, Lawrence sophomore, said she felt there was no campus rivalry with K-State.
Riots occurred in Aggleville after the 1984 and 1986 KU — K State games, but many questioned whether rivalry played a role. Law enforcement officials have said they did not care and are credited in the rioting were not students.
"In football, we both know we're not any good, so nobody cares," Demby said.
"Even when we have violence up here after a game, it's not because we beat KU, it's because we won a victory and Sunborn, Arkansas city Senior.
Over the years, KU and K-State fans have done some crazy things to keep up the rivalry between "Snob Hill" and "Moo U."
Chad Sanborn, editor of the Kansas State Collegian, agreed.
football teams drew little enthusiasm in Manhattan, Aggieville, however, was armed with Riley County law enforcement and reinforced what they feared could tackle what they feared could have been Aggieville riot part three.
Sanborn said he thought the rivalry that did exist between the schools was for fun only.
Last year's 17-17 tie between the
And students have been using it to have a good time for decades. In 1951, four K-State students were arrested for trying to steal the KU flag from the top of Fraser Hall. And in 1976, KU students altered a high "KS" on a hill overlooking Manhattan into a huge "KU."
"I think it's more of a rallying point to have a good time," he said.
In the early 1970s, a plane load of red and blue underwear was dropped on the K-State campus with buttons denouncing the school.
The rivalry between Lawrence and Manhattan dates back to the days when Kansas was a territory. Manhattan wanted its Bluemont Central College to be the first university in the state, already established that the University of Kansas would be in Lawrence.
Higher drinking age criticized
Drunken driving cases not reduced project director says
By Jay A. Cohen Kansan staff writer
Although federal transportation officials said that raising the legal drinking age to 21 was the only drinking and driving counter-measure that has proved to work, the director of Lawrence police's alcohol department doesn't think the measure has reduced drunks driving in the city.
Kansas DUI arrests
After being phased in over three years, the legal age in Kansas to purchase beer containing 3.2 percent alcohol became 21 in 1987. Twenty-one also is the age required to purchase wine and hard liquor.
Source: Kansas Bureau of Investigation
But Lt. David Cobb, director of the Lawrence police alcohol safety action project, said persons under age 21 were still able to obtain
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"The difference is that we (the police) used know where they were. Now they go out to a park or drive around. I would rather see the age at 18 and not make outlaws of people old enough to vote and make college decisions," he said.
Before the Kansas law was passed July 1, 1985, the National Transportation Safety Board was in the forefront of the movement that resulted in all 50 states raising their drinking age to 21.
Barry Sweedler, director of the board's bureau of safety programs.
However, state and local officials cannot agree on the effectiveness of the Kansas law.
According to figures compiled by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, state arrests for drunken driving have increased steadily for the last
"It is estimated that over 4,500 lives have been saved since 1982 because of raised drinking ages," he said.
said that more than 400 studies had shown that raising the drinking age had a direct effect on reduction of drunken driving.
seven years. In 1980, 9,618 arrests were made, and in 1987, 14,068 were made.
Fred Johnson, captain for research and planning for the Kansas Highway Patrol, said it was impossible to tell whether more arrests meant that there were more drunken drivers. He said that at least five years of statistics after the law took full effect would be necessary before a judgment could be made — at least until 1992.
Please see DUI, p. 8, col. 1