r
Vol. 99, No.48 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday November 2,1988
Probation ruling stuns KU
THE PENALTIES AGAINST KANSAS
By Arvin Donley
Kansan sportwriter
The verdict is in. The University of Kansas men's basketball program has been found guilty by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and will not be given the opportunity to repeat as national champions.
Kansas Athletic Director Bob Frederick announced yesterday at a news conference in Parrot Athletic Center that the NCAA had put Kansas on probation for three years, prohibiting the Jayhawks from playing in the 1989 NCAA tournament this
Other penalties included in the infractions report are the elimination of all expense-paid recruiting visits by the basketball program in 1989 and a loss of a scholarship for the 1989-90 season.
During that year, Kansas will be allowed to have 12 scholarship players, a reduction of one from this year and three below the NCAA limit of 15.
Kansas is the first school in NCAA history to be put on probation the year after winning a national championship.
- The men's basketball team is on three years probation, including the banning of three unnamed individuals from involvement in Kansas athletics.
- 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 for the 1988-89 season.
- Kansas is not allowed to pay for recruits to visit the KU campus in 1989.
All of the infractions occurred in the summer and fall of 1986 when Larry Brown was basketball coach and Monte Johnson was athletic director. None of the players on last year's national championship team or this year's team were involved in the infractions.
Frederick said he was disappointed by the severity of the penalty, especially since it affected people not involved in the infractions.
infractions case involving the institution within a five-year period. The Kansas football program was put on a two-year probation in 1983.
is frequently the case in NCAA penalties, the people who suffer the consequences of the violations were not involved in the infractions. The University, however, accepts the institutional responsibility for all students whose senior student-athletes, the fact that they will not be eligible for postseason competition."
The ruler was damaging to Kansas' program, but the Jayhawks could have received the "death penalty" since it was the second major
If Kansas had received the death penalty it would have been unable to compete in basketball for at least one season and would have been prohibited from offering scholarships and being involved in recruiting activities for two years.
Kansas coach Roy Williams' reaction to the penalties was mixed.
"I'm extremely disappointed for this year's team," the first-year coach said. "That is very disappointing and frustrating. The NCAA tournament is a great time of year for college basketball. For these young men — the seniors — I'm extremely disappointed.
"But now it's behind us. It's been tough fighting innuendo and rumors. There's no doubt in my mind that our team will do the best it can every day in practice and games. There's no doubt that we can finally happen men (recruits) what has happened. I think this will not affect your career."
when asked if he was angry toward the NCAA or the previous coaching staff Williams said, "What good will it do? I have anger. Scooter (Barry) and Milt (Newton) have anger. Why
Barry and Newton represented the Kansas players at the news conference. Barry said he was upset by the decision that banned him from post-season play during his final season, but vowed to do his best this year.
dwell on it? I'm not saying I'll invite the NCAA or last year's staff to dinner tonight."
"As a team, it would be easy to make executes and say there's nothing to look forward to, to pack it in." Barry said. "We're not highly picked anyway. But I don't think that's the type of team we are. Now is a good opportunity to do a lot of growing up and a lot of fighting."
Newton, who was visibly shaken by the decision, spent much of the conference staring blankly at the floor
Please see INFRACTIONS, p10. col. 1
Painful news
aling the weight of the NCAA sanctions, men's basketball coach Roy Williams expresses his dismay.
Brown angry in interview Coach says he resents Williams' implications
By Elaine Sung
Associate news editor
Former Kansas coach Larry Brown lashed out last night against the new Kansas men's basketball coach in a live interview with ESPN.
"I resent the fact that they can imply that we didn't run a clean program, just hearing Roy Williams" remarks about what North Carolina was did. He was solved with a program that wasn't clean. It obvious after you read the infractions that it wasn't an effort on our part to try to cheat."
"The thing that bothers me is that ever since I left KU, the new coach and the athletic director have been taking shots at us right from the start, and that has really troubled me because I know I left the program in pretty darn good shape." Brown said at the news conference.
In a 3 p.m. news conference yesterday in San Antonio, Texas, Brown also accused Bob Frederick, Kansas athletic director, of making disparaging remarks about Brown and his staff.
Brown left Kansas in June to take
INSIDE
Frederick, reached at his home last night, responded to Brown's remark.
the head coaching job with the NBA San Antonio Spurs, taking along Alvin Gentry, Ed Manning and R.C. Buford, his three assistants at Kansas
"Well, I don't take shots at anybody, especially a friend, and I was surprised to hear him say that because I have never said anything but complimentary things about him. He's a great coach and he did great things here," Frederick said.
During the live interview, Brown
Please see BROWN, p. 10, col. 1
Despite news, seniors try to shake off frustration
and Jeff Luston Kansan sportwriters
By Mark E. McCormick and Jeff Fuston
Seven months ago, Milt Newton and Scooter Barry stood on top of the basketball world.
work.
At the glory of a hard-earned national championship began to sink in, their thoughts turned to defending that title this season as seniors.
But those dreams crumbled yesterday morning when Kansas coach Roy Williams informed them they would not be able to defend the title.
"I met with the team this (yesterday) morning at 7:30 and that's by far the most difficult meeting I've ever been associated with," said Williams, who took over for
former coach Larry Brown on July 8. "I'm extremely disappointed for this year's team, especially the seniors. That is very disappointing. It's frustrating."
"When I heard the news this morning, it really hit me like a ton of bricks," said Newton, who, like Barry, is in his fifth year at Kansas. "I thought I wasn't going to be really seriously affected by it.
in the aftermath of the NCAA penalties against the Jayhawks, which included a three-year probation, no paid visits by recruits in 1988 and a ban on postseason play this spring. Newton sat staring at the table in front of him.
"Personally, during the summer when we were being investigated by the NCAA, I tried
to ingrain in my mind that if we did go on
probation, I would try not to let it affect me
tears
Barry, of Oakland, Calif., fielding questions in a fixed stare, shared his teammate's disappointment.
Newton, who was drawn into the spotlight last spring in the NCAA tournament, was overwhelmed by the attention yesterday. He left midway through the morning news conference with reddened eyes glazed with tears.
Neither Newton nor Barry said they harbored any resentment toward their former coach.
"It still comes as a shock to me that we were not going to be able to play in the NCAA," Burry said. "I've been fortunate enough the last four years to make it every year."
"I don't feel bitter at all toward the past coaching staff or Coach Brown," Newton said.
Brown in 1884 and made two Final Four appearances with him.
Barry showed concern for the new coaching staff and the problems they v inherited.
Years of Marks ever played
Newton and Barry were recruited by
"I feel bad for Coach Williams and his son, and the rest of our team in that we're the people — they're the people — who are going to have to pay for all the things that were done," he said. "It's hard for me to understand that.
"I'm upset that the violations that were
done by the last staff have to be paid for by this staff. I don't think that's fair."
the menace Though their senior season has not started as they had planned. Barry and Newton said the season wasn't a total loss
Williams shielded the rest of the players from the media.
"I think now, because it happened, I think we'll be more fired up and it will make us play even harder." Newton said. "We're going to have to play together and not give up this year."
this year.
Barry said, "It's an opportunity for us to do a lot of growing up and a lot of fighting. We've got an uphill battle. But that didn't stop us last year, and I don't think that's going to us this year."
Israeli parties fight for election victory
JERUSALEM - The right-wing Likud bloc and left-learning Labor Party duelled head to head in yesterday's parliamentary elections, and the small religious parties held the balance of power
The Associated Press
Likud leader Yitzhak Shamir appeared to have the edge in forming a rulernation, and said he was convinced he could remain prime minister with the help of the religious parties.
Related story p. 6, col. 1
parties.
But Foreign Minister Shimon
Apure said his Labor Party still had a
chance of luring religious parties into a
Labor-led coalition.
The election was widely viewed as a crossroads in determining the future of the occupied territories and
shaping Israel's policy for dealing with its hostile Arab neighbors. A Palestinian insurrection has gone on for 11 months in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, claiming the lives of more than 300 Palestinians and 10 Israelis.
Labor advocated an international conference to talk peace with the Arabs, and proposed sacrificing some of the occupied land for a negotiated settlement. Likud opposed both proposals.
With 95 percent of the 4,300 polling stations reporting, Israel army radio said Likud was projected to get 39 seats in parliament and the 129 seat Knesset, or parliament
Intense negotiations were expected to take place behind the scenes today, as Labor leaders woo the Shas party, projected to be the largest religious party with six seats.
Dukakis invokes memories of Truman
By Daniel Niemi Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, MO. — If the scoreboard at Penn Valley Community College was any indication, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis will win the election in a landslide.
The score was Dukakis 50, Bush 6.
One week before the presidential election, the Democratic nominee invoked the memory of Harry Truman as he continued attacks on Vice President George Bush at a Democratic rally at the college.
An audience of 5,000 crowded inside Penn Valley's gymnasium while 5,000 listeners listened to the speech from loudspeakers outside.
to the speech from local public school
Dukakis quickly challenged Bush's statement that Harry Truman would be a Republican were he alive today.
"Can you believe those Republicans?" Dukakis asked the audience. "I guess they don't have any heroes, so they have to try to steal ours. We're not going to let them do it."
Dukakis compared the 1988 campaign with the 1948 campaign between Harry Truman and Thomas Dewey in which Truman came from behind to win the election.
Dukakis compared the 1988 campaign with the 1948 campaign between Harry Truman and Thomas Dewey in which Truman came from behind to win the election.
"In 1948, Harry Truman said, 'The smart boys said we can't win. They tried to bluff us. We called their bluff. We told people the truth.'" Dukakis said, "Harry Truman stood for the little guy, and you're looking at him."
Dukakis also attacked the Republicans as a party of the rich and privileged.
"He (Bush) wants to help people on easy street," Dukakis said. "I want to help people on Main Street."
Matti He thinks he can inherit the White House. I think the next president needs to earn the White House. Hard workers, not high rollers, built this country."
country duakis then hit hard on the question of ethics
"We will demand public service, not self-service," Dukakis said. "We need a White House where the ethics office is in the Oval Office."
where the ethics office is in Dukakis reiterated his attack on the federal budget and trade deficits and repeated his promise of "good jobs at good wages."
He accused the Republicans of inaction while jobs were moved to foreign countries.
"We're going to turn the deficit into a surplus and bring those jobs work," Dukakis said. "If you believe the minimum wage should be living wage, and not a poverty wage, we're on your side."
Dukakis finished his speech with a prediction that he would win the election.
"On November 8, we'll be celebrating with a bottle of beer and a plate of Kansas City ribs," Dukakis said.
Most speechgoers were unanimous in their approval of Dukakis' performance.
Tom Brown, Kansas City, Mo., resident, said the momentum of the presidential race had shifted to Dukakis.
Please see DUKAKIS, p. 6, col. 1