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KANSADECEMBER/JANUARY 1994 S ALUMNVOL.91 NO.I6 SPORTING CHANCES Women athletes strive for equal opportunities under Title IX METEORITE SITE, page 16 ^*>>*> A BOY AND HIS BIKE, page 26 ^m* ALUMNI AND FLIPPERS COME HOME, pages 28, 32 eople like traveling with the Swiss Winter Escapade Flying Jayhawks because of February 27 to the KU camaraderie that soars day March 6 after day. $995 per person, from Chicago. Optional upgrade to That's no accident. Our tours unite four-star hotel, $240. (Alumni Holidays) you with people who share the same memories: Potter Lake, Fraser Hall, Australia and New Zealand March 10 to 26 Uncle Jimmy Green and some pretty $3,998 and up, from Los Angeles. Optional Outback/Ayers Rock excursion, $695. exciting basketball. English/French Countryside Optional Auckland post-trip extension, $225. August 6 to 21 (Intrav) $3,995, from New York. So, next time you plan a trip, ask (Intrav) yourself whether you'd rather travel Legendary Passage (Rhine/Moselle) May 12 to 24 with just anyone or with folks like Mongol/Manchu Dynasty $2,995, from Chicago. (China, Trans-Siberian Railroad) you, who share the rich heritage of (Alumni Holidays) September 1 to 18 Mount Oread. $4,695, from San Francisco. Italy's Historic Cities and Countryside (Alumni Holidays) June 5 to 16 $3,499, from New York. For more information about this Voyage to Antiquity (Greece) (Intrav) September 14 to 26 year's tours, contact the Kansas $3,495, from Chicago. Passage to Victory (Seine River) (Alumni Holidays) Alumni Association, (913) 864-4760. June 18 to July 1 $4,200, from Chicago. Danube Passage (Alumni Holidays) September 18 to 29 $2,995 to $3,295, from Chicago. Swiss Alumni College (Alumni Holidays) 1994 Tour Schedule July 4 to 12 $1,895, from Chicago. Exploring the Columbia River, Olympic (Alumni Holidays) Eastern and Oriental Express Peninsula and British Columbia October 1 to 11 January 24 to February 6 Journey of the Czars (Russia) $4,995 and up, from Los Angeles. $2,550 and up, from Seattle. July 5 to 18 (Clipper) (Alumni Holidays) $3,599, from New York. (Intrav) Big Eight Cruise of Trans-Panama Canal February 12 to 22 Midnight Sun Express and Alaska Passage February 22 to March 5 July 18 to 30 $2,540 and up, from most major cities. $2,849 and up, from Fairbanks/Vancouver. (Intrav) Note: Trip dates and prices are subject to change. Prices Optional Vancouver extension $260. are per person, based on double occupancy. (Intrav) Official advertisement of the KU Alumni Association Departments Features First Word 4 Lift the chorus 5 The Great Crater On the Boulevard 6 Caper Jayhawk Walk 8 Four scientists find Hilltopics 10 a fallen star. Sports 14 Association 34 class Notes 37 Fair Play In Memory 48 KU shoots _ . , for gender equity. Schoolwork 50 s M J Quick Study 54 ^ The Year of the Huffy A short story by Thomas Fox Averill page 26 • Home, home in the rain A soggy Homecoming welcomes alumni. 32 Nationally respected as a club team, women's crew may win Flipping on the athletics department funding as KU aims to offer more oppor- Love Light tunities to women. Photos by Wally Emerson The Fabulous Flippers rekindle musical memories. KANSADECFJVIBKR/JANUARY 1994 S ALUMVOL.91 NO.6 Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine Fred B. Williams, Publisher Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Editor Bill Woodard, j'85, Assistant Editor Jerri Niebaum, j'88, Assistant Editor Christine Mercer, Art Director Karen Goodell, Editorial Assistant Wally Emerson, j'76, Photographer KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS The husky, high-top Nikes, trimmed in Perhaps in neon red and turquoise, seem to yank my part because Chairman Directors to July 1996 daughter's spindly, 7-year-old legs slowly television and John H. Stauffer, j'49, Calvin C. Cormack, c'59, EdD'74, Topeka Kansas City, Mo. down the basketball court. Rachel dribbles other media Steven A. Hawley, c'73, the ball once every three steps. As she largely ignore Executive Vice Chairman Houston, Texas Dorothy Wohlgemuth Lynch, chooses a target for her wobbly pass, she these athletes. d'59, Salina Kathryn H. Vratil, c'71, F75, Prairie Village hugs the ball for what feels like minutes. So says Mar- Executive Committee The referee is generous. Her father and ian Washing- John H. Stauffer, j'49, Directors to July 1997 Topeka (Chairman) David C. Evans, a'67, I watch intently. ton, who for 21 years has coached KU Lawrence William M. Hougland, b'52, Rachel's team plays a lurching offense women's basketball. The inequities in Wichita Nancy Bramley Hiebert, n'63, g'77, PhD'82, Lawrence that knows no diagram. The mayhem men's and women's college sports result John F. Kane, e'56, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Bernard E. Nordling, I49, barely passes for a game, but Rachel from longstanding attitudes, she says. And Hugoton Dorothy Wohlgemuth Lynch, doesn't notice. For now, at least, she likes changing attitudes is more difficult than d'59, Salina Directors to July 1998 John H. Robinson, e'49. basketball. fattening budgets and opening more ath- Guy 0. Mabry, b'50. Shawnee Mission Toledo, Ohio But she hesitates to say so. letic arenas to women. Glee S, Smith Jr., c'43,1'47, Anne Burke Miller, C78, l'8i, Lamed One night before I tucked her into bed, But the changes must occur under Title Manhattan Carol Swanson Ritchie, d'54, we began to talk sports. Rachel wanted to IX, the federal law that mandates equal Vice Chairmen Wichita choose between basketball or swim team. opportunities for men and women at insti- Gerald D. Blatherwick, j'58, Honorary Members St. Louis, Missouri E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., She asked, "What happens if I like a boys' tutions that receive federal funds. More Kenneth M. Hamilton, b'39, l'47, San Antonio, Texas sport?" than 20 years after the law took effect, La JoBa, Calif. Archie R. Dykes, colleges and universities are trying to Gene McClain, b'58, Goodlettsville, Tenn. I stared. Chicago, Illinois Deane W. Malott, c'21, "Basketball," she said, annoyed by my even the score. In our cover story, Bill CordellD. Meeks Jr., c'64,1'67, Ithaca, N.Y. Woodard explains how the Kansas athlet- Kansas City, Kan. ignorance. Franklin D. Murphy, c'36, Directors to July 1994 Beverly Hills, Calif. "Basketball is not just a boys' sport," I ics department has begun to improve sup- Daniel P. Bolen. c'8i, Raymond F. Nichols, c'26, g'28, port for women's sports. As the U.S. Alexandria, Va. said firmly. "In fact, the Jayhawks have a Lawrence Larry J. Borden, b'62, g'67, women's basketball team." Department of Education investigates a W. Clarke Wescoe, Colorado Springs, Colo. Spicer, Minn. "They do?" civil-rights complaint against the depart- Marvin R. Motley, c'77, l'8o, g'81, Overland Park Her amazement prompted me to crawl ment, administrators consider adding Directors to July 199; back under the quilt and tell her an extra more women's sports. And they wonder R. Bruce Patty, a'58, Fairway bedtime story. how they will pay gender equity's high Bette Jo Jones Roberts, c'50, Garden City I told her about Lynette Woodard. price tag. F. R. Talbott, c'63, g'65, I described the records Woodard set at Meanwhile I have tried to correct my London, England KU. I raved about the fame she achieved own neglect by taking Rachel to that game as a Harlem Globetrotter and as captain of I promised her. As we stretched out in the Fred B. Williams, President the U.S. gold-medal team. bleachers among the few hundred loud, Kay Henry, Senior Vice President for Administration and Human Resources Mention of the medal made Rachel sit loyal fans, I directed her eyes to Lynette Jeff Johnson, Senior Vice President for External Affairs up in bed. The Olympics put Woodard in a Woodard's red jersey, enshrined in Allen and Membership Development class with her first sports idol, figure-skat- Field House among the blue jerseys of John Sanders, Senior Vice President for Finance and Treasurer ing champion Kristi Yamaguchi. During the Lovellette, Manning and others. Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Senior Vice President long winter Olympics of 1992, Rachel had Rachel reached for one of the T-shirts for Communications slid across our hardwood floors as Kristi the women threw to the fans. She listened Bryan Greve, Adams Alumni Center Club Manager while I called out pretend judges' scores. carefully as her father explained the plays. Mike Wellman, c'86, Adams Alumni Center Facility Manager Rachel seemed stunned that a woman She cheered each basket with delight. Jodi Breckenridge, d'90, g'93. Student and Kansas Honors Programs Director could win medals without gliding around We've taken her to men's football and Brett Fuller, c'89, Chapter and Constituent Programs Director in a glamorous costume. She brightened as basketball games, but this game was dif- Pat Head, Kansas City Office Director I explained that Lynette had displayed ferent. Donna Neuner, '76, Membership Services Director grace on the court. She watched intently. B.J. O'Neal Pattee, C46, Special Projects and Member Assistance Director When I finished my speech, Rachel When she left during a timeout to buy Nancy Peine, Alumni Records Director asked if we could go to a KU women's game. some candy, she gave me a new instruc- Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas six times a year in February, Of course, I said.