After 16 Years, Havlicek Is Still Hustling
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«■ ^ After 16 years, Havlicek is still hustling By MICHAEL SOLOMON BOSTON — John Havlicek scored his first points on Oct. 12, 1962. Sixteen years later at age 38, he accomplished a feat only one other player inNationalBasketball Association (NBA) history has been able to do — score 26,000 points in a career. Today, John "Hondo" Havlicek is the oldest active player in the NBA and holds a number of records that mav never be broken, much less approached. For example, Hondo has competed in over 1,200 games and is the only player in NBA history to score more than 1,000 points in 15 consecutive seasons. He is second in points scored in playoff competition and has been on seven Celtic championship ballclubs. But records don't really tell the story of John Havlicek. Hondo is a different type of competitor. He comes from a decade that had different values toward professional sports. In the NBA today, a John Havlicek is the exception, not the rule. How a player like Havlicek can make his mark in pro sports is interesting, for he is not the most talented basketball player to hit the league. He never was. Hustle. Hondo has thrived on hustle. There is no other way to put it. What he lacks in ballhandling skills, in height, in overall strength and in speed, Havlicek makes up for in determination and hustle. He is considered by many to be the best all-around basketball player that has ever lived. All of this is rather amazing, considering Havlicek was drafted by the Celtics for his defensive abilities. During his college years, Havlicek was overshadowed by such notable college greats as Jerry Lucas, Bobby Knight and Larry Michael Solomon Photo Siegfried. His teammates received all the notariety. It was the sucprise Havlicek's 26,000th career point of the 1961-1962 draft when the Boston Celtics drafted him in the first Michael Solomon Photo sits in the bottom of the net. See "Hondo" page 14 Havlicek goes op for another basket. (Enmttttiait ia% (ftamptis Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXXX1 N0.~8T STORRS.CONNECTICIIT WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8. 1978 Miners may refuse to work, Miller expects 'resistance' WASHINGTON (UPI) — an alternative if they do not. '"We don't really expect a The administration Tuesday Labor Secretary Ray Mar- lot of violence to take place." sought to ease fears of shall, appearing on a televi- Marshall said, expressing violence under a Taft Harley sion news program, dis- belief that only a scattering back-to-work order against counted reports from the of the strikers are predicting striking coal miners, but coalfields that the back-to- trouble between those going union president Arnold Mil- work order may spawn dis- back to work and others ler said the government "can orders. choosing to stay out. expect resistance." With at least two more days BRIEFLY... »Mi&. remaining before formal fed- eral court action can be The Weather: Partly cloudy, imposed to stop the 92-day highs in the 20's. walkout, the government worked to set up the Taft- Hartley machinery. Tony Hanson. UConn basketball great, is alive and well and playing in the European League for the Mobiam Team President Carter told of Udine, Italy. Details page 16. Democratic congressional leaders over breakfast he is The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty voted hopeful the miners will go down a plan to create a separate bachelors of science back to work, and that he has degree at their meeting Tuesday. Details page 5. United Press International no plans to seize the mines as FSSO passes check-cashing despite objections By MICHAEL T. CALVERT man Chris Williams read a statement Central Committee meeting. leave FSSU with only $1-2.000 of After nearly an hour and a half of to the meeting saying the Finance Williams' statement said said that spendable income for the rest of the debate, the student government Committee had reconsidered its po- although the check-cashing service fiscal year, Williams said. Tuesday night narrowly approved a sition and had decided the appropria- was a "noble idea," approving it FSSO Chairman Steven Donen student check-cashing service in the tion was ill-advised. would "extend our (FSSO's) spend- disagreed with Williams and said the UConn Co-op, over the objections of After the meeting, Williams said ing beyond our true means." check cashing service is an important the group's Finance Committee. the committee had been in a "con- With this appropriation, the state- priority. Donen also pointed out Although the Finance Committee of fused" state when it approved the ment said, FSSO would be left with $5,000 of the appropriated monev will the Federation of Students and appropriation of the $13,000 and an unappropriated surplus of $7,009 go "back into FSSO coffers as a Service Organizations (FSSO) had added that upon reviewing the mo- — $4-5.000 of which is already result of money received by the passed a motion Monday requesting tion, he and three other members of committed to the search for and Nutmeg yearbook. that the FSSO Central Committee the five-member Finance Committee hiring of a new general manager of Student Trustee Bill Finch, who appropriate $13,000 to start the new had decided to make a statement radio station WHUS. service. Finance Committee Chair- against their own motion at the Passage of the motion would then See "Check" page 6 ■ ' > «.->.y •>. i • «* •. »v ,< i i«,_■ \. ■, .■ * i. ,.. ., 2 ■ (Htmmttxtixt lailjj (ftamjiiw Serving Storrs Since 1896 MARK A DUPUIS/Editor-ln-Chiol CRAIG K. SPERY/ Business Manager JOHN HILL Hi/Managing Editor VIVIAN B MARTIN/Associate Editor Find a better way As the College of Liberal Arts and for that student, or the student just Sciences works itself into the center isn't good at taking tests, it may of a hot debate over its proposals to result in a low grade in the course. HOT* Stretch.' reform curriculum and increase a For the student who is good at tests student's chance to learn something and has mastered the midnight-to-six in his four years here, the liberal arts methods of cramming, the midterm professors, and professors from other can mean a good grade, regardless of schools, should take time to evaluate how much other work has gone into another academic phenomenon — the course. Carter deserves midterms. SURELY BETTER WAYS of THE MIDTERM SEASON, current- evaluating student performance are ly at its springtime peak, biannually possible — evaluations that are packs the library, keeps lights in meaningful both to the student and to the chance to succeed dormitories burning around the clock the course. and students on their academic toes In some graduate courses, weekly for several weeks. readings and discussions are the lope full of material explaining why After it is all over, two weeks from By MARK A. DUPUIS basis for a student's grade; in other they should be approved. now. what will have been accomplish- courses weekly writing exercises play ed? WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter When one looks at the list of a strong role. FOR THOSE STUDENTS who go to looks a little older and a little heavier accomplishments claimed by the class regularly and do the back- Education should be more than a than he did two years ago in New administration, the Panama Canal ground readings and research in a two-shot deal — midterm and final. Hampshire. But he's still smiling. treaties is about the only item that stands out. The rest of the list course, midterm exams merely re- What UConn doesn't need is the AND, FOR A PRESIDENT whose includes nothing but hopes and present a chance to go into the class all-too-prevalent experience of mid- major legislative intiatives remain dreams — legislation proposed but and repeat, analyze or expound on terms. A learning experience would bogged down in Congressinal debate, far from even a Congressional hear- that material. Often, if it's a bad dav be more in order. that's a feat in itself. ing. Two years ago, Carter campaigned Despite the problems his admini- for the Democratic presidential stration is having with major legisla- nomination with the charge that a v tion and Congress, Carter remains a JjSS&.im 1 new voice was needed in Washing- ^^WTO"*** " confident man. as he was in New ton; that it was time for an "out- sider" to move in and bring the people into the nation's capital. Now, a little older and looking a lot EDITOR S NOTE wiser, Carter admits"the power of the President is severly limited." , The major thrust of Carter's energy Hampshire back in the spring of package is stalled on Capitol Hill. 1976. Although administration aides claim nap. three of the five parts of the sweeping HE SPEAKS WITH A TONE of a energy-saving plan have made it preacher giving a sermon, or a father through Congress, they don't men- sending his sons out into the world. tion that what came out was hardly He admits mistakes while telling the same as what the administration others they should admit theirs. He sent in. asks for support and understanding while offering the same. Another of the President's major reform issues, a big boost in Social As he told the editors, "You have a Security taxes, was approved by the lot of responsibility on you as do I. A strange thing to say Congress. The President got the "When I'm right, I need your credit for the plan — or, in this case, support and your public expression of the blame.