Friday, April 4, 2008
Classes are still on...for now.
University of Kansas students have been calling the Chancellor’s office all week to verify rumors that classes will be cancelled Tuesday if the Kansas basketball team wins the championship Monday night, according to Jessica Pryor, senior administrative associate to the chancellor’s office.
In 1988, the provost cancelled classes for the entire school the day after the KU championship victory. The rumors suggest that if Self can pull off the big win, Chancellor Robert Hemenway will follow suit.
Todd Cohen, director of University Relations, said students should plan on going to class as usual.
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They are a little ahead of themselves. The last time that happened was 20 years ago.
Jessica Pryor, senior administrative associate to the chancellor
“We have to get past Saturday first,” Cohen said.
Pryor said some students were so sure the Jayhawks will win and classes will be cancelled that they are planning trips for that day.
“They are a little ahead of themselves,” Pryor said. “The last time that happened was 20 years ago.”
Pryor said she hadn’t heard of anything from the chancellor about cancelled classes, but that sort of thing happens like inclement weather.
“You won’t know until the last minute,” Pryor said.
Cohen said that he heard reports on TV that the University always cancelled classes for championship wins.
“The last time that actually happened was in 1988,” he said.
Brian Clausen and Brittan Young, Overland Park sophomores, said they would not go to class even if it were scheduled as usual.
“If we win the national championship, we deserve to have class off,” Clausen said.
Young said the chancellor should call off classes even if the Jayhawks don’t win.
“Everybody would be too depressed to go to class,” Young said. “No one would participate.”
Cohen said that the basketball players themselves will be in class the next day and students should do the same.
“We have to remember that we represent the same school the players do,” Cohen said. “Stay Jayhawks, stay classy.”
Cohen, who was a KU student in 1988, said it was easy for things to get out of control after the game.
He said the celebration committee will mostly be concerned with student safety.
He said he hoped students wouldn’t let the exuberance of the expected win Monday to take over common sense.
— Edited by Jared Duncan
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