University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 10, 1988
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Memorial Stadium flooded with less red than usual
By Jeremy Kohn Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Although sections of Memorial Stadium may have seemed inundated with Cornhusker red, fewer Nebraska fans than Washington's team won a football game, an official said yesterday.
Joe Seilg, Nebraska ticket manager,
said about 6,800 tickets were sold at
Nebraska this year. The average in previous
years was about 8,000.
Games scheduled at both Kansas State University and the University of Kansas this season may have caused the decrease, he said. In previous years, the Cornhusk-
ers played at either K-State or KU, but not at both in the same season.
Nick Joff, Nebraska assistant sports
officials. He was 15 to 19 and 15 to 20,
15 to 30 and 15 to 40 corresponded with
the Lawrence. That number includes
Nebraska fans who bought tickets through
Sportsnet.com.
"For those people who make one road trip a year, they had to make a choice," Selig said.
At least one Nebraska fan thought there were fewer supporters than usual.
Charles Saylor, a retired Omaha, Neb.
resident, said during the first quarter.
"I'm surprised there aren't more Nebraska fans here now."
But many KU students said they were impressed by the amount of Nebraska fans who traveled to see their team play.
Stephen Smith, Wichita senior, said "Nebraska fans are a different breed; they live and die around Nebraska footballs." They revolve around each week's game.
Saturday's crowd was estimated at 32,500. Memorial Stadium's capacity is 50,250.
For some Nebraska fans, the game was a rare opportunity to see the Cornhuskers
season tickets for non-students at the 73,650 seat stadium in Lincoln, Neb., have always been scarce, many fans said.
play.
Saylers said he traveled to Lawrence to see the Cornhuskers play because he couldn't get season tickets for home games this year.
"Unless you buy a ticket from someone who already holds one, you can't see it." Saylers said.
Roger Rader, a Hastings, Neb., resident, said he had been trying to get season tickets for 20 years.
Linda Kinnev. Omaha. Neb.. resident.
said non-students did not give up their season tickets and there was a waiting list for season tickets.
“It’s always a sell-out. If you don’t have season tickets, you have to get them from somebody.” Kinney said.
Current and former students at Nebraska said it is common for many students to buy season tickets and sell them for a profit to non-students.
Shelton Lebron, a 1981 Nebraska graduate, said he sold his tickets for at least a $115 profit during his four years there.
"Well, they were always on television," he said.
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Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst for National Public Radio, speaks to a capacity crowd in Woodruff Auditorium about presidential politics.
Candidates avoid reality to get votes, Schorr says
Journalist berates slogans, emotional appeals
Kansan staff write
By Katy Monk
Forget issues; forget stances;
forget party platforms. Appeal to
emotions, catchy one liners and the
soul of the party.
The presidency in the television era.
Such is the opinion of Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst for National Public Radio and onetime political reporter for CBS. Schorr found a receptive audience Friday for his condemnation of Campaign 86 in his speech, "Life After Reeves," at the University of Kansas Union. About 500 people attended the speech, sponsored by the School of Law.
The public accepts patriotism and the Pledge of Allegiance as campaign issues, he said, because they have no issues of substance on which
"One of the problems for them voters, is they don't know what the personalities are; you know what the personalities are; they don't know what anything
In debates, the public looks for ani- oners, for slip-ups and put-tops, to be used as a refuzee to take hard or even realite. stances on meanings Schwartz, Schorri and others.
stand because of President Reagan's legacy.
Scherr said that Vice President George Bush supported Star Wars despite knowing it was too expensive for the war game. Michael Dukesia was afraid to condemn the space defense program even though he did not support it. Scherr said Dakuks' plan to pay off the debt was more efficient than more efficiently unrealistic.
"He made this country feel good." Schorr said. "This country cannot face reality because Reagan told us he never had, really, to face reality."
After the speech, several audience members reiterated what Schorr had said about pre-packaged, programmed candidates.
Kathryn Porsch, Lawrence graduate student, said, "it comes down to who smiles better, and that's a hell of a way to eagle a president."
"When you start talking about reality after eight years of illusion, it is not as easy to believe," said. "Reagan is the feel good president, and reality does not always work."
Rick Frydman, Lawrence resident, said he agreed with Schorr about Reagan's legacy.
Schorr, who has won Emmys for
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Daniel Schorr senior news analyst, National Public Radio
This country cannot face reality because Reagan told us we never had, really, to face reality.'
reporting and recently was elected to the Society of Professional Journalists' hall of fame, did not say whom he intended to vote for. But response to scherer's questions at the beginning indicated the audience's intentions.
Bush, Schröder, said chore Dan. Sem Quayle as a running mate partly for the Republican people and Midwesterners. Schorr applauded to whom Quayle applauded to show himself.
Next, Scherr asked for a show of hands from those to whom Quayle did not appeal. Almost all of the 506 or so members raised their hands.
One person in the center of the audience raised a hand. Two others raised their hands in tentative support.
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Economics Scholars at odds about causes and solutions of federal deficit
By Daniel Niemi Kansan staff writer
Two former students of conservative economist Milton Friedman agreed on Friday that the federal budget deficit was the most pressing U.S. economic problem, but not agree on the causes or solution.
Lindley Clark, economic news editor of The Wall Street Journal, and Michael Darby, assistant treasury secretary for economic policy, were at the Kansas Union Bank in 1988. Economic Outlook Conference.
About 200 people attended the conference, which included panel discussions and workshops on the international economy, the importance of technology, community engagement and interstate banking legislation.
Clark received a master's degree in economics at the University of Chicago and then started at The Journal. Darry received a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago in 1984 and began studying economics at Ohio State University and the University of California at Los Angeles. Both men met in the spring of 1985.
versity of Chicago.
Darby and Clark, during separate interviews, agreed that the federal budget deficit was a leadin economic problem.
Clark attributed the deficit to excessive federal spending.
"Ronald Reagan's big failure has been his inability or unwillingness to use his great salesmanship to sell products to people who were buying more than it did." Clark said.
"It's easy to blame the deficit on Congress, but Congress very seldom does anything unless it feels some pressure," he said. "I've seen it happen and I've told Congress who say for the past seven years they've felt almost no pressure in Congress on major spending cut proposals. The administration would send up a bill that was the last they heard of it."
Darby, on the other hand, said the deficit was caused by the recession of 1981-82 and not the Reagan economic programs.
"The deficit problem is not a matter of fiscal strategy, but it is also the behavior of the business cycle and interest rates," he said.
For Clark, spending cuts or
more taxes are needed to reduce the deficit.
In contrast, Darby said the deficit could be controlled by a "flexible freeze" on federal spending.
"My favorite scenario has President Bush proposing a consumption tax," he said. "It would be such a huge revenue riser that it could be used to cut other taxes. Our society has been geared for consumption, usually at the expense of productive investment."
Under a flexible freeze, Duerry said spending would continue to grow but would not exceed the rate of inflation. Social Security payments and interest payments be exempted from the freeze
The flexible freeze requires continued economic expansion and falling interest rates.
Dave Shulenburger, associate dean of business, said after Darry's keynote address that he didn't think a flexible freeze would work.
"Nothing suggests we can cut the deficit without raising taxes or cutting spending," Shulenburger said.
Kansan staff writer
By Daniel Niemi
Industry-university cooperation vital to remain competitive, panel agrees
If the United States, and Kansas, are to remain economically competitive, cooperation between industry and universities is vital, participants in an economic conference said Friday.
"The pathway from the university laboratory to the marketplace has traditionally been circautic and difficult and Simultine not well-travelled," said State Sen. David Kerr. R-Hutchison, during a panel discussion
"In Kansas that road has often led to corporate exploitation far from our borders with no new jobs or new wealth being created within the state of Kansas," he said.
About 200 people attended workshops and panel discussions at the 1988 Economic Outlook Conference
To facilitate and retain technological innovations in Kansas, Kerr said the Legislature had created Kansas Land Trust.
Richard Bendis, chairman of Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp., said the opportunity offered partial matching grants to finance industry and university partnerships for technology research. Bendis said the
In addition, John Walsh, vice president of Boeing Military Airplanes in Wichita, told the panel that university-industry partnerships were a cost-efficient way to transfer knowledge.
goal of the partnerships was the commercialization of such research.
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"These grants and contracts support faculty and graduate students. They can help underwrite the fixed costs of running a laboratory. Moreover, research on climate change is important for policy and the students to real world problems," he said.
Walsh said industry should support faculty through endowment of chairs and grants, and that universities should provide courses to update the education of technologists.
Charles Warren, president of Kansas Inc., a nonprofit organization created to overssee the state's economic development efforts, said universities helped industry in other areas.
"Universities educate and train future managers, offer technical assistance by training current employees, and help businesses understand international markets." Warren said after the panel discussion.
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