WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2005
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
ON THE RECORD
♦ A 21-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a burglary of a vehicle, damage and a theft of a Louis Vuitton purse and other items between 10 p.m., Nov. 8 and 10 a.m., Nov. 9 from the 2900 block of Oxford Road. The purse is valued at $500. The items are valued at $715. The damage is estimated at $500.
♦ A 20-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a burglar of a vehicle, damage and theft of a Sony stereo and a JL Audio subwoofer between 5 p.m., Nov. 7 and 4:24 p.m., Nov. 8 in the 900 block of Alabama Street. The stereo equipment is valued at $1,100. The damage is estimated at $100.
♦ A 22-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police damage to an Isuzu Trooper between 9 a.m., Thursday and 9 a.m., Saturday in the 1100 block of Louisiana Street. The damage is estimated at $300.
23-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a burglary of a vehicle, damage and a theft of a Kenwood stereo and other items between 7 p.m., Nov. 2 and 7:50 a.m., Nov. 3 in the 500 block of Frontier Road. The stereo is valued at $500.
- An 18-year-old KU student reported to the KU Public Safety Office damage to a Honda Civic between 7 p.m., Saturday and 4:35 p.m., Sunday in campus lot 112, next to Oliver Hall. The damage is estimated at $500.
♦ 37-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence police a burglary of a vehicle and a theft of a Toshiba Satellite laptop between 1:30 a.m. and 3:38 p.m., Sunday in the 100 block of North Michigan Street. The laptop is valued at $949.
ON CAMPUS
As part of the Ujamaa Brown Bag Lecture series, Raj Bhala, KU professor of law, is giving a speech on trade relations between the United States and sub-Saharan Africa at noon today at Alcove F in the Kansas Union.
The European studies program and the department of French and Italian are holding an open public forum to discuss the recent rioting in France and the issues surrounding the causes from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.today at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Samantha Power, Harvard professor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, is delivering a speech called "Can U.S. Foreign Policy Be Fixed?" at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Braving the cold
Nicoletta Niosi/XANSAN
Erica Lathrop, Blair, Neb., freshman and Kristen Cowan, St. Louis freshman, wait at the bus stop in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall Tuesday. Snow flurries fell, and temperatures were around 37 degrees Tuesday afternoon. No snow is predicted for the rest of the week, and temperatures are expected to be in the 50s this weekend.
No sale on sold tickets
ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
rschneider@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
People who buy faculty member's men's basketball tickets will be in for a rude awakening when they try to enter Allen Fieldhouse this season.
Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony said the Kansas Athletics Department would not allow faculty members to sell their tickets to men's basketball games.
At least six different pairs of faculty tickets have been spotted for sale online at www.ebay.com. Currently, two different pairs of faculty tickets for the Jan. 7, game against Kentucky are selling for $300 and $500.
Marchiony said the department pursued the sale of staff tickets because it has been an issue, especially since the priority point system for basketball seating began two years ago.
The department was concerned about faculty ticket sales because their seats did not require a donation to the Williams Educational Fund, Marchiony said. All other ticket holders, excluding students, are required to make a minimum $100 per year donation to the Williams Fund for season tickets rights. He said faculty members were able to purchase a ticket at 20 percent less than the $40 face value.
"They're worth a considerable amount of money and if we're going to provide them to faculty, that's who we expect to sit there." Marchiony said.
Susan Twombly, faculty ticket liaison, said faculty members were reminded by the department before the season about its ticket resale policy.
"We support Kansas Athletics in the actions they are taking when they find faculty who are doing this," Twombly said.
A new digital ticketing system, which includes the addition of a barcode on tickets for scanning upon entry to the fieldhouse, is in response to counterfeit and resold tickets.
Marchiony said if faculty tickets were found for sale, either by accident or intentionally, the barcode on the ticket would be deactivated. Anyone with that deactivated ticket would not be allowed in the fieldhouse. A letter would also be sent informing that faculty member that his or her tickets for that game would not be valid. He said at least one faculty member has already been sent a letter about a possible ticket sale.
University faculty and staff are allotted about 1,800 tickets in the northeast, southeast and southwest corners of Allen Fieldhouse.
Edited by Kellis Robinett
CORRECTION2
- Tuesday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article, "The man behind the curtain," should have said KUJH-TV is operated by students and faculty of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
♦ Friday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article "Runners to chase tournament" should have said the women's cross country team finished in eighth place in the Big 12 Conference.
CAMPUS
Confucius Institute gets location
The University of Kansas moved one step closer to having the third Confucius Institute in the United States by choosing its location.
The institute would be located in Regnier Hall on the KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park. Officials from the University and the Consulate General of The People's Republic of China in Chicago met Tuesday to discuss the plans.
The KU Confucius Institute would sponsor Chinese language instruction and promote programs on Chinese culture. It would be a nonprofit organization.
China plans to create 100 Confucius Institutes throughout the world by 2010.The country wants to encourage better understanding of its language and culture.
— Gaby Souza
KU Hospital getting bigger facility
The University of Kansas Hospital is moving its outpatient cancer center to its Westwood Campus at the former Sprint world headquarters in Overland Park.
The space will be moved from 26,000 square feet at its current location at the hospital's main campus in Kansas City, Kan., to 42,000 square feet at the Westwood Campus.
The number of outpatient cancer patients has grown by more than 171 percent since 2001 to nearly 23,000 annual patient visits, reaching levels originally projected for 2009.
Treatment centers and equipment that will be moved to the Westwood Campus include the breast center, ultrasound equipment used to diagnose digestive track cancers, labs and private treatment rooms for chemotherapy patients. Radiation treatment for cancer will continue to be administered at the main campus.
To accommodate this quick growth in the number of patients, the hospital more than doubled cancer center space at the current location, but the additional space wasn't enough, according to a KU hospital news release.
The new space will begin admitting patients in 18 to 24 months.
Frank Tankard