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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2007
BUSINESS
Red Lyon owners protest showdown in Kansas City
BY THOR NYSTROM
tnystrom@kansan.com
Two local business owners are urging football fans to "Stay Home and Play" for the Nov. 24 game at Arrowhead Stadium between Kansas and Missouri.
Jerry and Sue Neverve, owners of the Red Lyon Tavern, 944 Massachusetts St., handed out flyers before Kansas' game against Florida International outlining a
protest against the Athletics Department for its decision to move the next two Kansas-Missouri football games to Kansas City, Mo The couple is organizing a downtown promotion on the day of the game that will offer fans showing unused game tickets vastly reduced prices on food and merchandise.
"I've heard from a lot of season ticket holders that said they won't be there."
"My business is small — it won't be made or broken by this," Sue Nevervee said. "We didn't look at it like that. We looked at it like a community. We consider KU a part of that community. There are so many losses here. Plus, I want to go to Memorial Stadium and watch the game."
SUE NEVERVE Red Lyon owner
The main loss is an estimated $713,000 that Kansas, Douglas County and the city of Lawrence
will sustain because of the venue change, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. David Darling, a retired Kansas State University economist, was commissioned by the Lawrence Journal-World in April to do the estimation.
Associate Athletic Director Jim Marchiony said the prime reason for moving the game was financial. The Athletics Department is guaranteed at least $1 million in revenue for each of the contract's two years.
Marchiony called Darlings estimate "a
guestimate."
Marchiony said the actual number could be worth up to $250,000 more than that each year, depending on attendance. This year's game is sold out.
"That wasn't based on any kind of facts at all," Marchiony said. "So on one hand, you have a guaranteed $1 million to the KU Athletics Department, against a figure that is just a projection."
Marchiony said Kansas added a nonconference home game to the schedule to ensure seven games in Lawrence, tied for the most in the school's history. Darling's study estimated the loss as the difference between a Kansas-Missouri game in Lawrence and the replacement nonconference game.
"Before the season, people would have said that Missouri is different than bringing in one of these teams, but we had in excess of 40,000 people at each of our nonconference games," Marchiony said.
Marchiony said the Athletics Department understood the sentiments of concerned business owners but said they expected hundreds, if not thousands, of Kansas fans in restaurants and bars in Lawrence on the day of the game eating and watching the game in public.
The Neverve have been Williams Fund members and season ticket holders for almost 20 years. Sue Neverve said without knowing the time of kickoff, which won't be announced until at least two weeks before the game, businesses couldn't make formal plans for the promotion.
"I'm sure there will be a lot of people that will go to Arrowhead because they will feel they would let the team down if they didn't," Sue Nevere said. "Then there will be other people who won't be in the stands. I have heard from a lot of season ticket holders that said they won't be there."
Marchiony said Kansas Athletics would wait before deciding if it was beneficial to attempt to extend the two year agreement.
Another consideration, Marchiony said, was Kansas City's 60,000 Kansas alumni.
Edited by Kaitlyn Syring
CRIME
CRIME Two students say men raped them recently
According to police reports, two KU students reported being raped in two separate incidents more than a week apart.
One reported incident occurred Oct.12, but the report
wasn't released until Monday. According to the report, the woman said a man had sex with her without consent. Police said the suspect was an acquaintance of the woman. The suspect was not arrested, and the KU Public Safety Office was forwarding the case to the Douglas County District Attorney.
The other reported rape occurred early Sunday morning. Police said the suspect was an acquaintance of the woman. Police also did not arrest the suspect and gave the case to the Douglas County District Attorney.
Mark Dent
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NATION
College tuition rises again Price of higher education increases faster than inflation
BY JUSTIN POPE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The price of college again rose faster than the inflation rate this year, climbing 6.6 percent at four-year public schools and outstripping increases in the financial aid that lowered what most students actually pay.
The latest increases, reported
ment, but then turn to private student loans. A decade ago, nonfederal loans accounted for about 6 percent of student aid, but last year they were 24 percent.
Monday by the College Board,
bring the average list price of
four-year public universities to
$6,185 this year,
up $381 from
2006-2007. At four-year private colleges,
tuition and fees rose 6.3 percent
to $23.712.
The rate of growth in private borrowing slowed last year. But that was at least partly because of new rules allowing graduates students to take out PLUS loans from the federal government, reducing their need for private loans. For
George Washington University in Washington, D.C., recently attracted attention for becoming the first major university with published price, including room and board, of more than $50,000.
The published price is not the real price for many students, thanks to financial aid, but the net price is rising too. On average, accounting for grants and tax breaks, the net price for full-time students at four-year public universities this year is $2,580. That's about $160 more than last year.
At private colleges, net cost this year averages $14,400 — up $638 from a year ago.
Public two-
To make up the difference, students typically borrow as much as allowed from the federal govern-
"For too long, parents have grimaced and borne the high price of college because they presumed that a higher education is key to their child's success in today's economy," said James Boyle, president of the group College Parents of America, in a statement on the report. "Surely, the day will come — soon — when parents say enough is enough."
year colleges — which educate about half of American college students — again got the best marks for keeping a lid on price increases. Their average price rose 4.2 percent to $2,361. Accounting for aid, their average net cost is only $320 per year.
undergraduates, private borrowing still rose 12 percent to $14.5 billion.
Including room and board for students living on campus, charges for public four-year colleges were $13.589.
or 5.9 percent higher than last year. At private four-year schools, average total charges come to $32,307.
George Washington University in Washington, D.C. recently attracted attention for becoming the first major university with a published price, including room and board, of more than $50.00.
For the first time, the College Board report includes the rapidly growing sector of for-profit education, which now caters to about 8 percent of students. Their average prices are also rising rapidly — to $12,089, up 6.2 percent from last year.
es keep going up, though Sandy Baum, an economist with the group and at Skidmore College, points out that because of rising demand for higher education, more state appropriations have not translated into more money spent on each student.
Peter McPherson, president of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant
The report comes as Congress is in the early stages of considering a proposal that could require some colleges with large endowments to spend more of their savings to keep tuition down. Colleges call the idea misguided and say it wouldn't solve the underlying economic issues explaining the price increases.
The College Board's report does not try to explain why pric-
"Surely, the day will come soon when parents say enough is enough."
However, the percentage of college-goers who pay such large sums is fairly small. Fewer than 10 percent of students even attend colleges with tuition and fees higher than $30,000, according to the College Board, and many of those students receive financial aid. About 56 percent of students at four-year colleges attend schools listing a price under $10,000, and about one-third attend schools charging under $6,000.
JAMES BOYLE President College Parents of America
Colleges, issued a statement saying that "leaders of America's public research universities continue to be concerned about the impact that the cost of attending colleges has on students
and their families." But, he said,
the average net price of $2,600 at four-year schools remains "excellent value."
That contention is supported in a recent paper by Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of the financial aid Web site finaid.org. He tried to estimate how much a four-year college degree would have to cost before it would no longer be a good investment, given the $1.2 million increase in expected lifetime earnings that comes with a bachelor's degree. His answer: about $520,000 — or $130,000 a year.
KJHK
Students meet, interview hosts of new CNN show
KJHK reporter Sara Shannon, Ottawa junior, attended the College Music Journalism conference at New York University last weekend.
While in New York, Shannon viewed the pre-screening of CNN's new show "Planet in Peril" which premieres tonight and Wednesday. Shannon visited with one of the show's hosts, Anderson Cooper, who also is host of Anderson Cooper 360.
Shannon said she interviewed Cooper about his involvement with the documentary, and the problem of global warming, one of the issues featured in the show. Shannon said Linda Steele, Lawrence graduate student, met with the executive producer of Anderson Cooper 360, David Doss.
"Planet in Peril" premieres at 8 tonight on CNN. According to CNN, the show is a two-part, four-hour documentary that travels around the world discussing Earth's major environmental issues. Anderson Cooper, Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin, and CNN
medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta are the show's hosts.
Shannon's interview with Cooper and Steele's interview with Doss will air at 7 tonight on KJHK. Listeners will also be able to learn more about the show, "Planet in Peril." A podcast is available to download now from kikh.org.
Shannon said meeting and talking with Cooper at CNN's headquarters was incredible.
"I don't get star-struck at all," Shannon said. "But I definitely did."
— Sasha Roe
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HOW MY PARENTS M
By Shawn Bowers, film major
PART 3 OF A 5-PART SERIES
You don't have to be a math major to know that one is the loneliest number. That my father WAS one only drove home the irony that it took twenty five years of relational solitude and self-imposed (or not) celibacy before he went after the one sure thing.
But it only took one date for her to realize that there were approximately zero other people she could imagine spending the rest of her life with.
It took six years of school together before he worked up the nerve to talk to her, and another four months before he found the balls to ask her out.
It took three rejections before she finally caved in, in what was probably the one millionth pity date in the history of time.
As my father has always told me, the numbers don't lie. For years, I would smugly point out that that was because "the numbers" can't actually speak. But when he lays it out for me like that?
The math looks pretty damn good
We want to hear YOUR story for a chance at $100
In 250 words or less, tell us the story of how your parents met. Funny, tragic, or just plain weird, we want to hear it
24 minutes will be chosen to read their entries
premier of two one-act plays by KL students;
24 finalists will be chosen to read their entries live at the English Alternative Theatre
premier or two one acct plays by two students.
**PLEASE DELETE SERIOUSLY**. By Adrian
"PLEASE TAKE...SERIOUSLY!" By Adam Lott,
"LIGHTS FADE, CURTAIN" By Whitney Rowland Lawrence Arts Center
November 9-11
Entries must be submitted by Friday, October 26 to plim@ku.edu
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