Tickets: $4 (and lots of patience)
By Janet Snyder
Kansan Staff Reporter
When I walked into Allen Field House to buy my basketball ticket Thursday, I was really disgusted.
I've been on this campus for four years and I guess I should be used to long lines by now. But I'm not, and the thought of standing for as long as 45 minutes to buy a ticket irritated me.
Anyhow, you can understand how pleased I felt when I entered the doors of field house at 1:30 p.m. to discover the line at the initial "S" IBM card table was short.
Happily—ecstatically, really—I picked up the card and turned to find the pay-your-money-and-pick-up-your-ticket line.
But it wasn't there. I mean there were a lot of grim-looking students milling about, clutching IBM cards, but they weren't in any kind of noticeable formation.
It reminded me of a "Rawhide" rerun.
Anyhow, like I said, I'm used to lines and I knew there had to be a beginning and an end to this one.
I began to search, asking the card-holders where the end was. Some grumbled, some quivered but a few helped out by pointing fingers.
At 1:35 p.m., I began strolling along the south
wall of the field house. (Some more pointing fingers.) I walked past the white fence on the west and turned along the north wall. (One pointed finger and much muttering.) Then I continued on the east side—only to discover the line began turning back towards the west.
It was 1:45 p.m. and the end of the line.
Suddenly, I was overcome by that I'm-here-so-I-might-as-well-stick-it-out feeling. Visions of basketballs bounced in my head as I braced for what I now hoped wouldn't be TOO long of a wait.
At 2 p.m. I quit bracing. I was still standing in the same spot.
However, "hope springs eternal" and by 2:20 p.m. I and my now-mindless companions had made it all the way to the white fence.
But then, whatever was left of the bubble burst. A disheveled fellow behind me blurted out that he had just been up to the south ticket window—and nobody was handing out tickets.
"Coffee break," I muttered, now puffing on my second wind.
At 2:40 p.m., I was contemplating that white fence when a giggle rippled through the crowd. Some girl had finally reached the ticket window only to find the ticket lady on a break. She ripped her "do not
fold, spindle or mutilate" IBM card into shreds and stalked out of the building.
My sympathies were with her, but in a fit of determination I decided to stay on.
But at 3:15 p.m., I almost broke. About five steps along the south wall, six cavalierish types stepped into line in front of me—sending me reeling BACK-WARDS three steps.
Now it was raw courage. "I've-waited-this-long-so-why-quit-now" reverberated through my head. At 3:45 p.m. I closed my eyes and shuffled.
At 4 p.m., when I opened them, they were misty with tears—right in front of me was the ticket window! A middle-aged matron stared out at me. I shivered as I handed over my IBM card, KU-ID and $4.
My next memory was of signing the ticket—in her now beauteous presence. Indeed, I watched gleefully as she checked the signature and student number on my ticket with the signature on my ID card and fee card.
"Probably trying to prevent forgery," I chuckled as I turned away, basketball season ticket in hand.
"Probably trying to prevent forgery!" I screamed as I groped for the door . . .
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan A student newspaper serving KU
78th Year, No.45
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, November 17, 1967
UP wins; very few vote
By Ted Bell and Sam Neff Kansan Staff Reporters
The KU student body gave a wilted vote of confidence to student government Wednesday and Thursday as slightly more than 17 per cent of the eligible voters turned out to vote in the fall All Student Council (ASC) election.
University Party (UP), unopposed by any other recognized party, won 18 council seats.
Three non-partisan candidates
Regents revise the KU budget
TOPEKA—The Board of Regents Thursday voted to ask Gov. Robert B. Docking to approve a $34,119,000 budget for operating KU during fiscal year 1969. The request will be made as part of a record high $129,663,386 budget for the state's schools.
KU asked the Regents for $34,-
748,841 for fiscal 1969, but the
Board cut it to $33,608,380 in July.
The adjustment was made Thursday
because actual enrollment at KU this fall was higher than predicted and the Regents believed
enrollment next fall also would be
higher than predicted.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will appear Wednesday before Gov. Docking and James Bibb, state budget director, for a hearing on the KU request.
The Regents also decided to seek nearly $200,000 in additional funds for KU for the current fiscal year to meet additional cost caused by the higher enrollment.
also won seats: Jim Kelly, Tonganoxie senior, Large Men's Residence Hall; Nancy Miller, Shawnee Mission sophomore, sorority; and Rusty Leffel, Shawnee Mission sophomore, fraternity. UP members formerly held these seats.
The fiscal 1939 budget recommended by the Regents includes a 6 per cent faculty salary increase and the state's share of a $2.3 million space technology building.
Each district is allowed one representative per thousand students living in that district.
Rosie Burns, Caldwell senior and ASC Elections Committee cochairman, said 2,599 students voted
See page 3 for complete election results.
in the two day balloting. As a result of the elections, UP will hold a majority of the council seats.
The first amendment—1790 for,
459 against—adds class presidents
to the ASC, guarantees each district at least one representative
for each 1,550 people in the district, and increases the number of ballots needed to elect more than one candidate. This means that the same number of votes cast in future elections would elect fewer representatives.
Two new amendments which appeared on a referendum ballot were approved by the voters.
The second amendment—1415 for, 1004 against—decreases the number of living districts from ten to nine. The professional fraternity and co-operative house district is now abolished and professional fraternities are now included in the social fraternity district.
Only about 50 people were in the Hawklet in Summerfield Hall Thursday night, where the results were tabulated and posted. These were either scattered candidates and their girlfriends, or business students studying over a Coke.
There were a few freshmen present who squealed when the freshmen results were posted, but they left immediately after the first happy moments.
Leffel was there. So was Don
See Voters, page 12
Nagy says U.S. policy gave power to Russia
By B. J. Wilkins Kansan Staff Reporter
Ferenc Nagy, former prime minister of Hungary, says the United States is partially responsible for the Soviet Union's control of Eastern Europe.
Nagy spoke Thursday night in the Kansas Union Ballroom on the role of the United States as a peacekeeper in Eastern Europe.
"The main problem is that the United States refused to realize that it was the leader of the free world after WW II." Nagy said.
The United States failed to establish a strong policy in Eastern Europe and gave the Soviet Union its opportunity to gain control of the Central European states, he said.
Nagy became prime minister of Hungary in 1946, following Nazi Germany's defeat. The following year, he resigned and has lived in exile in the United States for 20 years.
Nagy believes the Yalta Conference between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt was a turning point in Eastern European aits.
Two provisions emerged from the Yalta Agreement: the Allies would set up coalition governments in the liberated countries, and should support free elections as soon as possible.
"The Communists were instrumental in setting up coalitions," he said, "but they suppressed free elections."
THANKS FOR THE WARNING
Drivers don't have much choice in obeying this stop sign. The road—Lilac Lane—used to go straight through behind Danforth chapel. Workers sealed off the parking lot with the wall but forgot to take down the sign.
Nagy cited the Allies' failure to include a provision "that no allied power could use WW II for territorial gains" as greatly damaging to Eastern Europe's freedom.
Married KU coeds to pay in-state fees
Tuition for many married KU coeds will be less starting next semester.
Thursday the Kansas Board of Regents approved a new fee schedule affecting married coeds.
Fee for married coeds carrying more than six hours will drop from $390 to $219, a savings of $180. Those enrolled on campus for six hours or less will pay $13.75 per hour, a savings of $17.50 from the non-resident fee of $31.25.
Before the new schedule was passed, the Kansas coed who married a non-Kansan lost her resident status for fee purposes, and the non-Kansan could not gain legal residency through marriage.
Under the new regulation, a Kansas coed who marries a non-Kansan will remain a Kansan for fee purposes, and a non-Kansan coed who marries a Kansan will become a state resident for fee purposes.
The new regulation will take effect next semester at all Kansas state schools. It has been approved by the attorney general and has been filed with the State Revisor of Statutes.
Directory out
New student directories will go on sale Monday in the Student Union Bookstore, the Information Desk in the Union, and the bookstore in Watson Library.
The directories will cost 80 cents each, a 30-cent increase from last year's price.
Free copies will be mailed to faculty members.