Tuesday, April 13, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
SUA offering free tickets to Tutu
Josh Fry, Meriden sophomore, walks in front of Wescoe Hall. Fry was covered with Desmond Tutu buttons last Tuesday as a part of a SUA contest. Students that guessed the correct number of buttons on Fry could win two passes to Tutu's lecture Sunday in Allen Fieldhouse. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
By Chris Hopkins chopkins@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Organizers say lecture an academic event'
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About 1,500 University of Kansas students will be able to attend this weekend's Archbishop Desmond Tutu lecture for free, thanks to tickets given away by Student Union Activities.
Teachers who felt that the Tutu lecture was pertinent to their classes could ask for up to 50 free tickets. Tutu's lecture is titled "Bridging the Chasm Between Black and White." The lecture will be at 7 p.m. April 18 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Cody Simms, Rose Hill senior and SUA forums coordinator, said that most lectures were free for students and that SUA wanted to give some students the opportunity to get into this lecture for free, too.
"We wanted to make it an academic event," he said.
Simms said that they had sent out about 1,471 free tickets, nearly half of the estimated 3,000 tickets distributed so far.
He said he sent an e-mail to a listserv for department chairs about two weeks before spring break and that it had disseminated from there.
The deadline for ticket requests was the Friday before spring break.
Cameron Popp, Hutchinson
tunior and head of security for the
lecture, said that another: way to get in for free would be to volunteer for security.
Popp said he was looking for about 100 to 120 volunteers.
"Not everyone's going to be able to see the lecture — some people will have to work the door — but most people should be able to catch the lecture," he said.
Simms said that the Tutu lecture was probably the biggest event SUA had taken on, and that most of the remaining ticket sales would probably depend on how nonstudents reacted to advertisements.
About 9,000 tickets, which are $5 for students and $15 for non-students ahead of time and $20 at the door, remain for the lecture, and Simms said he expected sales to pick up as the week continues.
Greg Smith, Olathe junior, said he was working security at the lecture because he had done it for several previous events and because it offered him the chance to meet Tutu, who is from South Africa and winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize.
"Hopefully, we can sell what we projected, which is about 5,500," Simms said.
Even if it distributes 5,500 tickets,
SUA still will end up spending
$10,000 on the event. Student Senate contributed $9,000.
"I can't imagine doing more promotion on campus than we've done," Simms said. "Your guess is as good as mine as to how the K.C. area will react."
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Senators say communication key to parking issue
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"Every year during elections, I hear candidates talk about parking and coming down here," Hultine said. "So I expect them to come in, but they
"The parking department is not student-friendly at all," said Holly Krebs, transportation coordinator elect and holdover senator. "Because of that, it's hard to have any effect on the parking department."
never do. It's pretty rare for them to actually call us. I wish they were here more often because that's the main way for us to hear a student voice."
Hultine said that there were communication problems between senate and the parking department.
have a lottery for students to get a permit.
Some senators said that working with the parking department was sometimes like talking to a brick wall.
"The impression I have is that Student Senate has valuable input for the parking department." Hemenway said. "I just don't have the knowledge about every parking lot on campus. I think it is always best to have the people talking directly to each other. Senate might find me less responsive than the parking department simply because I'm
Hemenway said he thought communication about parking issues should happen between Senate and the parking department.
"I think we may be lobbying the wrong person. We've been lobbying the parking department." Skalla said. "Additional parking is expensive and they want to pay off their bond debt. We need to lobby the chancellor because he is the one who has the final say, and the chancellor has to be more responsive to us than the parking department does."
Skalla said the parking department was held accountable by Chancellor Robert Hemenway in any action it took to create more spaces.
less knowledgeable."
"We're willing to consider almost anything," Hultine said. "One way might be, if it didn't affect enrollment, to say freshmen can't have their cars here. But it gets difficult to figure out who needs a parking permit more. We could set up some kind of a lottery."
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