Decision on ticket prices delayed
Thursday, April 3, 1980
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After meeting 90 minutes with athletic department officials yesterday, student leaders emerged less hopeful that ticket price increases could be reduced.
"It was depressing," said Anne Levinson, chairman of the Student Senate Athletic Committee. "I couldn't be more proud little we get accomplished. We both heard each other but neither one us insured an audgement."
At issue, although no decisions were made, is the price of student season football and basketball tickets for next year. The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board is expected to consider ticket prices at the next meeting. The athletic department budget for next year.
The department announced in February
that all basketball tickets would increase 50 cents a game, adding $6.50 on student and other season tickets.
STUDENTS HAVE CRITICIZED that increase as being unfair to students because the $6.50 hike would increase student tickets by a greater percentage than other tickets
Last week, the student seat board passed a resolution calling for a 17 percent increase in student ticket prices to student season ticket prices by only $2, far less than its plan would raise another $40.
"I was surprised at the way it went. They looked at ticket prices over the years differently than we did and they came to a different conclusion than we did," she said.
The seating board proposal was among the items discussed yesterday, Levinson said.
Medical school survey criticized
BySTEVE MAUN
Some medical school deans, asked to rank the nation's best and worst medical schools, asked patients to choose between Private Practice, for publishing the results of its survey when it had only 80 percent accuracy.
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JAMES LOWMAN, dean of the School of Medicine, said he had not replied to the questionnaire, which was sent to the deans of the country's 126 medical schools, because he had never heard of Private school and thought the survey was a "sham."
"I don't believe there is a way in which 'I can rank medical schools unless you want to rank specific areas,' he said." I can't impak it of ranking them as a whole."
Lowman said that some schools specialized in certain areas, such as research, and that they should be ranked high in one field but not as high in another.
"I think it was if faculties ranking anything as diverse as the medical profession," he said. "If they had had some guidelines, I might have attempted it."
Terrie Burke, editor of Private Practice, which has a circulation of 180,000, said yesterday that only the top 10 and bottom 10 medical schools were listed in the March issue that the University of Kansas Medical Center published in the "vast gray region in between."
ONLY 44 OF the questionnaires had been
answered when John Cooper, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, wrote a letter to all medical school presidents asking them not respond to the questionnaire.
"I hope the deans would not respond to this survey . . . There is no way, because of the diversity of our medical schools, with each making its own contribution in educating physicians, conducting biomedical research and improving health outcomes, that accurately determine which is the best and which is the worst in the country," Cooper wrote.
Craig McCoy, University comproller and KUAC treasurer, presented a five-page memo based on past KUAC board actions said, justified the department's increase.
"I think it is a survey of opinion," Burke said. "It is like any other survey."
Burke said that the results of the survey, were not scheduled to be published until June but that she decided to publish them because she stopped getting responses.
McCoy decided to comment on the memo or the meeting, but he did say that no one asked him to prepare the memo and that he would have asked the basis of his years on the KUAC board.
Burke has received critical letters and phone calls from the Medical College of Ohio, Mehrayan Medical College and University, schools ranked in the bottom 10.
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BOB MARCUM, athletic director, said he thought the meeting had been worthwhile.
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But Steve Leeben, also a student member of the KUAC board, said he feared the issue was becoming too confused. Leben originally called for the meeting with Marcum and has prepared a three-page proposal to the department's proposals.
Leben said so many issues were involved - from confusion about past KUKIC tickets to the need for set ticket prices - that it would be difficult for students to succeed in lowering the cost of travel.
"IN A STATE of confusion, the status quo is usually maintained," he said. "And here, the status quo is the proposal that's already been made by the athletic department.
"I think we came to see more eye-to-eye that we did when we first came into the room," she said.
"I THINK THERE was good discussion on both sides. I think it was a good meeting," he said, but added, "that doesn't mean anybody's chaned his mind."
Margaret Berlin, a student member of the KUAC board, agreed that the meeting had been helpful.
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Greg Schmacke, student body president,
said that he did not think the board would reduce the price increases, but that he and
the students would continue to oppose
"All the members of the board are intelligent and reasonable people, but the issue has expanded so much that it really is confusing."
ALSO AT ISSUE is the price of student season football tickets.
The department announced ticket prices would decrease from $23 to $19. The seating board has proposed a further decrease to $16.
"If students do not want to see these increases, they realise something is happening. They are a athletic team and tell them how they feel about it." Schmicke said. "But it's tough. The lines are
McCoy said, however, that the drop in the football price reflected the elimination of the fee on tickets. He considered not the number of games but the amount of revenue needed when it set ticket prices.
For Leben and other students, the issue revolves around removal of a 1966 surcharged addition to football and basketball at East Stadium addition to Memorial Stadium.
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THE SURCHARGE WAS to expire last year, and this year's student season basketball tickets reflected its expiration, dropping from $15 to $11.
ALTHOUGH THE DEPARTMENT'S proposals would reduce next year's prices, 4 students say that should occur anyway because one fewer game is scheduled.
Students say that next year's football season ticket prices also should be lowered to reflect expiration of the surcharge.
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