Wednesday, March 26, 1980
Leben fights student ticket hikes
All things that go up don’t necessarily speak to the student. The sport is spearheading an effort to bring down the price of student season basketball tickets when the KU athletics advisory board meets.
Leben a student member of the University of Washington, an advisory board, sent letters and a memo to various student and administrative officials this week criticized announcing ticket price changes.
The athletic department announced in February that all basketball tickets would increase 50 cents per game next year. That season student ticket prices from $11.90 to $14.90
Leben sent the memo to Student Sense Athletic Seating Board members, the chairman and student members of the board, the athletic board, the athletic director, and several others.
The memo said, "The current proposals of the KUAC do not fairly reflect past actions of the KUAC Board, equity to the student and the importance of student ticket buwers.
"The unfairness is seen in two specific cases: the price increase on student basketball tickets and the price rise would rise 59 percent, while prices for all other categories would rise either 6 percent or 7 percent."
"And the price increase for next year would mean even though students had finished their course, they would not East Stadium addition to Memorial Stadium, their ticket prices would not be higher."
LEBEN ASKED Athletic Director Bob Marcum to meet with student members of the advisory board before the board's April 7 meeting to discuss the ticket increase.
Marcum was out of town and unavailable for comment yesterday.
Although student season basketball tickets were reduced this season to $15 to $11, Leben said that the drop reduced department revenues by only half-a-big portion of what it had been receiving each $2 from the ticket tickets revenue to pay off the stadium debt.
He also said he hoped a meeting with Marcum could provide a solution to the department's financial problems as well as the removal of the old stadium surmise.
Leben said he had received no reaction from administrators, but said, "students have indicated general agreement that the KUAC was not fair and should be changed."
ONE STUDENT who has changed her mind about the necessity of the increase is Anne Levinson, chairman of the Student
Senate Athletic Seating Board, which in February gave approval to the ticket increase.
"No one like an increase. But from the information they the athletic department provided," Levinson said. "We told them at that time, with the information we had then, that we were more confident."
But now, after studying the materials supplied by Leben, she said, "It's in a different light."
Levinson said she would call a meeting of her four-member board, before the April 7 KUAC board meeting, to reconsider its support of the increase.
ULTIMATELY, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes would increase the approve when he approves the fiscal 1981 athletic department budget.
Med Center announces plan to phase out AMS
By GREG SACKUVICH Staff Reports
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Medical Center plans to phase out American Management Services from its housekeeping department over a one-year period beginning April 17, Rodger supports of support services, said yesterday.
Francis Jacobs, union president, said, "We won't turn it (the plan) down until we know more about it, but we're not satisfied."
But the plan first must be approved by the Public Service Employees Union, which represents the Med Center states, and the state office of accounting.
AMS has been accused of harassing the custodians at the Med Center.
AMS had a housekeeping contract with
KU on the Lawrence campus, but it was not renewed when it expired last November. At that time there also were 18 students, the custodians of alleged harassment.
The plan to phase out AMS was announced on a Monday night meeting between the union and the Wyandotte County Legislative Committee, Jacobs
Also discussed at the meeting was a proposal by the union to have the custodians naid bi-weekly.
The union was first told by the Med Center that bi-weekly pay was not possible because the state accounting department said the more frequent pay day, Jacobs said.
But Jacobs said he was told the biweekly pay period could have been implemented five months ago.
Budget workshops to aid groups
By VANCE HINER
Staff Reporter
A lack of minority participation in the Student Senate hurts the chances for increased funding of minority groups, accords with public opinion and the Senate Minority Affairs Committee.
Brady, Kansas City, Kan., senior, said yesterday that many minority groups that have been accused of stealing money because they were not represented on senate committees or were ignorant of
The workshops, sponsored by the Minority Affairs Committee, have already helped several groups with their budget proposal
Brady said he was organizing workshops designed to help students prepare budget requests and increase their awareness of Senate activities and procedures.
preparations for this year, according to Brady.
GOOD BUDGET proposals are only part of the solution to the minority group funding that exists in their communities, and students on the budget committees who understand and identify with minority groups.
"I'm not saying we have a bunch of prejudiced people in the Senate," Brady said. "Sometimes they're just not aware of minority problems."
Greg Schneack, student body president, said he didn't think that minority groups were being ignored by the Senate.
Because student participation has been poor throughout the student body, Schmaekse said, he didn't think minority groups were at fault for underperforming students' actions for Senate fundraising than other groups.
According to Brady, inflation and the increased number of groups requesting money this year make it extremely implem entible for them to be organized and informed about the Senate.
"Some groups will be cut to zero this year," he said. "Minorities have to fight for their funding because they are minorities. It's part of the democratic process."
BRADY SAID minorities should have little problem getting representatives on committees.
Getting freshmen involved with student politics is the key to improving minority participation in the future, he said.
Brady is organizing a workshop scheduled for April 19 that is aimed at encouraging minority participation in student government.
Drug labeling omits inactive ingredients
By CINDY WHITCOME
Staff Reporter
Labels on the drugs are required to state only the amount of active ingredients, King, a Lawrence pharmacist, said.
The absence of government regulations on inactive ingredients in drugs caused diffuse infections, and the Newton King, president of the State Pharmacist Association, told a senior minister.
question about the differences between over-the-counter drugs.
"Most of the active ingredient in an aspirin tablet, for example, could probably fit on the point of a pencil," he said.
"Three-fourths of most vitamin tablets is inactive, 'King said. "That means that only 250 of 1,000 milligrams in each tablet is active."
King used the example of the difference between Tynolen, a non-aspirin pain reliever, and aspirin to answer one woman's
Most aspirins contain a pain-killing ingredient to reduce fever and an anti-inflammatory ingredient to help with arthritis. Aspirin also cannot contain the anti-inflammatory ingredient.
KING SUGGESTED that the best way to insure that people are using the best type of medication is to consult pharmacists and to get to know them personally.
There are also problems with taking prescription drugs, King said.
"If the label says, 'take with liquids,' water should be used, 'King said,' Milk and fruit juice contain antibiotics that cause bad reactions with the drugs."
people who took the National Medication Awareness Test at the luncheon in conjunction with King's presentation. Most are eating before eating meant "an emptier stomach."
King said that if a label read, "take on an empty stomach" the best time to take the true would be one or two hours after eating.
"There is an acid build-up in the stomach before eating," King said. "This is not a good time to take drugs."
Learning the correct dosages and directions for taking medication can eliminate adverse reactions, such as nausea, King said.
THIS WAS surprising to many of the
King's presentation was the fourth part of a series of lectures called, "Prescriptions made by the Church." The book will be made at 12:30 p.m., April 4 and 7 at the Baptist Center, 1629 W. 19th St. (the series, sponsored by the Council on Aging of North Carolina), and 1820 N. 19th St. Association is open to anyone older than 60.
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