Thursday, February 7, 1980
Inflation shoots ticket prices up
KU basketball fans can thank inflation for higher ticket prices next year, Joe Biedron, assistant athletic director for business affairs, said yesterday.
"airbomb is hitting all of our budgets hard, especially travel," Biedon said. "We need a area of tickets that we could make some cheer on for basketball instead of raising football."
University of Kansas Athletic Corporation
Board members were told early this week
that the university will increase 50 cents per game next year. Student
season tickets would increase from $11 to
$14.
ALTHOUGH THE INCREASE was criticized by a student member on the KUAC Board, the increase was fair. Biodiversity assessment had already received student approval.
The Athletic Seating Board, a Student Senate committee that represents students opinion on seating and ticket policies, increases the increase at its Jan. 21 meeting.
Anne Levinson, chairman of the Senate Sports Committee and a member of the seating board, said the increase was justified.
"We basically agreed with the increase because we thought tickets were so inexpensive to begin with." Levinson said. "We
realized the department's need for increased revenue.
"The thing that pleased me the most was that they came to us and talked with us."
In past years, she said, athletic officials have ignored student opinions.
"Obviously, a lot of students won't like having to pay more, but it didn't seem like an unreasonable request." Lewis said. "Similarly, a lot of students would be more students on the Sports Committee."
Neither Biodron nor Levinson said the increases would affect ticket sales.
According to figures supplied by the KU athletic department, student season tickets in the Big Eight conference range from $10 at the Universities of Nebraska and Oklahoma to $30 at the University of Kansas. IU students pay the third lowest amount
ALLEN FIELD HOUSE is the largest in the conference with a capacity more than 15,000, and KU students are allotted more seats than students elsewhere in the Big Eagle. Oklahoma State University students, for example, have a capacity of 12,000, while KU students are allotted 7,200.
KU students also receive a greater percentage of seats, at 48 percent, than do students at most other schools.
KU season ticket prices currently range from $11 for students to $7.50 for public
reserved seats. Though athletic department officials did not say student seats would be reduced without the increase, Lewison sat with the seating board considered that possibility.
Steve Leben, a student member of the KUAC board, said the across-the-board ticket increase was unfair because students had to pay more. The ticket increase than other season ticket holders.
*STUDENT SEASON TICKETS would increase 9.1 percent from $9 to $7.50; and reserved theatre seats would increase 9.2 percent.
Season tickets for faculty, staff and their families are priced at $25. The per game increase would be less than 50 cents for those tickets. Biodiesel those tickets were based on a per person price.
Leben said the increase in student tickets
also was unfair because tickets had just been reduced last year when a $4 stadium addition surcharge was removed.
"On its face, it doesn't appear to be fair," he said. "But I wonder if $15 to $11 and now only one latter, they're trying to increase prices even higher than they were before we were paying off our debt."
LEBEEN SAID he planned to meet with members of the seating board to determine what factors they considered in approving the increase.
Although the KUAC board can't set ticket prices, it will be making budget recommendations to Chancellor Arche R. Kyles. The board is considering reconsider the increase and oppose it, and if student members on the KUAC board were to oppose it, he said, the chancellor might approve it.
That possibility, Leben admitted, was highly unlikely.
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Cameron said the rule against lobbying in one's own country was designed to prevent members from coming under attack by their governments.
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"It's a waste of time," Feleciano said. "We've got a lot of other things to address this session."
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