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Friday, January 25, 1974
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Fund Drive Started for Athletics
Reduced game attendance, inflation and payments for improvements to athletic facilities over the past three years have combined to create an accumulated deficit of $257,000 for the University of Kansas Athletic Department.
The athletic department has also come under heavy criticism from Thomas J. Weiss, an athletic board member and president of campus economics, for failing to keep costs down.
In response to the situation, John Novetry, assistant athletic director, has been chosen to head a drive to secure more contributions for the athletic department.
In addition, he said the athletic department budgeted $4,000 for medical expenses in fiscal 1974—the highest figure ever. But, as he noted, "the department has spent $4,000,000."
Novotny said that an inability to predict sales a year in advance was major burden.
Novotny said Wednesday that the "gloom and doom" picture had been aggraderated. He said the athletic department should show a profit of $25,000 to $35,000 for fiscal 1974 if spring football practice is injury-free.
Novotny said weather was a major obstacle in determining attendance at the game.
"We USE a conservative approach in predicting our income and a liberal approach in predicting our expenditures," he said, but at best you're coming up with a guess.
Novotny said it was impossible to budget the recruitment program accurately because one could not know in advance how a clean chip' prospects would be in Kansas.
"You've got to have the best talent to win," he said. "If the best high-jumper is in Boston, you're going to have to go there to recruit him."
LAST SEASON'S football program made a profit of about $500,000. Noydain said part of that would be used to make up the losses suffered by other sports.
Even basketball, Novotny has, laid low the past two years because of injuries.
According to Novotny, the future looks better as there is only one more payment of $40,000 to be made on the stadium's tartan turf.
Novotny said the athletic department was closer to breaking even in its sports program the past three years than statistics show. He said operating funds were transferred to the athletic department, which made the operating-fund deficit greater.
sources of revenue to be better utilized—empty seats that could be sold and compensated for
HOWEVER, WEISS has charged that the athletic department should eliminate such "frills" as the busing of the football team to Topeka the day before home games. He said the practice costs from $5,000 to $6,000 a year.
He also criticized the athletic department for taking its share of the student activity fee and spending it on such minor sports as basketball and tennis, which lose $100,000 a year.
"We should reconsider the level of the minor sports," Weiss said. "My own preference is that a large intramural program should replace the minor sports."
Weiss said the profit made in football could be used to finance the intramural team.
"My view of Walker is that he intends to control costs," Weiss said. "But, he'd also probably be able to play a possible for the minor sports. His view is that he should spend as much as he can on football."
Weasl said he could not help but think that the athletic department's drive would cut it off. "It's just too hard," she said.
"NO ONE HAS ever proved that athletes
brush money to the University," he said.
solitic contributions would, in fact, diminish contributions to academic side of the university.
"Our clientele is somewhat the same," Seynour said, "but in many ways it is."
Todd Seymour, endowment association director, said Tuesday that he thought the university was doing a good job.
In defense of the contribution drive, Novtany said he did not know of any other department that could bring 50,000 people back to the campus.
"Athletics is a vehicle for identifying with the University," he said. "A rallying point."
Athletic Director Clyde Walker said Tuesday he didn't think the fund drive would cut significantly into contributions to the academic side of the University because "we're talking about people who are in different circles."
WALKER SAID he didn't think there were many feasible alternatives to the fund management model.
would probably be counter-productive. He said, however, the department would examine basketball ticket prices before next season.
Citing a recent Board of Regent's request that the state wave the训进 of athletes, Walker said he had given up on further state and University aid to the athletic department. Gov. Docking didn't transmit the request to the legislature.
Walker indicated he would cut the nonrevenue-producing sports, such as tennis and swimming, only as a last resort. Novoy will coordinate the new fund day after he reinhablishes his duties as business manager, 4 to 10 Dough Mesher, 31, who has been business manager for the Florida State University athletic department.
Walker said it would take about six months to determine the results of the contribution drive, but he didn't expect fiscal 1974 to be another deficit year.
He said the department had two large
University of Kansan
Aria Singer Returns to KU
BY CAROL GWINN
Kansan Staff Reporter
Patricia Wise, KU alumna and opera singer, is scheduled to sing a variety of opera arias at 8 p.m. Saturday in Hochschule Grafenstein, a theater for students with KU identification cards.
Wise, a 1968 graduate, is a lyric (soprano) coloratura. Coloratura is the music of fast moving notes heard in trills, and a melody one who is able to sing that type of music.
"Most singers think hitting F above high C would be too much for their voices," said Miriam S. Green, assistant professor of music at the University of Paton can A above high C perfectly."
Wise's ease in singing the difficult coloratura smoothly and clearly and her ability to sing the high notes so accurately are two factors in her success, Green said. Wise performed in KU theater productions during her junior and senior years and played the lead in such plays as "My Fair Lady."
Greeen said that Wise had never performed on stage before her junior year but that "all of a sudden, she learned to move beautifully" on stage.
"For singers, teeth formation has a green deal to do with performance," Green said. Wise wore braces on her teeth until her junior year. Green said she thought that was one of the reasons Wise hadn't performed before then.
Green said that after Wise had her braces taken off, she "came out of her cage. No one even knew Pat was around until her junior year."
Green said that Wise was very aware of the inner workings of musical politics over the years.
She won five contests her senior year, which Green said was unusual. During the summer before her senior year she had a contract in Santa Fe, N.M. The director of the Appalachian Opera, John Murray, boarded her Santa Fe and later joined his studios.
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