+ THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014 PAGE 9A FUNDS FROM PAGE 1A Texas Tech, for example, has a required $57.20 fee built in to a student's tuition that pays entry to all athletic events. Kansas, on the other hand, has a required $25 fee and an optional $150 student ticket package combination, which includes entry to football and basketball games. Kansas State gives students three different options for ticket packages. The most expensive is a $295 "CAT" football and men's basketball combo pass offering students premiere seating, two T-shirts, early entry and priority on post-season events. Of the four schools, Kansas' all sports package is the cheapest by nearly $100, and its required fee is the second lowest. Of the nine Big 12 schools accounted for in Catt's report (TCU is a private institution and not required to disclose its financial information), Kansas ranks sixth in total student support between its ticket sales and student-fee-generated revenue. If the fee were removed, Kansas Athletics would stand last in financial student support, nearly $1 million behind Oklahoma — currently last in the conference. WHAT IF THE FEE GOES? Both Jim Marchiony and Pat Kaufman, Kansas Athletics CFO, stressed the importance of this fee for the University's compliance with Title IX standards. "It's an important piece of our effort to ensure travel for women's and non-revenue sports is equitable," Marchiony said. The question of the fee's necessity remains at the heart of Student Senate's debate. Student Senate has $50,000 this year in funding for student organizations — a third of what previous Senates have been able to disburse, according to a previous Kansan report. Athletics' revenue totaled $93.6 million in 2013. exist, the student-athlete experience would change very little," Catt said on Monday. "I think there would be a way to make up that revenue." Should this budget hole If the fee is lowered or eliminated Kansas Athletics will have to find an alternate way to sustain its current level of funding. Marchiony was asked if that includes raising the $150 student ticket package. "Everything would be on the table," Marchiony said. "We would search in every way possible to raise the money." In Monday's meeting, Debbie Van Saun, senior associate athletics director and senior woman administrator, said the support from the University goes a long way for women's and non-revenue sports. "This University and this institution has chosen to not make it always about the dollars and the cents," Van Saun said. "This institution found it philosophically appropriate as a whole to support women's and non-revenue sports." Edited by Kansan Staff MARCUS TETWILER - University of Kansas Student - Former Student Senate member - Hometown: Paola, Kansas - Class of 2014 - In favor of eliminating or reducing the Women's and Men's Pavilion. Non-Revenue sports fee DAVID CATT WHO IS WHO? - Chairman of the Women's and - Non-Revenue Intercollegiate Sports Fee Advisory Board - Presidential appointee of Student Body President Marcus Tetwiler - Former member of the KU Golf - Former member of the KU Golf team - Hometown: Shawnee, Kansas - Class of 2014 - In favor of eliminating or reducing the Women's and Non Revenue sports fee. JIM MARCHIONY - Associate Athletics Director of - KU employee since 2003 - Previously worked at the NCAA, Georgetown University, Iona College and the University of Connecticut PAT KAUFMAN - Chief Financial Officer for Kansas Athletics - KU employee since 2013 - Certified Public Accountant - Previously worked as the Vice President of Finance and Accounting for Swope Community Enterprises, Senior Auditor at Deloitte and Touche and Senior Manager of financial accounting at Sprint - Earned a degree in Accounting and Business Administration from the University of Kansas DEBBIE VAN SAUN * Senior Associate Athletes Director, Senior Woman Administrator - KI employeee since 2007 • Oversees sports medicine, travel and monitors Title IX compliance and NCAA gender equity principles among other responsibilities CRIME - Previously worked for the City of Lawrence in various positions - Earned degrees in education and public administration from the University of Kansas Kidnapped girl found dead in Missouri man's home ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS - A middle-school football coach has been jailed on suspicion of first-degree murder in the abduction and death of a 10-year-old girl in southwest Missouri, police said Wednesday. A body believed to be that of Hailey Owens was found Wednesday at a Springfield home owned by the suspect, Police Chief Paul Williams said at a news conference. Official confirmation won't occur until after an autopsy, but the chief said police "have a high degree of confidence" in the preliminary identification. He did not disclose the child's cause of death. Police say Craig Michael Wood,45,is jailed on suspicion of first-degree murder but formal charges have not been filed. The Greene County prosecutor is reviewing the case. Hailey was walking to a friend's home in Springfield just before 5 p.m. Tuesday. Witnesses told investigator* that a man in a gold 2008 Ford Ranger pickup truck drove down the street several times before abducting the child, who was just several blocks from her own home. Wood was arrested late Tuesday inside his truck parked outside his small, single-story home. The Springfield School District said Wood is a seventh-grade football coach and teacher's aide who supervises in-school suspensions at a school for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Hailey did not attend that school, and Williams said the two apparently didn't know each other. "There's no connection that we've been able to determine at this time between the victim and the suspect," he said. Williams said police have no idea of a motive for the killing. He said the suspect has not talked to investigators since his arrest. girl's disappearance was "a tragedy" but declined further comment. The suspect's father, Jim Wood of Ash Grove, Mo., told The Associated Press that the About 30 Springfield police investigators along with an FBI evidence response team searched the area near Wood's home Wednesday morning, as well as a nearby coin-operated laundry. A records search shows Wood had little criminal history. He pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance in 1990 in Greene County and was fined $100. Springfield School District Superintendent Norm Ridder said in a statement Wednesday that Wood began working for the district in August 1998 and is a paraprofessional and coach at Pleasant View K-8 School. Ridder said Wood has been suspended since his arrest. School spokesman Teresa Bledsoe later said that Wood was initially hired as a temporary employee who worked as a substitute teacher before he was hired full time in 2006. 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It is estimated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that bee activity helps generate about $15 billion per year in crop production in the U.S. Edited by Alec Weaver BEES FROM PAGE 1A According to the KU Natural History Museums honey bee exhibit, the "We have had wild colonies living in trees on campus and in corners of buildings that have lived 20 years on campus since I have been here and it is because they are better insulated, they have more space, they are more natural in the sense of how the combs are constructed," Taylor said. makes it difficult for bees to survive. He said the typical size of a wild colony is about the volume of a five-gallon bucket. bees are housed, to a small hole in the museum's window, where the bees enter and exit, was designed to make it hard for cold air to get in. But Scherting believes that the wind was hitting the building just right on those two days causing the bees to gather at the end trying to keep the cold air out. 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