University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, February 19, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 99, SPS 650-640
KUAC kills move, raises ticket price
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
The KU Athletic Corporation board last night virtually killed a proposal to move a Kansas-Missouri football game to Arrowhead Stadium.
The board approved a policy that calls for all KU home football games to be played on campus. It does not affect basketball games, such as those played at Kemper Arena.
The board did not vote on whether to move the KU-MU game, but its new policy is expected to prevent any game from being moved off campus.
The final decision on the move, however, still must be made by Acting Chancellor Del Shankel. In other action during the 3½ hour KUAC meeting, the board:
- *approved increases in student football and basketball tickets. A seven-game basketball ticket will be $25.50 and a 14-game basketball ticket will be $24.50.*
- *Decided to charge admission to "appropriate" track, volleyball and swimming
- Agreed to look into selling beer in Memorial Stadium to raise money for non-revenue sports.
The proposed KU-MU move was suggested by the athletic department as "purely a financial move," according to Athletic Director Bob Marcum. The proposal generated some support from the governor, who sent Kansas City area but was strongly opposed by students, faculty and Lawrence merchants.
The athletic department is projecting a $175,000 deficit of a $3.8 million budget proposed for fiscal 1982. KUAC board members agreed that the deficit needed to be eliminated and Shankel said that he did not want to approve a budget that was not balanced.
Shankel said response from students, faculty and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce indicated commitments to help raise the necessary funds for supporting a football game to a professional stadium.
"People will help us solve our problems and have promised to help us with ticket sales," he said. We appreciated the strong interest and keep the game at the University of Kansas."
Steven Leben, student board member who initiated the policy to keep home games on campus, said that moving football games had been an issue since 1901.
However, the effectiveness of the policy is uncertain, because the role of the board in such decisions is not clear. The bylaws state that the board may make recommendations to the committee and set policy for the athletic department. How binding the policy is is questionable.
"I think it's a victory for the students," Bert Coleman, student body vice president and board member, said.
Student football tickets next season will be $25.50, up from $13 this season. But the per game price is 16 cents lower. There were five home games this year and seven next year.
The per game price of a basketball ticket,
however, will rise 63 percent. A student ticket for
a 14-game season will be $24.50, up from $15 this
season for a 14-game schedule.
The per game price for a student basketball season will be $17.5. The following season, the price will be $23.
Proposed prices for public season tickets are $72.50 for football and $80 for basketball bleacher seats and $85 for theater seats.
A policy recommended by the ticket committee was adopted after being amended. The original recommendation was to set a policy allowing student ticket prices to rise over a period of time to 50 percent of public season ticket prices.
The amended policy adopted would allow student ticket prices to rise over a period of years to no more than 56 percent of public prices. The board then agreed to run over responsibility for working out exact ticket costs to the athletic department, following board policy.
The motion to charge admission to certain track, volleyball and swimming events passed with little discussion. Among Big Eight schools, KU and the University of Colorado are the only two that do not charge for sports events other than basketball and football.
The board will appoint a committee to discuss research a Student Senate proposal to sell beer.
Speaker gives tenure bills to another House committee
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Deft political maneuvering took two tenni hills from an unsympathetic Kansas House Judiciary Committee yesterday and plopped them into the lap of the House Ways and Purchases.
House Speaker Wendell Lady gave the two bills, after their introduction on the House floor, to the Ways and Means Committee at the request of the Judiciary Committee chairman, Joseph J. Hoagland, R-Overland Park.
HOAGLAND SAID he had found several members in the Ways and Means Committee who were strongly interested in the tenure bills, which would give the Kansas Board of Regents final authority on all tenure decisions and the hearing process in dismissal cases.
"The chairman of that committee, Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, is very interested in seeing that the bills pass," he said. "I have a strong judicial members were strongly against the bills."
"Obviously, they will have a good chance now," Hougland said. "In addition, the bills will have more sturgeon if they are passed out and released to two strongest committees in the House."
Kansas State University coach Jack Hartman argues with referee Charles Weems, about a traveling violation in the KU-KState game last night. The Jayhawks put together several rallies at the Wildcats 9-8.
State Rep. Joe Knope, R-Marhattan, and John Sobach, D-Lawrence, were the leading members of Hoagland's Judiciary Committee who opposed the bills.
Knopp said that while he hoped the bills would stay and be killed, he also said he thought they would get lost in the pile of bills before the Ways and Means Committee.
"I think that there is a negative and a positive side to all of this," Knopp said. "The negative side is that I think we had enough work." The positive side is the difficult desire the influence of the chairman.
"Well, that changes a lot of the counter-support strategy," he said later. "What it looks like we will have to do is to talk with members of the Ways and Means Committee and try to convince them that the bills are not necessary.
KNOPP, HOWEVER, made his remarks
and heard heartbeat on the bills for Monday.
State Rep. Karen Griffiths, R-Newton, vicechairman of the Judiciary Committee, said that she knew before the bills were introduced
"The positive side is that I don't think the time it takes them to will have the time to launch effort," he said.
"It is going to be important now to arrange testimony from all sides," he added.
See TENURE page 5
Faithful fans wait long hours to get best KU-K-State seats
By BOB MOEN Staff Reporter
Win or lose, the KU-Kansas State basketball game is a party.
"It is a partying day," Brian Petersen, Kansas City, Kan. senior said.
Petersen was the first person in line for the game at the North door of Allen Field House. He earned the position when he began waiting in line at 5:15 a.m., yesterday.
ry late afternoon, the line behind Petersen stretched across the parking lot and up to Irving Hill Road as hundreds of students tried to get a good seat for the game.
"The game is a lot more interesting when you sit behind the team," Petersen said.
Standing just behind Petersen, Bill Rader, Mavinum sophomore, said he had been there on Saturday.
"I'm the only one in my immediate family that has gone to KU," he added.
"It's been an important game around our
father, father and aunt and is one of the
Stake fans."
"This game is a classic, bigger than the KU-Missouri game," he said, looking at his newly dealt cards. "Five games and only four spades total."
Across from Tietz, Sharon Coleman, Prairie Village sophomore, said the state rivalry was a good time to "get drunk."
Further down the line, playing spades, Matt Tietz, Wilmington, Del., senior, said he had been in line since 1 p.m. because there was nothing like KU-KState game.
Cards and beer were just a couple of the ways students passed the time waiting for the doors to open. Playing backgammon, talking and playing were also important ways to kill time.
during were the same. But one man, who identified himself only as
"K-State crowds are a lot more rowdy and hostile," he said, eyeing the KU students.
Robert said he lived in Manhattan and attended K-State from 1972-1974. He said he had not missed a KU-K-State game since then and goes to all the K-State games both home and away.
Robert said that he strongly supported all of the Big Eight Conference bankrupt learns and regulations.
He said he antagonized the KU students because it was fun and good for the rivalry.
When Robert was not around to throw canst, at KU students still express their spirit despite his absence.
Bringing up the end of the winding line. Robin Silver Chicago sophomore, yelled, "We're coming!"
Sauzy Muller, Wilson junior, characterized K-State as the "Flaw on the Kaw."
Some students expressed negative opinions
held in a held on a Wednesday instead of
Saturday.
"It the pits," Lauren Spriggs, Kansas City,
Ken, freshman, said.
Sitting on a wall near the entrance, Jaime Diaz, Kansas City, Kan., juror, said that if he was a liquor store owner he would be raising hell.
When the doors were finally opened, the long waiting paid off as those who were first rushed to claim their seats behind the KU bench or at the blueachers.
But after all the choice seats were occupied,
still another hour and a half of waiting lay ahead
Again the cards, backgammon games and books were brought out by students.
Luxurv hotel dream fades. investor feels cheated
By DALE WETZEL
See GAME page 5
Staff Reporter
But city planning director Garner Stoll, after several talks with Nik-khah, believes the former Lawrence resident doesn't understand the limits of the planning staff's power.
Hell bath no fury like an investor denied.
Hell him no furry like an investor called.
In the view of Kansas City, Mo., dentist Homayom Nik-khah, the Lawrence city planning staff has been giving him the run-around.
"We recommend." Stoll said yesterday. "We don't decide. The (Lawrence-Douglas County) Planning Commission and the City Commission do."
"The entire area around there, on both sides of the street, is commercial," Nik-khiah said, pointing to the nearby presence of Den's Steak House and Heating. A mobile-home park and a farm co-op.
The problem began when Nik-khah, after a seven-year search for a suitable 23rd Street motel location, purchased a vacant lot at 1620 East 23rd for $80,000 two weeks ago. Although the lot was zoned for residential use, Nik-khah said it "wouldn't make sense" to build an expensive home there. He planned to build a luxury hotel instead.
Still explained that commercial rezoning of the property would be inconsistent with Plan 95, a coordinated community development plan published by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission in 1977. Plan 95 calls for more urban rather than commercial, development in the area.
THE MISUNDERSTANDING could result in the sale of NK-underkhal's four and one half acre lot.
ARMED WITH TRESE arguments, Nik-khak took his reshearing request to the city planning staff. Stol said, however, that after studying the case, he recommended that Nik-khak's request be denied.
hint på kajkåte har svart. Nikkhah also claimed the support, "without exception," of the area's residents, and Julia Springer of 1620 East 23rd backed that claim.
"I trust Mr. Nik-khah," she said. "He's had his eve on that property for years."
Nik-khah's request also would pressure the surrounding residential area to go commercial.
"We started with him with Plan 5n, went over it, showed him the plan and property maps in
great detail," Stoll said. "The Planning Com-
mission confirmation didn't have to
our recommendation."
Nik-khac accused the city of trying to forbly steer his motel away from 23rd street and into the downtown area. He said this contradicted promises made to him four years ago by Dick McMclanathan, former city planning director, who encouraged his efforts to build a 23rd street motel.
AT TUESDAY'S CITY Commission meeting, the bespettacled Nik-khak came before "the decision-makers," as he called the commissioners after the meeting.
"The word of honor of the city is seriously at stake here," Nik-khaid said.
His words drew an angry rebuttal from Commissioner Don Binns.
"I haven't stated that I'm opposed to your motel," he told Nik-kah. "But if you start accusing the city of all kinds of sins, I'm liable to lose." Hell and vote no (on the regular request).
MAYOR ED CARTER said that he sympathized with Nik-khah's frustrations but that a public hearing would be necessary before the city "files in the face" of Plan 95.
"The plan isn't set in concrete," he said. "It can be changed. I ask you to be patient again."
Meanwhile, Nikkahh "isn't too excited" by the prospect of appearing before the Planning Commission to argue his case.
The commission finally voted to resubmit Nikkhah's request, to the Planning Commission, where it is not likely to come up again until April. The commission to city planning staff member Linda Finner.
"This is going to take months, going back over three over there, said outside the City Commission."
NIK-KHAA SAID his current incindiation was to sell the lot and forget the whole affair.
"run 35 in like Catch-22," he continued. "'The citi-
men who believe, should be able to bob what they see."
"Shortly, the administration of the city will change again (commission elections are scheduled for April) and maybe the new commissioner will want me to put a cow pasture downtown."
"My state of right now," he said, "is to or-sale sign on my lot, sell it at his loss, take a bid on it."
Reagan offers nation tax cut, slim budget
By United Press International
"We can no longer procrastinate and hope things will get better." Reagan said. "They will not. If we do not act forcefully, and now, the economy will得 worse."
WASHINGTON- Declaring "there is nothing wrong with America that we can't fix", President Reagan yesterday unveiled a program for national economic recovery founded on a $41 billion reduction in federal spending, and tax cuts for every citizen.
The president, addressing a joint session of Congress and a national audience on television and radio, underlined the stark choices con-
sidered by the economic ruin that indecision would invite.
"Can we, who man the ship of state, deny it out of control?" Reagan asked in his nine-page
- Fiscal 1982 tax rate reductions, for a saving of $44.2 billion for individuals and $7.9 billion for businesses. tax rate cuts for individuals and businesses. For businesses, the date is retractive to Jan. 1.
The four basic points in the president's plan are:
TO ALMOST NO one's surprise, Reagan's inch-thick "Program for Economic Recovery" identified the economic villain as the federal sponsor of his own growth since Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
- A $41.4 billion cut in fiscal 1982 spending, plus $2 billion to be raised in new user fees for such things as Coast Guard or air traffic control services, and $7.7 billion in reductions in items not listed on the budget. This would make a grand total of $49.1 billion in savings.
FOR THE TYPICAL family of four, with $25,000 income in 1980, the tax bill would drop $89 by 1984, a 30 percent reduction in the rate required to pay if the current system remained in effect.
This is the crux of Reagan's promised 30 percent tax cut, which would span four years.
- Wholesale changes in regulatory checks on businesses, causing elimination of some watchdog programs, and across-the-board budget cuts in agencies such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency, for an ultimate saving of $500 million in 1982.
- Pursuit of a stable monetary policy, in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Board's decision to slow rates of money and credit since 2015, specifically halving those growth rates by 1986.
"There is nothing wrong with America that we cann't fax." said Reagan. "So 'I'm full of hope and optimism that we will see this difficult new challenge to its end."
HIS $895.5 billion budget, Reagan raised funding levels for one department: defense. Spending for the Pentagon will be raised $7.2 million, another promise Reagan made in the campaign.
Top Reagan officials said that quick adoption of the proposed economic program as a package would halve inflation and create 13 million jobs by 1986.
The officials warned that if the program was put into effect "piecemeal"—if Congress approves only the "politically palatable" results would be no better than policies of the past.
The economic estimates contained in Reagan's 1982 budget are far more optimistic than those cited by the Carter administration in January, when it presented its 1982 budget proposals.
Carter projected inflation of 12.8 percent during the calendar year 1981, failing to 9.6 percent in 1982 and 6 percent in 1986. Reagan's economists estimate inflation of 10.5 percent this year, falling to 7.2 percent in 1982 and 4 percent by 1986.
ESSENTIALLY UNTOUCHED by Reagan's
See REAGAN page 5
Weather
It will be clear and very mild today with a high in the upper 80s to low 75, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
It will be continued clear tonight with a low in the 40s.
Tomorrow will also be very mild with
tomorrow in the low 70s. You are very fair skies.
Winds will be out of the southwest at 10-20 mph.