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KANSAN
Wednesday, February 18, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 98 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
The weather took a turn for the better in Lawrence yesterday, and Colin Forbes (left) and Shahrzad Heldart took advantage of the sunny skies and Heildart are in the class for four-year-olds at the Hilltop Day Care Center.
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College Doublespeak:
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Winning the Battle Of the Blue Book PAGE 16
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under clear to partly cloudy skies. Thursday's high will be around 50.
New KUAC ticket proposal could triple student prices
schools for two years, he said his decision to enter a seminary was a practical one. He had See PRIEST page 5
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
Student ticket prices for football and basketball games could as much as triple next year if recommendations made by the KU boardman board ticket committee are approved today.
The KUAC board will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Satellite Union to consider the recommendations. It also will consider proposals to move a KU-MU football game to Arrowhead Stadium and to sell beer in Memorial Stadium whether KU women's teams will join the NCAA.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS of the ticket committee would allow the board to set policy regarding pricing and let the athletic department work out specific costs.
The committee also has proposed a policy for the board to adopt requiring students to pay half the public price for both football and basketball tickets.
Steve Leeben, KUAC student board member,
said that ticket pricing in past years had been settled at board meetings to keep student ticket prices as low as possible.
Leben said the proposed pricing policy was unjustified and drastic. Based on this year's public prices, $19 student tickets would cost $31 for a seven-game football season and $15 student tickets would cost $38.50 for a 14-game basketball season.
BASED ON NEXT year's prices, which have not been set officially, student tickets could cost $36 for football and $42 for basketball, Leben said.
re said that he had met with athletic officials and student board members and that a compromise could be worked out before the board met this afternoon.
The ticket policy committee, headed by David Amher, vice chancellor for student affairs, will
0 p.m. today, before the board
nalize its recommendations.
later to meet with Bob Marqum
I that he met with Bob Marcum, tor, yesterday, and that the two had
agreed to recommend to the committee at the 2:30 meeting that student football tickets be based on one-third the public cost rather than one-half.
"That would mean tickets cost about $25," Leibman said. "I don't think that's out of line."
AMMELER SAID the recommendations would
throughout the two meetings today
be followed. The decision was made in
rehearsal.
If adopted, the policy could be put into effect
irradially over the next few years. Leben said.
"When you talk about increases, students have to bear their fair share of the load," he said. "But a major reason that student income has declined is that we've paid off our debt that we agreed to finance (the east stadium addition of a 7,000-seat student section). Lo and behold, revenues did decrease, but they were supposed to."
"But phasing it doesn't change the problem," he said. "It only lengthens the pain. Let's not accept something we don't think is fair or not going to take effect for two or three years."
He also said he believed some of the information used to back up the committee's recommendation was "unintentionally" misleading.
Leben said the information did not include student contributions to women's athletics and distorted declining percentages of student contributions to the total athletic department budget.
He also said private contributions had increased to more than $1 million a year.
KU STUDENT FUNDING for athletics is comparable to other schools in the Big Eight
"The athletic department is in a difficult
situation. It is not a desperate situation, but it is serious."
Significant increases in funding of women's athletics have to be made, he said. Also, KU's football and basketball recruiting budgets are second to lowest in the Big Eight, and the capital improvements budget is the lowest in the Big Eight.
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CHLUETER
san spurs Senate debate
rity Daily Kansan's $1 student increase request provoked a two-it Senate debate before it was apoptotic.
e approved the Finance and Auditing s recommendations for seven of 13 ups funded under the Revenue Code. ettered a decision on the recommemove the School of Architecture and sign Student Council from the code ororrow's meeting. Six remaining idations will be considered Thursday final vote is taken on the entire indations bill.
Senate approves the bill, it will ask
hancellor Del Shankel to increase the
jvity fee to $14.52.
Terri Fry, Kansan business manager, defended the fee increase before the Senate.
"We've done things in an effort to keep even with rising costs," Fry said, "but if we raise our rates to our advertisers any more, we'll no longer be competitive."
Three student senators voiced opposition to the Kansan's request. The Kansan receives $73,260 and requests its total allocation be in addition to $109,480. The Kansan now receives $2 from the activity fee.
Fry also answered questions from Steve McMurry, Transportation Board chairman, concerning the Kansan's cash carry-forward account.
"The Kansei is a half-a-million-dollar business," Fry said. "Our costs vary from month to month. Cash carry-forward is to maintain our costs."
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Peter Casparian