THE University Daily KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, February 18, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 98 USPS 650-640
DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
The weather took a turn for the better in Lawrence yesterday, and Colin warm temperatures to play on the jungle gym in South Park. Forbes and Forbes (left) and Shahrid Healdi took advantage of the sunny skies and Heldari are in the class for four-year-olds at the Hilltop Day Care Center
Kansas legislators debate speed limit bills
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New KUAC ticket proposal could triple student prices
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
one ticket policy committee, headed by David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, will meet at 2:30 p.m. today, before the board meeting, to finalize its recommendations.
He 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.
Student ticket prices for football and basketball games could as much as triple next year if recommendations made by the KU board onboard ticket committee are approved
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 and will sell beer in Memorial Stadium and will decide whether KU women's teams will join the NCAA.
Steve Leben, 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.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS of the ticket committee would allow the board to set policy regarding pricing and let the athletic department work out specific costs.
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.
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.
he met with Bob Marcum, 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 ticketes would cost about $25," Leben said. "I don't think that's out of line."
"Yes, but I would like to see it as a point."
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
AMBLER SAID the recommendations would be thoroughly discussed at both meetings today before any decision was made.
If adopted, the policy could be put into effect gradually over the next few years. Leben said.
"But phasing it in 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.
"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."
KU STUDENT FUNDING for athletics is comparable to other schools in the Big Eight League.
He also said private contributions had increased to more than $1 million a year.
"The athletic department is in a difficult
position, but it is not a
demandate situation, but it is serious."
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.
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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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approves the bill, it will ask r Del Shankel to increase the to $14.52.
Terri Fry, Kansan business manager, defended the fee increase before the Senate.
Three student senators voiced opposition to the Kansan's request. The Kansan received $73,260 and requested its total allocation be included in the budget of 109,890. The Kansan now receives $2 from the activity fee.
"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."
Tiy also answered questions from Steve McMurry, Transportation Board chairman, concerning the Kansan's cash carry-forward account.
"The Kansan 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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