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University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 1, 1900
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Cheristine McFarland/KANSAN
Practice makes perfect
With only a week's worth of practice left, Lillian Sengpiehl, Topeka senior, and Victor Bogado, Asuncion, Paraguay, graduate student, perfect the dramatics of a difficult scene in "The Restoration Show."
Combo packages are still available
He said that if police saw someone with a bottle of wine, champagne, liquor or beer, they would ask the person to pour it out.
"But with the advent of the ordinance, even if you are 21 years old, you can't consume 3.2 beer either," Mullens said.
People could drink beer if it was 3.2 percent alcohol and they were older than 21, he said.
*If they were actually drinking it, we
Lt. John Mullens, KU police representative, said that in past years police asked graduates to pour out their alcohol and beer that was more than 3.2 percent alcohol.
However, KU police will be enforcing the new drinking ordinance that went into effect the last week of March. The ordinance prohibits the consumption of alcoholic beverages, including 3.2 beer, on university property.
"You only do it once in your life, and I'll be having a couple of cocktails on my way down," said the Aurora, Ill., senior.
McKinney will be one of about 6,000 students who are eligible to go through commencement exercises May 17. Many will be carrying alcoholic beverages with them as they walk, or they may catch cans of beer thrown to them by spectators.
Alcohol policy is not popular
Employees of the athletic department will be standing at the entrance of the stadium to check graduates for alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks, which will not be allowed in the stadium, Mullens said. They also will check for live animals.
could arrest them, but everyone has complied pretty much," Mullens said. "People are laughing behind our backs as they pour one beer out and take three more out of their gown, but it is all part of the process."
Beginning today, KU students get a second chance to apply for tickets to all regular-season home football games, home basketball games and the Kansas Relays. Applications were first taken during main enrollment, which ended Tuesday.
By Cody Holt Kansan staff writer
"They usually weed out the dogs, and we had people try to bring in 3 or 4 snakes last year." he said.
Alisa Nickel, Independence senior, said she was disappointed that she had reached graduation and that the ceremony had been taken away.
No one has ever been arrested for drinking at commencement ceremonies, hesaid.
But she said that she had not planned on drinking at graduation.
At least one student said he missed out on tickets last year but was able to apply for them this year.
Ticket windows open at 8 a.m. today
At the Allen Field House ticket office.
However, applying for the package does not mean a student will get tickets. Demand for basketball tickets will determine the number of compa包装备 sold.
By Michelle Betts Kansan staff writer
"Last year, I didn't realize that you had to sign up at enrollment," Jim Reeves, Olathe senior, said. "I took it for granted that I could get them when
Diana Miller, ticket office manager,
said that if the number of students
applying for the combo package
exceeded the 7,039 seats allocated to
students at the field house, a lottery
might be necessary.
In that case, undergraduates enrolled in seven or more hours and graduate students enrolled in six or more hours for next fall would get a chance to apply throughout the summer months before an undetermined cut-off date.
"It's not an exact science," he said.
"The numbers fluctuate every year."
Mullens said there had not been problems in the past with graduates who refused to pour out their drinks.
Bob Frederick, athletic director,
said that the student ticket policy
established by the University of
Kansas Athletic Corporation board
allocated 45 percent of the 15,643 seats
in the field house to students.
Some graduates plan to drink despite rule
The number of student seats has dwindled over the last seven years. From 1985 to 1988, the number of student tickets sold surpassed the number of seats allotted to students. However, for the last four years students have received fewer than the 45 percent of field house seats that are guaranteed them.
"I just kind of assumed that the police would make a point of enforcing it." Nickel said.
Jason McKinney plans to celebrate on the day he walks down the Hill for KU commencement.
"The first time you do anything, you're going to miss some people," he said. "I fully expect some people to come to me this year and say they didn't know they had to buy the tickets at enrollment."
He said that his office made an attempt this year to advertise the facts that tickets were available throughout main enrollment. The tickets will remain available until late August or early September.
David Hardy, assistant director of organizations and activities, who is in charge of tabulating the enrollment ticket applications, said there were communication problems between his office and the ticket office last year, causing an early end to ticket sales. That meant that 6,275 tickets, not 7,039, ended up in students' hands.
However, he said that the student body did not always receive all the 7,000 seats. He said that the students who applied often didn't meet the requirements to receive the tickets. Those seats are then sold elsewhere.
Nanette Cabrera, McPherson senior, said that she was the last of seven children to graduate from KU, and that her family would be giving her beer at the ceremony.
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Basketball seating at a glance
"I'm still expecting them to throw me some beer, but I'm disappointed," she said.
Statistics show that Kansas is among the Big Eight leaders in student seating allotment. However, the numbers have decreased since 1985-86. Here's a look at seating allotment in Allen Field House and student seating in the Big Eight:
Seat allotment in Allen Field House
Student seating in the Big Eight Capacity
seats to students (percentage guaranteed)
Colorado 11,199 36
Coors Events Center
Iowa State 14,020 32
Hilton Coliseum
Kansas 15,643 45
Allen Field House
K-State 13,500 45
Bramlage Coliseum
Missouri 13,300 28
Hearnes Center
Nebraska 14,302 36
Devaney Center
Oklahoma 10,894 23
Lloyd Noble Center
Oklahoma State 6,381 25
Gallagher-Iba Arena
Source: University of Kansas Athletic Department Business Office, Big Eight ticket offices
Alaina Brainard Daily Kansan
Jewish community recalls Holocaust
By Shelly Solon
Kansan staff writer
Students and Lawrence residents last night remembered Holocaust victims during a community Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day, service. But Hillel members say this generation needs to remember what caused the Holocaust as well as its victims.
Carrie Fleider, president of Hillel, said the burden of remembering was not only on the generation that lived through the Holocaust.
"Now people look at the Holocaust as far removed from us, but what it stands for still exists," she said. "It represented apathy, and that's exactly what we have in society. We live in a society with hunger, homelessness, racism and anti-Semitism. We still allow these things to happen."
Gretter said today's young generation had a responsibility to fight against bigotry and social problems.
"We cannot let people get comfortable with their hatred," she said.
About 60 people attended the service last night at 100 Smith Hall.
Hillen had has its own service for about six years. Hillen members, other students and Lawrence residents recited the service, which included songs, prayers and a short story by Eva Edmands of Lawrence, who fled with her family
from Vienna, Austria in 1938.
"The Holocaust was not an event that affects Jewish people but an event that affects human beings." she said. "Our generation of Jewish people is very aware of the effects of the Holocaust, but non-Jewish people have to be more aware."
Junner Marck, Hilul member,
said young people had to realize
that the Holocaust concerned more
than just Jewish people.
Marck said there was not enough recognition of these issues.
"Racism is on the rise everywhere," she said. "It seems to be a problem for many Americans, one said, if we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it."
The Holocaust has had certain effects on Jewish people today, Marck said.
"It probably brings us closer together," she said. "On holidays especially, I think everybody remembers and thinks about how lucky we are to have the freedom to practice our religion."
Bill Tuttle, professor of history,
spoke after the service about the
effects of the Holocaust and World War II on U.S. children, specifically Jewish-American children.
"The home-front children are the last generation to have been alive during the war," he said. "Soon they will be gone. Who will remind us then? That's why I think it's important to have these services on college campuses."
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