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University Daily Kansan, August 18, 1983
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Robinson will offer new sports
By JOHN UNREIN Sports Writer
Volleyball players tired of brushing their knees on hard gym floors may want to enter the KU mud volleyball tournament on Sept. 4.
That's because the entire tournament will be played in a mud pit, said Mary Chapell, the associate director of KU recreation services. The tournament highlights a list of new special open to KU students and faculty this fall.
Students interested in recreational sports may save hundreds of dollars each semester if they take advantage of the new events offered by Robinson Center.
Student fees will increase to $354 for residents and $1,324 for non-residents. About $3.85 of each student's fees goes to the Mason Center and recreation services.
This means that KU students pay a small price toward financing a recreational center with an annual budget of well over $100,000.
OF THE $3.85, Chappell said, $2.15 is given to the intramural program run by Robinson Center. Without this money, recreation services would not exist, let alone be able to hold the special events that it does.
Recreation service special events on this fall's schedule include everything
from "dive-in" movies to an Oct. 2 triathlon.
The dive-in movies, scheduled for Sept. 4 at Robinson Natatorium, will be open to everyone who wants to watch an Annette Funicello-Frankie Avalon beach-party movie while floating in the pool. Chappell said.
KU's triathlon, she said, is an event in which athletes swim a half-mile, bike about 13 miles and finish with a time of 54.9 seconds. It will be limited to the first 160 entries.
ENTRY DEADLINE for the triathalon is Sept. 28.
One sports event not new to the Recreation services, but new to the fall season.
"We're going to have a softball tournament spanning three weeks this fall," Chappell said. "Only the first 12 teams that sign up will get into the tournament though, because we won through fields for any more than that."
Chappell also said that teams could be either men's, women's or mixed, and that all teams would play each other. Teams IS a team, and play will begin Sept. 10.
Robinson Center, which receives the remaining $1.50 of the $3.85 student recreational fee, uses the money to finance building operation, said Tom Wilkerson, director of Recreation Services.
Because each KU student pays $1.50 of Robinson's operating expenses, students with valid KU ID cards are
"TRY GOING to a movie for a buck fifty." Wikerson said.
permitted unlimited use of the Robinson Center.
"We have 15 racquetball courts, six gyms, two pools and a weight room," he said. "You can check out tennis rackets, basketball, wrestling and even setting up a new sport called 'walleyball' in one of the racquetball courts."
Walleyball is one of almost 50 sports that can be played within the Robinson Center complex, which opened last Monday.
Walleyball, Wilkerson said, is a game in which four to six players play volleyball against each other inside a racquetball court. It differs from volleyball in that a smaller ball is used and players can hit shots off the walls.
Robinson Center also houses a lifetime sports area, a multi-purpose room, a combatants room and a gymnastics arena.
THE CENTER also accommodates sports such as archery, indoor golf driving, fencing, badminton and martial arts.
One alternative for those who wish to swim in the lake is the high school IU pool.
The pool, at 1901 Louisiana St., is tentatively scheduled to open the week of Sept. 21, said Ernie Shaw, sports supervisor for the Lawrence Park and Department. It will be on Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
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