University Daily Kansan, April 26, 1983
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Record crowds watch Relays
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Kansas Relays brought more spectators into Memorial Stadium than it had in the past 11 years, but officials were cautious yesterday about predicting a financial gain from the Relays.
ting a hundred million. The Relays have not shown a profit for the athletic department in at least two of the past three years. Last year, the department made a net income of about $1,000.
Estimates by KU Sports Information placed Saturday's crowd at 19,200, which is the largest group to watch the Relays since 1972, when the presence of KU miler Jim Ryun helped pack in 30,000.
30,000
Last year, 11,681 tickets were sold for the Relays, of which about 2,000 were no-shows.
no-shows.
THIS YEAR'S ATLETLEC
department budget anticipated $30,000
from the Relays, but the business office
yesterday said that any increase in income would not be known until the middle of May, when all gate receipts were gathered and calculated.
were gathered and calculated. The profit from increased sales of concessions and programs will also have to be calculated.
have to be lower," she said that the net income might be enhanced by the near doubling of last year's attendance figures.
Expense money allotted for the Relays is not expected to surpass the $30,000 in the athletic department budget, although personnel expenses will not be calculated until later the week and total expenses until next
The athletic department pays a little less than one-third of the cost of the Relays. The rest is paid for by sponsors and the donations by alumni and businesses. The overall cost of the Relays is about $80,000.
ENTRY FEES for the marathon and 10-kilometer run also help pay for
some of the Relays. Entries for those events were up, so the income from those is expected to rise.
Two of the Relays' organizers said that some of the increase in attendance could be attributed to the presence of 15 world-class Soviet athletes competing in the Relays.
"But I think their credentials also had something to do with it. Any top athlete would have helped bring in more people."
"I think the Russians were partly responsible for the turnout. A lot of people here have never seen Russians and were curious about seeing them in person," said Carolyn Coleman, chairman of the Relays student committee.
Bob Swan, founder of Athletes United for Peace, which brought the Soviets to the Relays, said. "I think the Relays have been saved if they indeed needed to be saved. Many people who I'm sure have never seen a track meet before came out this weekend."
Students to get house-hunting help
To help new students avoid the problem they faced five years ago, Alan and Judy Nickelson have started their own "House Hunters" company for people who are looking for housing near the University.
near the University.
Mrs. Nickelson said recently that she and her husband had had a problem finding a home when they came to the University of Kansas in 1978, and they decided that something needed to be done to help eliminate the problem for others.
on our tour. "Right now, we're just getting started." Mrs Nickelson said. She said the company's formal opening started Wednesday, with advertisements in the Kansan and the Lawrence Journal-World.
Journal-World
Mrs. Nickelson said the Kanan's advertisements were directed toward the student, while the Journal-World*
were directed toward landlords who had available space.
Mrs Nickelson said that she now spends all her time with the new company and that if it did as well as she hoped, her husband would also devote his full time to it.
Mr. Nickelson, who is now manager of a local shoe store, said he hoped the company would do well.
"THIS IS THE TYPE of thing I would like to do in the rest of my life," he said.
Nickelson said:
Harland Presciel, Kendall Wis.,
graduate student, said he had an
agreement with the Nickelsons.
The Nickelsoons charge landlords $24 for renting an apartment. There is no charge for the applicants, Mrs. Nickelson said.
"I want to sublease my apartment for the summer, and I saw their advertisement in the Kansan," he said. "It's
a good idea. Lawrence needs this type of service."
Mrs. Nickelson, who works out of her home, said she hoped to eventually work out of an office, and use a computer system to find available housing.
She said the process of matching up applicants and available housing was fairly simple.
"WE ASK THE applicants the same things a landlord would ask and then check our files, and then we match them up." she said.
trem up. she climbs the flier in Wednesday's Kansan included questions asking what range the seeker would like to pay, what areas of Lawrence he would like to live in, whether he has pets, what date he would like to move in and how long he plans to reside in the dwelling
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Discontinuance policy questioned
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
Guidelines passed two weeks ago for eliminating academic programs at the University of Kansas may be reconsidered if a KU group succeeds in a petition drive, several professors said yesterday.
THE UNIVERSITY Council approved the policy April 14. The policy provides KU administrators with guidelines if they decide to discontinue any academic program.
The KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors is seeking to have the University Senate, which is composed of administrators, faculty and Student Senate members, consider the policy, said Evelyn Swartz, president of the KU chapter of the AAUP.
Swartz said that the petition, approved at an AAUP meeting last week, would need 50 signatures by Thursday to bring the policy before the University Senate. The petition will be presented to the University Senate Executive Committee, she said.
"It's a rare occurrence," Swartz said. "The members of the KU chapter of the AAPU felt it should be reviewed and faculty members should have the opportunity to vote on it."
He said the new policy would allow the University to cut programs without proving financial exigency, which was previously required to lay off tenured faculty members.
And, 100 signatures are needed for the motion to be considered by a mail vote of all faculty, she said. A mail ballot will be used if a quorum is not present at the University Senate.
Srinivasan, who voted against the proposal in University Council, said he thought it did not address several problems that program discontinuance would create.
"There is no point in leaving the main crucial issues up in the air," he said. "I urge a policy of open hearings and, if necessary, faculty to amend the policy as a result of those open hearings."
present at the University.
Although the University Senate is supposed to meet twice a year, a quorum has not been present for 10 to
HOWEVER, SHINIYASAN said he opposed the policy because it did not provide for compensation of faculty members who would lose their jobs if a program were to be cut. Faculty and administrators must appraise that would address the problem of what to do with laid-off professors, he said.
How a committee would be formed to decide which programs to abolish is also unclear in the policy, Srinivasan said. He suggested that a committee composed of professors and administrators, such as the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure, be in charge of the task.
He said that he and other SonEx members were reviewing the University Code to see what steps they would take in considering the petition.
Professors could not he dismissed unless all degrees offered in their area were discontinued, he said.
12 years, said James Carothers, chairman of SenEx.
In addition, be said, the administration would have the burden of determining that a program should be eliminated.
Under the present policy, he said, any program up for elimination would be carefully scrutinized by administrators and University government
THE UNIVERSITY HAS never had a discontinuance policy, and the Council's vote amended the University Senate rules and regulations to include one.
"This means some programs will be cut and cut severely," he said.
T. P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics, said he favored the AAUP's move to bring the proposal before the University Senate. He also said he thought there should be a public hearing on the amendment.
Srinivasan said that he thought the University needed a policy for discontinuing programs, but that the present policy was not adequate.
FINANCIAL EXIGENCY is said to occur when the University is so low on funds that it must lay off faculty and staff and eliminate programs.
Carothers said he thought the discontinuance policy passed by the University Council gave professors
The Board of Regents decision two weeks ago to require all Regents schools to reallocate 2 percent of their total budget from their weakest to their strongest areas of study could speed the elimination of some KU programs, he said.
programs, he said.
However, he said, he does not know what programs might be eliminated.
adequate safety against lay-offs
"We all have some fears but it is too soon to speculate on that," he said.
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