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University Daily Kansan, April 20, 1983
Ticket sales slow for Hawkstock concert
By SUSAN STANLEY
Staff Reporter
Hawkstock promoters will have to sell 8,000 tickets in the next two weeks just to meet expenses for the event, a concert promoter said yesterday.
Since the tickets went on sale at the beginning of the month, a total of 2,000 tickets have been sold in Lawrence and the Kansas City are... said John Katz, director of man's elite e-learning, West and East schools, auctions, making arrangements for the May 1 concert in KU's Memorial Stadium.
"We really can't figure it out," Katz said. "We have five national bands and free beer and the tickets aren't selling."
selling
YESTERDAY, KATZ SAID, New York canceled a full-page advertisement scheduled to appear in today's Kansas because promoters were confused about why the advertisements were not working.
ments were not working.
"We have a lot on the line here
what we are now going to do is try and re-evaluate what we might be doing wrong," he said.
wrong, 'he said.
According to local establishments selling the tickets, slightly fewer than 400 have been sold.
Mark MeKee, concert coordinator, said the ad was canceled because New West was going to stress the availability of beer in new ads.
"We are trying to recover from some adverse publicity and indecision over the beer," he said.
McKee said he was optimistic about attendance.
"Most students will not buy their tickets, until later anyway," he said.
Mckee said that the Interretnity Council was planning an extensive promotional campaign during the next two weeks.
ALREADY ABOUT 1,000 students have signed up to buy tickets from volunteers who are visiting residence halls, he said.
Promoters are also worried about bad weather and ticket prices, McKee said.
Katz has said that the weather affected outdoor concert ticket sales.
interested in a rush to buy tickets when the weather is this bad," he said.
said.
Katz said that no plans had been made to change anything but the advertising for the concert.
The contract between IFC and New West does not provide for cancellation of the concert if a certain number of tickets are not sold, he said.
tickets are not sold.
But, McKee said, it does contain a clause that allows for substitution of bands in the concert package.
bands left.
He SAID HE could understand an artist's hesitancy to play at a concert for which few tickets had been sold.
said.
"If only 1,000 tickets were sold for the concert and I were Joan Jett, I wouldn't come," he said.
would come, he said.
Katz said the $10 ticket price was not keeping ticket sales down either.
Katz said the controversy surrounding the availability of the beer could be part of the reason for slow ticket sales.
Last week city officials said that because Hawkstock was to be on a Sunday, a city ordinance might make distribution of beer illegal. However, Mike Glover, city prosecutor, later violated the law by sending beer would not violate the law.
"THE DECISION TO let the beer be served was only announced on Friday: Katz said, "We are concerned. We have a lot on the line. The potential returns are small compared in the potential losses."
to the potential buyer.
As of yesterday, Omni Electronics ticket sales representative, Debbie Craig, said she had sold 165 tickets for the show since the store received them April 7.
Craig said Omni had received 200 tickets.
Debbie Bahnmaier, program assistant for Student Union Activities, said that she had sold 232 of the 500 tickets that SUA had received.
Lawrence Aviation, which formerly operated a commuter airline service for Lawrence, will be allowed by the city to terminate its lease when it comes up for renewal on April 30, a city official said yesterday.
national Airport last Friday. Gene Klettschka, the main stockholder of Lawrence Aviation, has been unavailable for comment since that time.
"WE HAVE ALREADY been approached by several groups interested in supplying services here," he said.
Commuter airline will be allowed to end lease
The company ended its commuter flight service to Kansas City Inter-
Finding a replacement for the commuter flights that Lawrence Aviation supplied will not be a problem, Wilden said.
service, such as pumping fuel during the Kansas Relays, he said.
Wildgen said that a firm from Manhattan, Capitol Air Lines, had shown interest to the city in providing commuter service to Manhattan, Kansas City International, Topeka and Salina.
Committee trims request for increased utility aid
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
airport. They are providing minimal
Staff Reporter
the House Ways and Means Committee Gov. John Carlin had originally recommended a 20 percent increase in the Regents utility expense budget, but later decreased his recommended increase to 15 percent.
the committee agreed to allocate about $21.2 million for utility expenses for existing buildings at Regents schools in fiscal year 1984. The University of Kansas' share would amount to about $5.8 million.
TOPEKA — Board of Regents schools will receive 10 percent more money from the state to cover utility expenses next year if the Legislature agrees to a proposal made yesterday by the House Ways and Means Committee.
STATE REP. JOHN Solbach, D-
Lawrence, said the University of
Kansas had already received notice
that its electric bills would go up 30
percent next year.
The committee's recommendation is part of the omnibus bill, the final financing bill, which both the House and the Senate must agree to before it goes to the governor.
Some members of the committee wanted to put conditions on the budget for utility expenses that would encourage the Regents schools to conserve energy and save money.
"Is there any carrot we can offer these universities to encourage them to conserve?" asked State Rep. David Louis, R-Shawnee.
After reducing the governor's proposal by almost $1 million, the committee attached a note to its recommendation saying any school with money left in its utility expense budget at the end of fiscal 1884 can use it for energy conservation capital improvements.
The supplemental allocation would add more than $600,000 to the almost $4.7 million that KU has already received for fiscal 1983.
The committee also agreed to decrease the allocation for Regents utility expenses for new buildings from the governor's proposed $2.45 a square foot to $1.60 a square foot. That reduction would save the state $334,000.
BEFORE DECIDING on the allocation for fiscal 1984, the committee approved a $1.9 million supplemental allocation to Regents schools to cover utility expenses in fiscal 1983, which ends June 30. That averages out to a 9.6 percent increase over the amount the Legislature originally allocated for that period.
In other Regents business with the omnibus bill, the committee agreed to allocate $25,000 for university presidential search expenses.
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