University Daily Kansan, April 13, 1983
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$5.1 million proposal accepted KUAC board OKs 1984 athletic budget
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board yesterday unanimously accepted the $5.1 million budget proposal of the athletic department and sent it on for the approval of the chancellor.
The budget is a 21.6 increase over fiscal year 1983, which ends June 30. Overall expenses and income in the budget are $5,143,965, which is about $900,000 more than was budgeted last year.
The increase in the athletic department budget next year will be supported largely by an anticipated 20 percent increase in donations and an increase in television and bowl money from the Big Eight Conference. The two account for about 48 percent of the department's total income.
SEVERAL OF THE board members raised concerns that the estimated increase in alumni donations might be too high.
However, Athletic Director Monte Johnson said he thought the estimate was realistic based on the Williams team's record against donations over the next two years.
He said alumni donations were the one part of the athletic budget that
was the most stable and easiest to predict.
Football gate receipts are estimating on his contract, and the addition of a ninth coach.
HEAD FOOTBALL COACH Mike Gottfried will be paid $75,000. Other staff salaries were increased by 4 percent.
The overall budget for the basketball program will rise 27.5 percent. The increases result from an increase in scholarship money and the remaining salary of former head basketball coach Ted Owens, who will be paid $47,300 for the remaining year on his contract.
Baseball's overall budget will increase by almost 30 percent, also from an increase in scholarship money will be paid by the Alma Fund.
Several of the nonsport allocations will also increase.
The capital outlay budget increased 106 percent to $97,000 because of the anticipated cost of new vans to transport teams.
The Williams Fund budget will increase 32 percent because of the transfer of a part-time salary from the general budget to the fund.
THE GENERAL BUDGET will increase 20 percent because of the addition of a $53,000 contingency fund
for unexpected expenses and because of an estimated $80,000 in attorneys' fees to respond to the National Security Agency's official inquiry of the department.
Susan Wachter, athletic department business manager, said the firing of Owens and Fambrough would cost the department $30 million,000 will be spent for new football uniforms because of the coaching change.
Charles Hurley, Glasco junior, stood up before the vote on the budget and asked to be heard by the board.
"I'm concerned about the direction of this University," he said. "I'm concerned that the sports program is getting somewhat out of hand."
HE SAID THAT other programs at the University, such as operating budgets and salaries, were being cut, but that the athletic budget was
"Before you vote on this substantial increase, I want you to search your consciences and see if this is right," Hurley said.
Many of the board members said they had similar concerns but pointed out that the athletic budget was not supported by the budget of the University or the state.
mated to increase by about 10 percent for a total of $1,775,000. Basketball
income is expected to increase about
12 percent to $532,000.
Estimated gate receipts are based on an average paid attendance of 32,388 in football, up from 31,725 last year. The college basketball, up from 8,778 this season.
Football expenses are expected to increase about 33 percent to more than $2 million, the largest increase in the expenses of a single sport.
THE INCREASE IS caused by a 40 percent increase in travel costs, a 60 percent increase in player supplies, which includes a new set of uniforms, and a 25 percent increase in money for recruiting.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs and chairman of the KUAC finance committee, said he was impressed by the football income was conservative.
"I think the gate receipts are realistic," he said. "We had a phenomenon this year that I don't think will be repeated in the future."
The budget is based on the state's guidelines of a 4 percent increase in salaries and a 7 percent increase in operating expenses.
The amount budgeted for football staff salaries also increased by about 21 percent, mostly because of the money being paid to former head coach Don Fambrough, who was fired in December with two years re-
KU Alumni Association invites seniors to join
By AMY CRAIG
Staff Reporter
For many KU students, the traditional walk down the hill at commencement will be their last association with the University of Kansas. But that does not have to be the case. The University Association official said yesterday.
Tomorrow night, seniors can get acquainted with the Alumni Association, the group that will be their tie to the University of Kentucky, the date for the KU KI impromptu.
The Alumni Association is sponsoring the sixth annual senior open house from 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. tomorrow in the Alumni Association offices, Room 403 of the Kansas Union. All seniors are invited.
CLAIR KEIZER, ALUMNI Association field director, said the open house was an informal way for seniors to learn about the Alumni Association and a way for the Alumni Association to increase its membership.
Keizer said the Alumni Association had invited Chancellor Gene A. Budig, the vice chancellors, Senior Class President Martin Pryor and other University officials and alumni to the open house to meet the seniors.
Seniors should have received information about the open house. That
information includes a membership form that will be put into the student's permanent file in the Alumni Association's computer.
The form also will be a registration for a prize drawing at the open house, Keizer said. The prizes include two season football tickets from the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, and prizes from the University Endowment Association, merchandise from the Kansas Union Bookstores and prizes from the Alumni Association.
KEIZER - SAID STUDENTS could come the Alumni Association offices today from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. to register. However, he said students could participate in the drawing even if they did not register before the open house. Students must be present to win.
A party in the Hawk's Nest in the Union will take place after the open house. Free beer and soft drinks will be provided.
Seniors may buy Alumnium Association memberships at the open house. The 1983 graduating class, which has been designated as the Alumnium Association's Centennial Class, may join the Alumnium Association for a special rate of $2 a month. The Alumnium Association would contribute $2 of that fee to the senior class fund.
Keiser said he expected more than 350 seniors to attend the open house.
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