University Daily Kansan, February 9, 1983
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Budget forces KU to solicit private funds
By AMY CRAIG Staff Reporter
The current economy and state budget reductions are forcing more schools and departments within the University to seek funds from private sources, a Kansas University Endowment Association official said yesterday.
day.
Dale Seufering, director of constituent fund raising and public relations for the Endowment Association, said that in the past year and a half more groups within the University had approached the Endowment Association for private support to supplement state aid.
Seufering said that because of state budget reductions, schools or departments could quickly identify where money was needed.
money was needed.
"They know what their budgets are and there really are few places to turn other than private support," he said.
ALTHOUGH THE Endowment Association was able to increase its support of the University last year despite the recession, Seuffering said, it is dangerous to assume that private support will continue to make up for budget reductions.
"Traditionally, private support through the Endowment Association has been used to make KU a better school than the state can. When we start buying paper clips and rubber bands we aren't going to be able to do other things like give money for scholarships and faculty." he said.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig requires each department or school that wants to seek outside support to go through the Endowment Association rather than to seek the support themselves, Seufler said.
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He said that the sources usually cared for support included alumni of the school or department seeking the financing, corporate gifts and unrestricted funds raised by the Endowment Association.
If the Endowment Association finds that the alumni or supporters of the group seized aid would be the most valuable source, it then prepares a mailing that requests contributions from them. Seefuring said.
from them, Seuferling said.
Alumni of a school or department usually are the best source, Seuferling said.
STUDENTS IN professional schools usually tend to believe that they are part of that school, Seuferling said. Many graduates of professional schools work directly in that field after they graduate and therefore feel an identification to their school.
Because of this feeling of allegiance, the success rate of solicits from professional schools may be greater than that of other groups, Seufferling said.
Unfortunately, he said, the alumni of some College of Liberal Arts and Sciences departments may not feel as loyal to their department, so solicitations from them may not be as successful.
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"It is not to say that graduates in the
college aren't successful," he said. "They just don't have that identification."
Norman Saul, chairman of the department of history, said that his department did not participate in direct solicitation to its alumni through the Endowment Association, but that it did keep in touch with them and let them know that contributions were welcome
that contributions were THE DEPARTMENT has considered so far that the Endowment Association but has not yet done so, Saul said.
Saul said he expected to see more efforts to attract outside support.
efforts to attract outside sapients "
"We haven't had a lot of success," he said. "What we've done is very low key, and the success has been modest."
The Endowment Association assists in the fundraising of several University groups including KU Crew, Alpha Omicron Pt sorority, Audio-Reader Network and KANU radio.
JOHN TOLELFSON, dean of the School of Business, said the response to his school's mailings, which began in the fall of 1981, had been good.
Network and Education Association organized annual appeals for seven groups in the University - the Schools of Architecture, Business, Engineering and Law; the departments of civil engineering and geology; and the graduate program in public administration.
the fall of 1987. He told Tolleson said graduates of the school aired his messages in the community had been supportive for many years. But, he said, he hopes that through the direct mailings the support will increase.
"So far, based on our early experience, we feel we are doing just that," Tollefson said.
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Endowment Association also looks at whether a school or department has kept in touch with its alumni, Seufler said.
"A solicitation is usually doomed to failure if the first thing alums hear from their school or department is a request for money," he said.
THE ENDOWMENT Association also considers the needs of the group when determining which sources to approach. Seuferling said.
prospect. Student and faculty needs are more attenuate to alumni than equipment needs. Supporters do not want to donate money for operating expenditures because they think the state should cover those costs, he said.
"We look at this and ask 'What do the alums know about the school or department and do they have a good feeling about what they know?'
"the all were students and realize the need for financial aid and the importance of faculty awards to maintain quality faculty," he said. "Alums feel that people are important because students make the university. And if there are no good students, the faculty is wasted."
The School of Business used 60 percent of its contributions last year for student and faculty needs, Tolleson said.
He said contributors had told him that they wanted their donations to be used to improve KU rather than to make up for the deficiencies of the state.
Committee recommends $1.64 student fee hike
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
During preliminary deliberations last night, the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee recommended a $1.64 increase in the student activity fee for fiscal year 1984 and 1985.
to resurge. The committee also made preliminary recommendations for the financing of all but one revenue code group. These are groups that have demonstrated consistent and high-quality service to students.
The committee tabled discussion of recreation services' request for a separate $2.00 campus privilege fee to accompany the $2.55 it requested from the student activity fee.
If the committee approves the $2.55 request, the activity fee will increase by $4.19.
LOREN RUSSY, committee chairman, must be ready to talk to Tom Jefferson, director of recreation services, before final deliberations tonight to clear up questions about how the privilege fee money would be spent.
Tom Berger, graduate student senator, told the committee revenue code groups deserved to be considered with care.
care.
If we start pitting the groups against each other during deliberations, we will destroy the concept of revenue code financing," he said.
code in the interface committee needed to consider whether it should set a
precedent by using student money to make up for reductions made by the state.
THE 4 PERCENT reduction in the University's budget has hurt the quality of service many groups can give students, Berger said.
Busby said, "If we allow the quality of service some of these groups have built up over the years to slip, it will take next to forever to build it back up."
up.
During deliberations, the committee decided not to give University Dance the 10 cents it had requested because it did not meet revenue code group requirements.
suggestion:
The committee made the following recommendations for financing:
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS of Kansas, 45 cents, an increase of 5 cents; an increase and Chamber Music Series, $1.59 of the $1.63 it had requested, an increase of 24 cents; Graduate Student Council, 78 cents, an increase of 18 cents; KUHK, 57 cents, an increase of 19 cents; KU Bands, 89 cents of the $1.12 it had requested; KU Forensics, 28 cents, an increase of 14 cents; Legal Services for Students, $2.40, an increase of 43 cents; Student Bar Association, 12 cents, no increase; Student Senate, 65 cents plus money from the summer activity fee, no increase; Transportation Board, $6.00, no increase; University Daily Kansan, $3.00, increase; University Theatre, $1.27 of the $1.41 requested, an increase of 13 cents.
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Group to draw plan for open grid seats
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
Student leaders have gone back to the drawing board on a plan to provide a section of open seating at football games.
If passed by the committee, the bill would revive a debate that ended last November when the Student Senate voted against a similar open seating plan.
The Student Senate Sports Committee last night voted to draft a bill that would make the upper section of the football stadium an open seating area but would leave a lower section for reserved student tickets.
Once the bill is drafted, it will have to be approved by the sports committee and Senate. Regardless of the vote, the athletic department has the final saw
athletic department. THE MIRK, the MIRK, administrative assistant to the athletic chair, told the committee that the athletic department favored the proposal.
price of the reservation Faculty and staff reserved season tickets would not be affected by the plan.
Anne Sikkeren - co-chairman of the sports committee, said the present bill recommends that the upper tier of the student section of the stadium be an area 'in which ticket holders could choose where they wanted to sit.
choose a section in the lower tier of seats, north of the 50-yard line would be used for student reserved seats that would be issued by priority of class.
Sticker on the bill would suggest that the price of seats in the open section be 10 percent lower than the price of the reserved seats.
THE BILL WOULD also suggest that seats for the Parents' Day game against Oklahoma State be open in the reserved student section as well, she said.
Hof said that based on the numbers of tickets sold in the past several years, he expected no problems with shortages of seats. Last season, only 7,000 student season tickets were sold.
said.
Tom Hof, athletic department ticket manager, said the open seating section would comprise about 6,000 seats and the student reserved ticket area would comprise 3,275 seats.
Stucker said the proposal was voted town last semester because senators
did not think the athletic department could enforce the plan and because of complaints about open seating at the Parents Day game last season.
Parents DJay Y. Howey. Mr Harrick told the committee that the athletic department would take the proper steps to enforce seating in the open section.
HE SAID THE department,would hire extra ushers to help police the area and would consider roping off the reserved section.
Hamrick said tickets for seats in the enclosed section would be colored differently from reserved seat tickets to help ushers prevent fans with end-zone seats from moving over to the student seats.
reservoir section.
By opening up only the upper deck of sections, alwes should be physical boundaries to separate the sections, he said. Also, be said the department would make sure students and unbers knew whch sections were open.
seats.
The open seating plan would benefit both the department and the students, Hamrick said.
"A LOT OF students don't buy a ticket because they miss that certain day and then say, 'To hell with it' and don't buy one at all," he said.
Students could sit with whomever they pleased rather than being bound to the same group and seat each game, he said.
It would allow students to buy tickets at any time during the season, he said, rather than having them buy tickets on certain days according to their class.
said. The athletic department would increase revenue if more students bought tickets, he said.
tickets, he said.
"We must realize that the department is a business." Harrisick said.
"We've got to make some money on football games. 'We've got a problem when we have 26,000 students in this University and we can't get more than 7,000 students to the stadium."
7,000 students in the Plan would allow representatives of the athletic department to sell large quantities of tickets at organized living groups, he said, rather than having students go to the ticket office.
Stuckey said the proposal had a good chance of passing the Senate this time because senators would recog- nize that the athletic department had made a firm commitment to enforce the plan.
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