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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Sept. 30, 1954
Seating Problem Soon to Be Solved
One of the student's problems is finally being solved. He is going to be able to see all of the home basketball games, something he hasn't been able to do for many years.
The fieldhouse, which has completed in time for the last few home games of the 1954-55 season, will have 16.500 permanent seats. Hoch auditorium, where the present games are played, has approximately 3.500 seats. There are 7,200 students enrolled in the University.
Students are permitted to see only one-half the home games, while any basketball fan in the area can see every home game by purchasing a ticket. The student, of course, could buy a ticket for the other half of the schedule his ID card doesn't permit him to see, but the student supposedly paid his athletic fees when he enrolled.
This fee he has paid entitles him to most of the poorer seats in the auditorium, unless he gets to the game five hours before it starts.
Athletics are for the students, but now that universities are subsidizing the athletes, the student has to forfeit his place among the spectators in favor of the paying customer.
spectators in favor of the paying students. The whole system becomes one big complex circle. If a university wants a winning team it has to make concessions in order to obtain the best possible players. The schools pay for a boy's education, if in turn the boy participates in sports. If a school doesn't make these concessions, the athletic teams would have to play teams of lesser caliber or not play at all.
If the best players were not available, no one would want to see the teams in action, and the seating problem would cease to be. But because the teams are good, everyone wants to see them play. Therefore, the seating problem is here.
The problem is now being solved by limiting the number of students to each game, and the paying customer is given the break. The paying customer pays the freight, therefore, he can see all the games. The student pays his fees, so he can see only one-half the games.
games. The fieldhouse will solve this problem, or at least it is hoped that it will solve it.
But the students undoubtedly will be given some of the poorer seats in the fieldhouse, just as at the football stadium. At the football games the student section is located from the end zone to the 30-yard line, unless a student is a member of one of the pep clubs. The student section in the fieldhouse probably will be located behind the baskets.
But, at least, the students will be represented at the games.
Jack Lindberg
During the Civil War the Confederate states ran into many postal difficulties. Presses for printing stamps were inadequate, ink and paper poor. Often postmasters used rubber stamps or handwritten signatures to denote paid-up postage. Some stamps were printed in England and brought in by blockade runners. Envelopes were so scarce they were made of wrapping paper, sealed with molasses. Often correspondents turned envelopes inside out and used them again.
Now I'm really confused. Someone said he met his true love at an hour dance.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
One Woman's Opinion
On the Kansan editorial page last Tuesday a letter questioned and criticized the attitude of some students concerning special privileges at football games. It was signed by an "Old Timer."
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Your criticism was well justified. Mr. Old Timcr. The attitude of some students, and mind you we don't say all of the students, is certainly deplorable and a little nauseating at times—at both games this year, to be exact.
For instance, as you cited, and subly asked, just what right do the fraternities have in saving whole sections of the bleachers?
It wouldn't be so bad if maybe one or two were being saved, but it makes one wonder what kind of individuals we are going to school with, when one or two "he-men" are saving many empty seats and trying to oust an elderly member of the faculty by saying, and we quote, "We have plenty of men here to put you out." Well, isn't that just bully now, we're so very glad that your fraternity is a large one.
With this sort of thing going on before and during the games it makes one wonder if one is watching a game between two penentiaries, instead of a game between two scholastically high universities, with supposedly intelligent individuals attending.
What can be done about this situation that has been going on for many many years now? We have a few suggestions to offer which we think are worth thinking about.
The University could have the games on a first-come-first-served basis, barring any and all saving of seats by anyone—be he faculty member or student, with one exception—the pep clubs.
It is a known fact that the bleachers were not large enough to seat everyone last year and the enrollment has increased approximately 350 fold this year. This means that the bleachers will eventually have to be enlarged—why not now? Then there would not have to be any of this saving of seats an hour or two before the games start.
Or, the gates could be opened about 1:45 p.m. and then there would not be time for saving seats.
Yes. Mr. Old Timer, it's a bad situation, but wouldn't you say that the enlargement of the bleachers would be the best solution? What will we do for seats in 1960 when the enrollment will supposedly total 12,000?
- Karen Hilmer
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