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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 18,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York City.
Mail subscription; $1 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester); Published in Lawrence, Kan., even during the school week except Saturdays and Sundays, University days, and examination periods. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879.
Ticket Troubles
Few situations have caused more hard feelings than the ticket shortage for the K.U.-A. and M. basketball game in Kansas City tonight.
Already rumbling after some students were not seated at the Nebraska and Iowa State games, dissatisfaction ran rampant Monday when the athletic office announced no more ticket orders would be taken. Thursday it reached a peak when students who had ordered $2 and $3 seats were able to buy only $1 tickets and the fact became known that the athletic office had 300 less tickets than orders.
Many students felt that it was grossly unjust for persons not connected with the University to be given blocks of seats before students had been accommodated.
They figured that partiality had entered into the distribution of the good seats and accused the athletic office of inexcusable inefficiency for allowing the surplus orders.
Even allowing for the difficulties of handling the incongruous supply and demand, the athletic office could certainly have managed the ticket distribution more smoothly.
True, orders were coming in for tickets on Feb. 24, long before it was definite that there was to be a game, and long before athletic officials had any way of knowing how many tickets the University would be allowed. Nevertheless, they realized that the supply of seats, particularly good seats, would be limited and, if only for self defense, they should have made it clear to those who placed orders that seats could not be guaranteed.
guaranteed.
The office should also have kept track of the tickets being sold. As it was, no running account was taken, and by Monday morning when the office got around to tabulating sales it was apparent that enough tickets to fill the orders would probably not be granted.
Next, instead of filling orders in the sequence that they had been taken, order envelopes were mixed up and finally filled in any order they were picked up.
If the slips were due to an under-staffed office, surely the athletic department owes it to itself and to the student body to hire more help. It is important to blame entirely for all the dissatisfaction.
But the athletic office is not to blame entirely for all the dissatisfaction. Even if an irreproachable distribution system had been employed, the present situation, in essence, would still exist.
The basic problem is simply the lack of seating space to accommodate all interested University students, alumnae and backers.
all interested University students, alumnae and backers. Of the 9,000 seats in the Municipal auditorium in Kansas City, K.U. had only 3,986 to distribute, a number which, of course, would not take care of the entire student body even if older spectators were not considered.
And in spite of what appears to be majority student sentiment, it is not right to bar University alumnae and supporters from athletic events. As tax-payers and as generous and loyal contributors to University causes, they feel and are entitled to enjoy the school's championship basketball team.
As it is, students have received more than half of all tickets. At least they have purchased more than half. A number of them bragged to athletic officials, after picking up 10 or 20 tickets, that they intended to sell them at a profit to non-University persons.
Students argue that requiring activity books for each ticket sold would remedy this situation. But having every student appear personally with his book would be an inconvenience to the athletic office as well as to the student, and a system of status quo plus books would help very little.
With almost 5,500 activity books out, it would be simple for the enterprising student to collect 20 of them from non-attending students and proceed with his racketeering.
All over the country where there are good basketball teams the same seating problem is arising. Other schools are troubled with hundreds of spectators who cannot be accommodated at games.
With them, as with K.U., the solution is either a poor basketball team or a large field house.
We choose the latter.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN Monday, March 18, 1946
English Proficiency Examination,
March 30: All College juniors and
seniors who plan to take it may
register in person at the College
office, March 25.26 or 27. Mrs. Robert
Calderwood will be in 501 Fraser
from 3:30 to 4:30 daily to answer
questions about the examination.
Pre-Nursing club will meet for an informal St. Patrick's party at Miller hall at 7:15 pm. tomorrow.
A campus chapter of a national history society is being formed. Any student who has a B average in a minimum of 12 hours credit in history and a C plus average in other college work may join by leaving his name in 108 Frank Strong before March 23.
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The Engineering Council has closed Saturday evening March 30 to student activities not already approved. The Engineers' Hobnail Hob will be held at that time.
All Student Council will meet at 7:15 tomorrow in the Pine room of the Union building.
Jay hawk Veterans - Regular meeting 7 p.m. tomorrow in Frank Strong auditorium.
June and summer school graduates call KU 32 or come to the Jayhawker magazine office in the subbasement of the Memorial Union for senior picture appointments. The photographer will be here March 21, 22, 23, and 27.
College faculty meeting 4:30 to morrow in the auditorium on the third floor of Frank Strong hall.
22, 23, and 24.
Eddie Dean, radio and movie cowboy star, was a guest of the University Spur club last week. He took a horseback tour of the campus accompanied by 20 club members and entertained them with roping and riding tricks.
Spur Club Has Guest
Time Limit. During a mathematics class the professor was writing numbers in progression on the board. After writing for some time, he explained to the class that he could go indefinitely. "Yeh," piped up Frank Harlow, Sig Alph, "you can go on until 2:20."
How about it? Prof. W. W. Davis remarked in a lecture the other morning, "Our ancestors drank rum, cider, and whiskey as water and were so pickled inside they could hardly stand up. But now, every time you smoke or drink you cause internal revenue!"
Stinkin' trick. Somehow during the course of a party given by the Chi O's for the Phi Psi's one of the boys sneaked upstairs and dropped a stink-bomb. And during dinner at that.
Flying high The other day Tom Messley and Don Burton, Sigma Nu's, were returning to the Nu castle on Messplay's motor sputter. While waiting for the draw bridge to spice the mote and, cooing soft words to an armload of Miller records, the boys were suddenly beset by Burnett Replogle, Delta Gamma. After threats and cries, it was agreed that Reppy could navigate the scooter.
Repy climbed aboard, turned the wrong knobs and the wrong way and headed for a large tree. Near miss.
Then with a pile of rocks as her next target and Burton and records flying in every direction, she lifted the scooter gracefully off the ground. The DG was last seen doing slow rolls the length of west campus on this ill-fated sputter.
CAB? If you want prompt service just call 12 for Bill. Put your call in early!
WANT ADS
LOST—Childs glasses, rose plastic rims. Lost in Pinkney School District. Reward—call 3232 or leave at Kansas office.
LOST—Parker 51 pen and pencil set, blue stem and gold cap, left in Robinson Gym 6:30 Monday evening. $5.00 reward. Call Bob Kelly 2882R.
WANTED—Film for processing and photo finishing at 1140 Miss. or phone 1544J.
FOR RENT—Sleeping room for rent,
two beds at 608 Ky., Mrs. N. R.
Tucker.
LOST—Black Parker pen with gold band Wed. the 13th. A gift. Call Don 1810R. Reward.
LOST—Black Shaeffer in Union Fountain. Will find please return it to the Kansan office or call Lorna Green 1015. ___
DRAWING SET—For sale at 1332 Connecticut. 11-piece, good condition. Please call from 6 to 9 p.m.
LOST—Fundamentals of Accounting. Finder please return to Joe Moddrell at 111 West 11th st. or phone 1106.
LOST—Black leather zipper notebook containing Evershard pen, glasses, and class material. Very valuable and desperately needed. If located please cal Beverly Stucker at 295.
FOST-Parker 51 with black bottom and gold top, somewhere on the campus. If found, finder please call Mary Allice Crawford 581.
STOP at the Court House Lunch for GOOD food. Open from 5:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Across from the Courthouse.
FOR SALE—Brown corduroy sport coat size 38. Phone George 2427.
LOST — Green Shaeffer pen. If found please return to Eva Humphrey. Call 955.
STUDENTS We are giving the first hours of service free to each new customer by appointment. $4.5 per hour. Help-Yourself-Laundry, 1900 Ii. Phone 263.
FOR SALE—Sweater, tuxe, brown tweed suit, reversible wool jacket. all size 40, 3 wool shirts $14\frac{1}{2}-33$, 1 pair wool slacks 35-31, 1 pair tan worsted pants 31-30. Between 5:00-7:30 p.m., 1339 Ohio, phone 1110M Lynn.
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