4 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Tuesday, December 3, 1968 More tickets needed Tonight the All-Student Council is scheduled to take up the matter of student ticket purchases for KU home basketball games. While it unfortunately is a moot point this year, it must be resolved before another basketball season begins. For the second consecutive year student season tickets were grabbed up with a day of the selling period remaining; and for the second consecutive year an unknown number of supporters are left unassured of entrance to the games. The present allotment of 7,000 student tickets is an anachronism at a growing University which boasts the second largest collegiate field house in the nation. True, KU is generous with its student season tickets in comparison with other major universities. But 17,000 seat Allen Field House could accommodate more students without denying the same privilege to faculty and alumni. Although KU topped the nation last year in basketball attendance, a sell-out game remains a notable exception. For the present then, it is not solely a question of allotting tickets on a strict priority basis. A larger allotment of student tickets would not necessarily mean denying other members of the University community their privilege to obtain reserved seats. There is some leeway in which to work. No doubt the time will come when it is necessary to decide who has the largest interest at stake in viewing KU basketball. The purist will note that collegiate athletics represent the University and its students, giving them spectator priority. The pragmatist will counter with the argument that collegiate athletics is big business and opt for alumni and others who may have a very real stake in KU's athletic achievements. But until consistent capacity crowds are drawn, the polemic question of priority need not be raised. With the enthusiasm of students kindled by recent athletic successes, those students should have the fullest opportunity to view first hand future successes. The ASC should press for action lest more students be stranded outside Allen Field House next year. Richard Lundquist Assistant Editorial Editor Letters to the Editor BB ticket sales, new politics To the Editor: "Sorry, we're all sold out." That was the statement which greeted me as I approached a sweet-looking elderly lady who was sitting behind a table at Allen Field House last Friday morning. I had intended to buy my ticket on Wednesday or Thursday, but when I saw the lines I decided to wait until Friday. Simply because I had more important things to do with my time than stand in a line for three hours I was denied a basketball ticket. Needless to say, I was considerably irritated. And why should this situation have to exist? When Allen Field House seats 17,500 and there are only about 16,000 students on campus (a great number of whom don't even want to buy season tickets) why are there only 7,000 student tickets available? There is another interesting element to take into consideration. It seems that several Lawrence students (grades four through nine) who wish to purchase a KU basketball season ticket may do so for a dollar. That's rather strange, considering that less than half of the University students are given that opportunity, and for four dollars. Talk about a ridiculous situation. Surely something can be done about the problem. Why not sell basketball tickets during enrollment; make an IBM card available in the optional fee card packet and buy them when fees are paid? That way they are guaranteed to any student who wants one and the hours of waiting in line are eliminated. If the kiddie tickets were sold to KU students the athletic department would not only make a little more money, they would avoid making a lot of students unhappy. After all, whose team is it? Marilyn Buller Lawrence junior I was shocked and amazed to find that my name had been attributed to Mr. di Zerega's fine article in the University Review. Anyone who reads Mr. Sorem's letter (Wed., Nov. 13, UDK) and To the Editor: who reviews the Review will soon find that Mr. Sorem has committed the foolish mistake of not fully reading the article which he so haphazardly criticizes. How can we ever arrive at an understanding or helpful evaluation unless we read before we take our pens out of their holsters. Finally, I feel that my contribution to the U. R. is not subject to criticism. Tim Averill KU Rational Street Theatre ... quotes ... WASHINGTON—Catholic Bishop Gerald McDevitt of Philadelphia, attacking a proposal by the American Public Health Association that state laws be changed to allow "safe, legal abortions" for all women: "The Catholic Church holds that direct abortion at any time is murder." the rock hound McKuen's 'Cities' By WILL HARDESTY Rod McKuen has a new album out-LONESOME CITIES on Warner Brothers-Seven Arts. Musically, the album isn't half bad. The music was composed by McKuen, and lends a friendly and compatible background to his readings. He even sings on a couple of cuts. McKuen is a good, if not great, writer. He has a definite way of coupling words into long trains of ideas which transport him—and the reader or listener—from one fit of depression to another. His imagery is tremendous. His poems are all of, about and for modern persons and life. But he should be read and not heard. Unfortunately, he is forever, infinitely, totally, abysmally and morbidly sad, lonesome and depressed—except when making some woman or another and then his momentary non-depression ends as quickly as his orgasm. And this feeling of depression is heightened by the sound of his voice. There is no way you can read in a little optimism. McKuen proclaims himself to be a traveler. He is enthralled by trains. He seems addicted to moving, looking, searching, hoping, wanting, needing and grasping after love. But he always seems to confuse sex with love. It is too bad he seems so content and so busy being unhappy he can't take a coffee break and relax and smoke a cigarette and let the frown trickle off his face and the damned-in sadness seep out of him. This album is nothing like THE SEA which was very good. But buy LONESOME CITIES, buy a fifth of Scotch, some soda, a carton of cigarettes, a big box of Kleenex and have a good cry. It'll do you good. Paperbacks REVOLUTIONARY IMMORTALITY: MAO TSE-TUNG AND THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION, by Robert Jay Lifton (Vintage, $1.95)—Not only a work about Mao and the recent events in China but a treatment of how some people have attempted to keep the words and record of Mao forever before mankind. The thought of Mao is examined from both historical and psychological standpoints. A TIME OF WAR/A TIME OF PEACE, by Senator George McGovern (Vintage, $1.65)—George McGovern will emerge from 1968 as one of the successful figures of the year, for he was able to obtain and command a following and to gain the deep respect even of persons who did not support his late bid for the presidency. This volume is an expansion of McGovern's speeches and writings in the Senate. He deals with foreign policy, arms reduction, the economy, the draft, "crisis mentality," and of course the war in Vietnam. A student newspaper serving the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 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