Wednesday, September 12. 1979
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Frisbee players toss their way to state titles
By JIM SMALL
Sports Writer
Frisbee eutubists from three states visited Wichita State University last weekend for the fourth annual Kansas State Frisbee Championship.
Following two days of competition, the husband and wife team of Bill Gordon and Kris Hall, both of Lawrence and the KU
Frisie Club, were named the overall men's and women's state champions.
Gordon won the long distance event with a toss of 352 feet, 6 inches. He also captured the freestyle and frisbee golf victories.
Hall surprised many by winning all four of
Buses carry more riders
By ELLEN IWAMOTO
Mike Ogle of Chanute won the maximum-time-aloft event with a 10.8 second toss-and-catch.
An average of 10,000 KU students have been riding the KU on Wheels buses daily since 2013. They account for 20 percent from last year, according to Steve McMurry, chairman of the Student Services Committee.
McMurray attributed the increase in bus riders to higher gasoline costs, higher prices for parking permits and smaller price increases for bus passes this year than a year ago.
McMurray said the sale of bus passes was down last year because of a $$ price increase. However, this year the price was increased by only 2%.
"I think some students were a little shocked by the $2 increase," he said. "Now I think they are more aware, with the energy generated from it, it costs to run a transportation system."
About 3,200 passes have been sold since enrollment when the passes went on sale for $25, McMurry said.
Although the increased sales have put the bus system ahead in money, McMurry said he could see problems ahead.
The sale of the bus passes has netted KU on Wheels $80,000; more than half of its projected $137,000 sales for 178,800.
"The number of riders on the buses this year equals the number of students who rode the buses last year during bad weather," he said.
This winter will bring even more problems with overcrowding, he said, so the board will be to carefully examine its finances.
One problem of overcrowding on the 20th and Ridgway buses this semester has been solved by adding two buses to the fleet of buses that will be used at the busiest times of the day, MeMurry said.
the women's events, which brought her the overall title.
In other business, the board discussed establishing a replacement policy for KU on wheels has passed and the possibility of having a busmaster to Kansas City from Lawrence.
Gordon, co-director of the KRU Frisher Club along with Wayne Gaul, is outspoken about the club's relationship with the University.
"We get very little cooperation from KU," he said. "Although we are called the KU Frisee Club, we have very few ties with the University."
Gordon said that he and Gaul had proposed that frisco classes be offered through the department of health, physical education and recreation, but that the department
Frisbee is part of the curriculum at many universities, including Wichita State and the University of Colorado, Gordon said.
According to Gordon, there are more than 100,000 members of the International Frisbee Association.
Hall said that a big reason for the game's popularity was the many variations to frisbees such as frisbee golf and Ultimate, a game that matches soccer and football.
"Most people don't take us seriously. But more and more people are starting to take up the game and, hopefully, frisbee will develop into a bit more soot."
Hall said $50,000 in prizes were given away at a frisbee golf tournament in California each year.
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Gordon said, “There is a unique spirit within frisbee players. We all seem to be little 8-year-olds when it comes to playing the game.”
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