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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, Oct. 28, 1985
Official says financing affects athletic success
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation needs to increase its operating budgets so the University can become more competitive in the Big Eight Conference, Athletic Director Monte Johnson said Saturday. But to do that, revenues also must increase.
Although effort and ability contribute to athletic success, he said, they are not always enough to overcome the competitive advantage gained by some schools which have much larger operating budgets.
"In several sports, we are at a competitive level in advance of our operating budgets, but that is as a result of outstanding effort," he said. "I think our coaches and players are overachieving in terms of the operating funds available."
Johnson spoke to about 35 KU alumni Saturday morning during a seminar at Parrot Athletic Center. He and Susan Wachter, assistant athletic director for business, met with students and Business of College Athletics," as part of the University's Saturday Seminar series.
Johnson said a comparison of the 1984-85 athletic operating budgets for Big Eight Conference schools indicated there was a direct correlation between competitive success and financing of athletic programs.
"In that particular year, our funding was sixth in the conference, and our all-sports standing was also sixth," he said. "It's almost scary how operating budgets relate to competitive standing."
During that year, she said, the University of Oklahoma spent $8.6 million on athletics. Other schools spending more than KU were the University of Nebraska, $8.2 million; the University of Missouri, $7.8 million; Iowa State University, $7.4 million; and the University of Colorado, $6.2 million.
Wachter said the KU Athletic
Department's total budget for the 1984-85 academic year was $6 million.
Wachter said KU's football operating budget for 1984-85 was $2 million, compared with $3 million for Nebraska, $2.3 million for Colorado and $2.1 million for Iowa State.
Oklahoma's budget was more than $3 million, she said, but she could not determine the exact amount from the data she had available.
Johnson said the football program provided the best potential for increased revenues.
"The key to football income is your season ticket base," he said. "This year, we sold about 20,000 student, staff and public season tickets companies." The numbers were right at 70,000 and Oklahoma's were between 58,000 and 60,000."
Johnson said increased football gate receipts could help to make KU's athletic program totally self-sufficient.
Only 5 percent of KUAC's present income comes from an outside source, he said. That source is the Kansas Legislature, which started providing funds when schools were federally mandated to increase financing for women's athletics in the early 1970s.
Donations provide about 33 percent of KUAC's total operating budget, Johnson said, compared with a national average of about 15 percent.
Prof says economy spurs repression
Economic expansion in South Africa and repression of blacks go hand in hand, a visiting assistant professor of African studies said Friday.
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Historically, increased development has resulted in decreased freedoms for the blacks, said Theodore Valentine, the professor.
Valentine spoke to about 39 people in the Kansas Union at the first "Food for Thought Session," sponsored by the Association of Black Graduate Students.
Valentine, a black man from St. Louis, taught for two years at the University of Zambia before coming to the University of Kansas. He also has taught at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in tanzania.
"Apartheid came in with the expansion of the South African economy. It is relatively new, and repression today is increasing," he said.
Apartheid was legalized in 1948, Valentine said, but blacks weren't forced to carry passes until 1961, when the country again expanded economically.
Those who say greater investments in South Africa will increase opportunities for blacks are ignorant of South Africa's history, Valentine said.
"The issue is not only one of race," he said.
"There is an economic reason behind the situation."
Gold and diamonds were discovered in South Africa in the late 1800s and the country had to generate cheap labor for mining, Valentine said. As the cost of mining increased, the wages for blacks decreased.
In addition, he said, about 80 percent of the labor came from neighboring countries and the workers were on short-term contracts.
Expansions in agriculture took place in the 1920s, he said, and during World War II industry boomed, resulting in large amounts of money
pouring into South Africa and in job oppor-
tunities in urban areas for blacks.
"It was the first time that blacks were settling in mass in urban areas," he said. "The blacks outnumbered the whites, and the whites wanted to control them."
The situation in South Africa is paradoxical, he said. South Africa has tremendous wealth and natural resources.
"It has the highest level of industrialization in Africa and the highest per capita income," Valentine said. "At the same time, the majority of the population lives in extreme poverty.
"One can see why the minority in South Africa is not willing to give up apartheid. The minority lives very well with this system — even better than the average person in the United States."
Aparthire will be dismantled only when it ceases to be profitable, he said.
Kansas jails crowded
"We're moving in that direction now," he said.
The Associated Press
WICHITA — The Kansas Department have some control over the number of prisoners placed in its prisons, but that doesn't mean there should be a cap placed on the size of the state's population. Corrections Secretary Richard Mills, said recently.
Mills said overcrowded conditions in the state's prisons needed to be alleviated either by building larger prisons, promoting alternative programs, shortening sentences, or a combination of the three.
"There are no controls, no mechanism in place to say how many people we will incarcerate and how many will be in alternative programs," Mills said Saturday night during a speech to the annual gathering of the Kansas Council on Crime and Delinquency at Kansas Newman College.
"We're running at maximum capacity continuously now," he said, adding that Kansas' current prison population of 4,700 was expected to reach 6,000 by the year 2000 if it continues to grow at its current rate."
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