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THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 6,2001
ISSUE 11 VOLUME 112
State fair brings old, new together
Annual event kicks off tomorrow providing rides, exhibitions through Sept. 16
By Donovan Atkinson Special to the Kansan
Kansas State Fair general manager Bill Ogg is hopeful that this year's fair will provide an adventure for the thousands who will attend. To reflect this hope, the fair's theme is "2001: Kansas State Fair Odyssey."
"Traditionally, an odyssey is defined as an adventurous journey." Ogg said. "And to take in over 100 stands and concessions, all that diversity and 40,000 competitive events, that combination is an adventurous journey."
The 89th Official Kansas State Fair begins Friday and runs through Sunday, Sept. 16. Adult tickets will be $6 at the gate with tickets costing $20 for 20 rides.
State fair
What: The 89th Annual Kansas State Fair
Although agriculture is the foundation of the annual event in Hutchinson, the fair also offers concerts, free attractions and a midway complete
■ When:
Sept. 7
through
Sept. 16
with carnival rides and attractions.
How much:
Adult - $6;
children -
$3; senior
citizens -
$4.
Midway
wristbands
are $15 and
good for
unlimited
rides from
10a.m. to
11 p.m. on
Sept. 11
and 12, and
from noon
to 6 p.m.
Sept. 16.
in carnival rides and attractions.
“There always changes,” Ogg said.
“The fair cannot exist on tradition alone."
Maintenance crews have been working to clean up the livestock areas, barns and buildings.
Cattle will be on display throughout the fair, with two new breeds being shown for the first time, Dexter and Watusi.
Those attending the fair are encouraged to visit the milking exhibit and the beef arena along with sheep, horses, llamas and other livestock exhibitions. But the Fair is more than agriculture.
"They have all kinds of different things, from current artists, carnival rides and long lines to pigs, cattle, and even elephant rides," said Weston Vice, Wichita freshman, who remembers the Fair as a destination for school field trips.
Entertainers scheduled this year at the Pepsi Grandstand include Sawyer Brown, Dream, Blessed Union of Souls, the Statler Brothers, Tara Lynn, Lee Ann Womack, Keith Urban, Stux and Survivor.
"I'd go just for the bands said Dave Hinegardine, Omaha, Neb., freshman.
Other scheduled events at the grandstand will include the PRCA Rodeo and AMA Extreme Motocross.
Admission for Pepsi Grandstand events varv.
New to the fair this year are the Kachunga & the Alligator shows and the Ody-Sea High Dive Show.
Farrow Amusements returns to the fair with carnival games and rides, including two new rides.
"The fair is a reunion of Kansas people and products," Ogg said. "And the fact that so many people come out to see that heritage and tradition is what makes the fair special."
Endowment quests for $500 million
"KU First" fund-raising effort will support faculty research, scholarships
Paul Smith Kansan staff writer
Tomorrow, the KU Endowment Association will reveal a list of University projects to receive funding from a $500 million fund-raising campaign that will kick off at a reception for alumni donors.
Three years is a long time to keep a secret. But $500 million is a compelling reason to stay mum.
"It's anticlimacif if the attendees read about the whole thing in the paper in advance," said Dale Seuferling, executive vice president for development at the Endowment Association.
The $500 million working goal is the largest fund-raising endeavor ever undertaken at the University of Kansas.
John Scarfe, director of communications for the Endowment Association, said the projects were kept secret to generate publicity as the KU First campaign enters its public phase.
Publicity generates excitement, Scarfe said, and excitement generates more donations.
He also emphasized that the University set the fund-raising agenda at the behest of Chancellor Robert Hemenway.
"The KU Endowment Association is not sitting over here and deciding what is best for the University," Scarffe said. "The chancellor decides on the priorities."
Seuferling said that the campaign's focus would be on undergraduate and graduate student scholarship opportunities, faculty research and other facilities.
More than $50 million in donations have already been received since the KU First campaign organized in 1998.
The Hall family donated the largest amount of money in KU history this summer with $42 million — primarily directed toward the life sciences. Forrest and Sally Haglund donated $7 million, with more than half going toward a brain imaging center at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dana and Sue Anderson gave $4 million for a conditioning center for student athletes.
In the public phase of the campaign, the association will begin soliciting donations of at least $500,000 before winding down in 2003 with the general gifts phase.
"That's when you ask everybody, including the people like me who give $25 a year, for a special gift," Scarffe said.
Fund-raising campaign
What will happen: The KU Endowment Association will announce tomorrow a list of projects to receive funding from a $500 million campaign
What it means: Undergraduate and graduate student scholarships are said to be on the fund-raising campaign agenda, in addition to building and research projects.
ContactAtkinson at 864-481
What's next: The Endowment Association will start soliciting $500,000 donations in the opening stage of the campaign's public phase.
The campaign ends in 2004.
KICKIN' BACK
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Lawrence resident Dean Royal (left) and Merriam resident Brian Green practice Wushu in front of Allen Fieldhouse. Royal and Green study in Kansas City under Shao Li, a former national competitor who has worked with Jet Li.
Students to win scholarships at football game
But they must have "KU First" T-shirt, KUID to qualify
By Brent Briggeman Kansan staff writer
Seventeen thousand University of Kansas students are hoping to get lucky this weekend.
The Kansas University Endowment Association is distributing 17,000 "KU First" T-shirts to be worn to the Kansas-UCLA football game Saturday to get in free and to qualify students for one of 25 $1,000 scholarships.
Bronda Silvers, director of the annual giving fund for the Endowment Association, which is sponsoring the promotion, said students couldn't believe how easy it was.
"They all want to know what they have to fill out and what they have to do," she said. "But all they need to do is show up in the shirts and have a valid KUID."
Silvers was in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall yesterday, handing out shirts and
answering students' questions about the promotion.
She said nearly 10,000 of the T-shirts had already been distributed at four of the University's campus locations across the state.
The cost of the T-shirts was divided between the Endowment and Intrust Bank, whose name appears on the back of the shirt.
The scholarships would be funded by a gift from KU alumni Dick and Jeanne Tinberg, both of Leawood, said John Scarfe, Endowment Association director of communications.
Students will be randomly selected for some of the scholarships at the four gate entrances at Memorial Stadium, Silvers said.
"We're not using gobs of KU money that would have gone for other things," Scarffe said.
The rest will be given to students sitting in preselected rows during the first quarter.
Silvers said the selections will be made by individuals with no affiliation to
"I went to a few last year when I was a freshman and had the sports package, but we don't have that good of a team, so I probably won't go to many this year. But I'll go now."
No purchase is necessary to win
A. J.Kahling Naperville, Ill., sophomore
the university in an attempt to keep the selections completely random.
The selection process was the only complaint of Brian King, Denver junior.
"It's like a lottery, so I know my odds of winning are probably pretty slim," said King.
He said he would have attended the game anyway. "But I pay out-of-state tuition, so I need all the help I can get."
The promotion was enough to convince A.J. Kahling, Naperville, Ill., sophomore, to go to his first game of the season.
"I wasn't really planning to go to many games this year," Kahling said. "I went to a few last year when I was a freshman and had the sports package, but we don't have that good of a team, so I probably won't go to many this year. But I'll go now."
More than 37,000 fans were in attendance for last week's opener against Southwest Missouri State, 9,000 more than last season's home opener against the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Coach Terry Allen said he appreciated the efforts being made to fill the stands.
The average attendance was slightly more than 32,000 for the six home games last year.
"The students were great last week, and hopefully this will help bring even more this week," Allen said. "We want them to make this a part of their weekly routine when we're playing at home."
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