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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 12, 1993
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Bowl merchandise brings expected revenue
Store managers say sales do not equal rush of Final Four
Kansan staff writer
By Brett Riggs
As new as a postseason bowl berth was for the Kansas football team, the selling of Aloha Bowl memorabilia was equally uncharted territory for Lawrence shops.
Store managers like Monica Seiter, assistant manager for merchandise for the KU Bookstores, were careful not to overstock their stores with bowl merchandise because they did not know how well it would sell.
Seiter and other local merchants agreed that the Aloha Bowl merchandise sales met their expectations but did not produce the same rush as when the Jayhawk basketball team reached the Final Four in 1991.
"KU" is still a basketball school, "Seier said".
"We printed a considerably lower amount of
Aloha Bowl shirts as compared to the 1991 Final Four shirts."
"It is unfortunate that football is not up with basketball," Swam said. "I would like to see it get to the point where football is as big as basketball."
Seiter said she expected an increase in sales this week with the return of students to campus.
The fact that the Jayhawks won the game will certainly help sales of the merchandise, she said.
"I am hoping it will be higher when people have to buy books." Seller said. "We now have
Swain said his store had difficulties before Christmas finding a satisfactory shirt licensed by the University of Kansas, Brigham Young University and Jeep Eagle, the bowls sponsor. The store was only able to sell one design.
But the Jayhawk Bookstore since has gone with a new design that shows the 23-20 score and a Jayhawk raising his wing triumphantly through a Hawaiian lei while giving the Jayhawk the title "Aloha Bowl Champions."
helped sales," he said. "People like to see the word 'champions."
Lance Tittle, manager of Ballard's Sporting Good Outlet in the Riverfront Plaza, said the distance of the bowl game was a factor in his modest expectations. He said that more people would have been inclined to buy bowl merchandise if they had planned on going to the game.
"If people could have gotten there, they would have been inclined to buy more shirts, but when it is in Hawaii, people just don't have as much interest," he said.
Jayhawk Spirit, 935 Massachusetts St., started with 300 shirts and three design prints. The store only has about 50 shirts left.
Dena Pobrebadra, the store's assistant manager, said that the store might sell out of its Aloha Bowlshirts now that students are back.
"There was quite a bit of interest before the game, but sales went up after we won the game," Podrebarac said. "We have even had phone orders from alumni around the country."
Seiter looks forward to the day when the sale of KU football merchandise is on the same level as basketball paranormalia sales.
"With Glen Mason here and the hopes of going to more bowl games in the future, perhaps football will one day get to that level," she said.
Sweatshirts, hats and leis were among the Aloha Bowl merchandise available in Lawrence. Local merchants reported that memorabilia sales were good but not as profitable as before the men's basketball team's appearance in the 1991 Final Four.
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"As sign on Fraser Hall's door informs an inconvenienced Brian Geiss, Ellsworth freshman, that enrolment forms won't be handed out until noon instead of 9 a.m.
By 11:30, about 75 students waited in yesterday's cold weather to get in."
Timetable error blamed for long lines at Fraser
Students brave rain to register
Kansan staff writer
By Brady Prauser Kansas staff writer
By Brady Prauser
The lines yesterday winding outside Prasser Hall resembled those of a crowd awaiting entrance to a basketball game at Allen Field House.
*But for hundreds of students waiting to pick up registration cards and KUID stickers, the wait in the freezing can was anything but entertaining.
"It sucked," Paul Birkholz, Sheridan, Wyo., freshman, said. "I'm glad it's over."
Students began standing in line outside Fraser soon after 11 a.m., even though the doors were not scheduled to open until one hour later. Birkholz said he waited in line for about 45 minutes.
Kevin Schmid, Omaha, Neb., senior,
was equally frustrated.
Some students shivering in line yesterday made a rush to Fraser thinking it was the last day to pick up their registration cards and KUID stickers. Many did not realize they could have avoided the crowd by going to the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union anytime between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. today, tomorrow or Thursday if they paid their fees by mail.
"I wasn't expecting this," he said
"It's a lot worse than years before."
Richard Morrell, University regis
rar, said about 80 percent of the students mailed in their fees in December.
He said only about 1,000 people were scheduled to pay fees today. However, many students scheduled to pay fees Thursday and Friday waited until yesterday, which caused the long lines.
Some students complained about an error in the spring timetable that read registration and fee payment was to be handled by Right Room, hospital of noon at Fraser.
"It was just an error by the person who wrote that page up," said Morrell, whose office compiled the timetable. "Somewhere along the line, information was miscommunicated to the person who set that page up."
"It's not mass hysteria," John Rademacher, assistant registrar, said. "But if people had come on the days they were supposed to, it would alleviate a lot of this."
Morrell said the error in the timetable had not affected a large number of students.
He said bad weather might have led to the late arrival of those scheduled flights.
Rademacher said the lines for fee payment and KUID sticker pickup were not much worse than lines in previous semesters. Shelly Topham, Cunningham sophomore, said she only waited in line for about 10 minutes.
"It looked worse than in years past, but it didn't take that long," she said.
Gov. Finney supportive of pay raise
By Ben Grove
Kansan staff writer
She recommended to the Legislature on Thursday that all faculty members get a 3 percent raise. The Regents had asked for a 4.5 percent
The Kansas Board of Regents made raising faculty salaries and recruiting minority faculty members its top priorities for next year, and Gov. Joan Finney responded
Still, Chancellor Gene Badi said in a statement released Friday that he was pleased with the governor's recommendation.
University Senate presiding officer Dick Tracy said KU professors were disappointed that the governor did not match the Regents' proposal, but that they were understanding of budget constraints.
"We understand, given the financial condition of the state, that this is what we can reasonably expect," said Tracy, an associate professor of education psychology and research.
Finney is expected to mention the recommendation during her State of the State address this morning. The recommendation also included a 1 percent retirement plan increase.
Last year, the Legislature granted a 3.5 percent increase in salary for faculty members by the end of the school year. However, they were not granted the 1 percent retirement plan increase last year.
KU faculty members need even larger pay raises as well as attractive benefits to become more competitive with the University's peer institutions, said Dick Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. However, the governor's recommendation was a step in the right direction and was better than no increase at all, Shulenburger said.
Statehouse legislators from Lawrence said they expected the raise to pass the Legislature.
"The governor seems to be receptive, and if the money is there, that seems like good news for campus employees," said State Rep. Forest Swall, D-Lawrence, a first-tier representative.
The Regents proposed that the money to support salary increases come from the state's general fund, proposed tuition increases and hospital revenue funds.
Also included in the Regents' salary increase request was a proposal for $2.1 million for the enhancement of minority faculty recruitment. That money would go toward salaries, searches and a minority grant fellowship program, said Ray Hauke. Regents director of planning and budget. Hauke said this year marked the first time a request for minority recruitment money had been made a first-priority request.
Where are our representatives going?
The Lawrence representatives have received their committee nomination from the *Kansas Legislature*. Sandy Praeger is the only senator; Forrest Swail. Betty J Charlton and the representatives.
(D) Forrest Swall:
Agriculture, Economic Development,
Drought Health, and Welfare
(D) Barbara Ballard:
Education, Local Government,
Senate and Elections
Bush in Charlottown:
(D) Betty Jo Chariton:
(R) Sandy Praeger:
Federal and State Affairs, Financial Institutions and Insurance, Public Health and Welfare
Police investigate fire deaths as double homicide, suicide
A fire that claimed the lives of a mother and her two sons Sunday morning in a Lawrence trailler home is being investigated as a double homicide and suicide. Lawrence police sad yesterday.
Yong Sun Puckett, 32, and her sons, Christopher Marcus Puckett, 6, and Justin Young Puckett, 10, were found dead in their home in Gaslig Village, a trailer park in the 1930 block of West 31st Street, by Lawrence firefighters responding to the call at 7:45 a.m. Sunday.
"The trailer was locked from the inside, and we found no sign of forced entry," Lawrence Police Chief Ron Olin said yesterday. "Nothing points to anyone outside of the victims."
Laurance Price, a Douglas County coroner, ruled in the autopsies that all three died of
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Olind said Yong Sun Puckett was found in the bathhill with a hairdrier in the water.
She appeared to have attempted suicide, but the attempt failed when the hairdryer's electrical circuit shut off automatically, he said.
Justin Puckett was found on the bathroom floor and Christopher Puckett was found in the hallway. Both boys had superficial knife wounds in the neck, Price said. The wounds
were not life-threatening, and the boys had no other injuries.
Lawrence Fire Chief Jim McSwain said the fire was being investigated as an arrest case but would not comment on its cause. He estimated that the fire caused $5,000 in damage
Trial date set for former KU basketball player Tunstall
Puckett and her husband were in the early stages of a divorce, police said. The children were with their mother for a weekend visit.
A trial date for a former KU basketball player arrested on cocaine-related charges has been set for 1:30 p.m., Jan. 20 in Douglas County District Court.
Sean Tunstall, 23, a St. Louis resident, was arrested Dec. 19 on the KU campus and charged with two counts of selling cocaine and one count of the attempted purchase of cocaine. According to court records, Tunstall sold cocaine to undercover police officers April 29 and May 14, 1992, and attempted to buy cocaine May 4. A warrant for his arrest was issued June 15.
Turnstall last played on the basketball team in the 1991-92 season.
Olive Hall's leaky roof to be replaced in spring
After being patched up a number of times in the past few years, the lower roof at Oliver Hall, 1815 Naismith Dr., will be replaced, said Ken Stonner, director of student building.
Water now leaks in the cafeteria as well as some of the residence hall's lounge area.
A design for a new roof to replace the existing one has been determined, and the contract will be this winter, Stoner said.
Work should begin when weather improves later this spring or in the summer.
Former KU football player to be sentenced for murder
A former KU football player will be sentenced for first-degree murder at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 18. Ronnie Caldwell, a 26-year-old Lawrence resident, pleaded guilty Friday to the murder of Jeffrey Holly, a 24-year-old Lawrence resident.
A life sentence is mandatory for first-degree murder.
Caldwell's trial was scheduled to begin today. Caldwell and Rodney Harris, also a 26-year-old Lawrence resident, were charged
with the murder of Holly in July.
Both men were three-year KU football letterman in the 1980s.
University Theatre to hold open auditions this week for spring
harris also was charged with first-degree murder. In return for agreeing to testify against Caldwell, however, the charge was reduced to aiding a felon. Harris was sentenced to one-to-five years in prison and was assigned to a community corrections program.
The University of Kansas Theatre will be holding open auditions this week for its spring productions.
Auditions will be held today in the Crafton Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall and sign-up for specific audition times is from noon to 5 p.m. today in the lobby of Murphy Hall. Callbacks will be tomorrow through 7 Friday night.
Additional audition information is available at the University Theatre, 317 Murphy Hall, 864-3381.
Any student enrolled in six or more hours is eligible, and auditioners will have a two-minute time limit in which they can present a prepared piece or a cold reading.
New mailing system causes delay in delivering of grades
KU students received grades a week later than expected as a result of foul-ups in a new grade-mailing system designed to save time and money.
"I'm as disappointed as anyone that that happened," said Richard Morrell, University registrar.
The new system prints the grades on a smaller sheet of paper, which saves the University about $2,000, he said. It also displays the overall grade point average along with the GPA.
However, the machine was not figuring the overall GPA correctly in some cases, Morrell said. That and misprinting of some students' addresses caused a two-day delay in mailing the grades.
The two days ran into the holiday season when no mail was collected. This meant that students received grades a week later than expected.
Morrall said he did not expect problems when春 grades are mailed.
"With this new system, those grades can be mailed the very night they are turned in," he said.
Information compiled by Dan England, Will Lewis,
Erza Wolfe, James J. Reece and Mark Klefer.