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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102.NO.39
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1992
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Field house presents fire hazard
University to ask for $1.9 million to improve safety
By KC Trauer Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas today will ask the Board of Regents for a $1.9 million increase in capital improvement funds to improve fire safety in Allen Field House.
The proposed improvements include building fire exit towers on three corners of the field house and an overhead walkway linking the field house to the parking garage.
The proposals come from a December 1991 fire safety evaluation by the state fire marshal's office that found severe life and fire safety problems in
the building.
"With an advertised occupant load of 15,800, Allen Field House poses one of the most significant loss potentials in Kansas," the report said. "Any incident occurring in this facility when fully occupied could result in significant loss of life."
The state fire marshal's office presented its report to the University in March.
"This was probably the most intense look this building has ever had," said Ross Boelling, chief of fire prevention at the state fire marshal's office and author of the report.
Boiling said that the University was working with his office to rectify fire safety violations and that the University's proposals sufficiently addressed the violations.
The exit towers and walkway would enable spectators seated in the arena's upper levels to leave the field house without going down to the first
floor.
It also would increase the number of exits available to those spectators. The report said that not enough proper exits existed on the upper levels.
"The upper balcony currently seats 2,540 more people than can safely exit from that level," the report said. "This problem is further compounded by reported instances of overcrowding."
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said many of the violations had been corrected or soon would be, such as removing the merchandise tables placed in lobbies during events or moving them out of walkways.
He said that fire alarm and fire sprinkler systems would be installed this year using money from the University's repair and rehabilitation funds.
The report noted as one of the violations that no alarm or detection system existed to alert building managers or field house occupants to an
emergency, even though a recently installed system helped illu-
sated users.
Among the other violations listed in the report:
Inaccessibility of fire hydrants would make it difficult for firefighters to extinguish a fire in case of an emergency;
Offices built inside the field house since its opening were constructed with more flammable material than the field house itself. The lack of a sprinkler system further compounds the hazard;
The air handling system does not have an automatic shutdown and would quickly circulate smoke and ash throughout the field house.
Wiechert said changes in fire safety standards led to the violations.
"When Allen Field House was constructed in 1955, it met all the fire safety codes of that time," he said.
Irene Lanier / KANSAN
new efforts by the University of Kansas marketing department combined with the Jayhawks' winning record results in a sell-out crowd at Memorial Stadium for the Kansas-Kansas State game. This was the first sell-out since 1982.
KU football ticket sales booming
Interest attributed to winning, marketing
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
During the Jayhawks' 31-7 drubbing of Kansas State, Kansas coach Glen Mason and athletic director Bob Frederick grinned at more than 52,000 fans who packed Memorial Stadium.
"Iasked Bob if he thought this would ever really happen here," Mason sad after the game. "He just looked at me with kind of 'no' in his eyes, I said, Meh."
But what many people thought couldn't have happened, had.
The fans that filled the stadium gave the Kansas football program its first sellout game since 1982.
The road to success for Kansas football has been a long one. In 1988, the team went 1-10 and averaged 31,950
fans at home games. Last season, the team went 6-5 and averaged 34,800 fans a game. This year the Jayhawks are 4-1, ranked No. 25 in the nation and are at the 45,000 mark for average home attendance.
Nothing fills a stadium like winning. But off the field and behind the efforts of Mason's squad, the marketing department for KU athletics has worked to sell out the stadium and increase respect for the football program.
The department does everything from advertising to increasing community awareness about all Kansas athletics. But the department focuses its efforts on football, said Jill Godfrey, director of promotions.
"I would say that football is our biggest project," she said. "And basically our biggest project is to create
awareness about the team. But your biggest promotional tool is your winning team."
Bernie Kish, the director of ticket operations and sales, said the recent success of the team would impact sales for the rest of the season.
As of Tuesday night, 7,300 tickets for the Oct. 24 Oklahoma game had been sold. That number does not include the 18,000 season tickets or the 1,300 tickets sent to Oklahoma.
No matter what the team's record, however, the marketing department will continue to develop new strategies to bring more fans flowing into the stadium.
"At this point in time, these numbers are pretty darned good," Kish said. "We were nowhere near that for California or Ball State. I'm very optimistic about the Oklahoma game. And if we beat Iowa State this weekend, you better hold on to your hat."
Two full-time employees and two graduate assistants work in the Kansas' marketing department. The staff also is assisted by students that are either interested in the field of sports marketing or are majoring in marketing.
"Marketing is very important to college sports," he said. "It sets an image for the team and it develops a sense of pride. It gets people interested in the personalities of the coaches and players.
Dennis Rosen, associate professor of business, said that the marketers helped to determine a team's image.
"With sports, it's like any other product. You have to build interest and get people aware."
Now that the Jahawks are rolling, Godfrey said that the department would try to build on its success.
Continued on Page 16.
Presidential debates: Round two
Pres. Bush, Gov. Clinton and Ross Perot will debate at 8 p.m. This second debate takes place at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Va. and will be moderated by a single moderator, Carole Simpson of ABC news. Questions will be fielded from the audience. The debate will be shown on PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN and C-SPAN.
The Associated Press
Preparations quiet for second debate Vice-presidential hopefuls continue pointed attacks against each other
President Bush and Bill Clinton prepared privately yesterday for their second showdown in a campaign growing testier by the day. Ticket-mates Dan Quayle and Al Gore sparred at a distance, as if locked in a debate without end.
Gore noted that the administration had confirmed that it had searched through embassy files overseas for Vietnam-era information on Clinton
With the GOP lagging in the polls, Quayle countered with a reprise of his Tuesday night debate charge that Clinton was not a man to be trusted — except to raise taxes and spending.
"I think this administration is unraveling," said Gore, the No. 2 man on the Democratic ticket. "Gorge Bush is in a political panic."
He also suggested in an ABC interview that it had been an act of courage for Bush to raise taxes in 1990, a decision that many conservatives view as political heresy.
Independent Ross Perot stayed out of public view. Running mates James Stockdale, who sometimes appeared overmatched during the vice-presidential debate, told an ABC interviewer he had been taken aback by how quickly Gore and Ouave had responded to questions.
With the running mates' one and only debate behind them, though, the spotlight was already shifting back to the men at the top of the tickets in a campaign with three weeks to run.
Bush spent about 90 minutes in mock-debate with Budget Director Richard Darman standing in for Clinton and former White House Chief of Staff John Summus for Perot.
"The overall strategy is to be strong and presidential and forceful and to win by 40 debating points," said representative Martin Fitzwater.
But there seemed little doubt that Bush needed a dramatic debate performance to energize a campaign running roughly 10 percentage points behind Clinton, and facing a possible landslide in the Electoral College.
Clinton was in Williamsburg, Va., nursing a throat made raspy by allergies and overuse.
He, the president and Perot will debate today in Richmond, Va., and again on Monday in East Lansing, Mich., before beginning a final sprint to Election Day Nov. 3.
Election Day Nov. 16.
Republicans conceded privately what the public polls showed: that neither the first presidential debate nor the vice presidential encounter had produced the kind of marked shift in voter preference that Bush needs.
One indicator of the potential impact of the two remaining debates will be the size of the viewing audience. A large drop-off in viewer numbers might suggest that many voters have already made up their minds.
Gore and Quayle were anything but retiring during their debate, and they seemed eager to resume the attack as they made the rounds on morning talk shows.
"The American people want to have a president that they can trust, and can they really trust Bill Clinton?" the vice president asked on ABC's "Good Morning America."
He said Clinton changed his mind repeatedly on issues. The vice president was asked whether there was a difference between that and Bush's acceptance of a tax hike despite "a no new taxes" pledge.
there a difference of doing something and changing your mind when it's for the best interests of the country, and in Bill Clinton's case, he'd change his mind for what's in his own personal best interests," he said. "One's called courage and one's called expediency."
Enrollment glitch
Because of a computer mix-up, students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be getting a revised permit-to-enroll form in the mail before Monday.
See story. Page 3.
Tuition continues to increase nationally, report reveals
U2 at Arrowhead
The Irish rock band U2, currently on its Zoo TV tour, will perform live at Arrowhead Sta-
tion in Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday.
The tour, which is the band's most extravagant to date, includes everything from belly
ancounters to personal telephone calls to the President
Tickets still remain for the show.
See story, Page 7.
By Mark Martin
Kansan staff writer
Tuition at public universities increased by an average of 10 percent this fall, though overall financial aid rose by 8 percent, according to a College Board report released on Tuesday.
"Given the state of the economy and its impact on state budgets, many people expected much larger increases this year, particularly in the public sector," he said.
The Board, which is comprised of university administrators and represents 2,800 schools, found that tuition at a four-year public university is $2.315. The 10 percent increase this year contrasts with a 13 percent increase the year before.
College Board President Donald Stewart said this year's increase was less than
Stewart said that many institutions were cutting programs, laying off faculty members and putting off maintenance.
Students at the University of Kansas were not surprised that tuition had increased throughout the country.
"an mutation and the economy like it is,
everything's going up," said Buffy Page,
Plainville sophomore. Page was scanning
the work-study board outside the Office of Student Financial Aid in Strong Hall.
"But tuition is still too expensive," she said. "The government needs to find a way to get people education at a reasonable price."
Tuition at KU rose about 8 percent from last year, and KU continued to have the seventh lowest tuition rate among Big Eight schools. In-state tuition at KU for one year is $1,798 though out of state tuition is $5.970.
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said that KU's recent tuition increases reflected national trends that the College Board report verified.
"The national economy has created problems for almost every institution," he said. "At KU, we resisted raising tuition for several years, but recently it's been necessary to broaden the ways we take in income. We're always sensitive that tuition reflects what students can afford."
A recent proposal by Chancellor Gene Budig would raise tuition at KU by 5 percent annually for the next five years on top of any increases approved by the Board of Regents. Budig's proposal will go to the Regents in February and would not go into effect until Fall 1994. The increase in
tuition would go to teacher salaries. Meyen noted that the plan was just one option that KU was considering to help raise staff salaries.
"We think it's important to have fair compensation for our staff," Meyen said. "Even if this cleared, we would still have comparatively low tuition."
Owen Livingston, Denver junior, said that KU attracted more diverse people because it was inexpensive.
"It's definitely a bonus to be cheaper than other universities," he said.
He may have trouble.
Despite KU's relatively low tuition, Livingston said that he was in the process of applying for financial aid and looking for grants instead of loans.
Average annual increases in tuition and fees continue to rise at both private and public schools.
The board's report stated that in the last 15 years, financial aid represented by loans instead of grants has increased from 17 percent to 50 percent. According to the report, federal, state and institutional financial aid rose less than 8 percent last year.
4-year public colleges
1901 average: $2,315
4-year private colleges
1901 average: $10,498
Linda Delker, assistant director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said that financial aid had not kept up with costs at most colleges.
*No one's cutting programs, but funding
for financial aid has remained stable while costs are up," she said. "The level of financial aid now is adequate for five or 10 years ago."
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.