University Daily Kansan, October 27, 1982
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Senate panel considers opening seating policy
By DARRELL PRESTON Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Committee on Sports met yesterday with the athletic department's former ticket manager to discuss open seating options for Memorial Stadium but made no decision.
The Sports Committee is expected to recommend next week that the full Senate ask the athletic department to adopt an open seating policy.
Richard Konzem, assistant director of the Williams Fund and former ticket manager, said the athletic department is offering for ways to sell more student tickets.
"We're not a powerhouse football team, and we probably won't win the conference more than once in five years," Konzem said. "We're going to prioritize an atmosphere for students, and if open seating does this, we'll offer open seating."
Mark Holloway, co-chairman of the Sports Committee, said, "I'd like to push and get this bill sent to the full Senate, and I believe we can persuade the Senate before their last meeting."
Two open seating plans were discussed at the meeting. The plans called for offering both reserved seating and lower-priced open seating.
THE PLAN recommended by Holloway and Anne Stucker, co-chairman of the sports committee, called for reserved seats to be sold right after spring break to foster enthusiasm. Reserved seats would be offered on a seniority system, with seniors receiving priority.
WHILE HOLLOWAY'S plan calls for adjusting the open seating areas, depending on how many reserved seats are sold, Konzem's plan calls for all the seatings below row 42 to be reserved.
Konzem said there was a physical break in the stadium between rows 42 and 43 that would make it easier to activate the reserved and open seating.
"The seniority system of selling tickets must be preserved." Holloway said. "Total open seating would not go over well."
Konzem agreed that the present system of selling tickets needed to be changed.
"Right now, it's pretty hard to buy a ticket," he said, "and because of the classification system, you can't sit with your friends in other classes without changing seats. We're deluged right now. You have to someone being in their seats. If the present system works as open seating anyway, why not legitimize it?"
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Candidates see little hope for merit plan
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
Candidates for three state representative districts could offer little hope last night for KU classified employees' proposed Merit Pay Plan which was frozen in July because of the state's budget shortfall.
freeze on the pay plan.
LAST JULY Gov. John Carlino, who originally endorsed the increase, ordered a freeze on the plan because McCain's $47 million revenue shortfall
Jesse Branson, Betty Jo Charlton, Bob Schulz, Doug Lammorb and John Solbach, who is uninposed in his re-election bid for the 45th District seat, met with members of the Senate and the Democratic forum in the Satellite Union. The candidates discussed ways to tighten the state's budget and to withdraw the
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The candidates supported the employee's increase proposal, and although they said they had no interest in them, there were surreptions for sources of revenue.
Schulte, a Republican, is opposing Branson in the 44th District. Lambert, a Republican, is opposing Charlton in the 40th District.
to employees rated outstanding, as an incentive for good work. The 1.25 percent increase is enough for only a one-step raise for all eligible employ-
"It doesn't look like there is much hope. There just wasn't any definitive answer." Geil Hamilton, Classified Officer, president, said after the meeting.
Classified employees include secretaries, janitors and professionals, other than faculty members, who have master's degrees.
"The first opportunity that ought to be looked to is the severance tax," Solbach said.
Classified employees have received a 6.5 percent cost-of-living increase. The Merit Plan Plan would add a six-month standard and a three-sten raise.
Schulte and Charlton agreed that the severance tax could ease the lack of funds responsible for the frozen merit plan proposal.
BRANSON DISCUSSED the possibilities of imposing sales and gas taxes as methods to patch state deficiencies in 'Band-Aid型 situation' .
tax passed was the first and best hope for raising revenue.
Lamborn said that increased funds for classified employees would be contingent upon the national economic situation.
He said that: getting the severance
Hamilton said that the candidates were very supportive of the classified employees and were just as frustrated as they were.
Lamborn, Charlton back severance tax in forum
BY JOEL THORNTON
Staff Reporter
Passage of a severance tax is a crucial step toward solving the state's budget problems, candidates for the 4th Congressional District said yes.
Democratic incumbent Betty Jo Charlton and Republican challenger Doug Lamborn agreed that passage of the tax, which was defeated in the Kansas Senate earlier this year, would bolster funding for state agencies.
especially the University of Kansas.
Students of Kansas proposal in which the state would help subsidize jobs for college students in private businesses and merited consideration by the state.
programs for the elderly.
LAMBORN SAID an Associated
He also raised the possibility of supporting cuts in several state agencies, but said Regents schools and colleges could cut last year would not be affected.
The candidates squared off last night in a shootout sponsored by the KU Classified Senate.
Charlton she would not favor increasing personal property or corporate income taxes until a severance tax by the next session of the Legislature.
Charlton, however, said the ASK proposal would not help liberal arts and sciences students as much as business students.
Charlton disagreed, saying that the repeal of franchise taxes would force local governments to raise other taxes, such as property taxes.
To combat financial problems for the elderly, Lamborn said, the state should eliminate a city's power to levy a tax on residents' gas bills is added to residents' gas bills.
both candidates said the state's financial woes could hurt its ability to fund social programs that had been reduced by the federal government, such as student financial aid and programs for the elderly.
Lamborn said he would favor alternative measures, such as increases in alcohol, cigarette and motor vehicle use.
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