University Daily Kansan, August 26, 1982
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Football ticket sales increase because of student incentives
By DARRELL PRESTON Staff Reporter
This year's junior class bought 50 percent more football tickets on the first day of ticket sales than they bought last year as sophomores, the KU ticket manager announced yesterday.
Ticket sales yesterday, the first day tickets were offered to juniors, totalled 1350 this year. As sophomores, the same class bought 860 tickets and received $1200 em, ticket manager and assistant director of the Williams Fund.
Sales of tickets to seniors increased 15 percent over last year, from 733 to 850
The Jayhawk's winning season last year, the lagging economy and new athletic director Jim Lessig's push to get more students to attend KU games are factors which have all contributed to the ticket sales, according to Komzom
"Before Lessig, Parent's Day was only a name on a ticket," Konzem said.
This year for Parent's Day, Oct. 2, there will be open seating in Memorial Stadium, allowing parents to sit with their children, and Bob Hope will entertain parents and students in the evening.
Konzem said the Parent's Day changes were intended to make the day more of an event.
“Other than pregame activities, there wasn’t anything to keep people here there wasn’t anything really special,” Konzem was. “Also, it was another way for me to get up and drive all that way and not get to sit with their student.”
The Parent's Day events are two ways the athletic department is trying to increase ticket sales. A tailgate party for the first game, a free shuttle bus from Dauis Hill to Memorial Stadium, other tickets are other ways it is trying to bring more students to the games.
Konzen said the free shuttle bus, which would be available to residence hall students with KUIDs, to encourage students in residence hall residents to clicktickets.
"The Greek system tends to have a higher percentage of ticket buyers." Konzem said, "so we decided to try to encourage dorm residents to come to games by selling tickets in the dorms and offering them transgender options."
position in the sales department.
New marketing techniques have helped increase ticket sales, Konzem said. Last spring the athletic
department decided to offer an All/Sports Ticket for this year. For $45, a student can see six home football games and basketball games in the season.
The department started selling them last spring, and also offered them at freshman orientation last summer.
The economy is one reason the athletic department is trying to increase ticket sales, and it is also the reason many jackets are being sold.
"With all the competition for the entertainment dollar / from the Chiefs, the Royals, and other entertainment sources / we have to be visible and aggressive in our promotions." he said.
The economy has encouraged people to stay close to home for entertainment, he said.
After tickets are sold to sophomores today and freshmen tomorrow, they will be on sale in front of Wescoe and in residence halls next week.
"Close-to-home events are up in attendance, while attendance at tourist attractions is down. Lower transportation costs and lower priced tickets encourage this," Konzem said.
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Baldwin octogenarian leaps at life; skydiving keeps him feeling younger
By DAN PARELMAN Staff reporter
M o s t p e o p l e avoid excess excitement so that they might live long lives. Paul Luckan is more long life, but he isn't like meat folks.
Earlier this month, at the age of 63, Luckan jumped out of a single engine plane at 2,800 feet on purpose. It may seem unusual that a man who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1923 would pull a stunt worthy of the most rambunctious 1983 Freshman. Parachuting to the lake, Baldwin resident and Lawrence native, who believes staying active is the key to staying young.
"For many people, the old rocking chair is more dangerous than the modern one."
Luckan recalled his days as president of the student council with pride. The student council campaigned for him, and he became a new building for Lawrence High.
Lackan discussed his active life at Brecheisen's hardware store in Baldwin, one of the stops on his rounds about town.
His friends at Baker University told him about their parachuting attempts at the Greene County Sport Parachutist School, where he said. Luckan decided that parachuting
In those days, Luckan recalled, he loved sports as much as he does today. He knew Forest C. "Phog" Allen, legendary KU basketball coach, and was a friend of many of Allen's players. He also met the inventor of basketball, James Naismith, and was a Naismith family friend.
was nothing an elderly man couldn't do. So he took five hour parachuting lessons at the parachute club. So he was muscle tired but ready to jump.
"I came home like an early season football plover." he said.
Paul Lacken, president of the 1918 Lawrence High School student council, was quickly invited to the halftime ceremony.
While Luckan practiced for the big jump, his friends told him not to do it.
Merle Venable, head football coach at Baldwin High School, was one friend opposed to Lucken'sanut's idea, asking the team to support Lucken vowed to jump "for the team."
Luckan, who assists Venable with football, travels with the team to all its away games and and is on hand in the game to come to help players with minor injuries.
Luckan is also a fan of Lawrence football. He attends KU home games and was honored at last year's Lawrence High School Leavetown
When Lawrence High School decided to honor his past student council presidents since 1920, Luckan asked the organizer of the honoring ceremony why he didn't invite students who served as presidents before 1920.
One of his fondest memories was the day in 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt was in Lawrence to dedicate a fountain at North Park. What is now South Park, Lucken said,
He and a friend climbed on top of a nearby house to get a better look at Roosevelt. People shouted at Lucken and his friend to get off the roof. When he and his friend moved, the tin on the roof became overgrown, and the people couldn't hear Roosevelt.
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Luckan recalled. "I said, 'There's one that's not.'"
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