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FOOTBALL
VOLUME 120 ISSUE 5
Ticket sales: from in line to online
Students line up outside Allen Fieldhouse to buy tickets to the KU vs. MU football game last year. Some students waited in line for hours and others even camped out the night before so that they could be first in line to get seats.
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Athletics Department changes pickup procedure for Kansas-Missouri game at Arrowhead
BY B.J. RAINS rains@kansan.com
Matt Willems remembers waiting in line for hours last year to get his ticket for the Kansas-Missouri football game at Arrowhead Stadium. Willems, Lawrence senior and long-time KU sports fan, remembers watching as people walked up to the window with as many as 100 KUIDs and bought a ticket with each one of them. And he remembers going to the game, having no fun and telling himself that he wouldn't be going back next year.
To avoid last year's muddled ticket distribution, which caused some students to wait in line for more than six hours to secure their ticket for the Border Showdown, the Athletics Department has changed how it will sell student tickets for this year's Nov. 29 matchup against Missouri. No longer will students wanting to buy a ticket for the game have to wait in line. Instead, the coveted student tickets will be sold exclusively online at www.kuathletics.com.
"It was by far the worst ticket procedure pickup that I had ever had, either at KU or somewhere else," Willems said. "The whole ticket process last year kind of soured me on the whole game and it turned out to just be a prelude to the real problem, which was the game itself. I think they kind of heard the cry of the masses and changed it enough that now, the people that want to go have a fair shot at getting a ticket to go this year."
Tickets will sell online for $10 from Sept.
8 to Sept. 12. Only 3,000 tickets have been set aside for students, though more than 8,000 students have bought season tickets in past years. Students who buy their tickets online must print out a voucher and take both the voucher and their KUID to Arrowhead Stadium on game day to receive their ticket. Students wishing to sit with friends must go
to the ticket window at Arrowhead at the same time.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said the new system would work better for students.
"This is certainly an easier and fairer way to do it," Marchiony said.
All-Sports Combo ticketholders should receive an e-mail from the department soon with details about the purchase procedure. The tickets will also be available to any student who wishes to buy one because the game is not a part of the University's season ticket package.
going to the game with a friend and scalping the other 13 tickets like last year," Willems said. "I think as far as distributing tickets, this was the way to do it."
Last year, there was no limit to how many tickets students could buy for the Missouri game as long as they had a KUJD for each ticket they wanted to purchase. As the line outside the Allen Fieldhouse ticket office stretched down Naismith Drive, students cut in line with their friends or held spots for friends who were in class.
Now students will be able to purchase only one ticket for themselves, and they won't be able to receive the ticket until right before they enter the stadium on game day.
"There won't be people buy 15 tickets with their friends' student IDs and then
In addition to problems obtaining tickets, fans faced crowded parking lots and lengthy traffic jams before last year's game. With ongoing construction at Kauffman and Arrowhead stadiums, this year could be even worse.
"If everyone shows up two minutes before the game then obviously they are going to be late," Marchiony said. "We're encouraging people to get there early, especially because
of the construction going on out there. It would really be wise to get there early and get into the stadium early."
When tickets go on sale next week, one person who won't be buying one will be Willems. Instead, he plans on going to a local bar and watching the game with friends.
"Besides the whole ticket problem, the parking and crowd control were both terrible as well," Willems said. "The whole game experience was just awful last year. I don't plan to go."
KUPEDIA
KU wiki moves to a new Web location
Edited by Mary Sorrick
Site drops prefix, ties to former Student Senate coalition to form independent organization
BY HALEY JONES hjones@kansan.com
KUpedia, formerly WiKUpedia, was renamed and changed its Web address as the site's administrators refocused their efforts to be an all-in-one resource about everything related to the University.
The wiki was originally an initiative of former Student Senate coalition ConnectKU during the 2008 Student Senate elections. After the elections, the project was removed from the ConnectKU
The site's administrators are bulking up information on student organizations to help incoming freshmen get involved in student life in Lawrence.
Web site and administrators registered a domain name of www.kupedia.org. Jack Connor, Overland Park senior and KUpedia president, said KUpedia was its own entity and no longer had connections with the former coalition ConnectKU.
He said the site already had 73 articles about various student organizations.
Caleb Zahnd, St. Joseph, Mo., alumnus and KUpedia administrator, said he contributed regularly to the site's general information about the University.
Dan Holmes, Olathe senior, said the section on KU history was another area the site's administrators wanted to improve. Holmes said the site was updated often and that just last weekend, students contributed several new articles to the section.
"We have a pretty decent section, but we don't have every single one." Connor said.
"Since I'm an alumni, I was there several years before anybody who is there now." Zahnd said. "So I have somewhat of a more historical perspective on certain things."
The wiki is written by students and community members and managed by the KUpedia Project, a registered student organization.
Connor said the main thing administrators and editors of the site were working on
was getting the word out about how easy it was to use, edit and add to the site.
KUpeda has a partnership with KU Info. Connor said Curtis Marsh, KU Info director, liked the KUpeda Web site and wanted to do cross promotions with it to increase awareness of both sites. KUpeda features a KU Info Tip of the Day on its home page. The KU Info site also has a link to KUpeda.
Zahnd said anyone could edit or contribute to KUpedia, but he strongly encouraged people to register as users because of the benefits.
Unregistered users have to enter a confirmation code every time they want to make a change and are not able to edit certain pages like Chancellor Robert Hemenway's page or football coach Mark Mangino's page.
Zahnd said pages were protected if they had been vandalized or were a strong candidate for pranks. The site tracks the IP addresses of visitors' computers to discourage abuse of the wiki.
He said KUpedia was still in the development stage.
"We're working on student awareness and getting everything covered," Zahnd said. "It's not even hardly a year old yet.
WHAT IS IT? Wiki web site defined
A wiki is a type of Web site that allows the visitors to add, remove and sometimes edit the site's content. It is a collaborative effort that allows multiple people to contribute to the production of a long-term database about a certain topic.
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It's an infant."
"It's how the University really is as seen through students and alumni and people that really matter there," Connor said.
Connor said the wiki offered a student's view of the University to other students.
Edited by Lauren Keith
Latest GI bill will give more benefits
MILITARY
A new GI bill was passed in June by President Bush. The new bill will go into effect in August 2009 and will cover college expenses for veterans who served after Sept 11.
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RESEARCH
Teams use zero gravity for projects
KU students explored NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston this summer. Three student teams tested their experiments in zero gravity.
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