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SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
VOL.115 ISSUE 42
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2004
www.kansan.com
KU students wait in line to receive this season's men's basketball tickets. Matt Stern, Arlington Heights, Ill., junior, was near the front of the line, and said he skipped classes to get the tickets. "The line for getting tickets is longer than the line to get into a game, but it's worth it because we are going to win this year." Stern said. He waited for more than two hours in his pajamas with his friends.
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Panic causes lines for tickets
BY ROSS FITCH AND MIRANDA LENNING
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITERS
Ryan Stos waited in line two and a half hours yesterday to pick up his men's basketball tickets.
Though annoyed and frustrated, Stos said KJUkasketball was worth the wait.
"The only reason I go here is KU basketball and drinking," said Sos,
Great Bend senior.
Students who arrived at the Allen Fieldhouse ticket office when it opened at 9 a.m. were able to quickly pick up their tickets. But from about 10 a.m. through most of the day, students waited anywhere from two to three and a half hours in line to redeem their vouchers. The long lines lasted until just after 5 p.m.
Most of the students in line were upset and annoyed.
"There were never lines like this last year," Lindsey Rippel, Topeka senior, said. "This is completely inefficient."
In previous years, students were given coupons that they exchanged for the actual tickets during redemption periods. This year students receive their tickets only after showing their KUID cards. Their names and ID numbers are then printed on the tickets.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics
director, said he expected the long lines.
"Part of why it's taking so long is that students are having multiple IDs and that's slowing the process down," Marchiony said.
He said some students brought as many as 30 IDs, but today the problem was limited. Beginning this morning, there will be at least two windows open specifically for students with just one ID.
He also said there are still plenty of
tickets available after yesterday's rush.
Many students brought ticket vouchers for friends along with their IDs. The process of entering all of the names and ID numbers into the computers kept the line at a slow crawl for most of the afternoon.
"The numbers were nowhere near lottery range," he said.
SEE TICKETS ON PAGE 5A
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Aaron Paden, left, Lawrence senior, and Ranjiit Arab, right, Lawrence graduate student, work on the follow up to their documentary on Mexicans in Kansas yesterday afternoon at the computer lab in the Dole Center.
Film to promote immigrant education
BY NIKLA ROWE
nrowe@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Ranjit Arab doesn't want another award — he wants people to be aware of the issues.
After winning two awards in June at the KAN Film Festival in Lawrence for his first documentary El Jardin, Arab, Lawrence graduate student, is working on a second film.
The first film focused on Garden City and educating children of Mexican immigrants there. There is a majority minority in Garden City
where more than 40 percent of the population is Mexican. Arab is working on another film that will focus on in-state tuition for undocumented students.
"The bottom line is that we're talking about people's lives," Arab said. "When you see the tug of war that we're playing with these students'
Arab wants the audience for this film to understand that whatever label people use — illegal alien, undocumented worker, foreigner — they are still talking about humans.
SEE MEXICAN ON PAGE 5A
Camera plans in works
New surveillance system would make campus safer
BY AMANDA O'TOLE
aotoolo@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Campus surveillance cameras are close to becoming a reality, as the KU Public Safety Office is in the process of approving a vendor to supply them. But it will be a while before students will be caught on tape.
Capt. Schuyler Bailey, KU Public Safety, said discussions about cameras have been happening for a few years, but two incidents involving weapons last year sped up the planning process.
Once a vendor is chosen, an engineering study will have to be completed to determine the number and the type of cameras that will be used. Rhonda Birdsong, KU public safety office public administrator and director of the program, said the safety office wants to be sure all areas of concern will be monitored. Those areas include parking lots and perimeters of the residence halls.
After that is done, student employees will be trained to monitor the cameras in a remote monitoring center. The location of the center has yet to be determined.
Birdsong said she didn't know how many employees it would take to run the center or where the money would come from to pay their wages.
SEE CAMERAS ON PAGE 5A
CAMERAS ON KU
The idea of camera surveillance has been at the University for a long time. But with weapon-involved incidents last year, the plans to install cameras have become more of a priority for the KU Public Safety Office. The cameras will be dispersed throughout campus in two phases.
Phase one. GSP-Corbin Hall and parking garage, Parking Lot 300 (Lied Center and Dole Center), perimeters of residence halls
Phase two: Two academic buildings, the Kansas Union, the Student Fitness Recreation Center, libraries
All plans are tentative and are not on a set schedule.
There are already cameras in place at Memorial Stadium and Allen Fieldhouse, which are used for crowd control during games.
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Director pokes fun at fatty fast food
BY AUSTIN CASTER acaster@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Morgan Spurlock said he thought it was ironic that McDonald's used professional tennis players in their advertisements.
He called the term health by association.
"Serena Williams doesn't drink two milk shakes before going on the court." Spurlock said.
He looked out at the audience, smirked, said, "Maybe she did," and left the punch line to the audience.
responsibility in food choices after screening his documentary Super Size Me last night at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
About 320 students and members of the Lawrence community showed up to see the award-winning director speak, said Megan Storm, social issues coordinator for Student Union Activities.
Spurlock used comedy to enforce personal
"We thought it would be socially relevant and entertaining." Storm said.
The Student Fitness Recreation Center, Watkins Memorial Health Center and Student Senate cooperated to sponsor the event.
The film, which cost about $65,000 to make.
has grossed more than $28 million worldwide and is the fourth highest grossing documentary ever. Sourlock said.
"The problem is we don't have enough education about food," Spurlock said.
Six weeks after the January 2004 release of the film at The Sundance Film Festival, McDonald's eliminated super size options. Snurlock said.
The day before Super Size Me was released in the United States, McDonald's introduced the "Go Active Adult Happn Meal."
The meal includes a salad, a bottle of water, a
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Flu Shots
Morgan
Spurlock, director of Super Size Me, greets an audience at Woodruff
Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Spurlock stopped at the University of Kansas last night for a screening of his movie, which shows the danger of eating too much fast food.
The University Daily Kansan
Student-athletes received free flu shots in the past, but not this year. With the low supply of the vaccine, many student-athletes will have to sweat it out this flu season. PAGE 10A
While Mark Mangino's special teams slowly begin showing on-field improvement, his other special team of sideline assistants have always been on top of the game. PAGE 10A
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