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VOL. 115 ISSUE 28
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2004
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Details of Perkins' contract disclosed
BY MIRANDA LENNING
mlenning@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Kansas Athletics Director Lew Perkins and Chancellor Robert Hemenway released the details of Perkins' contract on Friday afternoon. Perkins could make as much as $545,000 yearly, but no less than $520,000. He will also earn an additional $1.3 million if he stays until June 2009.
The Lawrence Journal-World filed a lawsuit against the University of Kansas in January 2004 after it refused to disclose the details of Perkins' contract.
The University held that the Kansas Open Records Act protects those documents from the public.
PERKINS
After nine months of litigation,
Douglas County District Court
Judge Jack Murphy ruled a week ago that the University must release those documents by Oct. 18, 2004.
The University said it might appeal the court's decision, but on Friday, Hemenway a nd Perkins met with the press to discuss the details of Perkins' contract. Hemenway said they did not file an appeal to the court's ruling because
Concert promotes voting
PAYING THE AD
A breakdown of Athletics Director Lew Perkins' compensation and the source of the money:
Base Salary
Chris Miller/KANSAN
$420,000
■ Media payment
$100,000
■ Potential Bonus
$25,000
■ Total Annual Compensation
$545,000
Some of the events include congressional candidates discussing issues on Wescoe Beach, a presidential debate watch and even a "Wear your favorite political slogan" day.
Folmsbee signed up for an advance ballot and changed his address from Shawnee county to Douglas County at the concert.
“It's handy for me,” he said. "If I didn't run into this, I probably wouldn't be voting."
All payments are made through the University payroll system.
Source: KU Athletics Department
He earns a yearly base salary of $420,000 and an additional $100,000 in media payments. The Chancellor can also reward Perkins with a $25,000 bonus if he thinks the athletic department is successful.
Sources of funding:
Sources of funding:
■ State Funds
$165,000
■ KUAC Funds
$210,000
■ Chancellor's
KUEA Funds
$170,000
■ Total Funding
$545,000
If Perkins stays at the University until June 30,2009, he will receive a payment of $1.3 million. The payment is funded by the KUAC.
"People have been brewing around town that there is some deep dark secret angel that puts money into the athletic corporations to pay Lew Perkins' salary." Hemenway said. "That's not true. We wanted to put it all out there and let the numbers speak for themselves."
"Young people are volunteering more and more, but they're not voting more," Wolff said.
they didn't have anything to hide.
Yesterday's concert was the kick-off event of Civic Literacy Week, a week sponsored by SLAB, Student Senate, Lawrence Rock the Vote and the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics that encourages students' civic involvement through events going on around campus all week.
"My goal is to make it so that civic literacy becomes a topic of discussion on campus," she said.
SEE PERKINS ON PAGE 5A
Topeka senior Kuma Folmsbee will be voting this year after yesterday's concert promoting civic literacy run by the Student Legislative Awareness Board.
The Mark Lyda Combo performed at this Sunday's "Rock the Vote" concert. From left, Mark Lyda, Lawrence senior, and Rick Evanhoe, Lawrence senior.
Civil Literacy Week begins by mixing performance, policy
BY ANDY HYLAND
ahyland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
That's the goal for Katie Wolff, Shawnee senior and chair of SLAB.
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SEE CONCERT ON PAGE 6A
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LEFT:
Robert Steele, Kansas City, Kan. senior; and Marland Chang, Wichita sophomore, rehearse for Still Life with Iris Tuesday evening at Murphy Hall.
carter Waite, Amber Waves cast member,
delivers his lines onstage at the Crafton-Prever
Theatre. Opening night is Friday.,
Theatre faces declining audience
BY STEPHANIE FALEY
sfarley@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The KU Theatre for Young People is celebrating-its 50th anniversary, but audience numbers are lacking for one of the Theatre's upcoming shows, Still Life With Iris
Jeanne Klein, director of KU Theatre for Young People, said the new show, Still Life With Iris, targeted children in fourth, fifth and sixth grades.
Klein said 450 children were scheduled to attend the performances. She said a total of
Reality Rosei, which targeted first to fourth grades, had a total audience of 2,214 children. Both the Lawrence School District and rural schools are included in the total number of students.
1,379 children from Lawrence and surrounding schools attended Where To, Turelu,the last show the Theatre did that targeted the same age group.
Klein said she thought one cause for the plummeting numbers of children was cuts in school funding.
SEE THEATRE ON PAGE 6A
Playwright inspired by small town life
When distinguished playwright James Still wrote his award-winning play Amber Waves, it was the first time he had ever written about his roots.
BY COURTNEY GRIMWOOD
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORPORATION
"Usually, we want to be transported to far away places." Still said.
Waves, Still celebrates the Midwestern voice and way of life, while honoring the where he came from and the people he grew up with.
Still was born in Emporia, and grew up in Pomona, two primarily agricultural towns in Kansas.
But this play hits home. Through Amber
"I was so hungry to see myself and to give dignity to a way of life that's rapidly disappearing." he said.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
The University of Kansas Theatre for Young People will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this week. Nathaniel S, Eek, former director of the University's Experimental Theatre, will speak on the "Origins of KU Theatre for Young People" on 7 p.m. Friday before the 8 p.m. performance of Amber Waves. James Still, author of Amber Waves, will speak on "Why Theatre for Young People Matters to KU" on 7 p.m. Saturday. All performances and presentations will be in the Crafton-Preyre Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Children's theatre at the University began in 1954 with Rumpelstiltskin performed by the University Players, a student group, in March. Huckleberry Finn followed in July for the celebration of Lawrence's Centennial.
Nathaniel Eek and Sally Six Hersh, founder and former Theatre for Young People, proposed to Allen Crafton, chairman for speech and drama department, that children's theatre and creative drama become a part of the speech and drama degree program.
Land of the Dragon, which ran in 1955, was the first department-sponsored production of the KU Theatre for Young People.
Jeanne Klein became director of the theatre for Young People in 1986. KU Theatre for Young People puts on two productions every year. One production targets grades one through three and the other targets four through six. In addition to two productions, the theatre offers post-performance workshops to schools and after-school drama classes to elementary students.
SEE PLAYWRIGHT ON PAGE 6A
Source: University Relations
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Editor's Day
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Mears spoke Saturday at the Kansas Editor's Day, held at the Kansas Union. PAGE 3A
Cross Country
The men's cross country team comes up with a top 10 finish at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minnesota over the weekend. PAGE 1B
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