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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.104,NO.119
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1995
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Ticket lottery has puny results
By Brian Vandervliet
Kansan staff writer
Don't expect a thundering "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk" cheer from the student section when the men's basketball team plays the Colgate Red Raiders tomorrow.
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Of the 164 students who entered the lottery for tickets to the first and second-round games in Dayton, Ohio, 33 students won. But only three students paid the $90 for the tickets before yesterday's noon deadline.
Bernie Kish, director of ticket
sales and operations, said that all students who applied were notified that the lottery winners' names would be posted in Allen Field House at 10 a.m. March 13 and that the $90 would be due at noon the next day. The deadline to enter the lottery was in February.
John Gollier, a second-year medical student at the University of Kansas Medical Center, was one of the three who won and paid for the tickets. He said he was disappointed more students weren't going, but he was excited about the games.
few weeks." he said.
Gollier said he would leave for Ohio tonight with friends Eric Peters and Todd Morrison, both second-year medical students. Peters won a ticket in the lottery, and Morrison was given a ticket by an alumnus.
"It sounds like we're in charge of the student delegation," Gollier said. "We're big fans, so we're looking forward to it."
"In January, you think you can go anywhere, but in reality things come up," Kish said. "I don't think it has anything to do with lack of student support."
Kish said the long drive to Dayton and the prospect of missing classes probably had kept some students from paying for their tickets.
Kish said that if Kansas won its first two games, the lottery winners of tickets to the games in Kemper Arena would be posted in Allen Field House at 10 a.m. Monday. The tickets must be paid for by the following day at noon. About 200 students will be selected from the 485 who applied. Tickets not paid for by students will be sold to Williams' Foundation donors.
Road to the Tournament
"If we are fortunate enough to go to Kansas City, we want a good
group of students," Kish said. "They certainly add to the game."
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Daters know best pick-up spots
Lawrence has many places for students on the prowl
By Robert Allen Kansan staff writer
It's almost spring. The weather is warming up, and the sweaters are coming off.
And single students are on the prowl.
But where do students go to look for that someone special?
Bars are the most common place in Lawrence to pick up members of the opposite sex — or perhaps the same sex
Seth Mowe, Overland Park junior, recommends several bars.
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Tally Guy, Omaha, Neb., graduate student, and Jana Perry, Overland Park senior, talk at the Crossing, 618 W. 12th St. Bars such as the Crossing are good places for students to meet each other.
Others, however, are skeptical of the people who frequent bars.
"Usually Johnny's is a good place to go," he said. "A lot of girls like to go there on Friday and Saturday nights. Stumble Inn is usually pretty good or Dos Hombres on Wednesday nights."
Jesse Clover, Ann Arbor, Mich., sophomore, said that he went to Club Surrender, 806 W. 24th St., when he was in the mood to see and be seen.
Lawrence dance clubs are another option,but students have mixed reactions to them.
You can't find a good guy at a "bar," said Trina Raney, Overland Park freshman. "They're all drunk and just want you for one thing."
"It's a good way to get on the floor and show chicks your moves." he said.
But Karen Young, St. Louis sophomore, was not enthusiastic about Oz, 1601 W. 23rd St., another dance club in Lawrence.
'Hey, baby, what's your line?'
Students who don't care for either bars or clubs have found other, more unusual places. Erin
"Iattempted it once," she said. "I don't recommend it. Mulligan's is good. It's more laid back, and you can sit around and talk."
See HOT SPOTS, Page 5A.
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
"Sometimes I ask 'Do you believe in free love?'" he said
Pick-up lines. Everyone has heard them; some people rely on them to break the ice. But many popular pick-up lines earn more laughs than dates.
Eric Gruth, St. Charles, III., sophomore, doesn't mind if one of his favorite pick-up lines makes girls laugh because they usually end up going out with him afterward, he said.
"I will walk up to a girl in the freezer section of a grocery store and say, 'You're so hot you could
Gruth also uses a vintage 1970s pick-up line on par with the famous and overused king of pick-up lines: "Hey, baby, what is your sign?"
melt everything in here," he said. "They usually laugh, but then they will give me their names and numbers."
"There's a party in my pants,and you're the guest of honor."
A memorable ice breaker
Occasionally it works, but even if it doesn't, he usually converses with the person about the concept of free love for a while, he said. Karen Young, St. Louis freshman, said the most memorable pick-up line she ever heard came during a spring break trip to Cancun, Mexico.
"Some guy came up and said 'Is your Dad a baker? Because he makes great buns'" she said. The art of pick-up lines may be fading, Young said.
think they are all used up', she said. Natasha Shafer, Denver senior, has a few lines of her own that she uses in retaliation to a bad pick-up line,
"They are all kind of crappy. I think they are all used up," she said.
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KU may bear brunt of cuts
Student hourly positions and classes could be causalities of budget trimming
By Virginia Marghelm Kansan staff writer
The Kansas House yesterday passed a version of the Regents' budget that would cut $5.8 million from the Regents institutions' budgets.
The bill passed the House 65-58, bringing it one step closer to reality. The Senate and Gov. Bill Graves must approve the bill before it becomes law.
KU would receive more than half the reductions with a $3.4 million cut. Most of the cuts are due to the Legislature's decision to not replace KU's tuition shortfall.
The vote to cut KU's budget was a drastic aboutface for the Legislature, said Lindy Eakin, associate executive vice chancellor. In the past, the Legislature has replaced money lost from tuition shortfalls. The Legislature's sudden policy change left KU unprepared for cuts, Eakin said.
State Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, voted against the bill. He said that the Regents' budget was being dealt with harshly because it was the first budget to come out of the House Appropriations Committee this session. The legislators were hesitant to replace tuition shortfalls because their pride was involved, Sloan said.
State Rep. Troy Findley, D-Lawrence, agreed. Findley also voted against the bill.
Findley said that the conservative mentality in the Legislature was to make cuts. The approval of the cuts to the Regents budget shows that the conservatives are intent on sticking to their guns, he said.
If the Legislature sticks to its guns, KU will suffer wounds.
David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that KU's budget was slim already and that a budget cut would affect KU adversely.
"There's no way you can hide a cut that big in a budget that is as tight as
it is," Shulenburger said. "We don't have刀 to cut out."
But if the Senate passes the proposed Regents budget, KU will have to find some way to cut spending.
The task of cutting the University's budget would be difficult, Eakin said.
Although the proposed cuts of $3.4 million only compose about 2 percent of the University's budget, it would be hard to cut that much, Eakin said. About 80 percent of KU's budget is locked into salaries. Graduate teaching assistants who already have been hired and tenured professors cannot be let go so that leaves the University to make all of the cuts in about 20 percent of its budget, Eakin said.
Shulenburger said that many of the cuts likely would fall to academic affairs. Some things that could be cut include supplies, student hourly positions and class offerings, he said.
Asking the entire University to cut its budget by 2 percent is not a feasible solution, Eakin said. Instead, the administration would have to look for entire programs and activities that could be cut.
The University expects to lose money when its enrollment drops, Eakin said. But the proposed cuts are disproportionate to the enrollment drop. Enrollment this spring is down 839 students from last spring, but the drop in students who pay out-of-state tuition was disproportionately large, Eakin said.
Because only about 30 percent of KU's students are from outside Kansas, the drop caused the tuition revenues to drop disproportionately. Eakin said.
Findley said that he was disappointed that the bill passed the House. In passing the budget, the Legislature is placing another obstacle in front of college students, Findley said.
"Students will bear the burden," he said.
Crispin Glover brings multimedia show to KU
Sex expert Jay Friedman's romantic advice may have sounded corny, but it was supposed to.
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By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
Slides, film and book readings highlight surreal performance of versatile actor and author
Students saw Crispin Hellion Glover dabble in the surreal last night in a full Kansas Union Ballroom.
Glover, a popular actor who played George McFly in "Back to the Future," performed a multimedia show that featured slides of his books and a 30-minute film entitled "The Orkly Kid."
The slides, from which Glover read, were projected above him.
Glover has long, black hair and was attired in a black suit. A yellow spotlight shined down on him while he read from his works.
Among his books he read from were "Concrete Inspection," "Rat Catching," "The New World" and "Round My House."
Glover's books are based on works from the 19th century that he has reworked into his own surreal stories.
"Concrete Inspection" was the first book he read from.
Conifer inspection was the first book I read from "Mom should've trusted her instincts and looked in the place she thought of," Glover read in an edgy voice that sounded as if on the verge of crying.
The audience was never told what the mother was looking for in the story.
The story was about a family trip to the zoo. The mother of the family had forgotten something on the trip and had to hire an inspector to find it. She was given advice by many people about what to do.
Glover also showed pictures of people half eaten by the habonic plague and chickens during "Rat Catching."
"The snowshoe hare is a cross between a rabbit and a snow drift," he informed the audience.
In "Rat Catching," Glover gave the audience disjointed information about catching rodents, often adding phrases that were completely off the topic.
"Chickee!" Glover screamed when a picture of a chick was on the screen.
While reading from "The New World," Glover talked of how the character Mr. Long was thinking about sex with his wife and sex during his childhood.
"Goodbye Mr. Long, we always hated you," Glover said at the end of the reading.
While reading "Round My House," Glover mentioned that he had a pet anorexic hermaphrodite he liked very much.
In "The Orkly Kid," Glover played an erratic teen-ager who enjoyed bell-bottom pants.
One night, his character put on a long, blond wig and high-heeled shoes and danced disco on top of a rocky hill.
Jeff Engel, Springfield, Mo., senior, was impressed by Glover's performance.
"I think it's exceptional, and I think he's very intelligent," he said. "I didn't know a lot about what he's done, but I'm very pleased."