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THE UNIV KANSAN TOPEKA, KS 66612
VOL.104.NO.117
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1995
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Jayhawks get top seed in Midwest
By Christoph Fuhrmans Kansan sportswriter
The No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks received the Midwest No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament yesterday, despite losing to Iowa State Saturday in the second round of the Big Eight Tournament.
Men's Basketball
Noah Musser, KANSAN
The Red Raiders will be making their first NCAA tournament appearance.
NCAA
The Jayhawks play the 16th-seeded Colgate Red Raiders, who won the automatic bid from the Patriot League.
Kansas will play Thursday afternoon at the University
BRACKETS:
Men'sand women's tournament brackets:
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of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio.
CBS will announce the specific time for Kansas' game today. If the Jayhawks win, they will play either Western Kentucky or Michigan on Saturday.
Noah Musser, KANSAN
Most Jayhawk fans have unpleasant memories of Dayton because of Kansas' loss to the University of Texas-El Paso as a No.1 in 1992.
The other Midwest first-round site was Austin, Texas — Kansas coach Roy Williams' first choice.
"I wanted to go to Austin because it was warmer — that's the only reason," he said. "Since they put us in Dayton, I'm dumb enough to be positive about that, too. I want to go up there and erase those bad memories."
Kansas center Scott Pollar falls in front of Iowa State center Loren Meyer while trying to block a shot. Kansas lost the game 80-72 in overtime, and Iowa State fell to Oklahoma State in the finals, 62-53.
"At that point I felt that we would be either a No.1 or No.2 seed," he said. "I didn't feel like it was that big of a difference."
Williams said that he began thinking about the Jayhawks' tournament seeding after defeating No. 19 Oklahoma State for the regular-season conference title.
The No.2 seed in the Midwest is defending national champion Arkansas. But the Razorbacks and Jayhawks would not play each other until the regional final at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
NCAA tournament the hottest ticket in town
By Sarah Morrison
Kansan staff writer
It isn't called March Madness for nothing.
It isn't called March Madness for nothing.
The combination of 64 teams battling to become the college basketball national champions, improbable upsets and buzzer-beating game-winning shots leave even the most docile fan frotting at the mouth.
But to many fans, finding tickets to the games can be every bit as maddening as the games themselves.
The chances of KU students getting tickets to the men's basketball first-round games in Dayton, Ohio, are slim, said Bernie Kish, director of ticket sales and operations for KU's Athletic Department.
The department will hold a lottery this morning to distribute tickets to first-round games to students, faculty and staff who
entered the lottery. The deadline to enter was in February.
"For first-round games, chances of getting tickets are grim for everybody," Kish said. "We only get 350 tickets for first-round games."
Of those 350 tickets, the ticket office must first provide tickets for the band, cheerleaders, the Crimson girls, mascots and players' family members. After that, 65 percent of the remaining tickets go to William's Foundation donors, 20 percent go to students and 15 percent go to faculty and staff.
"We feel the lottery is a very fair process," Kish said. "At a lot of schools, students don't get any tickets. We feel students are very important, and we want to take them on the road with us if we can."
Kish said students' chances for getting tickets to regional games at Kemper arena in
Kansas City were much better if the Jayhawks advanced that far. The ticket office receives 1,250 tickets for those games, he said.
Jennifer Hartung, Lenexa junior, said she hoped to be one of the few KU students to get tickets to the first-round games this weekend. Watching the Jayhawks play outside of the confines of Allen Field House would be a unique opportunity, she said.
"I am really hoping to go to a first-round game to see part of the tournament," she said. "It's a totally different experience because you're surrounded by so many people cheering for other teams. It's good to see Kansas fans get together and cheer for their team."
A list of winners will be posted by the ticket in Allen Field House by 10 a.m. Those who are chosen to receive tickets
must contact the ticket office and pay for their tickets by tomorrow, or the tickets will go to someone else, Kish said. The tickets cost $90.
Because of the high demand for tickets to NCAA tournament games, many fans turn to scalpers. One ticket vendor in Kansas City, whose number was listed in the classified section of the Lawrence Journal-World, is selling tickets to first-round games in Dayton for as much as $400 a ticket.
Despite the temptation to resell her ticket for a profit, Hartung said if she got a ticket, she would go to the game.
"Now is the only time in your life that you will be able to get tickets at such a reasonable price," she said. "I want to take advantage of it now and experience the tournament as a layawk fan."
Budget stirs up debate
By Virginia Marghelm
Kansan staff writer
As administrators watch the Legislature decide the fate of the University of Kansas' budget, an old debate about KU's control over its budget has resurfaced.
The Legislature decides how many tuition and state tax dollars to use for the University's budget and how it will be spent. In the past, when there has been an increase in KU's budget, the increase usually has come from tuition, said Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor.
This works to students' disadvantage, said Lindy Eakin, associate vice chancellor for administration and finance.
"It means that the students are paying greater parts of the school's budget," Eakin said.
Allowing KU more control over setting its own tuition would give the University more control over spending, Meyen said.
The current process makes it hard for the University to respond to changes in enrollment, Eakin said.
Because the Legislature sets KU's budget in advance, enrollment increases are not accounted for, said Jon Josserand, assistant for government relations.
If more students enroll in the fall than were expected, the University may need more resources to account for the increase. But the Legislature doesn't convene until January, so KU has to just suffer through the semester, Josserand said.
Josserman said that the Legislature benefited when tuition revenues were rising. This is because KU's budget needs can be met with fewer tax dollars.
Another problem is that KU has to estimate its fees too far in advance, Eakin said.
The Board of Regents asks KU to project what its tuition revenue will be for two years at a time. The Legislature then bases KU's budget on those figures.
But if enrollment is higher or lower than projected, the University has no way of making up for the shortfall.
But it is easier to point out problems with the current system than to find a better system, Eakin said. Many other states give their colleges and universities more local control over their tuition and budget, but finding a similar system that would work for KU could be a hard task.
The bottom line is that KU's system needs improvement. Faskin said
"It's not a very good system for us," he said.
The Kansas baseball team won two out of three games this weekend against the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Business students find little power in new PCs
By Paul Todd
Kansan staff writer
In Catherine Shenoy's business computing class, it's the computers that haven't been working very hard, not the students.
The class, Business 248, is taught in the Harper Classroom, which is the new Macintosh lab in Summerfield Hall. But occasional network glitches and human errors have caused frustration among the students.
The first time the class turned on the computers, the network crashed, rendering the new Power PCs useless.
"The first time I told everybody to turn them on and use them was the first time they went down," said Shenoy, assistant professor of business.
Shenoy said the network was late being installed because Apple did not ship out the computers on time. The School of Business decided to go ahead and offer the class in the spring because administrators thought the lab would be up and running.
The lab was indeed up, but it was more like crawling.
When they added so many computers and started using them all the time, the network had problems."
Shenoy said. "It went down unexpectedly."
Clint Bradley, Agra junior, said the computer malfunctions were frustrating because the students needed to use the lab on Fridays to work on their projects while an instructor was present.
"We spend a lot of time in class not being able to do anything because the computers are down," Bradley said.
"On Fridays we work on our projects, and if the computers are down we can't ask the teacher questions," he said. "We have to do our projects another time when they are not around and have to learn it ourselves."
Bradley said he and his classmates were guinea pigs because they were the first class in the new lab.
"I feel like I'm learning a lot," he said. "It's just frustrating when things like this happen."
"We have a problem with people coming in and deleting software," Shenor said.
The lab is open to all KU students, and sometimes the programs on the computers that the business students use get erased by other students using the Macs, causing more delays for students and the teacher.
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The following is a list of computer facilities at KU's professional schools:
Computer comparisons
School of Fine Arts — 40 Macintoshes in Art and Design building, seven Macintoshes in music and dance department.
School of Architecture — 10 Macintoshes, 10 DOS. Open to Architecture students only.
School of Social Welfare — One Macintosh
School of Pharmacy — Two Macintheses. Open to Pharmacy students only.
School of Journalism — 56 Macintoshes
School of Education — 25 Macintoshes in two labs. Open to all students unless reserved for an education class.
School of Engineering — 23 Hewett Packards, 30 Clones, 20 Suns, 12 Apollo DN 4000, 25 Mac intoshes. Open to engineering students only.
School of Law - Seven Zenthis, two Machitoshes, three Central Data Systems. Open to Law students only.