The team to beat Coaches seek weakness in No. 2-ranked Jayhawks See page 9.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1986, VOL 96, NO. 114 (USPS 650-640)
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Ticket sale draws host of loyal fans
By Frank Ybarra
Die-hard fans, carrying books, coolers and $32, begin arriving yesterday at Allen Field House almost 22 hours before tickets for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Midwest Region went on sale.
The tickets for the games this weekend at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo., are scheduled to go on sale at 8:30 this morning, but line numbers were passed out beginning at 5 a.m. yesterday.
Basketball fans filled a small area inside the north part of the field house. They brought potato chips, ordered pizzas, played music and watched television. The conversations ranged from talk about Dallas road trips to the mapping of strategy on how the Jayhawks should guard their next opponent, Michigan State.
The Jayhawks will play Michigan
State at 10 a.m. Friday in Kemper
state at 8 a.m. if you’re in Kenpiper
Richard Konzem, Williams Fund
director, said yesterday that about
10% of students will buy students to buy in the north lobby of the field house. The price of tickets is $32 for all three games.
By 7:30 last night about 60 line numbers had been passed out.
Konzem said it was possible — but doubtful — that a few more tickets would go on sale later this week if any of the three other teams in the Midwest Regional do not sell all of their tickets.
The University of Kansas,
Michigan State, North Carolina State
University and Iowa State University
are all授予 to the regional
instrument.
Konzem said he had talked to the other schools and didn't think any tickets would be left.
However, representatives from the four schools will meet on Thursday night to see whether any tickets will be left over. he said.
Even though everyone in the lobby seemed enthusiastic about the basketball team, some were a little
unhappy about the seat location and number of tickets being sold to students.
About 1,000 tickets were available to the University but, Konzem said, most were sold to fans other than students.
Thirty tickets were sold to students in the band and 12 to the cheerleaders, he said. One ticket was sold for the mascot.
The players' families bought 45 tickets and about 100 were sold to Athletic Department staff.
The Board of Regents members, members of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board, school officials, and other staff bought a total of about 100 tickets.
About 1500 requests for tickets came from members of the Williams Fund, Konzem said, but only 600 tickets were sold to them.
Kurt Meininger, Prairie Village senior, unhappy about the location of the tickets, said. "They have us in the nosebleed section."
Diana Wehmeyer, ticket manager,
said KU students would be seated
together in a section in the upper
level of Kemper.
Dean Brush, Palm Springs, Calif., senior, who was second in line, said he thought more tickets should have been sold to the students because of
Talk about the team, however, prevailed over the complaints.
Derek Updegraff, Wichita junior,
who was first in line, said he had
arrived at the field house around 10:30
a.m.
"This is what it's all about," he said
Konzem said the University would receive about 1,700 tickets if the team went to the NCAA Final Four in Dallas.
He said he would not know until
the money he had the $46 tickets
would be paid.
Final Four tickets will go on sale at
8:30 a.m. . March 25 in the north lobby of
the Hilton.
Big budget makes for cheerful squad
Staff writer
By Brian Kaberline
The KU men's basketball team has accumulated a large number of fans who follow its every move. But no group follows the team quite like the KU Spirit Squad.
Although the squad has followed Jayhawk teams everywhere from Hawaii this past fall to New York for the preseason National Invitational Tournament, the squad's funds are staying intact with a little help from the Athletic Department and sponsoring businesses, Elaine Brady, director said yesterday.
Brady said the KU squad was very lucky, having one of the top 10 budgets in the country. This has enabled the squad to follow the basketball team to every away game this season, and maybe on to Dallas.
But the budget can't cover everything the squad wants, said squad members Steve Beaumont and Lija Ragland.
Beaumont, a squad member for three years and one of its coaches, said the budget usually provided the bare minimum for the squad members.
Ragland, in her second year as a varsity cheerleader, said that she appreciated the fact that the squad had a large budget but that the squad members still had to dig into their own pockets at times for basics such as socks and hosiery.
As an example, Beaumont said, the squad's trip to Dayton, Ohio, for the first and second rounds of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament was good, although uncomfortable at times.
Brady said the squad supplemented its budget with money from fund-raising projects, such as cheerleading clinics and promotions
Beaumont said the hardest part was the 16-hour bus ride there and back.
See MONEY, p. 5, col. 3
Mark Mohler/KANSAN
Carlos Aquiar, San Salvador, El Salvador, senior, practiced sailboarding yesterday in a parking lot near Memorial Stadium.
Smooth sailing
Museum flood soaks, harms prized exhibit Stuffed equine survivor of Little Bighorn battle fights effects of deluge
By Leslie Hirschbach Staff writer
Employees at the Museum of Natural History are asking themselves how a frozen, dead bird could have caused them so much grief.
Tom Swearingen, director of exhibits, said yesterday that two weeks ago a rare African rhea, an ostrich-like bird sent to the museum, was placed in a sink in an unstairs lab room to thaw.
When the bird shipped down in the sink, it brushed against a valve, turning on the water. The plastic that encased the bird clogged the sink and caused the water to flow out, that damaged one of its most prized possessions.
A stuffed horse named Comanche — the only U.S. Cavalry member to survive Custer's battle with the Sioux Indians at Little Bighorn — was soaked.
Comanche is now enveloped from head to hoof in gauze and will be shut off from the public for three weeks until repairs are completed, Swearingen said.
"We wrapped him in gauze because it lets the inside dry out at the same speed as the outside," he said.
The skin, which is Comanche's own, dries much faster than the inside stuffing of the horse, Swearingen said, and would pull away from the body if it were left alone to drive.
Parts of the 100-year-old horse's string wrapped
wood frame also were soaked, and will take longer to
heal.
Swearingen said Comanche had needed repairs even before the water caused the horse to swell and begin to burst at the seams.
"For years he just sat in the open with no climate control," he said.
Members of the U.S. Cavalry gave Comanche to a KU taxidermist after the horse died in 1891, and he has been on display at the museum ever since. He was killed in a class and strict climate control until the late 1940s.
Comanche also traveled a lot, which weathered the horse. Swearinger said.
"In 1893, he went to the World's Fair," he said.
"He was also over in the attic of another building
and got a tour."
Sweairingen, who is responsible for repairs of museum displays, must now reewhe the seams in the legs and neck and repaint a few areas that need attention.
"There's no way we can make him as good as new because he's 100 years old." he said.
Cathy Dwigans, associate director for membership and public relations, said people had been asking about the horse. The museum's sign near the display says Comanche is getting a face lift.
Dwigans said the thawing bird also caused severe damage to museum ceilings and to a few other displays.
Sweiringen said the University had come to the museum's rescue and the ceilings had been repaired. Comanche is the only piece that still needs work.
"We've had other floods," he said. "This is the first time it ever hit Comanche."
Reagan says region backs contra aid
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, two days away from a showdown vote in the House on his plan to give $100 million in aid to the contrais, says citizens of Nicaragua's closest neighbors overwhelmingly favor his proposal.
The president said yesterday that polls commissioned by the U.S. Information Agency and financed by American taxpayers indicated that over 400 percent of the people in some states supported the proposed aid package.
The Democratic-led House is expected to vote Thursday on a
measure to provide $70 million in military aid and $30 million in non lethal assistance to the guerrilla fighting to overthrow the Marxist-les Sandinista government in Managua
Administration officials have expressed confidence that Reagan will emerge victorious in the House vote this week and in the GOP-controlled
Senate later.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass, declined to speculate on a vote count, but Rep. Tom Foley of Washington, the assistant Democratic leader, said, "My very great confidence is that we will win this vote on Thursday."
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. 1
Chris Bunker, Prairie Village law student, and Holly Schwiezt, Omaha junior, camp in front of the Kansas University Endowment Association's office at Youngblood Hall to protest its investments with companies doing business in South Africa. Bunker said yesterday that he planned to stay in front of the building until something was done or until he graduated in August.
Wilfredo Lee/KANSAN
Protester pitches pup tent begins a camp-in at KUEA
By Sandra Crider Staff writer
Chris Bunker is camping out indefinitely. He hopes many other people will pitch their tents by his orange and brown pup tent and join him.
Bunker's choice of location was not haphaazard. He has positioned himself on the grass in front of the Kansas University Endowment Association. His purpose is not purely recreational. He said yesterday that he planned to stay there until the Endowment Association did something about its investments in companies in South Africa or until he graduated in August.
Endowment Association officials said yesterday that they had not taken any action against the camp-in and did not think it would change their investment policies.
Dick Powers Lawrence senior
George Stewart, vice president for administrative services, said.
'I see it as a way of telling KUEA that they're not through dealing with us.'
"I don't think it will have any effect."
According to Bunker, Prairie Village law student, and several other students, the camp-in should be a visible reminder to the Endowment Association that the protest against apartheid, the South African government's policy of racial discrimination, still is
Dick Powers, Lawrence senior, who also plans to camp in front of the Endowment Association, said, "I see it as a way of telling KUEA
Bunker set protesters planned to pass out leaflets supporting divestiture to customers who come with the Endowment Association.
unat they're not through dealing with us."
"I hope by being out here we'll disrupt business as much as possible within the bounds of the law," Bunker said.
Bunker began his tent vigil yesterday. He said he would continue to attend classes and to participate in most of his normal activities by getting other protesters to the camp site while he was gone.
The camp-in will not be a victim of over-planning, he said. Although he had been considering the idea for a long time and took careful pains to make sure he pitched camp just outside the Endowment Association's property line, he did
See PROTEST, p. 5, col. 1