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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
February 16, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 96
(USPS 650-640)
Hays applauds Seib when he returns home
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
HAYS — On the same basketball court he had played on as a schoolboy more than 13 years ago, Wall Street Journal reporter Gerald Seib heard his hometown mayor proclaim Saturday as "Gerald Seib Day."
Red and white balloons, Valentine's Day hearts, a large U.S. flag, and posters saying, "Jerry. We're Glad You're Home" and "God Bless You" adorned the gym at Hays' Thomas More Prep-Marian school, where about 400 city leaders, former classmates, teachers gathered to gather before Seib home from six days in an Iranian jail.
Seib, a 1978 KU graduate and a former Kansasan editor, told the gathering he was taken aback by all the attention.
"All I did was get arrested," he said. "I never did anything on this basketball court before that warranted so much attention."
"I feel a little like Dorothy in Oz, but it's good to be home."
Seib was one of 57 reporters invited by Iran to visit the Iraqi battlefront. He was arrested Jan. 31 by the Iranian government and accused of being a Zionist spy. Iran released him Feb. 6.
Del Brinkman, KU's vice chancellor for academic affairs and a former dean of the journalism school, told the audience that
the courage with which Seib endured his ordeal in Iran made him a world hero.
"But you were a hero to us before all this happened," he said.
Before the public reception, Seib said that for one fleeting moment during his detention in Iran, he was a prisoner of 35 days as Kansan editor in fall 1977.
At that time, Iranian students demonstrated several times on campus against U.S. policies and the Shah of Iran.
Seib said that those events were not covered enough by the Kanan then, and said that the newspaper should have paid closer attention to what the Iranian students were saving.
Seib said it occurred to him during his detention that many of the Iranian students who demonstrated at KU that year probably now were involved with the Iranian government and possibly with Islamic State.
"Being editor of the Kansan is pretty close to being in the real world," he said. "At that time, we Americans on campus didn't take them as seriously as we should have."
"I thought it was ironic that I ended up on their turf." he said.
In his speech, Seib said he had tried to do three things during his detention in Iran: to be completely
See SEIB, p. 8, col. 1
HAYS — Gerald Seib and his wife, Barbara Rosewicz, former KU students, display William Allen White School of Journalism sweatshirts.
which they received from Del Brinkman, former dean of journalism About 400 people attended a public reception in Hays on Saturday
Chad DeShazo/KANSAN
Scalpers' field days could end soon
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
And some fans got stuck.
Basketball fans had to sift through a ring of ticket scalpers to get into Allen Field House on Saturday.
But a bill in the Kansas Senate would try to keep this from happening by banning the sale of tickets for their face value on state universities.
In the field house, Kansas faced Oklahoma to determine which team would take the lead in the Big Eight Conference race. Outside, it was a championship day for reselling tickets at a profit.
Reserved seats with a face value of $7 went for as much as $45. Some general admission student seats were sold for $15.
cheap."
The Jayhawks won. So did a scaler who would be identified only as "White Mike" and another who wanted to be called "J.R."
The scalpers did not want their full names used in print
Mike made $225 for a few hours work outside the field house, J.R., who said he had a bad day, made around $300.
Mike bought tickets from other scalpers and sold them again.
"Everybody was greedy today." he said. "Nobody sold anything
At least two parents led their children away from the game because they wouldn't pay scalpers' prices for tickets.
"If they don't have the money, they should stay home." Mike said, "especi-
Mike persuaded two people to sell their reserved tickets for $25 each and watch the game on TV, he said. Then he sold the tickets for $45 each.
If State Senate. Wint Winter Jr., R-
Lawrence, has anything to say about it,
the scalpers won't be back next year.
Winter is sponsoring the scalping bill, which the Senate Judiciary Committee might act on today.
Kansas now has no state laws prohibiting ticket scalping. Neither Lawrence nor Manhattan, home of Kansas State University, bans scalping, officials in those two cities said.
Sgt. John Brothers of the KU Police said Thursday that the scalpers did not cause any problems at the field but since they as if they didn't interfere with traffic.
Mike said a law wouldn't stop ticket scalping at KU games.
At Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo., he said, the law banning scalping isn't enforced.
"They've got it in Missouri now and it's not doing a thing." he said.
Winter said students should be protected from scalding at the field house because they paid tuition to the University and the Jayhawks were their team.
"Students generally don't have a lot of money to pay for scalpers' tuckets."
Carlene Buschman, Lawrence senior, wanted to spend no more than $40 for one student ticket and three reserved seats. She turned down several offers from scalpers who were asking at least twice that much.
At tip-off at 3:10 p.m., she and her three friends were still outside looking for tickets. But within 20 minutes, they were in the door for $45.
Buschman said the wait was worth it. She was mad that scalpers were charging so much, she said yesterday.
Student tickets were selling for less than reserved seats because only students with KUIDs are supposed to use them. However, a scaiper called "Jerry" was getting around that restriction.
"If they were going to wait, I was going to wait." she said. "I was going to wait."
Jerry, a KU student, would sell student tickets for about $15 and loan his L.D. to the buyer, who would show it at the gate while covering up
Jerry's picture.
Jerry would not give his full name. Inside the field house, a friend of Jerry's would get the L.D. back, take it outside to Jerry and go back in Jerry would then loan his L.D. to his next customer.
But at least one of Jerry's customers didn't get past the door with the LD., and many potential customers didn't want to try it.
Mike and J. K., who are both from the Kansas City area, said they made the decision to go.
But J.R. said he made $20,000, as much as $600 a ticket, on the World Trade Center.
Mike, 20, said he made $20,000 last year, enough to support himself and pay his tuition at Baker University in Baldwin.
But Winter said that business already was too great a part of intercollegiate athletics.
"We don't want to let it go any further," he said.
J. R. said he was going to reinvest his profits from the KU game at two concerts and at a Kansas City Comets game Saturday night.
"I stay out until the last drop of money comes," he said.
He had hoped to make $800 from the day, he said.
Proposed amendment would permit liquor at some KU receptions
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
Bottles of fine French champagne may replace cans of diet Coke at some University receptions if the Kansas Legislature approves a new law.
imagine people coming from other states where liquor is served expect to be served liquor here.
here."
Jay Gates director of the Spencer Museum of Art
Until now, state law has made it illegal to serve alcoholic beverages in state buildings, prohibiting the
Spencer Museum of Art and the Kansas Union from serving liquor at receptions.
However, the Senate committee on Federal and State Affairs last week approved the liquor-by-the-drink bill. The bill includes an amendment that allows the Board of Regents to designate one non classroom building at the state's universities as a place where liquor may be served but not sold.
As proposed, the amendment would permit only one building on campus to hold a liquor license. Both buildings must be inspected in interest in such a designation.
The liquor-by-the-drink bill has not reached the House yet, and both the full Senate and House would need to obtain an amendment before it becomes law.
But State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, who said she was not opposed to the amendment, said a deputy decedent could ease its passage in the house.
See LIQUOR, p. 6, col. 3
KU 20th-day spring enrollment
Spring enrollment reaches record high
Official 20th day enrollment figures indicate that 36,766 students are enrolled on all KU campuses this semester, compared with 25,932 for the same time last year, a 3.2 percent increase.
By ROGER COREY
Student enrollment at the University of Kansas has reached an all-time high for spring semester, causing administrators to consider some tough decisions on budgeting.
Staff writer
The University released the 20th day figures, which are used for comparing students.
Off-campus enrollment includes students who take classes at Leavenworth. Overland Park, Wichita and
The Lawrence campus and off-campus programs experienced a 3.3 percent increase in enrollment, from 23,563 to 24,345. The College of Health Sciences, at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., recorded an increase of 2.2 percent, from 2,369 to 2,421.
Gov. Mike Hayden supports the release for the University, but legi-
The impact on the University will come in two areas, Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said Friday. The increased enrollment will generate additional state and not to KU.
Full-time equivalency enrollments for Lawrence and off-campus is 21,673, compared with 20,953 last year. This is an increase of 3.4 percent. Full-time equivalency, which the Kansas Legislature uses to determine KU's financing, is not figured for the Med Center.
Ward Brian Zimmerman, director of KU's budget office, said the record enrollment supported the University's ability to manage requests had requested from the Legislature.
See ENROLL, p. 6, col. 3
the Capitol Complex program in Topeka. Off-campus figures are compiled with Lawrence figures.
INSIDE
It's a small world
Visitors got their first look at "The Unseen Sea," an exhibited sponsor by the Museum of Natural History. See story page 3.
Hall of famer
Tracy Bunge became the fourth woman to be inducted into the Kansas Athletic Hall of Fame. The former softball All-American was inducted Saturday. See story page 12.