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Thursday, April 21, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Much work needed to keep crew afloat
Reduced Senate financing adds to budgeting blues
By Dayana Yochim
Kansan staff writer
This weekend will be hectic for David Brandt,
Prairie Village senior and KU crew captain.
Brandt, along with about 25 other members of KU Crew, will be parking cars for the Kansas Relays at Memorial Stadium from 5:30 a.m. until they compete later that afternoon at Sunflower State Championship regatta.
As part of their fund-raising efforts, KU Crew has had a contract for six of the past seven years with the University of Kansas Parking Services to park cars, Park Elliott, KU Crew coach, said.
Besides parking cars, the club works at concessions stands at football and basketball games and solicits donations from KU Crew alumni, parents and friends to help fund the program. Elliot estimated that the team financed about 80 to 85 percent of its total budget.
The rest is provided by Student Senate because KU Crew is classified as a student organization.
But Senate funding for the club has created tensions for both groups, Carolyn Speer, Nune-maker senator. said.
"The crew, as they should, want to be competitive, and they are competing with teams that are funded through their universities," said Speer, who was a member of KU Crew last semester.
'But they are attempting to upgrade past the
point where Student Senate should have to fund them."
Because more students join the club each year, Speer said, within the next 10 years the club will be self-supporting.
Scott Klaus, KU Crew president, said the budget for this year was $127,763.
Klaus said the contract with KU Parking Services earned the club $7,000; club dues came to about $21,500; travel expenses, paid by the members, amounted to $60,000; work at concessions stands made $3,600; alumni donations averaged $8,000; miscellaneous fund-raising added about $2,000.
For fiscal year 1988, Senate allotted the club $22,415. With the Senate funds, the team paid for a four-man shell, a boat motor, coxswain amplifiers, boathouse rental, advertising, gas and oil, entry fees and organizational dues.
But the financing philosophy of this year's Finance Committee changed. Last year, the committee recommended financing for capital equipment, which included the new shell, motor and
Craig Citron, administrative assistant for the Senate, said the philosophy behind this year's budget was to give student organizations enough money to stay alive but not to finance capital
The Finance Committee allocated the team $7,875 for fiscal year 1989, 15.7 percent of all the money allocated to more than 30 student groups.
However, the club originally requested $22,095 from Senate for things such as another new shell
When the club found out that Senate granted $7,875 instead of the $2,925 it asked for, it requested an amendment that would grant the club $1,600 for a new set of oars. The Senate voted to fulfill the request, but Jason Krakow, student body president, decided to veto.
Krakow said at the time that he veted the request for the oars because it wasn't consistent with the rest of the budgets of student organizations. The amendment was the only capital expenditure for a student organization that the Senate had passed.
"They need to work out a long-term plan," Glenn Shirtliffe, Finance Committee chairman, said. "Are they going to concentrate on eight-man shells, two-man shells or four-man shells?"
Krakow said that a five-year plan would be good for any organization but that it would be difficult for Senate to make a five-year promise.
“It’s nice to know where a student organization is going.” Krakow said. “But I've seen a student organization get oodles of funding one year and not exist the next.”
Louis said that the club was looking at long-term financing but that it was only in the planning stage. He agreed that the club would probably become self-supporting, but he said that for the next few years the team would continue to rely on Senate money.
Shirtlife said, "The Senate applauds the idea of groups going out and getting money on their own. We want to see them run sports clubs, sports clubs. We keep funding sports groups the way we are, we're going to run out of money."
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