friday. ianuary 23, 2004
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the university daily kansan
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Athletics Department releases new seating plans
By Joe Bant
jbant@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Athletics Department has released an initial draft of the seating plan it hopes to institute next year at home football and basketball games.
The plan relies on a points system to determine which ticket holders get which seats. The more points a person has, the better seats he gets. Faculty and student seating will be unaffected.
The department presented the
plan to the Athletic Ticket Advisory Committee on Jan. 15. The committee will review the proposal and suggest revisions to be made for the finalized version.
Tom Mulinazzi, professor of engineering, is a member of the 44-person committee. He said the committee was well-built to consider the plan and make the necessary changes.
"There are people who have season tickets, there who people who don't have season tickets. There are people who give a lot of money, there are people who don't give anything," Mulinazzi
"I think the athletic director went out of his way to get a good crosssection of people."
Tom Mulinazzi professor of engineering
said. "I think the athletic director went out of his way to get a good cross-section of people."
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director for the Athletics Corporation, said the suggested revisions would likely be numerous and would probably deal specifically with the ways people can acquire points.
"I expect the criteria will change significantly," Marchiony said.
As the plan is now, there are a variety of ways to earn points. Graduating from the University, being a member of the KU Alumni Association and being a previous season ticket holder are all ways for a person to gain points that he can use for better seats.
However many points people acquire, they cannot activate
their points unless they belong to the Williams Fund, which requires a minimum $100 annual donation. Marchiony said that particular detail of the plan was not up for revision.
Raising revenue for the Athletics Department is the primary purpose of the plan, so donating money will play a principal role in earning points and getting the better seats, Marchiony said. He would not speculate how much of a revenue increase the plan could bring in, but he said it would be significant.
The department used ideas
from similar seating plans at other universities to formulate its own proposal. Marchiony said policies at the University of Arizona and the University of Kentucky in particular helped to shape the new plan.
Marchiony said a finalized version of the seating plan could be available as early as mid-February.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway will have the final say in approving whatever plan the University adopts.
Edited by Robert Perkins
Baseball team improves record to 5-2; series provides bright start to season
By Shane Kucera skucera@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter
The men's baseball team returned to the mainland United States after completing a seven-game road run in Hawaii. The team has a .367 team batting average and a nine-run-per-game average. The Jayhawks will travel to Texas on Jan. 31.
The Kansas baseball team returns to class today with suntans and a 5-2 record after a seven-game road trip to Hawaii.
The series proved a positive start to a season full of potential for the lavhawks.
Intending to improve on last year's 35-victory season, the team has begun its 2004 campaign with impressive displays defensively and offensively.
"I was pleased with how we played defensively all weekend," coach Ritch Price said. "The team reached their goal of improving every day."
Defensively the team was sound, committing just two errors from the infield.
Jayhawk offensive numbers were equally as impressive, averaging nine runs per game and a .367 team batting average.
"We have a really good offensive club one through nine in the batting order," Price said. "This could be the best offensive team the University of Kansas has ever had."
Individually, junior Sean
Richardson put up outstanding numbers in the first seven games, including a .579 batting average and a 7 RBI performance in game
formances from the mound. Each recorded a victory in his first start.
seven. Scott Sharpe and Mike Zagurski, both left-handed pitching transfers in their first season at Kansas, gave standout per-
- Edited by Meghan Brune
By Christina Kessler
ckessler@kansan.com
Kanssan sportswriter
After losing its last two games to the University of Oklahoma, the University of Kansas hockey team is getting back to practicing and training harder than ever.
The losses to Oklahoma were brought on by the stresses of school and work.
Against the Sooners, the team had less than half its players, with only six substitutes.
"Towards the end of the fall schedule, everyone floundered because of finals," said captain Jeff Evans, au Omaha, Neb., junior.
The Jayhawks' remaining spring schedule includes some teams that have previously defeated them, including the Sooners.
The team thinks that its hard work must be rewarded with a little fun.
"Over break, we had fun by going out as a team as much as possible and just letting loose." Evans said.
Not only did the teammates have fun over break,but they
worked on doing some team recruiting and redesigning their locker-room facilities at their home ice of Canlan Ice Sports Complex in Shawnee.
Since practices started on Tuesday, the team has been working to get ready for its upcoming games against Robert Morris College. Evans said.
The games will be at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Springfield, Ill.
The two teams met in the KU Cup Tournament for Kansas' first game of the season. The game ended with a score of 8-1, with the lone goal by Joey Barghini, Minneapolis, Minn., junior In the tournament, they received third place, behind the University of Missouri.
Robert Morris College (21-10-0) tops the overall standings of the Mid-America Collegiate Hockey Association, the same division the 'Hawks are trying to get settled in. The Eagles are second in the MACHA division standings, right behind the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Kansas' record to date is 6-10-2.
Edited by Meghan Brune
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