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Wednesdav. October 6.1993
OPINION UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VIEWPOINT
THE ISSUE
The KU Athletic Department announced the ticket distribution policy for men's basketball games.
THE BACKGROUND
To compensate for overselling sports combo packages, students who have not picked up their football tickets will be in a lottery along with those on the waiting list. All students will have to pick up their basketball tickets at seven times throughout the semester.
THE OPINION
Game tickets policy inconvenient, unfair
Any way you look at the new ticket distribution policy, more than 900 Jayhawks won't be able to enjoy the men's basketball games this year.
This decision negatively affects both those who have tickets and those who might. For those who already have their tickets guaranteed, obtaining the tickets takes extra time and energy. Those who did not pick up their football tickets find themselves in a lottery with those on the waiting list. Ninety percent of students in the lottery will not receive basketball tickets.
Those who picked up their packages early must redeem "coupons" for tickets seven times throughout the season. This means thousands of students must go to Allen Field House eight times if they wish to attend the games. Those who did not pick up their football tickets find themselves in a lottery with those who are on the waiting list. From this group of 1,050 only 141 are selected. Granted, if not picked, a student's money is refunded. However, this is hardly compensation to the students who prepaid to avoid this kind of hassle.
To most, this plan comes as a surprise. Many knew there would be a lottery. The lottery is set up to penalize those who did not pick their tickets up early. In a fair lottery, everyone would have a fair shot at the tickets.
The administration needs to rethink the way that it handles ticket sales and distribution. An evaluation of the plan could end the hassle associated with the "coupons," the lotteries and more importantly, the unhappy fans.
CARSON ELROD FOR THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Hardware may be key to saving military jobs
Contrary to popular belief, the talents of military personnel can be utilized in the private sector, and there is new proof to substantiate this.
Sonar technology developed by the military was used to detect enemy submarines. Since the end of the cold war, military scientists have been looking for ways to utilize this technology in nonmilitary applications.
Recently, a device was invented that, using sonar, can detect the sound of gunfire amidst city noise. The device includes an "ear" to listen to the sounds within its range, an interpreter to discern the gunfire from other noises and a radio transmitter to notify police.
The device would probably be about the size of a softball and would be able to notify police immediately of any gunfire, thus greatly reducing the response time.
Although the device would be relatively inexpensive to purchase and easily mounted atop telephone or light poles, no cities have made arrangements to purchase the device yet.
The most important aspect of this invention is the fact that it came out of military technology.
With the recent wave of base closings, many have been concerned about the future of military personnel. This device serves as notice that the military and the government are concerned and will work together to ensure military personnel jobs for the future.
DAVID BURGETT FOR THE EDITORIAL BOARD
KANSAN STAFF
KC TRAUER, Editor
KC TRAUER, Editor
JOE HARDEN, CHRISTINE LAUE
Managing editors
TOM EBLEN
General manager, news adviser
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Editors
Editors
Assistant to the editor ... J.R. Clairbome
News ... Stacy Friedman
Editorial ... Terrilyn McCormick
Campus ... Ben Grove
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Late-night know-it-alls annoy dorm residents
AMY CASEY
Business manager
AMY STUMBO
Retail sales manager
JEANNE HINES
Sales and marketing adviser
The Phenomenon continues on its parallel with gaseous clouds as the Poor guy bounces from person to person faster and soon causes the crowd to expand. Just as the casual observer begins to wonder if the crowd will expand until it covers the entire campus, someone signals that everyone may re-enter the building. For reasons unknown to science today, the gaseous crowd congeals and flows through the doors into the building.
Ryan McGee Is a Wortland, Wyo., sophiomore.
BRIAN THOMPSON
The Wise Guy is indeed an enviable character. He knows more than anybody else on every subject known to man. He's telling everyone he encounters what's going on and why everything is taking so long and when we will be able to get back inside and why the firefighters are all just standing around and what they're doing now and what happens if you forgot to bring your keys out with you and, well, everything. He, of course, has the same effect on Poor Guy as did the reporter, which further contributes to the Gaseous Crowd Phenomenon.
our beds and stand outside for an hour and get mad. This causes the Poor Guy to move somewhere else in the crowd, usually randomly, like a gas particle. Occasionally, he will encounter more reporters or he might encounter other repulsive persons such as the Wise Guy.
Financing is justified for Kansas Crew team
Recently, I was elected Highly Respected Pundit in Charge of Explaining Scientific Stuff, or HRPCESS – I'm sure you heard about it. The election was a regular media circus. Although my opponent, Mike Royko, demands a recount, I think I stuffed the ballot box well enough that my position is safe. This in mind, I began performing my newly appointed duties this week. It seems like an easy job, sure. But the reality is that I need to be on call 24 hours a day, ready to go anywhere and do anything to observe firsthand the most complicated scientific stuff and distill it for the reading public's entertainment.
Business Staff
Campus sales mgr ... Ed Schager
Regional sales mgr ... Jennifer Perrier
National sales mgr ... Jennifer Evenson
Co-op sales mgr ... Blythe Focht
Production mgrs ... Jennifer Blowey
Kate Burgesa
Marketing director ... Shelly McConnell
Creative director ... Brian Fucoz
Classified mgr ... Janice Davis
Take, for example, a fire alarm at my dorm. When that buzzer goes off at 3 in the morning, you can bet that I'm out of my bed and dressed in no time to get outside and watch for SIP, which is an acronym we scientists use when we want to say "science in progress," but don't have the time. Never mind the fact that it's in my best interest to evacuate a possibly burning building. That's secondary to my duty as an elected official.
It turns out that there is no better time for me to perform my duties. I can't think of another situation in which there are so many people in one place interacting with one another as much and therefore exhibiting so many scientific phenomena.
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There are, of course, always a few drunk people. They're the ones in the back of the crowd trying to start a haootenanny.
I am writing this as a follow up on the story regrading Title IX and what it means for women's sports at KU.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
STAFF COLUMNIST
"This ticks me off to no end. I was sleeping peacefully and now I have to stand outside for an hour because some stupid fire alarm is going off." This revelation of theirs may be small, but it's powerful. Generally, it instigates a condition in the crowd that has come to be known as the Gaseous Crowd Phenomenon. This is a phenomenon in which the person subject to the stupidity of the reporter, also known as the Poor Guy or Poor Gal, is repelled by the reporter. This is because they don't like to hear the reporter talk as if the rest of us didn't have to get up out of the sanctity of
The article stated competitiveness as a factor in the decision to add a sport into the Athletic Department. The KU Women's Crew Team is as competitive as a club sport could ever be. For the past 16 years, KU Crew has traveled all over the country, competed with more than 200 colleges and practiced five days a week throughout the entire school
Then there are the reporters. They have one news flash for the night, and they mill around inside the main body of the crowd letting everybody they encounter know about it:
"C'MON! Doesn't anybody else feel like singing 'Kumbayah?' How 'bout 'Row Your Boat' then? Waddaaya say? We'll do it in a round!" These people are living proof of what the surgeon general has been trying to tell us all for so long – that alcohol consumption makes you a fool.
I will row fast this year, not just because of Title IX, but because my goal, and the team's as well, is and always has been to row fast and represent KU at its best.
I believe it's time for KU to address the interests of its women athletes. The Kansan reported that "a sport with high participation and interest rates among women athletes would be a good sport to add." For the past eight years the crew has averaged over 100 women participants in the fall. The interest, the competition and the desire for success are in place, but the support and funding are not.
year. We already are a success-oriented team. Financing from the department would build upon what has already been established.
Ann Felstet stated that I would row宽 in hopes that crew would become a varsity sport. In my eyes, we deserve nothing less. We're competing at a national level, bringing recognition to KU and paying all travel expenses.
In the lead paragraph of her story,
Maggie Omens Captain, KU Crew Team
STAFF COLUMNIST
Game-bound fans beware of riot-prone Wildcats
The calendar is showing October again, and it must be time for another Kansas — Kansas State football game. Probably, many of you are planning to head out to Manhattan for the game. Having grown up in Kansas and having been in college entirely too long, I thought I might offer some survival tips for those who have never made the semi-annual trek out to purple land. I think you can learn from some of my more serious mistakes.
First, know what the people you're with are wearing. This is not for later identification purposes, although that might come in handy, but rather for your safety. I learned this at the game in 1991. A woman who was with my group removed her sweatshirt and underneath was wearing a T-shirt that said "#@%% Purple Pride."
The five K-State alumni seated in front us, who apparently had consumed several cereal malt beverages, didn't share this sentiment. Being men with a liberated attitude toward women, they expressed their dissatisfaction with her attire to me. This attracted some attention. Being outnumbered, I attempted to explain that, no, she was not "with me," and even if she was, I still would have no control over how she dressed.
My friend, who single-handedly had attempted to eliminate any threat of a world beer surplus that day, didn't help the situation. She shouted the phrase printed on her shirt at the top of her lungs. Since we were the only people within sight not wearing purple, the situation was looking pretty grim. We were saved by a divine intervention, or at least a biological one. My friend developed a sudden need to visit the restroom. When she returned with her sweatshirt on, the crisis was over. I had gained a unique insight to what Gen. Custer must have felt at Little Bighorn.
This is K-State's big game, and the fans take it pretty seriously considering the series record is 61-24-5 in our favor. For one Saturday, they really hate us. Of course we hate them too, but we also have to save some hate for Missouri at the end of the season, so don't be surprised if they seem a little more into this than we are. If you go to the game, have fun, behave yourself, and if things get interesting, remember the old Kansas saying, "it's time to get out of Dodge." After all, it's still just a game.
Survival techniques will become most important if K-State actually wins the game. This happens about once every five years. K-State fans have a strange celebration ritual. They gather in Aggieville and attempt to tear the pace down. I witnessed this phenomenon in 1986. The university newspaper, the Kansas State Collegian, would later blame renegade KU students for most of the damage. I hate to disagree with their official version of the events, but most of us "renegades" were running for our lives at that point. The next year, the game was again in Manhattan. After the game, Aggieville was about as much fun as a maximum security prison and just as well-guarded. A sort of truce was declared in 1989 and 1991, and Aggieville became a demilitarized zone.
Jim Kimmel is a McLouth junior majoring in history and sociology.
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