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VOL.103.NO.29
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1993
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Basketball ticket plan is unveiled
Lottery to select 141 KU students By Shan Schwartz
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By Shan Schwartz Kansan staff writer
Students who have not picked up their football tickets have missed two football games and may miss out on the entire men's basketball season.
The KU Athletic Department yesterday announced a new student ticket distribution policy for men's basketball games. The policy guarantees tickets to all 6,159 students who have picked up football tickets as part of their sports combo packages but will involve two separate lotteries for students who have not.
"This policy assures capacity crowds at each game, addresses safety issues and maintains the longstanding tradition of great student enthusiasm," said Bob Frederick, athletic director.
The department will conduct a lottery no later than Monday to deter
mine who will be offered the remaining 141 basketball ticket packages. The lottery will include the 641 students who have not yet picked up their football tickets and 409 students who are on a waiting list for basketball tickets — a total of 1,050 students.
The department will post a list on Wednesday of all students guaranteed basketball seats.
Those students must pick up a coupon sheet from the athletic ticket office between Oct.11 and Oct.29. The coupon sheets will be redeemable for tickets later during seven separate distribution periods. After Oct.29, the department will conduct another lottery to distribute unclaimed coupon sheets.
If any student tickets remain after each distribution period, the ticket office will distribute them to coupon holders or sell them to students for $3 on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Students who do not pick up their football tickets and are not selected in the lottery to receive basketball tickets are eligible for a full $85 refund.
Students who pick up their football tickets and are not selected for basketball tickets are eligible for a $52 refund.
"Nobody's being penalized," Warren said. "When students ordered their tickets, they knew they'd be subject to a lottery."
The need for the department's first ticket lottery stemmed from more students pre-ordering sports combo packages on their options cards.
The options card, which students used to order ticket packages during enrollment, states that tickets are subject to a lottery distribution.
Warren said students on the Athletic Corporation Board considered many different options and reviewed other universities' distribution policies.
For those who have tickets
Student tickets to home men's basketball games will be distributed in seven periods. Eligible students must first pick up coupon sheets before 5 p.m. at the Allen Field House ticket office and then redeem coupons for tickets on the dates below ___
TICKETS
Pick up coupons
Oct. 11 - Oct. 29
Group Pick up tickets Games
1 before Nov. 10 1, 2, 3
2 Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 4, 5, 6
3 Dec. 5 - Dec. 7 7
4 Dec. 8 - Dec. 10 8, 9
5 Dec. 13 - Dec. 15 10, 11, 12
6 Jan. 26 - Jan. 28 13, 14
7 Feb. 16 - Feb. 18 15, 16
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Source: KU Soorts Information
Surviving grueling tour is an art form
'Secret Garden' company travels from city to city By Sara Bennett Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Kevin McGuire, who plays Uncle Archie in "The Secret Garden," sings "Race You to theTop of the Morning" to Chad Hutchison, 13, who stars as Colin. McGuire and Hutchison were rehearsing the scene yesterday before an evening performance at Lied Center.
A a crate located backstage among scenery and unpacked props does not contain costumes or plastic flowers for "The Secret Garden," playing at the Lied Center through Oct. 3.
Instead, the crate contains a VCR computer and Nintendo for the children in the production. These diversions are reminders that performers are ordinary people when the curtain goes down.
Touring with a Broadway show like the "The Secret Garden" may seem glamorous, but performing the same show in a different city every week can take its toll on the performers' health and relationships.
"People think it's glamorous, but it’s really not," said Eric Inso, stage manager for the touring company. "It’s tiring, it’s exciting, sometimes it’s thrilling. But if you don’t take care of yourself physically, it’s exhausting."
A touring show is perhaps the only job where a day spent traveling across the country is considered a day off. Kevin McGuire, who plays Archibald in "The Secret Garden," said the constant traveling could make it difficult to stay healthy, but understudies are always available to fill in if a performer gets sick.
Touring with a show also can be a challenge to relationships. But children in the show have their mothers travel with them as well as a tutor and guardian. Also, a lot of the performers are married.
McGuire said it was difficult to be away from his wife and son, who live in New York City. However, his family joins him on the tour during school vacations. The strain of the separation disappeens when his son is traveling with him, he said.
"For a kid, traveling is one of the most important things they can do," he said. "Each trip has been a rite of passage for my son."
McGuire said working on a touring
production was rewarding because the shows sometimes were better than the original Broadway production. And touring shows travel around the country. Broadway is in the same city every night.
"There's more energy because it's always different," he said. "These are full-fledged, full-talented, full-scale
Broadway productions."
But do the performers ever get tired of performing the same show night after night?
McGuiere said he had not grown weary of the "The Secret Garden."
"I can honestly say I'm not tired of this show," McGuire said. "Every show I try different things. I try to
make things fresh and keep it alive."
make things fresh and keep it alive." McGuire said one of the biggest challenges for his touring company was playing in unfamiliar theaters.
Being the production that initiated the Lied Center last night was an honor he said.
"Opening nights are always scary on the road," he said. "The hall sounds different. It feels different. Most of the time you feel like you're stumbling around in the dark."
"We're excited and nervous," he said. "This is a big show to start with, but it's good the Lied Center is jumping right into the fray with a big Broadway musical."
Christians criticize program
By Kathleen Stolle
Kansan staff writer
Members of a campus Christian group believe Christians at KU are being browbeaten by western civilization texts and teachers.
"I think anyone who looks at the text can see bias." Nitz said.
Ward Nitz, Lake Winnebago, Mo., senior and a member of Kansas City Baptist Temple Student Ministries, said readings about the Bible in the course textbook, "Patterns in Western Civilization," gave little reference to traditional Christian views and lent credibility to modern theories.
Nitz said he disagreed with the readings' suggestion that some stories in the Bible were myths. and that there were two versions of the creation story. He also said he opposed a theory in the text that suggested four different authors wrote the first five books of the Bible. Christians traditionally credit Moses as the sole author of the five books. he said.
"They just assume it's true since it's in a text and it's written as though there are no faults in the theory," Nitz said. "We find that very much a concern to us."
Nitz said his biggest concern was that students who were not familiar with traditional Christian views would be influenced.
Nitz also contested a statement in the text that the theory is supported by most modern scholars.
However, Shawn Trimble, a religious studies graduate teaching assistant , said the theory was well-supported by scholars. He said Daniel Breslauer, KU professor of religious studies and author of one of the disputed readings, based his work on the research of many credible scholars.
"What he's doing is he's representing the results of 150 years of very complicated and very laborious scholarship." Trumble said.
Breslauer is on sabbatical this semester and was not available for comment.
Trimble said the University's approach to studying the Bible was not an attack on Christianity. As a secular institution, it could not approach the Bible as a faith document or address ultimate faith questions, he said.
"The basic tenet of scholarship here is you don't touch big questions like 'Does God exist?' and 'Is Jesus the son of God?'" Trimble said.
Tremble said scholars in academics used the historical-critical method, which uses history, archeology and geography to investigate the documents that form the Bible.
James Woolelf, director of the western civilization program, said the historical-critical approach was pioneered mainly by Christian scholars.
Woelfel said that because KU is a public university, it could not take any theological positions.
He said the program's approach to the Bible was not often challenged.
On Sept. 22, KCBT Student Ministries sponsored a forum to discuss how traditional Christian views were overlooked in western civilization courses.
David Winslow, Liberal senior and member of Nitz's group, said the attention the issue had received would help others better understand traditional Christian views.
"It raised awareness that this is an issue and that we're not just a bunch of kooks out here who say there's a God without reasons to our beliefs," he said.
Goodbye RBI
George Brett played his last game yesterday in Kansas City for the Royals. An eight-inning RBI was the tying run in the Royals 3-2 victory against the Indians.
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Group attacks apathy in Generation X
By David Stewart
X-ers. Slackers. Baby busters. The boomerang kids.
Kansan staff writer
But Matt Jordan, Wichita junior, said he hoped to find some agreement among KU's sub-30 generation on the issues affecting its future.
By creating a KU chapter of Third Millennium, Jordan said, he intended to make college students more politically aware and active.
It seems no one has found the best label for the amorphous set of America's twentysomethings.
Third Millennium is a newly formed national group that represents the interests of young voters.
Jordan's announcement intentionally co-incides with tonight's panel discussion
at the Kansas Union Ballroom, he said.
"There are too many problems that exist today that aren't being addressed by today's political leaders," Jordan said. "Unlike the '60s, this is no longer an issue over civil rights. It's now an economic issue."
The program will feature a round-table discussion by authors and politicians on the issues that concern today's youth, Jordan said.
Third Millennium's economic concerns were cited in a pamphlet issued by the national group's co-founders, Jonathan Karl and Douglas Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy.
According to the pamphlet, concerned individuals need to take action to eliminate the growing national debt and to reduce unnecessary social security payments to wealthy retirees.
"By 1989, our generation could potentially be the largest voting bloc in America," Jordan said. "We should take a more active role in our politics."
Many students said they had not heard of Third Millennium but said they agreed many of their peers remained politically unaware and inactive.
"Most students think they can't affect the process directly." Zerger said. "It can get too complicated to deal with the problems."
Jordan said Third Millennium would attempt to educate individuals about the power their votes have to induce change locally and nationally.
Chris Zerger, Hesston senior, said organizations such as Third Millennium would have success informing college students about political issues but would have trouble getting them to initiate change.
Third Millennium
What: "Third Millennium — Voices of Generation X," a discussion of the issues and concerns of the twentysomething generation and of the KU chapter of Third Millennium. Moderated by Daryl Evans, associate professor of sociology, Free.
Where: Kansas Union Ballroom
Source: The Associated Press KANSAH
Kelly Ross, Topeka freshman, said she did not know many people who had heard about Third Millennium or who could stay politically aware.
"I don't have a lot of time to find out what is going on in politics," Ross said. "Maybe it says something about how we really are."
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