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Volume 124 Issue 99 kansan.com Friday, February 17, 2012 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAST-PLACE raiders don’t MATCH UP PAGES 6-7 POLICE UNCOVER TWO THREATS IN CAPITOL PAGE 3 UDKthe student voice since 1904 INTERNAL AFFAIRS TICKET SCANDAL RETURNS RACHEL SALYER seven former employees of Kansas earlier case. Cromwell did not According to a report conducted about this aspect of the case. KU incident, he believes Lawrence has [email protected] Athletic Inc. were charged after name the officers or former by Foulston Siefkin, a Wichita law Athletics and the University have a strong police department. illegally selling and profiting off employee. firm, at least 17,609 men’s basket- really moved on.” “We have a hard community The city announced Thursday of $1 to $2 million in football Cromwell said one officer had ball game tickets and 2,181 foot- Marchiony said the University to police,” Cromwell said. “I am two Lawrence police officers and men’s basketball tickets. been suspended for the acceptance ball game tickets were sold in the put measures in place to ensure proud of our chief and our offi- have been suspended after the Mayor Aron Cromwell confirmed of the basketball tickets. Another scandal between 2005 and 2010, illegal ticket distribution could not cers. No one is perfect and we had Lawrence Police Department dis- the suspension is because of the officer was also suspended for though the report estimated the recur from new technology to new someone make a bad decision and covered speeding tickets had been ticket finding. The person whose not being forthcoming when the illegal sales started before then. staff members. we took care of it as soon as we dismissed in exchange for men’s speeding tickets were dismissed details started to emerge. He also “It is unfortunate this issue has Calls to the Lawrence Police found out.” basketball tickets. and the one giving the basketball said the exchange was not a one- resurfaced,” said Jim Marchiony, Department Thursday were not The announcement is a part of tickets is currently serving time in time occurrence and happened associate athletics director, “but returned. — Edited by Nadia Imafidon an earlier ticket scandal in which prison because of the University’s over an extended period of time. we really don’t know anything new Cromwell said despite the TRACKING THE TICKET SCANDAL May 2010 July 2010 March 7, 2011 March 30, 2011 March 31, 2011 April 11, 2011 April 14, 2011 May 12, 2011 University discovers ath- Federal prosecutors Jason Jeffries, former di- Kassie Liebsch, former Rodney Jones, former Tom Blubaugh, former Charlette Blubaugh, wife Ben Kirkland, former as- letic department employees begin pressing charges rector of ticket operations, systems analyst in tickets head of the Williams Fund Kansas Athletics contracted of Tom Blubaugh and former sociate athletics director of illegally sold more than $1 against seven former em- and Brandon Simmons, office, is sentenced to 37 fundraising, is sentenced to consultant, is sentenced to athletics director for ticket development, is sentenced million in basketball tick- ployees for various offenses former assistant athletics months in prison. She ad- 46 months in prison. Jones 46 months in prison and or- operations, is sentenced to to 57 months in prison. ets, football tickets and related to the ticket sales. director of sales and mar- mits to personally receiving is ordered to pay more than der to pay more $1 million in 57 months in prison and or- Kirkland made more than parking passes since 2005. keting, are both sentenced $100,000 in the scandal. $1 million in restitution. restitution to Kansas Athlet- dered to pay $2.65 million in $300,000 in the scandal to two years probation. ics and the IRS. restitution. according to prosecutors. THEatER CAMPUS GROUPS SEE THE GALLERY SEE THE GALLERY HTTP://UDKNE.WS/XBD62L CHRIS NEAL/KANSAN HTTP://UDKNE.WS/X8E5QQ From left to right: Vickie Blanco, a senior from Overland Park, Hatlie Balford, a junior from England, Zach Phillips, a senior from TARA BRYANT/KANSAN Olathe and Jordan Boyd, a senior from Topeka, run toward the center line for a ball during the prison-ball tournament at the Nick Kellum and Elaina Smith, and Joseph Carr and Margaret Hanzlick dance together during the season premiere of Musical Ambler Student Recreation Center Wednesday night. Theatre for Kansas Thursday night as a part of the two-show performance The Undergraduate Projects. The show continues tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall. Cash prizes awarded by SUA Student directs show in brutal Rec Center contest VIRAJ AMIN team’s baseline. You can get back in after winning game three in the final [email protected] the game if a teammate throws you series. Adam Marello, a senior from the ball and you catch it behind the Lenexa and member of the Sports at University Theatre Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge. opposing team’s baseline. In dodge- Management Club team, said the The five essential rules of dodgeball ball’s normal rules, if you are hit by money would be used to fund an KELSEY CIPOLLA resources. said. “It was just really easy for us were in full force Wednesday night a ball, you are out for the remainder event that the organization is hosting [email protected] She chose Tennessee Williams’s to find compromises, to give new at the Ambler Student Recreation of the game. next week. “Auto-Da-Fe.” Set on a porch in ideas to each other. It was never Center. Another unique characteristic “We are holding a basketball tour- A limited budget, a month of 1930s New Orleans, the story personal. Decisions were never ‘I’m Student Union Activities hosted a nament for the Boys and Girls Club,” rehearsal and a cast and crew com- focuses on a mother soliciting gos- right, you’re wrong.’” dodgeball tournament that consisted Marello said. “We are giving the kids prised completely of students could sip from her son, who is struggling After “Auto-da-fe,” the recently of 10 teams, and each team had seven free t-shirts, so the money will be put be a director’s worst nightmare. with a secret. Lufkin was drawn to formed group, Musical Theatre players with at least three women on “Whether it’s dodgeball or to good use.” For Jacci Lufkin, it was a dream the one-act play because of its emo- for Kansas, will perform a thir- the team. The tournament started something else, we would Dakota Strange, spirit coordinator come true. tional intensity, but also because it ty-minute musical love story. Gil out as double-elimination, which like to see this continue to in SUA, was happy to see a student This year Lufkin, a junior from required little set design. Perez-Abraham, a junior from means a team must lose twice to organization win first place. The Melbourne, Fla, was the one stu- “It’s so raw; it’s so easy without Wichita, said the group members, be eliminated from the tournament. help student organizations tournament was originally exclu- dent selected by the University anything else,” Lufkin said. “You like Lufkin, were excited to have a After half the teams were eliminated, who have smaller budgets. ” sive for student organizations, but Theatre Department to direct a could do this in a park. You could chance to show off skills that aren’t the tournament switched to a round- because of the lack of teams, SUA one-act play. do this in a stairwell.” always showcased in the theater robin format where all five teams Dakota STRANGE opened it up to all students. “You get a minimal budget, a The length of the show also department. played each other once. The teams SUA Spirit Coordinator Strange said SUA held this tourna- minimal set so that it’s only about allowed Lufkin and her actors, Julie “It’s so unique for a university to with the two best records would face ment to benefit student organizations your acting and your directing,” Miller, a senior from Hutchinson, have this kind of opportunity for off in a best two out of three series. “ and to help with its budgets. He also Lufkin said. “This is supposed to and Alex Roschitz, a junior from the students, just to have the group The tournament used prison ball of prison ball rules is the “shame hopes to make this an annual event. be about the students that you’re Kansas City, Kan., to develop both and the performance opportuni- rules, which differ slightly from regu- ball,” which is larger than the rest “It was a good showing from stu- directing and what you can get the comedy and drama of the play. ties,” Perez-Abraham said. lar dodgeball rules. If you are hit any- of the balls. If a teammate catches dent organizations, and we received a out of them as far as your acting Roschitz said that being a part of a The second performance is where on the body, including your the shame ball while he or she is in lot of positive feedback,” Strange said. ability.” two person cast was something he tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the William face or head, you’re out. The ball is prison, two teammates can get out “We want to continue events like this Lufkin was excited about the had never done before, but it gave Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy live until it touches a ceiling, a wall of prison. in the future. Whether its dodgeball chance to direct a project since him an opportunity to explore his Hall.

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