THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Wednesday February 22,1978
The University of Kansas
Vol.88.No.98
Lawrence, Kansas
Shoplifting provokes store policy
By LINDA FINESTONE
Staff Writer
Shopfitting will be a $3,000 problem at the four Kauaiaan bookstore last year.
Betty Brock, general manager of the bookstores, said Monday that the figure meant that strong measures had to be taken to fight theft from the Union bookstore, the Oread Book Shop, the Daisy Hill bookstore and the Regents Center in Overland Park.
Brock said auditors' figures indicated that at least 70,000 in merchandise from the bookstores was unaccounted for in fiscal 1976 when total bookstore g receipts
Although the $70,000 figure includes inventory, bookkeeping and cashiers' errors, Brock said she was certain that more than half the $70,000 was lost through theft.
“It’s a serious problem, but part of it is our fault.” Brock said.
Last summer she taught 10 subjects in the Stanford University graduate School of Business, among them a course in shoplifting and theft control. Brock said she planned to teach at Stanford again this summer.
Brock, who became general manager Dec. 12, said bookstore policy needed to be enforced more strongly and new measures taken in the stores to deter shoiflotters.
BROCK IS RECOGNIZED nationally for
security and security security
posting services.
Brock's plans to take stronger steps to discourage and punish shoplifting contrast with the bookstores' old policy toward shoplifting, which officials said was ineffectively enforced during the past 11 years under the old bookstore management.
She also has lectured across the country for the National Association of College Stores, a group of 3,500 publicly and privately owned bookstores, and has published several articles and bookstore guidelines for the association.
Ferguson said that in the past, the police had not prosecuted anyone who was caught shooting.
Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, said that the bookstores had been aware of a shoplifting problem for years but were not on hand handling thieves had not been effective.
"WE DON'T necessarily feel our previous policy has been effective in controlling shoplifting," he said. "We are now, with new management, going to institute new
When someone is caught, Ferguson said, the management's standard procedure has been to file an indictment if he did that he did take the item or items found on him. The bookstore then reports the incident to KU Traffic and Security and then either to the dean of men or dean of women.
"The deans' offices have handled the situation pretty much from there."
He said he thought that only in a few in
See SHOPLIFTING page eight
Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
Questions?
Former President Gerald R. Ford fielded questions from an economics class yesterday morning, the first of several lectures as part of his visit at KU for the dedication of a memorial to Fred Ford.
Economics 522 students at the University of Kansas don't usually have their bags checked for bombs before they enter the classroom.
Security blankets Ford
Yesterday was an exception. Their teacher day was former President Ralph R.Feld.
Two uniformed KU policemen stool guard at the classroom door and members of Angel Flight, the women's auxiliary to Air Force ROTC, took tickets from the students. The students had received the tickets earlier from their professor.
The Secret Service, which coordinated
tour, took a structured program to ensure
groups required to engage.
two bomb-disposal squad members from Fort Riley. The restroom next door and the corridor outside the classroom also were checked.
The summer meal classroom in water
Ford lectured was searched for bombs by
according to a Secret Service agent assigned to guard Ford.
These precautions were not unusual
"everyone receives the same amount of protection, the same as President Carter gets," the agent said. "It's standard procedure. We give this many people guarding someone."
The new University of Kansas Law School was dedicated yesterday at Allen Field House amid pump and circumstance befitting a king.
Law school dedicated
Before a hushed crowd of about 3,500 people, the dedication ceremony began as digitaries, including former president Gerald R. Ford, walked through Allen Field House in full-length robes to a podium form in the south corner of the field house.
Secret Service agents did advance intelligence work before Ford arrived in Lawrence. They investigated the city for threats against people who have made threats against Ford.
Staff Writer
Ford was the final speaker in a dedication ceremony that included comments from Gov. Robert F. Bennett, Chancellor Archie M. Brown, and the Board of School of Law; Walter Herrister, chairman of the Board of Regents; and John Klaumann, president of the Student Bar
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Paul E. Wilson, Kane Distinguished Professor of Law, presided at the ceremony. Ford, the 25th president to hold a law degree, asked faculty and law students to reaffirm the principle he announced when he delivered his speech, "This is a government of law, not of men."
"THAT CONCEPT is as fundamentals as any in our 200-year history," Ford said. "It is the underpinning of society now as well as then."
Ford repeated the words he used Aug. 9.
Ford said he did not regret the decision he made in the spring of 1983 to attend Yale law school instead of attempting a professional football career.
"THE MOVE represents the school's continuing dedication to excellence in education," Dykes said. "Not only are we here to dedicate this magnificent, new reality we are here to dedicate ourselves and are to the efforts of the students and faculty."
"ICAN REMEMBER we sit on to the steps of old Green Weath and whistle at what walked by, marvel at God's creation and occasionally pursued the dean's tort book," he said. "But I also remember the learning."
Bennett, who is an alumnus of the KU School of Law, said that dedicating the law degree to Bennett would be "a big deal."
"It was the law, the judicial system, and our lawyers who contributed to the end of the war."
"So long as the state has a future, the law has a future," he said. "I join the Board of Regents in accepting this building and challenge those who teach and learn there that without the law, this nation and the world cannot survive."
Dykes he be appreciated the efforts of the Board of Regents, the legislators, Bennett and former Gov. Robert Docking and their successors in the new law school's building possible.
"I'm glad and proud I studied and became a part of this fine profession." Ford said.
Bernett took the opening of old Green Hall was only the beginning of the school's and district's growth.
Earlier Ford had appeared before a combined economics and political science clown for the New York Times speaking at a law school luncheon in the Union Ballroom. Ford appeared before a
Ford, the 38th president of the United States and apparently the first incumbent or former president to visit KU since Dwight Eisenhower, left Lawrence late yesterday afternoon for Florida to play in the Jackie Gleason golf tournament.
At the lunchen, Ford said, "I've visited 25 colleges since January 1977 and I have no doubt that this generation now attending previous generation this country has seen.
The School of Law moved into new Green Hall in the fall. The new building is located on the south side of 15th Street, north of 16th Street and east of the Jawhaker Towers apartment complex.
1974, when he declared that what he called the nightmare of Watergate was over.
More than twice the size of old Green Hall, the new building can accommodate 650 students. The building cost almost $50 for floor space at 103,000 square feet of space has
Ford faces KU classes, talks politics, economics
By DIRCK STEIMEL
Staff Writer
Acting much like a professor, using the chalkboard and casually answering questions, former President Gerald R. Ford, was a student at the University of Kentucky yesterday.
In his first lecture to an economics class in Summerfield Hall, Ford talked about the problems he faced as president in the recession of 1975.
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one main problem in the country in 1974, Ford said, was rampant inflation caused by rising oil prices, food cost increases and an easy money economy.
Ted Owens, the fifth basketball coach in KU history, recently won his sixth Big Eight championship in 14 years. Owens and this year's team
But, in 1975, unemployment became a serious problem and the country was forced to deal with both inflation and unemployment. Old textbook theories of a balance between inflation and unemployment would not work in 1975, he said.
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Ford brought his firsthand knowledge and experience to KU economics, history, and science.
the Big Eight postponed tournament. Twice in the last
year, they had to be played at home, and in 2015,
for pictures and story see Weekday, section 6.
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FORD SAID his economic policy then laid the foundation for the provision he said he would make.
"I just hope we don't miss the chance to cut taxes and recover the recovery started last year."
Strike settlement rejected
The Carter administration's economic policy, Ford said, proposes too much federal spending.
WASHINGTON—Representatives of the country's soft coal industry said yesterday that a tentative contract agreement between the striking United Mine Workers union and the independent operator was unacceptable union-wide settlement.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus-Cyprus President Spyryk Sypiro said yesterday he would attend the Larnaca airport Sunday night that left 15 Egyptians dead but he was ready to hold a reconciliation meeting in his Arwar Saad. See story page two.
However, officials of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association said they were ready to continue the negotiation.
However, Ford said, Carter has had none of his energy proposals approved by Congress and Ford had more than half of his money to invest in the goals he said, was in achieving the goals.
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Cyprus president reconsiders split
TOPEKA—The Kansas Senate approved the form of a bill that would allow the legal in the treatment of cancer. The bill will have to be signed by 60 percent.
Ford also said that the Soviet weapons buildup over the past few years was a great threat to the safety of this country. One of his major frustrations in not being elected in 1976 was not reaching a Salt II agreement, he said.
Ford said his and Carter's energy goals were about the same. Both have called for lowering oil imports, reducing energy consumption and utilizingization of coal and nuclear energy.
Ford said he supported the Panama Canal
IN AFTERNOON lectures in Sinn Hall, Ford said, "I'm going to be around; I'm healthy. I'm 64 going on 50, and I won't duck my head. I'll mean not I'm in or out of the political scene."
In other action, the Senate tentatively approved a bill that would pay the parents of two murdered park rangerettes $150,000 each.
HOWEVER, FORD said he did agree with Carter's approval of recent jet sales to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, although the timing of the sales was bad, he said.
Throughout the economic lecture, Ford spoke like a presidential candidate, criticizing the Carter administration's policies while praising his own.
Ford said he favored a series of bilateral studies to provide lasting peace in the Midwest.
In dealing with the Middle East crisis, Ford said the Carter administration had made two major mistakes. First, it called for help to be by calling for them to help arbitrate the Geneva conference. Secondly, he said, the administration should not without laying a good foundation.
tax reduction and tax reform are coupled as tax president Jimmy Carter plans to do, it will slow down and hurt the tax reduction, he said.
Ford said that Carter would not be able to balance the budget but that he could have balanced it. "It's a good thing," Ford said.
Ford said a tax reduction was necessary, particularly to help what he called the middle income poor who make $12,000 to $30,000 a year.
WHEN QUESTIONED about accusations by Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., that Panamanian officials are involved in drug dealings in the United States, Ford said drugs were a criminal matter and should have no bearing on the canal treaties.
treates and hoped they would be ratified
quickly by Congress.
"If the Panama Canal treaties are not approved," Ford said, "I could write a dozen or more scenarios of what would happen to this country—all bad."
Face in the crowd
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Waiting to begin the formal dedication ceremonies of the new law school, former President Gerald R. Ford cast a sidewalk
glance at the crowd of about 3,500 that gathered in Allen Field on Monday and a group of dignitaries, including Robert F. Hensley, member of the board of