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Price increases affect down-filled clothes
By JAN SMITH Staff Writer
Students who plan to buy down-filled clothing this winter may find the prices higher than last year, according to sporting goods clerks in Lawrence.
Jackets filled with goose down have risen 12 per cent in price since last year. Dave Kearney, the head of the 804 Massachusetts St., said. But the increase in price should not affect the number of jackets.
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"People will continue to buy down-filled jackets because the product has real value," he said. "It works. It keeps people warm."
According to Outside magazine, droughts and earthquakes in China, which is the major down supplier, have limited exports of down to the United States.
Besides the cut in supply, down consumption reportedly has more than doubled and product suppliers cannot get enough of it.
Because the price of a pound of goose down has risen from $11.50 to about $25, the price of down-filled jackets at Sunflower Hall was raised from $80 to $77, Miltin斯加丁
"Down-filled jackets are growing in popularity among young people," he said.
buying something that they will get a lot of use out of."
Sunflower Surplus sells a number of down-filled items, including sleeping bags.
Millstein said that expedition sleeping bags had risen in price since last year from $199.90 to $249.90.
"DOWN-FILLED sleeping bags are hard to tell," he said. "People would rather sleep on the floor."
Millstein said that buyers at Sunflower Surplus knew about the down shortage and ordered a large quantity of down-filled jackets before the winter season.
"If we see that we'll need more jackets,
"We just it order more and hope they'll get
her." Millstein said. "We hope to increase
ticket sales between 10 and 20 per
cent."
Wendy Francis, employee of Francis Sports Gooding, 731 Massachusetts St., said the store started selling down-filled jackets because many consumers requested them.
"People kept asking for them around Thanksgiving and Christmas last year," she said. "We haven't had any problems in getting the chance we started stocking them last January."
Kurt Stockhammer, manager of Ride-on Bicycles Outdoor Sports, 1401 Massachusetts St., said that sales of down-filled jackets had decreased since last year.
"JACKETS SELLING at $70 last year are now between $75 and $89," he said. "I don't know the precise figures, but sales have shown by the advent of polymer-filled jackets."
According to Jim Schubert, manager of the Jay Shoppe, 835 Massachusetts St., students seem to prefer polyester-filled jackets and fill-infaced jackets because they are not as bulky.
said. "Polyester-filled jackets are lighter in weight and less expensive than down-fitted
Polyester-filled jackets cost from $20 to
$60.
"Down-filled jackets make you seem twice as big as you really are." Schubert
Like the Jay Shop, the Village Set, 922
Mamacitas stets. They sell down sell-down
furniture.
"We find that people are more concerned with how a jacket looks on the outside, rather than what it looks like on the inside," the store's manager said.
Kansas Union rents out darkrooms, tents, canoes
Unknown to most University of Kansas students, there are photographic darkrooms for rent, canoes to be paddled and books to be displayed in the world available in the Kansas Union.
The Union's charter states that its purpose is to provide goods and services for the benefit of our people.
In pursuing those goals, some Union
programs have become better known than others. Some of the lesser known services involve moons, the wilderness discovery program, a duplicating center and a travel library.
Homecoming alumni tour new Green
The darkrooms, on level three, are available for a fee of $5 a semester. The student provides his own chemicals. the facilities are available on a first-cone, first-serve basis 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Martin Dickinson, dean of the law school, estimated Saturday that close to 1,000 people would tour the building during homecoming.
Oohs, alms, coffee, doughnuts and a $5-million law building that even smells new were all part of Saturday's scenery as returning alumni and their families toured new Green Hall, on the west edge of campus.
"This is just - I don't have words to describe it - it's fantastic," Tummer, Tomugle, "to graduate and Concordia attorney, said. 'It, overwhelms me compared to old Green."
Friday was the last day for classes in old Green Hall on Jayhawk Boulevard.
Leland Rolfe, Topeka attorney and a 1970
land school graduate, said, "I think 1
kids need to be able to speak English."
Student capacity in new Green Hall will be 600, the maximum number of students in old Green Hall.
EXPRESSING CONERN about the number of students in the law school, Lebert Shultz, 1967 graduate from the law school and Kansas City, Mo., attorney, said, "It's a big job, but I'm concerned how the increased enrollment will relate to the job market."
Jan Wildgen, assistant professor of human development and family life, also said she was impressed by the new structure.
But Wilden, a 1977 graduate of the law school, said she thought new Green might not induce student interaction as the old law building had done.
"It will definitely be a different atmosphere," Jeanne Gorman, Lawrence Wheeler said.
McGarry, associate professor of law, said. "As a faculty member, I like it."
After 5 p.m., scheduling can be arranged through the instruction booth on level four.
Canoes, backpacking and camping equipment, tents, stoves, cooking kits, lanters and sleeping bags are available for rental by KU students.
THE WILDENESS discovery program,
part of SUA's outdoor recreation program,
is based at the U.S. Wildlife Refuge.
Denise Moore, chairman of outdoor recreation, said the equipment was offered at a reduced rate and most of the revenue went to purchase new equipment.
All equipment is rented on a daily basis. Canoes can be rented for $7, backpacks and sleeping bags for 75 cents and tents for $1.60 to $2.25.
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