Friday, October 6, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Temperature, scores determine food sales
By Harlan Everett
Kansan Staff Reporter
With the home season opening much later than usual, the concessions have had much more time to organize.
A warm, clear day and a 20-point halftime lead Saturday would please Kevin Remick, director of the Kansas Union Concessions.
"With a good half-time lead, enthusiasm is high and everyone will come down and fill up." Remick said.
Remick said soft drinks sell when the temperature registers above 75 degrees. But when the readings dip below 65, people prefer food.
"Weather below 75 degrees can make as much as 40 per cent difference in drink sales," Remick explained.
Students, who sit in the sun tend to drink more, Remick said, and the paying fans in the shaded west stands eat more.
Just the same, Remick started planning last March for the coming school year. His final food orders are placed the Monday before each game after he receives the weather forecast for that Saturday.
Dorm clinics set to give flu shots
Flu shots will be available next week at temporary clinics in residence halls, Dr. Raymond Schwegler, health service director, said.
The clinics are scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. in the following halls:
Monday—McCollum Hall
Tuesday—Templin Hall
Wednesday—Joseph K.
Wednesday—Joseph R. Pearson Hall
Thursday—Corbin Hall Friday—Oliver Hall
The hospital will also continue to give shots, Schwegler said.
"The deans thought we could reach more students by making the shots available closer to the students," he said.
The shots are free for all students. Staff members will be charged a nominal fee.
Remick usually plans for one out of every eight fans to buy a hot dog and one out of two to buy a drink. At this rate, about 30,000 hot dogs are consumed during the season.
He also said that this year, the Union Consessions hired an environmental health officer—first in the Big Eight—to insure cleanliness in the food service.
"With so many more people served, we don't want to take any chances with the food."
In a tour of Big Eight concessions last year, Remick observed that KU was much more careful in the preparation and handling of food than most other schools.
Remick said he gives first hiring preference to students. Most of his employees are either members of KU-Y, Scouts or church groups. He mentioned that members of Delta DeltaDelta sorority have been working at games for years. They put the money they earn in a scholarship fund.
"While the concessions do run smoothly, someone always wants something we don't have," Remick added.
He said some want catup or even salt and pepper for their hot dogs. And, he adds, those new plastic mustard packs, required by state health officers, can turn into a messy yellow squirt gun when opened incorrectly.
Japanese art to be displayed
An exhibition of Japanese paintings, dating from the 15th to the 18th century, will highlight the annual Museum of Art Benefit Ball at KU which begins Oct. 27.
The 36 paintings are from the collection of Joe D. Price of Bartlesville, Okla., said Bret Waller, museum director.
The collection is scheduled to be displayed in the Museum of Art until Nov. 30.
International Club to view trip Saturday
reaffirm and create life," Abrams said.
Plans for a trip to Mexico or San Francisco will be discussed by KU's International Club at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
The club will also discuss plans for a masquerade party featuring members' national costumes and the possibility of weekend excursions to nearby states.
At its first meeting last week, the club elected the following officers for the year:
Baby blizzard forseen after Chicago snows
Said Adra, Lebanon senior president; Sheila Crick, England graduate student, vice president; Ingrid Carlgerm, Sweden junior, secretary; Masoud Maoyer, Iran junior, treasurer; and Solvig Egerz, Iceland senior, social chairman.
Abrams predicted a 25 per cent increase in births the latter part of this month, based, in part, on a similarly high rate of births after the blackout in New York City and the Northeast two years ago.
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Nearly nine months after the heaviest snow storm in history, Chicago hospitals are expecting a blizzard of babies.
The birth rate was expected, by some, to jump as much as 30 per cent.
With an eye toward the increased number of pregnant mothers, obstetricians and nurses have made "snow baby" an integral part of their shop talk. The blizzard of '67 began in the windy city Jan. 26. For five days the city stood still, stalled in its tracks by mounting drifts of snow.
Hospital administrators said, cautiously, they are prepared for new influx of babies. Some of them forecast birth increases in late October and early November of up to 10 to 15 per cent over this period last year. Some went as high as 25 to 30 per cent.
"For many, it was a forced retreat into the home, if not the boudou," said Dr. Arnold Abrams, a Loyola University professor of psychology, late Thursday.
"Under certain stresses, people
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