Page 10 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1961
ASC Hears Burge Explain Union
By Karl Koch
Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union, spoke to members of the All Student Council last night as part of a close ASC investigation into operation of the Union.
In other action, the ASC tabled a resolution to have the Student Liaison Committee present a report "to the proper state agency" about the "need for enlarging Watkins Hospital." It also voted $500 each to the editor and business manager of the Jayhawker and elected officers.
THE HOSPITAL BILL was introduced by Hollace Cross, Kansas City, Mo., junior. Max Eberhart, Great Bend senior, and president of the student body, asked Cross to hold off on the resolution until the Student Liaison Committee could get together with Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
Eberhart said he wanted to "avoid confusion" about the KU budget requests, citing an example of the Chancellor asking for money for a new engineering building and the liaison committee asking at the same time for expansion of the hospital.
ANOTHER ASC member said he had already talked to the Chancellor about the hospital expansion, and that the Chancellor recognized the need.
Ronald Gallagher, Fort Scott senior, said that the Chancellor told him the hospital was about midway on the priority list for the 10 year building program of the University.
"It wouldn't be wise to have two forces (the administration and the liaison committee) acting against each other," he said.
THE RESOLUTION to grant $500 each to the editor and business manager of the Jayhawker last year, Russell D'Anna, KU '61 and Fritz Rehkopf, Webster Groves, Mo., senior, was passed unanimously and without discussion.
The resolution was tabled and will be brought up again at the next meeting.
Jerry Palmer, El Dorado senior and chairman of the ASC, read a letter from the Jayhawker Advisory Board recommending that they be given the money for "exceptionally meritorious work."
PALMER TOLD the ASC members that the Jayhawker is a $40,000 a year business, and that each year a profit of about $1,000 is made.
He said the profit goes to the ASC and for the past several years, the ASC has given money to the editor and business manager of the Jayhawker.
The ASC officers elected last night are: Vice chairman — Dean Salter. Garden City junior; secretary — Jo Snyder, Bethesda, Md., sophomore; and treasurer — Roy Deem, Joplin, Mo., senior. All are from Vox Populi party.
In his speech, Mr. Burge explained part of the operation of the Kansas Union.
"LET'S CLEAR UP any problems you (the ASC) might have," he said. "When I finish I hope you will be convinced of my sincere dedication to making the Union what you and the student body want."
"I am responsible for a $4 million plant in debt over $2 million," he said, adding that each KU student pays off this debt by a $10 semester charge included in University fees.
"Some of you (members of the ASC committee investigating the Union) have asked me if the Union is not over-expanded," he said. "The debt is no millstone around my neck."
MR. BURGE then went into the intricacies of directing a Union, emphasizing that the aim is to reman
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"We did $2 million business last year. We lost $16,000 because we were torn up in redeveloping." (An addition was put on the Union last year.)
THE QUESTION of the seven per cent refund the Union gives to customers of the bookstore was brought up, along with questions about the prices charged for school materials and the 10 cent fee for cashing checks.
"We have a $1,207 profit this year. Put yourself in my place — a $2 million business and you have to ekute out a little over a $1,000 profit," he said.
Mr. Burge said he only knew of three student unions in the country that give patronage refunds.
"If the bookstore does $90,000 business in a year and refunds seven per cent, that's $63,000 that has to be put in a reserve fund to pay
the customers. Almost all of that reserve is being claimed This wasn't true a few years ago," he said.
HE SAID the refund per cent has dropped from 15 per cent right after WWII steadily down to the present seven per cent.
Charlotte Masters, Advance, Mo., senior, told Mr. Burge she could get art supplies downtown cheaper than at the Union
Burge replied;
"I don't know every area of the building. If you will come around with me to that department," he told Miss Masters, "we'll see what can be done about it."
About the 10 cent fee for cashing checks when the customer does not make a purchase, Burge said the bank charged the Union five cents for each check, and the other five cents went for expenses involved in check cashing.
"WE HAD TO write off about $800
in bad checks last year," he said holding up a small folder containing a pile of checks about four inches deep. He said the checks had all accumulated in the past several months.
Other expenses involved are part of the cost of keeping a large
amount of money on hand, such as insurance, he said.
"This weekend, I'll have to have on hand $9,000 to $12,000 to cash student checks."
Mr. Burge ended his speech emphasizing that the function of the Union was to serve the students.
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