Wednesday, February 6, 1974
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Plans Crystallize for Youth Hostel
By BUD HUFFMAN Kansan Staff Reporter
If a local group of traveling and hostling enthusiasts is successful, Lawrence soon will have a youth hostile affiliated with the university and international hostling federations.
The group had an information and organization meeting Monday night in the Kamas Union. Eleven persons attended, and members of the Kamas traveled in traveler and the United States.
Phyllis de Vries, Norwich, Kan., senior,
said she became involved with hosteling
while touring Europe with a girl friend after
she received a degree from the University of Kansas
in spring 1971.
Many European youth hostels are subsidized by the governments, she said, and they provide young people inexpensive and secure lodging while they travel.
"IT'S CHEAP, and a good hostet has not showers and a place to prepare meals while cooking."
De Vries and Carina Lister, of 500 Missouri St., are cochairman of the Lawrence Youth Hostel Committee (LYH-C).
The committee, which also consists of George Latham of the Gran Sport bicycle company and John Morgan of 2141 Rhode Island St., has been working since late November to establish a hostel here. The group has office space in the university's (SUA) office in the Union.
De Vries laid LYHC had applied for a national charter from American Youth Hostels, Inc. which would qualify the Lawrence company for nonprofit tax status.
Several housing alternatives were discussed, including unused residence hall space, unused fraternity houses and some large, unused residences in Lawrence.
Latham said he thought the only realistic way of providing adequate housing was to either rent space or find someone willing to donate space as a tax write-off.
Lister said the hostel should serve three groups of people: tourists traveling through Lawrence who want a place to stay overnight, people coming to Lawrence and needing a place to stay while visiting here and local residents who are interested in the
bicycle tours and travel activities that the hostel could sponsor.
A MAP provided by De Vries listed more than 115 hotels in 31 states, none of which were in Kansas. The closest hostels to Kearns in Kansas City, Mo., and Lincoln, Neh.
DE VRIES SAID LYHC had been com* municating with several local groups, including the KU Endowment Association, SUA, KU-Y and the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department, about the possibilities of establishing a hostel.
Eleanor Burchell, coordinator for KU-Y, said yesterday that she would like to see a community YMCA-YWCA started which would work with the prosed vosth hostel.
Legislators Say Students Effective in Lobby Group
ASK is a student lobbying organization comprised of Washburn University and all the four-year state colleges and universities excent the University of Kansas.
if KU wants to join, he said, it must do so at the senate's initiative. He said, however, that he might write to the leadership of the Senate to request the senate's operations after the electors next week.
State legislators said yesterday that the Associated Students of Kansas (ASK) had been fairly effective in lobbying despite its lack of experience.
According to the 1973 Hostel Guide and Handbook, issued by the American Youth Hostel, in, there are about 4,500 hotels in the United States. International Youth Hostel Federation.
Ron Hein, Washburn law student and executive director of ASK, said he had no plans to come to KU and ask the senate to join him in joining the lobbying organization.
HEIN SAID ASK had been lobbying for the landlord-tenant bills and the campaign finance bill, which are before the legislature. He said the organization would lobby only for faculty salary increases when the budget is considered.
The KU Student Senate voted last fall to join ASK because the functions of ASK overlapped those of KU's Concerned Students for Higher Education and because ASK suggested the use of professional nonstudent lobbyists.
ASK won't lobby on any other budget considerations, he said, because the legislative assembly, made up of all Republicans, didn't take a position on any of them.
Buckley said he would like to see ASK do more for university budgets.
In a letter sent to interested people, Devi vaughan Lliver provided some background on baitfish.
Mert Buckley, Wichita senior and student body president, said legislators told him they were somewhat impressed with the job ASK was doing, but Buckley still had reservations about KU's joining the organization.
"I don't think there's any need to reconsider it (joining ASK)," said John Beisner, Salma junior and candidate for student body president.
ED ROLFs, Junction City junior and candidate for student body president, said he thought that ASK might give students an opportunity to learn more about his support for joining the organization
would depend on KU's voice in deciding what issues should be laborled for.
Rep. Lloyd Buzzi, R-Lawrence, said ASK had been pleasant and easy to work with. He said he was glad to see students involved because too many people thought students didn't care what was happening in the legislature.
Rep. Michael Glover, D-Lawrence, said he thought ASK was as effective as any lobby could be that was strictly educational and had little financing behind it.
"The concept of hostelling developed in Europe, where it still is strong," the letter said. "European hostels are planned and located so the traveler may go from one hostel to another in one day's journey by train, bus or ferry, hostels, hosting is a growing mode of travel."
GLOVER SAID that he didn't think KU not being a member had hindered ASK and that few people realized KU wasn't a member.
"Briefly, a hostel works in the following manner. Travelers buy an annual hostel pass for $10 and are entitled to stay at any of the five rooms," she said, with a normal fee (usually under $2).
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