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Tuesday, January 29,1974
University Daily Kansan
Food Co-op Under Study by IFC; K-State Model Results in Savings
By RANDY SCHUYLER
Fraternity men at KU hope to cut their food costs by co-operative volume buying, according to Jim Brooks, assistant dean of men.
Kansan Staff Reporter
Brooks said yesterday that a definite plan hadn't been established and that local problems would have to be taken into consideration.
Fraternity housemothers aren't optimistic, however. Of seven interviewed, their feelings ranged from guarded optimism to open opposition.
Rick McLaughlin, Dallas junior and IPC president, and Brooks will go to Colgate College at Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 5, to study the system there.
Nearly all doubted the fraternity members could do a better job than they could. They were concerned about delivery, quality of food and cost of administration.
"I think we should consider the local merchants," Harriet Taverner, Delta Chi housemother, said yesterday. "Harrywood will deliver one steak if I come up short."
She said that Harwood's Meat Market
However, she said she will go along with whatever her house decides.
and other wholesalers contribute yearly to scholarship funds and that this should be
Other housemothers expressed similar sentiments about the readiness of local wholesalers to help out if they had problems. The housemothers are far from certain that co-operative buying would work at KU.
The system used there has worked "exceptionally well," according to Jerry Lilly, faculty advisor for the K-State IFC.
Lilly said the 18屋 involves the use of a
building with a central column. This amount is to $1,837 for last semester.
One place where it has worked is at Kansas State University. A group of fraternities have been operating a co-op there for the past year.
The system is handled on a cash basis, according to Lilly. Members deposit money with the co-op as in a checking account and draw against the balance.
They place their orders with the co-op, which then orders for them from pre-merchant stores.
Television Is an Art Form To Guest Artist Baldessari
By CAROL GWINN
Kansan Staff Reporter
From the back of the room, the video tape appeared to be someone typing row upon row of numbers. From the front of the room, viewers could see the phrase, "Haste makes
A television played a video tape in front of the Forum Room in the Kansas Union as students—mainly art students—tried to find a seat in the already coredwed room.
John Baldessari, guest artist for the Hallmark series, prepared the tape. He said that he was going to write a song he was trying to type the phrase, "Haste makes waste," as fast he could without making any mistakes, although sometimes the phrase came out as "Haste makes
"IT'S LIKE STRUCTURING space in a picture. What I really wanted to do with video was have a thing that would be there."
"It's structuring time so that it has some interest," said Baldessari, who presented slides and films of his artwork yesterday afternoon.
"The television doesn't really fit into the gestalt of a room. It is a funny contraption," she said.
"I get very antsy and bored with most things."
He said that when he taught in Nova Scotia he had everyone write '1 will not be able to do.'
He said one of the main problems with minimalism in a painting is "when it isn't well lit."
"I guess what was done was a certain comment about the nature of art at that time," Baldessar said. "The endless pleasures of the punishment for russell and the students."
Baldesarias said the video "loop" (it repeats itself) would be a moving picture and you could see it in the space.
"It WAS MEANT for a gallery where it could be going on endlessly and no one would give it any more attention than a picture." Badlemsari said.
He said he began experimenting with media other than painting because he "began to doubt painting and my history was that of a painter."
"I had difficulty accepting stretcher bars and cavavates as limitations," he said.
“As soon as one saw the stretcher bar and canvas, it seemed to be art. You didn't have to do much else. So I began to look for other options.”
One work Baldessari showed was of letters that he placed on the California coast.
He found a map of California that had the letters, "California," printed across it, and then calculated exactly where those letters would be placed on the actual land.
He then produced the letters in various forms, ranging from coloring a river with
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Badassier also painted the California-
mexico border to simulate the colored lines in the movie.
"WHAT IF CALIFORNIA really did look
when, you were flying over it?"
be said.
Baldassari showed a number of slides he made between 1986 and 1988 working with the artist.
"Sign painters always fascinated me," he said. "That seemed a real art. That it was an applied art didn't matter. It's the old problem of comma-seurship."
Connoisseurship is studying a particular artist so well that the connoisseur can tell whether a work of art was really done by that artist.
Baldessari put ten canvases lettered by different sign painters side by side so that viewers would look at how the paint was put down.
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If a member's balance won't cover his order, the order is halted until the member completes.
Lilly said wholesalers were paid within three business days of ordering. He said this lowered their bookkeeping costs and has increased their credit rating in town, next to the bank."
"IT'S THE SAME kind of mental activity as in comensurship," said Baldessar, son of Gustave.
Baldessari said he had lifted words from books or used phrases that he overheard people say and then saw how that information would transfer onto canvas.
According to Lillie, the co-op decides what kinds of commodities will buy and then sets down detailed specifications, such as the salt content in cans of vegetables.
"The documentation is what conveys value, not the work of art itself," said Baldessari, when he was discussing another painting that listed all the exhibits it had been in, when it had been commissioned and when it had been conceived.
Lilly serves as secretary-treasurer. The co-op also employs a full-time manager and
To inquire that they are followed, the co-op will open a机 at random out of a case and
Sealed bids are then sent out for individual wholesalers to fill out. Doing this, Lilly said, brings the bids under price-fixing laws and thus increases competition in the
In another painting, Baldessar wrote the words: "Everything has been purged from this painting but art. No ideas have entered the work."
BALDESSARI SAID be kept needing more and more studio space until he eventually ended up using a movie studio for his art work.
He considered the works as part of himself, he said. He later made the ashes into cookies so that ultimately his paintings would become other works of art.
Also specified are delivery schedules, which may vary as to the type of food in
So he decided to "cremate" all his paintings.
Lily insisted that buying in volume greatly increased the purchaser's power and still left menu planning and food quality and quantity to the housemothers.
The K-State co-op has expanded to buying paper products and cleaning supplies and even fraternity composites, according to Lilly.
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He said that instead of buying from the local butcher, the co-op can go directly to the meat producers, such as Armour or Swift.
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The manager employed by the co-op is a graduate student in institutional training.
"Few housemothers have that kind of training," he said.
He said the next step, if they enlarged, will be to rent a warehouse and buy trucks
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He added that Rusty's accepted old grocery stock from his customers, who would have returned policy.
Don Notningham, manager of A&P Super Market, 104 Massachusetts St., said he began having trouble getting grocery sacks about six weeks ago.
Nottingham said that quite a few A&P customers had been bring in old sacks for reuse, but that A&P didn't yet developed a refund policy.
"I've got some now, but I couldn't get any about two weeks ago," he said.
"I tried for two weeks to get a supply of carryout sacks and I had to call three wholesaler before I could find any," said Glenn Turner of Turner's Grocery, 700 Fifth Avenue. The seller came, and they were having problems supplying all of their customers."
Turner said he would accept old sacks if they did contain names of other grocery stores granted a license.
This new shortage hit just as grocers were recovering from another problem caused by the paper shortage—the toilet tissue panic of late December and early January.
Local stores reported that they now have plenty of toilet tissue on the shelves, but that some are still missing.
"About a month ago there were two or three Saturdays when we didn't have a single roll in the store, but we managed to solve the problem," Oppenlander said. "We may not have many of the brands the customers want, but we have plenty of tissue. In fact, we have more than we need right now."
Oppenlander said the store had received a bulletin that said the toilet tissue shortage was due to panic buying and there was actually plenty of toilet paper.
"But we couldn't explain that to customers when there simply wasn't any in them."
The spokesman for Rusty's Hircrest cared and the toilet tissue shortage had been only one week old.
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Several University of Kansas students who have taken minor legal problems to the newly formed Douglas County Small Claims Court must prove on court on whether, the court is fair.
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Most cases involving KU students involve rent deposit recovery, according to Linda Triplette of the Consumer Protection Association.
The court was authorized by the 1973 Kansas Legislature and opened July 2, 1973. It deals with individual actions for recovery of amounts of $500 or less. A $5 fee is charged both the plaintiff and the defendant in the case, and accompanied or defended by an attorney.
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"I thought he was very fair," she says.
"He could see both sides."
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Jody Anderson, Wellington senior, says she and her roommate filed a petition against their landlord for recovery of a rent deposit, and were satisfied with the court.
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Natal says she advised anyone using the court to be prepared.
A disagreement about the return of a rent deposit was also the source of a petition filed by Judy Natal, Chicago junior. Natal says she had been advised to use the small claims court by the Legal Aid Society. She said she well as "very businesslike" and "fair."
The small claims court is a good concept, Anderson says, because many people can't deal with their own faults.
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"DON'T TRY to bulshit," she says. "Be as direct and to the point as possible and be
"It's a good alternative for people who have legal problems," she says.
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"He who has the heart to lend a band has the right to criticize."
The court is too informal, Hohenderf says. The defendants were loud and interrupted frequently, and he says they made the court a shambles.
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Natal won a judgment of one-half of the deposit and court costs.
"ELWELL TRIED to be fair, but I don't think he was," Hohendenfors says.
Joe Hohendorf, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, lost his case in the court, also an attempt to recover a rental deposit. He怀俄顿 because he left out one detail of testimony.
Hohenford says Ewell should have made at least a partial adjustment of the claim, and that the court didn't spend enough time on his case.
Hohendorf also advises people using the court to be prepared with their arguments
"Have everything down on paper before
you go in so nappy skips your mind," he
said.
Elwell says that the court works well for the most part. The honesty of the participants and their willingness to agree on a plan is important, too, encouraging aspects of the court to him.
The biggest problem with the court, he said, was the fact that the court has no mechanism to force payment of judgments made. Elwell said that occasionally, a defendant admitted liability in a case, but was unable to pay his debts. Even so, he had to have as good of a claims payment record as defendants in county court cases.
Despite his complaints, Hohendorf says he thinks the court is a good idea.
ELWELL SAYS that if the case load becomes too heavy, he will have to appoint a judge pro tem to hear the cases. Pro term judges have been appointed about 10 times to hear cases when he was busy, Elwell said.
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