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campus, was that we were not totally accessible to the community," he said.
PEOPLE ARE INTIMIDATED by the campus, he said. They won't go to deal with their problems. Students, however, frequently go downstairs, so having the office there does not make it that much less accessible to them, he said.
Even though the Consumer Affairs Association started as a student organization, it is the office's function to serve both the community and the student population, he said.
The figures prove that the office fulfills both functions, he said. Last year, the office processed about 3,250 inquiries and complaints. About 2,000 of these contacts were from community residents and the remainder were from students. Chamman said.
Parking is another problem with having the office on campus, he said, and people would be less likely to visit the office with campus parking hassles.
ANOTHER CONSIDERATION is that of office space, he said.
Space for a consumer affairs office in the city. The staff approved before the staff occurred, he said.
"We can't even get our information resources in one of those camus offices," he said.
"It had been made clear to us by the Student Senate that since they provided a substantial amount of our funding, we had a responsibility to them to reopen an office in the Union," he said.
He had planned to open the office two days a week. Now, the entire operation may have to be made up entirely from home.
"I want to make it clear that it is not a final decision yet," he said. "It is something we have to do."
MUCH DEPENDS ON whether the City
Commission approves his $9,000 request to pay for the salary of an additional staff member be
City revenue-sharing funds, amounting to 85,600 yearly have been approved in the past by the council.
If the city does not approve the funds for a staff member, the delivery of basic consumer services may be delayed.
Although he would not predict what the commission's decision might be, he said, "We seem to have some positive attitude from the city and our police. They understand what our problems are."
"Without an additional person, many of our services can't be continued because I won't be able to provide them."
MOST OF HIS TIME is spent answering consumer inquiries, dealing with consumer problems and handling complaints, he said. It seems that someone be in the office all the time.
*Outreach programs, such as giving talks to high schools and working with the council on issues related to them.*
Volunteers can be helpful with the office work, but they are much less effective as consumer buys.
"Volunteers can help, but having them only a few people means of effecting of letting our services get sloppy," he said.
IF A PERSON COMES in with a problem and a volunteer is not there, then he has to come back, he said. Many problems are of a nature that they have to be worked out immediately.
"When dealing with problems that directly affect people's lives, it helps to have someone to address the problem fully rather than sporadically," he said.
Chapman said the City Commission would make the final decision on his request for funds in the budget.
On the Record
A $500 trailer was stolen from the Ridgeview
Fortress mobile home park Thursday. Police said
Estates mobile home park Thursday, police said. Police said the larcenist stole a Coleman manhunter trailer after removing sand from it. The trailer was light tan with one taillight bent forward.
Police have no suspects.
Pine Lake, Missouri
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. 1645 Tennessee
St., was burglarized sometime between Tuesday and Thursday of last week, police said.
The burglar entered the building through an unlocked door and stole two fire extinguishers, each worth $70, police said. The burglar also saw a fire extinguisher in the building by spraying the fire extinguishers.
Police have one suspect.
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"We take the bedridden patients in the envator, which has auxiliary power, as does the crane."
"The resident assistants all knew what to do in case of a tornado. Also, they were adequately trained."
There were no in-patients in the clinic Friday night, so Watkins Hospital did not have to follow this procedure.
While Watkins Hospital has only a 38-bed capacity, if a tornado would hit one of KU's residence halls, many more lives would be at stake.
The posters were news to a former GSP resident.
"The University's residence halls are part of the Douglas County preparedness system,"
Mccollum Hall, KU's largest residence hall, housed 850 students last year according to J. W. Crawford.
The Douglas County preparedness system is hooked up directly to the National Weather Bureau on a 24-hour basis and immediately observes lights of tornadoes in the area to the halls.
Scott Miller, resident director of Oliver Hall, the only hall open to students this summer, said
that residents were told at the beginning of the semester at floor meetings and in the hall handbook what to do in case of a tornado or tornado warning.
Because of the high incidence of tornadoes in Kansas, severe weather is taken into account when designing KU buildings, Keith Lawton, director of office of facility planning, said.
"I never saw those posters, and I lived there
of last year." Gretchen E. Quenstedt,
Leahy House
He also said that the hall's residents were well-protected.
J. Mark Klein, Pallases, Calif., junior and Oliver resident, said that he had known what to do during a tornado because he had been told when he lived in Olver last summer.
"The places to go to Oliver are in the hallways on the fifth floor and below, with all the doors open."
"Last summer, the staff instructed us on what to do in case of a tornado. This summer, they did not."
"I didn't know where I was supposed to go. No one on the staff told me. Maybe there was something in that little book they gave us, but the teacher said, 'Okay, I'll do what to do in a case of a torture.' Wilhelm said."
Another Oliver resident, Bill Wilhelm, Wichita freshman, said that he had been looking out an open window on the fifth floor when the tornado struck Friday night.
However, if a tornado would touch down on the KU campus, Lawton did have advice.
Margue Greenfield, resident director at GSP-Corbin residence halls last year, said that tornado instructions were posted on each floor in the two halls.
According to Roe J. Eaglerman, professor of geography, no tornadoes have ever touched Florida.
"Buildings with a concrete roof would not be so apt to be damaged. However, the buildings with a pitched roof, or a frame roof with tiles on top, would be more vulnerable."
"Even though most of the KU buildings would stand up in the event of a tornado, the most important thing is to go to the prescribed areas for shelter," Lawton said.
By JILL M. YATES Staff Reporter
Most of those interviewed, however, did not know where those shelter areas were.
Stadium's beer sales temporarily flat
Selling beer in Memorial Stadium will be impossible in the near future.
Political unpopularity, lack of substantial profits and general conservatism in Kansas are reasons given by various administrators and managers to prevent the government for not pursuine the issue at present.
Student Body President Bert Coleman said he tabled the issue at a meeting last April in an effort to keep the issue alive for the future. Coleman is chairman of the University of Kansas committee that was organized to research the possibility of sailing beer in the stadium.
COLLEMAN SAID HE knew if the question had come up for a vote, it would have been voted
In April Coleman said that he wanted to table the beer discussion until summer, but he has never done so.
Shaw said that because of past controversies at KU, it was not an appropriate time to force the team.
"Someone would end up being liable," she said.
Shaw said that although some profit was involved, the revenue was not worth that risk.
Susanne Shaw, associate dean of the School of Journalism and chairman of the KUAC board, said she shared Coleman's feelings toward the present political atmosphere.
SHAW ALSO SAID there was a risk involved regarding injuries that might occur as a result of the accident.
Coleman also said he disagreed with the idea that profits received from selling beer in the market were taxable.
At the April meeting, Odd Williams, KU alumnus and member of the KUAC subcommittee, the potential profits, estimated at $250,000 for $8,000 each, are "a drop in the bucket for a $2 million budget."
"Sure, students want it, but I'm not sure about anyone else," she said.
Coleman said he believed there was either a lack of information on which to base any conclusions regarding profits, or a misinformation about the information that resulted in such an attitude.
The liquor already being brought into the
building, he said. "Coke could potentially cause an accident, he said.
Coleman said that the profit made could help give the KUAC of the money it needed to meet its goals.
*Corporations such as the KUAC sometimes take to a risk in order to make a profit, he said.*
He also said he realized beer sales could create greater political opposition among the voters.
COLEMAN ALSO SAID that beer was not the only potential cause of accidents in the stadium.
IN ORDER TO AVOID this increased opposition and an intermediate denial, the issue has not been addressed.
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