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University of Calgary, Kannan, February 6, 1981
University of California, Berkeley, February 6, 1981
Magazine hunting easier now
By CINDY CAMPBELL Staff Reporter
Students may find it much easier these days to find magazines, newspapers and journals in Watson Library.
The amount of time needed to track down specific issues or volumes has been greatly reduced with the recent addition of a new Central Serials Record, Rob Melton, reference librarian, said.
The Central Serials Record alphabetically lists every serial in Watson and the branch libraries, their call numbers and location.
Melton defined a serial as anything published more than once under the same title, such as magazines and newspapers.
The listings are printed alphabetically onto flat pieces of transparent film called microfiche. The pieces magnified by microfiche readers.
The new system replaced the four large books of computer print-outs that formerly listed serials.
Melton said the Central Serials Record had many advantages over the old system. Because of the high cost of paper, the need for nearly 100 copies of the print-outs and the need to update the copies monthly, the financial savings would be tremendous.
The new system also saves a great deal of space, Melton said. Where previously there was room for one set of computer print-outs, there is now room for four microfiche readers.
Melton said that over 90 percent of the comments by students so far were favorable.
"Most of the students say that they're very easy to use and easy to read," he said. "But many of our older patrons were used to the old system and are a little resistant to change."
Gas bills rise with rates and cold weather
According to Milton, the library eventually wants to put the whole card catalog on microfiche.
"These next few years are definitely a trial run," he said.
Oil doesn't have a monopoly on energy price inflation. Natural gas rates, aided by price deregulation and increasing gas drilling costs, are skircocketing as well—and KU students living off campus are feeling the pinch.
By DALE WETZEL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
"Our gas bill was $7 in December,
and in January it went up to $138."
Mark Lumpe, Topeka senior, said
westerday.
Increased gas costs, however, are only one of several causes of higher student energy bills. The recent bitter debate over whether many young student houses are also to blame.
"Our house lacks insulation," lumpie said of his 923 Hennessey St. residence. "It's an old house, and there's a few holes in the walls. Recently, I put plastic over the windows that caught up insulation over the stuffed insulation into the holes in the walls."
KAREN SCHOENFELD, St. Louis,
Mo., junior, has noticed a more gradual increase in her gas tab.
"Our January 1980 bill was $100." Schoenfeld, who lives at 130 Vermont, said, "The last month was $150. I've not done that. We don't air around and talk about it."
February's freezing temperatures have caused Schoenfeld and her four rooms to keep the heat on frequently, she said.
"We have an old house, it gets a lot of leaks, and it's not adequately insulated," she said. "It would be really expensive to insulate it, though. Our landlady lives with us, and she helped replace our storm windows recently."
LUMPE'S AND Schoenfeld's problems are shared by many students living in the large houses that line Tennessee, Louisiana and several other states. In this neighborhood are old and probably lack insulation. Lumpe said.
"I'm satisfied with the situation, though," he said. "The landlord has been very helpful. He's provided some cawk and plastic to work on the house.
"The cold weather has increased the bill, and politically I think the greed of
the big oil companies contributes to the high prices, too." Lumpe said.
However, the balance sheet of the privately-owned Kansas Public Service Co. the main natural gas supplier to the customers, fails to show profiling.
From 1978 through September 1980, KPS showed a revenue increase of more than $2.3 million, but a net income rise of just under $3,000.
except for a cold spell around Christmas," Boll Allison, plant superintendent at Kansas Public Service, said. "That's a big reason for the higher January rates."
RAPIDILY REING GAS costs for utilities are another multiplying factor in gas rates, according to Lou Drees of Drees, Dum, Lubow and Co.
Dress' company, an Overland Park arbitration firm, recently granted KPS a 2.5 percent rate hike. The firm had been hired by the Lawrence City Commission to determine the amount of the rate boost.
"I predict that natural gas will be $4 per thousand cubic feet (MCF) in four to five years." Dress said. KPS, whose have gone up 44 percent in 13 months, now gets approximately $2.96 per MCF.
Lumpe said he thought that the utility's practice of estimating gas bills could have something to do with his increased bills. Allison, however, said that company estimation did not change the total customer bill.
"A gas meter is like the odometer of a car," Allison explained. "It runs continuously. People who are overcharged one month will have the meter replaced when given a chance to reading the meter. In the end, you pay for the exact amount of gas used."
Lump, meanwhile, is resorting to some touch measures to cut his asz use.
"We've turned the thermostat down to 60 degrees," he said. "The house has two fireplaces, and we keep those we also wear lots of clothes."
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