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Friday, February 26, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
People stay busy during day off from classes
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
Mike Nichols, Overland Park senior, digs into a pile of snow. About eight inches of snow fell yesterday, forcing the cancellation of classes.
KU Info, Jaytalk line answer 4.000 calls
"We all have red marks on our ears," Elkins said.
The Jaytalk line, which is the information center's recorded answering message, normally deals with three times what the KU Information line
Three operators manned the phones at the KU Information Center yesterday. Their hands rarely left the receivers as each answered about 200 calls an hour.
Susan Elkins, KU Information Coordinator, said that her staff had answered about 4,000 calls by noon yesterday from students checking to see whether classes had been canceled.
handled yesterday, she said. Callers even had to wait on hold for the Jaytak line, which has 16 lines.
Leslie Jones, a graduate assistant at the information center, said phone lines got busy during every snowstorm.
Elkins that workers from the Organization and Activities Center in the Kansas Union also helped her work and to take bathroom and coffee breaks.
Usually the information center only has two lines open, but yesterday another worker came in to help with the deluge of phone calls.
"I really think all 28,000 students call at once," he said.
Wescoe Terrace diners given treat on slow day
Instead of the usual breakfast items offered at Wesco Terrace, customers yesterday were treated to fresh eggs and omelettes, courtesy of Denise Svaglic, supervisor of the cafeteria.
Blake Spurneu
"I always try to do something on snow days," she said. "It's kind of like a reward for showing up to work and school."
The last time classes were canceled,
which was only for half a day, Svagic made BLT's for her lucky patron. She sold them for a dollar. Regular price for a sandwich is $2.25.
Eggs can be purchased any day at Wescoe Terrace, but not omelets. And the eggs that are normally offered are prepackaged, not fresh.
"When I have more time to do special things for people, I like to do them." she said.
Yesterday's prices: two eggs for $1
or an oatmeal with toast for $2.25
She closed the cafeteria at 1:30 p.m. yesterday, three hours early, because of slow business. Even though it was a slow day, more people showed up than she expected.
If it were up to her, she said, she would have fresh eggs every day at Wesco, but she doesn't have the facilities.
"Actually, I'm surprised because we did a lot of breakfast business, considering there's not any classes," she said.
Towing business booms as result of heavy snow
Heavy snow that blanketed Lawrence yesterday caused slippery driving conditions for motorists — and plenty of business for local towing companies.
Ron Roost, office manager of Hillcrest Wrestler & Garage Inc., 1226 E. 23rd St., had no trouble assessing the volume of yesterday's business.
"Crazy," Roost said. "We're pretty far backed up. It's great for business."
Roost said Hillcrest had received about 60 calls by late yesterday afternoon from motorists who were stuck in heavy snow in city streets and ditches or whose cars would not start. Response time from when the caller asked for help until a wrecker arrived was as much as three hours, depending on the location of the motorist, Roost said.
— Blake Spurney
However, J.R. Peck, dispatcher for Kaw Motor & Salvage Company, 1545 N. Second St., received a more difficult call vesterday.
"I had a Coors beer truck that jack-knifed." Peck said.
"Most of the time, we just pull them out onto the street and they drive off," Roost said.
The trailer of the delivery truck could at get traction and slid sideways against the cab, he said.
Brady Prauser
Sledders' fears fade with each trip down hill
After each sled ride down the hill, the snow turned more icy, but fears melted away.
Fears of strangers and the big hill behind Carruth-O'Leary Hall were forgotten as the sleds rocketed down the slope.
"People were going down on matresses, inner tubes, trash bags, dishes, dinner trays, a phone book, laminated books, the store," said Brett Fox, St. Louis sophomore.
The ground was littered with all those items, as well as lost hats, mittens and gloves.
"What you really see are college students reliving their childhood," said Steve Kunitz, Chesterfield, Mo., junior.
Leslie Brenner, Memphis, Tenn,
senior, back and back and watched as six
of her friends linked legs and arms
and careened down the slope.
As the day's light faded into the snow, everyone was laughing and screaming as they watched others sled or sledded themselves. Strangers gave sledding advice, traded sleds and joked with strangers.
"You can put me down as a big chicken," she said. "I'll call their parents and inform them if anyone gets hurt."
But as soon as her friends had climbed back up the hill reliving their experience through conversation, she was ready to join them.
Students' radio hobby helps save motorist
Ezra Wolfe
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While most students were nestled in for a long winter's night on Wednesday, three KU students in the Amateur Radio Club turned a hobby into a life-saver.
Mike Marmor, Princeton , N.J., senior; Tyler Macmillan, Joplin, Mo., freshman; and Sean Bell, Shawnee junior, were in the club's radio room in Lindley Hall at 13:00 p.m. when a voice broke over their line asking for help.
The voice was that of Lawrence resident Stephan Mooney, whose car had slid off the road near Overbrook, 25 miles southwest of Lawrence. All of his car windows were broken out.
Mooney, a registered amateur-radio operator, used a two-way radio in his car to call for help.
Lawrence resident Vicky Millar had been talking to the students over her radio and heard Mooney's call for help. She telephoned the Osage County sheriff while the students rewired their radio to talk to Mooney. An officer rescued Mooney 15 minutes later.
Marmor said that helping in time of need was part of amateur radio.
"This is my favorite part of amateur radio," he said. "We have the skills to help people out in time of need."
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