UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 16, 1994
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No coupon needed: Stores offer discounts for KUIDs
By Heather Moore Kansan staff writer
Students no longer need coupons to get discounts at some Lawrence businesses.
Now, all they need are their KUIDs.
University Affairs, a Student Senate committee that represents all students, created a task force in October that called Lawrence businesses and arranged discounts for KU students. Now, about 30 businesses offer discounts.
Lisa Golzar, liberal arts and sciences senator and a volunteer for University Affairs, said the service was easy to use.
Golzar said she hoped that the service would grow in the next few years. Jennifer Edwards, University Affairs member, said the KUID discount would be something students could use for a long time.
"Anything that helps the student is good," she said.
"We decided to put out a pamphlet that would offer student discounts without having to carry coupons
around," she said. "You always have your ID, so you always have a discount. It's also a little free advertising for the businesses."
Jessica Bobker, Numemaker senator, said this was an easy way to give something to students. She said the service would help low-income students as well as those who just want to save money.
Bobker said the businesses that didn't support the discount already had offered other discounts to KU students.
"It benefits students because they aren't exactly well-off," she said. "Students need a break. We all look for the cheaper stuff anyway."
"Most of them were at least polite and understand the plight of students," she said. "If they couldn't help, they already had coupon offers."
Sherman Reeves, Interfraternity Council senator and University Affairs chair, said the group would produce a pamphlet in the next few days that would explain which businesses offered discounts.
Pamphlets will be available at the
Kansas Union, in newspaper distribution boxes around campus and in student housing facilities. Reeves said.
"Students spend a lot of money in Lawrence," he said. "We wanted to find out what businesses realized this and would give students a break."
The pamphlets will be paid for out of Senate's internal budget. Reeves said.
Reeves said that there had been problems with some businesses.
"Businesses are inundated with requests for discounts and coupons," he said. "They were concerned with us being another coupon scheme."
"We plan to print about 500 pamphlets to begin with," he said. "The amount depends on responses and needs."
Village Inn Pancake House Restaurant, 821 Iowa St., offers a 10 percent discount for students when they show their KUIDs. Sunshine Loyd, a hostess at the restaurant, said students used the discount often.
"We do this to show our appreciation for students," she said.
Media giant acquires Paramount
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Viacom clinched a hard-fought victory yesterday for Paramount Communications, sending rival sponsor QVC Network into defeat after a five-month takeover brawl.
But Viacom Inc., a cable-channel operator, now faces more problems — running the huge entertainment and publishing company while completing a planned merger with video-retailer Blockbuster Entertainment Corp.
Viacom's victory was a significant personal achievement for its steely chairman, Sumner Redstone, who vowed from the outset that this corporate marriage would "never be torn asunder."
He defeated a tenacious Barry Diller, who once ran Paramount Pictures and is resolved to build his own interactive multimedia empire using QVC Network Inc., a cable shopping channel, as his base.
Viacom's victory came at great cost. It will have to borrow billions more than originally planned to buy Paramount Communications Inc., which owns a film studio, Simon & Schuster books, Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks and New York Rangers.
Paramount and Viacom agreed in September on an $8.2 billion cash and stock merger, including about $1.1 billion in cash. The final price is about $10 billion in cash and stocks.
Viacom, owner of MTV, Showtime and Nickelodeon and other cable channels, said that nearly 91.7 million Paramount shares, or about 74.6 percent of the total, were tendered as of midnight yesterday under terms of its buyout offer.
That was well above the 50.1 percent required for Viacom to gain control.
QVC said that its bid had attracted only 10.4 million shares and that it had dropped its tender offer in compliance with bidding rules.
Analysts say Viacom faces a daunting task of reversing the recent disappointing performance of Paramount's moviemaking division and with getting management to refocus after the distraction of watching a bidding war that began just after Labor Day last year.
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