CAMPUS AND AREA
Union fast-food debate goes on
By CINDY HOBSON Staff Reporter
At least one of the proposals put forth for the Kansas Union renovation project has led to disagreement. The question of whether the Union's food services should include a fast-food franchise was raised last spring and will be taken up again in the fall.
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A Student Senate petition to allow a fast-food franchise restaurant in the Kansas Union was requested to a study committee in April.
Although Student Senate President Carla Vogel and Vice President Dennis "Boop" Highberger vetoed the petition, citing their belief that control of the restaurant would change hands from the University to a corporation, the Union Memorial Board decided to send the petition to a study committee.
But James Long, Union director, said recently that the Union's own fast food service should be improved.
THE PETITION, which was passed in April, asked the Union Memorial Board to include a fast-food restaurant in the proposed renovation plan of the Union Food Services.
"If a commercial fast-food restaurant is included in the renovation," long said yesterday, and "it should be over our food service operation.
"I think you need to draw a line between commercial and fast food restaurants. They should consider treatments of what we already have."
However, John Hastings, Nunemaker senator and one of the sponsors of the petition, disagreed with Long.
"I don't see how they would have a loss of control if they have to set the standards," Hastings said.
LONG SAID THAT if the Union's own food service was improved, the profits would remain with the farm, they would pay for the renovation.
Hastings said that profits from a commercial fast-food franchise could be funneled into Student Union Activities and enable SUA to offer movies. He also said that the profits could lower text-book prices.
"We've paid off the mortgage on the Union and the Burge Union, so all profits from our food service would go directly to the renovation fund," he said. "We don't have stockholders to pay."
BUT LONG SAID that the current textbook discount program, in which students save on sales ships and can obtain a free follow-up following semester, was a more feasible way to save students money.
Long said that he hoped action on the renovation would begin next summer and that it would be placed in the next four or five years.
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"We don't know what the demand will be at the front, so it's better for us to offer a discount after our major sales." Long said. Both McDonald's Corp. and Burger King Corp. say that they are interested in opening a franchise in the Union.
Pam Sullins, real estate manager for the Kansas City, Kan., regional office of McDonald's Corp., said that she had sent a letter to Long indicating her company's interest.
McDonald's Corp. has fran-
chises on other campuses, and Sullins said that they had always had a "good partnership."
Ken Ollilla, owner of the Burger King restaurant in Lawrence, 1300 W. 23rd St., said that his franchise would be the one to set up an operation in the Union if a Burger King was chosen.
"I am very interested and would like to see a Burger King there," he said.
ONLY ONE OTHER Big Eight school, the University of Colorado in Boulder, has a commercial franchise — a Pizza Hut — in its offices. The union's directors, Jim Schaffer, said that he has witnessed no problems in the eight years the restaurant has been on campus.
By PHIL ENGLISH
Renovation of Union coming along slowly
Staff Reporter
The planned $4.1 million renovation of the Kansas Union has been a slow and tedious process, and is still in its early stages, James Long, Union director said recently.
Since the board approved the Union renovation in the spring of 1983, the committee has been working on spacing the Union houses to best suit the various organizations that use the building.
A committee appointed by the Kansas University Memorial Board Corporation is working on plans for the renovation.
"It would be nice to give a finished date or put a price tag on the final project," he said. "But the fact is, we are still in the early stages of planning, and there are still many aspects to deal with."
Four subcommittees, appointed by the board to represent a cross section of the staff and students of the University, presented their renovation requests to the committee in September 1983.
"We take into account the requests from the subcommittees and try to consolidate all areas of the building into a comprehensive plan that best meets the needs of the Union patrons." Long said.
Long said that a primary concern is to make the Union as easily recognizable as possible to the patrons.
"A big problem with the Union is that it is very hard to find your way around, if you're not familiar with it," he said. "With the various levels and the different color schemes it is somewhat confusing."
To help relieve some of the building confusion and to get more input from the students and faculty, the renovation committee contributed 2,500 six-p page surveys on the use of Union facilities. Long said.
The committee is putting special concepts and relationships on paper, before a master plan is approved by the board and the Student Senate
More than half of the surveys were returned, and the results are now being documented.
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The United Steelworkers of America wants its members to be a welleducated group.
Since Sunday, 80 members of the United Steelworkers from Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri have been participating in the 38th Annual Steelworkers Institute in the Kansas Union.
The Institute is a four-year course taught by members of the Steelworkers and KU faculty that meets annually for six days, Obermeier said.
"We're one of the few unions that has an extensive education program," said Glenn Obermeier, educator coordinator for the Steelworkers.
communications, labor and the press, human rights and community service, he said.
EACH YEAR the Institute covers labor-related topics such as collective bargaining, arbitration.
The Institute has been meeting at the University of Kansas for most of 86 years. The KU Division of Continuity Education helps to organize the program.
"We've always come here." Obermeier said.
THE UNION MEMBERS liked the opportunity to attend the Institute, he said.
The Steelworkers also conduct a six-week Spring Institute at the University of Missouri at Kansas City each year, Obermeier said.
"The people are all interested in being able to represent their union more effectively." Obermeier said. "We teach better labor relations to improve labor relations between management and labor in the plant."
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On May 17 a Journal-World editorialist described President Carter's "refusing to allow the American Olympic team to go to Moscow for the 1980 Soviet-sponsored international competition...(as) a most unfortunate decision...(which) hurt a lot of people by lowering the Olympics into further political maneuvering."
A TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT CARTER
Carter never thought the boycott would force a Russian retreat from Afghanistan. He did think it would hurt them by seriously damaging their propaganda show. And he was right...
In the wake of last week's developments, it has become very fashionable to castigate President Jimmy Carter for that (1980 Olympics) boycott... The Soviets were set to orchestrate the perfect Olympics in Moscow in 1980—probably the most dazzling propaganda circus since Hitler's in Berlin in 1936. Then the Americans stayed away ...
Here are a few sentences from Newsweek's Pete Axthelm's response to this line of reasoning:
When Moscow lost the United States, it lost the world wide TV exposure it craved. The ritual festivities thus became as significant as the three-soldier changing of the guard each hour in Red Square—flawless and unforgettable, you had to be there…
Conveniently for the critics, the Soviets have even stepped up their aggression in Afghanistan, as if to reassert the fact that the 1980 boycott didn't cast a straw in the path of a single Russian tank. (but) The Moscow Games were a smooth run, pageant-filled charade, full of Soviet bury-fly and signingly nothing. The hosts chafed constantly about the absence of the Americans and more than 50 nations that joined them in the boycott.
In 1980, American options in response to the invasion of Afghanistan might have included military maneuvers; instead Carter was able to wound the Soviets without threatening a single life.
If, as the Journal-World editorialist claims, international athletic events promote peace and understanding, then why did Hitter continue preparing Germany for war following the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin? Why did South Africa's ruling class continue to oppress their fellow countrymen when South African athletes participated in the Olympic Games? Why hasn't Olympic recognition mellowed Communist China's oligarchs who now are forcing many Chinese women to undergo the abortion procedure (abortion-on-command as opposed to our Supreme Court-sanctioned abortion-on-demand) in the name of proletarian progress?
President Carter's principled and courageous response to Soviet aggression in Afghanistan will still be glowing when the quadrennial Olympic fiasco's ashes cease to smolder.
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