CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 10. 1984
Page 8
Coors, NAACP settle boycott
By TODD NELSON
Staff Reporter
The Adolph Coors Co. and the NAACP in Los Angeles yesterday negotiated a pact that ended a five-day boycott of Coors, which recently by the company's chairman.
But the president of the Association of University Residence Halls said that he was not prepared to say whether the AACP pact might prompt AURH to re-enforce its recent decision to ban the use of AURH for the purchase of Coors products.
Both the NAACP and AURH boycott came in response to the remarks of William K. Coors, chairman and chief executive of the brewery, on Feb. 23 told a group of minority businessmen that African blacks were "intellectually inferior" to American blacks. He later apologized for the remarks.
BUT THE AURH BOYCOTT will last a leasl until AURH president James L. Kernan leaves.
Jeffrey said that the AURH boycott would continue unless George moved to
Heights, Mo., sophomore, who submitted the resolution to AURH, discuss further action.
George said that he would consider whether to ask AURH to repeal its ban on Coors products after reviewing the Coors agreement with the NAACP and after consulting with Jeffley about the matter.
Tom G. Flores, assistant to the Colorado AFL-CIO president, said that the state organization had begun its boycott seven years ago after Coors executives broke the company's unions' agreement with union workers with nonunion employees.
Jeffley and George declined to say last night whether they supported the move.
the company agreed to create programs that would return money from black consumers to their communities, and to present a manat at the Golden, Colo., plant said.
William E. Paull, the spokesman,
said that Coors would establish an "aggressive" affirmative action program,
promote blacks to senior and executive positions, use black financial institutions and insurance companies,
establish plans for using minority professional services, and increase distributorship opportunities for blacks.
Flores said that he hoped AURH would also uphold his boycott.
THE LOS ANGELES chapter of the NAACP agreed to suspend for two months an ordinance that banned
Peter Coors, grandson of founder Adolph Coors and division president of sales, marketing and administration, said that the boycotc had affected sales and revenues. "But he did he know specifically how much money the company had lost."
Pauli said that William Coors had apologized twice for his comments.
Information for this story was also supplied by United Press International.
Gay Awareness Week aims to educate
By MARY SEXTON Staff Reporter
Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week began yesterday and will feature education and entertainment designed to foster an understanding of homosexual lifestyle, the president of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas said.
The most familiar part of GALA week will take place Friday, which has been set as the annual "Wear Blue Jeans If You Are Gav Day."
Ruth Lichtwardt, president of GLOSK, said that the yearly practice could come to an end if students would not refrain from wearing jeans.
"The year that nobody cares whether the year we jeans or not will be the year we wear them."
nobody cares will be the year that,
carefully accept the differences in
other people.
Lichtward said that the week's activities, which will continue through Sunday, would help make KU students, faculty and Lawrence residents familiar with the purpose of GLOSK and homosexual issues in general.
Tonight, the GLOSK will sponsor a lecture by Eric Schuman, a physician's assistant from Topeka. Schuman's speech, title "Can Gays Survive the 80s?" will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
On Friday a movie, titled "Gay Proud and Sober," and a discussion will be presented from 7 to 9 p.m. in Jefferson Auditorium in the Kansas University.
The discussion will be led by a panel
Other activities planned will be films about homosexual women at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 25 from 1 to 4 p.m.
Also on Friday, Jeff Levi, a Washington, D.C., representative of the National Gay Task Force, will give a talk on the current issues related to homosexuals at 4:30 p.m. in the Javahawk Room of the Kansas Union
from the Kansas City Chapter of Gay Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous, which will discuss the risks associated with sexualexuals have with alcohol and drugs.
Saturday, a play titled, "A New Play: We Are Your Children," will be presented at 7:30 in Smith Hall Auditorium. The GALA dance will be at 8 p.m. Saturday in Kansas Union Admission. Admission to the dance will be $3.
Robert B. Waddill/KANSAN
Robert B. Waddill/KANSAN
Lynn Bommes, Route 5, assists his 7-year-old daughter, Holley, as they fish on the spillway at Clinton Reservoir. Fishing has been sporadic at Clinton Lake because of rain, but Clinton officials are reporting that walleye and crappie are being caught near the dam and in the spillway.
KCC wants gas customers to get refunds
By United Press International
TOPEKA—Kansas utility regulators have asked the federal government to stop a major natural gas wholesaler from using $80 million in customer funds for corporate purposes, a Kansas Corp. commission spokesman said yesterday.
The KCC, responding to a request by Northwest Central Pipeline Co. filed a protest with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission demanding the money be refunded in the form of credits for about 600,000 Kansas consumers and 400,000 Missouri consumers.
Northwest Central, based in Oklahoma City, supplies natural gas to Gas Service Co. of Kansas City, Mo., Union Gas System of Independence, Kan., and some customers of Kansas Power and Light Co. of Topeka.
The refunds would be made to utility companies, and customers would receive a credit on their bills. The average Kansas customer would receive about $31.25 in refunds over a month under the KCC's plan, Peterson said.
Northwest Central wants to use a large portion of the $0 million to establish a special fund to make payments to producers for gas not taken under "take-or-pay" contracts, Peterson said. In such contracts, companies are required to pay for gas even if they do not use it.
Northwest argues that it can hold its wholesale gas rates steady for 18 months if it can use the $80 million to pay take-and-pay contract penalties.
"In essence, Northwest Central is seeking permission (from FERC) to defer a consumer refund and to use the money to advance corporate purposes," the KCC said in its filing to FERC.
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