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University Daily Kansan, March 7, 1984
Need, availability increase computer use
By STEPHANIE HEARN Staff Reporter
Knowledge of computers is becoming a necessity for students seeking management jobs in the business world, a professor of business said yesterday.
Because of an increase in the number of computers available on campus and because the School of Business requires its undergraduates to take at least one course in computer science, students' use of computers has increased tremendously, said Larry Sherr, professor of business.
Students are doing their homework on computers now, he said.
Jeff Hoover, Leawood junior
'A lot of people know about computers.' Hoover said. "but most are just 'hackers' playing with them for fun in their spare time.'
And some students are doing more than just homework on computers.
JEFF HOOVER, Leawood junior, is teaching himself to economically convert businesses, which do their work on paper, to be run by computers.
Hoover, who is a lab monitor for computer classes, learned how to use computers by "piddling at the computer for long hours on the weekends."
After a semester of experimenting and keeping up with computer breakthroughs by reading newspapers and computer magazines, Hoover said, "A
businessman could save $15,000 a year by buying a $5,000 computer instead of spending $20,000 to pay a secretary."
But aside from wanting to find a way to economically automate businesses, However said, he also wanted to design programs that would be easy for businessmen with no computer experience to follow.
"A lot of people know about computers." Hoover said, "but most are just 'hackers' playing with them for fun in their spare time."
MARK STADLER, Prairie Village senior, who is an assistant testing intern at the computer center, said that he too wanted to write computer programs that would simplify people's jobs.
Stadler, who said he would like to someday design computers, automatizes tasks for employees of the company they work for and becomes overloaded with paperwork.
During spring break, Hoover is going to experiment on his father's business by designing a program that, among other tasks, will write checks and print letters.
Stadler said he hoped to receive an "Expert Systems" grant for computer networking from the University this summer.
Bad weather raises prices of fruit and vegetables
By ROBIN PALMER
Staff Reporter
Losing unwanted pounds before a spring-break trip to the beach could be more expensive this year.
The typical dietary foods needed to shed pounds, including lettuce, cabbage and other vegetables, cost more than they did two months ago because of weather-related losses in Florida and Texas produce markets.
As a result, area grocers are selling less, the produce manager of one of the area Dillons supermarkets said recently.
HAL SCHUMP, produce manager for Dillons, 2108 W. 27th St., said produce sales for cabbage had decreased by 30 percent in the past year because of doubling vegetable prices.
Cabbage sales have also declined significantly at Food Barn, 1900 W.23rd St., said Mike Charles, produce manager.
Dan May, produce manager for Rusty's Food Center, 901 Iowa St., said that green pepper, cucumber, lettuce and peppers had doubled within the last month.
Customers are not willing to pay the high prices for these items. May said
Students are adversely affected because now they are not able to buy as much for the same amount of money, he said.
the national demand for vegetables, previously met by the Florida and Texas markets, cannot be met by the California produce market, so the prices are increasing. May said.
RON JEFFRIES, produce manager for Kron Super Store, 23rd Street and Naismith Drive, said that celiary prices had increased so much that his store had to quit carrying jumbo stalk celiary for a month because it would not sell.
The prices rose to between $1.59 and
$1.89 a stalk, he said.
Now prices have dropped back to 99 cents, and the store has brought the price down.
Most grocers said that fruit prices had not been severely affected, but Schump said the price of Florida oranges, which the store uses in its orange juice machine, had doubled. The Florida oranges are better than California oranges for making juice, he said.
California's orange crop, which is used mostly for eating, was large enough to keep prices at the normal level, he said.
Group trying to create own rural community
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Reporter
Last April, the Kansas Land Trust was primed for action and ready to develop a rural community based on an ecologically sound philosophy.
Now the group is struggling with decreased energy among the group members and is trying to pick up the broken pieces of its plans.
After two unsuccessful tries to buy the property needed for its land trust community, the Kansas Land Trust has a third option that might make final its plans for a cooperative, land trust community.
THE GROUP WANTS to buy part of 600 acres of land near Linwood east of Lawrence, that is suitable for the needs of a group of twelve individuals and families it calls households.
The goal is to establish a residential development where individuals and families would cooperatively own and preserve the land.
"The primary goal is to treat the land right and preserve the soil by stopping erosion and carrying out soil compaction," said Mark Larson, 706 Illinois St.
However, the third option is also plagued with problems because the land trust wants only 200 acres, but it owns 400 acres at one time, Larson said.
THE GROUP STILL lacks a location. To add to these problems, the group needs five more people or families, willing to pay $5,000, before it can purchase any property, said Doug Kreuger, 71 W. Fourth Street.
The group of households would combine social interaction with ecological care of the land as the main philosophy in its community
The group's final plan is to have 12 households living on land that would be suitable for orchards, gardening and farming.
Kreuer said the land trust would be a non-profit institution that would prevent improper urban development of the land.
The group is trying to set an example of working with the land as a resource and not as a commodity to be sold, he said.
ALTHOUGH THE 120 acres the group is looking at would allow for 10 acres for each household, the group wants each household to lease one or two acres. The members want to use the remaining acreage for a community center and farming, with the rest of the land staving undeveloped.
Environmental restrictions would be enforced to preserve the land and maintain the groups primary purpose.
Kansas Land Trust will hold the title to the land and will offer renewable leases for 99 years to individual households.
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