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University Daily Kansan; September 13, 1983
Residence hall meal tickets proposed
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
The chairman of the Housing and Contracts Committee of the Association of University Residence Hall doesn't listen when he talks about residence hall food.
"Medicare," says the chairman,
Curtis Worden, Topeka senior.
"Some halls are better, much better, than others on some dishes. But individual hall food committees have not been effective in the past. And the state of the food is, overall, not what it should be," he said last week.
So, some changes need to be made in the residence hall food service system, said Worden, who was elected chairman Thursday at a meeting of AURH in Chicago. One of the possibilities that should be investigated, he said, is a meal-ticket plan.
"IT WOULD give the workers incentive to put out better meals," he said. "Now, the system gets the money for food — $2.95 a day — whether the students eat the meals or not." Worden, of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, said.
Under such a plan, he said, students would pay for food either a la carte or by the meal. The cost of meals is now included in all residence hall contracts.
"It's very simple," he said. "When you have to compete with McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Wendy's and the rest, and you know that dismal food will send the
residents to those places to eat, you put out better food."
But housing officials said the effects of such a plan were unknown and could actually raise the cost of residence hall contracts.
Lenoir Ekdahl, director of food service for housing, said that residence hall cafeterias were always in competition with restaurants and that a meal-ticket plan might work but that it might be hard to administrate.
"A meal-ticket system is workable," she said. "It is done at other schools. But everything would have to be done, and it would be a big problem, keeping prices stable."
"IT WOULD be a toss-up sometimes as to how many people would show up for dinner, and so, it would be a toss-up as to how many would pay."
She said that the cafeterias knew how much to make for each meal, but under a meal-ticket system, the cooks at first were given what they knew how much to prepare of different dishes.
Worden said, "I'm no expert on food service, even though I worked in the cafeteria here at JRP for two years and have lived in the system for a couple of years. But I would like to see a benefit analysis done on such a plan."
"One of the big reasons for the turnover in the halls is the food. I truly believe that if you improve the quality of food, you would keep people in the halls."
Based on results from other schools,
a meal-ticket plan would probably mean higher hall contract costs, said Fred McElhenie, director of the office of residential programs.
"It PRESENTLY costs about $1,900 for a double-room contract, across the board, including meals. If we went to a meal-ticket system, it would probably cost the contracts somewhat. It has done that at many other schools," he said.
"It would drive us into some strange buying patterns for food. And, remember, the housing office does analyses of people's lives, people eat what on days," he said.
He said that he did not know how much costs would increase if such a plan were put into effect. Such an increase would depend upon several variables, including the amounts of food purchased by the various halls.
McElhenie also disagreed with Worden about the quality of the food.
"WHEN SOMEONE tells me that the food is bad in the halls, I ask them if they get a less than good meal at home occasionally." he said. "Invariably,
Our cateracies people do a great job with the food they've given, and I don't mind. The staff are very friendly.
Worden said that his committee, the other members of which had not yet been selected, had only advisory power. He said he hoped that the administration would consider the meal-ticket plan and others.
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"The connection between Vesco's operation and South American drug-exporting operations, federal officials is, say, Carlos Lehder, flamboyant leader of what Drug Enforcement Administration officials believe to be one of the largest of the cocaine 'mafias' flooding the American market with the illegal drug," the Tribune said.
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CHICAGO — Robert Vesco, the financier财局 who fled the United States in 1972 with about $80 million in cash, now operates as a middleman government and principal cocaine supporter the Chicago Tribune said yesterday.
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A LAWYER representing clients seeking to recover about $224 million in assets that vanished when Vesco fied under indictment in a mutual-fund case, he said that Vesco turned to oceans revenge because he was running out of money.
The congressional official, who requested anonymity, said he maintained sporadic contact with Vesco.
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The official said that Vesco had told him that he used his contacts with Nicaraguan leftists and with Cubans to arrange for drug smugglers to buy bank drugs confiscated from waylaid Venezuela or Alvia de Colombia to the United States.
And Lehder bought the island for more than $5 million, said Nicholas Navarro, a member of the organized crime task force in Broward County.
Navarro said American agents had flown over Norman's Cay and seen large refrigeration units attached to the aircraft of his aircraft baggage anglers at airstrip.
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LAST WEEK, NBC News reported that Vesco was operating a large cocaine smuggling operation from the island and that top American diplomats had hampered the FBI's effort to arrest Vesco on drug charges.
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THE TRIBUNE said an official familiar with the work of the White House Task Force on Drug Traffic in South Florida said informants had told the task force that Vesco was linked to important Cuban officials
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