Bloom County Berke Breathed's Crazy characters Entertainment, p. 17. THE University Daily KANSAN ! Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas HOT Highs, 90s. Lows, 70s. Details on p. 2. Vol. 94, No.2 (USPS 650-640) Monday morning, August 22, 1983 Conflict lasted 15 days Tentative contract ends AT&T strike By United Press International WASHINGTON - Union leaders approved a tentative contract yesterday to end a 15-day-old telephone strike by 675,000 Bell System operators and service technicians. The three-year contract, which still is subject to completion of local bargaining and ratification by the rank-and-file, provides for a 16.4 million wage increase during the life of the agreement. The document was signed last night by Glenn 'It's an excellent contract. It's good for the company, it's good for the workers and it's good for the customers.' Charles Dynes AT&T Spokesman neg con** plet w罗 R IN W A ac its cUs con the s var Onl T el ope T sat CW Watts, president of the Communications Workers of America, and Rex Reed, vice president of labor relations of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. The 17-member executive board of CWA, which represents 252,000 Bell System workers, was the last of 25 unions to approve the contract. OFFICIALS OF THE International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents 100,000 workers, and the Telecommunications International Union, which represents 50,000, signed Bad-check write BY PUSAN WORLDWIDE Staff Reporter The check policy at the University of Kansas is simple. You do not have to go through the usual ritual of showing two pieces of identification. If you write a note that doesn't cover it, the check will be canceled. Bad checks are a problem at KU especially during enrollment, said Roger Lieber, general accounting supervisor for the comprolier's office. At the end of enrolment last semester, the comproiler's office had almost $60,000 in bad checks, he said. A BAD CHECK is treated as a late enrollment and carries an extra $10 charge. This year University officials have added an extra charge for writing bad checks. People will write a check knowing full well that they don't have the money to cover it." Liebst said. "Often they will do it to hold their enrollment." "We now have an $8 charge for bad checks. That became effective as of late July." Liebst said. MONDAY MORNING Schneider says he's loved sun for 14 years The 'Tan Man' of KU has devoted his life to worship of the sun T pro the bah and cha t rett bad War Uni T Stat at L thr Har prom prol and N By ALBERTO SALDARRIAGA Staff Reporter Some say he was a soldier in Vietnam who ruined his nerves and then was dropped somewhere in the United States by the Army. There are people who think he is a sun monk. And many say he has skin cancer and is waiting for his death in the sun. according to the Tan Man, is that one day, nearly 14 years ago, he decided he had fallen in love. The one thing true about the Tan Man, Most people think he is crazy "All those stories about me are false. I just love the sun. That's the only reason why I spend my time, my life, sunbathing," he said. HIS REAL NAME is John Schneider, 426 Rhode Island St., and he says he has been sambathing in front of Wesco Hall for almost 15 years. From that day on, he devoted his life to that love — the sun. He was born 40 years ago in Wichita where his mother, three brothers and one sister still live. He says he never was a soldier. He likes religion, but he is not a monk. And, he says, "I don't believe in God." "About those skin cancer rumors, I think they also are false. I feel fine. I don't have any See MAN IAN p. 5 col. 1 tentative contracts earlier yesterday with AT&T See TAN MAN, p. 5, col. 1 Watts estimated that $3 billion worth of improvements were in the contract. He said the agreement would raise the current average hourly base wage of $12.33 to $14.33 over the three years. Watts and telephone workers could return to 1