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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
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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.
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'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
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Watts, president of the Communications Workers of America, and Reed Rex, 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 three 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
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BY SUSAN WOODLEY 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 don't have them, don't cover it. Your enrollment will be canceled.
bad checks are a problem at KU especially during enrollment, said Roger Liebert, general accounting supervisor for the comptroller's office. At the end of enrollment last semester, the comptroller's office had almost $60,000 in bad checks, he said.
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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.
Schneider says he's loved sun for 14 years The 'Tan Man' of KU has devoted his life to worship of the sun
By ALBERTO SALDARRIAGA Staff Reporter
MONDAY MORNING
Some people. Some of them was a soldier in Vietnam who stucched 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.
Most people think he is crazy
The one thing true about the Tan Man,
according to the Tan Man, that one day,
nearly 14 years ago, he decided he had fallen
From that day on, he devoted his life to that love — the sun.
tentative contracts earlier yesterday with AT&T
"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 sunbathing in front of Wescoe Hall for almost
He was born 40 years ago in Wichita where his mother, three brothers and one sister still live.
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 period.
He says he never was a soldier. He likes religion, but he is not a monk. And, he says, he doesn't like war.
"About those skin cancer rumors, I think they also are false. I feel fine. I don't have any."
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See TAN MAN, p. 5, col. 1
KHAKI—Modern khaki is a cotton drill dyed to a tan.
MADRAS-A lightweight cotton fabric colored with vegetable dyes. Usually in plaids and solid colors, it is sometimes striped. Was first woven in Madras, India, and used as a headdress for sailors.
MERINO—A very revered wool produced by Merino Sheep, originally raised in Spain.
OXFORD CLOTH—
A group of cotton fabrics made with a
plain or basket weave. It is the one remaining important shirting variety of four: named for Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard & Yale.
POPLIN-Durable plain weave fabric, normally cotton or cotton blend.
QUARTER TOP POCKET—Front pockets that are inset approximately 1" from the side seam to reduce stress on fabric and to provide additional comfort.
RAGLAN SLEEVE— A sleeve that begins
at the neck and has a long slanting seam line from neck to arm hole, giving the garment a relatively undefined shoulder and promoting free movement.