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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, 1982
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 4.4 percent average wage increase during the life of the contract.
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
Watts, president of the Communications Workers of America, and Rex Reed, vice president of labor relations of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
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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
Bad-check write
By SUSAN WORTMAN 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 bad check to KU and don't cover it, your enrollment will be canceled.
Bad checks are a problem at KU especially during enrollment, said Roger Lieber, general accounting supervisor for the comproller's office. At the end of enrollment last semester, the comproller's office had almost $60,000 in bad checks, he said.
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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."
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.
"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
Most people think he is a soldier. Some say he was a soldier in Vietnam who ruined his nerves and then was dropped somewhere in the United States by the Army. Then, when who thinks he is a sun mong, many say he has skin cancer and is waiting for his death in the sun.
The one thing true about the Tan Man,
Most people think he is crazy.
according to the Tan Man, is that one day, nearly 14 years ago, he decided he had fallen in love.
He was born 40 years ago in Wichita where his mother, three brothers and one sister still live.
From that day on, he devoted his life to that love — the sun.
"All those stories about me are false. I just love the story. That's the only reason why I want to be a model."
HIS REAL NAME is John Schneider, 425 Rhode Island St., and he says he has been bathing in front of Wescow Hall for almost 15 years.
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He says he never was a soldier. He likes religion, but he is not a monk. And, he says, he is as crazy as any other human being.
"About these skin cancer rumors, I think they also are false. I feel fine. I don't have any
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.
See TAN MAN, p. 5, col. 1
first impressions count. In your first fast-moving days on campus, you will meet many people in a very short time.
You usually don't have time to really get to know people (or they you) during these hectic days. That's why it's even more important than usual to make the right first impression in a display of your good manners and tasteful appearance.
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