University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 13, 1988
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County petition to check tax increase
By Barbara Joseph
Kansan staff writer
A group of Douglas County residents filed a petition Monday to stop a property tax increase by prompting a public vote.
More than 700 people signed the petition against the July resolution. The resolution allows the commission to increase the general fund mill surplus by $1,000 to $11 of taxation for every $1,000 of assessed property valuation.
The petition prompts county commissioners to either rescind the July resolution or put the issue to a public vote.
However, County Clerk Patta James said there would not be enough time to subject the issue to a hearing. Some people argued tax bills were mailed. In that
case, commissioners would have to rescind the resolution, meaning the general fund mll levy would probably be 6.5 mlls, she said.
County Commission Chairman David Hopper said it was possible the commission would decide at Thursday's meeting.
Paul Justus, Lawrence graduate student, coordinated the door-to-door petition drive during the weekend.
Chris McKenzie, county administrator, estimated that for the owner of a $500 house with an assessed value of $4,000, the actual increase in property value was $60, about 80 cents less than it would have been without the petition.
"Our main concern was that taxes were going to be raised." Jutus said. "It's a very complicated issue. We had to open up to it to public discussion."
USDA proposes using bone in meat products
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department on Monday proposed to allow hotdogs, biologa and similar foods to contain up to 10 percent ground bones and other meat used in the preparation of the ingredients in product labels.
The proposal to use "mechanically separated meat," or MSM, without telling consumers is supported by the country's meat processors.
MSM is produced by grinding the bones and meat remnants and forcing the mixture through sieves. Although most of the bone is strained out, some small particles wind up in the salvaged meat in the final mixture.
The department said if the proposal was adopted, MSD used in the ingredients statement on the label as long as it does not exceed to percent of the finished product" . 1
Earning credit outside class
As Deepa Nakkari walked by the Kansas
Friday, she heard a voice caller
out to her
Companies encourage students to apply for credit cards
By Grace Hobson Vanguard staff writer
Kansan staff writer
"I Are a sophomore, junior or senior." Jeff
Pamlyah, Overland Park resident, left
Kimberly O'Reilly to open her credit card.
By explaining that she wasn't eligible because she didn't have any credit established, Nadkarni, Dallas junior, set up Tamblyn for his best sales pitch.
it is much harder to get a credit card after you are out of school if you already haven't established credit," said Tamblyn, a credit card salesman with the College Credit Carrier, which is based in Philadelphia. "The acceptance with our program is extremely good."
Tamblyn is used to work with students who haven't established credit and encourages students who think they are not eligible to apply for Visa, MasterCard, Sears, Dillards and Amoco.
Applying for some credit cards can be easier for students than for people who was until after graduation to apply. Less information on financial aid or proof of enrollment in a college or university
Tamblyn is not the only one urging students to apply for a credit card while still in school.
"We think it is really important," said Harry Pape, vice-president of KBC Card Service, the credit card processing department of Bank IV, where he always supported new credit card holders."
To obtain a credit card, proof of income must be shown, whether it's from a parent, a trust
fund or a student's summer or current employment. Pape said.
the best type of credit card for a student is the proprietary credit card, which is a card that is usable only in one store. Pape said. These cards can be used to pay for any kind of temptation to overspend is limited to one store.
Terri Pipper, assistant vice president in the consumer loan office of First National Bank of Lawrence, 900 Massachusetts St., said students should be careful when choosing a credit card.
Some things to look for, according to Pipert:
■ Cards that don't have transaction fees, which are those charged for every purchase made.
■ Credit cards having 18 percent or lower annual interest rate.
- Cards allowing a grace period, in which no interest charged on purchases when they are not served.
Credit rating is crucial for jobs, loans
By Grace Hobson
Kansan staff writer
Establishing a healthy credit rating is necessary in order to ensure that clients or even jobs after graduation, said Arnold Femelin, executive director of the Bureau of Lawyers.
"No credit is worse than bad credit." Feinberg said.
having a parent co-sign on a credit card or loan.
- taking out a student loan.
- working for a year, and then applying for credit.
Banks are leery of working with people who have no credit history, so students who want to get loans after school may have difficulty. Also, employers often investigate credit ratings, Feinberg said.
To establish credit, Feinberg suggested:
Once the student does begin a credit history, a credit file is automatically started.
- opening a checking or savings account to prove you can manage your money.
"A credit file is the history of your established credit," Feinberg said.
It is also a summary of public records, such as marriages, divorces and suits. Credit files are kept in the local credit bureau.
reasons: to establish credit and to supply an employer or insurance company with information.
Such files are accessible for two
A financial institution may review a credit file when someone has applied for credit. An employer may have access to the file with the permission of the employee.
Private citizens in Lawrence may open their files if they are employed by the police. They may review the file, then if they find any problems with the reported information, a credit reporting agency will investigate,
changes, such as if the person defaults on a loan or applies for one. The financial institution provides information to the credit bureau.
Credit files are permanent, and most derogatory credit information is voided after seven years, said Terri Pippert, assistant vice president at the consumer loan office of First National Bank of Lawrence.
Credit files are updated whenever the credit history
Pippert stressed the necessity of making prompt payments to keep a strong credit rating.
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"If you are slow paying your bills, it will stay on your credit rating," she said.
The contents of this letter should be regarded strictly as the opinion of former JKHK Station Manager, Brad Schwartz.
The following letter was originally intended for current JXHK staff members. Because of the recent controversy surrounding the station we feel it should serve the entire student body.
Dear KJHK staff,supporters and concerned individuals:
I know that there may be a few of you who are new to the station this semester and do not know me. For those of you who do, I bid you hello and thank you for sticking around, whatever your motivations may be. My name is Brad Schwartz and I was Station Manager in the Spring of 1988. I had been a dedicated member of the JKH staff for over three years prior to my appointment last spring and I always believed strongly in the program's natural progression, keeping long hours, day and night, to preserve the station's integrity and reputation as one of the leaders in what has been termed alternative programming, but let me, if you will, refer to it as intelligent programming.
Upon my appointment as Station Manager, a very powerful and influential Board of Directors was in the process of reviewing the future of KJH I believe, after careful thought, that I was hired because I was open to change. Every event I observed in the station I knew that there was room for improvement. Even the greatest of all institutions have room for such improvement.
At first, I thought that I shared the same ideas as did the Board. They led me to believe that their desires were the same as mine. I attempted, to the best of my ability, to work with the Board, not against them. In the past, Station Manager and teamed them. I was of the opinion that the only way a solution could be reached was by careful and well thought-out compromise.
I don't wish to get into too many details because I know that most of these details have been discussed and debated for the past year or so. But at the same time, I feel that I must disclose what my team did upon this show, show how I was misled by the Board and ultimately, as I believe, used by the Boar
order to gain listeners, which should be a goal of radio stations, we needed to tighten up and become more listening.
My contention always was and still is that this change could have come from within. I felt that education of the jocks and more visibility would ultimately help us achieve this goal. I helped me on this major point. After all, they told me they did.
We are all aware of JKHE's previous programming philosophy of ultimate freedom for jocks. And while not everyone will agree, this system really DID need some altering. In
So, my main objective as Station Manager were to make the station more visible, begin to educate the jocks, and gain the respect of the majority of the student body. If you pick up a few copies of the UDK from last semester, you will agree that we were beginning to achieve these goals.
Because of my willingness to work with the Board, I now believe that I became vulnerable. Slowly, many of the Board's original ideas became twisted, and eventually, a new policy of hasty, mindless intervention began to emerge. I did my best to counter their inadequacy or efforts to undermine as I had soon fallen prey to the ohs-inspiright mentors who have impressed us all with their years of experience and insight into the future direction of radio.
My meetings with the Board members were always of a very tense nature. I was trying to bring the station together, while they were ripping it apart. I was willing to change, while intended to replace. I was professional, but they acted like children, whining and crying about trivialities which they expanded into what they thought were serious issues.
But the driver's seat has now been taken over by someone unfamiliar with the roads. The seatbelt has been fastened on progression, and mediocrity will surely prevail. As this new driver speeds through treacherous hills and curves, intoxicated by the senses this sense may become blurred. Unfortunately, because the driver's inexperience, a collision is inevitable. We are now beginning to feel the tremors of this collision which should have
So, as the experienced leaders complained and nitpicked, the staff of undergraduate students scrambled to pull themselves out of class. Many a sleepless night existed in our part, because we cared.
been prevented.
Now, the Board may view us as children who do not know how the real world operates. But history has proven time and time again that it is often the youth of a generation who are most aware of what is right and what is wrong.
I don't know where I would be had I not worked at JKHJ. I don't know that I would be as enlightened as I like to think am. I don't know that I would have been exposed to the many various types of people who worked together, independent of outside influences, to make mistakes we thought now go beyond radio, because JKHJ was unique. We not only programmed music, we did it for real reasons. We programed a way of life.
So now, instead of promoting learning through experience, the Board has taken it upon themselves to promote what they deem safety and uniformity. They are no longer teaching students to become leaders in society, but rather to become supporting independence, they now support conformity, and conformity does not lead to success. It leads to failure.
So the studio has been cleaned up and rid of all the remnants of immaturity and unprofessionalism. A new attitude has emerged and a new group of people will invade our sacred temple. These people will be of a different motivation. They will be career oriented. They will learn how radio really is. If they like it, they will graduate and go for work for someone, because that is what our superiors will have taught them. The sound of the station will be as consistent and loud as the sound of people who will walk through its doors. Sooner or later, the old KJHK will be forgotten and everyone will be happy. Normal, good looking people will play normal, nice sounding music for average, mindless listeners.
KJHK will play music that is already accepted. Others will distract this acceptance and a deviation from normality.
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Sincerely, respectfully, and faithfully yours:
Brad Schwartz
Station Manager, Spring 1988
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