Thursday, November 9, 1972
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Consumer Group Hears Complaints
By JOHN PIKE
Kansan Staff Writer
The University of Kansas Consumer Protection Association (CPA) has received 23 complaints and resolved 14 of them in its investigation. It will be sent to Ray Berman, coder of the CPA.
Berman said in a news conference Wednesday that the agency, which began operation Oct. 9, has found landlord-tenant crimes to be the most prevalent complaint.
Linda Biles, the other co-member, said that 10 of the 23 complaints that the CPA has received, have involved landlord-tenant disputes and eight of those have been resolved.
Other common complaints have concerned automobile and motorcycle repairs.
Biles said the CPA estimated it had saved students about $800 its first month of college.
Berman said the only complaint that the CPA had particular difficulty with involved the automobile-towing procedures of the University Traffic and Security Department.
According to Berman, the student said that her car was parked illegally and was liable to be towed, but Traffic and Security must most expensive towing service available.
SHORTLY AFTER the agency opened, a student lodged a complaint with the CPA about the cost charged by the University for towing her car.
Many engineers went into other areas and most did not return to engineering.
Dean Predicts Shortages Of Engineers by Late '70s
William P. Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, predicted Tuesday that by 1975 there would be a shortage of 15,000 engineers.
He said that the shortage was due in part to the state of the economy, but that most of it stemmed from high oil prices.
Smith said that during the '60s there were three major areas for engineers: the advancement of the jet, the massive space program and the research and development
*When companies lost government funds, they fired many of their employees. be_said*
According to Smith, 41,000 students are expected to be graduated from the nation's engineering schools this year, and if the university's 41,000 students are expected to be graduated in 1975.
The demand for engineers in all areas will increase at a faster pace than people
think," he said. "By '175 the need will be so great that we will have to have a crash subsidy program to get more engineers in the 70s will be as never before."
While national figures show that the number of women enrolled in engineering schools has increased, Smith said that the increase is not enough and an increase of only about one per cent.
"It is not a natural thing for women to do," he said. "They go into other areas like education. A girl who is good in mathematics should consider engineering. We are trying to recruit women into the engineering field but not too successfully."
He said that the job prospects were excellent and would get better.
Sixth said that he had talked with six major companies which confirmed his pitch.
He said that during the last two years the companies had not recruited engineers, but that they expected to recruit a large number of engineers starting this year.
Discover the World of Travel SUA Travel Fair Nov. 15-18
Jon V. C. Booth, representing the Experiment in International Living, will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum Room in the Union. Mr. Booth will discuss topics such as culture shock, summer abroad, year abroad, semester abroad, family living abroad, and EIL employment.
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Nicolas Patinos, Midwest Director for the Institute of International Education, will speak on "The Forum Room in the Union. Mr. Patinos will present objectively and respectfully his views abroad. On Thursday and Friday representatives of various countries, travel programs and French-born mboins in the Union Gallery to speak with individual students. They will present their programs, work programs, inexpensive training, and Peace Corps opportunities, also offer an almost-continuous showing of films starting on Thursday and continuing until May 25."
Alisa Herffelaert, the KU Foreign Studies Program, will describe the program at Hillside Academy in the Union. The Gallery exhibits and films will continue all day Friday.
Attempts to get Traffic and Security to use a less expensive company have been unanticipated.
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Berman said Traffic and Security regularly uses the same towing service, which, he said, charges $7.50 more for an other vehicle in the other Lawrence towing companies.
The CPA is currently developing for students a survey of food prices in the Lawrence area and a model lease for apartment rentals.
Berman said Two other complaints made against University agencies had been settled quickly with excellent cooperation by the agencies involved.
BERMAN SAID the food price survey would be done after the CPA completed research on student buying habits. The research includes visits to local grocery stores to determine first-hand what types of food students buy.
The CPA hopes to have the model lease completed by the first of the year, Biles said. A copy of the lease is currently being furnished to a apartment owners in Lawrence for the year.
Biles said the CPA had met with the Lawrence Appartment Owners Association
The Men of Sigma Nu wish to thank the AXO's, the DG's, our little sisters and participating sororities for making Daisy Mae Harvest Day such a success.
Congratulations to the DG's for winning both events and the Daisy Mae contest.
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