University Daily Kansan, January 19, 1982
Scott Mann, 20, K-State student from Hutchinson, displays intensity as he skills at Paradise Isles outside Hutchinson. This award-winning photo was taken by Rich Sugg, Hutchinson junior.
Print wins amateur contest
KU iunior takes photo honors
Winning a photo contest was the furthest thing from Rich Sugg's mind when he clicked his camera's shutter while a friend water-skied on a sweltering summer day more than a year ago.
contest sponsored by the Hutchinson News and Eastman Kodak.
But the unexpected happened and Sugg, Hutchinson junior and photo-journalism major, won grand prize in a
Sugger entered the content a novice and expected his work to be lost in a pile of
"It may have been my first contact, but it is sure that entering lots more in the future. Sugars."
Sugg won $50 from the Hutchinson News and a certificate and trophy from Kodak. More important to Sugg, however, was the chance for international competition and a $10,000 prize.
Sugg's print of the water skier will be on display at the Equitable Gallery in New York City later this month.
Oil deregulation spurs oilmen to step up drilling statewide
By ANN LOWRY Staff Reporter
Oil price decontrols have spurred Kansas oil producers to increase test drilling, and one firm has profitted from its venture, Paul Willhite, a member of KU's Tertiary Oil Recovery Project, said yesterday.
Pendleton Land and Exploration Inc. has begun development of one of the largest oil discoveries in northeastern New York, planned for the Danver firm 349 years ago.
Willisite had the decline in Kansas production since the 50s had been offset in the last three years by a significant increase in such drilling, and he predicted an increase in production this year.
Jack Deeter, Pendleton vice president, said Saturday that the company had started work on two of 30 planned in the Nemaha County area.
The oil price is there to stimulate production," Wilhite said. "I think the economic climate is correct for oil exploration for several years."
Deeter said the dual zone discovery in Nemaha County was the result of appending Pendleton began in 1979.
Shirley Paul, a member of KU's geological survey, said a dual zone discovery meant an area capable of producing oil from two different zones of rock. The same formations that are found in the Nemaha area—limestone, sandstone shale and conglomerate—are present in the Lawrence area, she said.
"It wouldn't surprise me if somebody went out and found oil near Lawrence," Willhite said, "but geology is more favorable in other areas."
The new field is part of a geological feature called the Nemaha uplift, which runs from northeastern Kansas south to Oklahoma, Willite said. Although the huge El Dorado field 25 miles northeast of Wichita is with the same formation, he said, not much oil has been found in the uplift.
Pendleton will take advantage of the discovery by expanding oil and gas exploration on the 1.5 million acres of land it controls, Deeer said. He said other working interests had been sold to three other companies.
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The first session of the spring semester of the THEOLOGICAL SEMINAR will meet at 4:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries
A MANAGERS MEETING FOR RECREATION SERVICES intramural basketball will be at 6 p.m. in Robinson Gym No.1.
THE LINGUISTICS COLLUQO will present Karen Lupurus speaking on "PROBLEMS IN ALABAMA" at 7:30 p.m. in 209 Blake.
ROBERT LINEBERRY, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be the featured speaker at the UNIVERSITY FORUM at 11:45 a.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries to Request a hot lunch, call 843-4833 or e-mail: robertlineberry@univ.edu
TOMORROW
Publishers sets prices on text
LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY will hold a general meeting and a slide show at 7 p.m. in the Council Room of the Kansas Union.
A SENIOR RECITAL will be performed by PAUL WINSLOW on percussion at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
As a student sits staring at his text book, his eyes rest on the binding. Curious, he begins scratching at a black mark above the Bantam Books, Inc.,
THE KU GERMAN CLUB will meet at 4:30 p.m. in 4067 Wescoe.
By DEBBIE SEUSY Staff Reporter
Beneath the smudge he reads,
"Price, $3.50."
Suddenly he flips back to the title bookstore. The bookstore has stamped, 'Used book, $7.50.'
Has the student stumbled upon a conspiracy between his teacher and the Union Bookstore, designed to make them a quick buck?
NO, SAID Steve Word, Union Bookstore general manager, yesterday. This student has merely come across nationwide wave he wrestled for years.
"We have nothing to do with the price of textbooks," Word said. "The price you see blacked out or punched out of a book is the pre-price. It's put on by the publisher, but it's not necessarily on the invoice. It's not the price we pay."
BILL MUGGY, manager of Jayhawk Bookstore, the Union Bookstore's competitor, the Union Books, said sales that be too has not increased in publishers' prices in recent years.
"Publishers have as much a monopoly on book prices as the utility company has on power lines," he said, for an encroachment upon free enterprise."
Muggy, however, has one advantage over the Union. Because he is independent, his authority, he is required to stock every single book requested by KU professors.
"We have no choice," said Word.
"Many times one publisher will be the only publisher for a book, and then we will have to say what they say, even if it isn't fair."
prohibitive, I won't order it," he said.
For University bookstores such as the Union, though, that option does not exist.
"If I think the price of a book is
right, I would buy it."
WORD SAID THAT the dilemma was worsened by publishers who printed the pre-price on the cover of the book—a situation that only occurs with paperbacks—because when the price of the book goes up, the bookstore is forced to mark out the pre-price and replace it with the new price.
"If a book is pre-priced at $3.95, for example, but the suggested retail is $5.95," he said, "then we'll probably end up paying $5.00 for the book itself. That doesn't include charges for freight, the cost of labor to unload it, record it and shelf it, or the loss from theft."
"Ninety-nine and nineteen percent
of time, we charge the retail price."
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One of the biggest problems with book prices occurs when a book remains in stock and goes through the buy-back procedure a number of times. Although in the long run students will benefit from a larger pay-back when selling back the book, there is a chance that the book will eventually sell for a higher price as a used book than it did new.
BOTH WORD AND Muggy said they paid 50 per cent of the new current retail price when they bought back books, and they bought for 75 percent of that same price.
However, profits from the sale of
used books for both bookstores are no high, because of the fact that Mugg offers a 20 percent discount on cash purchases of books during enrollment. The program also offers a 10 percent dividend to students who turn in receipts of cash purchase.
"Say a new book was $10," explained Word. "We would buy it back at 5 percent, or $8. But if the price of the book was $10, we went up to $1; then we would pay $5. 50."
"We would then sell the book for 71 percent of the new price, or $2.55. If the价后费 went up to $12, we would buy back the used book at $6. Thus, the student has only paid $2.25 for the use of that book. You subtract the 6 percent dividend he can get if he turns in his receipts, then he has only paid $1.75."
OUT OF THE $2.25 left to the bookstore after it has bought the book back for $5.50 and sold it used for $2.50. The union has to subsidize a 6 percent freight cost and a 23 percent operating cost, Word said.
"If you figure it all up, and subtract the 6 percent dividend the student could collect, then our net profit comes out to less than one percent," he said.
If the process continued long enough, Word said, a student would end up getting back the same amount he paid for the book.
WORD SAID A lawsuits by the National Association of College Bookstores is pending against publishers who allegedly had given a larger discount to trade bookstores, or non-college bookstores. He attributed this disparity to pricing the publisher's theory that non-college bookstores buy less volume and are less likely to return as many copies as college bookstores.
Firm late with findings on Med Center study
By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
A Texas firm hired to study security procedures at the University of Kansas Medical Center is almost three weeks late in announcing its findings, according to Rodger Orke, director of services in facilities operations.
"They had originally told me that the study would be completed by Dec. 31." Oroke said yesterday. "We've been in touch with them, but they have given us no information."
He said the firm, Dale Simpson and Associates, of Dallas, told him the study would be completed by the doctors and Oroke said he expected it this week.
"We have been told that the study has been dictated and is now in development," he said.
The firm was hired Aug. 26,1981.
The HMA Was held Aug. 20, 1981.
The Med Center police department requested the study after a lone gunman walked into the Med Center emergency room on March 20, 1981 and killed two people.
The study will be a review of the Med Center's security procedures, practices and personnel assignments, Orok said. But, the study also may show other areas in which the Med Center could be improved, he said.
He said the March slayings of Marc Beck, 25, a resident at the Med Center, and Michael Yybcol, 54, a visitor, only recovered security review at the Med Center.
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