VOL.100,NO.39 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY OCT.19,1989
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Disappearing act puzzles relatives
Haskell joins search for student
By JENNIFER METZ Kansan staff writer
Last night, more than 100 faculty, staff and students from Haskell Indian Junior College continued the search for Cecil Dawes Jr., a former Haskell student and recently disenrolled KU student.
The group searched the banks of the Kaw River, railroad tracks and surrounding neighborhoods near the Los Amigos Saloon, 508 Locust, where Dawes was last seen early Sunday morning.
Dawes is a 21-year-old, 5" 11" male and weighs between 185 and 190 pounds. He has short black hair, brown eyes and has scars above his left eye and his right cheek, said Wylma Dawes, his mother.
Dawes' friends said he was involved
Dawes that picked up a friend, LeeAnne Nelson, 20. Claremore, Okla., outside the bar and drove from the bar.
Dawes' abandoned car was hit on train tracks at 225 N. Michigan St. nearly three hours later. Nelson said Dawes parked the car on the tracks, got out and told her to hide in the bushes. Dawes then disappeared.
Wylma Dawes said she last saw her son Saturday afternoon at her home in Lawrence where Dawes came to work on his car.
She said that he seemed upset about something, but she assumed that it was because Dawes was frustrated about his car. She said he was in a generally good mood when he left their home later that afternoon.
"When he is upset, he doesn't stay
ware for me." Wife Down
Cecil Dawes. Lawrence. looks down the Kansas River.A search began for his son, Cecil Dawes Jr., yesterday evening.
Faux fur, genuine fur find market appeal
Bv Angela Baughman
Kansan staff writer
Fur is in fashion this fall, be it faux or for real. Controversy surrounds the fur industry, though, and the question posed is, Beauty or the Beast?
Laurie Stair, salesman in the fur salon on Bonwit Teller, which is on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Mo., said the Kansas city market and growing market for zenine fur coats.
She said $5,000 was a median price for a full-length fur coat. Some, usually lower grades of fox, could be purchased for $1200 or less. The lynx coat could cost as much as $200,000.
Stair said the cost of fur coats varied greatly depending on the length of the coat, the type and quality of the fur and whether the fur came from a male or female animal.
"The advantage of the female is it is less than a weight, so it's higher in price." she said.
Stair said mink and fox were the strongest selling furs, although there was a wide variety to choose from, including beaver.
Animal-rights activists challenge designers to stray from real thing
raccon, coyote, bobcat and sable.
Another factor in the cost of a genuine fur coat is the amount of effort it takes to manufacture one, she said.
"It's one of the few industries left in which everything is done by hand." Stair said.
Don Gerhardt, owner of Gerhardt Furs,
also on the Country Club Plaza, said he
carried strictly the genuine article.
"The woman who wants to buy a fake fur is not the same woman who wants a real fur," Gerhardt said.
Designers who use fake fur in their collections include Bill Blass, Carolina Herrera, Oscar de la Renta, Nina Ricci and Christian Lacroix.
Craig Natielo, assistant to Bill Blass, said Blass discontinued using real furs in his designs. He said Blass did not make that decision based on pressure from clients or
from outside influences, such as animal rights activists:
"Bill made a personal decision not to use it in his collections." Natiello said.
He said that fake furs cost about the same as some cloth coats, ranging from $300 to $700, and that generally they were made with wool and acrylic.
"It has a look women want," Natiello said. "It isn't particularly used for warmth. If you want a faux fur, you want it to be warm. Bill's completely behind that idea."
Amy Holan, account executive for her Maucci designs, said the Italian designer used fake furs in her collections because she was against using animals for their furs.
"She saw a film that showed the way the animals were treated and killed," Holnan
said. "She was horrified."
She said AnnaMmuci designs used the highest quality faux furs. There will always be a difference between those and real furals, but we did want to make sure that an animal was killed for the real thing.
Stair said she thought improvements had been made in the methods for obtaining genuine fur, such as using animals that had been bred strictly for their fur, much the same way that animals are raised for food. Endangered species are also protected by strict laws, she said.
Diana Dickerson, chairman of the wildlife committee of Environs, a KU organization, said she was against using animals for fur that could not fight back.
"I think that it is in itself an industry based on vanity," she said. "I think there are substitutes for warmth."
Dickerson said that she thought efforts were being made to improve the way furts were obtained, but that it was an ethical issue regarding the exploitation of animals. She said Environs had not made a statement of its position on the issue.
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the salvation Army Thrift Store, 628 Vermont St.; Barb's Vintage Rose, 927 Massachusetts St.; Social Service League, 905 Rhode Island St.; and Quantrill's Flea Market, 811 New Hampshire St.
In Kansas City, many secondhand stores are along Troost Avenue.
Pastense, 418 SW Sixth St. And every spring the Junior League of Topeka holds a Nextto-New-Sale.
Many students also shop in Topeka at
Reed Peterson, manager of the Salvation Army Thrift Store, said that his store had been attracting KU students since it opened about six years ago and that he had noticed a slight increase in student shoppers
recently.
new items are donated or found.
"I've watched many go through their four or five years at KU as regular customers," Peterson said.
Many students have become familiar faces, he added.
Shell said she and her friends often spent the afternoon shopping at various shops in search of new, unique items.
The selection of clothes available at secondhand stores changes constantly, as
"You have to look," she said. "For my friends and me, it's sort of a hobby. You can take $30 and come back with all kinds of goodies."
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about Lawrence to inform the
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the School of Journalism probed several Macintosh compute to produce this issue.
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