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 then 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.
Cecil Dawes, Lawrence, looks down the Kansas River.A search began for his son, Cecil Dawes Jr., yesterday evening.
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
someone else." *Wilde*
Wednesday, October 18, 1969 / University Daily Kansan
Shop Peruvian style without leaving town
By Doug Fishback
Kansan staff writer
The displays are modest at the Peruvian Connection. Alpaca sweaters, hanging on circular clothing racks and stacked folded on tables, evoke images of a department store outerwear section.
But then, as one looks more closely, a strange thing happens. With all the patience of an Andean sunrise, the warm beauty of the clothing appears. Geometrics in Ican can be seen in the patterns at customers at outpatients of pattern that would make even Bill Cooby stop and take notice.
The Peruvian Connection, 600 Lawrence Ave., specializes in sweaters, hand-knit in Peru from alpaca or pima cotton, but customers can also find accessories such as earrings, hats and shawls, said Sheila Immel, store manager. Many of the items are individual finds imported from South America.
"We have tons and tons of one-of-a-kind items," she said.
The Lawrence store, a discount factory outlet for discontinued lines and warehouse overstock, is the only one of its kind. Immel melded together with nothing from the Connection is by mail order.
Many of the sweaters sold by the Peruvian Connection combine bright colors with bold patterns, resulting in a garment that almost throbs with the rhythms of an Indian rain dance. Jaguar-skin motifs in maize and cotton are also included in the ensemble (mail-order price $230), and vibrant greens and glowing reds give life to the ethnic crewneck sweater ($198).
Many of the store's designs are exclusive to the Connection, Immel said, created by designers working for the store's founder, Annie Hurlbut.
Those wanting to make a less aggressive fashion statement will find plenty of options among the store's more traditional pullovers and cardigans. In solid colors running the spectrum from olive to geranium to Vale blue, many sweaters gain their distinct flair by being in the knitwear such as rope-knit collars, crocheted accents and irreplicate ribbing.
Hurbit's interest in Peruvian clothing began when she was a Yale archaeology
undergraduate during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Immel said.
During a field visit to Peru, Huribut discovered the beauty of native textiles, and that discovery evolved into a mail-order business that began in Tonganoxie in 1877.
Huribut, who recently returned from a trip to Bolivia, deals directly with Peruvian workers, who knit the shop's designs by hand, Immel said.
She said the South American cottage industry of textile production was fairly
"Labor in Peru is real reasonable," Immel said.
The Peruvian Connection fills orders from across the nation. Many of these orders come from Interstate-70 travelers who have stopped in Lawrence to visit the store and then added their names to the catalogue mailing list, she said.
The addresses on the list show the scope of the business: Washington, D.C., Provo, Utah.
Half an hour before closing on a recent Friday afternoon, Maryann Moore is purchasing a black alpaca bomber jacket. The Augusta, Ga., resident says that she has received the catalogue for a while, but that this is her first purchase.
"I never have bought anything from them, but I always have loved their clothes." she said.
The jacket lists in the catalogue for $288,
but the store sells it for $178.
Even at this reduced rate, however, the clothes do not come cheap. Customers can expect to pay from $80 to more than $100 for the store's more elaborate sweaters.
Immel said that her husband had alpaca sweaters that were 20 years old and that an alpaca garment probably would outlast the fashion tastes of its owner.
All items in the Lawrence outlet store are discounted at least 40 percent from the catalogue list price, immel said.
"This is more investment clothing." Immel said.
As an investment, alpaca is a good choice, she said, because it is versatile, pills-resistant.
Students find unique clothes in style second time around
"You are going to want it to wear out before it does. You're going to be sick of it," she said. "They don't wear out."
By Lara Weber
Kansan staff writer.
It's hip. It's chic. It's used. It's secondhand clothing, and these days it's making a fashion statement in even theaughtiest social circles.
At the University of Kansas, more and more students are discovering the advantages of used clothing. It fits the basic fashion, but it also hints at couture — it's stylish, and it's cheap.
With secondhand clothing, even the most economical shoppers can wear fine silk, wool, linen, leather and cotton.
Maria Shell, Topeka senior, says she has been buying used clothes since her freshman year in high school.
After years of collecting secondhand and vintage clothing, Shell's closet is overflowing with pieces ranging from flowery fitted
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dresses to traditional corduroy rudging pants.
She says she likes to wear secondhand cloth.
Her father is a tailor.
"You can get unusual, different things, and you're not going to see someone else wearing the same thing." Shell said.
Most secondhand clothing is considerably less expensive than new clothing. A trip to several secondhand stores in Lawrence indicated that an outfit, consisting of such pieces as a skirt, blouse, jacket and accessories, could be bought for less than $20.
There are several places in northeast Kansas where students can find secondhand
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ics and astronomy, said, "Once it is out of the inner solar system, all have to worry about is if everywill work after all these years in ee."
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said that the spacecraft would o man's knowledge of the giant et. Jupiter.
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said the probe that Galileo will be ping into Jupiter's atmosphere will meteorologists information on spheric effects that they couldn't before.
eteorologists will learn a lot about its atmospheric effects, which help them learn more general is about meteorology." Cravens "It might help us learn more our own patterns on Earth. studying meteorology based on the sphere of one planet is like study-psychology based on only one on."
lansan's regular typesetter fails
about 1 p.m. yesterday, the Kandi's normal typesetting equipment ished.
the reasons for the crash were unown, and the system was not run in time for the Kansan's reguildlines last night.
the School of Journalism probed several Macintosh computer to produce this issue.
of 2 a.m. today, it was not own if the system would be work- in time for Friday's issue.
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