Friday, February 2, 1979
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Two tenants of the Jayhawker Towers Apartments, 1603 W. 15th St., sent letters to the Kansas attorney general's office yet unresolved about the legality of a Towers rental application.
The two, Connie Diane, Medicine Lodge junior, and Valerie Meale, Cumberland, Md., junior, said an earlier complaint to the attorney general from another Towers resident had encouraged them to write the letters.
Drabim Edalaty, Iran freshman, who lived at the Towers from August 1777 to August 1978, asked the attorney general to rule whether the Towers Application for Rental was a legally signed document. Edalaty was aided in his complaint last October by the Consumer Affairs Association, 819 Vermont St.
Leslie Rawlings of the attorney general office's Consumer Protection Division, said Edalay's letter was lost in the administrative change from former Attorney General Curt Schneider to Attorney General Robert Stephen last November. She said she had requested that another letter and a copy of the rental application be sent to her.
"I HAVE been in contact with Edalay and with Garnett Wrigley of the Consumer Affairs office," Rawlings said. "I expect to receive the letter and application, be able to evaluate them and make a ruling on the application by early next week."
Wrigley said she met with Edalay on Tuesday and drafted another letter. She said the letter and a copy of the application form were sent to Rawliness yesterday.
Dials and Mease, roommates at the Towers, said their complaint stemmed from the fact that they were held to their signatures on the rental application form, "as though it were a legally binding contract to rent.
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"LAST FALL, when we decided to look into living at the Towers, we filled out an application for rental and we were told we would not be renting." Dials said. "They told us it allowed them time to check our credit. And we were forced to contract as a contract if our credit was approved."
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Diala said she, Mease and two other persons who were present when they signed the application all understood that the application was to be used only as a basis for payment. A person told that a contract would have to be signed before they would be legally bound to rent.
"However, that was not the story we got when we went back to the Towers office the Tuesday after the Friday when we signed up for our job. We were weekend it became apparent that we would not be able to rent at the Towers because our third roommate renamed on moving in. So we returned to the Towers office and were going to application we applied held us to moving in."
DIALS SAID she was later able to find a third room and moved into the Towers. She made a point of
plication procedure to Wrigley at the Consumer Affairs Association and to Karen McKinney at Lawrence Property Management, 1811 St. Andrews Dr., which manages the Jayhawker Towers Apartments.
"WE WEERE pretty upset about how we had been manipulated," Dials said. "So we complained to Wrigley and McKinney. However, we did not carry our complaints any further because we felt we could not be trusted and feared that would be what it would take."
Wriglev said Dials did consult her.
Wrigley said, though, that when Edalaty came to her with a similar complaint about the application, she sent a letter to the attorney general.
"I did not mean to discourage her from taking her complaint any further," Wrigley said. "I told她 tell her the application read like a contract but that in my opinion from what she had told me, the Towers had not explained the application and its intent to
Both Dials and Edalay said they would wait to hear the attorney general's ruling on the application before deciding whether to pursue their complaints.
The Association of University Residence Halls
Cordially invites the residents of the
University Residence Halls to participate in the
Eighth Annual Legislators' Dinner
February 19, 1979
7:00 p.m.
Lewis Hall.
This dinner provides an excellent opportunity for residents to visit with their state legislators on an informal basis. So complete the form available at your hall's desk, return it to your hall coordinator by Feb. 2, and plan on attending the Legislators' DinnerFeb. 19, 1979.
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Creative writing M.A. proposed
Prospective poets, novelists and playwrights take note. The University of Kansas may soon have a program that will fit your needs.
"A number of students have expressed interest in a program like this," George Worth, chairman of the English department, said. "I would give advanced training to persons who want to be writers and I would do what he would do it as a hobby in addition to whatever else they do."
The department of English has proposed a program that would lead to a master of fine arts in creative writing.
The proposed program, which has been in the planning stages for three years, still must be approved by the Council of Chief Academic Officers, a group representing the six Board of Regents schools, and by the Board of Regents.
"We have all the approvals we need from within the University," Worth said. "I don't see any reason in the world this program should not be approved, but it's hard to say how this will turn out."
WICHTIA STATE University has had a program like this for six years, he said.
James Gunn, professor of English, said, "More people are
interested now in creative writing. There is much more demand than there used to be for writing courses and the degree itself.
"The new program would represent something between an M.A. and a Ph.D. It would be comparable to a Ph.D., not in the number of hours, but in the fact that there would be an oral exam and a written exam. The student would write a novel, a book of short stories, a screenplay or a book of poetry."
There probably will be six to 12 students admitted to the program each year, Worth said.
"This is a serious program, not just for those who are dabbling in writing." Worth said. "We want a commitment from our staff to ensure that we do what we can."
"WE MIGHT have poets, playwrights, fiction writers or film script writers. The possibilities are numerous."
"It is only a proposal and a hope, it isn't fact. I hope it becomes a fact soon," Worth said.
Gunn said, "It promises to be sound, appalling to students and a good thing for the University to have."
Worth said the department had all the facilities, courses, faculty, students and visiting writers necessary for the program.
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Friday & Saturday,
February 2 & 3
BLUE COLLAR
(1978)
Dir. Paul Schrader; with Richard Pryor, Harvey Kelley, Yakut Koto. "There are few movies around with a dog and the bearer's brains" and *now*-Weekly.
(1977)
Dir. Jerry Garcia, Leen Gast; with the Grateful Dead. Lose of music, plus an animated sequence which features a sequence from "Skeleton Uncle Sam."
Tuesday, February 6 Bogart/Bacall:
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Dir. John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Lionel Barrymore.
Wednesday, February 7
German Night:
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Dir, F. W. Murnau; with Max Schrenk.
The first filmed version of "Dracula."
GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST, Dir. Hans Richer; UBERFALL, Dir. Erno Metzner; and A MAN NENZIER, Dr. Stephen Lerner (Based upon an article by members of the staff at Menninger Foundation in Topeka).
Friday & Saturday,
February 9 & 10
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Dr. Steven Spielberg; with Richard Dreyssel, Milda Dillon, Francois Truffaut, Tern Garr, Gary Guffey, Terry Horton, Douglas Truumball, "3:00, 7:00, 8:00"
All films M-R shown in Woodruff Aud. at 7:30 unless otherwise noted.
Weekend shows also in Woodruff at 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 or 12 midnight unless otherwise noted.
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