November 29,1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
KU freshman is injured in accident on campus
A student suffered head injuries early this morning after he apparently fell from a car on which he was riding on Naismith Drive just south of Allen Field House.
The victim, Michael Marconi, Highland Park. Ill., freshman, was identified by a desk worker at Naismith Hall, where Marconi is a resident.
The incident occurred at about 12:20 a.m. at the corner of Naismith and Fieldhouse drives, according to witnesses who said they came upon Marconi lying in the right southbound lane of Naismith Drive.
Hospital officials said Marconi was being treated for head wounds and would be transported by ambulance to the University of Kansas Medical Center for a neurological evaluation. No information on his condition was released.
Chilean union leader to speak
A Chilean trade union leader will lecture on Chile's mass movement today at 11:30 a.m. in the Cottonwood room of the Kansas Union.
Francisco Gonzales, a representative of an organization opposing the U.S. backed Phoenice regiment in Chile, also will speak on Tuesday at his opposition to the Chilean government
Gonzales is living in exile after conflict with the Pinochet government. The lecture is sponsored by Latin American Solidarity
New Mexico art topic of talk
Douglas George, professor of art history at the University of New Mexico, will speak at 2:30 p.m. today in room 211 of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
George will speak on "New Mexico Art and Photography: A Way of Looking."
K-State official to discuss job
Chester Peters, vice president for student affairs at Kansas State University, will discuss his experiences in the career of a public figure in the Jainyuk Rorm of the Kansai Union.
A 37-year veteran in student services at K-State, Peters will reflect on changes and developments that took place in services over the past three decades
Kansan taking applications
The Kansan is accepting applications for spring news and business staff positions. Today is the last day to submit applications.
Non-journalism majors are encouraged to apply.
Applications are available in the Student Senate office. Bi105 Kansas Union; the Student Organization and Activities Department; and in 118 and 200 Stauffer Flint Hall.
Weather
The deadline for completed applications is 5 p.m. in 200 Staff-First Hall.
Today will be partly cloudy, and there will be a 20 percent chance of showers. The high will be in the upper 30s. Winds will be very windy but partly cloudy. The low will be in the lower 30s. Tomorrow will be sunny but cooler. The high will be in the mid-40s.
Compiled from Kaman staff and United Press International reports.
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Student lobbies for fast food in Union
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
A student who has been lobbying for a commercial fast-food restaurant in the Kansas Union is making what he calls "an emotional, grandstander's attempt to get
A day after two committees recommended against including a franchise in Union renovation plans, Russ Placet, the student, wrote in a petition on campus in support of a franchise.
Ptacek, Washington, D.C., junior and a former student senator, said yesterday that about 30 students were helping him circulate materials in their scholarship halls, fraternities and sororites.
Pracek said he hoped 1,000 students would sign the petition. About 300 students signed the petition, saying they were ready to attend.
PT ACEK PLANS TO present the petition to members of the Union Memorial Board when it meets on Saturday, he said.
"They're not going to ignore it, and they're going to take this petition as a voice from the students," he said. "Hopefully, it will make a strong enough statement to them."
"This petition is kind of an emotional, grandstander's attempt to get attention."
Jim Long, director of the Union, said that at the meeting, the Union Memorial Board would approve a set of goals and needs of the renovation, as well as a timetable for planning. A recommendation about a Union fast-food operation will be included.
For about a year, the board has been
Union,
originally estimated to cost $41 million.
AND PTACEK HAS been trying to convince Union officials to include a fast-food franchise in renovation plans for more than a year. He has been in contact with officials from McDonald's Corp. and Burger King Corp.
Plateck last spring was one of four authors of a Student Senate petition asking the board to consider including a fast-food franchise in renovation plans.
In April, the board told its Merchandising, Policies and Practices Committee to study the matter, and the committee this summer asked Alexander Grant & Company, a Kansas City, Mo., accounting firm, to issue a report.
The company on Monday issued a report that said a fast-food franchise probably will be able to survive.
For the Union to break even on food services, the report said, a fast-food franchise would have to make between $434,000 and $1.5 million gross sales annually within three years, depending on what food sales the Union collected from a lease.
THOSE PROJECTIONS WERE based upon profits for Union food services that would be lost if such a franchise went into operation.
The report said that based upon McDonald's estimates, a fast-food franchise could earn about $1 million annually within five years.
Such a franchise also might jeopardize the
Union's exemption from property taxes under state law. The Kansas Union Memorial Corporation, a non-profit corporation chartered by the state to provide Union services, does not pass property taxes because state law exempts unions used exclusively for educational purposes.
The Merchandising Policies and Practices committee cited the report when it decided Monday to recommend to the University's Renovation Committee that a fast-food franchise not be included in plans for renovation.
THE RENOVATION COMMITTEE later on Monday decided to give the same negative recommendation to the Union Memorial Board.
But Ptacek said he questioned the findings of the report.
"The people on the board were speculating on what would happen if a situation were to possibly, maybe, happen," he said. "The situations were possible but very hypothetical."
End of term creates busy fingers
Becky Meeks, Lawrence senior, wears gloves while typing to keep her fingers warm. Meeks estimates that she makes about $6,000 this fall from her 24-hour job.
By JULIE COMINE
Staff Reporter
The phone rings. Becky Meeks momen-
ture the phone tapping of her electric
typewriter to pick up a letter.
The caller is desperate He needs his 20-page history paper typed — accurately, neatly, with all spelling errors corrected. A copy of the answer is tucked by
And of course, he needs it typed by tomorrow.
"It's term paper season," Meeks, a Lawrence senior, said yesterday. "The phone rings off the hook, and it won't stop until the last day of finals."
MEEKS, WHO HAS operated a 24-hour typing service for the past three years, is one of several professional typists in Lawrence swamped by work requests. She will be asking all hours asking her to transform last-minute rough drafts into polished papers
The price: $1.25 for each double-spaced page. $2.50 or each single-spaced page.
$4.00 for both.
Meeks, a microbiology major, types during fall semesters to earn money to attend classes in the spring at the University of Kansas. She estimated that she would spend $2,500 during the peak period from mid-November through the end of finals.
"I typed all through. Thanksgiving vacation," she said. "I took a break to eat my dinner."
When the papers start to pile up, Meeks types 16 to 18 hours a day. Economics papers. English essays. Political science final projects.
"I sat here once for a 24-hour stretch," she said. "I only got up to heat up some soup and go to the bathroom."
SHE SPEEDES THIOUGH as many as 15
papers a day, typing at a rate of 80 words a
minute.
When her back begins to ache after hours of typing, Meeks switches on a heating pad. And when her fingers grow numb, she touches on a pair of customized cotton gloves.
"My roommate works at Packer Plastic and brought me a whole bunch of these," she said. "We cut out the fingers and they work really well."
Meeks said she welcomed the extra money of the finals typing rush but didn't understand why so many students put off their term papers until the last minute.
"I WAS ALWAYS the kind of person who had them done a month before they were due," she said. "You can't even imagine the papers I've gotten. They've got words scratched out, arrows drawn from one paragraph to another, papers written in six different colors of ink, with inserts on tiny scraps of paper."
Another professional typist, Adrienne Christian, said the rough drafts customers brought her often required extensive revision.
"We correct spellings, but usually we let bad grammar go," said Christian, who
with two other women comprise the Stereo Typing business. "It's an ethical dilemma. We can tell when something is grammatically incorrect or when something is spelled wrong. But do we simply change those mistakes or leave them as is?"
"THERE COMES A point when people know so badly that you wish their teachers know it."
Christian, who is finishing her master's thesis in communication studies, started typing professionally two years ago. She worked previously as a part-time
You can't even imagine the papers I've gotten. They've got words scratched out, arrows drawn from one paragraph to another, papers written in six different colors of ink, with inserts on tiny scraps of paper.
-Becky Meeks
“At first, I started working at the kitchen table,” she said. “I didn’t run any ads in the newspapers. Then I put a couple of them on my phone. I was literally overwhelmed with requests.”
student-hourly secretary in KU's theatre department.
Today, Christian and her partners earn
about $700 to $1,000 a month. Besides their
two self-correcting typewriters, the typists also offer word-processing service on their Apple II Plus computer for a fee of $9 an hour.
CHRISTIAN SAID THAT the price often startled customers but that many customers preferred the word-processor for lengthy works such as books and dissertations that would be edited and rewritten.
"in the long run, it would cost more for them to have something like that typed on their computers."
Christian said she and her partners this week were working on "in" or 19 books, six of which had been submitted.
"For me, it's a full-time job," she said. "I work eight hours a day, but not a m. to m. night."
Jeanette Shaffer, 56, two years ago was typing memos and letters for Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Today, Shaffer has turned typing and transcribing into a full-time job in her own home. Her customers include businessmen as well as students and professors.
*1 type everything from a one-page letter or resume to a 100-word abstract to a 200-word resume.
During November and December, Shaffer types up to 10 hours a day in her "typing room." Although some typists work with the radio or television on, Shaffer said she preferred complete silence.
"I want it to be as quiet as possible," she said. "I need total concentration."
Letter to ask restitution installments McMurry's parole may be contingent on yearly payments
In an attempt to recover more than $250,000 embezzled from KU on Wheels by former director Steve McMurry, the Transportation Board chairman has written a letter requesting repayment by McMurry over the next 35 years.
The letter will be presented to the board for approval at 7:30 tonight, said board chairman Melinda McCarthy. The board also will announce the state parole board. McMurry is scheduled for a parole hearing on Dec. 10.
He was sentenced on July 8, 1983, to eight to
20 years in state prison on five counts of
We can't get paid back until he is out of jail. We're not interested in his punishment. We're interested in getting our money back."
-Melanie Branham
embedzlement and ordered to pay $257,651.17 in restitution to the University of Kansas
The letter requests that McMurry's parole be contigent on annual payments against his father.
"We can't get paid back until he is out of jail," Branham said. "We're not interested in his punishment. We're interested in getting, our money back."
The letter states that if McMurry is released on parole, he should be made to pay $7.344 annually for the next 35 years, she said.
Branham said the recommendation for repayment discounted any interest or depreciation of the money over the three decades.
"We'll be lucky to recover what we lost." Branham said. "At the most, he'll probably be paroled for five years. If he misses a payment during those years his parole can be revoked. After his parole is up, though, there will be as much leverage to collect the money."
The University also filed a civil suit against McMurry on Sept. 7. In October, KU was granted a default judgement for $257,054.17 in the suit, which was filed against McMurry
Branham said that the letter had been written at the request of the Kansas parole
"We were contacted by the board to write the letter because it is standard procedure for them to contact the victim of a crime and report that information to the parole board decide," Braham saut.
Tonight the Transportation Board will also vote on establishing a bus route to West Campus.
Applications for the following Student Senate Committees are now being accepted:
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