CAMPUS AND AREA
November 14, 1984
The University Daily
KANSAN
Election polls open today for Student Senate voting
Voting in Student Senate presidential and semiautonomic elections begins today and
Pollts will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
in four locations: the Frank R. Burge Union,
Fraser Hall, Strong Hall and Summerfield
Hall. In addition, pollts will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Kansan taking applications
The offices of student body president and vice president and 38 Senate seats are
The Kansan is accepting applications for editor and business manager for spring
Application forms are available in the Student Senate office, B105 Kansas Union; the Student Organizations and Activities office, 403 Kansas Union; and 119 and 200
Applications must be turned in to 200
Staffer-Flint Hall by 5 a.m. tomorrow
IFC elects six new officers
New officers for the Interfraternity Council were selected last week by representatives of the 28 IFC fraternities on campus.
The new officers are Grant Tennison, president, Delta Chi; Dock Dohknorn, vice president for fraternal affairs, Sigma Nu; Brad Weber, vice president for membership, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Bill Britain, vice president for public relations, Alpha Sigma Lambda; Mark Hanna, secretary, Alpha Sigma Jolita; Joa丝莎, treasurer, Evans Scholars.
Geography prof gets award
George Jenkins, professor of geography,
received Chancellors Club Career
Award in 2014.
The award honors a professor who has been a faculty member for at least 15 years and who exemplifies outstanding teaching
Jenkins, a national authority on cartography, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in mapping, computer mapping and map development and symbolization. He also advises undergraduate honors students and doctoral and master's degree candidates.
Employment seminar offered
The Chancellors Club has given away tour of the awards, each of which includes
The Lawrence Human Relations Commission will sponsor a seminar on equal employment opportunity from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at City Hall, 527th and Massachusetts streets.
The free seminar will take place in the City Commission chambers. Issues such as affirmative action, sexual harassment and equal pay for comparable worth will be discussed during the presentations, said Rehilio Samuel, executive director of the Lawrence human relations department.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy and windy and the high will be around 70. Winds of 15 to 25 mph will be from the southwest. Tonight will be mostly clear and the low will be in the mid-to upper 30s. Tomorrow will be cooler and the high will be from 55 to 60.
Where to call
Do you have an idea for a story or a photograph?
If so, call the Kansan at 864 4810. If your idea or news release deals with campus or area news, ask for Doug Cummingham, campus editor. For entertainment and On Campus items, ask for Susan Wortman, campus editor. For sports news, ask for Greg Dumont, sports editor.
Photo suggestions should go to Dave Hornback photo editor
For other questions, comments or complaints, ask for Don Kunz, editor or manager.
The number of the Kansan business office, which handles all advertising, is 664-4358.
Compiled from Kannan stuff and United Press International reports.
Local pizza shop pyramids with new owner
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
As the Egyptians did with their ancient pyramids, Mark McKee has constructed his Pyramid slowly and methodically.
McKee, president of Pyramid Pizza, bought the business with a partner about $2/3 years ago. Pyramid had been in business $6/3 years before that.
"I just saw a lot of opportunity in it," McKeen said recently as he sat in a booth at the Wagon Wheel Cafe, a tavern above the Pyramid Pizza店 at 507 W. 14th St.
McKee, 22, always has seized opportunities.
He has turned a profit by buying soda pop at a discount store and selling it to thirsty.
WHILE A STUDENT at Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park, he sold and delivered roses, operated fireworks stands and booked concerts.
"I haven't been content working for anybody else," he said.
After running an advertising and publishing business in Lawrence, he decided to deliver
When he purchased Pyramid, McKeen said, "hit some image problems," so he bired a cat.
In the business "fledgling stages under his ownership, MeeK said, he used to wake up to scrub toiletes and wash dishes. During the day and into the evening, he marketed the meals and ordered the cooked and delivered pizza. At night, he would sleep on a cot in the restaurant's back room.
"I learned a lot about it, and it was pretty much trial and error." McKeen said. "So I've kind of got a good grasp of it now. I know it because I learned from the beginning."
THAT TRIAL AND error translated into dollars and cents - and no more scrubbing toilets.
McKee won't say how much money
Pyramid takes in
"I like to keep the competition guessing," he said.
But he will discuss how many pizzas Pyramid sells. At first, the shop sold 15 pizzas a day. Now the store sells about 400 pizzas a day. Next, the shop sold a record 1,200 pizzas, he said.
Larry Weaver/KANSAN
McKee bought out his partner last spring. In May, he opened a second Pyramid Pizza shop at 2116 W. 25th St. in Holiday Plaza. In August, he opened stores in Manhattan's Aggieville and Stillwater, Okla., the home of Oklahoma State University.
Mckee has earmarked Junction City; Norman, Okla.; Lubbock, Texas; Columbia, Mo.; and Colorado Springs and Boulder, Colo. for future shops.
"We're looking at eight to 10 stores this time next year," he said.
WITHIN FIVE YEARS, he hopes to have 75 Pyramid stores. By 1994, he wants to have 300 shops, which would be franchised, company-owned or owned in limited partnerships. The headquarters, he said, would be in Lawrence or the Kansas City area.
For now, McKee said, affording the luxuries of a well-to-do businessman isn't a priority. The freedom to fly to Paris for lunch on a whim will wait.
Mark McKee, president of Pyramid Pizza, stands in front of his second Lawrence store at 2116 W. 25th St. McKee hopes to have 75 Pyramid shops within five years and 300 stores by 1994.
'All the money goes back in the business', he said. 'Right now, the satisfaction of his work is more than ever.'
McKee also keeps an eye on the com- puition
"I eat out a lot," McKee said. "I don't cook very often, I don't have time. That gives me a chance to go to restaurants, pizza places, observe service and those kinds of things."
BUILDING THE BUSINESS has become so important, he said, that he has set aside plans for earning a degree at the University and will enroll in a few classes for next semester.
A controversy over ballot tabulation marred the race, and Chancellor Gene A. Budig called for a new election after the school's Judicial Board said the November election had been "fraught with inconsistencies and ambiguities."
In the past few years at KU, McKee devoted time to being president of his freshman and sophomore classes and vice president of the Interfraternity Council. He ran unsuccessfully for student body vice president last fall.
"I hate to be negative," McKee said, "but I witnessed a lot of unethical practices, which really turned me off to the system. I just lost a lot of respect for the system.
"I glad I did it and as far as I'm concerned, I won. But I had my fill I don't mind."
INSTEAD, MCKEE IS content working 13-hour days for Pyramid Pizza, relying on his appointment book to tell him where he has to be and with whom he has to meet.
"This is my bible," he said, picking up a brown leather appointment book.
He finds little time for paperwork or housekeeping, he said. So he has hired a secretary and a maid to handle those duties, but he also manages on the management aspects of his business.
'You've got to stay close to the employees.
close to the business," he said. "You've got to stay with it on a daily basis to make sure you are making money. My time's best spent with your employees, and with my employees developing new areas."
But no matter how much time it takes,
McKee still stilts to build his Pyramid.
"It gets pretty certain sometimes," he said.
"My office right now is in my bedroom.
"You wake up in the morning, and you work until you go to sleep. There's no sign of it slowing down as long as we're expanding."
KANU looking to increase funds and donors
Staff Reporter
By DAN HOWELL
“This fund-raiser will put us back on our feet,” Berman said.
KANU-FM's fall fund-ransing drive is progressing well as it reaches its midpoint, Al Berman, the station's director of development, said last night.
Berman said the station's goals for this week's drive, which began Saturday, were $50,000 and 500 new contributors. At 8 p.m. last night, the station had passed $24,000 in pledges and had gained 313 new contributors. The drive ends Saturday.
KANU, a public radio station serving the area within an 85-mile radius of Lawrence returned to its normal 110 kilowatt broadcast earlier after 16 months of low-power broadcasts.
AT THE REDUCED power of 8.3 kilowatts
using a 100-foot temporary tower, the station could reach only Douglas County. On full power, the broadcast signal reaches listeners in Topeka and Kansas City.
The old 605-foot tower collapsed on Dec. 11, 1982, after its of support wires were cut by vandals. The collapse knocked KANU off the air and caused an emergency equipment began a week later
The strategy of this drive, Berman said, is to persuade more of the station's 50,000 to 75,000 listeners to make contributions. Most listeners do not make contributions, he said.
"We also feel there is a large number of people who have discovered the station for themselves."
THE DRIVE WILL allow KANU to continue its high quality in programming, including local production. Berman said that the formal slogan is the "margin for excellence."
He said the station's financial problems.
the result of losing listeners during low-power broadcasting, had not affected the results.
"If there is a success for KANU over this difficult period, it's that we were able to avoid dropping programs or cutting back staff," he said.
"Imagination Workshop" is an example of an excellent local program produced during the spring of 1997.
Berman said KANU was broadcasting some special programs during this week's drive to make the week more attractive. One of the new distribution was "Bob and Ray at Carnegie Hall."
RACHEL HUNTER, THE station's fine arts director, said her "KANU Mornings" was using a weeklong "Classical Music Topic" on recent voting by hundreds of listeners.
Each listener chose three favorites, she said, and the Top 40 has some surprises in its
order and in what it includes or omits.
"The idea of the classical Top 40 is to get people involved," she said.
Hunter said the countdown had reached about number 23 and would continue from 8 a.m. to noon today through Friday and 6 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
Berman said KANU was one of the last public radio stations to have two fund-rising
"It's a very necessary fund-raising week for us because we need to get well once and for all from the financial pressure of the low-power period," Berman said.
The station also conducted a weeklong fund-raising drive in May, its first in two years because of the limited range of low-power signals.
The May campaign was meant to cover losses in contributions and expenses of low-power broadcasting during the 16 months it was used.
Regents to discuss increases in housing fees
By MARY CARTER
Staff Reporter
A 4.1 percent increase in the 1985-86 base rate for KU residence halls will be presented to the Board of Regents on Friday in Topeka
The Regents also will discuss contract increases for scholarship halls and Sunflower Apartments. The Regents will act on the proposals at their December meeting.
RESIDENTS OF DOUHART and Sellarski scholarship halls, who now pay $1,590, would pay $1,600. A room in Miller or Watkins halls would increase from $591 to $610. Miller and Watkins residents buy and prepare their own food.
If the plan is approved, the base rate for a double room in a residence hall would increase from $1,989 to $2,071. The cost of living in Battenfeld, Grace Pearson, Pearson and Stephenson scholarship halls would increase from $1,626 to $1,708.
The proposals were approved earlier this semester by the KU Residential Programs Advisory Committee. Chancellor Gene A. Bass, Admister Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Two bedroom, unfurnished Sunflower
Apartments would increase from $230 to $240.
"The increases are modest in the sense that we're only keeping pace with inflation
and the costs involved," Keith Nitcher, KU business affairs director, said yesterday. "The key thing is that we did have student input."
The University of Kansas also will ask for a $40 increase in the field camp fee for Geography 614, from $190 to $230. The class lasts slightly less than three weeks.
The increases would cover transportation, meals and lodging, supplies and equipment. The cost per student is expected to be $250. The increase in course would be used to cover part of the costs.
THE REGENTS ALSO will review a plan for the proposed Center for Excellence in Health Sciences.
Education was one recommendation of a team of consultants that reviewed teacher education programs at the Regents universities.
Regents staff members suggested dividing the center into a research branch at KU and a service branch at Emporia State University. The Regents were scheduled to discuss the plan at last month's meeting. Instead, they directed the Regents council of presidents to develop a plan that was acceptable to all Regents schools.
Under the plan the presidents approved, research projects would be carried out on all Regents campuses, and the program would be overseen by one administrative office.
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