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Wednesdav. August 29. 1979
University Daily Kansan
Consumer tips available today
With the annual fall swarm of students
burning up andLawrence, so do the get-rich-
er-thin students. We need to be smart consumers, the Lawrence
Consumer Affairs Association said
The association will be handing out information to student consumers from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in front of the Kansas Union.
The information explains what to look for when leasing an apartment, offers tips on comparison shopping, and gives advice on how to get the most out of your money.
Although rip-off artists have not plagued the Lawrence area recently, the return of an attorney from a fraudulent schemes, Clive Chapman, administrative coordinator of the association,
Chapman said students should be completely truthful when calling the association about their experience with a product or an advertisement.
With this cooperation, the student's
problem usually can be solved by simply calling the business, he said.
"THE LAST PROBLEM we had was with booksellers, but they aren't around anymore." Chamman said.
He said confidence men posing as security-checking agents also were in the area but had left.
"There is one security-checking agency in town, but they are registered with the police department," Chapman said.
A security agency takes an inventory of an owner's possessions and makes security checks of his house, he said.
"Most of our complaints deal with indicted-tenant problems. Students with disabilities are often required an amount of the rent, setting with the indicted on damages to the apartment or about $500 per month."
HE SAID THE association had not received a substantially greater number of complaints about any one apartment complex.
"We usually tell the student how the laws
advertising centered on shortages of products on sale.
Most local department stores usually are not responsible for shortages, he said, because they are told to advertise by their branch offices.
Students also can obtain information about local businesses and about being a wiser consumer from the association's library at 819 Vermont St.
concerning landlords and tenants read, but we can't offer legal counsel. "Chapman we 'Act as a mediator between the landlord and tenant' taking over the matter with the landlord."
Chapman said most Lawrence businesses were willing to cooperate when a dispute arose concerning an advertisement or a product.
Chapman said most complaints about
Handicapped students make use of KU van
The KU van for handcapped students was rolling for the first day of classes despite a summer accident that caused $1,300 in damages.
"The van was operating Monday and we didn't have any problems," Robert Turvey, assistant director of the Student Assistance Center, said yesterday.
Craig said that having 10 riders was more than usual, but that he wouldn't have a set list of riders until the end of the week when class schedules were definite.
"We had 10 riders Monday and it was a slack day," said Floyd Craig, facilities operations employee who drives the van.
Tarvey said the number of handicapped students had increased this semester, but he wasn't sure by how much.
"We haven't done anything with figures yet. We've been too busy just getting people enrolled," he said.
One full load for the van is two wheelchairs and six people or one wheelchair and eight people.
"I THINK THE bus makes the campus more accessible," he said. "It would be almost impossible to get from the lower campus to the upper without it."
Turvey said he thought the increase in students was due to the van service.
Handicapped students tend to agree with Turvev.
"I don't know what I did without it," said Dana Wray, Lawrence graduate student, who is confined to a wheelchair. "Last semester I used it the whole time."
Fred Markham, Lawrence freshman, also uses the bus.
First you need an important — in this
KU will be getting a second vard in about
a month, according to Dewey Alaire,
associate director of facilities operations.
"I'd say it is very important," he said.
Although the new van will be available to handicapped students, it will not contain a lift for wheelchairs, Aliaire said.
TENNIS?
HE SAID the new van would be ordered in a month, when literature on the 1980 models comes out.
The new van will be used as a co-curricular vehicle, which the present van was taken. Presently, the van is used by the student service for handicapped students and by the University.
With the addition of the new van, the old one will be used only for handicapped students and the new one will be used by the motor pool.
Because two vans are now available, the van for the handicapped will extend its hours and operate in the evenings, Turvey said.
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ALVAMAR ORCHARDS GOLF
Good Through September 30
As Lloyd As $2.00 Per Minute
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9 am Weekdays
8 am Weekends
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Sale Ends Saturday, September 1, 1979
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WEST
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Energy scare withers; big car sales increase
By The Associated Press
Lower prices and shorter gas lines are drivers nationwide into what some car dealers say is the second-hand car deal of a lifetime—a "gas guzzer."
Large used car sales dropped this spring when there were fuel shortages in the supply chain. Now sales are resurging, according to an Associated Press spec check this week of
Dealers say the reason is twofold. Gasoline appears to be more available and the price of large cars hasn’t recovered from its dizzying drop two years ago.
Now the demand for small used cars still is high, but large cars aren't doing bad, either, dealers sav.
Big car prices dropped as much as $2,000 when gas lines appeared and stations closed early at night and on weekends because they had run out of fuel. People wanted small cars used with high gas mileage. Prices for those cars
"People are saying, 'I'm not going to ride around all scrunched up and hot when I can get a comfortable big car for my family,'" the executive director of the 8,500-member National Independent Automobile Dealers Association. "You can buy a lot."
Large used cars that go 10 to 18 miles
on a gallon of gas "were knocked down with such ridiculous prices, they were just good buys," said Harry Lawrence, editor of the Automotive Journal and Association Official Used Car Guide.
"I tell my friends that if they're thinking about a big car, they better do it now," Lawrence said. "The prices are astonishing."
The bottom dropped out of the big car market as the gas lines grew, dealers say. Plummeting prices did little to revive sales—at first.
"Big car people are still going to be big car people."
But as the big cars become popular, their prices are creeping up.
Once people became convinced that gas was available—whatever the price—they came back. Clark said.
"It was the gas scare, not the price," said Jim Clark, who owns a car dealership in Topeka. It got to the point you just couldn't give one of them away.
*Dealers got scared and sold them for $100,000 when the lot cost—$700, $800, $900 even $1,000—on a single car. And people bought luxury cars for the deals of a million dollars.*
A Kansas City, Mo., dealer sold a 1975 Lincoln for $2,000 last winter, but took $5,000 for a similar car in June. Last week, he sold another for $150.
National conference ahead for Black Student Union
Members of the KU Black Student Union soon will begin raising funds for a trip to a national conference for black students, and have signed up as chairmen of the chairman for the group, said yesterday.
The National Christian Consultation for the Development of Black Student Leadership will be Oct. 4 in Atlanta, Ga., where it will be held at the University and to send 15 to 25 students to the conference.
Students attending the national event will participate in workshops on leadership, social issues and racism. Parker said.
Films on issues concerning black students will be shown and Corretta Scott King and other speakers will be at the conference, Parker said.
To raise the $80 per person fee for the conference, the Black Student Union has organized a skating roaring for Sept. 16 and a fashion show for Sept. 22, Parker said.
All the fund-raising events planned by the Black Student Union will be open to the public. The organization also invites volunteers to volunteer time, funds and ideas, she said.
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