University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1985
Page 15
In moving flurry, furniture can be forgotten
By Sherry Gerina
Staff Reporter
When students prepare to go to college, they often think of clothes, food and money. But they often forget one important item — furniture.
Students who decide to try apartment life often discover that their apartment is unfurnished. And those who move into a room in a residence hall find that a carpet or a chair can add a touch of home.
Although students often receive furniture odds and ends from relatives, they often are not enough for the nine months spent away from home. And that means going on a furniture shopping spree.
Shelly Holst, Olathe junior, said, "I spent all last summer just looking for furniture."
She said most of the furniture in her apartment was donated from family and friends, but some of it was purchased from discount and used-furniture stores. Holt said she moved into an apartment in August 1984 and bought around for furniture with a good price rather than good quality.
Some furniture store owners said
that August traditionally was a good month to buy furniture because it was a month for sales.
Students usually have three options when they buy furniture for a residence-hall room or an apartment. Students can rent a room or old furniture or they can rent it.
Larry Johnson, co-owner of Johnson Furniture, 722 Massachusetts St., said students who bought new furniture bought it with the idea that it would last 10-15 years.
Renee Hodges, Overland Park senior, said she bought a new dining-room set and book shelves for her apartment because she could not find a room in the apartment. She also said it was high quality at a reasonable price.
Customers of new furniture stores can usually buy their furniture in sets, such as a bedroom or dining-room. They may purchase individual pieces.
For example, a dinette set usually has a table and chairs, and a bedroom set often consists of a chest of drawers, a mattress and box springs.
A student can purchase a dineet set, a bedroom set, a sofa and a chair
for about $1,200-$4,800. These estimates are based on prices quoted by two area stores.
Some furniture owners said new furniture.was expensive for college students because of their limited budgets. And price is why some students shop at used-furniture stores.
Susan Levy, Chicago junior, said she bought her furniture used. "Used was cheaper and almost like new," she said.
And some used-furniture store owners said people donated furniture that was in good condition, meaning they could buy good furniture at a low price.
Although used-furniture stores offer mostly individual pieces, they occasionally offer sets.
A student can furnish an apartment with used furniture consisting of a dinette set, a bedroom set, a sofa and a chair for sometimes as low as $300.
Rental furniture is another option. When student rent furniture, they don't have to worry about moving furniture when they move out of the apartment. They can either sell it or
have the store from which they rent it take it back.
When a student stays in an apartment for nine months, this alteration is due to the fact that
The cost of furnishing a one-bedroom apartment with rental (furniture, appliances, etc.) is $250.
Some rental-furniture stores offer their own financing, which means customers can buy the furniture on credit. Some rental businesses provide service for items that were rented from their stores.
Some other items students may want to rent are televisions, stereos, video cassette recorders and refrigerators. Refrigerators might be first on the list of a person moving into a residence hall.
The cheapest way to buy furniture is usually through garage sales. However, the student needs to be careful to make sure he is getting a good product for his money.
Dave Tittel, Greeley, Colo., junior,
said, "I go to garage sales because it is cheap and that way you don't feel guilty when you throw it away."
Carpet for a residence hall room,
8 by 9 to be 12 feet runs
$65-$300 dress code
$45-$200 house rent
By Jill Ovens
Local media offer choices for listeners
Staff Reporter
Lawrence is close enough to Topeka and Kansas City that it's possible to live here and never tune in to a local radio station or watch local television. But the local stations can offer some services that neighboring stations can't, representatives of the stations said recently.
Mark Lipitsz, music director of KJHK-FM, said his station had news teams out on the streets of Lawrence getting local news.
He said, "You can relate better to someone from your own neighborhood as opposed to someone from 50 miles away."
Lipsitz said that KJHK was billed as the "sound alternative" in Lawrence and that the best way to appreciate what the student-run station had to offer was to turn the dial to 90.7.
"Ethnic Cowboy" at 9 a.m. on Saturdays, which features sattirical courtroom scenes.
The station plays electronic jazz, progressive rock 'n' roll, rhythm and blues, reggae and soul, which Lipsitz and Wheeler站 on the other Lawrence stations.
Special programming includes the "Blues Power Hour" at 9 p.m. on Sundays, which features bands playing on independent record labels, and
If classical music and jazz is more to your taste, then you might tune in to KANU-FM. Lawrence's public radio station.
Lipsitz said the station also offered local sports broadcasts, including KU women's basketball games not covered by other stations.
Howard Hill, director of the station, said KANU was a member of National Public Radio and American Public Radio.
"During the week, we run 8% hours of classical music during the day; nine hours of jazz at night and six to seven hours of news," he said.
The news is a mixture of national, state and local.
Hill said the station also offered specialized programming, for example, bluegrass on Sunday evenings.
Newton said the station served Lawrence and the surrounding area with a heavy emphasis on local news, community affairs, weather and sports, particularly local sports such as football and some KU baseball.
For "hometown" radio programming, KLWN-AM is the station to tune into, said Bob Newton, station manager.
"It's primarily a music station, broadcasting at 100,000 watts, the maximum allowable power for an FM station, allowing reception over a wide area, including Topeka and Kansas City," he said.
Newton also manages KLZ-RF-M,
which he described as "contem-
porary hit radio," featuring prop-
erature designed for 18 to
34-year-olds.
Music fans can take a break from their studies by watching music videos on TU. On the low-power television in TU, there is available on the UHF channel.
The music videos on TV 30 include country music, jazz and old music clips, such as the Beatles or Elvis Presley, said Melanie Threkel, promotions director for the station.
"We do some news, but not as often as we do on KLWN," he said. "It's a rock music station."
The station is tailored to KU students and other young adults in
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The Vista Drive-In Restaurant, 1527 W. Sixth St., will reopen by Sept. 1, owner Mike Gasper said yesterday. The restaurant closed last March because of a fire.
By The Kansan Staff
"I would like to open before the students get back," he said, "But we can't get some equipment by then. And we can't operate without !! the equipment."
A missing safety feature under a deep fryer was blamed for the fire, which occurred during one of the restaurant's busiest times of the day last winter. About 30 people were at the restaurant at the time of the fire.
Extensive damage by smoke, heat and fire forced Gasper to close the restaurant for renovation.
Gasper said the renovation would cost about $180,000.
He said renovating the store had not been difficult but had taken a lot of time.
The Lawrence Fire Department last winter said the fire started in the center unit of a three-unit vat fryer in the restaurant's kitchen. Burners and a ventilation system were underneath each unit. Each burner was supposed to have a thermal coupling — a heat-measuring device that would shut off the burner if it got too hot.
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