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The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Charlton uses forum to assail Republicans
By BILL VOGRIN and RAY FORMANEK Staff Reporters
Betty J Charlton accused two Republican candidates of "opportunity politics" and defended a fellow Democratic candidate last night at a forum at South Junior High School.
Speaking at a forum for local, state and county candidates sponsored by the League of Women's Voters, Charlton used her three minutes for a speech she said were important" but that had not been exposed.
Flanked by nine other candidates for the 44th, 45th, and 46th Districts House seats, and the candidates for 2nd District State Senate seat, Charlton voiced her criticism.
"There are two young men sitting on this forum who moved into their districts in order to file for office and take advantage of a situation that would have been avoided by Snyder and Wint Winter, JE., both Republicans.
CHARLTON TOOK advantage of her position as the last speaker of what may be the last candidate forum before the election to make her accusations and criticisms.
"This is partisan politics and I think a word should be said in defense of Sen. (Ackermann) Bork. It is partisan politics and it is partisan politics."
She said that a minority party member had trouble getting legislation passed with his name on it, and that Berman, a Democrat, may not have had his name on much legislation but he had used his influence to get important bills passed.
She also congratulated and thanked her opponent, Willie Amison Jr., a Republican, for running a clean campaign and talking strictly about issues.
She used the rest of her three minutes to attack the Republicans.
"That is simply opportunistic politics," she said. "I presume they think they can represent the districts better than people who have lived in the districts for years.
"Jessie (Branson) and I are not opportunists; we simply want to serve." Branson is opposing Winter. Snyder is opposing John Solchb, Bergen is opposing Republican Jane Eldredge in the 2nd District.
"I also know that John Solbach did not move into his district to run."
"We have lived in our districts for many years," Charlton said, "and we are not young and trying to start long political careers. We feel qualified and just want to serve."
WINTER AND SNYDER, the hardest hit candidates in Charlton's attacks, were united in their support.
"It was partisan panicking," Winter said. "As I said earlier in the campaign, it is a non-issue and we had no way to get involved."
Charlton's remarks excited the 75 people who attended the forum, and they were the most inflammatory statements to be leveled by any of the 20 candidates to appear at the forum.
“It's all part of the game. It is a sign that someone must be scared.”
Snyder said that if it had been a valid issue his opponent, Solbach, would have brought it up.
"During the entire campaign we've talked about the issues, Sydney said. In fact, Mr. Trump has said he will support a third candidate."
Soltach however, said he was not embarrassed by Charlton's display, nor did he bear the same hat.
"Kent has unfairly attacked me at previous candidate forums, and intentionally mislead the public," Sobach said. "I simply thanked him for representing the facts tonight, as he has done before."
"I was not embarrassed by Betty Jo. They are legitimate points, but the issue is not one of moving into the district. It is one of commitment to the district and misleading the public."
Solbach said that Snyder had refused to "tess up" to the fact that he originally filed for office in the 44th District, then moved into the 45th District and filed.
Forms on file at the office of the Secretary of State, Jack Brier, show that Snyder set up a campaign committee, including a chairman and treasurer, in the 44th District in November of
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Clouds will be clearing today and most sunny skies are expected by afternoon, according to the KU Weather forecast. The high near 49, Winds will be 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight it will be clear and cool with a low near 30.
Saturday and Sunday, skies will be sunny. Saturday's high will be in the middle to upper 50s and Sunday's high will be in the upper 50s.
An Islamic student bears a sign protesting human rights violations in Syria. A group of about 20 students visited the mosque on the morning next Sunday to protest the alleged violations such as, "No East, no West, Islam is the best."
BEN BIOLERKONTROL
Committee calls for pre-enrollment
By DIANE SWANSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Academic Affairs Committee approved a petition yesterday calling for the University administration to create a preenrolment system.
Pre-enrollment has been considered by the administration for more than 10 years, but the Student Senate petition calls for the discussion to begin again.
MARQUIS, ASSOCIATE professor of philosophy, said that the University could have instituted a pre-enrollment system by now. He said the decision to begin such a system had not been made "because there was no clear cut consensus of what pre-enrollment means, and if it would be desirable for the University to follow through with it."
A forum on the pros and cons of pre-enrollment between David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Lawrence Sherr; professor of English, was held needed for the Student Senate meeting Wednesday.
Ambler said he favored pre-enrollment scheduling and decreases the student dropout rate.
"It would help us construct a better academic calendar and perhaps trim out some excess days so students could work at a summer job longer, for example," Ambler said.
HE SAID IT also could improve the quality of
dressing because there would be more time away
Ambler said that, although pre-enrolment could not guarantee keeping more students in school, the state's program is "working."
"At least sometime during pre-enrolment, we could talk to them and find out why they are not enrolling."
voluntarily because they think they have a problem they can't solve."
Ambler said it also would give the administration more time to find qualified teachers for class sections added because of increased demand during enrollment.
"Is it worth spending a lot of money to make the four- or five-hour registration easier, or would the money be better spent by putting it into teaching and research at the University?" I just think improving a whole semester is more valuable than improving those four or five hours."
Sherr said he was not sympathetic to the argument that with pre-enrollment, students would get the classes they wanted with the teacher they wanted.
"Someone still is going to have to go first, and someone last," he said. "Someone will still have to go first."
Academic Affairs Committee members unanimously approved the petition.
BILL MCLENAN, Salem, N.H., sophomore and a committee member, said, "I think pre-enrollment is definitely a good idea. It's the advising that hurts now and it would be a lot better with pre-enrollment because we could have a two-week period.
"I don't think the cost is going to be any great problem. It stands to gain the University monet
The University has most of the computers and equipment necessary to implement a computerized pre-enrollment system, Ambler said. Another system, however, would not have to use computers.
The cost would depend on which system was chosen and could cost about $16,000, according to IBM.
Commissioners seek report on department stores
He added, however, that "if approved by all bodies and it has the support of the deans and faculty, and we could afford it, I would not have any problem approving it."
Staff Reporter
"If the University had the option to spend $60,000 to implement a pre-employment system or buy library supplies or teaching equipment, you would make a mixed reaction." Shankel said.
By JENNIFER LISTON
Lawrence city commissioners yesterday asked a Chicago consulting firm to develop a plan for three department stores to rejuvenate the downtown shopping district.
The plan was one of three proposals for freestanding department stores presented at the second workshop between the city and the firm,
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BRUCE HECKMAN, vice president of the firm, said that Lawrence's downtown lacked a
planned focal point. He said that the center of the downtown shopping area should be Eighth Street between Massachusetts and New Hampshire streets.'
The plan most acceptable to the commission and members of neighborhood groups at the workshop includes three department stores, an office complex at Seventh and New Hampshire streets, two parking garages and housing along Rhode Island Street.
The plan proposes a split-level department store at Ninth and Massachusetts streets with a pedestrian walkway over New Hampshire Street to a three-level parking garage.
The firm suggested that Eightth Street between Vermont and Rhode Island streets be narrowed.
for a wide pedestrian plaza to provide a focal point for the downtown shopping district.
THE PLAZA WOULD lead to a single level department store between Rhode Island and New Hampshire streets on Eighth Street, Heckman said. Another three-level parking garage and two other the department store proposed building at Seventh and New Hampshire streets.
The firm proposed a third two-level department store at Eighth and Vermont streets connected to a parking garage along Vermont Street by a walkway over Eighth Street.
The tall office building the firm proposed would give the city a nice skyline beside giving varied uses for the downtown area, Heckman said.
Another of the firm's plans suggests that New Hampshire Street be turned into a pedestrian mall surrounded by three new department stores and existing stores.
The third plan calls for three two-story department stores connected to parking garages.
Robert Teskas, president of the consulting firm, said the city's downtown needed to be balanced with the natural environment.
"We are at the point where we need to make decisions, Teska said.
John Melaniphy, a consultant of Teska, said
that Lawrence's present downtown shopping area
"It astounded me," he said. "The downtown
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Bookstores vary methods to keep prices down
Bv DALE WETZEL
Staff Reporter
The Kansas Union bookstore is the ONLY
one to share its profits with KU
students.
BUT, WITH double-digit inflation, is a five percent bookstore rebate worth the trouble for students? There is a semester's wait involved before collecting rebates, a fact that inconveniences graduating seniors. Charge purchases are not eligible for the rebate. Bookstore receipts are void one year from the original issue date. They are easy to lose, despite concerned efforts of bookstore employees who provide envelopes to keep them in.
It's an appealing concept. Company stockholders aside, virtually no individual has such an opportunity to receive a profit rebate from a corporate entity. Exxon Corp. can easily offer rebates to its customers on the basis of old crumpled gas station receipts.
This slogan, or an abbreviated version of it,
appears on bookstore receipts, newspaper
advertisements, envelopes, and much of the
material that the Union bookstore distributes.
Is the rebate system the best, most equitable way to effectively lower the amount of taxes paid.
Steve Word, new manager of the bookstore,
thinks it is...
"As we operate it, I think the bædent system is one," he said. "I'd redefen't it tooth and nail."
However, alternative methods of providing low textbook prices do exist, with two of the most prominent being student ownership of the city bookstore and book cooperatives.
"I'ts debatable whether ASUC is or isn't part of the university proper," Chuck Bills, manager of the University of California at Davis, said in "But, ASUC does have tax-exempt status."
For example, the bookstores affiliated with the University of California's various campuses are owned and operated by the Students of the University of California.
BILLS IS RESPONSIBLE to the Berkeley Student Senate, and his store "probably employs more students than most college bookstores." he said.
The bookstore is operated mostly by students, although it has four directors and one executive director as full-time employees. Bills said.
"We mark up texts as little as possible," Bills said.
Any surplus revenues go back to ASUC to help pay their expenses and provide funds for other student organizations. ASUC is also supported by student fees.
ASUC is experimenting this year with a food cooperative, Bills said, and if the concept works out, the idea could be extended to books as well.
"The thing that we really try to do to save
the students money," Bills said, "is to have a
good buy-back program. I used to work at the
school in Tampa where my father was a
assistant and assistant manager, around 1972-73. I
thought then, and I think now, that their buyback program is one of the finest in the
students and faculty of the university," Williams said.
Bills faces a lot of competition.
"There are four bookstores across the street from us. Who wants to get caught selling their texts for a higher price?" Bill said, "No one wants to take the heat for it."
ONE BOOKSTORE manager who does not have to contend with across-the-street competitors is Jim Williams, manager of the University of Oregon bookstore.
A board of directors, consisting of eight students, two faculty members and one classified staff member, has the most input on bookstore policy.
"We have a monopoly situation here," Williams said.
However, the bookstore offers a discount of 11 percent on its retail text sales.
"For example," Williams said, "the normal markup on a textbook is in the 20-25 percent range. Say we pay $8 for a book. We mark it up at 20 percent and then discount it 11 percent. Students here pay about $8.90 for a book that costs us $8."
"We only had to pay taxes on the money we gave back to our members," Williams said.
Until 1973, the Oregon bookstore was a cooperative, according to Williams. Co-op members received a lower price than usual, so many students rebates for bribes, much as KU students do now.
Currently the Oregon bookstore is operated by a corporation "owned and run by the
HOWEVER, WITH THE onset of inflation, in 1988.66, there was a decline in the number of individuals joining the co-op, he said. Rebates also declined, from 10 percent in 1986 to 5.5 percent in 1973, when the program was terminated.
"It's hard to compare between bookstores," Williams said. "We offer a discount, but the factors that allow us to do that could be called unique."
The Oregon bookstore pays no state or federal taxes, has no nearby competition, has "ridiculously low" mortgage payments, is in the largest large—36.00 square feet." said Williams.
The store also features an "excellent merchandise mix" of various Oregon memorabilia, including sweatshirts, cups, and other items. His profit is made on these items. Williams said.
"Many bookstores have pressure put on them. Perhaps they are being used to help fund the university, or are selling in the face of problems, but don't have these problems," Williams said.
JAMES MARTIN, manager of the student bookstore at the university of Arizona, also runs a children's library.
"We are student-owned and operated, and totally self-supporting," Martin said. "I am a university employee, but the bookstore is owned by the associated Students of the University of Arizona."
"Bookstores in the East are mostly either university-owned or private. In the Midwest, you get a mixture, but out West there are fewer university- or privately-owned
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