University Daily Kansan, October 15, 1980
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Free games offered by SUA committee
By PATRICIA WEEMS Staff Reporter
The SUA Indoor Recreation committee offers free games for every student from the novice to the expert.
Tournances are offered in bridge,
batting, backgammon, table
tennis, chess andSCRATCH.
Now that the weather is getting cooler, recreation may be just what a student needs after an afternoon or early evening of studying.
A beginner's night is scheduled tomorrow night in the Kansas Union for all students interested in learning or teaching these games or others.
This semester's most-played games have been backgammon, chess and Dungeons and Dragons, the newest game on college campuses nation-wide, according to Debbie Lewis, SUA Indoor Recreation chairman.
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS meets every Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Trail Room in the Union. This game consists of fantasy role playing.
Players choose a character they wish to play. The strength of their character is determined by the characters' abilities.
For example, if a person wants to be a thief, then a roll of the dice is made to see how well the person's character possesses characteristics common to a thief.
Nominations begin for HOPE award
Nominations for the 1980 HOPE award will be taken today and tomorrow, according to Bill Venable, co-chairman of the HOPE committee.
The award, Honors to an Outstanding Progressive Educator, is given annually for teaching excellence by the senior class at the University of Kansas.
Students who want to make nominations can do so at a booth in front of Wescoe Hall, the information boots in the Kansas Union and the Satellite Union and in Summerfield Hall.
Voting for the top five finalists will be Oct. 22 and 23, and final balloting will be Oct. 29 and 30. Voting areas are the same as nominating areas.
The award will be announced and paid out on Thursday the KU-Okahama football game, Nov. 8.
The characters then are sent on a treasure hunt on the dunce floor.
BUY OR SELL
THE FLOOR PLAN of the dungeon is designed by a dungeon master who gives the participants alternative ways to find the dungeon and find their treasure.
BUY OR SELL
SILVER, GOLD & COINS
Class Rings
Antiques-Furniture
Boysd Coin
& Antiques
Monday-Saturday
New Hampshire
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Scrabble is played from 12:30 to 3:30
Sunday afternoons in the
Region of N.Y.
Backgammon can be played from
7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Wednesday nights in
Cincinnati.
BOWLING AND BILLIARIES can be played in the Jay Bowl Bowling Alley in the Union. SUA bowling teams are in conjunction with the alley's teams.
About 25 people regularly play the game, which was not offered at campus but offered at other schools.
Region 11 of the Associated College Unions International is composed of schools in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.
WINNERS AT THE regional level will win a free trip to the national competition. The location will be announced at a later date.
Indoor recreation does not lend itself only to leisure play. There will be all-campus tournaments in foosball, bridge and basketball during the last week of February.
Winners at these tournaments will advance to the Region 12 competition in the next round.
In the past, Indoor Recreation sponsored the Quarterback and Basketball Clubs. These were weekly get-togethers with coaches and athletes who participated in games fans an opportunity to review game films, strategies and their outcomes.
Facilities operations is preparing KU buildings for winter this week, according to Dick Perkins, associate manager at facilities management at facilities operations.
Perkins said the heat was turned on earlier this week in buildings that have systems that convert automatically from cooling to should be turned on in the other buildings when the weather turned colder.
KU heats up for winter
Buildings that shift from cooling to heating automatically, based on the outside air temperature, are located in low sunny, Learned, Fraser and blakehalls.
Facilities operations traditionally uses Oct. 15 and April 15 as the days to turn the heat on and off, perkins said.
In other buildings, the valves to the heating systems in the sub basements must be opened by hand, he said. Turning on the heat manually takes from three to four days to complete.
The thermostats in each building on campus also have to be changed from the summer setting of 78 degrees to the winter setting of 88 degrees. Perkins said there were about 5,000 thermostats on campus and changing them took from three to five weeks.
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He said facilities operations took the weather into account because once the heat was on, it could not be turned off if the days got warmer.
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By ROSE SIMMONS Staff Reporter
"There's no way you can come out ahead with the chain letter," Harris said. "The chain usually breaks down when the stakes become high. So it's only the first four or five people on the list who benefit."
It arrives surreptitiously in some mailboxes with the promise of generating money—lots of it. But according to Postmaster John Harris of St. Station in Lawrence, the letter seldom delivers the promised bot of sold.
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fraud in the sale of unsecured promissory notes called "Estate decree. Many of the investors were senior citizens who collectively lost about $12 million."
FEW OF THE NAMES on the chain list benefit.
Lossers of the chain letter scheme often report the fraudulent money game to the post office or police, he said.
The pyramid-style chain letter is among the latest innovations in consumer fraud, he said yesterday. The letter is mailed to several individuals and provides a list of names and instructions for adding links or investors to the chain.
The friends and relatives are supposed to keep the chain and profits growing by mailing a fee to the last name on the list.
To join the chain, a fee must be sent to the last name of the original letter. Fees can range from $2 to $75. Individuals are supposed to get back their fee or investment by sending a copy of the letter to friends and relatives.
When the post office receives a complaint of fraudulent mail practice, the office of the Postal Inspection Service in St. Louis investigates the
Postal actions fail to stop mail fraud
EMPLOYMENT SCHEMES: An employment agency charged hundreds of minority job seekers a $50 fee for filling out a job application for employment on the Alaskan pipeline. However, postal inspectors found that there were no jobs available on the pipeline.
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MEDICAL QUACKERY: The U.S. mail has always been one of the most popular medias for advertising an endless variety of magical potions or devices guaranteed to increase vitality, memory, intelligence, sexual prowess and diseases, reduce weight or grow hair. The dresses $5 to $100, are usually ineffective and, in some cases, have proven to be harmful to the consumers' health.
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Harris said that consumers also must learn to read the fine print on products they buy through the mail.
Other popular frauds are charity rackets, and work-at-home schemes.
THE PYRAMID SCHEME involved soliciting investors to join a plan that only paid off when an investor was in good standing, recruiting another investor into the plan.
A crackdown by the Postal Inspection
office in New York is in the
number of chain letters, he said.
schemes and presents its findings to prooner authorities.
Last year, however, the Lawrence area experienced a rash of the letters, Harris said. The rise in chain letters coincided with the pyramid investment scheme that swept the nation early last year.
People continually fail victim to fraud schemes, according to J.H. Goeke, postal inspector in charge, Louis. The elderly and disadvantaged seem particularly susceptible, he said. These groups respond to fraudulent ads to supplement their limited incomes or relieve their physical ailments.
"A lot of firms legitimately advertise their products through the mail," Harris said. "Our purpose is to stamp fraudulent claims and the public through fraudulent means."
Fraud schemes noted by Goeke include:
LAND AND FRANCHISE FRAUDS:
A Progressive Farmers Association
invested investors throughout
Illinois
Okahanna. The scheme involved mail
The best protection for consumers
sensitive is an awareness of
fragrant chemicals.
"The fine print should be read, he said, "to see if the manufacturer has some constraints on delivery or allows the substitution of products ordered."
He said that consumers should try to find out whether the company was reputable by checking with the post office or consumer affairs offices.
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