Page 10 University Daily Kansan, October 2, 1980
Munchies fill vendors' till
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
While KU students are filling their bellies this month with candy bars, soda, chips and Twinkies, campus vending machines will be filling with nearly $33,000 worth of quarters, nickels and dimes.
October is the busiest and most profitable time of year for vending operations, according to Kansas Union officials. Vending manager Forrest jolly suggested it may be because students have settled into routine of mid-miss暑 there are no vacations during the month.
Whatever the reasons, Jolly estimated that students and faculty would consume 1,200 cases of soda a week during this month and during other peak periods, such as during the week of final exams. During the colder months of January and February, about 600 cases a week are used.
MORE PEOPLE drink Coca-Cola from the machines than any other brand of soda, Jolly said. In candy bars, he said he ordered three times as many Snickers as the next most popular cake, Baby Ruth.
Corn chips and sour cream and onion potato chips lead the chips category, Doublemint is the favorite gum and more people buy blueberry Dannon yogurt than any other flavor.
Mariboro's outsell all other brands
of cigarettes, and people are more likely to buy a delicious apple or a navel orange than any other fruit.
In all,45 different items are stocked for vending, Jolly said.
"We want to believe that the consumer determines what items are sold in the machines," he said.
In addition to noting which items sell the best, Jolly meets with the president of a university luncheons paid for with Kansas Union funds to get student opinions.
If students want to make suggestions about products, Jolly said, they can call the vending office at 864-3511. In most cases, he said, the office orders a sample of the product to see how it sells. If it sells he said, the product will probably be included in future orders.
NEARLY $440,000 in pocket change goes through the machines each year, according to Warner Bros., assistant director of the Union.
Jolly suggested one reason vending machine products sold so well on campus was low prices because of volume buying and special concern.
He said that while a warm six-pack of Coke downtown would cost $2.29 before sales taxes, six cans of water at a store on vending machine would cost $2.10.
Even though the office gets a lot of complaints about machines taking money or delivering the wrong product, Jolly said its service record
was very good when compared with commercial businesses, partly because of the concentration of machines at KU.
More importantly, he said, students are becoming more reluctant to use their own cars and gasoline to get a snack.
Attempts at competition from businesses and student organizations have been frequent since the vending operations were first organized 25 years ago. However, Jolly said the Union's "exclusive" contract for conferences KIU sponsored by Elaine exclusive because "any pizza parlor or sandwich place in town can deliver that wants to."
Of the $440,000 in gross sales that the machines bring in, Ferguson said that only about $39,400 profit was left after cost, labor and a five-percent commission to residence hall library funds was paid.
Nearly $40,000 a year is spent for new machines, and what money is left over is placed in the general fund for non-revenue Union activities, he said.
KU owns 210 vending machines, valued at $106,000. Ferguson said.
Repair costs for damage caused by vandalism are almost negligible, according to both Jolly and Ferguson, and never amount to more than about $1,000 a year for all the machines.
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
Iraq has seized the opportunity to war with Iran so it can replace Iran as the dominant power in the Persian Gulf, a source of international pressure for political science, said yesterday.
Tomasek, who has written an article about a 1975 peace agreement between the two countries, said the media had mistakenly reported that the conflict over the Shat-al-Arab waterway was an act of revenge against the nationalists' lack of understanding of the 1975 agreement caused the false impression, he said.
Gulf conflict misunderstood, prof saves
Tomasek said Iran had grown strong enough by then to break the agreement.
In March 1975, Algeria mediated a settlement with Iran and Iran to get Iran to wag over Egypt.
In 1936, Iran agreed to make the Iraqi border the east bank of the river. But in 1951, the Shah of Iran decided Iraq should be a block of the Persian Gulf to Iranian ships.
In the 1975 agreement, both sides agreed to set the border at the middle of the river and pledged not to subvert each other's government.
Tomasek said that Iraq had been supplying guns to Kurdish rebels fighting Iraq, and that Iraq had been occupied by the Arab population in Iraq to revolt.
Tomaske wrote in the winter 1976-77 edition of World Affairs Magazine that " Iran in the first and Iraq in the second countries are crushed, compelled by successful tradeoff. In these two controversies, in a matter considered crucial by the objection,
He said that the agreement would still be in force and that there would be a delay.
The Shah had a "stabilized foreign policy" that made for a "stronger Iran...a real match for Iraq." Tomasek said.
But the Shah's successor, the Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini, has decided to spark old resentment between the two nations, Tomasek said.
Khomeini called on Shite Moslem Irianians living in Iraq to rise up against the government, and Iran has sent a group of Iraqi killers to government officials, he said.
There is ``no way to stop this (the renewed subversion) but to point to the truth of the matter.``
Iraq did this, but Iran refused to listen, he said. Iraq grew frustrated and decided war was the only solution to the problem.
But the renewed subversion was not all by Iran. Tomasek said that Iraq had been inciting Arabs living in the Khuszistan region of Iran to revolt.
Iran's military, weakened since the overthrow of the Shah, gave Iraq the upper hand, Tomasek said.
Tomasek said Iran under the Shah was called the custodian of the Gulf, meaning Iran claimed the task of keeping peace in the area and blocking both the United States and the Soviet Union from exerting too much in influence.
Iraq has seized the moment to bring in a new custodian" of the Gulf region, he said.
"Iraq is a world power now. Its army is 'trad' and it can replace Iran as a partner."
Ira's claims to the waterway and the controversy over three Iran-dominated islands in the Persian Gulf are "a lot of nonsense," Tomask said.
Those issues could be handled by mediation from the Arab League, he
Tomasek said it did not matter whether the country had control of an entire river because international law allows the country must keep it open to all ships.
However, Khomeini has pledged to keep fighting and refuses negotiations
That stance may not be successful, Tomasek said, because for the first time, Iraq has the backing of many other Arab states.
“(The Arab) Monarchs are scared stiff of the Iranian Revolution and will support anything to quash it,” Tomasek said.
In the past, Iraq's views had been too radical for many Arab nations.
Tomasek said that despite Iraq's backing, the war "could go on for a long time," because Khominei would see giving in to Iraq as a personal defeat.
As the war progresses, however, Iraq is coming close to being a nuclear power.
Iran has made several unsuccessful attempts to destroy the plant. If Iraq's nuclear projects pan out, Tomasek will keep area nations in line merely by fear.
The French built a nuclear plant for iraq and it should have the capability to produce weapons.
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