Monday, November 25.1974
Citizens urged to learn economics
The United States could experience another depression if its citizens remain ignorant of economic and consumer information, Pat Weiss, president of the board of directors of the Consumer Protection Association (CPA), said Friday.
"We are at the point now where people are going to have to find out how their economic system works and what they can do about it. We'll have to be very uninformed of basic economic principles. They're so afraid of a possible depression that they're taking their money out of the bank and checking goods. These people are not only making them the situation worse."
Weiss said educational material on basic economics and consumerism was available to students, faculty and local residents at the CPA office and at the Center for Economic Education at the University of Kansas.
The Center for Economic Education is in 298 Kansas Union. The CFA office is in 299 in the Kansas Union.
The center is a clearing-house and media library for teachers in Kansas, she said. Its staff is collecting examination materials in economic and consumer education for elementary, secondary and college classes, Weiss said.
"Most teachers have had some background in economics," she said, "but many of them aren't knowledgeable of how to make sense of the data is to provide them with that knowledge."
The center is sponsored by the Kansas Bankers Association, the KU Endowment Association and the Kansas Council on Economic Education.
Weiss said the CPA office had the most complete and up-to-date consumer library resources.
"There's some consumer information in Watkins Library and the Law Library," she said, "but most of it is either too technical or outdated. The CPA library has just a wealth of material that's current and concise."
The library has educational brochures,
newspapers and books on more than 150
topics, including insurance, public utitunes,
vocational schools, credit, discount buying,
food, safety, auto repairs, landlord-tenant
and buying a home or automobile.
The best way to protect against buying faulty merchandise, Weiss said, was for the consumer to examine this kind of information before making a purchase.
"If the consumer would only do a little homework before he runs out to buy something, a lot of problems and complaints could be avoided." she said.
Only about two people a week stop by the CPA office to read consumer information, ask questions and get answers.
"It's just too bad that more people owe taking advantage of our library," she said. "The lack of response is probably due to the fact that a lot of students and members of community don't realize what we have and how I could save them both time and money."
The CPA library is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Boone said it wasn't a lending library. All materials must be read in the CPA office.
Study in Costa Rica losing popularity, director says
The number of students interested in a year's study in Costa Rica has declined in recent years. Hester Williams, adviser to a student who was last year Abroad in Costa Rica, said recently.
Weiss said the CPA and the center were considering establishing a mobile unit for providing vocational and economic education. The mobile unit would serve their pool and the student with off campus training.
"Maybe it's that students aren't as interested in going abroad for an academic year," she said. "Some people think that the teachers don't need to study languages anymore."
Williams said the size of the groups that participated in the Costa Rica program was less than 10%.
Ten applications already have been submitted for this year's program. Applications are due in 0, but Williams should be in earlier, preferably by Dec. 1.
WILLIAMS SAID the program awarded about five scholarships or loans every year to students who showed financial need and academic merit.
"I think it's our responsibility to go out into the community to these people," Weiss said, "because they are the ones who need this material the most."
The program costs each student about $1,900 plus the cost of transportation.
Students who study in Costa Rica for a year live with Costa Rican families and enroll as regular students at the University of Costa Rica.
Williams said several students who had gone to Costa Rica had wanted at first to go to Spain. She suggested Costa Rica as a less expensive alternative, she said.
KUS' PROGRAM is both the othes and the studies; study abroad program in Costa Rica or Spain.
Jon Vinect, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese and director of the program in 1972, said the KU Costa Rican program was the only year-long program.
That may be part of the reason KU's students from outside Kansas, he said.
Credit for most of the courses at the
Regents . . .
with faculty members of Kansas State College at Pittsburg.
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hege at Pittsburg.
The regents also;
- Authorized the transfer of funds from the Jerome E. Friedson Trust.
—Amedred KU's budget allocation for fiscal year 1975 to include $24,000 for repairs and new parts for Bailey Hall's air conditioning unit.
—Referred to the academic committee of the regents a $150 a course fee for the Engineering Professional Development Degree.
- AUTHORIZED THE University to
    obtain a vehicle from the Endow-
ment Association.
- Authorized three special education consultants from the KU faculty for the Emporia Kansas State College Teacher Corps Program.
- Amended the sabbatical leaf of Arthur Katz, professor of social welfare.
- Added the sabbatical leaf of Thomas kierkamp, assistant professor of painting, to the collection.
-Approved leaves without pay for Donald E. Chambers, professor of social welfare, Sally Yates Sedelow, professor of linguistics and computer science, and Walter A. Sedelow, professor of sociology and computer science.
-Accepted the resignation of sabbatical leave for Jarsawol Falkiewalki, professor of mathematics.
John Pike, Wichita senior, was chosen Kansan editor for spring 1975 on Friday. David Reece, Topeka junior, was named business manager.
Applications may be picked up in the offices of the School of Journalism, 105 Flint; Senate Student, 1058 Kansas Union; President, 1060 Dean and Dean of Women, 220 Strong.
UDK job forms available today
Applications for Kansas staff positions for the spring semester will be available today and tomorrow. Complete applications are due in 15F Flint on noon on Dec. 3.
University of Costa Rica is transferable, Vincent said.
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Lutist picks dispute: fingers vs. nails
The lute, a light mandolin-like instrument, hardly seems a likely source of controversy. A good-natured dispute in technique has sprung up among luthiers.
"To use fingernails or not to use fingernails is one of the biggest controversies among lute players," Ed Weiss said yesterday.
Weiss, a guest performer from Iowa,
speaks to about 40 people in the
Golden Age. He mixed his lute playing
with some descussion and also had a
music book he wrote.
The lute used to be played with a pick or a mother, Weiss said, and later players began using the drumstick.
"Lute players differ on whether the ingrammarian should be shown, long or pulled out of the strings."
The difference in the length of the intermal produces different sounds, Weiss
The late was popular during the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe, Wales said, and it is often referred to as "the golden age" of printing.
he recently saw an Arabian belly dancer who was accompanied by a lute. He said he would have had a belly dancer at yesterday, and he didn't think the atmosphere was appropriate.
"England is the golden age of lute playin'." Weiss said.
Anne Boleyn, has an affair with a lustful, and Anne was the only person who admitted that he had been a spy.
Much lute music found in England is now being transcribed but this transcribing is hard because the music is written in "longhand or lute hand," he said.
Weiss said Henry the VIII's second wife.
In more recent times there has been a growth in the number of lute players along the sidelines.
"They (the luthis) really don't get along." Weiss said, "because they each have originality and what they consider authentic."
Weiss' performance marked the last day of the Spanish festival.
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