Wednesday, November 12. 1970
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Problems snag Greek food co-op in first months
Renorter
By MARY ANN HUDDLESTON
Misconceptions and organizational problems have hindered Greek Management, Inc., an interferntionary food cooperative, in its first months of operation.
However, the co-op is continuing to supply food to nine fraternities at the University of Kansas at a small savings to the houses involved.
Rick McLaughlin, president of the Interfraternity Council and originator of the co-op, said savings for the first month were worth $200 per student, expenses incurred in starting the program.
According to Molly Thompson, assistant manager of the co-op. "It started out with some rough edges. I don't think the starters of it realized what the job would entail. Now the rough edges have been straightened out."
Thompson said she thought people involved with the co-op had high expectations, but not realistic ones, about what the co-op would do.
The basic idea of the co-op, she said, is to order food in larger volumes than the individual houses could, and thereby obtain discount rates from wholesalers. The co-op can order almost any brand housemothers wan and deliveries are made daily, she said.
Four of the housemothers in the co-op declined to comment on how they thought it was.
Elaine Hill, Tau Kappa Epsilon housemother, said, "I know we're saving. It was only the first couple of weeks that we had problems, with as any organization that is just getting started. I think if the kids are given a chance it will be very successful."
Marye Morschak, housemother of Phi Delta Thaet, said the co-op was working better than when it first started, but she wouldn't call it "100 per cent successful."
Although the delivery service is better, she said, there are still many items she can't get. This is because they are put on curse and don't attend for quite a while. When the delivery agent arrives items that she knew the dealer had in stock but the co-op couldn't get them.
Mor sbach said she didn't think the quality of the co-op's food was as good as what she could buy on her own. However, McLaughlin said he didn't think the quality of the co-op's food was same as before because the co-op bought exactly what the individual houses bought.
Strike halts French book delivery
Graduate and undergraduate French majors probably will face a shortage of textbooks if the post strike in France isn't settled within the next two weeks, Bryant Freeman, chairman of the department of French and Italian, said yesterday.
The program involved team teaching, nongraded classrooms, individualized instruction and the use of tokens "earned" by a student by completing assignments. Tokens could "buy" leisure time. The program has been discontinued.
Teachers of advanced courses in French are concerned about the strike, which has been reported.
The Follow Through program was a behavior analysis method of instruction that had been used in Woodlaw Elementary School. The audit and the investigation by the attorney general's office were conducted in June 2013. Employees' misuse of funds by a parent of a child in the program and an employee in the program.
An investigation of the University of Kansas audit of the Follow Through program by the state attorney general's office should be completed by the end of this month, Patrick Connolly, assistant attorney general, said yesterday.
State to finish investigation of KU audit
"This is our target date," Connolly said. Connolly said scheduling of interviews with people involved had delayed the investigation.
Michael J. Davis, general counsel, said he had heard nothing about the investigation of the Follow Through audit since Oct. 29, when the attorney general's office had submitted the complaint from the University's auditors about the alleged payments for travel expenses.
Connolly wouldn't comment on whether the lawyer's office would take any action, the attorney.
The employee had said she had been paid travel expenses for trips she never took.
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Phi Kappa Sigma considered the co-op too great a financial investment for what they would get from it, Mike Wormington, president, said.
McLaughlin said that with the same nine houses participating, the co-op could continue to subsist at a break-even level. However, he said, in order to be a complete success, the co-op's membership would have to double.
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Freeman said he didn't foresee any difficulties over the arrival of times on time for next semester as long as the strike was solved quickly.
However, demand for books by other universities facing the same problem would rapidly deplete distributors' supplies. J.D. Kroll, manager of the Kansas Union Bookstore, said
"We don't see it as a real problem," he said.
In case the postal strike isn't settled,
in case said, students will have various
options.
McLaughlin said Greek Management, Inc., is beginning what he called "an internal orientation program" to make co-op members more aware of how the system works. So as a team all the members would try to resell the co-op to the other houses.
The students may have to check out books from the library and share them, he said.
"It will be inconvenient but not a pain" get books from the library and share them.
All three of the presidents said they would stop co-op in a year or two if it proved its worth.
Antone Bertiglo, president of Delta Upson, said his house had taken a conservative approach, considering the present situation to wait and see how the co-op worked.
Also, the department could ask for U.S. boots to deliver French texts, Freeman said.
Jim Brenner, president of Kappa Sigma, said, "The co-op's main problem is the misconceptions of the various people connected with it."
"They are the ones that are hard to come by," she said. "I am willing to go on with the co-op. I hope it's a success but it must be proven to me more."
Chrishman said French students might bacharee in English, American publications or youth centers.
He said he thought some merchants didn't want to sell on a volume basis because they might be locked into a contract at certain prices. Inflation would then raise prices, he said, and the merchants would have to absorb the difference.
John T. Booker, coordinator of the first course levels of French, said basic courses would have an adequate supply of text-books.
The number of courses offered or enrollment next semester will be affected by the number of students attending a course.
Another solution for the potential shortage, Booker said, would be to order texts from other French-speaking countries such as Switzerland and Belgium.
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One fraternity, Alpha KappaLambda, is considering dropping out of the co-op. President Pete Levy said he thought the cop was a good concept but their housemother was dissatisfied with some aspects of it.
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which is not a member of the co-op, decided it could operate more efficiently without joining, said Bruce Woner, president. Wonder said had been "totally untested" and his house had not want to commit itself too early.
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