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Thursday, October 9, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Utensil thefts cause price rise
Staff Writer
By BILL KATS
People who steal services, china and trays from food services in University residence halls and the Kansas Union evenly pay the price in the form of reduced services
J. J. Wilson, director of housing said yesterday that the thefts kept hall cafeterias from buying convenience items for their kitchens.
He said close to $20,000 was spent last year to replace utensils in the eight hall fireplaces.
Wilson said that inflation had played a large part in pushing the price of a car up.
At Gertrude S. Pearson-Corbin, 1,049
Lenor Ekdhall, director of food services for the residence halls, said the most popular items for theft last year were teaspoons and glasses.
Bad-check program swells prosecutions
The number of prosecutions for writing bad checks has increased ten times since a check investigator was hired April 1, David Boulger said. The Douglas County Commission yesterday.
In the time since the county attorney's
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Undergraduate students who want to apply for scholarships, government grants, national direct student loans and the college program can pick up the applications.
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Shockley . . .
cellation, he was assuming that the debate wouldn't be beneficial to the University
"Any policy decision regarding something to take place in the future has to be based on anticipated repercussions," he said.
Bich Lindman, special events chairman,
voted against the motion to cancel the
The board still has the option to reconsider the motion to cancel the debate, but. But, he said, he thought most of the lawyers in the county voted to cancel hadn't changed their minds.
“If I thought more people on the board wanted to reconsider, 'I'd bring it up," he said. "But I don't think anybody's having second thoughts."
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Senate . . .
enough tangible benefits to warrant further funding. One pointed out that the $3,566 came to about $3 for each student served last year by the organization.
Mary Lou Reece, student body vice president, voted to make a 30 to 30 tie only to find that she was out of order. After checking Robert's Rules of Order it was known his woman's power to make or break it the didn't usually apply since a tie vote defeated a bill.
The Senate vote against giving the Liberal Arts and Sciences School Council #765 for supplies and expenses. The amendment to fund the group was defeated by 49 votes, but approved, vice chairman of the Council, to convene the Senate of the group's critical need.
An amendment to cut allocations to the three undergraduate clubs was also defended. Flynn moved the groups be cut from their usual fund to fund undergraduate interest groups.
"There are fifty or sixty of them on campus and if we fund one we're going to have more."
Bill Billing, Senate parliamentarian,
said that each group had been funded in the
The Senate voted 54 to 26 to pass a resolution questioning the procedure behind the election.
Steve Cucovich, who sponsored the resolution, said the lot should have had to go through the University community before being approved.
The Senate filled two University Council seats and a seat on the University Judiciary Board despite some questions about one election's legality.
Jon Jossner, senator, said the present Senate couldn't elect anyone to fill the combined hold-over senator and University Council seat vacated last spring by Lewis Grassley. Only last year's Senate, he said, could elect last year's hold-over seat and Steve McMurray, Journalism senator, was elected to the other council race.
Scott Morgan, freshman class president,
was elected to the Judiciary Board.
teapoons disappeared last year along with 1,000 glasses, 751 knives and 600 forks, she
office has had the investigator, Berkowitz said, 106 check cases were opened. Between April 1 and Sept. 30, 40 persons were convicted and $31,222 was recovered in the case.
ALTHOUGH A CERTAIN amount of loss due to breakage and normal wear is to be expected, Ekdahl said, these figures are too low for most cases that occurred in the other halls, she said.
Only eight persons were convicted in 1974, Berkawitz said.
"The emphasis in check cases has changed from collection to a more vigorous prosecution for violations of the law," Berkowitz said.
Peter A. Whitenight, county commissioner, said he thought merchant response to the check program had been favorable.
The remainder of the cases usually go unsolved, Kennedy said, because some bad check writers move out of town or go to prison.
Berkowitz said that in 1974, 311 check cases were opened, eight persons were convicted and about $24,000 in restitutions was made.
"From talking to various merchants in the community," Berkowitz said, "I believe that these bad checks are the number of bad checks that are written in Douglas County and certainly it has cut down the amount of time between the writing of the check and the prosecution of it."
BERKOWITZ ALSO TOLD the commissioners that Kennedy's hiring gave the other investigator in the county attorney's office more time to work on other cases, and that it also eased the burden on the attorneys in the office.
Berkowitz said he thought seminars that had been conducted to teach businessmen how to protect themselves against bad weather, like storms, like those have been planned, he said.
Kennedy was hired under the Emergency
Job Program, a federally financed program.
Art Heck, county commissioner, said the commission hadn't considered making the job permanent after federal funds ran out. He said he considered the report submitted by Berkowitz on the program to be favorable.
BERRKOWTZ SAID BAD CHEW convictions resulted in penalties ranging from a fine of $8 to confinement in the county and binding on the past record of the offender.
"In general, I believe that the check investigator and the ensuing program have resulted both in a more vigorous pursuit of efficiency in law enforcement," he said.
Berkowitz recommended to the commissio-
tion, the special bad check
will be required to be completed.
Wilson said that even though silverware was the main item being taken, the largest monetary losses came from replacing china.
Some plates cost more than $28 a dozen,
he said. That is the cheapest serviceable
plate available.
Although thefts in Union food services present much less of a problem than thefts in residence halls, they are a definite hazard. The trustee, manager of Union food services, said.
SHE SAID THAT SHORTAGES of silverware and china sometimes made it necessary for people who were waiting for the cleaning of used dishes to stand in line
Sometimes trays and dishes are taken out of the cafeteria to be used, she said, and rather than return them, people will dump them into trash receptacles.
Scheetz said discreet methods were often used to steal food items, especially in the 1970s.
THE FEM DISHONEST PEOPLE will raise the prices for everyone, Scheetz and others.
Customers will put a cheese burger in a hamurger bag or put two hamburgers in a sandwich.
One of the problems residence halls have is that some people have chosen to take advantage of relaxed dining room policies, Wilson said.
"We don't like to make the rule that people can't take things out of their dining rooms," he said. "But one of the problems is the way we do, how the hook do we get the diaper back?"
The University of Indiana posts student monitors at every dining hall exit, he said.
This tactic has been employed on a mino scale at Olive Hall, where there is a checker at the main dining hall door, said Ciesis, Olive Hall food service supervisor.
But that has failed to deter anyone who really wants to take something out, she
Although no clear-cut way to stop theft
of copyrighted Tornel tried a
unique technique last May.
Ekdahl said that GSP-Corbin had an amnesty night in which residents were asked to bring back items they were carrying and asked. There was a party also, she said.
The response was encouraging, she said,
and about 50 per cent of the hall's lost items
It might be necessary to use the plan again this year because according to Ekdahl, the residence halls are already replacing stolen silverware.
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English poet here tonight
Spender gave a reading of his poetry in the Kansas Urion.
Spender, who is also a playwright, novelist and critic, has been a professor of English at the University of London since 1908 and one of the most celebrated poets of the 1930s.
Unlike the poetry of either William Butler Yeats or T. S. Eliot, Spender said the poetry of the '30s and '40s began to deal with concrete subjects, rather than feelings.
They sought to convey their feelings without directly writing about them, such as
Widely renowned for his translations of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry, Spender will speak at a symposium in his honor at 8 p.m. tonight in Woodruff Auditorium.
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