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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 30, 1992
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Holiday season has slow start in Lawrence
Merchants expect sales to increase as holidays near
By Kristi Fogler
Kansan staff writer
As children waited to visit with Santa Claus during the weekend at the Lawrence Riverfront Plaza, shopers were busy buying gifts — but not as busy as last year, said some local store representatives.
Patrick Tompkins / KANSAN
Sherree Bartels, a representative of Bugle Boy Factory Outlet, said sales during Thanksgiving weekend, traditionally the busiest weekend of the holiday season, were down a little bit compared to last year.
She said that Friday, nationally the busiest shopping day of the year, was no busier than a regular Saturday at the store and that business would remain steady throughout the season.
"People are spreading their money out over a longer period of time," Bartels said. "They're spending a little at a time rather than spending it all at once."
been up Thanksgiving weekend compared to recent months and last year.
The city of Lawrence has turned on the lights that have become a tradition on Massachusetts Street. Friday was the busi est shopping day of the year nationwide.
Bartels said credit-card sales had
"Last year everyone was afraid to use their charge card." she said.
Helen Zook, a Fieldcrest Cannon store representative, said she had noticed more shoppers paying with credit cards this year. Traffic through the store was not as heavy as last year's Thanksgiving weekend, she said.
She said August was the busiest time for the store, which specializes in bed linens and bath towels. She said college students and parents preparing for the school year brought big business.
Downtown, sales were down slightly at Natural Way, 820 Massachusetts St., said Margaret Howe, Natural Way representative. She said that sales were down only a marginal amount compared to last year and that the store was expecting business to pick up as Christmas approached.
"It's one of the busiest days," Howey said of Friday. "But last year it turned out that it's not."
Howey said she did not know if business would have been better had more KU students been in town. She said that every time there was a football game or another big day for the
University. the store was busier.
Natural Way is not relying heavily on economists' bright forecasts, Howey said. She said even though last year's shopping season was supposed to be bleak, the store did very well.
"Every year we do better than the year before," she said.
Earl Reineman, vice president of Weaver's Department Store, 901 Massachusetts St., said sales were up at the store compared to last year.
"We've been having a good year and expect the trend to continue," he said. Reineman said Weaver's would con-
time to get busier as Christmas nears because Lawrence shoppers put their holiday shopping off until the last minute.
"People tend to shop later and later," he said. "It's a trend we've seen over time."
Project ReDirectory to recycle phone books
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
The 1993 Lawrence city telephone directories are in, but last year's do not have to be thrown out.
Southwestern Bell last year collected 72,000 phone books.
Mike Scott, area manager in external affairs for Southwestern Bell Telephone, encouraged people to participate in the second year of Project ReDirectory. The Lawrence branch of
People wanting to recycle their old phone books can take them to one of four trash bins on the KU campus or to one of five drop-off sites in Lawrence.
"We're hoping the second year can be just as good," Scott said.
The KU environmental umbushman's office set out trash bins to coincide with distribution of the 1992-93 KU telephone directories in October. Sue Ask, associate environmental umbushman, said people dumped about three-fourths of a ton of directories during the collection period lasting from Oct. 16 through Nov. 2.
The bins will be in the same locations today through Dec. 18 to collect both KU and city directories. People can take old phone books to the other Lawrence drop-offs tomorrow through Dec. 30.
Ask said people did not have to remove phone book covers or do anything special to the books before dropping them in the bins, but they should not put newsprint or other types of paper in the bins.
Scott said delivery of the 88,000 new directories for the Lawrence, Lecompton and Eudora areas would
begin tomorrow and should end Dec.
11. He said people who did not receive their directories by Dec. 11 should call 1-800-729-265.
The sponsors of Project ReDirectory are Southwestern Bell, the city of Lawrence, Dillons Stores, Yellow Freight System, Inc., Lawrence Paper Company, Lawrence Unified School District 497, KU and Central Fiber in Wellsville.
The phone books are taken to Central Fiber, which recycles them to produce lawn and garden products, such as mulch.
Drop-off sites
The following are drop-off locations for recycling telephone directories; Nov. 20, Dec. 18
in front of Hoch Auditorium
by the Burge Union
by the Burge Union west of Haworth Hall
west of Haworth Hall north of Carruth O'Leary Hall
■ north of Carruth-O'Leary Hall Dec. 1 - Dec. 31
Lawrence City Hall, 6th and Massachusetts streets
Southwestern Bell offices, 734 Vermont St.
Mont St.
Dillons, 3000 W. 6th St., 1740 Mass.
machusetts St., 1015 W. 23rd St.
KANSAN
Student seeks U.S. action in Yugoslavia
By Delin Cormeny
Kansan staff writer
While a United Nations war-crime commission is planning to dig up a suspected mass grave of 300 people thought to have been killed by Serbian forces, a KU student is busy collecting signatures to send to Congress asking for more effective action against the Serbian government.
Saleh Alkhathilan, Saudi Arabia doctoral student, will man an information table today and tomorrow in the Kansas Union and ask students to sign a petition urging the U.S. government to take immediate action in the former Yugoslavia.
Alkathilan said he thought the United States was not doing everything it could to help end the civil war.
"I expect the United States to take some action to stop the killing and put pressure on the Serbian government," he said. "The U.S. is the only superpower in the world. Politically and morally, it has a responsibility to stop the brutal killings."
He said that he advocated U.S. intervention short of direct military action. He suggested the government enforce sanctions more effectively.
"The killing is unjustified," Alkathallan said. "It's really brutal, and that's what got me."
He said he was moved to action because seeing photos and reading news accounts of killings and concentration camps made him feel compelled as a human being to do something.
The New York Times reported Sunday that a preliminary excavation of the suspected mass grave unearthened several skeletons; one had been shot in the head. The dead are thought to have been civilians and wounded Croatian soldiers who were seized, unarmed, from a hospital.
"It's really a human issue," he said. "It's not a Bosnia issue and it's not a Muslim issue. It's a human issue. I don't want to see another Holocaust, and that's what concerns me."
Alkhattailan he hoped to collect the signatures of at least 10 percent of
the student population and send them to Congress, along with a letter urging immediate action.
Burdett Looms, professor of political science, said he was not sure whether Alkantilian's efforts would make a difference.
"It may make people feel better and it may make him feel better, but in terms of changing policy, it won't be very effective," he said. "What can you hope for the Congress to do? They are extremely aware of this war. It's not like it's an unknown problem."
"A lot of them have heard of Bosnia, but if you gave them a geography test, they probably would have some problems," he said. "The most relevant thing (Alkhathilan) is doing is to educate students. After a year of incredible violence and killing, the fact that is still required is pretty disconcerting."
He said that the warm might, however, be an unknown problem to students on the KU campus.
Christine McFarland/KANSAN
Scrambling to finish a paper before his 8 a.m. deadline, Brad Dekat, Silver Lake senior, sits on the floor of Watson Library surrounded by his books. Dekat was working in Watson on Sunday.
Bookworm
University lends hand to sister city
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
A 45,000-volume collection of rare 17th through 19th century books in Lawrence's sister city , Eutin, Germany, will become available for scholastic research, in part because of efforts by KU library staff members.
The collection is stored in a loft
and in Eatin and is impossible for research.
Marilyn Clark, director of resource development for KU libraries, said she was advising representatives from Eutin about how to raise money to catalog the collection, which is primarily travel literature.
When the collection is moved and cataloged, it will be available for scholastic researchers throughout the world, Clark said.
"Right now, it's kind of a secret place," she said.
Clark said she hoped the collection would be available to all scholars in a couple of years.
Clark said she became interested in the project after traveling to Eutin two years ago and discovering the collection. She said that she began advising the Eutin library association about raising money because she had worked to raise money for the KU libraries.
Klaus Fleischer, a member of the Preservation Society of Eutin, said Germans were unfamiliar with the concept of raising money.
"It's so strange in our thinking," he said. "We just don't do that. If someone knows how to help us, that's great."
He said that if the collection was stored and cataloged properly, its contents would be a valuable resource to researchers throughout the world.
"The experts say the contents of this library are unique among Europe," he said. "Very few people in the world know so far that this exists."
Rosemarie Fleischer, head of the Friends of Eutin Library Association, said the collection was being moved from its current location to a renovated 18th-century building to make the books more accessible. Federal and state money will pay for the renovation of the building, but other expenses, such as cataloging the collection and hiring additional staff members, must be met through donations.
Rosemarie Fleischer said it was important to raise the money to make these works available to scholars.
"They have a considerable number of books, which as far as we know, do not exist anywhere else," she said. "They need to catalog, they need the publicity, and they need the money to make people aware of this valuable resource.
"The whole library is very, very small compared to yours, but it's very precious and that is why we think it is important to do this."
The Fleischers met with Clark and William Crowe, dean of KU libraries, last week. Rosemarie Fleischer said they discussed having Dr. Wolfgang Grief, head of the newly developed 17th- and 18th-century travel research collection in Eutin, come to Lawrence to lecture, possibly as early as this spring or summer.
Clark said KU would derive benefits from its relationship with the Eutin library.
"It makes us aware of other resources, and it makes us aware of how things are done in other places," she said.
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