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University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 20, 1987
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Local Briefs
Care services to seek male, female helpers
Women's Transitional Care Services will be accepting men and women for its volunteer training program this weekend at the Ballard Community Center, 708 Elm Street. The program is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Male volunteers can be advocates only for children at the center. Female volunteers can be advocates for both children and women.
Employees can get tuition assistance
People interested in becoming volunteers must contact WTCS at 841-6887 before Saturday.
Full-time employees who have worked at the University of Kansas for at least one year and want to take a class may apply for tuition assistance for the spring semester.
Employees can receive up to $110 to help with tuition and supplies for one college course or the equivalent in other educational programs.
Applications are available in the executive vice chancellor's office, 231 Strong Hall. Applications must be returned to the executive vice chancellor's office by 5 p.m. Dec. 4.
Conference gives Panhellenic award
The National Panhellenic Conference presented an award to KU's Panhellenic Association on Monday for its performance in KU's first fall rush this year.
Molly Wanstall, Panhellenic president, said that because most campuses already had fall rush, the award was recognizing KU Panhellenic's adaptation to the new system.
Weather hotline to help travel plans
As they have done the past several years, meteorology students will sponsor the Thanksgiving Weather Hotline, a service of the KU Weather Service, to give up-to-date travel information.
The hotline will be available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The numbers to call are 864-4329 or 864-4547.
The service is operated every Thanksgiving and spring break. Before last spring break, about 500 calls were received in three days.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, Wednesday's Student Senate vote on a resolution about AIDS was incorrectly reported in yesterday's Kansan. John Cissell, liberal arts and sciences senator, cast the only vote against the resolution. Amy Randles, Nunemaker senator, abstained.
From staff and wire reports.
Union-issue groups will stay active
By NOEL GERDES Staff writer
Although the ballots are counted and the post-election parties are over, the faculty union issue is far from dead.
Staff writer
After a majority of KU faculty and staff voted against a faculty union two days ago, spokesmen from the three groups involved in the issue said yesterday they planned to remain active on campus.
"I've been looking forward for months to when we could disband," said Marion "Pat" Bickford, professor of geology and president of KU Independent Faculty.
"Unless the Legislature acts to provide more funding for the University, we're going to have all of this again in a year," Bickford said.
KU Independent faculty formed this fall to oppose a faculty union.
By state law, a second union election cannot be conducted within 12 months of the first election.
Tom Madden, organizing director for the Kansas-National Education Association, said that the KU chapter of NEA would consider trying to call another faculty union election after 12 months had passed.
He said KU-NEA would hold a meeting the first week in December
Robert Hohn, professor of educational psychology and research and spokesman for the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said KU-AAUP would continue regular chapter activities, but hadn't decided yet whether to work for another election.
However, Hohn said KU-AUP might consider trying to make changes in the bargaining unit, or who is eligible to join a union.
Several people with the titles of program associate, research associate and scientist tried to vote in the faculty union election, but the ballots
were thrown out Wednesday night because their positions were not included in the bargaining unit.
to set new goals for the group.
Madden said that KU-NEA also might consider trying to make changes in the bargaining unit
Lana Oleen, director of communications for the state department of human resources, said that to make a change in KU's bargaining unit, a group would have to file a petition with the state Public Employee Relations Board.
The board would send notices to the KU administration and other groups involved and set a hearing date.
Photographer aims at everyday events
By KIRK ADAMS
Staff writer
Making money as a photographer can be tough, a KU student recently said.
That is especially true if the photographer isn't traditional with his pictures, he said. Bobby Waldman, Overland Park senior, doesn't like to use his motor drive much, and he never crops his photos.
Waldman, who has been a photographer for 10 years, makes money taking pictures of students' personal lives. He follows them for a few hours, shooting them doing things they do every day: working, studying, practicing their musical instruments, or whatever they do
Waldman said that for $20, he will shoot a roll of film of anyone doing anything. In the month he's in business he's had four clients.
"They tell me what they want, and I do it for them," he said.
"It's kind of a party pic of their everyday life." he said
Gauch said she was comfortable with him taking her picture and that the photos turned out well. When he started work for her textile design class,
Waldman got the idea of following students from Christina Gauch, Lucerne, Switzerland, freshman. Waldman took pictures of Gauch for her parents, because, he said, the parents were unfamiliar with KU, and he thought that they would like to see their daughter in her current surroundings.
"I was weaving and I was printing fabric and painting, and he just took pictures of what I did," she said.
Gauch said that Waldman's black-and-white photos were particularly good.
Waldman said he would be willing to follow people on an evening out, or wherever they would like.
He does not crop, or trim, his photos. He likes his black-and-white pictures to have a dark border.
Bobby Waldman Overland Park senior
It's kind of a party pic of their everyday life.'
"I feel that the thought that goes into a photograph should happen at the location of the photograph," he said.
Waldman is a theater and media arts major. He said he didn't think he could be a news photographer because he would spend too much time taking pictures.
"I like to put a lot of thought into the photo before I take it" he said.
Waldman said he also had tried to make money taking pictures in other ways.
Bobby Waldman, Overland Park senior
He said he had taken pictures of some older homes in Lawrence, developed them, showed them to the owners and offered to sell them for $1. He said that many of the owners were flattered to have their houses photographed.
In his spare time, Waldman shoots untraditional pictures. He doesn't like to take pictures of things like puppies and balloons, he said. He likes to take pictures at night, and he shoots such things as
grain silos, chemical plants and bridges.
"It seems like the light at night makes those things look really different," he said.
For night pictures Waldman leaves his camera on a tripod with the shutter open. While the film is being exposed, he walks around the structure he is shooting and uses his flash.
"Anywhere I point that flash, it's
going to register on film. I call it painting with flash," he said.
He said, "It's kind of my way of relaxing — to be at 3 in the morning at Sixth and Central in Kansas City, you know, smoking a cigarette, waiting for the film to expose."
One of Waldman's favorite places to shoot pictures is in the River Quay area in downtown Kansas City, Mo.
Lawrence isn't on Soviets' itinerary
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
David Longhurst, member of the Meeting for Peace Committee and former Lawrence mayor, said that it is important to only three days in the United States.
While U.S. and Soviet leaders are wrapping up plans for a December summit meeting in Washington, D.C., local peace activists are saying that General Secretary Mikhail Gorbache's visit to the United States probably won't include a stop in Lawrence.
But hope hasn't died. Longhurst said that if Gorbachev decided to travel to the West Coast, he might stop here.
Lawrence is in the heart of the country and represents a lifestyle different than that of either coast, he said.
"We're just thrilled to death that they're talking anywhere," Longhurst said.
The summit is scheduled for Dec. 7 to Dec. 10.
The committee, led by Lawrence insurance agent Bob Swan, has been trying for five years to foster interest in holding a summit in Lawrence. The efforts have gained visibility with Soviet citizens.
In February Longhurst, Swan
Kansas Attorney General Bob Stephan and then-Mayor Sandra Praeger traveled to the Soviet Union. Praeger presented to Raisa Gorbachev a key to the city of Lawrence and an invitation to visit.
And the invitation still stands.
And the invitation still stands.
"They're certainly welcome."
Praeger said. "We'd love to have them."
Swan said Kansas was still an attractive site for a visit because it had already initiated events, such as passing a Feb. 4 resolution that invited Gorbachev and President Reagan to speak at a joint session of the state Legislature.
But even if Gorbache doesn't set foot on Kansas soil, Swan said that he and another Lawrence resident might go to Washington during the summit to take part in an event with the U.S. military in East Germany is the site of a meeting between Soviet and U.S. soldiers at the end of World War II.
Longhurst said members of the committee had continued to send letters to Gorbachev since their trip to the Soviet Union.
Consumer official says to check offers in person
Staff writer
BY JULIE MCMAHON
A voice over the phone offers the listener free food, free services and a complimentary holiday for two in Las Vegas, Florida, Hawaii or three other resorts areas.
The listener can receive those benefits by buying a coupon book called the Lawrence Merchant Gift Book, which is being sold for $39.95 over the phone to Lawrence residents. The Lawrence Merchant Gift Book is part of an advertising promotion for local merchants put together and distributed by an Olathe agency called High Plains Advertising.
Offers like that may sound like good deals, but Eric Torskey of the Consumer Affairs Association said buyers should check out phone offers such as the Lawrence Merchant Gift Book in person. They should see what the deals are, whether they can use
them and whether they can get them money's worth. He said buyers should make sure that what was listed on the phone was actually offered. Torskey said the Consumer Affairs Association had received inquiries about those types of coupon books before.
Phone salesmen for Lawrence Merchant Gift Book read a prepared speech of what the buyer can receive from the book, which must be used by Sept. 30, 1988.
The salesmen say there are coupons for admission to KU basketball games. But the coupons are for KU women's basketball games, not the sold-out men's basketball games. The salesmen say there is a free carpet cleaning, but the coupon limits the cleaning to a 9x12 room.
They then say that there are $300 in free services that include child care, carpet cleaning, tanning sessions.
bowling and pool. There are also $230 of car services, which include two oil changes, balancing for two tires, a lubrication and tire repairs, the speech says.
Ruth Witt is a Lawrence resident who decided not to buy the book. She said that although the car services were worth far more than the $40 it cost to buy the book, she and her husband couldn't use those services before the expiration date next September.
She also said that she and her husband didn't bowl or play pool, so they couldn't use those coupons. She also had been interested in the child care coupons for her grandchild who attends the local day care center on the coupon, but it was limited to new customers.
She said she couldn't criticize the book, because although she and her husband couldn't get their money's
"The food coupons would be a good deal for businessmen or someone who eats out a lot," she said.
worth from it, others might be able to.
The free vacation is a bonus that comes with the coupon book. It is offered through International Vacations, a Lawrence travel agency. The salesmen state that transportation is not included, but they don't state that reservations at the designated hotels can be only for Sunday through Thursday. And the form for the trip must be sent off within 30 days of buying the book.
Also, the vacation had an age requirement, which said that single couples must be 25 or over if they were not married and at least 21 if they were married.
But Lloyd Modlin, manager of the Lawrence Merchants Gift Book, said, "The age requirement was waived so
we could sell it to college students. We've had very few complaints about International Vacation."
Other bonuses are free Kodak film for life and a free photograph color portrait. To get the free film developing, the buyer has to send off a certificate. The coupon for the free portrait said that Peek Fifth Avenue Studios would contact the buyer about getting the picture taken. The coupon has no phone number, but does have a Kentucky address.
Torskey said those kinds of bonuses were attached to offers such as coupon books to induce customers to buy the book. But he said that often many strings were attached to the bonuses so that by the time people got around to using it, it might not be worth the money.
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