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Friday, November 6, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Here's looking at moo
Dan Ruettimann/KANSAN
Hereford cattle graze in a field off Sixth Street in West Lawrence.
Insurance benefits key issue in faculty unionization vote
If yesterday's Faculty Senate debate was any indication, health insurance premiums could be a significant factor in determining the outcome of a KU faculty vote to organize a union.
By NOEL GERDES Staff writer
Clifford Griffin, professor of history and a representative of the KU chapter of the National Education Association, said after the debate that the recent uproar over increased health insurance premiums could help the cause of a faculty union.
Faculty will vote whether to form a union Nov. 17 and 18.
At the debate, representatives from the KU chapter of the National Education Association, the KU chapter of the American Association of Teachers and the KU Independent Faculty, responded to 15 minutes and answered questions from the audience. About 80 people attended the debate.
Faculty members were angered this fall when the state's health care commission signed a contract that will charge state employees userfees for the first time. For individual coverage, those fees would be between $1 and $20 a month, depending on an employee's salary and smoking habits.
Robert Minor, associate professor of religious studies and a spokesman for KU-NEA, suggested that the present state health care insurance system was outdated. He said a Board of Regents or a special KU plan should be adopted instead
Robert Hohn, chairman of KU-AAUP's collective bargaining committee, said one of the reasons KU faculty needed a union was that they felt powerless in deciding issues such as salaries, working conditions and benefits such as health insurance.
He said that KU-AAUP could lobby the Legislature for changes more effectively than the state chapter of
the NEA because KU-AAUP would represent only KU faculty. The state NEA, however, would have to represent community college, elementary and secondary school teachers.
Minor said that the state NEA would be better able to lobby state legislators because it had representatives in every legislator's district, and not just in KU's district.
Del Shankel, professor of microbiology and a spokesman for KU Independent Faculty, said that Chancellor Gene A. Budig and his staff would make better lobbyists than either the state NEA or KU-AAPU. KU Independent Faculty is opposed to a faculty union.
Shankel said Budig had more influence with the press, and that Budig would not offend alumni who contribute money to KU. A faculty union could hurt the chances of KU's next budget in the Legislature, he said.
Travel Fair offers help
"Not enough students know about the opportunities of study abroad. It's a crime not more students are here," she said.
But Mary Elizabeth Gwin, director of the office of study abroad, said she wasn't satisfied with the number of students who attended.
By REBECCA J. CISEK Special to the Kansan
Evy Gershon, assistant director of financial aid, said students seeking aid should talk with her about the program they intend to enter.
Speakers from several countries, colorful posters and tables full of pamphlets greeted students at the Study Abroad Travel Fair yesterday in the Kansas Union.
Students were able to talk about programs in countries ranging from Mexico to Denmark, Israel and Korea. Several travel agencies also were present. As many as 40 students browsed through the fair at one time.
Students find freemight cost them
By JULIE McMAHON
Some students are complaining about a card they received in the mail that they thought promised expensive prizes for free.
Staff writer
Seniors and graduate students have been receiving cards this week from a company called Network Direct Incorporated that promised the recipient one of six gifts.
Among the gifts listed were a color television and a home computer.
According to Rick Godin, a salesman for NDI who is in Lawrence, about 150 students called the toll-free phone number on the card. An operator at the Park Inn Hotel, 2222 W. dth St. where they were told they could pick up their gift.
Michael Bowen, Wasilla, Alaska, graduate student, went to pick his gift, but he said that he and eight or nine other students found no televisions or computers in the room.
"When I got in the room I didn't see any color TVs or stereos," he said. "Two men were going to make a presentation, but I didn't stay."
What was available was a Maxim 35mm camera, which Godin said costs $45.95; a certificate for five nights in a hotel in Hawaii, not including airfare; a 50 percent discount on hotel accommodations; and a Maxim FM radio the size of a lighter, with a headset.
Bowen said he felt deceived because he thought the gifts were disappointing and that they were a gimmick to attract students so salesmen could sell memberships to the NDI buying club.
But in small print on the back of
the card it said that selling club memberships was the intent of the gift giveaway.
"This promotion is part of a marketing and advertising program to acquaint you with Network Direct Incorporated. This is an incentive program to encourage you to attend one of our seminars, and is not a lottery or contest," the card said.
NDI has its headquarters in Overland Park. Its membership dues are $83.45 a year for 10 years. And should a member want to buy anything, he has to pay an additional $65 a year.
That entitles members to manufacturers' prices on cars, furniture, major appliances, electronics, jewelry and other items such as contact lenses, photography equipment and luggage. The merchandise offered are brand names
the gifts would be given away. Godin said that his company didn't give away computers or televisions every day, but it did give away several every year.
Camille Dalager, executive director of the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association, said that NDI was a member of the Better Business Bureau and had a good business record since it started in 1971.
The card also said that each of
"We're not endorsing them, but at this time we can't find anything to say NDI is not legitimate and upholding good business practices," Dalager said.
She also said that NDI solicited mainly college seniors and graduate students on campuses across the country.
KU India Club to celebrate
By a Kansan reporter
The KU India Club will celebrate the Festival of Light at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at Cordley Elementary School, 1837 Vermont St.
Admission is $5 for members and $6 for nonmembers. Tickets sold at the door will be $7.
The Festival of Light is a five day Hindu festival which is celebrated throughout India by Hindus and those of other religions.
Robert Minor, associate professor of religious studies, said different days of the festival celebrated different historical occasions.
The first day is dedicated to two Hindu goddesses, the second day is celebrated by gambling with dice, and the third day commemorates the Hindu god Vishnu's victory over a demon king.
The fourth day, called Divali, celebrates the return of the god Rama after an exile of 14 years.
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