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University Daily Kansan, October 27, 1982
Jim Evans/KANRAN
Clidy Chapman, Consumer Affairs Association director, left, assists Yuh Mei White with a problem, as Cynthia Harris, second from right, helps another client in the association's downtown office. The association is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week.
Consumer association to observe anniversary
By DONNA KELLER
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence Consumer Affairs
Association celebrate 10th
anniversary today [today]
Clyde Chapman, director, said the organization, which was established by a group of University staff members and students, would hold the open house from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at its downtown office, 819 Vermont St.
In his 10 years, the goal of Consumer Affairs Association hasn't changed, he said.
"The purpose then, as it is now, was to prevent and resolve consumer problems, and provide for consumer education," Chapman said.
The association handles consumer complaints, answers questions, fulfills requests for information and provides facts about consumer issues, he said.
HE SAID THAT the association had saved consumers more than $100,000 in savings over the past five years.
money saved because of advice or suggestions.
"I feel good about the figures," he said. "People are getting something for their money, and it is returned in terms of dollars back to the community."
The organization's first office was in the Kansas Union, which made the association's services accessible to students.
The Union office took 814 calls its first year and doubled that the following year, Chapman said. Since then, the has averaged about 3,000 calls a year.
In 1976, the Student Senate allocated funds from KU student activity fees to provide a salary for a full-time director.
THE OFFICE was moved from the Union to its downtown location in 1978 and, by making itself more accessible to the community, nearly doubled its consumer inquiries the following year, Chapman said.
The Union office reopened in 1981 to serve campus needs and now has two paid employees who work 24 hours a week.
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David Shulenburger, KU associate professor of business and winner of the award, said, "We must create a system in which it is in the poor's economic self interest to pull them up by their bootstraps, out of poverty and consequently off welfare."
Solving the poverty problem in the United States could be as simple as providing job training for the poor, the fourth recipient of the 1862 Byron T. Shutz award last night in his lecture.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, had announced recently that Shulenburger received the award, which is given for outstanding teaching of the American economic field. The university announced that the 1983 Shutz winner is Joseph Sicilian, associate professor of economics.
Shulenburger said training the poor for occupations that are critically needed by business would meet the economic interests of poor men and by giving them skills that commanded incomes higher than welfare.
Government-sponsored training programs would also meet a need for businesses by providing them with personnel, which they need, he said.
"IF INDIVIDUALS have critically needed skills, their labor will command such a price, that they will find that work pays better than welfare and choose to work," be said.
Successful training programs by businesses occurred between 1900 and 1950, and the poverty rate dropped from 22.3% to 11.1%, percent, Shulen burger said.
Some of the credit for the drop during that time must be attributed to President Johnson's war on
poverty and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he said.
"Our motivation was certamy volunteerism - volunteerism motivated by profit.
"What made the big difference, however, was the action of hundreds of businesses to hire the poor during this period." Shulenburger said.
"THE POOR learned needed skills, they endured hard labor, they turned their backs on welfare programs and they worked. This was bootstrap improvement motivated their own desire for financial gain."
But history has demonstrated that volunteerism definitely is not the answer to the problem of poverty in pressured periods, Shulenburger said.
President Reagan is calling for the same type of volunteerism from businesses. Shulenburger said.
"When economic times are tough, as difficult as they are now, firms make every effort to reduce the cost of production so that — they have no choice," he said.
Although industry may be unwilling to provide training voluntarily, Shulenburger said, it was necessary because without it the poor have no incentive to work. Jobs available to unskilled workers may offer less or little more than they can make on welfare.
"INDEED THE problem with the poor is that they are just like the noopow—they respond to financial crises, just as do the noopow," he said.
He said the fault in Reagan's program to eliminate poverty was that current tests that determined whether an individual was able to pay for it, because of the extent to which chosen poverty areas had grown.
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The large black sculpture, however, may soon find a permanent place in the sun, almost a year after it was installed. The sculpture is from its original location on campus.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, was scheduled to meet today with John Simpson, the alumnus who donated the sculpture, and Dale Eldred, the Kansas City artist who created it, to examine possible sights on West Campus for permanent display.
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Soon after, KU officials agreed to move the unassembled work to storage on the floor.
Last year, an engineering firm conducted a safety study and recommended strengthening some welds and using acrylic rods to erect the sculpture, Cobb said.
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Eldred said that his sculpture was of the Kansas landscape and that it also carried an urban and industrial artistic picture.
He said he did get a tax deduction for donating the piece but declined to say what was paid.
SIMPSON, A FORMER state senator who now practices law in Kansas City, Kan., said that the raising of the Salina city council was little longer than he had hoped it would.
THE RESURRECTION of the Salina Piece has awaited the return of Eldred, an instructor at the Kansas City Art Museum, who has been working in Europe.
He also said that he was quite satisfied with the progress and that he was sure the sculpture would soon be on display.
Eldred said he found it irritating that people had criticized the sculpture for its emptiness.
He would not reveal what locations were being considered on West Campus, but he said he hoped the Piece could be raised before winter.
"I think that is between me and the Internal Revenue Service." Simpson said.
before, but with a public display as opposed to a private display, you've got to make sure that there is no question. Cobb said.
"How the hell can somebody talk about something that has never even been heard of?"
Cobb said private contributions would be used for the installation.
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