University Daily Kansan, September 29, 1982
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Downtown
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Clark said he had "the most tenuous of preferences for Link."
Francisco said that representatives from Link appeared to be good and easy to work with.
Sizeler would be a better choice because of a concern for both urban design and office space.
Binns said after the vote, "Let the record show that Binns did compromise."
Bins had said last week that Link would have been his last choice.
BINNS SAID Two Crowns offered a more innovative approach, which he thought would be better suited to Lawrence.
"We're asking for a non-traditional type of retail shopping. It seemed to me that the other two were far too traditional and far too conservative," he said.
"They were very proud of the fact that there is no developer in that group," he said. "They've got all these parts floating around and nothing to hold it together."
Clark said. Two Crowns did not have a working team including a developer.
Shonzt said of the developer choice, "I feel that our situation in Lawrence is really kind of fragile in the sense that we are very particular about what we want to happen
downtown. I think we have to be very, very careful."
NIONTZ SAID after the meeting that the naming on SZA to a developer of record meant for them.
Gleason said the commission showed interest in each developer.
"I think the expression of our interest in varying degrees in all the firms was raised by the fact that
Representatives of Sizer's development team said at their interview last week that urban design would play a large role in the project.
"It's all just sitting there." Stainback said of Lawrence and the redevelopment project. "We've got to do it."
JOHN STAINBACK, an urban designer for the DMJM firm, which is the architectural firm that will work with Sizerel, said he would bring two or three urban designers to work on the project. They will stay "as long as it takes them to get to know the town," he said.
The proposed size of the project Sizerel Really envisioned was 350,000 to 400,000 square feet of retail space. The other two projects are 290,000 and smaller projects; such as 290,000 square feet.
Friendship note earns 6-year-old Soviet Union trip
By United Press International
HOLIDAY, Fla.-A note of friendship set adrift in a bottle last week by a 7-year-old boy didn't nake it to its Soviet destination, but the boy will, thanks to an international friendship group and an anonymous donor.
group and the family. The boy, Michael Baron, and his father, Tom Baron, 32, hope to join the Friendship Force on a trip to Russia next month.
THEY WERE invited by Wayne Smith, founder of the 350,000-member organization based in Atlanta, who owns accounts of the students. Michael would be the youngest child to travel with the group.
Michael had hoped his letter, addressed to "Dear Comrad" and stuffed in a soda pop bottle, would reach a Russian child. But the bottle washed up on the shore of land-locked Lake Conley last week, not far from where Michael tossed it off a bridge.
tossed us.
It read, in part: "I wish we were friends. I hope we will never be at war with our countries."
Smith said, "That's a young man who speaks
"WE THINK young Michael would be a fine ambassador."
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Bus
enrolment, or that he did not know how much money was needed for the handicapped bus
In face the bus overtax, Ogle said, bus pass owners rode the bus an average of two and three-fourths times daily.
Ogle said last night that he first suspected something was wrong with the bus system when McMurry told him that 3,400 bus passes had been sold last spring. But in comparing the amount of bus passengers allowed to a bus pass, Ogle said, the bus pass owners would have need to ride the bus more than six times a day.
AS TRANSPORTATION coordinator,
McMurry is in charge of delivering bus pass
revenues from the Kansas Union, where passes
were sold, to the University comproiler.
The University comproiler was the pass
that were collected by bus drivers during the
first two weeks of each semester.
University officials were tipped to the possible misuse of transportation funds Sept. 14, when a check, made out to the Senate, bounced. The check had been deposited into a University State Bank account that was created by McKinney, Douglas County assistant district attorney, said last week.
A criminal investigation and an audit into bus system funds were inflated the same day by David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, McMurray was arrested the following event.
UNIVERSITY officials still are conducting an internal audit of bus system funds. The Senate also is conducting its own audit of the Lawrence contracted by the Senate to serve KU on Wheels.
In debating the revised budget last night, Paul Buskirk, Liberal Arts senator and transportation
board member, supported the bus pass price cut,
saying, "This board has the awful job of re-establishing credibility that has been lost in a short period of time. A decrease in price is the
Adkins, however, told board members that a refund on bus passes this semester was "unrealistic."
"THESE IS virtually no way we could distribute those refunds," Adkins said. But he told board members they should consider retaining them for future use, which each full-time student pays at enrollment.
Any change in the transportation fee, however,
would have to be approved by both Chancellor
and Treasurer.
Adkins also proposed the expansion of the bus system's routes, including a possible route from the Regents Center in Kansas City, Kan., to the Lawrence campus.
Greeting card sales flourish despite depressed economy
By DONNA KELLER
The greeting card business is stronger than ever despite the economy, four local merchants
Staff Reporter
Laurie McLane, sales clerk for Pendragon, 846 Massachusetts St., said that the store had not seen a decline in sales but that this year was comparable with last year.
"We sell stacks of cards a day," McLane said. She said one reason for the steady business was that there was more of a selection of cards available than there was several years ago.
"FREQUENTLY people will send a nice card instead of a gift," McLane said.
Wendy Roberts, greeting card buyer for the Oread Book Shop in the Kansas Union, said card sales there have not tapered off because of the economy either.
"They're holding steady," Roberts said. "Our best sellers are birthday cards and friendship cards. They're about 75 percent of our sales."
Roberts said that most people could not afford long distance calls anymore and that cards were a way to express their feelings.
"PEOPLE who get them feel like it's something special picked out just for them," she said.
She said she tried to stock cards from different companies to provide a selection for the customers.
"Most people say we have a good selection," she said. "The prices continue to go up, and people complain, but they still buy them."
people tell her.
She said that sales usually dropped in the summer but that gave her an opportunity to catch up on the inventory.
"OUR BEST seasons are Christmas and Valentine's Day," she said. "We try to keep a small selection of occasion cards because they're always needed."
Steve Maley, one of the owners of Footlights,
249-1 Iowa St., said the store had seen an approximate 15 percent increase in card sales this year over last.
Malcy said they sold equal amounts of occasion and greeting cards.
"Our business has increased over the last couple of years. A lot of it is word-of-mouth
advertising," he said. "Sometimes the freshmen will come in to see the store for the first time."
MALCY SAID he estimated they had about $1,500 in card sales last month.
Joann Fay, store manager for Bowen's Hallmark Shop, 84 Massachusetts St., said that the economy had not affected card sales in her store and that even without the student population this summer, card sales had been good.
"When the students left in June we were reordering every two weeks, but we had to go back to ordering cards every week. There were always empty holes in the display." Fay said.
Fay said sending cards was an alternative for people who could not travel or wanted to save on clothing.
"Ive found myself buying more cards," she said.
sand.
LEE JOHNSON, Baltimore, Md., graduate
"People who get them feel like it's something special picked out just for them."
Wendy Roberts
Union greeting card buver
student, said she bought approximately four to five cards a month.
Roberts said that although women represented a good percentage of their customers, men bought a lot of cards.
bought a job or car sales.
"It's a cheap way to tell people you're thinking about them and that you care about them," she said.
Craig Brady, Madison, Wis., sophomore, said be bought cards for special occasions.
"Basically you buy them for birthdays or things like that," he said. "It's a lot cheaper than calling."
JANE YOUNG, public information manager for Hallmark Carcades Inc, Kansas City, Mo., said that although the economy has been poor, the greeting card business was still very successful.
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She said that gift production had declined somewhat but that Hallmark was anticipating another boom with the Christmas season.
"Usually if someone can't send a gift, they'll at least send a card." Young said.
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