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University Daily Kansan, August 31, 1982
New cash register system speeds up lines for Union bookstore customers
By MATT BARTEL Staff Reporter
Students spent less time this semester than in the past standing in line to buy books, Steve Word, Kansas Union Bookstore manager, said yesterday. Many students who bought their books at the Union agreed.
The reason for the shorter lines, Word said, was a new cash register system being used this semester. Installed at a cost of about $100,000 each month, it allows users to item keys, which Word said were faster than the numerical keys on the old registers.
In addition, he said, the new registers are connected to the KU Computer Center, where the information is broken down into 37 different class codes. Word said this would enable the bookstore to accumulate a "usable
history" of sales data, including how book sales were distributed between the various schools and courses, something never before available.
"I could not have been more pleased," Word said of the new registers. "They accomplished everything we expected of them."
"Service is where the competition is" he said.
Fast service is especially important, Word said, because no bookstore has any flexibility on its prices, which are set by the wholesaler.
Kathy Morrow, Kansas City, Kan. junior, who bought her books at the Union, agreed that the lines were not very long.
"I was really surprised, as a matter of fact," Morrow said. "It was a lot faster."
Nauman Ahmed, Pakistan junior, also said the lines were shorter than
last year. Ahmed said he stood in line only five minutes when he bought his car.
But not all students agreed. Bill Blaise, Kansas City, Kan., senior, said when he bought his books at the Union and of classes, the lines were still long.
'R. (it's) longer than ever,' Blaise said. "About 40 minutes."
Word said he timed one student who took 15 minutes to move through the line on the first day of classes.
He said he would install maps in the bookstore next semester to help direct students to books for each course as an effort to improve service.
Tim Langdon, Topeka freshman, who spent about five minutes in line at the sandwich station, said, "I thought that if I had Of course, I didn't think enrollment was bad, either."
Living areas to enforce parking rules
By KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
Most apartment complexes will start enforcing their parking lot policies Wednesday, the dispatcher of Jayhawk Tow and Storage, 1545 N. Third St., said.
"I look for business to increase
influentially," said dispatcher Patti Fitti.
Last week, Jayhawk Tow and Storage towed 37 cars from private property close to the KU campus. The business tows an average of five cars a day now, but that number will go up in September, Falter said. Near campus, the towing service has towed from 16 to 20 cars a night from one place alone.
The towing service gets most of its business from the Oread neighborhood, especially near Eighth and Vermont State Roads. The cars are towed between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m.
"We back up to the car and if we're not hooked and the owner comes out, there's no charge," said Lonnie Faler, owner of Jayhawk Tow and Storage. "There's a $10 charge if we're hooked to it."
The cost of being towed varies depending on where the violation occurs and how difficult a car is to tow. A regular tow costs $23 for a car and $20 for motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles, Faler said.
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The sororities and fraternities on West Campus Road intend to have any unfamiliar cars in their parking lots towed at the owners' expense.
"Our policy is to tow cars we don't recognize," said Bill Middleton, Wichita senior and president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. "We have a large lot but our friends, anyone at all parks there, someone from the house has to park elsewhere."
Anne Cieland, Topeka senior and house manager of Chi Omega, said their parking lot was so small that it would be difficult for them to find parking spaces away from Chi
Omega. They have considered adding to their lot, but it is impractical to do so, and so Omega has opted.
The Gamma Phi Beta parking lot is large enough to accommodate most members, but pledges are placed on a rotation system for spaces, said Lynne Williams. Salina senior and president of the Gamma Phi Beta pledges can park there for two weeks and then they wait for their turn to come again.
This year, for the first time, a person will be assigned to patrol their parking lot on a regular basis. Williams said, "We're giving special parking sticker will be towed."
Sorcerites and fraternities are not controlled by KU so their parking facilities are not available to students with KU parking stickers.
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The Kansas City co-host of the television show PM Magazine, Dana Hilger, told an audience in Flint Hall yesterday evening that her job was not glamorous and the hours were atrocious.
"There are just ungodly amounts of things you have to go through." Hilger age.
In a speech sponsored by Women in Communications, a professional journalism club Hilger told the audience how she was attacked by a storyaire used up to 80 hours of work.
Being on television is a humiliating experience because every flaw shows
months. The only reason I came down here was so I wouldn't have to watch television.
"I wouldn't watch anything I did for
Hilger said she enjoyed the magazine format of the show, which aires each weeknight on ABC, because it allowed her to cover other areas besides hard news. She said she realized, however, that her history on PM Magazine was significant.
"I admit we have our fluff. When you go into a potato factory, big deal," she asks.
Story ideas for the show came from local magazines and viewers who phoned in ideas, although not all of their ideas were acceptable, she said.
"We are constantly vetoing people calling in about a 10-pound potato that looks like a goat," she said.
She said the long hours and hard work often made her look less than her
best on the air.
"Women get on the air and people expect them to look good and if they don't, they get mad. People would call and say 'Why don't you comb your hair?' she said. "You know what I wanted to say to them."
Despite her complaints, Hilger said she enjoyed her job. She advised those interested in pursuing careers in television to break into the business by taking any job at all at a television station.
The most important things a person interested in broadcasting could learn in school, she said, were the abilities to and to speak and communicate well.
At her first job at a CBS affiliate in Wichita, she said she literally volunteered to scrub the toilets in order to get a job.
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