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Thursday, April 25, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Selling used items means fast cash
Lawrence shops busy with broke students
By R. Adam Ward Kansan staff writer
Many KU students are selling their possessions to make ends meet at the end of the semester.
"It's certainly the time for us to be buying, we almost out of space for used CD's," said John Harrison, employee at Love Garden Sounds, 936 1/2 Massachusetts St.
Love Garden typically has about 10 sellers of compact discs each day, Harrison said. He said he saw at least double the amount now
Right after spring break and now are peak times of the year, he said.
But some students who don't want to part with their possessions permanently take them to pawnshops. Thad Petry, a clerk at Jayhawk Pawn and Jewelry, 1804 W. Sixth St., said students usually didn't go to pawnshops when they needed money.
"A few, who have too much pride and dignity to go to their parents, try to save face by pawning things with us," Petry said. "But usually it backfires and their parents have to come to the shop and bail stuff out, so it costs more in the long run."
The cost to buy back pawned items is what the pawnshop paid plus 10 percent more every month.
Grady Hawley, sales floor manager of Play It Again Sports, 1029 Massachusetts St., said now was
one of the biggest times of the year for the store to buy sports equipment.
About 400 students come into their store on an average Saturday, he said. Now that number has increased by more than 100 students selling used sports equipment.
Tamyra Heim, general manager of Arizona Trading Co., 734 Massachusetts St., said the store's busy season started two weeks before spring break and continued through the end of the spring semester. The number of people selling clothes, which is largely made up of students, doubled during this period.
Rachelle Detweiler, Newton sophomore, said she cleaned out the trunks in her mother's basement and sold the clothes she found last summer. She said she made $800, so whenever she was low on cash at Christmas, before somebody's birthday, or needed to buy groceries, she would pawn her own clothes.
"It's a great way to avoid the responsibility of a job," Detweiler said.
Hector Encarnacion, San Francisco senior, said he had to sell his electric guitar to a friend to buy a computer disk drive he needed for an art class.
"Deciding to sell it was hard," he said. "It's like a part of you that's hard to let go of."
But Encarnacion said sometimes it was necessary, and if he had to sell something again he would.
ON CAMPUS
University Dance Company will sponsor Living Ad from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. today at Wescoe Beach. For more information, call Janet Hamburg at 864-4264.
Association for Women in Science will sponsor a meeting on cultural perspectives studying abroad and how culture influences sciences at 6 p.m. today at 2046 Haworth Hall. For more information, call Danel Vickerman at 864-4051.
Andrew Tsubaki will sponsor KU Ki-Aikido Club at 6 p.m today at 207 Robinson Center. For more information, call Matt Stumpet at 864-6592.
KU Meditation Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Ravi Hirekatur at 832-8789.
KU VASA will meet at 6 p.m. today at 232 Haworth. For more information, call Samantha Ha at 749-3007.
KU Champions Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at the Parlors in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Erik Lindsley at 841-4585.
InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship will sponsor a Bible study at 7 tonight at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Becky at 864-8039.
Native-American Student Association will meet at 7 tonight at the auditorium in the Multicultural Resource Center. For more information, call Lori Hauxwell at
Icthus Christian Outreach will meet at 7:30 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. For more information, call Scott Nissen at 838-9719.
864-1799.
Charles Yockey will sponsor Pre-Physician Assistant Club with guest speaker Heather Yates at 8 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Jenny Smith at 842-7084.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will sponsor a Bible study at 8tonight at the center,1631 Crescent Road. For more information, call the center at 843-0357.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will sponsor CARE, Catholics Actively Reaching Elderly, at 8 tonight at the center, 1631 Crescent Road. For more information, call the center at 843-0357.
KU Cycling Team will meet at 8:30 tonight at 156 Robinson Center. For more information, call Chris Vincent at 842-9255 or Kris Henkhaus at 864-8209.
Community Support Services will sponsor a support group for people with schizophrenia from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. tomorrow at the Vermont Towers Community Room. 1101 Vermont St.
Want quick results? Use the Kansan Classifieds!
Recovery Medicine Wheel Support Group will meet at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Multicultural Resource Center. For more information, call Samantha at 842-4797.
CORRECTION
An article on page 3A of yesterday's Kansan about June Henley contained incorrect information.
Henley faces two hearings regarding child support for a 3-year-old daughter with Tracie Simmons and a 10-month-old daughter with Michelle Lanue.
The story reported that Henley
faced a May 14 hearing regarding the child with Lanoue, who was present at the hearing, when in fact he faced a hearing regarding his child with Tracie Simmons.
Henley faces a hearing regarding child support for his and Lanoue's 10-month-old daughter on May 7.
Weather
Source: Seth A. Loyd/KU Weather Service
ON THE RECORD
A KU student's yellow parking permit was stolen between 12:30 p.m. Monday and 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in lot 90 next to Robinson Center, KU police reported. The permit was valued at $53.
A windshield was damaged and a Pioneer AM/FM compact disc player and compact disc were stolen from a KU student's car between 11 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m.
Tuesday in the 1700 block of Louisiana St., Lawrence police reported. The items were valued at $415. Damage was estimated at $300.
The windshield of a KU student's 1986 Cabriotet was damaged between 2 a.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. Sunday in lot 101 next to Templin Hall , KU police reported. Damage was estimated at $400.
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