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Wednesday June 24,1987
Vol. 97, No. 148
(USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1859
Fire drill
ducted on the University of Kansas campus and in Lawrence. The new ladder truck is jointly owned by the University and the city of Lawrence.
The Lawrence Fire Department practices procedures for fighting high rises fire at McCollium Hall. The drill Thursday was the first of three con-
Painters find profits during hot summers
Bv KRISTEN HAYS
Staff writer
Imagine spending a hot, muggy day perched on a ladder with the sun beating down and a paintbrush in hand.
Then imagine the possibility of earning enough money to purchase a book, or something else. Leslie
This summer several KU students have discovered that painting houses, though often backbreaking and laborious, can be a great education and leave some to spare.
"This is the first summer I've done
the travel. I can and probably
clearly $10,000 to $15,000."
Tim Overlie, Wichita junior, works for American Perma Coatings Co., 1726 W. 28th Street, painting the exterior of houses.
Mark Matthews, Overland Park senior, has painted interiors and
exteriors of houses for the past two summers. This summer his roommate, Brian Jupe, Overland Park junior, is his partner.
Matthews said, "I'll net around $2,000, which is a bad summer, not too busy. Still, it's good money. We can make $400 a week on one house."
To avoid the hottest part of the day,
Matthews and Juppe paint from 6 a.m. to
10 p.m.
"The heat is the worst part of the job. It just makes the hard work feel more difficult."
Matthews and Jupe don't advertise much. Instead, they rely on referrals.
"We put out some fliers, but mostly we let our friends tell people about it."
Sheila Hasenkamp, Circleville senior, has been painting houses during summers for 10 years.
"I started by helping my mom when I was in seventh grade," she said.
Hasenkamp paints in the evenings because she works at Alvamar Country Club, 1809 Crossgate, until 5 p.m. on weekdays.
"This summer, I'll make between $2.00 and $2.50. This is the first summer I haven't painted full time, because three to four hours a night," she said.
When Hasenkamp was painting full
when she would start around 6 a.m.
and return to work.
"I'd do the hard stuff early and then paint the sides of houses that were in the shade later in the day," she said. "Painting houses directly in the sun makes the paint bubble, and it can also be scrape or sand it and start over."
Hasenkamp has paid her way
through college by painting houses in the summer, but she said the best part of the job was the people she worked with
"I work with my mom and one of my best friends, and if they weren't there, it would be unbearable.
"I make about $4.50 an hour, and the going rate is $10 to $15 an hour. My work is cheap, but it's better than minimum."
She recently hired a friend, Janet Asmus, Fort Collins, Colo., senior, to help her finish painting a house that she had been working on.
Like Matthews, Hasenkamp relies on word-of-mouth rather than adverbs. "The truth is that I can't find a
Asmus said, "I've been looking for jobs, and Sheila offered to pay me $4 an hour. Though we painted in the evening, and it was cloudy, it was still hot, but the money is good."
New co-director will share duties
By CARLA PATINO
Staff writer
After twelve years as director of the Center of Latin American Studies, Charles Stansifer will begin sharing his job with a new co-director.
Sonia Fadlala, an administrative assistant at the center, last week said that Stansifer, who also is a professor of history, would share his job at the University of North Carolina as professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
Robert L. Lineberry, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said he was very pleased by Stansifer's decision.
"Both are going to complement each other," he said. "Stansifer's interest is in Central America mainly, and Vincent's is more in South America and Brazil."
Stansifer said he and Vincent would be co-directors of the center.
"For a long time, we had associate directors at the center." he said, "but it didn't seem right to me. It was a good idea, but not a minor member of the faculty,
"I have been making the decisions, but the associate directors and advisory committee have advised me."
Tansifer said that he sent Lineberry a letter on June 9 requesting Vincent's appointment would soon take up his new duties.
Stansifer said his increasing
workload was the main reason he decided to have a co-director share the work.
"There is more need of representation at national as well as at international conferences," he said. "There were times I couldn't go to places I was supposed to be."
Stanisfer's responsibilities will include handling external relations. Vincent will handle internal duties, such as advising graduate students and contributing to the liaison of the center with other departments.
Stansifer said the new position wouldn't cost the center any additional money, because Vincent's summer salary would be paid by money already in the summer budget.
"For the fall semester, his salary will be paid half by the Spanish and Portuguese department and the other half by the center," Stansifer said.
Vincent, who was chairman of the department of Spanish and Portuguese in 1979, said the new job would give him the opportunity to bring a Brazilian perspective to the center.
"I will give the center a less strict Central American orientation," he said.
Vincent said he would continue to teach Portuguese while devoting more of his summer time to the center.
Darry Chann/KANRAN
Jon S. Vincent, left, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, soon will become a co-director of the Center of Latin American Studies. He will share the duties of Charles Stansifer, right, who has been director of the center for 12 years.
Checkers' customers Old ice house now offers cool new thrills
By KEITH ROBISON
Staff writer
An item, currently getting attention it never had before, is in a Lawrence grocery store check-out line.
Stocked among the lighters, combs, National Enquirers and dental floss, the product looks somewhat out of place.
Because of the widespread attention given to the issue of safe sex, condoms are no longer hidden on the back shelves of the neighborhood drugstore and in the bathrooms of the local bar. They can be found in at least one supermarket check-out line.
Lawrence's newest supermarket,
Checkers, 23rd and Louisiana
streets, stocks condoms in their
check-out area.
The store's owner, Jim Lewis, said,
"When the president of the United States stands up and starts screaming about AIDS and asks us to do all we can, then we should do all we can. Then we should epidemic has to be addressed."
She said some parents might not like the idea of their children having condoms, but, "If a person is sexually active, they should have protection not just from pregnancy but also from unintended pregnancy ormitted diseases. 'It's important for people to be aware of the risks and be able to protect themselves.'"
Barbara Mikkelson, head nurse at the Douglas County Health Department, said she thought it was a good idea.
Lewis said he had talked about the issue with his employees.
Checkers has nine check-out aisles
but condoms are stocked in only aisles seven, eight and nine.
Roger Stumfoll, night manager, said, "We have them mainly on the precedence of the safe sex issue, but we ensure you can make a profit on them."
Rita Burkhard, a daytime manager, said, "We had discussed it and decided that if we got enough complaints, we would put them all in one aisle. I thought we would have some from mothers and older people, but I've only had one. Someone didn't think they belonged there.
Mikkelsen said, "I've never seen them in a store商店, but that should increase their availability and make them more accessible.
Father Frank Horvat, of the Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 1100 Kasold Dr., said, "You don't solve problems by promoting promiscuity, you just create newer problems. They treat society like we don't have any backbone, like we don't have the ability to say, 'No.'
"We've had more people say that we like the idea than have complained."
"Education is very important. We are going to be hearing more and more about AIDS."
"If you look at our society, we don't use our willpower. We just follow through with things and to heck with the consequences."
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Lewis said, "We're not advertising them. We don't have streamers and banners hanging up. It's in a subtle fashion."
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R. Sam Pepple, proprietor of Everything But Ice, rests against a toy car in the back of his warehouse. The car is one of the many items his store sells.
By DEBRA A. PETERSON Staff writer
Not every store displays an expensive leaded glass lamp next to a plastic toilet seat.
It's not common to see a badminton set and a Thermos jug atop a microwave table next to a vacuum cleaner beside a motorized pump that rests on a clothing catalogue across from a kitchen sink.
And it's not the average store proprietor who says to a hesitant customer, "You gotta gather your rosebuds before they hatch."
But then, not every store is Everything But Ice at Sixth and Vermont Mall.
Everything But Ice is an unclaimed and damaged freight store that stocks everything from truck bumpers to shower stalls. It takes its name from the fact that the truck has a thriving ice business for years.
What's unique about the place is that its proprietor, R. Sam Peepe, never knows from one week to the next what he'll have in stock.
People's approach to sales is unusual. "I try to have sales when other people don't," he said.
That's because Pepple's merchandise comes from a warehouse in Missouri that distributes damaged goods. Pepple said he paid for the goods 10 days in advance and was willing to anything the warehouse truck brings.
In 1980, his first year of business, the truck brought a load of unicycles. Another time, Pepple purchased the remains of a T-shirt company and sold nearly 10,000 shirts in 30 days. Last Thanksgiving he got 1,300 tuxedos from a discontinued line. "I bought 600 and wholesale the rest," he said.
His most recent sale was the "Miss Piggy, George Bush and Queen Elizabeth Sale." Employees wore Miss Piggy ears. Past sales include the Ticket Store, the Red Barn at Timley, Ohio Sales, the "Sixth Anniversary 30th Birthday Sam Sale," and the "Aaron's Going on Vacation Sale." Pepple also celebrates the Lupercalia, an ancient Roman fertility festival, every year with a sale.
"I have a hatred of normal advertising," he said.
Salesman Janey Fisher, self- appointed finder-of-places-for-things, said, "Working for Sam is not like working for a boss."
Pepple's criteria for hiring salesmen are as unique as are his sales "I try to hire people that are fairly electric," he said, "because they're more fun."
On the boss' desk sits a Rolodex card file, an adding machine, a deft china salt shaker, a roll of duct tape, assorted tools and a pair of socks. A cigarette lighter fastened to a long cord is attached to the shelves above the telephone within easy reach of all three workers.
People's wit with customers echoes the casual disorder. One man pointed to a wicker etagere and asked, "Do you happen to know what size this is?"
Despite the mess, salesman Aaron
wrote that he pretty much know
where everything is.
"Yeah," Pepple said, "it's a big one."
"Let's go see it," Pepple said.
They also know how to sell. Fisher gestured to a do-it-yourself porch kit and asked a customer, "Did you see this porch back here?"
See ICE, p. 6, col. 1