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University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 4, 1988
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Dealing with Donald Trump
Co-author of entrepreneur's autobiography tells how he did it
By Julie Adam
By jane adam
Donald Trump might know the art of the deal, but Tony Schwartz knows how to play his cards right.
Schwartz talk to about 106 people last night in the Kansas Union Railroad. Earlier, he spoke to seers.
Schwartz, who is co-author of the best-selling book about Trump, "The Art of the Deal," yesterday told students during a campus visit and lecture how he got one of the richest men in the world to ask him to write his autobiography.
Schwartz said that he first met Trump, a New York entrepreneur and magnate, in an Atlantic casino that Trump owned. Trump was being photographed sitting on a throne surrounded by piles of chips and coins, some of which were stacked in the shape of Trump Tower, a skyscraper that Trump owns in New York City.
Schwartz said he had wanted to interview Trump for an article for New York magazine.
He then decided to follow up that article by interviewing Trump about apartment house tenants who successfully fought Trump when he tried to buy the building they were living in.
Trump did not want to be interviewed, but Schwartz said that he would write the story whether Trump cooperated or not. Schwartz finally got the story and Trump's cooperation but not until Trump tried to intimidate him by having six lawyers present during his interview.
Schwartz said that he thought Trump admired that he had been so steadfastness and that he hadn't been snowed.
A year later, Schwartz interviewed Trump for
Playboy magazine. During the interview, Trump asked Schwartz if he wanted to be coauthor of his autobiography.
For Schwartz, a former New York Times reporter, writing the autobiography was a test of his journalistic ethics.
During a talk with a journalism class, Schwartz said that he had always thought of himself as an independent journalist, someone who writes whether or not the story's subjects approved.
With the Trump book, he had to decide whether he wanted to sacrifice the complete independence of a newspaper journalist or do a kind of writing that would be screened by his subject. Trump.
But he said he didn't consider his decision to write the book as selling out because the book was as honest an autobiography as had ever been done. He said he told Trump that issues they were writing about had to be represented hopeless.
Schwartz said that during the two years he spent with Trump researching the book, they had big and small battles about its content. Schwartz said he usually won out on the big
Schwartz said that the book portrayed Trump as both men saw him. He called Trump a colorful, controversial entrepreneur who played by his own rules. Schwartz wrote the book in the first person, as if Trump wrote it himself.
Schwartz said that he now makes his living doing other kinds of writing. He is working on a script for a new NBC series that is set in the U.S. attorney's office in New York City.
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Schwartz, who is 35 years old, has written an episode of "L.A. Law." He said he wanted a job in which reporting was as important as writing.
Colony Woods tenants are paid for high bills
Kansan staff writer
By Kim Lightle
Students whose electricity bills were inflated at Colony Woods Apartments because outdoor lighting and pop machines were attached to their electricity circuits have been reimbursed.
The management of the 370-unit student apartment complex at 1301 W. 24th St, along with several residents who have had inflated bills, said yesterday that the overcharges had been resolved.
, couldn't figure out why the bills were so high," he said.
Alan Cardozo, Prairie Village sophomore, learned in January that he had been paying for a pop machine and 11 outside lights that were hooked up to his fuse box.
Cardozo said that he had been reimbursed $270 for the overcharge and that the machine and lights had been disconnected.
"I got what I deserved," he said.
"It just made me mad because I don't like to be screwed."
Jane Ellis, manager of Colony Woods, said that Kansas Power & Light had determined reimbursement by the number of hours the lights were run and wattage of the lights.
Ellis said that the residents had been notified that their reimbursement checks were in the office, but many residents had not picked them.
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Chris Fletcher, Overland Park junior, said his wiring problems still had not been resolved, but he agreed with the Colony Woods management about the amount of reimbursement he was entitled to.
The fuse box in Fletcher's apartment is hooked up to an outside light; and the only way for him turn of the fire is to turn off his furnace, he said.
Fletcher said that he and his roommates had received a letter from the management stating that they would be paid for every month they were overcharged.
Although the overcharges have been resolved, some students at College Woods still are complaining that their high monthly electricity bills.
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Cynthia Benner, Weston, Mo. junior, said her monthly electric bill went from $180 to $63 after KPL changed her billing rate from the standard rate to the peak management rate.
Ed Collister, lawyer for Colony Woods owner Randall Davis, said he understood that residents were unhappy with the bills but said that wasn't the owner's fault.
"Nobody likes bills," he said. "I complain about paying them, too."
Warm-up
Many leave country to study Rising number of KU students abroad reflects national trend
Debbie Ray and her husband, Lonnie Ray, members of the band Lonnie Ray and the Blues All Stars, sing a tune at the Winter Warm-up '88. The concert last night at Liberty Hall was a benefit for two local charities: Warm Hearts and Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen, or LINK. Three other bands performed at the concert: the Homestead Grays, the Art Band and Tommy Johnson.
Kansan staff writer
By Brenda Finnell
The lure of a unique culture draws some students. Others are intrigued by the foreign language.
Although their reasons are as varied as the number of places they study, increasing numbers of students, both at KU and around the country, are choosing to study abroad.
Although there has been only a modest increase this year in the number of KU students studying abroad, the number of such students has greatly increased during the last five years.
This academic year, 274 students are studying abroad, seven more than last year. Five years ago, 185 students studied in foreign countries
The increased interest in studying abroad at KU follows a national trend, according to figures released Monday by the Institute for International Education, the largest higher-education exchange agency in the United States.
The institute figures showed that during the 1985-86 school year, 48,483 students took courses for credit in foreign schools. These figures showed an increase from the 1982-83 school year, when 27,145 students studied abroad.
The study abroad program in Costa Rica is the most popular at KU, said Janis Perkins, assistant director of study abroad. France and Great Britain rank second and third in popularity.
Students who want to study abroad must have a 3.0 grade point average and meet foreign language requirements that the individual programs specify.
Most students choose to study abroad during their junior or senior year.
The decrease in the dollar's value in foreign countries has had some effect on study abroad participation but has primarily made this year's increase smaller than expected, Perkins said.
When the dollar decreases in value, the cost of living in a foreign country increases.
Pat Prohaska, president of KU's 70-member Study Abroad Club, said, "A few people might not be able to afford it, but there is still a big interest in it."
Prohaska said he tried to emphasize how a study abroad experience could enable students to view different ways of living around the world.
"It can change their attitudes and opinions of what happens in the
Human rights struggles have opened people's eyes to the world and made them more aware of world events, Prohaska said. That awareness makes many want to study in foreign countries.
An increase in terrorism several years ago made many students afraid to study abroad, Prohaska said. That trend is now changing.
He said that his club hoped to organize a program that would enable foreign students who study at KU to meet KU students who have studied in their countries. This arrangement would also give KU students a chance to practice their language skills.
The club now publishes two news letters, one for KU students studying abroad and one for people on campus interested in study abroad activities.
Prohaska also said that he hoped a magazine for study abroad students could be started. Students who return each fall from study abroad programs could submit accounts of their experiences abroad.
Marcia Reed, Solomon senior studied in Seville, Spain, last year (2016). He broadened his experience another culture and become fluent in Spanish.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
KU visit to Costa Rica marks exchange program's success
By Joel Zeff
Kansan staff writer
During six days in Costa Rica, a delegation of about 100 KU officials, former students and their families last week celebrated the 30th anniversary of the student and faculty exchange program with University of Costa Rica.
The group, led by Mary Elizabeth Gwin Debicki, director of study abroad, participated in the signing of a new exchange agreement between the University of Kansas and the University of Costa Rica.
The delegation left for Costa Rica Feb. 25 and returned Tuesday. Chancellor Gene A. Budig, who signed the new agreement, left Feb. 26 and returned with the rest of the
group.
"It was a very meaningful trip," Budig said. "It gave us the opportunity to thank those people for years of friendship and partnership."
Budig said that the Costa Ricans were receptive to the KU group and wanted to know more about KU.
"I now have a far greater appreciation for the difficulties they encounter on a daily basis," Budig said. "It is a very important part of the world, and we must pay more attention to Central America."
Budig said that he met with the rector of the University of Costa Rica and discussed the importance of international relations, the understanding of different cultures
and the role university exchange programs played.
The exchange program between KU and the University of Costa Rica has been called the oldest inter-university exchange in the Western hemisphere. More than 600 KU students, 350 Costa Rican students and 200 faculty members have been involved in the exchange program during the last 30 years.
"Many of the students did not know each other. The program provided a common thread that made them instant friends."
"The trip was spectacular," Debicki said. "It was beyond our wildest dreams. Everything went better than we ever expected."
Debicki said that the trip was a reaffirmation of the friendship between KU and Costa Rica.
"I have a revived sense of purpose since my trip to Costa Rica. I am excited that I am connected with a program that is loved by so many people." Debicki said.
The only problem with the trip was that Budig and the group were unable to meet with the Costa Rican president, Oscar Arlas Sanchez, Debcik said. But the group did meet with Costa Rican government officials. 5
group did meet with Costa Rican government officials.
Debicki and Budig said they hoped to return to Costa Rica.
Budig said, "This was my first trip to Costa Rica, but if will not be my last."
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