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Wednesday, April 13, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Recycling program saves pine trees, electricity, fuel
Each ton of paper collected for recycling by "Waste Not," a University of Kansas recycling program, saves 17 10-year-old white pines, Join Seitz, project coordinator.
Also, less electricity and fuel are used to manufacture paper products from the recycled paper than from wood, he said recently.
Each week, about 3,000 of used paper is picked up from 40 campus locations by "Waste Not." The program is operated by an area center that assists assistant director of production services.
The paper is sold to the Shade Paper Co. in Wisconsin, which accepts only high quality papers such as bond, computer printouts, data processing cards and Xerox
The company doesn't accept newspapers.
carbon paper, colored paper or stick surfaced paper.
The paper is sold for from $40 to $60 a ton. Seitz said. Receipts pay student employees who collect the paper, and are used to buy books, binders, and boxes, which are used in the program.
"Waste Not" was started two years ago by William Argeringer, vice chancellor for graduate studies. At that time, only about 300 pounds of paper a week was collected, most of it from the Computation Center, Seltz said.
Seitz said he welcomed new paper contributors to the "Waste Not" program. Anyone who would like to donate paper may call him at 864-4291.
The program has been publicized in campus departments and the campus Association of Clerical Workers, Seltz said, and has grown rapidly.
Discount buying service aims for student market
By DONNA KIRK
Staff Renorter
The voice on the phone says it's calling for the university division of Modern Guide to Buying, a national company that can save you money on consumer items. The voice announces meetings this week to explain how our services and services and invites you to attend.
If you go to a meeting, the voice says, you will receive a free certificate for an ex-member.
You're skeptical. You ask: what is this, a random sample survey?
No, the voice explains patiently, we're
referencing senior and graduate
students. What would you
And so, out of curiosity, you go.
MEETINGS ARE at 1, 4; 30 and 7 p.m. seating is limited, the caller asks, so when you arrive,
Contacting college students through meetings is one of the marketing programs of the Kansas City-based Modern Guide to Buying, Inc., according to a Better Business Bureau report. The company claims it can offer fee-paying members large discounts on merchandise by eliminating middlemen for customers and offering discounts for members through a parent company, Executive Buying Corporation, Cranbury, N.J.
The Better Business Bureau report said that the company had a satisfactory performance record, and the bureau had maintained on the company since February 1972. The report said, however, that prospective members should consider joining the bureau fee as part of merchandise costs.
THE PRESSURE to sign the agreement at the meeting, not the membership fee, has brought complaints from students to the Consumer Affairs Association (CAA).
Judy Kroeger, CAA director, said many students had complained of high-pressure sales talks from sales representatives who said that if the students didn't sign the contract at the meeting, they would later pay higher membership fees.
Under the company's college program, members who select merchandise from catalogs pay a $40 initial fee and $2 a year for postage and kits mailed to them. The $2 fee is subject to change, depending upon increases in postage, paper and handling.
Kay Altman, a company sales representative, said recently the $480 was a "guaranteed renewable" payment, payable in a lump sum or in installments with a 1½ cent finance charge on the first $500 or less, equal to an 18 per cent annual interest rate.
That means the student as a new member pays $506 in the initial lump sum. If he pays only $28, a fee Alfman said entitles a new student to pay $26. The student pays $7.20 a month in addition to his monthly payments on the remaining $480 balance. However, the company's college student membership agreement states, students who pay $30.30 will save finance charges on it."
An April 19, 1975, letter from the company to the CAA said that the company allowed new members a three-day cancellation period. The company also noted that the company didn't accept a down payment until a representative has taken a new member to confirm his intent to join.
According to the company's college student membership agreement a buyer can cancel the contract any time before the contract expires or the date of the transaction, if the contract is executed outside an office of Modern Guide Services. If the contract was signed by the customer at a meeting.
*A buying service can give you savings only if you plan to buy lots of things, such as a car or a house.*
However, Altman said, people buy small appliances, cosmetics, toiletries and other small items over and over, so it wouldn't take long for a member to realize savings.
Altman said that according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a family simply needs a company to run it. By using company services, a family could average an annual $1,000 savings. Company members order goods from catalogs and send local price information with their orders for items, which the company claims can be less expensive.
KROEGER SAID, "As a consumer, you should ask yourself whether you would want to shop that way and have to wait for the goods. If a toaster burns out, I don't want to wait two months to get another one. I'd go shopping today." And have the use of it in the meantime."
She said some people who joined buying services told her it took from six to eight weeks to get some merchandise while others waited only one or two weeks.
Time can be important, she said, because a buyer can't examine merchandise until it arrives, and additional time is necessary to return an item and get a refund.
Altman said Modern installment to Buying accepted installation payments for merchandise from banks or other financing companies but the former made the financing arrangements.
THE COMPANY guarantees all deliveries to be prompt and fully insured, she said, and provides a WATS line for members who can't get service on products or want to hasten their cover. However, delivery charges, cover installation and delivery charges, she said.
Kroeger said that buying services generally offered larger discounts on items than local discount houses, but that the buying service added shipping charges to the price. The difference might equal or exceed the price of the same merchandise bought in a discount house.
She said that not all retail stores charged manufacturer's suggested retail prices, and that students should consider how much money they will pay after paying the membership and annual fees.
Utility deposits steep, but refunded
By CHRISTOPHER COS
Two roommates paid about $80. One woman had to pay approximately $90. A newlywed couple put down about $40. All women paid the same a utility deposit.
Staff Renorter
These deposits must be made before water, gas, electricity or phone service to new customers begins. In Lawrence, anyone planning to move into an apartment or a house probably will pay from $35 to $100 in deposits.
To students, the amount of deposits can be staggering. But under Kansas law, the sting of paying the deposits is lessened a little because utility companies are required to return them with 3 per cent interest. In other words, utility companies pay more than that...up to 6 per cent.
ACCORDING TO THE utility companies, a deposit can serve as an incentive for a customer to pay the amount of money the person is in paying his bills, utilities spokesman say, the more he improves his credit rating with the company and the sooner the utility deposit will be paid.
A credit rating will often do a new customer little good when he's beginning to establish a good credit rating with a particular utility can be possibly avoid paying a deposit. Almost anyone moving into a new residence will pay at least one.
THE LAWRENCE Water Department said that it required a $15 deposit from all renters but that homeowners weren't asked for one. The depositors were not paid, and they are refunded with $ per cent interest. If service is terminated before that time, the department pays the final bill with the refund and returns any money left over to the customer.
Deposts usually aren't required at the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., unless a bank or credit card is certain to Bill Collinson, a company spokesman. If a person has had service with the phone company before in another city, he must pay bills, the deposit isn't required he said.
COLLINSON SAID deposits were based on an average of two months' service, generally terminated. The account is reviewed by computer after about a year and if the credit
Collinson said a letter of guaranty was sometimes used in place of a deposit, allowing a person who has a good phone company credit rating to assume responsibility for a new customer's possible default.
standing is good, the computer automatically prints out a check to the customer for the deposit plus 6 per cent interest.
Anyone can use a letter of guaranty, he said, but in Lawrence it is more popular with students than with the general public. Nonetheless, most students choose the deposit option, he said, "because it's easier to awkward to get a third party involved."
THE KANASAS Public Service Co. asks for deposits from all customers who want to make payments by mail or in person.
Community play first since '40s
The Lawrence Community theater will present Paul Zindel's "The Secret Affairs of Milfred Wild" at 8 p.m. April 15 and 16 and "The Dance of the Lawrence Arts Center performance hall."
The play, Lawrence's first community theater production in 35 years, is a comedy of fate. A group of young women evicted from their Greenwich Village candy store because of urban renewal. The wife, Mildred Wild, retreats to a secret life in the mansion, which finally reconciles her dreams on reality.
from such movies as "King Kong," "Gene With the Wind" and "The Invisible Man." Mary Doveton, 212 Wren Lane, is director, and John Wilson, assistant professor of social welfare, is her assistant. Gregory P. Williams, 113 Vermont St., Bill Kelly (Roy Wild), professor of law; Steve Silver (butcher), Lawrence graduate student; Betty Collier (Helen Wild), 507 Lawrence University and Peggy Wilson (landlady). Bristol High School.
Tickets, which cost $2.50, are available at Rusty's food stores and the Arts Center. Persons 65 and over will be admitted free to the Sunday matinee.
company spokesman, said. She said that a $10 deposit was required for service to apartments and trailers and that homeowners usually put down between $25
Accounts that show year-old deposits are refunded with 4 per cent interest, she said. In the meantime, any deposit over a year is over, the deposit is applied to payment of the final bill and the remaining balance.
Ines Rieagle, credit manager at the Kansas Power and Light Co., said deposits
were required unless the customer had had previous service for at least a year with KP&L and had no delinquent payments during that time.
RESIDENTIAL deposits are $35, she said,
except for deposits for total electric homes,
which cost $19.95 per square foot.
Riegle said the deposit figures were based on an average two-month bill. If after a year the account shows all bills were paid in full, the account is not applied toward payment of the current billing.
Intramural Track Meet
Saturday, April 16
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FILMS
MOSES AND AARON (1975)
Dir. Jean-Marie Straub. A top-drawer production of Schoenberg's opera. Classical Film Series. Wed., April 13; 7:30 p.m. $1
THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN (LULU THE TOOL)
(1972)
Dir. Elio Petri. With Mariangela
Melato. Co-Grand Prize winner of
Festival 1972.
(italy/subtilties)
Thurs; April 14, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975)
Kansas Union
Woodruff Auditorium
Dir. Sydney Pollack with Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Plus short films by K.I.U. students
from CINEMAS, April 16, 3:30; 8:00; & 9:30 p.m., $1
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APPLICATIONS
NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR SUNFLOWER HOSTESSES
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation is now accepting applications from students interested in assisting with the recruitment of prospective student-athletes for the Football Department. Membership requirements state that you-must be a regularly enrolled KU student in good standing during the 1977-78 academic year.
For further information and applications contact the football office, Allon Field House annex. Application deadline is 5 p.m., Friday, April 15.