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Monday, December 10, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
LOO, Mont. — Marine Sgt. Paul Flemmier is somewhere in the Persian Gulf, but he and his fiancée were buried during the weekend anyway.
Wedding takes place by proxy; father stands in for Marine son
The Associated Press
Flemmer's father, Del Flemmer,
stood in for his eldest son under a
state provision that allows proxy
weddings.
"I haven't got married for 30 years," the elder Flemmer cupped just before exchanging vows Saturday with his daughter-in-law-to-be, Rhonda McWilliams, 25, of nearby Stevensville.
The wedding was arranged by mail, telephone and a legal power-of-attorney.
"Usually, when the groom doesn't show up for the wedding, the wedding is off," said the Rev. Gale Fister, pastor of a ceremony at Lolo Community Church.
Flemmer and McWilliams, who have a 1-year-old son, were scheduled to be married Aug. 30, and Flemmar had been granted a 30-day leave for the occasion. The couple had even purchased a house in Stevensville, the 25-year-old bride's home.
Flemmer's leave was canceled abruptly after Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2. He was sent from his duty to the Persian Gulf, to calf, to the Persian Gulf on Aug. 27.
But the bride was determined to have a wedding, with or without the groom.
He said the libraries outside of the School of Law and the University of Kansas Medical Center subscribed to more than 22,000 journal titles. More than $2 million is spent on the overseas publications.
About 65 percent of the money the University spends on journals are for journals that are published outside of the United States, Crowe said.
Montana is one of the few states that allows proxy weddings.
"It's no surprise for science journals to cost $500 to $1,500 for each subscription," Crowe said.
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Students were not laid off, but the 22 positions that were filled by students who graduated in the spring were not filled for Fall 1990 he said.
"We'd heard about the possibility of a proxy wedding, but the chaplain in California said it couldn't be done," she said.
Greeks
Because the minimum wage increased last spring and the Legislature did not increase library financing to accommodate the increase, the libraries lost 22 student positions, Crowe said.
He said that because student positions had been cut, the libraries had to decrease services, including reducing Watson library hours by 6.5 hours a week and shelving books and periodicals at a slower pace.
To get the 22 positions back, the library system would need an additional $50,000 for Spring 1991, Crowe said.
In April, another minimum-wage increase will go into effect.
"If the state doesn't fund the increase, we'll lose another 17 positions next year." Crouse said
"When Paul gets back, we'll do it the right way," his bride said.
The price of U.S. books and journal-
less materials is more than the rate
of $10 per book written for them.
He said the problem would come during Fall 1991 when library hours and services would have to be cut again.
Crowe said acquisitions of books and periodicals also were hurt by a lack of state financing.
He said the library system would need about $1 million to maintain its current subscriptions.
Crowe said he was not optimistic about receiving all the money the libraries needed to maintain their operations.
"We have to be ready and have to plan for how much we need to cut subscriptions and how much we need to trim in book ordering." he said.
About 2,000 journal subscriptions will have to be canceled if the libraries do not receive the necessary $1 million, Crowe said.
Another reason the libraries are having difficulty purchasing journals is because the strength of the dollar has being the past few months, he said.
"If the dollar recovers, we wouldn't be in as much trouble." Crow said. "But it doesn't look like it's going to recover soon."
"Even domestic prices have increased." Shankel said.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said he thought the libraries had been doing an excellent job with the money they had.
His second concern was the rapidly increasing cost of journals.
Shankel cited three areas of concern he had regarding the financial situation of the libraries.
"The University has tried to make special allocations to the libraries."
He said he also was concerned by the declining value of the dollar compared to foreign currency.
The first problem was that the Legislature did not compensate the libraries for the increase in the minimum wage, he said.
he said. "But they are continuing to fall behind."
Shankel told the University would continue to ask the Legislature for more money through the Margin and other sources of finance.
Bill McLaughlin, Topeka junior, who works as a student supervisor at the circulation desk at Watson, said that when he started working at the circulation desk at Topeka, he worked at the circulation desk on weekends. Now only two students work there.
"It creates more work for us," he said.
McLaughlin said that when student hours initially were cut, his hours decreased from 18 hours a week to eight hours a week.
"It put me in a bad situation," he said.
McLaughlin said his hours then were increased to 18 hours because other students either had graduated or quit.
He said he had noticed two problems as a result of the lack of financing.
"One big thing is the shelving of books." McLaughlin said. "A huge amount of books are being returned, and a few fewer people to shelve the books."
He said that the other problem he had noticed was a reduction of library hours since Spring 1990.
Some students had complained about the new library hours, especially on Friday nights, when hours were decreased from 7:30 a.m. -10 p.m. to 8 a.m.-8 p.m., McLaughlin said.
Other students have complained about books not being reshelved as quickly as they have in the past, he said.
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