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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 1, 1995
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Lifestyles
Kathleen Driscoll / KANSAN
Ricki Dreyfus, St. Louis senior, flips through a coupon book to see what kind of savings are available. Coupons can be big money savers for KU students.
But the livin'ain't easy
KU students find creative ways to save dough
Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
Kathleen Driscoll / KANBAN
Being a cheapskate isn't easy. But if saving money is the same as earning it, some KU students are making a pretty good living.
Students employ a variety of methods for making ends meet, including eating cheaply, being
Kimberly Kistner, Marysville senior, makes noodles for dinner. Noodles are one of the cheapest foods students can buy.
"I'm the Kato Kaelin of Lawrence," proclaimed Tim Anderson, Topeka senior.
Anderson uses University of Kansas e-mail instead of calling long distance.
Anderson is also one of many students who has mastered eating cheaply.
"Rice is one of the cheapest foods," he said. "You can pick up soy sauce packets at Wescoe, so it doesn't taste so bad."
John Malloy, St. Louis sophomore, has also eaten his share of cheap foods, including plenty of spaghetti.
His big thing now is clipping coupons, he said.
Jason Hatfield, Salina senior, and his roommates save money by washing their dishes by hand, closing their shades during the day, and not turning on their heater.
They are especially fanatical
"Ifit's yellow,let it mellow;ifit's brown,flush it down."
Jason Hatfield
Salina senior, on saving toilet water
stores his belongings in his car and sleeps on a friend's love seat.
"My feet hang over the end," he said. "It kind of sucks, but it's free."
about conserving water in their toilet.
"Our motto is,
'if it's yellow,
let it mellow;
if it's brown,
flush it down," Hatfield said.
Tyler Johnson, Springfield junior, also tries to save on utility costs. This summer he and his roommate made i
"I sweated in my sleep, but I got used to that living in a scholarship hall," he said.
to the end of July before they turned on their air conditioner.
Joyce Davidson, psychologist for KU counseling and psychological services, said it was common for students to struggle with finances.
Now Johnson searches under
his couch cushions for lost money.
"Financial stress is a big chunk of what people are dealing with," she said. "The reality is that going to college is expensive."
To pay his bills, Kevin Bates, Tecumseh senior, donates plasma twice a week at NABI Biomedical, 816 W. 24th St. He makes $15 per visit.
Donating so much blood doesn't bother him. Bates said.
But he does get teased by friends.
"They say I'm prostituting myself," he said.
Parking permits may get revamped
Computers could simplify renewal
By Sarah Wless Kansan staff writer
Filling out those gray and white parking application cards at the parking department may become a thing of the past within a few years.
Don Kearns, director of parking services, said his ultimate goal for faculty, staff and students was for them to be able to renew their parking permits via computers.
"It's absolutely mind-boggling to me why people have to come down year after year and fill out the same application," Keams said.
In the cases of many faculty and staff, car information doesn't change.
Ideally, the parking renewal stickers could be mailed instead of picked up at the parking department.
Although the ultimate system is probably several years away, a step in that direction may become reality by the summer semester for University faculty and staff.
The University's new payroll system, called HR Pay, is the key because it will allow for various payroll deductions, said Ola Faucher, associate director of human resources.
A parking permit payroll deduction is tentatively slated to begin in June, Kathe Shinham, director of comptrollers office, said a paper form would be required to authorize deduction.
"Our goal is to have it in place so our employees can pay for parking on a monthly basis." she said.
Details about deduction process are sketchy because planning is in the preliminary stages.
"In modern technology, it's not a matter of whether we can do it but when we can accomplish it," she said.
Faucher said Kean's idea of making deductions from individual workstations wasn't impossible but wasn't in the immediate future.
Faucher said that programs could be developed so individuals would be able to renew parking permits through the University's computer network. But making sure the payroll function works will be the primary concern she said.
Kearrs said the department had wanted payroll deduction as a payment option for several years.
"If we get the faculty and staff on this system, I think it could be workable with students," Kearns said.
Because students move frequently, mailing renewal stickers would be a challenge, Kearns said. The department would probably have to mail them to a students' permanent addresses.
KU Christian groups plan unity gathering
By Craig Lang
Kansan staff writer
When she is on campus, Joann Tsang sometimes feels like she's the only Christian around.
"People don't wear signs on their foreheads that say, 'I'm a Christian, too,'" said Tsang, Berkeley, Calif., graduate student.
Katrina Lundien, Burington, Colo., senior, and member of KU Campus Christians, said that was why she and Steve Swank, Coatesville, Penn., graduate student and member of the InterVarsity Graduate Fellowship, had organized a meeting open to all members of campus Christian organizations. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Union ballroom.
said.
Lundien said that this was a chance for Christian students see that their organization was not the only one on campus.
"We want to bring together the body of believers on this campus who accept the Bible as authoritative and God-breathed and follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior." Lundien said.
Jim Musser, campus minister for Campus Christians, said that bringing together all the Christians on campus had been discussed for a few years.
"People talked a lot about it, but nothing had ever been done," he
Musser said that he presented the idea last year to Christian students gathered around the Campanile to pray. He received a positive reaction from the students, so he passed the idea on to Lundien and Swank, he said.
Musser said that it was important that students, and not the sponsors of the Christian organizations, ran the event.
"My experience in the past is when students initiate something, they're more excited about it," he said.
Swank will lead the meeting. Events will include group prayers, singing, individual testimonies and time for Christians to meet one another.
About 25 different campus Christian organizations have been invited to participate. The reaction from these organizations have been positive. Swank said.
Lundien said that she expected about 300 students to attend. She said that there had been much interest in this event from organizations, but not all of them would participate in the meeting.
"A couple groups won't be able to come because they already had speakers lined up for the semester," Lindden said.
"Hopefully we'll get more participants as it gets more known," she said.
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