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- v ' 1 if tf V '4 sr v v W 4 "if : "iSp-m - , , . -. I conomis eware o eceofions Dy John Petrow You went to buy the stereo system advertised for $39, and found the store didn't have it and had no intention of selling it to you. You have just tried to buy an item that was "nailed to the floor." This is one of many rip-off techniques that were discussed by James G. Kcndrick. crcfssier cf agricultural economics, Monday in the Harper Hail lormge. The Consumer Affairs Group (CAG) sponsored the program, which presented two films to illustrate basic techniques in taking people's money. An Itsm that is "nailed to the floor" can ususUy be distinguished by art offer that seems too good to be true end by a salesman who has no intention of selling you that item. This is known as tha "bait" and leads to the "switch". Switching is attracting the customer under false pretenses and then trying to seil him different merchandise for a higher price. Unethical as thasa practices are, they are not illegal. Repeated dealing cf this sort should be reported to the local Better Business Bureau. Kendrick warned students to beware of contracts whh tricky ciauses. :'iwany innocent parties are taken in every day because they fail to read the contract carefully and ask questions," he said. To avoid being misled, the buyer should completely understand the contract, leave no spaces blank and check totals before he signs, ha said. Kendrick said that patronizing companies students are familiar with and investigating before investing, wi'l usually prevent being deceived. CAG, in Nebraska Union 117, is willing to try to solve contractual problems of students or refer them to other authorities. For those experiences door to door sales of products they later find out are no good or they don't want, there is a three-day cooling off period in which the buyer legally has the right to revoke the Book clubs, magazine deals, record clubs and encyclopedia sales are contracts that should be avoided, Kendrick said. He said in all situation he knew of, there was no offer that was cheaper than purchasing the item through the respective company. "Don't sign anything that sounds like a good deal right away," he said. "If it sounds good now, it will sound good a week later. You should always think over what you are getting into before you do it" colli m vj wf jnesday, march 6, 1 974 Hncoln, nebraska vol. 97, no. 29 'Sunrise' broadcast may start in fall; FCC application next step to license By f.'la'y Shackelton Sunrise Communications plans to start broadcasting a noncommercial, nonprofit public access FM radio station sometime between September and November, according to board member Ron Kurtenbach. In two or three weeks, Sunrise board members will submit an application to the Federal Communicatiofti Commission. Kurtenbach laid, - The proposed station, which was predicted last August to be in operation this spring, was delayed by not having a "consistent number cf people working" on starting the station, t?80r$9 board mffibwr ' ""Tom ctfwiiltx" -r r Getting equipment and broadcasting facilities also caused deaiy, he said. "Sunrise Communications is not an off shoot of the Lincoln Gazette," Gedwillo emphasized. The Gazette is a counterculture, newspaper. Both Gedwillo and Kurenbach work for the Gazette. This leads some persons to believe the newspaper and radio station are connected, he said. "People opposed to the Gazette are often opposed to Sunrise Communications," he said. However, Sunrise uses the Gazette as a means to publicize progress on the radio station, he said. Gedwillo and Kurtenbsch. e!or3 with .members Mason Yeun-sftisn, J&dy Converts, Tom Headley and Bill Lock, tgrte that tha supposed Gazettes association influencsd tha Yf.lCA's cfecklon not to allow Sunrise Communications to set up its antenna on tha downtown YfCA building. Before the YMCA board of directors voted on the matter, downtown Y officials offered to give Sunrise free office space for a transformer and roof space for an antenna, Kurtenbach said. Sunrise Communications directors were not flowed to appeal to the YMCA, he said. YMCA board members were not available for comments. Sunrise now plans to use the Yellow Cab Tower for its antenna and a back room of the Purple Piano building at 10th and P Sts. for office space, Kurtenbach said. Office rent will be $25 a month, he noted. fnn uurem. m eit l Ci glr Kama omt will be able to broadcast 24 hours a day. Proposed programs include: rock music with critical reviews, a program on the elderly by local retired persons and Nebraska Commission on Aging personnel, movie reviews, Nebraska Civil Liberties Union weekly reports, recipes, country, folk, blues, Latin American, native American and international music; union songs of the '30s; '50s jazz; and comic satire. As a public access radio station, one-sixth of the prjnie time broadcasting day must be devoted to available "free speech messages," Kurtenbach said. "We'll broadcast anyone general cplnionists, facists, capitalists, triviaf people, socialists, the YWCA' he said. , Support" for thr station- harewmr from f3l$or-i ' Potter of tneTrJendslbf Gamber"lviusfc, the'tl Door Health Center, the Malone Center, UNL Ombudsman, James Suter, Ron Hull, assistant Educational Television manager, officials from Southeast Nebraska Technical Community College, State Sen. Steve Fowler, the Indian Center, Director of Lincoln City Libraries Charles Dalrymple and Trinity United Methodist Church minister, the Rev. David W.Paul. Marshall Prichard, news director at KLM3-AM, wrote in a letter to Sunrise Communications: "I've found it necessary to rethink my philosophy on the ability of commerical radio stations to adequately deliver excellent news coverage." When a station begins, it has "no audience, no commericals and lots of music. Then you begin to get an audience, start running a full log and have little music," he said. "In a noncommercial format, I believe that it would be possible to program a station that could well afford to present the in-depth reporting that I feel is hi the public interest, without concern of the economic leve!...Sunrisa Communications, if given a license to operate in the public interest could fill that void that I believe, now exists." Planning for a noncommercial FM radio station in Lincoln began about a year and a half ago, Kurtenbach said- Kurtenbach said one question that people kept asking was, "Why make it noncommerical?" He said, the philosophy tied up In the power structure says something can't work if it doesn't make money. "Many people won't fight for a dream if it doesn't See Sunrise, Pas 10. . ,m ,i. I.H...HI.III., .... .in. mi mi MiiMi ,mmrf& scientis o s ParapsychobgSst and psychiatrist Dr. Montague Ullman will speak today on "Dreams and Telepathy" at tha Nebraska Union at 3:30 p.m. Dr. UUman has been trying to prove that telepathy can be programmed into dreams. His work explores possible relatiomhips between extra-sensory perception (ESP) and altered states of consciousness and how to train subja"te to control their brain waves. In a tefcr'"ORa conversation Monday, Dr. U"man tsld vAJIa what tha eppfjeat'onf of such research will La, he is convinced tefopty e dreams exist and now is concentrating m the contfltbmt undsr which dream telepathy occurs. The ttuiitef rnsy prim ttsafyl in psychologies! therepy, he laid. The fcaiJo fe-s'i of studying dream telepathy in a laboratory hm consisted of one person attempting to convey 3 telepathic tmae to another person, who is sleeping In a separate, soundproof room. The United States could "achieve a major brcpkthroudh in parapsychology in this decade if we bring disciplines together and had adequate funding, Dr. Ullman said. Dr. Ullman, psychiatry department director at the Pvtalmooides fwtsdical Center in New York City and founder cf tha Center's Dream Laboratory, is doing research with a two-yesr grant from tha National Institute of Mental Health. He is the author of nearly 100 scientific articles and several books, and has had positions in professional societies, including the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, the Society of Medical Psychoanalysts, the American Society for Psychical Research and the Pars psychological Assoc. Dr. Ullman's speech is being sponsored by the Human Pjtcntssls Committee. Suzanne Brown, Nebraska Union pfOyrsm ficSvijor, Scid ths sencs is concerned with inquiry into "any sort of development in the physical, mental and spiritual arc-as of human exploration." 4 4- 4 f A A A 4,,.. .Jk fi.J!,-. f., ,st
