Page Twetve TIHE MICHIG~AN IJAIL'i Friday, December 12, 191 . . ORANGE BOWL :0 The mayor rules Travel agency loses ( rt-AK -t '!-Z I" (Continuedfrom Page 1) ] inally expected between 1,000 and 1,500 students, faculty and4 staff personnel to sign up for the official tour, which was offered over the last three weeks through a sales office in the] Union. But according to Thomas East- hope, assistant vice president' for student services, only 280 persons-including players' fam- ilies-joined the tour group be- fore sales closed Tuesday even- ing. "IT'S anybody's guess what happened. It could be a com- bination of factors," Easthope. said. "It could be that money is tight, or that people didn't like the tour, or didn't want to go to the bowl." "We all tried to transpose the same criteria that we have for the Rose Bowl down to the Orange Bowl, but it doesn't work," C o n 1 in commented. "People are more familiar with Florida. It takes three or four days to drive out to California, but only 22 hours to drive to Florida." The substantial loss suffered by the first University tour to go to a bowl game other than the Rose Bowl could discourage other group tour firms from submitting bids on future non- Rose Bowl excursions-thus ie-< ducing an already miniscule list of travel companies that submiti tour proposals to the University.l THE Conlin-Dodds tour was priced at $348 per person for double occupancy for faculty or staff, $333 per person for stu- dent doubles, and $318 fvr stu- dent triples or quads. The pack- age included round trip air transportation, accomodations at a Sheraton resort hotel in Or- lando, and a ticket to the Jan. 1. bowl game. A Daily reconstruction of ac- tual tour costs-derived by ob- taining room and features prices from other sources-indicates that the basic double occupancy package for faculty or staff probably cost Conlin-Dodds about $300, not including pro- motion and sales expense. If 1,500 persons had signed up for the tour, that overhead-esti- mated at $15,000--would have been distributed at $10 per per- son, leaving Conlin-Dodds with a profit of $8 per person, ,or $12,000. But since only 280 individuals have joined the tour, the $15,000 'overhead instead amounts to over $53 per tour participant. And because the travel agency must forfeit deposits on re- served hotel rooms-which can add up to anything from 10 to; 20 per cent of the cost of the1 reserved accommodations-Con- lin-Dodds probably lost another; $15 to $30 per person in can- cellation surcharges.! THE $8 profit, then, suddenlyI turns into a $60-or 14 per; cent-loss, totalling over $13,000 for 280 passengers.- Easthope could not predict what effect Conlin-Dodd's deficit experience might have on other travel firms that bid on Univer- sity-affiliated tours. "They're in a highly competitive business. Other tour agents leave pride in their business-they might think 'Conlin took a bath, but we can do it better.' But I don't know," he said. Only two companies submitted bids to OSS for this year's of- ficial tour-Conlin-Dodds and Lovejoy-Tiffany Travel, of 450 S. Main. Spokespersons for both firms indicated that they would be willing to bid on a bowl tour again another year. BUT OTHER major tour oper- ators in the Detroit area in- dicated that they would not bid on a potential University tour package bowl or had been con- acted by OSS and had decided not to participate. "What few times we've been (Continued from Page 2) W heeler's method of operation is exactly what he promised it' asked by OSS to bid on some- would be during his campaign.! thing, they hand you a bid ; She contends that his omnipres- specification on Friday afternoon ence in city affairs is a pro- and want the complete story on duct of his commitment to "ac- Monday morning," claimed Mil- tive participation." ford Boersma, president of "Wheeler came right out in Boersma Travel, 3368 Washte- his campaign and said, I don't naw. "There'e no way that like what's going on in the police somebody could do that.' department, I don't like the way i ti ,j . r said an exhausted Wheeler re- cently. "This job is much more frustrating than I ever thought it would be." In sizing up his term thus far, Wheeler himself voices certain criticisms. "I don't think we've done a hell of a job setting policy. Sure, theres are certain things on the agen- da we vote on, but that's not policy. What we need areover- all plans. I think we've been doing a lot of knit-picking poli- ['[v 7 Although the Portuguese navi- gator Bartholomew Diaz dis- covered the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa in 1488, it was not until 1652 that the Dutch became the first Eu- ropeans to colonize in what be- came known as the Cape Colo- ny. Stamps from the British Vir- gin Islands are the only ones in the British Commonwealth that bear a pictute of Queen Eliza- beth - but are in U.S. cur- rency denominations. U.S. dol- lars are the legal tender in BVI. Premiere Engagement The University of Michigan PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM Presents The Kennedy Center - Xerxox Corporation American Bicen- tennial Theatre the city administrator appears to have far more authority around city hall and far more, of a say with the way thingsc happen in council.' He said he WHEELER feels that the ans- didn't like that, he said he wer to this problem lies in re- would change that if he was vamping the city's charter. elected, and that's what he's- --- --- doing," said Jones. = == = According to Wheeler, he may never place himself in the posi-GOoc luck tion to make such campaignlc promises again. 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