Friday, April 4, 1980
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City police increasing bar checks
Staff Renorter
Bv JENNIFER ROBLEZ
Under-age drinkers in Lawrence bars and clubs threaten bar owners and break the law, but more frequent checks by city police would cause more minors to face prosecution.
"I've noticed them more in the bars I've been to later," a 17-year-old high school student said yesterday.
"I'm not old enough to be drinking here."
Yes. I do get scared when they come in."
Kansas law stipulates that a person must be 18 years old to drink at a bar licensed to serve beer containing no more than 3.2 percent alcohol.
Kenneth Wallace, owner of the Jahawk Cafe, 1490 Ohio St., a s.2 bar, said under-age drinkers had never been caught by police in his bar.
"We're in a fortunate position. We have a good location and good traffic. We can afford to have someone nearby, but someone doesn't want to show us any identification he can go somewhere else,"
PART OF the concern about under-age drinkers stems from the increased visibility of city police officers in private clubs and taverns.
Sgt. Ron Dalquest of the Lawrence Police
Department said more police officers were available during the early morning shifts to conduct bar checks.
Between midnight and 2 a.m. there are twice as many officers available than on any other shift.
"It's our power shift. One shift works 10 hours from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. and another shift works from midnight to 2 a.m." he said.
The overlap created the manpower to check bar activity.
Dalquestar said the officers randomly selected four to five fabs to check. Usually two or three officers enter each bar. One is usually a woman officer.
"The ones who know they are under age head straight to the bathrooms. So we need a woman officer along if possible," he said.
DALQUEST SAID experienced officers were selected to conduct bar checks because of the danger involved.
"One subject can turn a whole crowd against a police officer in a number of seconds." Duquesnell说 "Alcohol has a false sense of security. It gives them a false sense of security."
Daliquet said it was within the law for a person under 18 or 21 to be in a bar. The law is broken, he said, when the person consumes alcohol.
WHEN A police officer decides to apprehend a man, he can issue a notice to apprehend the man. The person is uncooperative or potentially a person who could be on the police station and asked to post bail.
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for liquor consumption, purchases and possession by minors. A violation of the statute is a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not more than $200 or 30 days in jail.
Bul Strikel, chief enforcement officer in Kansas for Alcohol Beverage Control, said city governments and police agencies have the biggest share in enforcing laws.
Kansas statute 41-715 sets the guidelines
He said the ABC's work in Lawrence was often done by undercover agents who monitored club membership rules, and reviewed rating ratings in addition to under-age drinkers.
HOWEVER, NOTICES of city arrests at clubs are sent to the ABC. Bar faces fines or suspension of their license to sell firearms for violating ABC rules and state laws.
Paul Loyd, manager of G.P. Loyd's, 701 Massachusetts St., said three under-age drinkers were found by police in his private club last month.
"It astonished me because I thought we were doing a good job at the door. In the bar
business it's always going to happen no matter what you do," he said.
According to police records from Feb. 20 to March 20, seven University of Kansas students were charged with consuming liquor as a minor.
LOYD SAID some students were very proficient about using false identification.
"Some are smart. They find a person old enough to drink in the bars and use his I.D. or the 21-year-old person gets his driver's license. Or perhaps other people put his picture on it," he said.
Wallace said a person who had used a fake or altered driver's license to enter a club, might refuse to让 it police.
According to Kansas Statute 8-290, it is unlawful for anyone to lend a driver's license to another person or to pass an assertive license up to $500 of cash in jail for the offense.
"Not only will he be arrested for being under age, but for having someone else's identification," he said.
DALQUEST SAID the under-age drinker takes a big risk by trying to beat the system.
"If they get caught—and it is possible—they've risked fines against them and the bar owner," he said.
As Wallace put it, "I've noticed growth in business lately. I can't help but wonder if it's because of bar checks in town."
AAUP urges '82 salary, benefit increases
By GRANT OVERSTAKE
Staff Renorter
The pie that is the 1818 Regents budget is almost through the legislative oven and will soon cool until July 1 when its pieces are divided and the fiscal year begins.
But even before University faculty acquired the time to look ahead to the 1982 budget and making plans for a more generous helping—in the form of higher merit salaries and fringe benefits—they had to
The long process of formulating the fiscal 1982 budget will begin April 17, when the Board of Regents meets to discuss the Regents schools' primary budget decisions.
ACCORDING TO T.P. Srinivasan,
president of the KU chapter of the
Association of American University
of Pennsylvania, he will preside
salaries and benefits receive top priority.
The Regents schools are Wichita State University, Kansas State University, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburgh State University, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Kansas.
Srinivasan队 with Chancellor Arche R. Dykes yesterday and Dykes agreed that salaries and benefits should be number one in 1982.
"We had an extremely good meetin', "Srinivasan said. "The chancellor certainly realizes the concerns of the faculty and he is very happy with them, that we made will receive his full support."
Srivasant said he had contacted senate presidents and AAPU chapter presidents on the other Regents campauses, urging them to join the meeting, their chancellors before the Rengis meeting.
"We've got to get our allies together, not just at KU but at the other Regents universities. That's very important," he said.
"In the past it was more of an ad-hoc maneuver, but members realize painfully that they can't sit back and let someone else voice their concerns. They can fight their own problems."
THIS IS the first time that efforts have been made by a faculty group to play an active role in the early stages of the budget formulation, Srinivasan said.
When compared to its peer institutions, KU is lagging behind in retirement and medical benefits for faculty members, Srinivasan said.
"The KU pension plan is abusively low," he said. "At random I can pick any
university and its a safe bet that they would be better off than us."
UNDER THE present system each KU faculty member pays 5 percent of his monthly income to the Teacher's insurance company, and receives 40 percent for university professors, and the state matches this amount, Srinivasan said. The percentage is as high as 20 percent, at other universities.
Although Srinivasan said there has been "much hurtburning" over the prospect of giving up 20 percent of an "already-paid" paycheck for insurance, it must be done.
"A professor doesn't stop living today," he said. "But the point that they don't have to do this is that they don't need the 5 percent level and the state could raise its contribution. In fact, many places do it."
Like other KU faculty members, Srinivasan is covered by a Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan. His wife and three children are covered by the plan to pay for their health coverage, be said.
"But, at the University of Oregon, faculty members and their immediate families are covered with health insurance and the state
pays $50 of the payment each month," he said. |
IT WILL be a long time before KU and other Regents schools reach a level of parity with other institutions' benefits, Srinivasan said.
"Besides salaries, retirement and medical benefits, the University is falling behind in life insurance coverage and disability insurance, as well," he said.
"I must add that the people have been concerned and responsible thus far and I have no reason to be pessimistic at all," he said. "We have been able to achieve through informal discussions and discussions what issues of formal negotiations and arguments."
"The University of Cincinnati professors went on strike for higher salaries about three years ago, so time, I think. They ended up very well, though. They came out with an 18 percent cut."
But a strike isn't likely in Kansas, he said.
Bilka a virus intrigued in Khamsa; he said:
"We have a very good tradition so it doesn't matter if we don't work with him or for an adversary relationship between faculty and the governing board," he said.
"Nevertheless, we must keep working."
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Local officials question beer bill's effectiveness
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT Staff Reporter
Lawrence police and school officials Lawrence police and school officials questioned the effect of a bill before the Kansas Legislature designed the law to raise attempts to raise the state's driving age.
The bill, passed unanimously by the Kansas House on Wednesday, would make it illegal for underage persons to possess or drink beer.
Currently it is only illegal for persons under 18 to buy 3.2 percent beer. They can legally drink or possess it.
Proponents of the bill are many of the same that pushed a bill killed in the Legislature last month that would have raised the state's 3.2 beer drinking age from 18 to 21. They say that it would help reduce out of the hands of high school students.
The proposal would also make it illegal for persons over 18 to buy 3.2 beer for minors.
MAX RIFE, Lawrence High School's assistant principal, doubled that the proposal would have much an effect oninking by underage persons, if enacted.
"It would be terribly difficult to enforce," he said. "I don't think it would do much at all."
Anyone would be prohibited from drinking beer—or holding a can of it while on a public street, regardless of whether that vehicle is moving.
In a recent poll conducted by the school's newspaper, 40.3 percent of those
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Lawrence Assistant Police Chief Ron Olin said that the bill's effect might be misdirected.
"I wouldn't say that it was meaningless, but for a kid who has a couple beers a week, he's going to continue to do it."
AMONG THE persons backing the back is the Rev. Richard E. Taylor, head of Kansans for Life at Its Best, the state's dry forces organization.
"The only place where it might have an effect," Rife said, "is among kids on the borderline—that only have a beer ocelot would you could be absolutely scared of catching"
questioned said they bought alcohol themselves in liquor stores.
"It would have more of an impact on campers, travelers and weekend parishioners than it would a problem," he said. "I'm not sure it would have impact on the problem. I thought it was a good idea."
Taylor and House proponents of a higher drinking age had agreed not to use the bill as a vehicle to raise the drinking age to 21.
Taylor said, however, that he would continue to push for a higher drinking age in the future.
"This is a step in the right direction," he said. "A higher drinking age is another step. We'll take all the steps we can get."
Taylor criticized arguments that enforcement of the proposed law would be difficult.
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