THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90 No. 82 10 cents off campus The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas free on campus Thursday, January 31, 1990
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Gaslight Gang
Paul Gray and the original Gissang Gag play their musical instruments on the steps of the Gissang Tavern in a photograph
from the late 1960s. Gray, playing the trumpet at right, still appears with members of his new band in the Lawrence area.
Bar's good times live on in band
By LINDA MANGELSDORF
Staff Reporter
It was one of those "good time" places that died in the 70s without a stone to mark its grave.
But the Gasslight Tissue, once just a stone's throw from the Kansas Union, lives in name at least every time the Gasslight Tissue and Paul Gray's Jazz, 203, 928 assemblies.
The name is no coincidence.
The group that calls itself the Gaslight Gang is what is left of the original band of musicians who made the tavern famous.
Led by Gray, the Gaslight Gang serves today as a reminder of the bygone days and the Gaslight Tavern era.
GRAY PRESENTS the Gaslight Gang twice a month and as often as Skip Devol, former original Gaslight Gang member and former picker, is available. he appears also
Although no longer with Paul Gray and the Gaslight Gang, other members of the original band that began in 1965 still frequent Gauz's Jazz Place.
The group that played at the Gaslight
Tavern included Gray and Dave Neely,
trumpet; Harold Keen, trombone; Marty
Peters, clarinet; Wayne Erck, drums and
percussion; Larry Larson, bass; Larry
and DeVolk, brass.
IN THE DAYS when they played at the Gaslig, members of the original group were just students who liked to perform.
They got no fees for their performances, other than the beer and food bought for them.
"People wanted to have a good time and that was the place to go." Gray said recently. "It was a liberal atmosphere, at least for the Midwest.
"But we quit hanging out there when it turned into a real freak place—all sorts of really weird people and lots of drugs."
The group played at other places to standing room only crowds, but on weekends it was the Gaslight that drew the loyal fans.
"We made our way to the Rock Chalk," Sprechre Roger, bass tuba player who played with the gang from 69 to 77, said.
The Gaslight wasn't the only tavern to swing to the group's Dixieland jazz.
"Stopping in at the Wheel, the Bierstube, and the Jayhawk Cafe until we got a regular job at Skav's."
"We were barhopping musicians."
"We never really hung out there, so to speak," we said. "But we all liked the place — it was "Brown's" atmosphere was just different from the Jayhawk Café, the Wheel, or the Rock
According to Neely, former Gaslight member from '88-78, the Gaslight Tavern was the place beer guzzlers hit first.
BUT THE GASLIGHT was the usual place for the band to perform.
But the glory for the Gaslift Gang didn't end in the taverns. They made it to the big time-Hollywood and the All-American College Show.
"It was the high point for us all in '93." Nelly recalled. "We won $2,500, were featured at tilt-time shows, game shows, and on an Andy Griffith special."
Although the Dixieland jazz that the Gang is best known for was out of vogue in the late
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Students expect disarray in Marvin Hall renovation
Before a $2.8 million renovation of Marvin Hall begins at the end of this semester, the School of Architecture's students, who are new to campus, have to be relocated somewhere on campus.
By GRANT OVERSTAKE Staff Reporter
The renovation calls for making the 70-year-old building accessible to the handicapped, making its two wooden stairwells acceptable under the fire code, renovating the restrooms and existing items, about 40,000 square feet will be remodeled.
"You'd better talk to some of the first- and second-year people because I'm just too bitter about it," said Becky Zahner, Zahn City, Mt. Fourth-year architecture student.
But some of KU's 650 architecture students said yesterday that the move could throw what they called an already "disturbed" school into chaos.
"We've already got people strung out all over. The first-year students are downstairs in the basement. Some second-year people are over in a chicken cupolle of the Linden Annex. There are people on the other side of the campus at the Blake Annes," she said.
An all-school meeting on Feb. 5 will have some "definitive answers" to the problem of relocation, according to Charles Kahn, dean of the school.
KAHN SAID the building would be
vacated and ready for construction crews at the end of this semester, and stressed that the project must be completed within one year to avoid undue hardship on the school.
"GOOD SCHOOLS survive the worst conditions," Kahn said. "We've been busting our cams around here to try to deal with them and to find the difficult and we'll need a lot of co-operation."
"We thought about going off campus, but that would have really fractionalized us," she said. "We would need additional costs of providing a transportation plan for the students back to public classes."
"One possibility is a temporary facility. Not traitters, but some kind of pre-fabricated amex that could be used by other groups after we have moved back into Marvin. It would be really nice to have something that could be utilized by the University for some time to come."
MARK ZHANER, Leawood fourth-year architecture student, said scattering the students during the renovation probably would cause him difficulty.
Zhaner said he thought Marvin was in desperate need of renovation.
"The third floor is a real zoo," he said. The three stacked cases on the floor, and the graphics on the walls practically jump out at you. As an architect, I wouldn't want to walk through it.
Jeff Campbell, Wellsville freshman, said the overcrowding situation had reached a point where it was affecting his ability to learn.
"There are not enough tables in my en-
tire room," Campbell said. "A lot of people don't have it. We have to rotate or find someplace else to do our work. Of the tables the have a lot, it is not all."
"Sometimes you have to wait if you get a problem you can't solve, and it might be quite a while before the professor can get to you."
Kahn, who has been dean of the school for 11 years, said that renovating Marvin would not solve the problems of overcrowding.
"We indeed do have a problem of dispersement. Our project is a less than optimum solution to housing a major school at this University. But the renovation project is an
"We are hoping to have an addition to Marvin sometime after renovation. This is the most achievable solution, given the costs of the financial situation of the state."
Gasohol gaining popularity here
By CINDY WHITCOME
Staff Reporter
Gasolon is gaining popularity in Lawrence, but alcohol refinements are not keepingpace with the demand for it. Rep Dan Kanasa, D-Kansas, said yesterday in D. Kansas.
Glickman, who says he is the biggest supporter of gasoland in Washington, called the potential market for gasoland to be worth $3 billion; there was a need for morgaleal refineries.
Gasolob dealers in Lawrence said that their customers were buying all the gasoloh they had, and that they could sell more.
Mariet Hodson, manager of Lo-Ball Station, 602 W. Ninth St., said gasoloid sales at her station were nearing 6,000 gallons a week.
"At least one day a week, our gasohol outsells our unleaded gas," Hodson said.
Lo-Ball and Fisca Oil Company, 740 N. Second St., also sell regolat, a ledged version of gasolol. Both cost the same as regular leaded and unleaded gasoline.
FRED PATTERSON, manager of the Fisca station, said the station sold a lot of gasol, but never had run out of it.
The Phillips 66 stations were the first in Lawrence to get gasoline, according to Steve Donner, manager of Ivan's Amex. 2484 miles more than regular unleaded gas.
"The gasolah has a higher octane rating and people tell us it gives them better mileage," Donner said. "I think it is worth the two cents."
Hodson and Patterson also said their customers reported better mileage when using gasol.
However, Dennis Snowbarger of Dillon companies said Dillon car drivers had not noticed better gas mileage with gasol.
"Considering international affairs, it seems like the thing to do to decrease our dependence on foreign oil," he said.
THE DILLON companies are using gasolon in their cars as a patriotic gesture, Snowbarrier said.
Almost 50 stations in Kansas sell gasohol,
according to Randy Noon of the Kansas Department of Energy.
Alcohol used in the production of gasoline Kansas comes from two refineries. Noonan Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, III., and the Midwest Solvent Company, Annapolis.
Milo, corn and some wheat (four from local Kansas farms are used in the Midwest Solvent refinery, Ladd Seaberg, general
manager of the company, said. The refinery produces enough alcohol a day to make 10.000 gallons of gasolol.
The Archer Daniels refinery produces 150,000 gallons or 80 percent of all alcohol to use produce gasohol for a year, according to Ry Air Strassma, a company official.
Glickman said that Archer Daniels needed to produce one billion gallons more a year to expand the industry.
STRASMA ALSO said there was a need for more refineries.
"There is a need for more alcohol, but a lack of refining plants is a problem. We plan to do the production of this plant and its products in Rapids, Iowa, by mid-1981." Strasman said.
After the alcohol is refined, it is taken to "jobbers" to be mixed with gasoline. Gasolon consists of 10 percent alcohol and 90 percent conventional gasoline.
Highway Oil Company, Topeka, mixes 300,000 gallons of gasolol daily for the Kansas City and Topeka areas, according to R. J. Daffey, vice president of the Topeka Oil. Also mixes gasolol for the lo-Beil and Fisca stations in Lawrence.
BOB MCMBRI, president of M&M Oil Company, 646 Locus SL, said his mixed gasolon for the five Philips stations in Lawrence that received gasolon.
The only problem encountered by Lo-Ball customers who used gasoland was that some had been forced to change their fuel filters every three tankfuls of gas, Hodson said.
"The alcohol in the gasoline cleans out all the sludge that has settled in the engine," she said. "But you don't have to use antiseptic free at all, the alcohol takes care of that."
Gasolol costs about $1.30 a gallon to produce, but government subsidies keep the price low. Gleckman said. The major subset of the gasoline tax is federal taxes law on regular gas, he said.
Fear of capital losses keep businessmen away from the alcohol refining business, Glickman said.
"The gasolob business is relatively new. Most people are not willing to take the good old American risk," he said.
Bill could prevent nuclear dumps
By STEVE YOUNG
Staff Reporter
Under guidelines tentatively approved by the committee, the governor, president of the Senate, and speaker of the House would approve the rule that low-level radioactive waste in the state.
Today the committee will consider a proposal requiring the Legislature to be notified of any plan to store radioactive waste and approve all plans for low-level waste storage.
TOPEAK-Kansas may be able to prevent some radioactive waste materials from being stored in the state if a bill now in the Kansas House Natural Resources Committee is approved.
"If passed, this would guarantee to the people of Kansas that nothing is going to be sneaked through," said committee chairman Robert Miller, R-Wellington. "The status quo will be maintained."
In addition, the Legislature would have final approval of all plans to store low-level waste in Kansas.
THE COMMITTEE yesterday voted to have a new bill and resolution drafted, incorporating parts of two bills already introduced.
There were no votes against those changes yesterday, and Miller said he expected little opposition to the final bill from committee members.
However, the proposal under consideration would give the Legislature the final say on plans for low-level radioactive waste sites.
"I haven't talked to anybody who thought (radioactive waste storage) would be a good industry to have in the state," he said.
Under federal guidelines, no state can prevent high-level radioactive waste from being stored in it, or stop all transportation of radioactive materials through the state.
Diane Tegusteine, a lobbyist for the Midwestern state, energy Alternatives, and the pending bill that would give federal government Kansans didn't want the state to become a dumping ground for oil.
reprocessing of nuclear fuels." Low-level waste was defined as all other radioactive waste material.
IN PAST BILLS, high-level radioactive waste has been defined as "spent nuclear fuel and/or by products resulting from the
"We'd be calling the federal government, 'Look, if you want to put it in Kansas, you're going to have to contend with the Legislature and governor.'" she said.
The state could keep low-level radioactive waste sites out of Kansas simply by refusing to license them, she said.
The Kansas Health and Environment Department is now responsible for approving site applications. Under the bill, the department will be required to apply applications approved by the department.
Jerry Stoltenberg, director of environment for the department, said the application could last up to three years.
STOLTENBERG SAID the department was now considering an application from Ricano Corp. to store radioactive materials abandoned abandoned Cayres salt near Lyes.
He said the Rickano firm submitted its application 18 months ago and was still supplying information requested by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
After that information is supplied,
Stollenberg said, the department would
begin an environmental assessment of the
site that could last up to 18 more months.
For Rickano's needs, however, the site would be safe, he said.
In the 1960s, the then-Atomic Energy Commission considered the Lyons site as a major storage area. It later was rejected, Stollenberg said, because existing tunnels would have to have been enlarged, exploded and also an excavation gain could have enveloped storage areas.
ASK assembly drops debate on drinking age
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Reporter
"ASK work let me have the podium," Taylor said yesterday. "EVENLY ASK does not want to hear the truth about him, he really said com- commentary on students."
Sparks are flying as the Associated
Legislative Assembly unpacks up for the
 Legislative Assembly this Saturday. The con-
ference this week at 10 a.m. by E. Taylor of
Kansas this Saturday. The con-
ference is on Monday in its Itch. Beet.
"We only wanted to hear from both
ASK originally had invited Taylor and a representative of the Kansas Beer Wholesalers to debate the subject of raising the drinking age before the LA. ASK cancled Ms. Speech when the Wholesalers unexpectedly declined to
sides so we could make a well-grounded decision," Craig Templeton, ASK board chairman, said. "I think we can stand behind our decision to be fair."
However, Taylor said that ASK only made a superficial show of fairness, and that he intended to let the mascot ask him what he liked. ASK also challenged ASK's motives.
"I wanna remember whether they are sincerely bothered, he is bothered, she is bothered, whether they are bothered, mind made up," Taylor said. "I think that now they are embarrassed by the presence of me."
Although Taylor is still invited to talk to ASK delegates individually at the LA he said he would not attend it.
Tempers also may heat up within the LA, according to Robin McClellan, ASK
See ASK story page seven