THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014
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Buffalo Bob's Smokehouse is going out of business after 44 years. Bob's has been popular on Mass. Street since its opening in 1977.
Classic downtown restaurant to close
MADDY MIKINSKI
news@kansan.com
Buffalo Bob's, a Massachusetts Street barbeque staple, is closing its doors on Tuesday, April 29. The restaurant, which opened in 1977, is owned by Lawrence City Commissioner Bob Schumm.
"I've been in business now for 44 years," said Schumm. "I decided now was a good time to close."
Schumm began his 44-yearlong career in the food service industry while a student at the University.
"The way I really got started was I sold sandwiches and soft drinks and potato chips and hard-boiled eggs at the fraternity and sorority houses at night," Schumm said, "[Food service] looked to be a good opportunity."
After graduating in 1968 with a journalism degree, Schumm began opening his own restaurants. Prior to starting Buffalo Bob's, Schumm opened the Bull and Boar and the Mass St. Deli.
Schumm got the idea for Buffalo Bob's from other barbecue restaurants.
"I'd been to a BBQ restaurant in Kansas City and I was really interested in the food, the products, the popularity of it," he said.
When Buffalo Bob's opened, it was one of only eight restaurants downtown.
"It was a waiting line for an hour for each meal. 30 or 40 days in a row," he said.
Though Autumn Strausbaugh has only worked at the restaurant for a year, she's heard long time customers reminisce about Buffalo Bob's opening.
"You get a lot of people who have been coming here for thirty years, so you get some of the stories about when it first opened," Strausbaugh said. "A lot of people came here on their first dates and now they've been married for years."
Strausbaugh witnessed the reaction of her customers to the upcoming close.
"My customers are really disappointed. It's upsetting because it's been open for so long," she said. Some customers have said that they aren't going to visit the new restaurant that's moving into Buffalo Bob's place. Supposedly, the Lady Bird Diner will open in the old restaurant's spot and sell American food.
"I'm pretty upset considering it right before summer and so it's pretty hard to look for a job right now before finals," she said.
The restaurant's closing will also affect Strausbaugh.
Though the restaurant's closing will affect the surrounding community, Schumm says that now is the right time to close.
"I started right out of college This restaurant has been here 37 of those 44 years," he said. "It's time to take a break."
Edited by Kate Shelton
Studying abroad is, understandably, a large financial burden. Though, some students say the burden is bigger than they originally thought.
Maria Holt, a junior from Pittsburgh, Penn., is one of those students. Holt studies classics, which has allowed her to travel to Italy multiple times for classes and archaeological digs. Last summer, she traveled to Rome as part of a Student, Initiated Program (SIP) through the University of Michigan.
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"I had to bring in proof that I had gotten accepted to the program and I had to bring in [a budget of] how much it was going to cost," Holt said. Immediately, Holt noticed some issues with her budget.
Study abroad costs can undermine participation
"It's complicated because the first thing that was a problem was that KU, if you're studying abroad, they don't cover your at-home costs," Holt said. "If you're gone for the summer, if you can't find a sub-leaser you have to come up with that additional rent by yourself. You can't include that in your budget."
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Students who will be studying abroad will have to continue to pay for their utilities and other living expenses on
["Eating out] is part of the culture. It's expensive," Holt said. "I knew the culture, I knew the language, [but] I had no idea how to live there."
top of the program they're participating in.
Holt's orientation also neglected to mention the service and cover fees that students studying in Italy would be facing. More importantly, orientation left out information
MARIA HOLT
"[The program] doesn't really take that into account that students have lives back here," Holt said.
Forecasted budgets for study abroad also only take into consideration airfare from Kansas City, Mo. Holt's budget was based upon a cheaper Kansas City flight rather than the city she was actually going to fly out of — Pittsburgh.
budget doesn't prepare students for extra costs once they reach their destination.
MARIA HOLT Junior study abroad student
nancial reasons," Ostmeyer said.
"When they (Office of Study Abroad) give you these budgets, they don't really allow you to extrapolate from that."
Ostmeyer's goal was to attend a summer program in Morocco.
"It is financially just about the same [for out of state students] or even cheaper," Ostmeyer said. "But in my situation, since I am an instate student that didn't have any scholarships, it just would have been way out of my budget. I didn't want to put that financial burden on me and my family just for two months."
"Without scholarships, studying abroad would cost a little under $10,000 for two months," she said. "That's more than I pay in tuition for an entire year."
Students studying abroad are also still required to pay the $440 of extra fees students staying on the Lawrence campus have to pay.
"When we got to Rome, that's when we learned about a 55 Euro [bus] fine, but they don't really tell that to students here," Holt said. "I think that they leave out things that students could get in trouble with that could cost more."
"When they give you these budgets, they don't really allow you to extrapolate from that." Holt said.
Christina Ostmeyer, a sophomore from Colby, also has experience with the high cost of studying abroad.
"I thought it was a little odd that people who weren't going to be here had to pay the full fee price," Holt said. "Why should I pay the $60 for KU's Med Center if I'm not going to be be?"
"There were multiple factors [keeping me from studying abroad], a large one was fi-
Though Ostmeyer wanted to study in Morocco, she's glad she won't have to deal with the financial burden.
The $10,000 included airfare, tuition and spending money. Ostmeyer says the cost was harder on her as an in-state student.
concerning visas and other legal matters.
Holt also believes that the
"I think study abroad would be a ridiculously invaluable experience that you could grow so much from and gain so much from," Ostmeyer said. "The financial cost is extremely large and you have to factor that in and see if the costs outweigh the benefits."
Edited by Cara Winkley
- Study abroad orientation often doesn't include information on the legal aspects of travel such as fines and visas.
— Students studying abroad are still required to pay full campus fees
Study abroad often costs more than a year of in-state tuition. Because of this, some students aren't able to study abroad.
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