University Daily Kansan, February 16, 1981
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are usually lost motorist searching for nearby Pomona Lake.
"I'm madder than hell, this is ridiculous," said Saloon and the unofficial sponsor of the parties.
"There's a lot of people who are upset by this, they wanted the party." Watts said Friday as he left town with his wife. Watts welcomed the bikers, he rides a motorcycle himself, and lost a considerable amount of business with a court injunction that ordered the town closed.
June 13th was the best day Watts had ever had as owner of the saloon, and he said at the time that he sold 500 cases of beer during the fatal party.
"They said we were tearing up the town, hell,
there's not much down there to tear up." Watts
said Saturday. He and fellow bikers were partying
in Ottawa, the transplanted party-site.
"Look around, are we tearing anything up?" Watts asked, motioning around to the group of about 150 people in the former Waymire's grocery store in downtown Ottawa.
"Are we tearing anything up, are we raping any dogs or anything?"
The mood of the bikers was angry, one of legitimate citizens being denied their rights. A Pepa
"What's it costing the taxpayers to send the highway patrol, national guard and all those county sheriffs in there he said. 'We're spending them for the guys, feeding them and everything--for what?
"It's bulshard, they're infringing on our rights.
They have no right to shut us out of town."
The bikers said they planned to plead their
case directly to Gov. John Carlin, before the next Friday the 18th, which is in March.
"We've got the governor's toll-free number in Topeka and we're gonna get people to call." Watts said. "We never had any trouble before this last time, hell, it wasn't our fault."
Quenemo officials think differently. They had been threatening to end the party for years. In 1977 they voiced fears that the party could turn against "disasterous" and "get out of hand." It did it.
Horror stories are numerous from the fatal Friday in June. One Osage County deputy, who asked not to be identified and feared retribution from angry bickers, said celebrants that day were clashing over red lights from the top of a patrol car and shat the tires as two deputies sat in the car.
The bikers flouted the law, the deputy said, pushing road blocks off the main street so they could drag race, as officers watched. He also said they dragged a toilet stool out of a downtown building, placed it in the center of the street and used it.
"This is not a planned or sponsored event, it is just a tradition," Calvin Williams, Osage County attorney, said. "The only way to break a rule is for the police to hope we have the same show of force in March."
Williams said the town's people were fed up and deserved the protection, and the special treatment by the governor in signing a explanation that declared, in essence, martial law.
The show of force on Friday was definitely heavy. The 80 officers from the Kansas Highway Patrol were deployed to the scene.
Counties, and Kansas National Guard troops were ready for a war.
Standing in the command post at the Quemonte grade school, and wearing a gun on his belt, Bell said.
"I don't think we'll have to worry about
riding the 13rd," George Bell, mayor of
Quemboe.
"Some people think we went overboard on security, but I'd rather have too much than not enough," he said. "After the last party the city council said this was it" and we asked for help."
"I'm not against having a good time, or bikers,
I like to ride motorcycles myself, but it had to
be."
But the officers of the law were not the only persons up in arms Friday in Quenoa. Residents of the town were aware about the apocalypse and were told to state that, and the death of the party that many enjoyed.
Donna Meek, 31, is a lifelong Quenemo resident, and a candidate for the Quenemo City Council, and she is upset about the way the authorities handled the situation.
"Nobody would have come today, would you ride a bike in February?" Meek said. "They have never bothered me or my family, I used to do it when I was a child. Just ask what the Hell's Angel's angel scares people."
Meek said the bikers always stayed in the downtown streets and never caused trouble in the suburbs.
"It needed to be calmed down, it was getting out of hand, but this is ridiculous, I mean, the roadblocks and checkpoints and everything," she said.
KU's spring enrollment is at an all-time high with 25,261 students, according to figures released Friday by the department of admissions and records.
Bv KATHRYN KASE
By KA1HRYN KASE Staff Reporter
The figures show an 88-student increase over the spring's total of 25,173, which was the previous year.
Enrollment sets record
"I am pleased we have a modest enrollment increase again," Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said yesterday. "I also understand the student full-time equivalent figures will be up slightly."
Those figures were not available Friday, but Gil Dyck, dean of admissions and records, estimated a 300-student full-time equivalent increase from last spring's 20.854 total.
THE FIGURES are calculated by dividing total credit hours by designated average course loads for undergraduate, graduate and law courses. These are then used for budget and planning purposes.
Shankel said spring enrollment figures would have no specific purpose during the current Kansas Legislature budget hearings for fiscal year 1982.
"We don't use them except to say that we don't have any decline in enrollment and that we need more."
But this model's figures will be used to develop KU's fiscal 1983 budget request, Shankel
"What we're projecting is the same enrollment for fiscal 1983 as we have this year." he said.
While Lawrence campus enrollment has
increased by 99 students from last spring's
20,939 - off-campus enrollment has declined.
THE FIGURES indicate a 171-student drop from 2,131 students last spring to 1,560.
But credit hours, rather than a head count, better indicate off-campus enrollment trends, Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said. That's because many off-campus students attend city and in lawrence, he said.
"The credit hours accrue at both locations," he said. "But heads are only counted once and are added to the total."
Under this system, credit hours taken can rise while enrollment figures drop, he said.
"It may not have been done that way this time, but that may explain the drop in enrollment," he said.
THE SCHOOL OF Engineering had the largest spring enrollment increase of any school with 1,775 students enrolled, a 77 student increase over last spring's 1,688 enrollment.
High starting salaries in engineering are increase enrollment increase. David Krenn school dean, sales.
"All engineering schools are experiencing increases in enrollment," he said. "The need for young people to enter technological fields is great."
The largest drop in spring enrollment is in the enrolled—downward students from 1,897 in 1960.
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