WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18,2003
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 5
ACTIVITIES: Students find summer fun
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did not miss out on much during the day.
"My friends mostly lie around the pool doing nothing productive," Besserer said. When she does get a chance to head out for the weekend the Hawk or Jet Lag Lounge tend to be the destination she ends up at, although she always hopes for something new.
"I'm sick of doing the same thing," she said.
Besserer said she went out about twice a week, more than during the rest of the year, and that the Hawk was "the place to be and be seen" in the summer.
Jennifer Baldo, Chicago senior, said there was not as much going on in the summer and that affected her motivation to get summer school work done.
"If my classes were in the fall, I'd do a lot better," Baldo said. Baldo and Besserer do not have jobs to occupy their free time like Jason Gray, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
Gray spends his time out of his summer class working full time for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. When he isn't there, he works on his flower farm until dark. Gray is positive about the possibilities of finding entertainment in Lawrence.
"Lawrence is the only place in Kansas I
"My friends mostly lie around the pool doing nothing productive."
Bonnie Besserer Dallas senior
would live," Gray said. The college town atmosphere gives Lawrence a different caliber of people than the rest of Kansas, he said.
Caitlin Schutz, Overland Park freshman, doesn't have a job, but said she studies all the time.
"We don't party much," Schutz said.
She takes an English course as part of the Freshman Summer Institute at the University and looks forward to unwinding in Lewis Hall with movies, pizza and a board game or two.
So whether the pool, work, a rented movie or the lake beckons this summer, residents like Baranowski said the song remained the same no matter what the season.
"Summer school's kind of a pain in the ass," he said.
—Edited by Ehren Meditz
No cigarettes in bars means crowds of smokers outside
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Eleven weeks after the city snuffed out smoking in bars and restaurants, few people are lighting up inside.
At night, Jen Davis is forced to walk her two dogs down the middle of Ludlow Street, where apartments are sandwiched above and between dance clubs and other nightspots.
Instead, many smokers have taken the party to the street, annoying neighbors with noise, litter and clouds of smoke.
On Manhattan's Lower East Side, the sidewalks that years ago were lined with sleeping drunks are now clogged with packs of smokers who flock to the trendy neighborhood bars that popped up after the area got a facelift.
Nearby along Essex Street, frustrated neighbors have been known to dump water on noisy smokers outside bars below.
“It's annoying because there's just tons of people out and you can't get through the sidewalks, and it's loud," Davis said. "There's like cigarette butts everywhere — it's a mess."
Bar owners say smokers rarely light up inside now and are generally agreeable when told to take it outdoors.
One nightclub bouncer was stabbed to death when he tried to enforce the ban two weeks after it began, police said.
City health department officials said they issued 57 smoking ban violations from May 1, when they began issuing citations, until May 23, the latest date figures are available.
The ban went into effect March 30 but allowed a grace period for businesses to learn the law.
Most citations related to a lack of nosmoking signs.
The penalties range from $200 to more than $1,000 for multiple offenses.
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