University Daily Kansan, May 7, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Students' departure hurts businesses
By CECILIA MILLS Staff Reporter
Life in Lawrence goes on after most students leave for the summer, but for some businesses the pace is quicker. Sales to drop and profits to dwindle.
Some businesses close until students roll back into town for the fall semester, while others try to tough out the tighter times.
Doug Davis, an assistant manager at Gammons', a private club at 1601 Cord St., said that life at the club virtualized to a standstill during the summer.
The club has only three nights of steady business during summer weeks compared with four during the winter. Dayys said.
Even Wednesday night all-you-
can-drink promotions fail to draw the large crowds that always show up during the school year, he said.
He estimated that even with the promotions, sales declined by about 35 percent during the summer.
BOTH THE WAGON LEAP, a bar at 507 W. 14th St., and Joe's Bakery, 616 W. 9th St., will close May 18, the day before graduation, and will remain closed until the end of August.
A bakery employee, Carolyn Baker, said Joe's closed every summer because most of its customers were students.
"The townfolk can't understand why we cater only to the students, but that's where the money is," she said.
But Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cabin, 1340 Ohio St. said he had succumbed to the pressures of his regular customers to remain open
this summer. He said he had kept his bar open last summer for the first time in many years.
"It keeps my customers from developing a habit somewhere else," Wallace said.
Pyramid Pizza, 507 W. 14th St., will hang up its pans for the summer on May 15.
"ITS A REAL mellow, quiet atmosphere. It's not much of a moneymaker, but it gives me some comfort, and I help my employees something to do."
But Joe Cowdin, vice president of operations, said Pyramid's south store, 2116 W. 25th St., would open the day after the 14th Street store closed. The store opened for the first time in October, and it replaced its school year. Cowdin said the store's market shifted to the south side of Lawrence after the students left.
"We're catering to the residents of south Lawrence as opposed to the students," Cowdin said. "We're going to try to change our clientele and hopefully retain their business."
'If we didn't have the ice cream out there, we wouldn't have the business,' he said.
COWDIN SAID the store's proximity to baseball fields at Holocm Sports Complex enable the store to at least break even. The store also will sell ice cream to try to draw the summer crowd.
And business at Perkins Cake and Steak Restaurant, 1711 W. 32rd St., drops dramatically after peaking finals, a manager said recently.
Todd Trembley, the manager, said the final days of tests for students meant full tables every night from 9 p.m. until 5 or 6 a.m.
Seniors' legacy to be student awards event
By JEANINE HOWE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Since 1873, graduating classes have left their marks on the University of Kansas by donating special gifts, which have included paintings, crabapple trees, scholarships, furniture and building donations.
Classes in the late 1800s and early 1900s often established loan or scholarship funds.
Other classes have donated money to the University of Kansas Medical Center's burn unit or to Watkins Hospital for equipment Monetary banks have been hired to finance enhanced some furniture and redecoration in the Kansas Union.
BUT THE CLASS OF 1853 plans to try to begin a new tradition — a senior awards ceremony Dane Lowe, senior class president, said the ceremony would recognize numerous honor recipients.
In the past, many gifts have added to the campus's beauty. Such gifts include the class of 1952's gift of flagpoles and landscape near Allen Field House, the class of 1964's gift of a baseball field, and the class of 1966's gift of the bronze jawbay in front of Strong Hall.
But Lowe said that this year's senior class wanted to establish a yearly event that everyone would know about.
"We didn't want to give a silver tea service that would never be seen," he said.
Lowe said a senior committee, which is comprised of 25 seniors who represent various living groups, would talk to the various award committees to see whether they would present their awards at the senior awards ceremony.
The ceremony would honor Mortor Board members, the Hilltoppers and other honorary students at the University.
Lowe said that this year the committee was hoping to set up the ceremony's fund with a minimum of $1,000.
SENIOR CLASS dues and donations will provide money for the fund. Lowe said he wouldn't know exactly how much be donated until after graduation.
He said the ceremony would honor from 25 to 30 award recipients.
Although the first ceremony will not be until next year, the senior class is working now on its preparations. The new senior class will organize the ceremony next spring, which will be scheduled in late April.
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