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University Daily Kansan, May 2, 1985
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Students gear up for late-night war with studies
By SHELLE LEWIS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
At 1 a.m. on the bottom floor of Marvin Hall, architecture students set up camp, embarking on another long night. Armed with the basic necessities — a television and two students from one studio assemble models for their final project of the semester
All across campus, students settle in to pull all nighters.
POINTING TO THE recently repaired model, Kirk said, "This is the worst possible thing that could happen to an architecture student."
Walking through the crowded studio filled with drawing tables, stands and lamps. Gavin Kirk. Overland Park senior, points out a park bench that is hard to find, had knuckled a finished model off a table.
Leaning over a drawing table, Leigh Rosser, Kansas City, Mo., junior, says that this marks his third night in a row at the studio.
Rosser said eating fruit and going home to hang upside down for a half an hour from an inversion rack to relieve his stiff back were his survival techniques.
"The they say you shouldn't have to stay up all night to get the work done," he said, "but I don't know anyone who hasn't."
A corner of the studio resembles that of a
residence hall room with family photos, a kite and paranormalia.
IN THE MIDST of the area, Mark Wagner,
Os Carrion, N.M. junior, smiles and glances
at his friend, Jeffrey.
"I started out with just the art supplies here," Wagner said. "Later, I brought in the family pictures and the other stuff. Before you know it, there is nothing left in the apartment — it's all here. It's great on the utility bills."
Pointing out his competed model, Wagner said the project was worth half of his grade in
"A few more days and it will all be over," he said.
he said.
He said he then planned to begin making up
He said he then planned to begin making up the work he had missed in his other classes. Wagner said at least five to six people worked in his studio — no excursion.
Wagner sand at least five to six people worked in his studio — no exception.
Often the architects take time out to go to get a bite to eat or something to drink, he
"EVERYONE LOVES TO cram in the car and do that," Wagner said. "Anything to get around is necessary."
In addition, Wagner said the group occasionally chipped in to rent a video cassette recorder so they could show movies in the studio as they worked.
Kirk said, "It gets to a point where it's more painful to get up in the morning rather than to stay up."
In the Art and Design Building, a hollow hammering echoes around the lockers that
The clock rolls past 2 a.m.
line the hallways. In a secluded corner, Carlos Cahz, Venezuela junior, pounds, chisels and carves a block of wood held in a metal vise.
Gahir said he was constructing a textured, wooden sculpture for his Design II class.
SPEAKING OF HIS instructor, Cahiz said,
"If she likes it you re OK, but if she doesn't,
you'd better start working because you will
probably have to re do it 15 times."
During his freshman year, Cahiz said, he spent three or four nights a week working on
"It's not getting better," he said, "I'm just getting smarter. I listen to my body tell me it
Down the hall, the smell of spray paint grips the air and hearty laughter drifts from
Five haggard. slap-happy males slave away on their projects. One applies pain to an antifreeze jug. Another sketches a cartoon.
Steve Huff, Lake Quivira senior, said,
When an industrial designer gets his
job ready he says, "I am very
Huff, who will graduate in May, said the eariness came with the territory and the
"FOR THE LAST three years," he said. "I haven't been to bed before 3 a.m., no matter what."
Huff wasn't doing much of anything except hanging around the studio with the guys, having a good time and trying to create some low-key entertainment.
First, he performed "The Incredible Static Electricity on the Plastic Cup Trick." making a plastic tumbler adhere to a window. Second, he executed "The Amazing Lighter Fluid Fire on the Cement Floor Trick."
Lenn Taulbee. Lenexa senior, said they often came up with such creative ideas to keep themselves from getting bored and from falling asleep.
"You never catch up on the soe," he said.
"Everyone asks why you’re so lethargic."
Huff said he used some over the-counter drugs to help him stay awake.
"I NEED THREE drugs in this major to survive nicotine, caffeine and Rolaids," Huff said.
Camaraderie makes the time pass a little more easily and quickly, be said.
"We're lucky we get along so well," Huff said.
At 5 a.m., the parking lot at the Computer Center contains a few dozen cars, and lights in residence halls on Daisy Hill show that all are not slumbering in Lawrence.
Bill Pesek, operations manager for academic computing services, said the Com
"Some days there'll be 25 or 30 people here at 5 or 6 in the morning." Pesek said.
Outside the Computer Center, traffic consists merely of KU police officers on patrol. A few blocks away, a normally busy 23rd Street is nearly deserted.
HOWEVER, A FEW venture out to study at
Perkins, 1711 W. 23rd St., which stays open 24 hours a day. The parking lot contains the cars of a few die hard studios. $
Mike Bily, assistant dining room manager, said half the tables in the restaurant were occupied by students from about 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. every day.
"This is where you go." Bily said. "There's coffee and a enough noise to keep you awake. We have a lot of regulars that are here every night, six nights a week. They are part of the family and everyone knows them."
At one of the few tables still occupied in the restaurant, Jane Jomer, Overland Park freshman, and Lee Grunberger, New York sophomore, sit drinking coffee.
"We encourage them to come in. The students are a vital part of the community."
A COPY OF a Woody Allen book and a
French grammar textbook in the table
Joiner said that the two were taking a long study break.
"You don't expect to stay up all night," she said, "but you get more and it happens."
Joiner said she always had procrastinated, waiting until the last minute to do her studying.
"I need to drink a lot of coffee," she said, but it doesn't do anything for me anymore.
"I wish I was more structured and displined. But I'm not . I'm just a chaotic studier."
Coffee perks up the weary...cup by cup by cup
By RICK ZAPOROWSKI
Staff Reporter
Coffee contributes to a daily routine, helping people from all walks of life stay alert and cope with the sometimes breakneck weather. Coffee can also help coffee even can send someone to new heights.
From the time they roll out of bed, Americans depend on their daily cups of coffee to get them out of the starting blocks and into the rat race.
Commuters drink the steaming brew on their way to work. People slip it at their desks or on their coffee breaks. Students consume coffee during classes, then take it with them to their classes.
"COFFEE LETS YOU CUM yoursewn down and pick you up." the commercial says "Coffee gives you the serenity to dream it and the vitality to do it."
The brew may or may not do all that, but it at least nudges the 'movers' and the shakers of a new generation 'out of bed each morning and helps them function like reasonable people.'
"The best times for coffee are when I wake up early in the morning, or if I've had only
four hours of sleep." Mark Rasmussen
Lawrence sophomore, said recently.
Habitual coffee drinkers hardly can escape the smell of a freshly brewed pot of coffee. Holding a warm mug of steaming java and slow sipping it perks up those who must spend the day with a stack of paperwork or an evening with a boring textbook
The punch of caffee gives students an extra boost to stay up all night cramming for an exam or writing the 15 page paper they put off until the last night.
Rasmussen said his daily consumption of coffee — about three cups, or 24 ounces — helped him stay alert to study. he said he knew people who drank much more than he did.
COFFEE POSSESSSES A distinct aroma, flavor and signature to quite a few coffee shops.
And many students couldn't survive the daily strife of college life without a
"You get wired," he said. "You get scatter brained and that's no fun. When I see my hands shaking, I quit Because after that, you're headed for the Maxwell House."
THE UNITED STATES leads the world in coffee consumption According to various sources, coffee is consumed by 13% of the world's population.
cups of coffee each day and use about 2.5 billion pounds annually. about 12 pounds
"It's probably more psychological than anything," she said. "If I'm up late studying and I'm drinking coffee, I get to the point where I just quit drinking. After I drink more than four cups, it probably doesn't do anything to keep me awake."
Betsy Lawrence, Tampa, Fla. junior, said she five drinks about 10 minutes during the day and can eat a meal with 25 calories.
The ever flowing coffee pot means big backs to retailers and a use less a few bottles.
Convenience stores offer "Coffee Clubs," giving customers discounted refills on the drink after they purchase the store's plastic mug. These promotions appeal to commuters who have a long drive to work and to people without coffee makers at home.
RESTAURANTS OFTEN PROVIDE a "bottomless cup" so customers can sip before, during and after their meals. This promotion attracts many students to their favorite all-night restaurants, where they may sit for hours to study or gossip.
And people buy coffee more than just by
the cup. Packaged coffee fills a large chunk of shelf space in grocery stores.
One Lawrence grocery store sells coffee in 100 different forms. The store offers several different brands, and each brand comes in several different sized cans or iars.
THE SAME GROCERY store also offers General Foods International Coffees, which come in colorful tin cans, in such flavors as Cafe Vienna and Irian Mocha Mint.
Each can or jar contains one of about three grinds - regular, percolator or automatic drip - or contains flaked coffee. The coffee is served in a cup and the condiment and is instant or suitable for brewing.
The Bay Leaf, 725 Massachusetts SI, sel's
24 kinds of roasted coffee beans, which may
Because shelf space is limited in grocery stores, they can't provide all varieties of coffee. Coffee drinkers with more sophistication also buy their favorite gourmet coffees to buy their favorite gourmet coffees.
If the assortment of coffee types doesn't give any shopper a headache, down the alley are coffee filters, coffee creamers, coffee cakes, coffee-flavored candies and more coffee — this time as whole beans, so the connoisseurs can grind them right there in the store.
be ground at the store or bought unground. An employee there said the store purchased the beans mostly from distributors in Virginia or in the Kansas City area
THE SPECIAL COFFEEs appeal to consumers with more particular tastes and more money to pour into the market. Many types cost between $5 and $9 a pound. The most expensive Jamaican Blue Mountain, costing less than £20, least and costs even more elsewhere in town.
Lawrence said she drank special coffees at home, because her mother usually bought them and ground them herself. At school, he drank the drinks the brand served at her sorority house.
"I drink Folgers, but I don't really like it," she said.
Pamphlets at stores that sell gourmet coffee, containing facts about the evite cake, recommend testing coffee as one would for a regular cup. The pamphlets treat coffee as a drink for commissaries.
Even the typical coffee drinker, however,
has one or two recommendations for full
duration.
Rasmussen said, "I certainly don't think anyone should pervert coffee with cream on it."