CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 12, 1985 Page 10
Residents learn to live with Greeks
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
Lawrence residents who live near fraternities and sororites say they often feel like unwilling guests at parties at the Greek houses.
Whenever the Greek houses throw parties, residents listen to the music, see and hear the party-goers having fun, and often wish their walls were thicker.
Most residential neighbors take the noise in distress, saying it's something they've learned to accept. But a few, after suffering what they say are intolerable distractions, have made their displeasures known.
Conflicts between Lawrence residents and their Greek neighbors has drawn attention over the last 1½ months because of the efforts of a group of neighbors to block a party sponsored by all but one of the Greek houses on Stewart Avenue. The party is scheduled for tonight.
THE RESIDENTS who live behind some of the greek houses went to a Feb. 26 meeting of the Lawrence City Commission to protest the party law that closed. At that meeting the commission voted against closing the street.
But an agreement was reached between the six greek houses and the neighbors in which the houses promised to end the party by 11:30 p.m. The City Commission voted to swearstant Avenue in its April 2 meeting.
Brad Dick, 1745 W. 20th St., was one of the residents who represented the neighbors at the Feb. 26 commission meeting. Last week, Dick said he filed his complaint after several years of enduring noise from fraternity parties on Stewart Avenue.
Dick said he had called Lawrence police several times to complain about noise. He said police usually reponded if the noise was coming from a single house. But he said police had told neighbors that they usually wouldn't respond to complaints about big parties.
"I feel like the police told the
man to deal with the problem." Dick said to
Sherman Yacher, who lives next to Dick, has many of the same complaints as his neighbor. He said he is very upset about several times to complain about noise.
"IT SEEMS TO usually take two or three calls to get anything to happen." Yacher said. "Sometimes
after we call them the music stops and sometimes it doesn't."
But Ron Olin, Lawrence police chief, said police responded to all calls. Depending on the nature of the call, officers could not contact the neighbor who filed it.
“There are no occasions when we refuse to appear when we're called.” Olin said. “We ask for cooperation in turning down the music . . . If they don't turn the music in, the first one will actually take another trunk back to give cooperation.”
Jeff Cravens, president of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, 2000 Stewart Avenue, said police had responded to a couple of noise complaints at his house in the last four years.
Joseph Saliba, president of Evans Scholarship Fraternity, 1942 Stewart Avenue, said police had been to his house because of noise complaints only three times in the last three years.
Yacher, who has lived behind the Pi Kappa Alpha house for eight years, said he got along well with the fraternities on Stewart Avenue until about three years ago. The relationship changed when the fraternities started sponsoring big beer parties in their yards.
He said a large open party sponsored by Pi Kappa Alpha last fall had been the catalyst for his and the other neighbors' complaints against the Stewart Avenue party.
Not all residents behind Stewart Avenue share the frustrations of the residents, 1727 W. 20th St. Terrace, said he had no problems with noise or parties.
"I can hear the music, but it doesn't last forever." Scanlan said. "Whenever they are going to have parties, they put leaflets on the doors and on this street. I think they should close the street and let 'em have it.
"That's better than having 'em buzzing around town drunk."
A spirit of getting along generally exists in other areas where Greek houses are next to houses of permanent residents.
Francis Prosser, 1622 Cambridge Road, lives across the street from Delta Delta Delta sorority and next to the parking lot of Kappa Sigma fraternity. But he has no complaints about noise.
Lillie Wood. 1621 Oxford Road, who lives across from two sororities in the West Hills area, also said she had no problems with her Greek neighbors.
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