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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Monday, March 18, 1985
Vol. 95. No. 112 (USPS 650-640)
St. Patrick's celebrated across U.S.
By United Press International
KANSAST MO. — Dressed in bright green and shamrocks, Teri Rudolph of Kansas City, M.O., sits on a curb at Pershing Road and Grand Avenue to watch the game in downtown Kansas City on Tuesday, March 15, day. Rudolph said, she comes to Westport, where several hundred people stood in the streets, drinking everything from soft drinks to green beer.
Revelers from Dublin, Ireland, to Dublin, Ga., marked St. Patrick's Day with parades, parties and green beer. But by falling on a one-day blast from a weekend bacchanal.
Green beer was shipped from the United States to Dublin, Ireland, for the first time.
Parades kicked off yesterday in Boston, Washington, Los Angeles and the south side of Chicago, one day after official parades in New York. St. Louis and the Chicago Loop.
"It it's a gimmick, but it's going down a treat," said Tony McMahon, a Dublin pub manager. "Everyone's insisting on green beer. It's the in thing this year."
Workers in Ireland were given today off to celebrate the holiday, while revelers in the United States got around the Sunday date by beginning the celebration on Saturday.
ABOUT 225,000 PEOPLE turned out for the official parade through downtown Chicago, traditionally a platform for local politicians. The naturally olive drab green of the Chicago River was dyed kelly green. Whether they were Irish or not, thousands of people joined the frenzy along the famed Rush Street entertainment strip, spilling out of the bars the streets lined with police barricades and patrolled by officers on horseback.
More than 1 million New Yorkers watched the parade down Fifth Avenue. The New York parade, the world's oldest and largest, is on Saturday whenever St. Patrick's Day falls on a Sunday to avoid conflicts with Catholic church services.
About 260,000 people watched the St. Pat's parade in St. Louis. The high-spirited, green-clad crowd cheered floats and marching bands.
At Rolla, the University of Missouri-Rolla has been celebrating St. Patrick's day for a week. St. Patrick is the patron saint of
See ST, PAT, p. 5, col. 1
Spirits flow locally for St. Pat's
Staff Reporter
By NANCY HANEY
A parade and other celebrations took place in Kansas City, Mo. yesterday, but many were out and about.
The spirit of St. Patrick's Day could be seen in Lawrence yesterday, but most residents imagined other towns in which tr celebrate the holiday.
The Sanctuary, 1401 W. Seventh St., opened at 11 a.m. yesterday for residents who wanted to celebrate in Lawrence, said Ace Johnson, owner of the club. He said the couple went to Kansas City to celebrate because more people would be celebrate there.
"A few years ago, four or five bar owners in Lawrence tried to get a parade and other celebrations for St. Patrick's Day, but it didn't get anywhere," he said.
The Sanctuary served corned beef and
cabbage and offered patrons a beer speci for the day, but Johnson said he stopped selling green beer on St. Patrick's Day a long time ago.
"IT WAS HARD to do anything with it afterwards," he said. "I'd end up losing a whole ke. We have creme de menthe for other drinks, though."
Jackie Pease, Rolla, Mo. freshman, said
she and her sister was in perma-tent.
*Patrick's* was in perma-tent.
The University of Missouri at Rolla canceles classes for two days prior to the day in order to indulge in parties and parades, she said. In addition to the university's spring break.
"St. Patrick is the saint of engineering, and since Rolla is an engineering school, they celebrate the whole week," she said.
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MANY COLLECT SWEATSHIRTS and buttons from the celebration, and prizes are given for the oldest and biggest collections, she said.
Pease said drinking games — with green beer, of course — can be seen all over town on green sidewalks and streets throughout the week.
Christie Shrerbs, 3720 Westland Place, was at The Sanctuary yesterday to celebrate the holiday.
"Usually we go to Kansas City, but this year since it was on a Sunday and I have to work on Monday, we decided to stay in Lawrence," she said.
She said she wasn't Irish but liked the tradition of celebrating St. Patrick's Day. In years past, she and her friends made the day an event to remember.
"I guess we getting older and settling down now that we're out of school. We still have to deal."
Young, Cleaver to talk in BSU lecture tonight
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Emmauel Cleaver and Andrew Young, tonight's speakers in the Black Student Union Lecture Series, have not stirred as much or heated as he did with the black separatist leader Louis Farrakhan.
But their political advances have been significant, the president of the Black
Christine Cressie, the president, said, 'People are drawn to controversy, but Cleaver and Young are both powerful leaders. And they have done a lot for black porteria.'
Cleaver, a Kansas City, Mo. city councilman, and Young, mayor of Atlanta, will speak at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The series is in conjunction with Alpha Poker, sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha Farrakhan is scheduled to speak March 28.
DALE BROOKS, SECRETARY of Alpha Alpha fraternity, said that Young, a former ambassador to the United Nations, and another member were as radical as Farrakhan's were now.
"Andrew Young was once as controversial as Farrakhan," Brooks said. "Now he is in the mainstream and he has not received the publicity he deserves."
But Cleaver said he and Young might receive more notoriety than they would like
"Some of us have been able to make advancements," he said. "But the fact the
we are singled out shows that it is not commonplace in America for blacks to achieve political economically and sociologically major is mayor, it's elected, its international news."
CLEAVER SAID IE and Young had started their political careers in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Cleaver said he had marched for civil rights at Selma, Ala., in 1965 and at Washington, D.C., in 1963, when he was in college.
Cleaver said Young was the first executive director of the conference under Martin Kline.
"The Southern Christian Leadership Conference enabled me to move into the political arena." Cleaver said. "And I suppose I have a lot to tell to win — that dwells in the souls of many."
But the United States still has a long way to go before it reaches the equality and democracy it claims to have, Cleaver said.
"Blacks have earned the right to check into any hotel they like," he said. "But they have not acquired the economic ability to check out. Blacks are in a unique situation. They have the opportunity to make America what it ought to be."
BROOKS SAID THE theme of Alpha Week
"To Our BAIED and Economic Boost"
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series and the work.
"It's open to everyone, but it's really for the black community." Brooks said.
Cleaver said he would speak about the atmosphere in the United States as it related to blacks and other minorities.
Templin resident returns to discover emptied room
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
When returning from vacations, many students may fear that their stereo or TV will have been taken.
But few experience the shock that Sean Myers, Miami, Fla., sophomore, got yesterday when he walked into his room in Templin Hall and discovered that all of his possessions had been taken except for one drawer of items.
About $1,000 worth of possessions were taken, including clothing books, a stereo, a video game and more.
The items left in the drawer, Myers said, may some coins, pencils and sewing materials.
Myers said he entered his room a few minutes after noon, as soon as residents were called.
WHEN HE FOUND that his possessions were missing, he assumed that someone had taken them.
He said he called Mike Osterbuhr, Templin resident hall director, and both of them checked to see if Myers' things were in a storage room. Osterbuhr said he called Kathryn McCree, house manager, after the search proved fruitless.
McCree is to check the other storage room today for Moyers possessions. Osterbury said
The KU police department was called,
Myers said, but after fingerprints were taken and a report was filed, police told Myers that the loss did not appear to be a burglary.
All residence halls were closed during spring break.
Myers said he spent spring break in a Lawrence motel, and all he had now was what he had taken with him. That included two pairs of pants, two pairs of shorts, two shirts, two pairs of socks, one pair of boots and most of his textbooks.
"I'm lucky I took my TV with me." Myers said "That's $45 right there."
layers said he hoped that someone in the housing staff had mistakenly taken his phone.
"But if they didn't, it's theft and it's impossible to find them by now." Wroxley says.
Myers said he lived in his room by himself because the roommate assigned to him at the beginning of the semester moved out and didn't been replaced.
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Bounced checks are trouble for merchants
Osterbair said he didn't know of any cases in which housing staff had removed residents' possessions unless there had been a security facility that the resident wouldn't be returning.
By PEGGY HELSEL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
"They're out on their own for the first time, or they're poor bookkeepers. It's just irresponsibility." she said. "They write a couple of bad checks, the bank charges $12 each and they get buried so far they don't know what to do."
College students write more than half of the bounced checks passed in Douglas County, Phyllis Payne, check investigator for the district attorney's office, said recently.
She said a letter to the person who wrote the check usually took care of the problem. If not, Payne said, she may write a letter to the student's parents to collect the money.
Payne estimated that twice as many bad checks were written than actually were turned over to the district attorney's office for prosecution. Out of those turned over, only a small percentage actually go to trial.
ABOUT 2,000 BAD checks totaling more than $100,000 are turned into the district attorney's office for prosecution every year. Payne said Of those, only 4 percent will have charges brought against them and possibly will be offenders will spend time in jail for the crime.
Last year, Payne said, about 20 out of 224 cases filed went to trial.
The majority are dismissed or plead guilty. Those who go to jail are usually people who make a habit of passing bad paper, Payne said.
"People usually don't go to jail until after
they are convicted," said the
"first conviction gobble probation."
"IT'S HARD FOR the people who get bad checks," she said. "The judges in Douglas County interpret the statutes in a strict manner."
See CHECKS, p. 5, col. 1
He said they received a lot more than they used to because they had been accepting more checks in the last few years and were lenient about cashing them.
Kroger Super Store, 23rd Street and Naismith Drive, is making it more difficult for someone to write a bad check. The store in recent weeks began requiring a driver's license to be shown along with a Kroger card in order to cash a check for more than the amount of purchase.
"We have to be with the University here," he said. "We have to cash checks from out of state and out of the area. The kids need to have checks cashed."
Payne said that judges were tough on those who wryote bad checks.
Bad checks are a particular problem for grocery store owners. Bob Weigel, store manager of Dillons, 1740 Massachusetts St., said the store received about 50 to 60 returned checks averaging $30 to $40 apiece each week.
Jason Estelle, left, 10, of Lynn Estelle, 332 Pleasant St., Gregg and Cleo Jackson, 1108 New York St. watches. The puts a worm on his hook while Brent Tolbert, 11, son of boys took advantage of fishing at Potter Lake.
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