CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1985
Kansas closer to increasing drinking age
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By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - A legal drinking age of 21 in Kansas is getting closer to becoming a reality. A bill to provide for that has passed in the House and is now in Senate subcommittee hearings.
A subcommittee of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee
met yesterday to make recommendations about the bill to the entire committee, which will meet next week to hear from opponents and proponents.
The Senate version of the bill would raise the legal drinking age one year each year until it reaches 21 in 1988, as in the House bill. But subcommittee members said they would allow the committee that the age limit be raised to 21 on Sept. 1, 1986, without any phase-in period.
The subcommittee decided not to make a recommendation about raising the age at one time, however, until it received an opinion from the state attorney general's office. The
IN JULY, CONGRESS passed a bill requiring all states to have a legal drinking age of 21 by July 1, 1986. If a state failed to raise its drinking age, the government would withhold highway funds until the state complied.
action will then be discussed in full committee.
The Sept. 1 date would put the state in compliance with federal requirements one month before the end of a presidential term, which states would lose the funds.
The subcommittee also said, however, that the law should be rescinded if the federal government did not determine it not to require the higher age.
State Sen, Ben Vidricksen, R-
Salina, said that he thought the bill had enough support in the Senate to be passed.
Vidricksen also said he would support a recommendation to raise the age to 21 by September 1986.
SETTING THE CUTOFF date in September would be in accordance with school starting dates, he said. Kansas schools require students to be 5 years old in September of the year they start kindergarten. Also, he said, most students in high school would not be old enough to drink.
The committee made no recommendation to make a distinction between 3.2 percent beer and strong beer or to permit a 3.2 beer wholesaler to hold a wine and spirits license. Nor did it make a recom-
mention about the establishment of a 5 percent tax on the retail sale of beer and a 10 percent tax on 3.2 beer in private clubs.
All of these issues will have to wait until the opinion from the attorney general's office is received, Vidricsen said.
"If single-stereem beer is adopted, changes should be made in the wine, spirits and beer wholesaler licenses." he said.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE recommended that 18-year-olds be allowed to sell cereal malt beverages in closed containers and in open containers if the establishment makes at least 50 percent of its gross sales in food.
Operation of private clubs and the
sales of beer would be allowed on Sundays after 1 p.m. and on election days after the polls are closed
Vidrickens said that Utah, Arkansas and Kansas were the only states that did not allow beer to be sold on Sunday.
If such a law were adopted in Kansas it would eliminate the "border hopping" that occurs on Sundays, he said.
The subcommittee also recomb*
mended that all private clubs ir*
kansas close at 8 a.m. and that
the committee should meet on
1:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays*
"This would treat private clubs as tervers more equally under the law."
Festival goal is awareness of cultures
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
Arabs, Latin Americans, Malaysians and representatives from more than 40 other countries will gather in the Kansas Union
No international leaders or ambassadors will be there, but diplomats of a different sort, KU international students, will be
The students will participate in the KU International Club's Festival of Nations, an annual event for American and American students to other cultures.
Maiasahr Elmoufiu, Cairo, Egypt, graduate student and president of the club, said yesterday. "Many American students don't know much about other cultures. If they come to the show or the exhibit, they will get a better impression of foreign students."
RANDA BABILI, DAMASCUS, Syria, junior and the club's social director, said students from each country would display artifacts, slides, books and films from their countries in an exhibition from noon to 5 p.m. in the Big Eight Room.
A cultural program with a fashion show of traditional costumes, music and dance will be from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium, she said. Roast lamb and other international foods will be served at a banquet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Deli cafeteria.
Manos, a performance group from Kansas City, Mo., also will perform Latin American and African music in the program.
The banquet costs $5 for adults and $3 for senior citizens and children, but all other events are free of charge.
"I tried to contact almost everyone," she said. "But for some countries, I just went to the Union cafeteria and looked around for people speaking a foreign language and asked them if they wanted to do something."
About 1,600 international students are enrolled at the University of Kansas, and another said she is sending students to the day school.
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