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University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 30, 1992
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Prize fighting
Dave Shimokawa, Omaha, Neb., junior, lands one of the final punches of the night on his way to becoming the super heavyweight champion of the first "Fite Nite." The event was organized by Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Delta Delta Delta sorority as a benefit for the American Cancer Society. About 300 fans gathered at the National Guard Armory Friday and Saturday nights for the 30-round tournament.
Beggars crowd streets of urban America
The Associated Press
BOSTON — A neatly groomed young man with a spring in his step was headed through the downtown throng on his lunch break when the hand shot out at him. "Spare charge?" he was asked.
Nick Jamales, businessman, stopped for a moment, dug into his pocket and pulled out a few quarters. He dumped them into the waiting palm of James Purdy, ex-victim and panhandler, then continued on his way. Purdy kept standing there, hand outstretched.
The scene occurred on a busy Boston street, but it could have been anywhere in urban America, where pandailers and pedestrians cross paths ever more frequently.
Even in the best of times there have been a few begars. But now, pandanlers crowd street corners and public parks, and urban dwellers complain that the beggars are becoming more aggressive.
Jamales, 27, says he is asked for money at least a dozen times a day.
Usually, the beggars' pleas are quiet. But occasionally, they turn uglly.
"Once, I gave this guy a dollar and told him to get something to eat with it," he said. "He started screaming that he was going to get drunk."
In response, some cities have passed anti-panhandlings laws. In Cincinnati, a church hired an off-duty
"This guy in a suit came up to me, gave me a dime, and said, 'Spend it wisely.' "
Nelson Boulter
police officer to keep beggars off church grounds and protect parishioners' cars from vandalism. Officials in Berkeley, Calif., are trying a system in which law enforcement couchers instead of changehouseships and services.
Beggars say people have become more hearted.
"This guy in a suit came up to me, gave me a dime and said, 'Spend it wisely,' said Nelson Boulter.
"Ten, 12 years ago, people were friendly. Now they down on you. Times are hard. Rent's gone up. Food is getting out."
The Washington, D.C., based Coalition for the Homeless estimates that there are anywhere from 700,000 to 3 million homeless people in this country
and says the number is growing.
In Boston nanhandlers seem to be everywhere
In Boston, pafahluders seem to be everywhere. There is the frail woman who holds out a plastic cup in front of the Chinese cinema in Chinatown; the friendly man named Michael, who greets subway commuters with a smile each morning under the elms at Boston Common; the purple-haired teenagers dressed in black leather, who sitlidly in front of a convenience store in seedy Kenny Square.
Here and elsewhere, beggars wait outside restaurants and ask for doggie bags or stand in busy intersections and wash windshields. They hold the doors for people using automatic cash machines. Some joke about their begging, promising to spend the money only on booze, not food. Others say they are collecting nickels to buy a bond.
Whatever the method, the encounter usually is uneasy. The beggars swallow their pride and in turn inspire guilt or fear.
Boulter knows. He has heard the insults. He admits that many beggars drink away their money, and that some are con artists.
Others, though, cannot see any other way to survive. Boulter says he tries to save the money he does not spend on food to rent an apartment. These nights, he sleeps in a homeless shelter.
"This is a short life we're living." Boulter said. And as he spoke, a young man stepped up and asked him for change.
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