Tuesday, April 14, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
No drinking crackdown planned in wake of fatality
Bullwinkles (top), 1344 Tennessee St., and The Crossing, 618 W. 12th St., are two local bars where underage students involved in the accident that fatally injured Lisa Rosel had been drinking. Local authorities say that they are not planning to increase monitoring of underage drinking. Photo by Augustus Anthony Piazza/KANSAN
By Ronnie Wachter
rwachter@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Two weeks after the accident that fatally injured Lisa Rosel, Overland Park freshman, local authorities say they are not planning to increase monitoring of underage drinking.
Rosel was fatally injured March 31 in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street after being struck by a 1997 Mitsubishi Montero. The driver was intoxicated and had been drinking at The Crossing, 618 W. 12th St., before the accident, according to Lawrence Police reports.
Rosel and two KU students with her at the time of the accident had been drinking at Bullwinkles, 1344 Tennessee St., before Rosel was hit, according to the police report. All three were underage.
Lawrence Police Sgt. George Wheeler said he thought there was little more the police could do to deter underage drinking.
"We're always doing property checks and bar checks," he said. "And if we find violations, we send them to the ABC or arrest them."
Two minors were cited for possessing alcohol during the past week at The Crossing, according to police reports.
Wheeler said it was not unusual for that number of incidents to occur in a week, especially given the time of year. He said the number of minors in possession and public consumption of alcohol violations would increase as the temperature increased.
"You're going to see more of those because it's getting warmer," Wheeler said. "More people will be going out to bars, especially downtown, where they will want to walk around while drinking."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said he was troubled about Rosel's death and was concerned about the level of underage drinking among KU students.
"I think I feel the same way about her death as I would about any student that was young and vibrant, and that is that it saddens me," he said. "The larger issue is whether the
University has effective policies involving underage drinking and if there is anything more we can do to prevent it."
Hemenway said he was interested in finding out what the University could do to lower the amount of underage drinking by students.
"I'm hoping we can create a task force between members of the University and members of the community to see what more can be done about the problem," he said.
Christine Tonkovich, Douglas County District Attorney, said she could not decide what action, if any, she would take against the bars until she had seen all the information from the investigation.
"That's obviously something we'll have to look into," she said. "My understanding is we probably won't, but we won't be able to make a decision until we get all the evidence."
The evidence for which the district attorney's office is waiting is in the possession of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, she said.
Scott Teeselink, media agent for the KBI in Topeka, said the agency was investigating a number of similar cases.
"They come up from all over the state," he said. "We put them on rotation, and whichever file comes up, we do that one and send the results to whoever gave it to us."
Sheila Walker, public information director for Alcoholic Beverage Control, said cereal malt beverage licenses, which Bullwinkles and The Crossing possess, were issued by the city. The licenses allow the bars to sell 3.2 percent alcoholic beverages and mandate the bars close by midnight.
She said ABC had no jurisdiction to investigate the bars for instances of underage drinking because of the city-issued licenses.
"I sent an e-mail to both our assistant attorney general and to our enforcement department to see if we could do anything," she said, "But it looks like we can't."
Tom Devlin and Jonathan Davis, coworkers of Bullwinkles, and Shawn Schlegel, owner of The Crossing, could not be reached for comment.
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