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Drowning sorrows in 3.2 beer
Bullwinkle's Bar and Jayhawk Cafe reduce hours, alcohol content after bust
"We're not trying to close bars down. We're hoping that the patrons could be more considerate of non-patrons." Linda Hixon Oread neighborhood resident
(USPS 650-640)
Top: Bullwinkle's, 1344 Tennessee St.
Above: The Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St.
Pending permission from the city department of health, the bars will open tonight for business. Photos by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
By Tamara Miller
Kansan staff writer
Students searching for a late-night mixed drink from Bullwinkle's Bar or the Jayhawk Cafe will have to search elsewhere. The two bars, commonly known as "The Bull" and "The Hawk," now will sell only 3.2 beer and will close at midnight.
Bullwinkle's, 1344 Tennessee St., and Jayhawk Cafe, 1340-1342 Ohio St., have been granted cereal malt beverage licenses by the city of Lawrence and are scheduled to open tonight pending city health department approval.
Tom Devlin, co-owner of the bars, said that pressure from neighbors convinced him and co-owner John Davis to consider applying for the licenses. They applied for the licenses during the University of Kansas' winter break.
The licenses will allow the bars' owners to sell beer containing only 3.2 percent alcohol. The establishments also must close at midnight.
Ervin Hodges, city commissioner, said both bars had misbehaving patrons. Neighbors had complained of noise, public urination and the mishandling of trash by employees.
Because a cereal malt beverage license is granted by the city, there is more local control of the bars. Hodges said. The city can revoke the licenses at any time if the bars operate illegally.
In the Jan. 6 city commission meeting, Bullwinkle's and Jayhawk Cafe were granted cereal malt beverage licenses. As part of the agreement, both bars' licenses will be reviewed in six months.
Residents who live near the bars attended the city commission meeting to voice their opinions on the issue.
Linda Hixon, who lives near Jayhawk Cafe, said she thought the midnight closing time would alleviate some of the problems.
Hodges said the city was aware that both bars had problems with underage drinking and by granting the owners a license, the city would have more control of the problem
"We're not trying to close bars down," she said. "We're hoping that the patrons could be more considerate of non-patrons."
However, some said underage drinking would persist at the bars.
Brian Mall, Lenexa sophomore, said the two bars were known as places where those younger than 21 could be served alcohol.
"No matter what they try to do, if they're trying to prevent underage drinking, they'll have no success," he said.
Devlin said he thought underage drinking was a problem for most college bars.
"Like most bars, we do the best we can," he said.
Devlin said that the new regulations would hurt business, but he was glad that the neighbors were appeased.
Shortly before winter break, both bars were ticketed by the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control for selling alcohol to minors. Alcoholic Beverage Control is responsible for granting liquor licenses in the state.
Devlin and Davis currently are negotiating a settlement with the division.
When a bar receives a ticket for serving minors, its liquor license is suspended for two or three days, during which the bar must close.
Because the December incident occurred shortly before winter break, and both bars close during the break anyway. Devlin said that he and Davis decided simply to close earlier than planned.
The owners' lawyers currently are negotiating a settlement that will state whether the licenses were voluntarily or involuntarily suspended.
If the licenses were voluntarily suspended, they can be reinstated automatically. If the licenses were involuntarily suspended, the owners will have to apply for new ones.
Devlin said that the bars' state liquor licenses had not been revoked, but probably would be suspended.
Kristi Elliott / KANSAN
Robinson fire sparks action from employees
Swift response limits damages to $1,000
By Laura Roddy
Kansan staff writer
Bob Lockwood, Robinson facility director, Bob Porter, associate director of facilities operations, and Mike Sinclair, general maintenance technician, helped extinguish the flames before the fire department arrived.
Thanks to the quick thinking of several University employees, damage caused by a fire in Robinson Center Friday afternoon was minimal.
"We're pretty lucky," Lockwood said. "No one was hurt."
Lockwood said the fire began in the roof above the west pool where maintenance crews had been installing a new ventilation system and that the damage was contained to a 12-by-12 foot area in the roof.
Fire officials told the Lawrence Journal-World that the fire caused no more than $1,000 damage. University officials said that equipment used in the repairs may have caused the fire.
By that time, the workers had left the building and Lockwood called 911. Sinclair said. Security then evacuated the building.
Porter was walking near Summerfield Hall when he heard the fire report on his communications radio. When he entered Robinson's west doors, maintenance workers were stretching out a garden hose. Porter sprayed water at the fire from the ground until the fire department arrived.
Lockwood discovered the fire shortly after 4 p.m. when he noticed flames through a construction hole above the
pool. He first thought that crews were still working on the hot tar roof, so he ran to check with Sinclair.
Meanwhile, Sinclair went onto the roof with a fire extinguisher and began putting out the fire.
Sinclair said the fire department cut back part of the roof to make sure the fire was extinguished completely.
Lockwood said the firefighters were finished by 5:30 p.m. and Robinson employees were able to reopen it within minutes. However, the pool was not reopened until Saturday morning.
Porter said he thought the fire department arrived within five minutes.
Lockwood also said crews were almost finished installing the new ventilation system but that the fire should cause a minimal setback.
"The flames were gone, but it was still smoldering." he said.
AIDS expert, cocktail creator to visit campus
Kansan staff writer
David Ho, world-renowned HIV/AIDS physician and researcher and *Time* magazine's former Man of the Year, will speak 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Lied Center.
Ho's landmark discovery, the AIDS Cocktail, is a combination of drugs that works together to slow the progress of HIV.
Donna Sweet,
Wichita physician
and director of the
Kansas AIDS Education
Center, will introduce Ho at Tuesday
night's lecture.
Ho: HIV/AIDS
expert to speak at
Lied center Tuesday
"We used to say
once a person was given the AIDS diagnosis, they had approximately 30 months to live." Sweet said. "With the addition of the new cocktail therapies, that time span has been extended to approximately five years."
the immune system's invisible fight against the disease.
Researchers once thought that HIV remained dormant in the body until AIDS developed. But this resulted from
He proved that as the HIV multiplied, the immune system fought even harder to keep it down, and in doing so, was wearing itself out.
The AIDS Cocktail is a combination of three drugs: AZT, protease inhibitors, and 3TC. These drugs work together to keep the HIV from progressing into AIDS.
At this time it is unsure if the patients will have to take the cocktail for the rest of their lives. Ho suspects, however, that the combination therapy should remove the HIV from the body in two to three years.
Ho is scientific director and chief executive of the Aaron Diamond Research Center, a position he has held since the center's founding in 1990. He also is a professor at Rockefeller University.
The lecture is free. Vouchers are available at the SUA Box Office today with KUID and tomorrow for non-students.
The lecture is sponsored by Student Union Activities, the Kansas AIDS Education and Training Center, the Kansas City AIDS Research Consortium, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Agouron Pharmaceuticals.
Graves to ask for $3 million to help build Dole Institute
Kansas Governor Bill Graves will ask the state legislature for $3 million to help build the Robert J. Dole Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at the University of Kansas.
By Brandon Copple Kansan staff writer
Mike Matson, Graves' press secretary, said the Governor settled on $2 million after discussions with Dole, the Board of Regents, Chancellor
Introducing the former senator to a luncheon crowd Thursday in Overland Park, Graves said the appropriation would be included in the proposed budget that he would submit to the legislature today.
Robert Hemenway and Marlin Rein, University director for governmental affairs.
Legislative approval of the governor's recommendation would mean the institute would have locked in more than half of its cost, now estimated at $8 million. The institute will be erected on the University's west campus just west of the Lied C.
Graves: Asking state legislature to pitch in for the Dole Institute.
west of the Lied Center.
The Kansas University Endowment Association has already raised more than $2 million from private sources.
"We heard the money was coming, but talk is cheap," Loomis said. "A $3 million commitment means we can move the planning forward a lot more quickly."
No building plans have been prepared, although archivist Bryan Culp already is sorting through Dole's collected papers in the basement of Spencer Research Library.
Burdett Loomis, interim director of the Dole Institute and professor of political science, said he was pleased with the governor's commitment.
Once completed, the institute will house documents from Dole's 27 years in Congress, host forums for national,
state and local policy discussions and hold programs aimed at educating elected officials and the public. Loomis said that Dole wanted the Institute to help reduce cynicism toward government.
Dole: Donated documents from his 27 years in Congress.
"Senator Dole is a man who dedicated his life to public service," Loomis said. "He wants to help people believe in public service again."
The governor's proposal would take the $3 million from a one-time $67 million tax payment paid to the state by Western Resources, a Kansas power company.
Sen. Sandy Praeger, R-Lawrence, said it was preferable to use the one-time payment for one-time expenditures such as building projects, which do not require an ongoing source of funds. Praeger also said the legislature should approve the governor's proposal.
"I'd like to see it supported for reasons beyond politics," she said. "I hope we'll support the institute because of what Bob Dole has meant to Kansas, and for what it can do for state and local government in Kansas."
Loomis, an expert on the legislative process, said he thought Dole's popularity in Kansas would carry the proposal to passage.
"I think the legislature would go for just about anything with Bob Dole's name on jc," he said. "If we can frame it as a way to thank Senator Dole for his years of service, there shouldn't be any problem getting it passed."