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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday. August 26,1993
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Smoke-free bar opens in theater
Denise O Sullivan, Denver senior, arranges desserts to the display case at the Granada, a new smoke-free café.
Plans to include comedy, music
By Traci Carl Kansan Staff Writer
Mike Elwell and his daughter, Stacy, wanted to open a bar that was unique to Lawrence in a building that has been providing entertainment for decades.
After two years of work, they did.
On Friday, they opened the Granada,
1020 Massachusetts st., a nonsmoking bar and cafe that serves as the theater name. Without an opening night publicity, the bar and cafe drew about 175 people on Friday and 375 on Saturday, said Stacy ELKW, manager of the Granada and a 1983 KU graduate.
Her father Mike, owner of the Granada, said he didn't want to change the historic feel of the theater, which opened in 1934 and closed several years ago.
"We've tried to keep as much as possible the original flavor of the theater." Ellwell St.
Most patrons didn't mind when they were asked not to smoke, she said.
But John Neal, Overland Park senior, said he went to the bar Friday and Saturday. He isn't a smoker, but his friends are, he said.
Before it was a theater, the building was an ice-skating rink and then a Ford garage. Stacy Elwell said the design on the wall inside the bar was painted in 1940. As a result, the Granada doesn't allow smoking to protect the painting.
"It's kind of a stupid rule to have a bar or a club you can't smoke in." he said
The smoke-free environment isn't the
only thing that is unique about the bar. The lobby of the Granada has been turned into a cafe that serves coffee and desserts.
"We have every kind of coffee drink you could want," Stacy Elwell said.
Dan Ray, Lawrence resident, said he liked the spaciousness of the bar.
The bar also features a dance floor, movie screens for sports events and a maximum capacity of 595 people without seats.
"It's just a different atmosphere from other bars in town, 'Rav said.' I think it will be a good place in Lawrence where a lot of bands that are too big for the Bottleneck but not big enough for Memorial Hall can play."
Stacy Elwell said she wants to play a variety of music. Her tentative plan is to have live music on Fridays and Saturdays, comedy on Mondays, piano on Tuesdays, bass
ketball competitions on Wednesdays and jazz on Thursday.
The Granada is open from 4 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Minors will not be allowed in after 8 p.m. Stacy Elwell said.
Elwell said the building was available to rent on Sundays and during the day.
Tomorrow, Jim Boyd will play piano from 6 to 10 p.m. River City Six jazz band will also play Thursday and Sept. 23 and the Stringers will be playing Sept. 17 and 24. Coming bands include Marquee Jordan Quinet and Soul Shakers.
Generally, from 4 to 5 p.m. the Granada plays soft music, such as jazz or classical, Stacy Elwell said. After 9 p.m. the bar plays more dance music.
"We want to have our own style," she said. "We don't want to compete with the people who have been here a long time."
KU students finish local man's movie
Vietnam Era Junction City is the setting
By J.R. Clairborne Kansan staff writer
The year is 1968.
Love, the new pimp in town, stands on the corner of Ninth and Washington streets in Junction City running down his rules of the business to one of his ladies of the night.
Despite his desire for respect from the older members of the established order, Love and his "colleagues" aim to take over the street, the heart of Junction City's night life, from the old blood that runs it.
Love — played by Byron Myrick, a former student at the University of Kansas — and other past and present KU students yesterday finished filming the movie "Ninth Street," a film by Kevin Willmott, Lawrence resident.
The film will not be released until producers sign with a national distributor.
The movie centers on Junction City's hot spot for soldiers from Fort Riley at the time of the Vietnam War. Fort Riley is the army base just north of Junction City, which closed down the nightclubs in 1976, Willmott said.
Today, the area is a parking lot.
"There were a lot of soldiers with money in their pockets and a lot of women came down after them," said Sean Saffold, Cleveland, Ohio, graduate student. "It was a wild town, very wild."
Saffold, known to KU students for his in-progress movie "Birdland," was the film's associate producer. Both he and Willmott also made brief appearances in the film.
Willmott, who is originally from Junction City, said he modeled the movie after recollections from his days in his hometown.
Before 1968, the street was known as the city's blues spot and attracted many musicians from the Kansas City and St. Louis areas.
"But in '68, the street saw a lot of drugs and violent crimes," Willnott said. "A different set of values came upon the street, which led to its decline."
Also assisting Willmott and Saffold from the University were director Tim Rebman, a former student, and co-producer Dave Yonelly, a KU graduate.
Other students in the film include Sean Holland, Kismet senior; Robert Tucker, former Jayhawk defensive tackle; Megan Group and Jerdel Taylor.
The movie features award-winners Martin Sheen and Isaac Hayes; KC Moore of "Daughters of the Dust"; and Kansas City's Queen Bev.
Willmott said Hayes and Sheen's involvement with the movie came through mutual friends and the actors' desire to help new projects. However, Myrick and Stroup were among those able to work directly with Hayes.
"This was a team project, and Isaac knows that," Stroup said. "He works as one of the team, and there's no one prima dona among us."
Myrick, whose character, Love, becomes a young thorn in the side of Isaac's character, Tipple Toe, said that he was intimidated initially by the thought of working with Hayes. He was so intimidated by Hayes' presence that he asked Willmott for a separate rehearsal before filming his first scene.
"It was fun though," he said. "He's so down to earth that I was comfortable."
"He's cooler than a fan."
Susan McSpadden / KANSAN
University of Kansas graduate Megan Stroup and former KU student Byron Myrick laugh as they try to go over a scene for the movie "Ninth Street," which was written and produced by Lawrence resident Kevin Willmott. The movie is being filmed in Junction City.
Students everywhere fall into the stereotyping trap
By Chesley Dohl
Kansas staff writer
Shelly Falehits, Chicago junior, once met a guy who she pegged as "a total ultra hippy."
"He was really wild looking but he turned out to be just the opposite - very well read and intellectual," she said.
A recent study with German university students found that many students judge people's intelligence by their appearance.
Chris Crandall, associate professor of social psychology, said stereotyping is an automatic process.
In the German study, students judged the intelligence of strangers on videoat as they watched and listened to them read a 90-second script.
"Stereotyping is inevitable," Crandall said. "When we stereotype, we naturally process certain characteristics that lead us to come to conclusion about people."
"When I think of someone intelligent I usually picture the nerd type."
Peter Borkenau, a psychology professor at Bielefeld University in Germany, who conducted the study, had students judge strangers after viewing the videotape.
The result showed that the students made intelligence judgments based on the appearance of strangers.
Ed Murphy Kansas Citysophomor
"Stereotyping is inadvertently learned as we grow up, through our parents, peers, media, and experiences," Crandall said.
Attractive, self-assured individuals with stylish hair and well-proportioned bodies ranked higher, while the unrefined with round faces and stout bodies scored lower.
Students at KU shamefully admit they often stereotype, but they agree that stereotyping usually proves wrong in the end.
"When I think of someone intelligent I usually picture the nerd-type," said Ed Murphy, Kansas City sophomore. "I think of a slide rule, glasses and lots of books."
Melissa Terlip, Lawrence senior, said that she tries not to place people in categories, but that everyone does it whether intentionally or unintentionally.
"At a diverse school like KU it's really hard to tell about people," she said. "A lot of people are different and some people look way out there—but a lot of the time they're the extremely intelligent ones."
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Fraternity named by KU student in assault and battery
A KU student has filed a lawsuit against the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity for damages suffered in a case alleging a 1992 assault and battery case.
Matthew Davis is seeking more than $10,000 in damages from the fraternity, its corporate officers and unknown members of the chapter.
Davis said in the lawsuit that members of Phi Kappa Psi beat him and knocked him unconscious during a fight Aug. 19, 1992. The suit said fraternity members then carried Davis to the Alpha Tau Omega house and called Douglas County Ambulance Service from there.
Davis was cut and bruised in the fight and unable to attend class until he recovered, according to the lawsuit.
Davis' attorney, Lawrence Seaman, would not comment on the lawsuit.
Student injured in traffic accident near Robinson Gym
A KU student was injured when she was struck by a car yesterday morning near Summerfield Hall.
Sgt. Rose Rozmiarke, KU police, said Nichole Euson, 24, was crossing Sunnyside Drive about 10:15 a.m. yesterday. Brian C. King, Broken Arrow, Okla, sophomore, was eastbound on Sunnyside when he hit her. Euson was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for head injuries and was listed in fair condition last night.
No citations have been issued, Rozmiarek said, and police are continuing to investigate.
Meyen to discuss new policy on consensual relationships
University Council will meet at 3:30 p.m. today in 108 Blake Hall. Ed Meyden, executive vice chancellor, will make a presentation on what led the University to develop a consensual relationship policy.
Victoria's College of Embryology
David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Sandra Kirk, assistant director of the college honors program, also will speak. Wick headed a task force last year on sexual harassment. The meeting will be open to the public.
Police investigate shooting of teenager at apartments
Lawrence police are investigating a shooting that occurred yesterday afternoon in an apartment in the 200 block of Michigan Street.
Officers originally responded to a fight and were told on arrival that a shooting had occurred.
According to Li. Ed Brunt, a 15-year-old girl had gone to the apartment to pick up her brother. A 15-year-old boy was in the apartment handling a small-caliber pistol. Witnesses said the gun fired, hitting the girl in the neck.
The girl walked to her apartment in the same building, and her mother took her to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Her condition was unavailable last night.
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