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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.148
THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1993
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Garlinghouse ends term
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President tells Senate to not fear taking risks
Kansan staff writer
By Brett Riggs Kansan staff writer
Outgoing Student Body President Brad Garlinghouse told next year's Student Senate last night not to be afraid of change.
The meeting, which was a joint session of both the outgoing and incoming Senates, featured the transition from old to new.
In an evening filled with thanks, fond memories and encouragement for the future, Garlinghouse delivered a far*1 message to Senate, addressing his term *p*1 president.
"The past year has been an experience, but I firmly believe that it was worth it," "Garling-house said." "There is nothing that I will miss more at KU."
Garlinghouse, addressing the incoming senators, said that serving on Senate was a
commitment and that senators must not be afraid to take risks.
"Nothing can be changed until it is faced." Garlinghouse said. "Jayhawks deserve nothing less than a dedicated Student Senate."
John Shoemaker, new student body president, and the incoming Senate waste little time in making change after they assumed power last night.
Senate passed a resolution that supported the Student Senate Executive Committee's possible allocation of $15,000 this summer to begin searching for a speaker for the Fall 1993 KU Lecture Series.
Kathryn Price, chair of the Lecture Series,
said that the allocation was necessary for
Student Union Activities to have a speaker
sign a contract during the summer.
In order to address the resolution, Senate suspended a rule in its rules and regulations which prohibits Senate from addressing legislation in its first meeting
Jeremy Haas, Senate treasurer, said that he did not think the newly elected senators
Senate appointments
Chad Browning, administrative assistant Jeremy Haas, Senate treasurer Travis Harrod, chair of StudEx Christi Lawrence, executive secretary Kathryn Price, chair of KU Lecture
Benjy Schwartz and Alan Tikwart, codirectors of ASK
Shanda Vangas and Julie Harris, codirectors of Center of Community Outreach
were prepared to address the legislation. "At this point, they are unfamiliar with the budget." Haas said.
Haus also said Senate would not know the precise amount of money in its unallocated account until July 1, when it receives the left-over money from the 1982-93 school year.
Price said that the leading candidate to speak was Terry Anderson, a journalist who was taken hostage in Beirut.
Outgoing Student Body President Brad Garlinghouse gives his farewell speech to a joint session of the outgoing and incoming Student Senates. With outgoing Vice President Lance Wright at his side, Garlinghouse told the senators last night to not fear change.
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The politics of stripping
Student sheds clothes to pay for education
By Terrilyn McCormick
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
In a shimmering silver cocktail dress, Tracy Jones walked through the crowd of men. A cloud of smoke hovered over the men sitting in brown singl lounge chairs. Young men, old men, men in business suits, men in plaid flannel shirts — all are waiting for that cocktail dress to drop to the floor.
She steps up onto the brightly lit stage. The men's eyes follow her hips' deliverable sway. Tracy looks straight out into the crowed displaying no signs of jitters or anxiety, unlike two years ago when she first walked into the Flamingo stage as a topless dancer.
"I remember the first time." Tracy recalls. "I was really anxious sitting in the dressing room. It was like, I wanted time to hurry up because I was mentally ready to do this, but the hardest part of the whole thing was walking on stage. I was really worried about what people would think, but you get over that really quickly once you get on stage and start dancing."
Getting on stage and taking off her clothes wasn't exactly the job Tracy, a pre-law student, had picked to get herself through college two years ago when she started attending Missouri Western College in St. Joseph, Mo. But she needed to make good money with minimal amount of work and time.
Even her mother admits that working for $4.25 an hour won't pay the high cost of a college education.
And Tracy isn't the first student to come upon the idea of stripping her way through college.
Juices, a new non-alcoholic strip bar in Lawrence,
new WL students, edd lpWL faculty owner.
Juices, a new non-alcoholic stir bar in lawrence,
employs several KU students, sad Jeff Wallace, owner.
Richard Osborn, bar manager at the Flamingo, said
there always was at least one KU student working at his
"We don't do much recruiting of girls," he said. "They generally come to us because they are interested in making really good money and not working that hard." This was exactly the reason Tracy first went to the Flamingo.
"My best friend and I were sitting around trying to figure out what we were going to do to work our way through college," she says. "She babysat for a dancer at the Flamingo, who we talked with one night and she said we should give it a try. We both decided to check it out."
Tracy and her friend decided that they would try dancing. Both became dancers at the Flamingo, 501 N. Ninth St., and regularly started taking their clothes off for money.
tracy Jones, a student at Missouri Western College, begins a performance at the Flamingo Club, 501 N. Ninth St. At the end of the song the dress will be off, and at the end of her six-hour shift $100 or more will be in her G-string. Tracy will become a KU student this summer, paying her tuition with the money she makes stripping at the club.
Story continues. Page 8.
Strip bars raise legal questions
By Terrilyn McCormick
Kansan staff writer
Stripping at the Flamingo Club, 501 N. Ninth St., is loaded only by a few vans
Nude dancing in Lawrence taverns has been outlawed since the first of the year.
lucky for Wes Kabler, owner of the Flamingo, the northern Lawrence city limits runs through the middle of Ninth Street in North Lawrence. The Flamingo sits on the county side of the street.
Strip bars have been restricted only since Jan. 19 when the Lawrence City Commission unanimously passed an ordinance prohibiting mudity in bars. For now, the ordinance applies only to businesses that serve alcohol, but the city is checking into passing a juice bar ordinance to prohibit mudity in any establishment, said Bob Schulte, Lawrence city commissioner.
Jeff Wallace, owner of Juicers, 913 N. Second St., is not discouraged.
Last night, Wallace opened Juicers, a non-alcoholic strip bar that is a few blocks from the Flamingo but inside the city limits. Currently, his juice bar is legal.
Schulte said the Lawrence City Commission was waiting for the Johnson County Commission to pass an ordinance prohibiting nudity in juice bars before Lawrence acts.
Wallace has promised to sue the commission if an antiquity ordinance is passed.
he said that he was relying on a Kansas State Supreme Court ruling on nudity in juice bars.
"The way I look at it, the Kansas State Supreme Court said it was legal and they are a higher authority than the city commission." Wallace said.
But Mary Horesh, public information officer for the Kansas Attorney General's office, said she did not think that the Kansas State Supreme Court had ever heard any cases involving juice bars.
He said the commission could regulate how far the dancers could stand from the customers, the hours the bar could be open and the age of the customers, but it could not ban the establishment altogether.
A 1991 U.S. Supreme Court case did rule that state regulations on nudity were not violations against the dancers and owners' First Amendment rights.
The question of crime
The current Lawrence ordinance prohibiting nudity in bars was passed because city commissioners said they believed strip bars were a prime location for drug use and violence.
But Leon Slanders, manager of the Paradise Saloon,
Story continues, Page 9.
Team aims for Regional
The Kansas softball team, which last year competed in the College World Series, is batting to qualify for regional play this year.
See story Page 11.
Committee issues gay relations report
Suggested solutions are two-year effort
By Frank McCleary Kansan staff writer
A committee formed in January 1991 to study gay, lesbian and bisexual concerns on the KU campus issued its report Friday to Ed Maven, executive vice chancellor.
Faculty, staff and students composed the 12-member committee, which was formed by Del Shankel, then-executive vice chancellor, in response to increasing pressure from Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
The committee's focus later was expanded to include issues faced by homosexual faculty and staff and bisexuals.
The 55-page report included recommendations on how the problems and concerns could be resolved. The report has not been made available to the public.
Dennis Saleebey, professor of social welfare who chaired the committee, said it was formed in response to a higher incidence of harassment of gays and lesbians during the Fall 1990 semester.
"A number of things were happening that concerned the gay and lesbian community," he said.
Geoffrey Steere, associate professor of American studies and a committee member, said the committee reviewed similar reports from Ruggers University, Amherst University and the University of Oregon to develop its recommendations. It held open forums in which students were asked their feelings about sexual orientation and the atmosphere on campus for homosexuals.
The report now is being reviewed by Meyen and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
The committee sent out 5,000 questionnaires to faculty, staff and students during the Spring 1992 semester to help them determine campus attitudes toward homosexuals. It received about 950 responses that helped the committee form its report, Steere said.
"I appreciate the comprehensive nature of the report and its focus on education, which is essential if we are to succeed in our efforts to create an environment that recognizes and welcomes the diversity of our community," Meyen said.
The administration will issue a response once it has had a chance to review and discuss the report and its recommendations. The committee will meet with Meyen on Friday to discuss the report.
Saleebey said the report contained information important not only for homosexuals, but for the entire KU campus.
"It has been the committee's view all along that the report needs to be made public," he said.