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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102.NO.118
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1993
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Lawrence's musical underground
The Outhouse provides the pulse of alternative music's local vein
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By James J. Reece
Kansan staff writer
Jason Auld / KANSAN
hey call it the pit.
It's a dance floor like no other in lawrence — a place where adrenaline is king,
where elbows pump, shoulders bump and bodies collide in a frenzy of shreded drummicks and unraveled steel guitar strings. Where beer- and sweat-soaked dancers stumble away bleeding or are dragged away unconscious.
Forget fraternity and sorority members begging to a happy-faced disc jockey. Forget basketball players in snakeskin boots two-stepping in a cowboy bar. This is the Outhouse. This is the local vein of live, underground music. This is the bad side of town.
The pit is under the flat roof of The Outhouse, a 40-by-40-foot blue cinder block shell of a building four miles east of Lawrence.
"I remember seeing one very thin girl out dancing," says Joe Adler. Lawrence graduate student "Then a few minutes later she was being carried off with her eyes closed. It looked like she was sleeping, I guess she caught one."
A steel girder, about eight feet above the pit, runs the length of the ceiling. Stage divers, patrons who launch themselves into the crowd, clutch at the girder as they ride the fingers and palms of those in the pit below them.
Some who ride the crowd wrap both hands and both legs around the girder and then dangle for a while. They then swing their combat boots to the cement floor — or into an inattentive head.
Others tight the pull of a wary crowd to their last finger tip grip on the girder and then are swept away over the heads of the audience for another lap around the interior of the building
Call the music pump or hardcore or alternative or cutting edge. But regardess of name, the music is what has given the secluded Outhouse a notoriety unmatched by other Lawrence venues.
"It's not the most cushy of accommodations," says Shelle Rosenfeld, assistant editor of *The Note*, a Lawrence-based music and entertainment periodical. "But it serves a purpose as a home for alternative music."
In January, the "Cop Killer" singer himself brought the taste of Los Angeles to the cornfields around the Outhouse. The syndicate-style back-door man in mirrored sunglasses sat at center stage through the entire performance — emotionless, staring into the crowd, a shotgun across his chest.
Throughout his set, Ice T extolled the cornfield Kansas haven.
Above, a crowd rider, passed hand to hand above the audience, grabs for the rafters of the Outhouse during a Fear concert. The concert, held in early February, had the combination of music, dance and injuries that make the venue unique in Lawrence. At left, three patrons at the same concert take a break in the entryway of the Outhouse.
Nancy Wicker, Topeka occupational therapist, remembers the concert, her first visit to The Outhouse. She said she thought Ice T relished Lawrence, despite his complaints about the parking-lot-turned-mudhole, the result of wet January weather on the lot's unpaved surface.
She says the Outhouse is a testing ground for new bands in Lawrence. It also showcases older bands. It catches some, like Nirvana, before their crusades into mainstream music. Others, like Fear, the early 1980s punk band that recently reunited, appear on reconstruction tours. The Outhouse catches still others, like Ice T's Body Count, in mid-swing.
"I wanted to take him home to my house and show him what it like. I would not live where he lives for all the
The recent Body Count and Fear concerts had both the music and the politics that fuel the fire and fights in the pit.
"He said: I want to know what it's like to walk outside at night and feel safe," Wicker says, recalling Ice T's words.
Story continued, Page 7.
FBI makes second arrest in bombing
Kuwaiti-born engineer linked to first suspect in Trade Center blast
The Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — A Palestinian-American chemical engineer was ordered without bail yesterday on a charge of helping to bomb the World Trade Center. He was the second suspect linked directly to the fatal blast.
Nidal A. Ayyad, 25, was arrested at his suburban Maplewood home by an FBI SWAT team. Authorities said the Kuwaiti-born naturalized U.S. citizen had ties to Mohammed Salameh, accused last week of renting the van used to carry the bomb that devastated the skyscraper complex Feb. 26, killing five people.
A federal investigator said Ayad, like Salameh, also had ties to El Sayid Nosair, who was acquitted of the 1900 assassination of militant Israeli Rabbi Meir Kahane but convicted of related charges.
James Esposito, the FBI chief for New Jersey, said Ayayd's chemical background was significant, but he would not say whether Ayayd was attentive.
believed to have made the bomb.
"By his educational background he has expertise that lends itself to this kind of crime," Esosito told reporters.
The FBI said that Ayayd and Salameh shared a bank account and that Ayayd's business card was found among Salameh's personal belongings when Salameh was arrested last Thursday. Ayayd is a research engineer for Allied-Signal Inc., which makes engineered materials and aerospace and automotive products.
Ayad and Salameh knew each other for more than a year, Esposito said. Ayad's father, Abdel-Rahman Joseph Ayad, confirmed that Salameh had visited his son at the house in Maplewood. He didn't know how often or how recently.
Discovered in the shed after the bombing were several hundred pounds of urea, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, other chemical compounds and equipment such as graduated beakers, flasks, and a mortar and pestle, the FBI said.
The storage shed was rented to someone who identified himself as Kanal Birahm, according to the complaint. Esposito said the FBI was not sure whether Kanal Birahm was a pseudonym. Several people, including Salameh, were authorized to have access to the shed, investigators said.
On the day before the bombing, an FBI complaint said, Salameh and an undetermined number of other people were seen making many trips to a Jersey City storage warehouse where
There were enough chemical compounds "to produce a primary high explosive," the complaint said.
Salameh also was seen making telephone calls from a pay phone nearby, and records show four calls were made from that phone to Aayad's line at Allied-Signal, the complaint said.
A federal investigator, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Ayyad visited Nosair in the New York City jail at Rikers Island after Nosair was arrested in the Kahane slaying. Nosair now is in the New York state prison in Attica.
explosives and bomb-making materials were later found. The complaint said they drove a yellow Ryder rental van, which was believed used in the bombing.
Cavanaugh ordered Ayad held without bail. At the defense request, Cavanaugh scheduled a hearing for Friday to determine whether Ayad is the person sought by the government.
Eleven days before the blast, Ayyad rented a red General Motors car and listed Salameh as an additional driver, the complaint said. When the van believed used in the bombing was rented, the FBI said, Salameh was accompanied by a second person in a red GM car.
If convicted, he could face life imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
Ayad appeared yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Dennis Cavanaugh on a complaint charging him with "aiding and abetting the malicious damage and destruction" of the trade center.
Another man, Ibrahim Elgabrowny, has been charged with obstruction of justice in the bombing investigation for striking federal agents searching his apartment after Salameh's arrest.
In the New York City area, Salameh was active in pro-Nosair demonstrations during his 1991 trial and reportedly has visited him at Attica.
Both Nosair and Salameh used Elgabrowny's Brooklyn address, authorities have said, and Elgabrowny headed a support committee for Nosair.
Yesterday, Elgabrowny hired prominent attorney William Kunstler, who represented Nosair at his trial, and partner Ron Kuby.
Kansas liquor store representatives yesterday asked state legislators not to take away a vital part of their livelihood — the sale of certain types of beer.
That is what would happen, they said, if the House passed a bill that would allow grocery and convenience stores to sell "strong beer." Such stores now only can sell beer with 3.2 percent alcohol or less. Only liquor stores can sell beer with greater alcohol content, and liquor store owners are worried the legislation would rob them of much of that market.
"I am incensed as a sole proprietor of a retail store that the big chains who sell hundreds and thousands of items feel that they must take 50 percent of my beer business to show a profit," said Patricia Oppitz, a Topeka liquor store owner.
Liquor store owners told the House Federal and State Affairs Committee that as much as half of their sales were beer sales.
Beer bill concerns merchants
A Wichita liquor store owner pointed out that liquor stores are permitted legally to sell only alcoholic beverages and that beer was only a small part of other stores' total sales.
"When they take our one item it would be devastating." Carl Mitchell said. "It's like asking us to run a race, then cutting one of our legs off and asking us to be competitive."
John Webb, owner of Webb's Fine Wine and Spirits, 800 W. 23rd St., was the last of the 12 bill opponents to speak.
After the hearing, he said his business also would be hit hard by the legislation because beer made up about 40 percent of his total sales.
By Ben Grove
Kansan staff write
"Tm in a college town," Webb said. "It's a young crowd. Joung is beer."
Discussion during the hearings also dealt with the social issue of making beer with higher alcohol content available at more locations.
"It was stated that the amount of drinking stronger beer would not increase — that it was simply a matter of where it was bought," said Francis Wood, a state and national Christian Temperance Union volunteer. "I disagree. Availability is the key here. If it's handy, you buy it."
Other bill opponents warned the representatives that if grocery and convenience stores got 5.0 beer, the Legislature would soon see a glut of convenience store requests to sell any types of liquor.
"The Pandora's box will be open," said Richard Ferguson, president of Kansas Retail Liquor Dealers Association.
Proponents of the hill spoke on Tuesday. No action was taken.
Student-made plays
I wone act plays by KU students, "Coverage" and "Footprints in the Snow," continue tonight at Ige Theatre at Murphy Hall. "Coverage" deals with media exploitation of a child's drowning, and "Footprints in the Snow" tells the story of an actor who loses his identity.
See related story, Page 6.
Coalitions, independents file for elections
By Brett Rlggs
Kansan staff writer
Two Student Senate election coilitions and two independent candidates yesterday rushed to meet the 5 p.m. filing deadline for presidential and vice presidential candidacy for the Senate elections April 14-15.
The coaliitions Focus and UNITE, and independent candidates Bernard Cox, Palatine, Ill., junior, and his running mate Charles Frey, Brockport, N.Y., junior, joined the A.C.T.I.O.N.!! coalition to form a four-way race.
Edward Austin, Olathe junior, will be Focus presidential candidate. His vice presidential running mate will be Jeff Russell, Olathe junior.
Austin said that one of the main issues that Focus would address in the election was the
issue of a proposed citywide transportation system
"The system would serve the city and students." Austin said.
John Shoenmaker, Topeka junior, will be UNITE's presidential candidate. Tim Dawson, Topeka junior, will be his vice presidential mate.
Shoemaker said he wanted to see improved retention for minority students by having more minorities on the University faculty.
"It would not be quotas, but rather diversity through quality." Shoemaker said. "It would help the cultural atmosphere on campus."
Cox and Frey had to collect 600 student signatures to file for independent candidacy. They are calling their two-man coalition UNGANISHA, which means "unify" in the
Kiswahili language.
"We'll have to work harder because we don't have as many connections." Cox said.
Cox said that one of their main goals would be to make Senate services more cost-effective, allowing Senate to finance organizations in need of more money.
"Tuition reaches out to every student." McIntosh said. "We need to make education more accessible."
Jason McIntosh, Tulsa, Okla., senior, was the first candidate to file He will be the presidential candidate for the A.C.T.I.O.N.!! coalition. His running mate will be Marisol Romero, Topeka junior.
McIntosh said one of his main issues would be a prospective tuition payment plan process. His plan would allow students who could not pay tuition in full to pay on a monthly basis.
The candidates
FOCUS: presidential candidate: Edward Austin, Olathe junior and engineering scientist. Vice president candidate: J Russell, Olathe junior and president of the junior
UNITE presidential candidate. John Shoel-
maker. Teopakian junior and liberal arts
and sciences teacher. Vice presidental
conference chairman. Teopakian junior and Nume-
maker senator.
UNGANSHA: presidential candidate:
Bernard Cosat, Patinei, III, junior. Vice pri al
dental candidate: Charles Frey, Brockport,
N.Y., junior.
A.C.I.L.O.N.i.T; presidential candidate:
Jason McIntosh, Tulsa, Oklahomə; senior and
laboral arts and sciences scientist. Vice presi-
dential candidate: Mariel Romero, Topeka
junior and off-campus senator.
Source:
Student Senate Elections Commission KANBAI