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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102.NO.118
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1993
Lawrence's musical underground
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The Outhouse provides the pulse of alternative music's local vein
By James J. Reece Kansan staff writer
hey call it the pit.
they can it the pit
It's a dance floor like no other in Lawrence — a place there adrenaline is king.
where elbows pump, shoulders bump and bodies collide in a frenzy of shredded drumsticks and unraveled steel guitar strings. Where beer- and sweat-soaked dancers stumble away bleeding or are dragged away unconscious.
The pit is under the flat roof of The Outhouse, a 60-by-40 foot blue cinder block shell of a building four miles east of Lawrence.
Forget fraternity and sorority members bopping to a happy-faced disc jockey. Forget basketball players in snake-skin boots two-stepping in a cowboy bar. This is the Outhouse. This is the local vein of live underground music
less of name the music is what has given the secluded Outhouse a notoriety unmatched by other Lawrence venues.
“it's not the most cusky of accommodations,” says Shelle Rosenfeld, assistant editor of The Note, a lawrence-based music and entertainment periodical “Bulltits serves a purpose as a home for alternative music.”
bother. It pays 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-summer.
The recent Body Count and Pear concerts had both the music and the politics that fuel the fire and fights in the pit.
Scot Hill, Andover junior, catches a few rays at European Tan, Health & Hair Salon, 1601 W. 23rd St. To avoid sunburn or get ready for first day on the beach on spring break, many students are heading to tanning salons.
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Jennifer Huff, Wichita senior, is trying to drop a couple pounds before she heads for South Padre Island.
I'm trying to just exercise more as opposed to starving myself. I started out just hoping to fit into last summer's bikini for break, but now I'm finding that I'm enjoying working out." Huff said.
Students are working hard to shed those few extra pounds and bronze that pasty, white skin after a long Kansas winter. It's all in hopes of having the perfect spring break.
While there's still room at the gyms for last minute weight loss, tanning salons are booked solid.
Jan Bryan, manager of BodyShapes Fitness Club, 3320 Mesa Way, an aerobics and nautilus center for women, said that there was not as much of a rush to workout before spring break.
"Women, and especially college students,
are becoming more aware that it takes more to losing weight and looking good for spring break than intensive workouts and crash diets two weeks before break starts. Being in shape is an ongoing process, not just something that can be achieved immediately," Bryan said.
Bryan, whose gym also has a tanning bed, said there had been a huge increase in students using the tanning bed before spring break.
"We have a lot of members signing up for the tanning bed right before break so that they can get a little color before they go on vacation, " Bryan said. "We actually have to turn people away."
She said members still could book tanning beds,but she wouldn't allow non-members to use the facilities.
Any Veat, Leneax sophomore, is going to Fort Lauderdale during break. She said she didn't want to get sunburned, so she was spending time in a tanning salon.
However, health care officials stress that this is a misconception. They say it is not any safer to tan in a tanning bed than it is in the sun, and a tanning bed is more harmful to skin than the sun. So while it may look like a healthy glow, it really isn't.
"I've been going for about a week now," Veach said. "I just want to make sure that I don't spend my first day laying out and the rest of the week sitting in my hotel room with a third-degree burn. With these tanning beds, I can get sun more gradually."
The office of Lee Bittenbender, a Lawrence dermatologist, recommended that people not expose themselves to the sun or tanning beds for extended periods of time. If you do go to a tanning bed or lay out in the sun, it is recommended that you use a sunblock with a sun protection factor, or SPF, of at least a15. This will give you 90- to 94-percent protection. Anything else above 15 will give you only 2 percent more protection.
These precautions, however, do little to deter them interested in tanning.
Linda Meyer at European Tan, Health & Hair Salon, 1601 W. 23rd St. can attest to the increased use of tanning beds before spring break
I've noticed that three to four times more people tan prior to spring break, she said. "We get people of all ages, but mostly college students and they tend mostly to be female."
asley Keller, employee at The Total Look, Ninth and Mississippi streets, said she also had noticed an increase in people using the tanning beds.
"There's been an increase in appointments made for the tanning beds. It's mainly students getting ready for spring break. There's mainly an increase in evening appointments," Keller said.
Kelsy Avery, Chicago junior, said she had been using the beds in the afternoons to avoid the crowds at night.
"I have about a two-hour break between my afternoon classes so I just make appointments then," she said. "I'm going so that I look good on spring break, but it's also nice to have a tan in the middle of February."
Keller said that students tanned so they wouldn't get sunburned on vacation. Keller also said they did not want their clients to get burned on their beds either, so they took safety precautions.
"We have a safety sheet that we have people making appointments for the bed read and sign before they use the beds," Keller said.
The safety sheet includes questions about the client's skin color and asks them if they tend to burn easily. It recommends that a first-time user or fair-skinned person not use the bed for the full 30 minutes for their first visit. They also recommend that clients not tan in the nude.
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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
By Ben Grove Kansan staff writer
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.
Beer bill concerns merchants
store owners told the House and State Affairs Committee much as half of their sales eeer sales.
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sauld would be hit hard by the legion
because beer made up about
percent of his total sales.
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was stated that the amount of liking stronger beer would not ease — that it was simply a matter where it was bought," said Francis ad, a state and national Christian apperance Union volunteer. "I disse. Availability is the key here. If handy, you buy it."
their bill opponents warned the resentatives that if grocery and convenience stores got 5.0 beer, the salience would soon see a glut of convenience store requests to sell any es of liquor.
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Toponents of the bill spoke on esday. No action was taken.
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The candidates
FOCUS: presidential candidate: Edward Austin, Olathe junior and engineering senator. Vice president candidate: Jeff Russell, Olathe junior and president of the junior class.
UNITE president; Junior College instructor; Topeka junior and liberal arts and sciences senator. Worcester presidential candidate; Topeka junior and Numerator senator.
UNGANSBAN: presidential candidate:
Bernard Cox, Petalilla, III, junior. Vice
presidential candidate: Charles Frey, Brockport,
N.Y., junior.
A.C.T.I.O.N.II presidential candidate:
Jason McIntosh, Tulsa, Oklahoma; senior and liberal arts and science senators; Vice presidential candidate: Marisol Romero, Topeka junior and off-campus senator.
Source:
Student Senate Elections Commission KANBAN