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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
The Outhouse provides the pulse of alternative music's local vein
ev call it the pit.
By James J. Reece Kansan staff writer
Ity can't lift the pr
It's a dance floor like no
other in Lawrence — a place
where adrenaline is king,
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.
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.
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Forget fraternity and sorority member hopping 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 backside of a loud ground music
ness of name, the music is what has given the secluded Outhouse a motoriety 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."
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 crushes into mainstream music. Others, like Fear, the early 1980s punk band that recently reuilted, appear on reconstruction tours. The Outhouse catches still others, like ice T's Body Count, in mid-swing.
The recent Body Count and Fear concerts had both the music and the politics that fuel the fire and fights in the pit.
Book ideas for Spring Break
The Associated Press
Here are the best-selling books as they appear in next week's issue of Publishers Weekly. Reprinted with permission.
HARDCOVER FICTION
"I. The Bridges of Madison County," Robert James Waller (Warner)
2. "Degree of Guilt," Richard North Patterson (Knopf)
3. "The Tallmsam of Shannara," Terry Brooks (DelRev)
4. "Along Came a Spider," James Patterson (Little, Brown)
5. "Einstein's Dream" Alan Lichtman (Pantheon)
6. "Griffin & Sabine" Nick Bantock (Chronicle Books)
7. "Dragon Tears" Dean Kootz (Putnam)
8. "Close Combat" W.E.B. Griffin (Putnam)
9. "The Children of Men" P.D. James (Knoon)
10. "November of the Heart" LaVryle Spencer (Putnam)
11. "Devil's Waltz" Johnathan Kellerman (Bantam)
12. "All the Pretty Horses," Cormac McCarthy (Knoop)
13. "Sabine's Notebook," Nick Bantock (Chronicle)
(Viking)
14. "Waiting to Exhale" Terry McMillan
15 "Mystery Ride" Robert Boswell (Knopf)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "The Way Things Ought to Be," Rush Limbaugh (Pocket Books)
2. "Hearing and the Mind," Bill Moyers (Doubleday)
3. "Women Who Run With the Wolves," Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Ballantine)
4. "Bankruptcy 1995," Harry E. Figgie (Little Brown)
5. "Official & Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover," Anthony Summera (Putnam)
6. "Harvey Penick's Little Red Book," Harvey Penick & Bud Shrake (Simon & Schuster)
8. "Excess Baggage," Judith Sills (Vikong)
9. "Marlene," Maria Riva (Knopf)
10. "Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee," Regis Philbin & Kathie Lee Gifford (Hyperion)
11. "Making the Mummies Dance," Thomas Hoving (Sinon & Schuster)
12. "Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal Political Philosophy," George F. Keenan (Norton)
13. "Care of the Soul," Thomas Moore
14. "Dream Makers, Dream Breakers," Carl T. Rowan, (Little, Brown)
(Harner Collins)
15. "Nobody Nowhere," Donna Williams (Times Books)
MASS MARKET
PAPERBACKS
3. "Jurassic Park," Michael Crichton (Ballantine)
1. "The Pelican Brief," John Grisham (Dell)
2. "All Around the Town," Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket)
4. "Bygones," LaVyrle Spencer (Jove)
5. "Rising Sun," Michael Crichton (Ballantine)
6. "Star Wars 2: Dark Force Rising," Timothy Zahn (Bantam)
7. "The First Wives Club," Olivia Goldsmith (Pocket)
8. "The Elf Queen of Shannara," Terry Brooks (Del Rey)
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9. "The Firm," John Grisham (Dell)
11. "Silent Prey" John Sanford (Berkeley)
12. "Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,"
    *Murphy* 1976
10. "A Time To Kill," John Grisham (Dell)
11 "Silent Prey" John Sanford (Berkley)
12 "Knows Wysthe, Caged. Bird. Sings."
mayor (borbonate)
13. "Untamed," Elizabeth Lowell (Avon)
14. "Star Trek. The Next Generation 25.
Grounded," David Bischoff (Pocket)
15. "Blindsight," Robin Cook (Berkley)
1. "Revolution from Within," Gloria Steinem (Little, Brown)
2. "Life's Little Instruction Book," H. Jackson Brown Jr. (Rutledge Hill)
3. 7 "Habits of Highly Effective People," Stephen R. Covey (S & S Fireside)
4 "The T-Factor Fat Gram Counter," Pope-Cordle or Katain (Norton)
5. "On the Pulse of the Morning," Maya Angelou (Random House)
6. "A Thousand Acres," Jane Smiley (Fawcett/Columbine)
7. "The Tightwad Gazette," Amy Dacyczyn (Villard)
8. "Earth in the Balance," Al Gore (Plume)
9. "Cowboys Are My Weakness," Pam Houston (Washington Square Press)
10 "Keeping the Love You Find," Harville Hendrix (Pocket Books)
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"Getting the Love You Want," Harvie Hairy
Harvie (Harpour Parcels)
12. "Bastard Out of Carolina." Dorothy Allison (Plume)
13. What to Expect When Your Expecting.
Arlene Eisenberg (Workman)
14. "Vox," Nicholas Baker (Vintage)
15. "Garfield Takes His Licks," Jim Davis (Ballantine)
(Courtesy of Publishers Weekly)
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Beer bill concerns merchants
By Ben Grove
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.
. would rob them of much of that
ket.
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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.
prior store owners told the House
ral and State Affairs Committee
as much as half of their sales
e beer sales.
am incensed as a sole proprietor
a retail store that the big chains
o sell hundreds and thousands of
us feel that they must take 50 peri
of my beer business to show an
aft," said Patricia Oppitz, a Topeka
or store owner.
Wichita liquor store owner point out that liquor stores are permitted tally to sell only alcoholic beverers and that beer was only a small airt of other stores' total sales.
When they take our one item it must be devastating," Carl Mitchell id. "It's like asking us to run a race, en cutting one of our legs off and king us to be competitive."
john Webb, owner of Webb's Fine
John and Spirits, 800 W. 23rd St, was
e last of the 12 bill opponents to
peak.
"I'm in a college town," Webb said. It's a young crowd. Young is beer."
After the hearing, he said his business also would be hit hard by the legislation because beer made up about 1 percent of his total sales.
Discussion during the hearings also
ealt with the social issue of making
ger with higher alcohol content
sailable at more locations.
"It was stated that the amount of tinkering stronger beer would not increase — that it was simply a matter where it was bought," said Francis Food, a state and national Christian emperature Union volunteer. "I disagree. Availability is the key here. If $handsy, you buy it."
Other bill opponents warned the representatives that if grocery and convenience stores got 5.0 beer, the eigislature would soon see a glut of convenience store requests to sell any vues of liquor.
"The Pandora's box will be open," aid Richard Ferguson, president of Causas Retail Liquor Dealers Association.
Proponents of the bill spoke on Tuesday. No action was taken.
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the candidates
FOCUS: presidential candidate: Edward Austin, olai junior and engineering sensor, Vice president candidate: Jeff Rios self, olai junior and president of the junior
class:
UNITE: presidential candidate; John Shoe maker; Topeka junior and liberal arts and science senators. Vice presidential candidate: Tim Dawson, Topeka junior and Nuneman senator.
UNGANSAH, presidential candidate:
Bernard Cox. Palatine, III. junior. Vice presi-
dential candidate: Charles Frey, Brockport,
N.Y., Junior.
A.C.T.O.L.N.I.T. presidential candidate:
Jason McIntosh, Tulsa, Okla. senior and
literary arts and sciences senator. Vice presi-
dential candidate: Mariel Romero, Topeka
junior and off-campus senator.
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