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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
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Lawrence's musical underground
The Outhouse provides the pulse of alternative music's local vein
By James J. Reece Kansan staff writer
we call it the pit.
they can be 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 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 dirt underground music
"It's not the most cushy of accommodations," says Shelle Rosebenff, assistant editor of The Note, a Lawrence-based music and entertainment periodical. "But it serves a purpose as a home for alternative music."
less of name, the music is what has given the secluded Outhouse a notoriety unmatched by other Lawrence venues.
one 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.
The recent Body Count and Fear concerts had both the music and the politics that fuel the fire and fights in the pit. In lawsuits the City COURT will review.
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Spring break is no break for KU athletic teams
Special to the Kansan
Bv Stacv L. Kunstel
Junior Stephani Williams has never taken a spring break during her three years at KU. She doesn't mind.
"I really don't know what it is to have a spring break," said Williams, a member of the KU softball team. "I don’t really miss it though. I enjoy playing softball. The only thing I miss about not having a break is working and making some money."
While most students spend spring break sprawled on a beach or ripening down powdered slopes, many KU athletes will be practicing or playing in games or tournaments.
Mary athletes won't be stuck in Lawrence though. Williams and the softball team will travel to California for the week to play against Massachusetts, Depaul and in the Pony Invitational at California State University at Fullerton.
The women's tennis team will also be in Southern California for the week while the men's team will travel to Arizona. Other KU teams will be traveling during the break include the men's golf team at Baylor, the women's golf team at Columbia, S.C., and the NCAA swimming championship, which will be held in Indianapolis for men and in Minneapolis for women.
"It's a break from class, but I don't think I get to relax," Williams said. "The team generally gets up early and eat breakfast together and then we have games or practice hitting."
Although a free trip, especially to some place warm, might seem like a vacation, Williams says that it's not that much of a break.
Junior Ana Gonzalez will get to enjoy her first spring break this year. Gonzalez, a member of the tennis team, is sidelined with injuries and will miss the team's trip to San Diego.
"During spring break last year we went to Arizona and didn't have a day off except maybe one," Gonzalez said. "Everyday was spent either playing, or practicing or traveling."
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some KU athletic teams will travel to warmer climates during the spring break, but they don't always have a chance to enjoy the change of scenery.
"The most sun we'll get is on the field." Williams said. "We also try to study and do homework during the break."
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Gonzalez agreed, "We have to study during spring break."
Gonzalez also said that players can't lay out when they have matches because the sun makes them too tired.
Even though this will be the first spring break that Gonzalez can remember, she has no regrets.
I think it's fair that athletes don't get a real break like other students." Gonzalez said.
"Athletes get scholarships to play, so it's fair that you give back what you're getting. We get to go to some nice places and besides, I like to play."
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Beer bill concerns merchants
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.
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
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as much as half of their sales
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Wichita liquor store owner point out that liquor stores are permitted ally to sell only alcoholic beverals and that beer was only a small of other stores' total sales.
When they take our one item it will be devastating." Carl Mitchell d. "It allows us to run a race, in cutting one of our legs off and king us to be competitive."
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"I'm in a college town," Webb said. '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.
is a young crowd. Young is best. Discussion during the hearings also salt with the social issue of making eer with higher alcohol content available at more locations.
"It it was stated that the amount of rinkling stronger beer would not increase — that it was simply a matter where it was bought," said Francis Good, a state and national Christian 'emerence 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," and Richard Ferguson, president of Kansas 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, Olathe student and engineering senator. Vice president candidate: Jeff Russell, Olathe junior and president of the junior class.
UNITE: presidential candidate: Shoel maker. Topeka junior and liberal arts and sciences senator. Vice presidential candidate: Tim Dawson, Topeka junior and Nuneemaker senator.
UNGANSAH: presidential candidate;
Bernard Cox, Patellas, III, junior. Vice-
presidential candidate; Charles Frey, Brockport,
N.Y., junior.
A.C.I.T.O.N.II: presidential candidate
Jason McIntosh, Tulsa, Oklahoma and senior arts and sciences scientist, Vice presidential candidate; Martselo Romero, Topeka junior and off-campus senator.
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