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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 staffwriter
hey call it the pit.
hey call it the pft.
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 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 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."
sne 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. 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 January, the "Cow Killer" singer-in
Beer bill concerns merchants
By Ben Grove Kansan staff writer
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
Basic, bright swimwear hot for men and women Lawrence stores stock up on latest styles for spring our-girl" styling was becoming popular However, Grinstead says, fashionable or not, she still sells quite a few of the less revealing "I-want-to-swim-in-my-swimsuit tank-top suits."
re owners are worried the legisla- could rob them of much of that
By Therese Everett Special to the Kansan
The hottest, brightest colors are turning beaches this season as simple solids and florals make their way onto the racks. But beware if you are looking for bright, "plug-in" neon.
Bo Derek, Christie Brinkley and Kathy Ireland move over — Lawrence stores have received their shipment of the sexiest, most flattering swimwear around, and it's all coming to a pool near you.
Lisa Thies, acting manager of The Buckle,
805 Massachusetts St., will tell you, "Those are on the sale rack— half off."
This season, the trend in style and fit for women is a two-piece suit that covers a little more and shows off a little less. Push-up, padded and underwear tops are popular and seem to be a part of nearly every suit.
Midge Grinstead of Natural Way, 820 Mauschusetts St., said that in addition to underwire, the 50's look of wider straps and "glam
In the way of men's fashion, boxer-style swim trunks are what to expect. Like the women's suits, brights are popular, and wild designs always are in style. Thies sees a possible correlation between swim trunk designs and neck ties.
designs said he needs.
Joe Mulheme, Arlington Heights, Ill., sophomore, said, "I just look for something that doesn't cling like Saran wrap when it gets wet."
get wet.
Prices for these suits generally are generally no different than last season. Men can expect to pay nearly $40, and women a bit more, with prices ranging from $40 to $60—unless one takes advantage of the sleek, velour suit Natural Way offers at $84.
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One can find just about any style and color suit in Lawrence this season. However, there is one style that still has not made an appearance in the local stores: the thong bikini. Perhaps Lawrence just isn't ready.
Overall, the suits for women this season will be eye-catching and demurely provocative. The trunks for men will be bold and busy.
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store owners told the House and State Affairs Committee much as half of their sales er sales.
incensed as a sole proprietor all store that the big chains 1 hundreds and thousands of el that they must take 50 permy beer business to show a said Patricia Oppitz, a Topeka tore owner.
hita liquor store owner point-hat liquor stores are permitted to sell only alcoholic beverid that beer was only a small other stores' total sales.
n they take our one item it be devastating," Carl Mitchell's like asking us to run a race, putting one of our legs off and us to be competitive."
Webb, owner of Webb's Fine
Spirits, 800 W 23rd St., was
titled of the 12 bill opponents to
in a college town," Webb said. young crowd. Young is beer."
the hearing, he said his business would be hit hard by the legi because beer made up about 60 of his total sales.
young crowd. Young is beccas during the hearings also with the social issue of making with higher alcohol content de at more locations.
Pandora's box will be open,
Herdford Ferguson, president of a Retail Liquor Dealers Associ-
as stated that the amount of ng stronger beer would not be—that it was simply a matter it was bought," said Francis a state and national Christian rance Union volunteer. "I dis-Availability is the key here. If idy, you buy it."
r bill opponents warned the entatives that if grocery and mence stores got 5.0 beer, the ture would soon see a glut of mence store requests to sell any if liour.
ponents of the bill spoke on ay. No action was taken.
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e candidates
JUS: presidential candidate: Edward O'Neill, oathrian and engineering service presidential candidate: Jeff Rusiaju, junior president of the junior
1. presidenti candidate: John Shoe
2. Tepoek junior and liberal arts and sen senator. Vice presidenti candidate Tim Dawson. Tepoek junior and Nume-
SANSAHII presidential candidate:
Cox, Patricia, III., Junior. Vice presi-
candidate: Charles Frey, Brockport,
Junior.
T. I. O. N. I.: president; candidate:
Mohtosh, Tukla, Osaka, senior and
libra and science senator, Vice presi-
candidate: Mariol Rosier, Topela,
and off campus senator.
Inst Senate Elections Commission
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