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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102,NO.118
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
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
hey call it the pit.
they can be the pi
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 frenzied of shredd 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 blue cinder block shell of a building four miles east of Lawrence.
forget fraternity and sorority members bopping to a happy-faced disc jockey. For basketball players in skaken boot two-stepping in a cowboy hat. This is the Outhouse This is the
less of name, the music is what has given the secluded Outhouse a notoriety unmatched by other Lawrence venues.
"It is 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."
noble for academics.
She says the Outhouse is a testing ground, with new bands in Lawrence. It showcases older bands. It catches some, like Nirvana, before their crushes 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.
Beer bill concerns merchants
Students want fun in the sun
By Ben Grove Kansan staff write
Skiing vacations colder climates lose popularity
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
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.
By Sharon Henry Special to the Kansan
"Sun is definitely in and it's outselling cold climates," said Tricia Boken of Carlson Travel Network-Sunflower Travel Service, 704 Massachusetts St..
Hot is hot. Cold is not.
Diane Bennett of Uniglobe Classic Travel agreed.
Travel agents say the sunny vacation spots are Cancun, South Padre Island and
KU spring break travelers are heading to warmer climates, despite the costs, Lawrence travel agents say.
"We have not had one person inquire about a ski package," she said.
aboard cruise ships in the Caribbean.
se owners are worried the legislabluld rob them of much of that
Students' first choice seems to be Cancun.
"These three markets are by far the most distinct for us," said Gary Penny who manages Convention and Group Travel Planners, Cruise Captain and Travel Planners, and International Tours all at 7 W.11th St.
Andy Strasser of Ports Unlimited, Sixth and Kasdol streets, said he had found that students didn't even flinch when he told them the air fare and travel rates for Cancun.
"But they do flinch if we tell them we can't get them there," Strasser added.
"We're finding those who can't go to Cancun are going on to the second choice."
Trips to South Padre Island and Caribbean cruises are picking up the Cancun leftovers.
*Planning will take some work on the part of the traveler but students should be able to
"This late in the game we're running out of space," said Pat Kelly of Lawrence Travel Center. 1601 W. 23rd St.
Bennett said she considered chartering a jet to Cancum to accommodate additional students.
Cancun's popularity already has made it a sellout.
"Padre is attractive because there are more options in getting there, it's not as expensive as other places, and there are more choices in lodging," said Carol Khourey of Maupin-travel Service, 831 Massachusetts St.
Because of the flexibility in getting there, South Padre Island has become more attractive to those students who got a late start on making travel arrangements. Students can either drive or fly to the Texas vacation spot.
"We have not had one person inquire about a ski package."
Diane Bennett
Uniglobe Classic Travel
Strasser said.
work with a limited budget," Khourey said. Bennett said, "If four people would group together and drive to Padre Island, they could save the cost of airfare and split the gas cost."
Boken said packages to Mexico, which mostly were sold out, cost about $600 for four nights.
Kelly said airfare and hotel accommodations for seven nights cost about $700.
Caribbean cruises also are popular this year
"For the money, cruises are an excellent value," Kelly said.
Cruises offer a complete package including travel, meals and entertainment.
"Plus you get to see a couple of ports," Kelly said.
Cruises are popular choices for students wanting to get away from the more crowded spots like Cancun or South Padre Island.
"I think the Caribbean cruise is by far the best choice and the one that I would recommend to students," Boken said.
store owners told the House and State Affairs Committee much as half of their sales or sales.
incensed as a sole proprietor all store that big the chains 1 hundreds and thousands of el that they must take 50 pery beer business to show a said Patricia Oppitz, a Topeka owner.
hita liquor store owner point that liquor stores are permitted to sell only alcoholic beverage that beer was only a small other stores' total sales.
Webb, owner of Webb's Fine and Spirits, 800 W, 23rd St., was of the 12 bill opponents to
n they take our one item it be devastating," Carl Michel it's like asking us to run a race, cutting our of our legs off and 'us to be competitive."
r the hearing, he said his business would be hit hard by the legn because beer made up about cent of his total sales.
in a college town," Webb said. young crowd. Young is beer." passion during the hearings also with the social issue of making with higher alcohol content able at more locations.
was stated that the amount of ding stronger beer would not ase—that it was simply a matter here it was bought," said Francis I. a state and national Christian perance Union volunteer. "I disa. Availability is the key here. Ifandy, you buy it."
heir bill opponents warned the executives that if grocery and convenience stores got 5.0 beer, the mature would soon see a glut of convenience store requests to sell any s of liquor.
ne Pandora's box will be open," Richard Ferguson, president of sas Retail Liquor Dealers Association.
opponents of the bill spoke on day. No action was taken.
actions
DPCUS: presidential candidate; Edward
Klunt, Olivia junior and engineering-senior
presidential candidate; Jeff Rua.
Olivia junior and president of the junio
he candidates
NITE: presidential candidate; John Shoer, Torki junior and liberal arts and sciences minister; Vice president candidate; Tim Davis, Torki junior and Nune
NGHASHA: president-candidate
Cord Cox, President III, junior. Vice-president candidate; Charles Frey, Brockport,
Junior.
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C.I.O.N. I.D.A.: presidential candidate;
McIntosh, Tulsa, Oklahoma; senior and
labor arts and sciences senator; Vice presi-
dential manager; Marshol Romero, Tope-
nor or off-campus senator.
dent Senate Elections Commission KANEAN