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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102, NO. 118
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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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
ney call it the pit.
hey can it the pit
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 shreded 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.
orget fraternity and sorority members bopping to a happy-faced disc jockey. For forget basketball players in snake-skin boots two-stepting 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."
none for. She covers 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 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 fiel the fire and fights in the pit.
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
Break is conveniently late
ce owners are worried the legislauld rob them of much of that
Board of Regents change date to avoid time conflict
By Shan Schwartz Special to the Kansan
If March 20 seems like a late start for spring break, that's because it is.
By the fourth week in March last year, KU students already were back and hitting the books again. Spring break starts two weeks later this year. By the time it ends, only 27 class days are left.
And you'd better get used to it.
Thanks to a new Kansas Board of Regents scheduling policy, future spring breaks will be closer to the end of March than the middle. The reason? So spring break would not conflict with the monthly Regents meeting.
"We always targeted to get spring break during the second full week of March," said Martine Hammond-Paludan, director of academic affairs at the Board of Regents. "But over the last few years, there were conflicts because the monthly Board of Regents meeting fell during spring break. Both students
and administrators from the schools that attend the Regents meetings had to miss out on spring break to attend the meetings."
Hammond-Paludan said the Regents agreed last year to change the scheduling of spring break for all Regents institutions, including Emporia State, Fort Hays State, Kansas State and KU. All Regents schools have the same spring break.
By law, the Board of Regents meets monthly on the Thursday preceding the third Friday of the month. Based on that, Hammond-Paludan said, the Regents decided to fix spring break at a set week. That week will be the week after the monthly Regents meeting.
This means that, from now on, spring break will be scheduled for the third or fourth week of March.
"It was kind of a personal opinion thing." Hammond-Paladan said. "Most of the people decided it would be better to have spring break later rather than earlier."
Students' opinions, however, are mixed
"Most of the people decided it would be better to have spring break later rather than earlier."
Martine Hammond-Paludan
Board of Regents
Director of Academic Affairs
about having spring break so much later. Sheri Plenert, Marion senior, thinks students
Steen Freelier, Marathon senior, students need a break earlier in the semester.
"If they're going to make spring break later, we should have a three-day weekend thrown in there sometime earlier," Plenert said. "It's hard for students to go so long without a break. Along with the weather, students get sick and burned out."
Other students see advantages in moving spring break back a week or two.
"I suppose it might be better having spring
break later," said Colin Taylor, Arkansas City junior. "Maybe the weather will be better for people to do things."
The Board of Regents gives the University Senate Calendar Committee certain guidelines in scheduling the academic calendars, according to Lawrence Maxey, professor of music and dance and chairperson of the Calendar Committee.
The official university calendar must include 150 instructional days year, usually 75 a semester, and include the holidays of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Labor Day and Thanksgiving. Since the Board of Regents now specifies when spring break will take place, the calendar committee will schedule only the first and last days of classes, final periods and any other optional holidays.
Along with the other Kansas Regents schools, Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa also take spring break from March 21 to 28. Washburn, Missouri and Baker universities have break from March 14 to 21. Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Iowa State and University of Missouri-Kansas City take their spring breaks March 7-14.
Haskell Indian Junior College doesn't have much of a break at all. Students at Haskell take only a two-day vacation, March 25 and 26.
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