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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
The Outhouse provides the pulse of alternative music's local vein
By James J. Reece Kansan staff writer
hey call it the pit.
hey can it 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 drunsticks 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 jacket. Forget basketball players in snake-skin boots two-stepping in a cowboy
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."
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 punkband that recently reunited, appear on reconstruction tours. The Outhouse catches still others, like Ice T's Body Count, in mid-swing.
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Beer bill concerns merchants
eater alcohol content, and liquor
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
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owners are worried the legisla-uld rob them of much of that
store owners told the House and State Affairs Committee much as half of their sales or sales.
incedens as a sole proprietor
ail store that the big chains
il hundreds and thousands of
eel that they must take 50 perm
yea beer business to show a
said Patricia Oppitz, a Topeka
store owner.
chita liquor store owner point that liquor stores are permitted to sell only alcohol beverage that beer was only a small other stores' total sales.
when they take our one item it be devastating." Carl Mitchell It's like asking us to run a race, cutting one of our legs off and us to be competitive."
Web, owner of Webb's Fine and Spirits, 800 W. 23rd St., was at the 12 bill opponents to
*r* the hearing, he said his business would be hit hard by the begin because beer made up about percent 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 stronger beer would not ease—that it was simply a matter here it was bought," said Francis d. a state and national Christian persecution Union volunteer. "I dis- Availability is the key here. Ifandy, you buy it."
neer bill opponents warned the essentatives that if grocery and senience stores got 5.0 beer, the stature would soon see a glut of senience store requests to sell any s of liour.
and Pandora's box will be open," Richard Ferguson, president of as Retail Liquor Dealers Associ-
opponents of the bill spoke on day. No action was taken.
actions
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WTE. president candidate: John Shoer. Topeka junior and liberal arts and vice senator. Vice president candidat
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&Cox, Palin, III, junior. Vice-president:
Charles Frey, Brockport,
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art and sciences senator, Vice presi
candidate: Mariel Romero, Tomeka
and off-campus senator.
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