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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
hev call it the pit.
neither can it the pic.
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
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. "但它 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 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 politics had be the music and the politics
Alternative breaks offer volunteer options
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
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.
liquor stores can not
center alcohol content, and liquor
By Barbra Schultz
Special to the Kansan
Sunblock and relaxation may be the biggest concerns for KU students during spring break, but a growing number are worrying about things like the primitive irrigation in Rio Arriba County, N.M.
"We may all be digging irrigation ditches," said Thad Holcombe, campus pastor with the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, "because it's one of the poorest counties in the United States."
ECM is sponsoring two spring break trips this month, one to New Mexico and the other to Kansas City, Kan. The St. Lawrence Catholic Center also is sponsoring five alternative break trips designed to immerse KU students in social issues.
students in 864 bus barristers.
Holcombe is acting as the facilitator for a group of 37 volunteers, 18 of them from KU, who are set to converge at the Ghost Ranch Conference Center, about 65 miles northwest of Santa Fe, N.M. The volunteers, who represent five universities, will attend lectures on environmental ethics and hope to work from 20 to 24 hours in the community between March 20 and 28, Holcombe said. The job possibilities for volunteers will be diverse.
"We may be doing some adobe work, working in medical clinics, teaching in the school system or working in day care," said Holcombe. "We may be doing some work in a high desert research farm there at the conference center or working in the museums."
Holcombe said that word of mouth helper boost KU invoblement for trips this year, the second that ECM had sponsored spring break alternatives. Holcombe said that he suspected a lot of the students were trying to
avoid the stereotypical party atmosphere of places like South Padre Island, Texas.
As part of the community interaction, Testa said, volunteers will be turned out into the streets in pairs.
"They want to get below the surface," Holcombe said.
"We send them out on the streets early in the morning with like a dollar," said Testa.
Atong with the environmental issues, which are pre-eminent in the county, the chance to be alone in the wilderness and to see the predominantly Spanish-American and Native-American culture attracted participants.
On the fifth trip to Chicago, students will be visiting a jail and a shelter that helps women who are trying to get out of prostitution. The groups also will be working with homeless shelters and soup kitchens.
"It's not school and it is the real world and you get to see what life is like in another part of the world, because it is very different there, culturally, than it is here," said Brandenburg.
Students won't have to travel far for the other ECM-sponsored trip, "Inner City MiniPlunge." Participants will be staying at St. Paul's School of Theology at the United Methodist Seminary in Kansas City, Mo, from March 20 to 24. Crosslines, a Kansas City, Kan, service agency, is helping to coordinate the volunteers' efforts by setting them up with clients who need some painting or repair work done on their homes.
Also, the price is right. "To Eden and Beyond: An Introduction to Environmental Ethics" will cost participants from $240 to $250, according to Holcombe.
Some students are looking to get out of the academic mode for a while.
Brandenburg helped out at a preschool on the Ghost Ranch trip last year and cleaned out a grain storage room that was experiencing a problem with mice. She is returning this year with the New Mexico trip because of the area's beauty and culture.
"It's very relaxing to get away and do something with your body instead of studying with your brain all the time," said Jill Brandenburg, Parsons junior.
Testa said that three groups are going to Chicago this year rather than one, and that the Tiuana trip is a new addition this year.
Testa estimates that 80-85 students are signed up to go on the Center's five trips this year as opposed to the 50-60 students that went last year. For prices ranging from $150 to $400, students will trek to Kentucky for community outreach and home repair projects; to Denver to work with the homeless; to Satila, Mexico where they will meet with the people and work with distribution efforts; and to Tijuana, Mexico, which has recently experienced some flooding, to do some construction and visit children's clinics. Students on the Tijuana trip will also go into the community to see how U.S. policy decisions affect conditions there.
The volunteers will also likely work in area soup kitchens, said the Rev. Jay Henderson, campus minister for the United Methodists, who is co-directing the trip with the Rev. Mark Rambo, campus minister for the American Baptists. The price for this trip is $60 a person.
Five years ago, Russ Testa, Topeka senior, went on a spring break volunteer trip to Appalachia with the St. Lawrence Catholic Center. Now, Testa, an assistant outreach minister, is coordinating the Center's alternative breaks for his fourth year.
"We'll give them some addresses for some soup kitchens and stuff like that and that's about it. It's a pretty intense thing. There's not a lot to do; it's really pretty boring walking around the streets all day. It gives a way, hopefully, of being able to empathize a little bit with the homeless situation."
The trips are emphasizing volunteer interaction with the people.
"I think just having our presence there is in many cases a lot of volunteer work," said Testa, "because it shows a lot of the people in those areas that there are people that still care what's going on in the world and it helps to instill a little bit of hope in the world sometimes."
Testa said that a lot of the volunteers this year signed on in response to an ad in the newspaper or through friends who had gone in the past.
going on to talk. "I think a lot of times at KU, you're kind of sheltered," said Bauman. "I think it should open my eyes a little bit. I think over the whole country, people are getting more in tune with what's going on and I think that something like this just gives them a chance."
Molly Bauman, Lawrence junior, will be one of the students pounding the pavement in Chicago. Bauman's sister went on the Chicago trip last year and encouraged her to go this year. Bauman said she was considering volunteer options in the future and said she wanted to get a better idea of what's going on in the United States.
Testa said, "It's very rewarding, personally. The things we do for the people are nothing compared to what they are able to give back to us in knowledge and experience and a better self awareness of what's going on."
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hita liquor store owner point that liquor stores are permitted to sell only alcoholic beverd that beer was only a small other stores' total sales.
u they take our one item it be devastated," Carl Mitchell's like asking us to run a race, titing one of our legs off and to be competitive."
Webb, owner of Webb's Fine
Spirits, 800 W. 23rd St. was
of the 12 bill opponents to
a college town," Webb said.
oung crowd. Young is beer."
during the hearings also
the hearing, he said his busi-
so would be hit hard by the leg-
because beer made up about
en of his total sales.
session during the hearing also ith social issue of making it higher alcohol content at more locations.
is stated that the amount of stronger beer would not be — that it was simply a matter it was bought," said Francis a state and national Christianance Union volunteer. "I disavailability is the key here. Ifdy, you buy it."
bill opponents warned the intiatives that if grocery and dence stores got 5.0 beer, the ture would soon see a glut of lence store requests to sell any fluor.
Pandora's box will be open," chard Dergerson, president of Retail Liquor Dealers Associ-
oments of the bill spoke on y. No action was taken.
tions
candidates
uS: presidential candidate: Edward
Dtatior the junior and engineering sa-
presidential candidate: Jeff Rus-
the junior and president of the juni-
t. presidential candidate; John Shoe
Toekpaen junior and liberal arts
and its senator. Vice president civil
war, Toekpaen, Toekpaen junior and Nun-
derburg.
ANSAHA: presidential candidate
Dox, Cox, Pattie, III, junior. Vice presi-
candidate: Charles Frey, Brockport,
Rior.
T. I. O. N. I.: presidential candidate; Michelle Toska, Tukea, senior and life sciences senator, Vice presi- candidate; Marion Rodson, Topeka
candidate: Mansoil Romero, Republi
nd off-campus senator.
4 Senate Elections Commission KANSAS