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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102,NO.118
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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1993
Lawrence's musical underground
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The Outhouse provides the pulse of alternative music's local vein
hey call it the pit.
By James J. Reece
Kansan staff writer
hey call 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 shredred 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 snakeskin boots two-stepping in a cowboy bar. This is the Outhouse. This is the local vein of ice, underground music. This is the bad side of town
less of name, the music is what has given the secluded Outhouse a notoriety unmatched by other Lawrence venues.
it is not the most cusky 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 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 "Cop Killer" singerhimself brought a taste of America to the city.
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Police expect s Officers ready for large groups of partying, drinking students
By Jennifer Swan
Special to the Kansan
Doing keg stands and beer bongs is not a part of the normal daily routine of most people.
Unless they are on spring break
Olness they are on. Efforts to preach responsible drinking to vacationing college students may be on the rise, but those who have to deal with the annual party-goers say this year will be the same old story.
"Kids go on break with a sense of freedom that they feel gives them the right to drink like fish and act the fool," said David Geyer, Fort Lauderdale police department captain. He is affectionately known to spring breakers on the beach as "the cop in the jeep."
ers on the beach "Drinking is still the most popular pastime for students on break," he said. "They come down here hoopin' and hollerin'. I think some of them drink from breakfast to bedtime."
Paula Miller, Washington, Mich., senior,
said when it came to assessing the average
college student's spring break itinerary,
Geyer hit the nail on the head.
Geyer he said. "People drink all day and night," she said. "They take a break for dinner, sober up and then drink some more."
But Geyer said drinking had caused some of the worst accidents he had seen in his 19-year career.
"A couple of years ago we had two young men jump right off their balcony," he said. "Balcony leaping used to be an intramural sport around here during spring break."
Predictably, Geyer said the best way for students to stay out of trouble was to drink responsibly.
"As long as they are not infringing on the rights of other people, youthful exuberance can be tolerated," he said. "But dancing out into the middle of the street will get you pulled in."
Miller said she had a run in with the police when she went to Fort Lauderdale for spring break in 1989.
"They came up to me, took my beer away and said they would call my parents," she said. "I only had to deal with them once. They just try to scare you because they really can't do anything. Everyone is so out of control, it is impossible to keep them all in line."
Tom Atkinson, South Padre Island police department captain, said extra precautions were taken during the spring break season to keep the students who visit Texas from wasting away in Margaritaville.
"We overlap them and work extra hours. We are also bringing in other agencies to help and hiring some off-duty officers from departments in the valley."
"we change our shifts around," he said.
Atkinson said alcohol consumption presented the biggest problem for police in South Padre Island. But he said the percentage of college kids who got in trouble was small.
selves in real trouble.
"A lot of people go to Mexico while they're here," he said. "Many of the people who live there are very religious and family oriented. They consider disruptive conduct a personal insult. The bar owners need the students so they try to be tolerant."
small.
"People say, 'I can't believe how many people you brought in last night,' " he said. "But the total is less than one percent of all the students. The number of people brought to the station is nothing compared to the thousands who come to Padre."
"But they will only put up with so much," he said. "The police won't hesitate to jail You. And their jails won't exactly the best in the world."
Atkinson said students who drink excessively south of the border could find themselves in real trouble.
A group at KU is doing its part to see that alcohol doesn't lead to trouble for KU students.
dems.
The Watkins public health education department will offer Safe Break, a program designed to promote safe behavior during the break. Julie Hunsinger, Watkins health educator, said students behaved differently
when they are miles away from home and school.
"People do things because they see other students doing them," she said. "They know some of these activities are wrong, but when they are surrounded by hundreds of other college students, they chime right in."
Huntingstir said she hoped to make sure KU students were prepared to make good decisions when they reached their vacation destinations.
"We will be setting up displays and distributing information about drinking responsibly on spring break, having safe sex and other spring break issues," she said.
and butterfly. Safe Break will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 15 to 19 in front of Wescoe Hall.
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"We are holding Safe Break right before the students leave to keep the information fresh in their minds," she said. "We want them to remember that even though other students are doing risky things it's not wise for them to follow."
Capt. Geyer said students should be careful about staying sober so they were aware of the people around them.
of the people who attend school.
"People need to know there are a lot of locals who try to take advantage of them or take their possessions during parties," he said. "Most college kids are way too trusting. But this is not a college campus. You've got to know when you come here that you're not in Kansas anymore."
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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 store owners are worried the legislation would rob them of much of that
rket.
por store owners told the House and State Affairs Committee as much as half of their sales beer sales.
am incensed as a sole proprietor
a retail store that the big chains
o sell hundreds and thousands of
as feel that they must take 50 per
of my beer business to show a fit," said Patricia Opitz, a Topeka or store owner.
Wichita liquor store owner point out that liquor stores are permitted ally to sell only alcoholic beverages and that beer was only a small t of other stores' total sales.
When they take our one item it will be devastating. "Carl Mitchall. It's like asking us to run a race, cutting one of our legs off and us to be competitive."
in Webb, owner of Webb's Fine
eats and Spirits, 800 W. 23rd St., was
last of the 12 bill opponents to
ak.
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m in a college town," Webb said. ta young crowd. Young is beer."
After the hearing, he said his business also would be hit hard by the legislation because beer made up about 10 percent of his total sales.
session during the hearings also
It with the social issue of making
r with higher alcohol content
table at more locations.
that was stated that the amount of taking stronger beer would not cease that it was simply a matter where it was bought," said Francis O'Neill, a state and national Christian superiority Union volunteer. "I dislike Availability as the key here. If handy, you buy it."
her bill opponents warned the resentatives that if grocery and venience stores got 5.0 beer, the塑境 would soon see a glut of venience store requests to sell any is of liquor.
Richard Ferguson, president of sas Retail Liquor Dealers Associ-
opponents of the bill spoke on sday. No action was taken.
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ne candidates
*FOCUS* presidential candidate: Edward S. Olatime, oltimate and engineering senator. Vice president candidate: Jeff Russo. Olathe junior and president of the group.
JUNITE: presidential candidate; John Shoer, Topeka junior and liberal arts and senator. Vice presidential candidate; Tim Dawson, Topeka junior and Numeral senator.
UNGANSAH: presidential candidate:
haird Corso, Pataline III, Junior. Vice-president:
Charles Frey, Brockport,
Ⅵ, junior.
SPRING BREAK '93 * K~you ~* March 10, 1993
C. T. I. O. N. I: presidential candidate;
Micintosh, Tulsa, Okla., senior and
artists and sciences senator. Vice presi-
dative candidate; Mariel Romero, Topeka
and off-campus senator.
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