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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102.NO.118
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1993
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Lawrence's musical underground
The Outhouse provides the pulse of alternative music's local vein
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By James J. Reece
Kansanstaffwriter
ey call it the pit
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 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 bar. This is the Outhouse. This is the local vein of live, 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 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 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.
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By Thomas Cuevas Special to the Kansan
Break can be fun but unhealthy too
When spring break ends, the worry sets in, say Watkins Memorial Health Clinic officials. Visits to Watkins increase in April, the month following spring break. Students show up in increased numbers wanting to be tested for a wide variety of conditions directly related to sexual intercourse.
Spring break: a lot of sun, a lot of beer, a little romance in the sand and afterwards, fear. That's right—fear.
Last year there were approximately 600 visits to Watkins in April,150 more than the average of about 450 visits a month.
Students say "I was drunk," or "I had sex with a prostitute, "or "the condom broke," said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins. Those concerns translate into an increased demand for evaluation and testing.
rockey said that students wanted to be checked whether the problem was urethral irritation, concern about herpes, a missed menstrual period, a urinary tract infection, genital warts, "crabs" or anxiety about exposure to someone with another type sexually transmitted disease.
Ironically, the number of positive tests results for the more common STD's do not change significantly after break.
Yockey said that although there was not a
significant difference, just looking at the positive lab results does not paint the whole picture.
Some of the increased worry is real, according to Yockey. In some cases there's not a positive test result to record. For instance, lice has no specific test, either they are present or they aren't.
"After spring break we may see 25 patients per week with crabs when we usually see only 10." Yockey said.
The good news is that the problem seems to be improving. Three years ago, there were 950 anxiety visits to Watkins during the month of April. Then the Safe Break program began. Safe Break is an educational effort by Watkins health education department.
"The numbers have decreased each April since the start of the program," said Yockey. In 1991, there were 750 April visits to Watkins for sexually related conditions.
"Five years ago students did not have ready access to information about communication skills, contraceptives, or about STDs," said Candyce Wailley, nurse at Watkins.
She said that students needed to learn negotiation skills such as influencing a partner to use a condom or spermicidal jelly.
"Students need to accept the facts and plan ahead," Waitley said.
Look Good for Spring Break Now!
SPRING BREAK '03 * K-you * March 10, 1993
Beer bill concerns merchants
ByBen Grove
Kansanstaffwrite
Kansas liquor store representatives yesterday asked state legislators not to take away avail 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 market.
por store owners told the House and State Affairs Committee as much as half of their sales eber sales.
am incensed as a sole proprietor
retail store that the big chains
sold hundreds and thousands of
as feel that they must take 50 per-
cent of my beer business to show a
Bl," said Patricia Oppitz, a Topeka
store owner.
Wichita liquor store owner point out thatliquorstores arepermitted to sell only alcoholic beverals and that beer was only a smallt of other stores' total sales.
Webb, owner of Webb's Fine
and Spirits, 800 W. 23rd St., was last of the 12 bill opponents to
ak
When they take our one item it will be devalestaging. "Carl Mitchell." "It's like asking us to run a race, n cutting one of our legs off and ing us to be competitive."
fier the hearing, he said his business also be hit hard by the legislation because beer made up about a percent of his total sales.
"in a college town," Webb said, sa young crowd. Young is beer."
discussion during the hearings also with the social issue of making with higher alcohol content available at more locations.
it was stated that the amount of ninking stronger beer would not rease—that it was simply a matter where it was bought," said Francis O'Donnell, a state and national Christian imperance Union volunteer. "I dissee Availability is the key here. If handy, you buy it."
mer bill opponents warned the presentations that if grocery and convenience stores got 5.0 beer, the gisture would soon see a glut of convenience store requests to sell any es of liquor.
proponents of the bill spoke on esday. No action was taken.
The Pandora's box will be open,
4 Richard Ferguson, president of
osas Retail Liquor Dealers Associ-
ections
The candidates
(PCBUS): presidential candidate; Edward Austin; Claitier junior and engineering senator; Vice presidential candidate; Jeff Russet; Claitier junior and president of the firm.
RNTE: presidential candidate. John Shoer
topper. Topeka junior and liberal arts
and senator. Vice president cali-
dent. Tim Diawon. Topeka junior and Nume-
tor.
JUNGANSHA: presidential candidate;
Lamar Cox, Pataline, III, junior. Vice-
presidential candidate; Charles Frey, Brockport,
II, junior.
A.C.T.O.I. N.O.I. presidential candidate:
Montana McIntosh, Tulsa, Okaia, senior and
libra arts and sciences senator. Vice-president candidate: Markus Romero, Topeka
and off-campus senator.
Student Senate Elections Commission
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