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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102.NO.118
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1993
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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.
they can it the pt.
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.
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 live, underground music. This is the bad side of town.
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.
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 crusades into mainstream music. Others, like Fear, the early 1980s 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* singer himself brought a taste of Los Angeles to the
K~you Spring Break '93 Table of Contents
International Interests. page 2
Panama City. page 3
Health Concerns. page 4
Pet Care. page 5
Alcohol. page 6
Staying in Lawrence. page 7
Theft & Robberies. page 8
Volunteers. page 9
Later Spring Break dates. page 12
Travel Agents. page 13
Clothing. page 14
Swimwear. page 15
Author Profile. page 16
Best Books. page 17
Tanning. page 18
KU Staff. page 19
Credits
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Special Thanks to Professor Rick Musser and his Reporting II class and these students:
Traci Carl, Dan Carver, Thomas Cuevas, Jennifer Freund, Sharon Henry, Brian James, Stacy Kunstel, Barbara Schultz, Shannon Schwartz, Kathleen Stolle, Jennifer Swan, Carlos Tejada and J. L. Watson. Also Thanks to Therese Everett and Angelina Lopez
Break offers chance to learn U.S. history
Program will take students to Texas
Special to the Kansan
By JL Watson
While many U.S. students strap on skis or soak up the sun on spring break, many international students are brushing up on history and culture by visiting U.S. landmarks.
Lisa Chang, Taipei, Taiwan, freshman,
hasn't made a final decision about where she
will go, but has narrowed her choices to
either Chicago or Texas.
"I if I go to Chicago I want to see the downtown area and Chinatown, and if I go to Texas I want to visit San Antonio," Chang said.
Texas is an ideal location for a spring break trip because it has a great deal of variety and is relatively nearby. It has become such a popular place that the Office of International Student Services is planning an eight-day trip to the Lone Star state.
Diane Brandmiller, graduate assistant at the center, who planned the trip, thinks that students who go will benefit from the experience. "I tried to work out a trip that has a little bit of everything," she said. "We're hoping to see the contrasts of the people of the state."
The tour includes stays in Dallas, San Antonio,
Laredo, Austin and Fort Worth.
"We try to work out trips that will be within the students' budgets," Brandner said.
The cost of this year's trip is $225 and includes transportation, housing and some extras such as a ticket to the Pro-Rodeo in Fort Worth.
Brandmiller said the trip was limited to 45 students. So far 25 students have signed up. The trip is not limited to international students.
dents.
"Last year we had students who brought friends from other schools and family members," Brandmiller said.
Myria Astanioti, Nicosia, Cyprus, senior, is planning to go with Brandonmiller's group.
"By going with a group I get to see places I wouldn't get to see if I was alone," she said.
would get to see a W. Waubenberg,
For Eliana Pozo, Quito, Ecuador, graduate
student, traveling with a group means less of
a hassle.
"I don't have to worry about anything," she said. "The time on the bus is also a lot of fun. Last year we took a lot of pictures and sang songs along the way."
"I went to Florida for winter break so I knew I didn't want to go there again," she said.
Noriko Shinabuko, Okinawu, Japan, special student, is heading north for the break.
sabu:
Shimabuku and a friend are planning a trip to Canada. They are not following a specific itinerary.
"I'll just let my friend's brother plan it because he goes to school there," she said. "I just want to go and have fun."
Beer bill concerns merchants
SPRING BREAK '93 * K-you * March 10, 1993
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 greater alcohol content, and liquor store owners are worried the legislation would rob them of much of that market.
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.
qor store owners told the House leral and State Affairs Committee t as much as half of their sales e beer sales.
Wichita liquor store owner point out that liquor stores are permitted ally to sell only alcoholic beverals and that beer was only a small t of other stores' total sales.
am incensed as a sole proprietor
a retail store that the big chains
o sell hundreds and thousands of
us feel that they must take 50 perf
of my beer business to show a
"ft," said Patricia Oppitz, a Topeka
store owner.
John 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 devastating. "Carl Mitchell d." It's like asking us to run a race, cutting one of our legs off and ing us to be competitive."
"m in a college town," Webb said. sa young crowd. Young is beer."
fier the hearing, he said his business also would be hit hard by the legislation because beer made up about percent of his total sales.
discussion during the hearings also al it with the social issue of making er with higher alcohol content al able at more locations.
It was stated that the amount of nanking stronger beer would not crease — that it was simply a matter where it was bought," said Francisod, a state and national Christian imperance Union volunteer. "I dissee. Availability is the key here. If chandy, you buy it."
other bill opponents warned the presentatives that if grocery and convenience stores got 5.0 beer, the glauface would soon see a glut of ovenience store requests to sell any ses of liquor.
The Pandora's box will be open," d Richard Ferguson, president of nasa Retail Liquor Dealers Association.
'roponents of the bill spoke on esday. No action was taken.
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The candidates
**BOCUS:** presidential candidate: Edward wuinan, Ootlatin jungle and engineering senator. Vice president candidate: Jiff Russel, Oatlatin jungle and president of the junior senator.
**UNITE:** presidential candidate. John Shoe
TOPPER, toakupi junior and liberal arts and
ciences senator. Wide presidential candidate.
Wopper, tookupi junior and Nuncker
senator.
LUNGANSAH: presidential candidate:
lengard Cox, Palatine, III. junior. Vice
presidential candidate: Charles Frey, Brockport,
II., junior.
A.C.T. I.O.N.: president; candidate
McIntosh, Tulsa, Oklahoma; senior and
litera arts and sciences senator; Vice
president candidate; Marsol Rosso, Topeka
vor and off-campus senator.
Senate Elections Commission KANBAI