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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.118
（USPS 650-640）
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 lay in the pat
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 shreded 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. Forgate basketball players in snake-skin boots two-steping in a cowboy bar. This is the Outhouse. This is the local vein of life, 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 cusy of accommodations," says Shelle Roselle丹, 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 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" singer himself brought a taste of Los Angeles to the concert.
Beer bill concerns merchants
By Ben Grove
Kansan staff write
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 market.
10r store owners told the House
val and State Affairs Committee
as much as half of their sales
beer sales.
ichita liquor store owner point that liquor stores are permitted to sell only alcoholic beverand that beer was only a small other stores' total sales
m incensed as a sole proprietor retail store that the big chains sell hundreds and thousands of feel that they must take 50 perf my beer business to show a said Patricia Opitz, a Topeka store owner.
Webb, owner of Webb's Fine and Spirits, 800 W. 23rd St., was of the 12 bill opponents to
en 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 gus to be competitive."
r the hearing, he said his busi-
soil would be hit hard by the legn
because beer made up about
recent of his total sales.
.in a college town," Webb said. young crowd. Young is beer."ussion during the hearings also with the social issue of making with higher alcohol content at more locations.
was stated that the amount of ing stronger beer would not ase—that it was simply a matter ere it was bought," said Francis b a state and national Christian erence Union volunteer. "I dis- Availability is the key here. If ndy, you buy it."
er bill opponents warned the sentatives that if grocery and蒸 stores got 5.0 beer, the lature would soon see a glut of蒸 store requests to sell any of liquor.
e Pandora's box will be open," Richard Ferguson, president of as Retail Liquor Dealers Associ-
ponents of the bill spoke on day. No action was taken.
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ne candidates
CICS: presidential candidate; Edward
Olstine, ojtistian and engineering sen-
sice presidential candidate; Jeff Rus-
 Olstine, ojtistian and president
WTE: presidential candidate. John Shoer. Toupei junior and liberal arts andices staffer. Vice president candida. Tim Dawson. Toupei junior and Nume-
MANISHA: presidential candidate
Cox, Oppaline, III. junior. Vice presi-
candidate: Charles Frey, Brockport,
Juror.
C. T.J. O. N. I.: presidential candidate:
McIntosh, Tulsa, Oklahoma, senior and librarians and science senator. Vice presi-
candidate: Marcelois Romero, Topera
and off-campus senator.
Senate Elections Commission
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