University Daily Kansan, February 24, 1983
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alcohol-related accidents. Pressure from society about the negative effects of alcohol also
Except for educating people about alcohol, most tavern owners prefer the drinking age laws established by law.
"The system as it is now is workable. We just prefer the statusuo," he said.
Although many bar and tavern owners oppose the legislation, they disagree on the effects the law has on their businesses.
J. J. Razavi, owner of Moody's, 701 Massachusetts St., said that although he opposed the legislation, he did not think it would have much effect on the amount of business he had. However, he said that his business, which is a club, could decline if 18 bars became clubs.
HE ALSO said raising the drinking age would cause problems in control of false identification.
"More people would be using fake IDs, so it would put a lot more responsibility on me and the company."
Doug Brown, manager of Gammon's, 1601 W 23rd St., said Gammon's, a private club, could benefit from the bill because 21-year-old might run into a night, rather than going to a bar and then a club.
Brown said he approved of the legislation. But Wallace said he would present to legislators the proposed measure to raise the drinking age at a party that tavern owners are sponsoring next week in Topeka.
Wallace's alternatives include:
- Developing a new form of identification that could not be duplicated as easily as a driver's license. Wallace said he would prefer the
"drinker's license" to be a magnetically coded card that would be checked at all places that sell alcohol.
- Raising the drinking age to 19, or to 18 and a high school diploma.
- Correlating the closing hours of taverns and clubs. This would decrease driving between taverns and clubs and therefore would reduce alcohol-related accidents, Wallace said.
- Developing an alcohol transportation system similar to those for the bandcapped and
- Delaying the age of entering kindergarten by 5 months so that eventually few 18-year-olds would be in high school.
McCure agreed that changing the laws was not the most effective way to combat drinking
I think I knock the bill is a good idea. They can't even enforce the drinking laws now. Change the age to 21 will just make it tougher to enforce," he said.
MeChure and Wallace said they had been working with the Associated Students of Kansas
SCOTT SWENSON, Topeka sophomore and ASK campus director, said AKH was sponsored a letter-writing drive against the legislation. Students wrote 800 to 1,000 letters, he said.
On Tuesday, ASK sponsored open phone lines in the KU Student Senate office to let students call their legislators in opposition to increasing age. ASK paid for all of the calls, Swenson said.
The issue is serious. Students face losing the right to drink. Unless they get active, they will fail to drink.
KU science professors doubt existence of extraterrestrials
Man should explore the universe with the assumption that extraterrestrial beings do not exist, a physics and astronomy professor said this week.
"Biologists were shocked last year when Francis Crick, the man who with James Watson won a Nobel Prize for discovering DNA, wrote a letter on Earth before it been introduced by E.T.s," he said.
Recent photographs and studies of Jupiter and Mars indicated the planets could not support life, Gaines said, and biologists did not think life was possible in other solar systems.
HE SAD astronomers were divided on the possible evolutionary life because they believed the difference
"Biologists know the trouble with predicting life in other solar systems," it said. "They know that as an organism evolves, its evolution can take many directions."
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But Richard Johnston, chairman of the systematics and ecology department, said that if other life was found, it would probably be similar to man.
Bruce Twarog, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, said he was pessimistic about the possibility of intelligent life in other solar systems.
WILLIAM Duellman, professor of systematics and ecology, said he did not think that life, as we know it, could exist anywhere else in our solar system.
"Physiologically and chemically, it doesn't seem possible," he said. "But that doesn't mean organisms with a different biochemical make up could not exist."
"IF E.T. exist, where are they?" Twarog said. We must assume that we are the first ones to encounter him.
Michael Gaines, director of the undergraduate program of biology, agreed that most biologists have a fundamental knowledge of plant
Lawrence firefighters wait for a firehose after breaking through a second-story window to combat a fire yesterday at 1129 Vermont St.
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smoke damage, he said, and apartments on the second and first floors received only water damage.
the south windows," he said. "But the firefighters went right in and attacked the fire."
Although the building had hollow walls,
MoSaint said, the fire did not spread to any of
them.
He said some of the flames spread into the attic and through the roof. But firefighters had to disperse the fire.
FIREFIGHTERS used ladders to fight the fire on the house's roof. Mecwain said.
An apartment on the third floor suffered only
McSwain said he had to transfer an engine crew to South Junior High School, 2734 Louisiana St., when he received a call that a fire had started there.
"I guess that was the only real problem we had," he said.
The fire at the junior high school apparently started in the bathroom, Capt. Rich Barr said.
He said the firefighters put the fire out soon after they arrived at about 4 p.m., he said.
Large amounts of toxic smoke from burning plastic made it difficult for the firefighters to see in the bathroom, he said.
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