KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, February 18, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 101 USPS 650-640
Measure would allow all Kansas clubs to reciprocate
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Members of private clubs will be allowed to drink in any club in the state if a measure proposed in a House committee yesterday becomes law.
The House Governmental Organization Committee agreed to draft a bill that would eliminate the food sales requirement that private clubs must meet to enter into reciprocal agreements with other clubs. Members of clubs would then be required to use their membership at any club in the state.
in the state:
Existing state law requires that a private club wishing to have a reciprocal agreement with another club must show that 50 percent of its sales come from food. Private clubs having reciprocal agreements allow their customers to use a membership from one club to gain access to all clubs participating in the agreement.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Stephen Cloud, R-Monticello Township, said he had broken a 7-12 vote by winning in favor of eliminating the food sales requirement.
Once the bill is drafted, the committee will study it and decide whether to recommend its passage to the full House.
State Rep. Clarence Lance, D-Kansas City, voted against drafting the bill.
"I have never liked private clubs," he said.
When the Legislature enacted the Private Club Act in 1965, he said, it allowed clubs to set membership requirements that could be discriminatory.
Love said that he would rather see an increase in the percentage of food sales required for school lunches.
THE LEGISLATIVE intent was to allow people to have a drink when they were out eating a meal, he said, not to have a snack when they were out drinking.
Love said the Kansas Constitution prohibited saloons — establishments that sell liquor by the
Allowing all clubs to be reciprocal is just a hairline away from violating the constitution, he
J. J. Razavi, owner of Moody's, a private club at 701 Massachusetts St., said that eliminating the food sales requirement would not affect private clubs' business in Lawrence because most people could already get into private clubs without membership cards.
But inadequate law enforcement is not the reason people can get in without membership
"THIS IS A college town," he said. "Everyone knows everyone else. You can always get in as soon as possible."
Mike Kirsch, owner of Gammon's, 1601 W. 23rd
St. said he had mixed feelings about eliminating the food sales requirement.
"It would help us on game weekends and parents' weekend and other times when lots of people are coming in from out of town.
"But I would lose a little bit of control over the quality of clientele that come in."
quantity of chemist that come in here.
In other business, the committee refused to draft a bill that would eliminate the minimum price markups on liquor sold in Kansas.
Liquor stores must mark up the price of the alcohol they sell at a rate set by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of Review.
KANSAS, Wisconsin and New York are the only three states that have a minimum retail markup. Retailers must mark up spirits 28.5 percent; specialties, 36.5 percent; and wine, 48.5%.
The proposal to eliminate the markup came from a report by a state agency that had audited the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control of the Department of Revenue.
The report, by the Legislative Division of Post Audit, said that the minimum markup did not help prevent alcohol abuse. The markup did guarantee retailers a minimum profit and helped to subsidize many small and inefficient retail loan stores, the report said.
Minimum markups may be costing consumers between $2.6 million and $12 million more for the liquor they buy in Kansas each year, the report
said. And price controls stimulate out-of-state purchases and may have decreased the state's liquor tax revenues in 1981 by an estimated $800,000.
State Rep. Wanda Fuller, R-Wichita, said, *pre-control is an attempt to protect the image*.
ATTEMPTS WERE made in the late 1970s to eliminate the markup she said, but they failed.
Small liquor stores should not be protected any longer, she said. They should have to compete as well.
all other businesses. "They should learn how to operate in the real
"They should learn how to operate in the real business world," she said.
But Love said, "If the markup was eliminated, it would create undue competition between large and small liquor stores. This would force many small stores out of business."
Large liquor stores would be able to buy large amounts of liquor and would qualify for discounts, he said. They then could sell their liquor at lower prices than smaller liquor stores.
MOST OF THE 1,114 liquor stores in the state are "mom and pop stores" with small profit margins.
Liquor stores in Johnson and Wyandotte counties already have price competition with liquor stores in Missouri, he said. That competition encourages people to cross the state line into Missouri to buy liquor, which they bring back into Kansas illegally.
Barbara E. Haller, manager of Eagan-Barrand Retail Liquor at 2004 W. 328 St., said her store was large enough that eliminating the markup would not hurt.
"I would be ready for it if it happened," she said. "But it would phase out the smaller liquor stores.
"There's no way they'll be able to compete with the big stores."
At least 12 liquor stores in Lawrence would go out of business within three months if the markup were ever eliminated, she said.
VIRGINIA ROMERO, owner of Romero's Liquor Store, 805 Vermont St., said, "We don't make that much to begin with. If they cut it down, we'll make even less."
Don Janisch, owner of Janisch Retail Liquor, 620 W. 9th St., said he didn't think eliminating the liquor store would be that difficult.
"It would decrease the price of wine and cordials," he said, "but they're already priced too high."
There are no minimum markups on beer, he said, and most liquor stores sell a lot of beer.
In a large part of the state, eliminating the small towns have only one or two liquor stores.
Lawrence is already competitive, he said, and it could be the most competitive market in the country.
Senate agrees to House bill aiding jobless
By JEFF TAYLOR
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—The Kansas Senate yesterday passed a controversial bill intended to salvage the Employment Security Fund by freezing the benefits and increasing employer contributions.
The bill, which will now go to the house, would freeze maximum unemployment benefits for two years at $163 a week and would assess a 20 percent employer contribution to the unemployment fund.
nowhere, the Senate included in the bill a provision saying the state would drop the program if the unemployment fund accumulated an $80 million balance by April 1, 1984.
If the bill is not signed Monday, the state will have to pay extra money to mail notice to state
THE BILL WASrushed through the House and Senate in less than two weeks because Gov. John Carlin must sign the bill Monday, said State Rep. Arthur Douville, R-Overland Park, and chairman of the House Committee on Labor and Industry.
Gordon said the state needed to send the notices to employers so that money would start flowing into the unemployment fund during the second quarter of this year.
Because the bill was amended in the Senate, the House will have to vote on the measure again. The House had set a $100 million balance before the plan could be dropped.
Douville said the House should vote on the Senate's $80 million version of the bill on Monday. He said the bill would have no problems passing the House.
THE DEPARTMENT of Human Resources had projected that the unemployment fund would be drained by November unless the tax incentive to increase the revenues that go to the fund.
State Sen. Gerald Karr, D-Emporia, offered an amendment during the session yesterday that would enforce the bill for only one year.
The amendment was defeated 22-17.
The imbecile was debatable. Karr told the Senate that its Labor and Industry Committee had not studied the proposal sufficiently. He said the Committee had met briefly on Monday to discuss the bill and listen to limited testimony from state labor groups.
Karr said he wanted the Legislature to spend the seven weeks remaining in the session studying monetary solutions that could stabilize the fund.
But State Sen. Jack Steinerge, D-Kansas City, said he could not understand why the Legislature had rejected a guaranteed one-year program that had earlier been recommended to the House by an advisory committee composed of industry and labor representatives.
Because the Senate's program had a good chance of accumulating an $80 million balance in the unemployment fund, he said, the proposal was in effect a one-year program.
During most of the session, senators verbally battled one another on the issue.
HOWEY, State Sen. Bill Morris, R-Wichita, chairman of the Labor and Industry Committee, defended the two-year bill, which was sent to the Senate from the House.
Morris predicted that the increased employer contributions and maximum benefit freeze would be dropped in 1984, provided the economy did not worsen by then.
The advisory committee had originally suggested that the House Committee on Labor and Industry base the program on a one-year plan.
HOWEVER, the House rejected the suggestion and sent a two-year plan to the Senate.
Steineger said the Legislature's response to the advisory committee's proposal reflected bad legislative policy.
We finally get one sprout of cooperation from
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In preparation for last night's Encore performance, Lisa Anderson, Evergreen, Colo. senior and little sister for the Kappa Sigma fraternity house, puts makeup on Joe Unrhur. Leawed junior, while Joe Hayes, Wichita junior, looks on. Keith Younger, Overland sophomore, puts makeup on Sam Eckert, Leavandale Kappa Sigma, which is performing with the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. See page 6.
Regents panel proposes high school curriculum
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Renorter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - A Board of Regents committee yesterday approved a college preparatory curriculum for Kansas high school students.
The curriculum, approved by the Regents' Academic Affairs and Special Programs Committee, lists five areas of study in which students at Regents universities should be competent.
The preparatory curriculum would comprise 15 units of study, divided among English, mathematics, social studies, natural sciences and foreign languages.
The Board of Regents is expected to adopt the proposal today.
McFarland said the only drawback to the curriculum might be that some high school seniors, debating whether to go to a Regents school, would decide not to go because they did not think they had met the preparatory recommendations.
The curriculum, though, is merely a suggestion and is not a minimum standard requirement for high school graduation or for admission to the state universities, officials said.
But he said schools whose students took extra courses to prepare for entrance into a state university would benefit, at least by reputation, and students did well on school competency exams.
"OPEN ADMISSIONS is still a good idea," said Joe McFarland, Board of Regents Academic Affairs director. "Minimum entrance requirements are people from college who are late bloomers."
McFarland said the purpose of the curriculum was to improve the quality of high school graduates who enroll in Regents universities.
"Probably it's a risk worth taking," he said. But the importance of the guidelines outweighs that chance, MeFarland said.
The Kansas open admissions policy requires only a Kansas high school diploma for students.
MCFARLAND SAID that although many high schools had set college preparatory guidelines, common academic guidelines were needed to prepare them for prepared for basic courses at state universities.
ALTHOUGH THE report of the KU Commission on the Improvement of Undergraduate Education, of which Tacha is also chairman, has suggested minimum entrance standards for the University of Kansas, Tacha said that, for the present, she did not think any college preparatory courses should be required for admission to a university.
The Regents committee recommended the curriculum guidelines partly because of the cost and availability.
Tacha is chairman of the Council of Chief Academic Officers for Regents schools, which endorsed the preparatory curriculum with the Council of Presidents and the State Board of
"We think we can move students up to a higher level." McFarlane said.
McFarland said he realized that some school districts, especially smaller ones, would not be able to offer all the courses suggested in the guidelines.
McFarland said he met with 50 school superintendents yesterday to discuss the preparatory curriculum.
Deanne racae, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the curriculum was a positive step toward the working together of high schools and universities to produce better students.
Immunity they endorsed the course guidelines, he said, some were worried that they would not be able to pay the salaries of extra teachers for the course. But that is not the language courses, that the curriculum specifies.
Women advised on how to avoid, fight off attack
By DON HENRY
Staff Reporter
The martial arts expert, Ed Brunt, another police officer, was play-acting to catch the attention of a group of women who came to learn how to defend themselves against potential
Jessie Treu, Lawrence police officer, last night flipped a muscle-bound martial arts expert onto the floor of the auditorium at the Lawrence Public Library.
Women can defend themselves without knowing complicated martial arts moves, she told The Times.
Brunt said, "Self-defense isn't throwing people 10 feet in the air. It's a simple and basic technique."
"If you came expecting to learn how to do this, you were wrong," Treu said.
A woman was raped on campus recently, and another was attacked about a week later.
THEU TOLD THE crowd of more than 100 women, ranging in age from about 10 to about 70, to stop a fight.
"You're an endangered species," he said.
"You are about all you've got. You've got to have an awareness of danger. You can't walk alone davidreaming."
Brunt said, "Without a will to survive,
self-defense is no good at all.
Brunt and Treu emphasized how to avoid being attacked and how to escape once attacked.
BRUNT SAID that women should judge for themselves whether to fight when attacked.
"But what you have to remember," he said, "is that it is often the women who submit that are brutally sodomized or even murdered."
A woman's three most important weapons are
beer pails, knees, and feet, she said.
Treu said, "If you want to survive, you've got to learn how to fight."
Brunt said a woman should attack an assailant's groin only when she was sure she knew what to do.
"We've been taught to protect that since we were knee-high." he said.
A woman should always try to stay in control of herself when attacked. Brant said.
Treu said, "Don't panic. Panic is just the lack of a plan, and we are giving you a plan to protect yourself."
Brunt and Tree said women should always attack the weather's eyes
Brunt said that if a woman is attacked, she should scream "fire."
relling fire would usually get people's attention better than yelling rage because people often didn't believe that a cry of rape was real, be said.
Treed said that if attacked from behind, the victim should stomp on the attacker's feet and try to hit him in the groin, because then he doesn't expect it. The best way to hit an attacker is with a hand that is flattened, like a knife, she said.
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Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and mild with a high in the upper 50s to low 60s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the southwest at 10 to 20
Tenight will be fair with with a low in the mid-30s.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high of 55 to 60.
Official says Reagan plan would be unfair to students
Staff Reporter
By SUSAN STANLEY
A new Reagan proposal making it harder to get educational grants is unfair to students and especially to students in state schools, Jerry Rogers, director of the office of financial aid, said yesterday.
If the measure passes, a student will have to pay 40 percent of the cost of going to school out of his own loans or earnings. The grant the student would receive be determined by subtracting the student contribution and the amount parents chip in from total educational costs. Rogers said the cost of attending the University of Kansas ranged from $4,000 to $4,600 a year for in-state students. Students who come to KU from out of state navy $5,300 to $5,900 each year.
"At first glance, the bill seems to be unfair to the junior colleges and would benefit the private
schools," he said. "But it would really help out the grant program."
He gave a hypothetical example of a student choosing between two colleges — a public and a private one. The cost of education at the public school is $5,000 and the cost of the private school is $7,000. The student will be responsible for 40 percent of the cost, which is $2,000 at the public school and $2,800 at the private school. If the parental contribution is $2,000 in each case, the student would be eligible for $1,000 in grants at the public school but $3,000 at the private school.
ROGERS SAID that the proposal would make expensive private schools more attractive to students because they would be eligible for more grant money, he said.
Even though the student would have to pay more, he would be getting a larger grant. Rogers
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