University Daily Kansan, January 19, 1982 Page 3
Students taking new role
Some find escape behind bars
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
After grinding through a tough semester, some students may feel like hitting the bars. Others may consider working behind them.
The dim lights, relaxed atmosphere and contemporary music in bars are much more pleasant than the sometimes competitive atmosphere of the classes.
He said it allowed a person to pick his or her hours at night or during the day.
ED BERGMAN, director of the American Bartending Academy in Kansas City, Mo., said yesterday that many students from colleges had applied to bartending school "simply because this offers flexibility to work."
The two-week program costs $465 and includes materials, training in mixing drinks and understanding people, he said.
During the training, the academy tries to simulate actual conditions in a bar so the students can learn through practical application.
eryman said as much emphasis was placed on "pampering the ego" of the consumer as on the mechanical mixing of drinks. He said the bartender was a little bit of a psychologist, marriage counselor and entertainer.
After a two-hour written exam, a diploma is given, he said.
THE ACADEMY offers continuous job placement and is "recognized by all drinking establishments such as hotels and restaurants," Bergman said.
The wage usually paid to bartenders is $8 to $9 per hour, and they can work for banquets and private parties in addition to bars and hotels, he said.
Many women find bartending to be a convenient stepping stone. Bartenders don't always have to be men, Bergman said.
"The demand for women exceeds that for males. They think it's a glamour business." he said.
Other students decide to forego glamour and continue with a more classical type of education. These students continue to plug away at their studies at a junior or community college.
RON BROWN, Overland Park junior,
came to the University of Kansas after
graduation from high school in
December 1978. He attended KU for
three semesters, then went to Johnson
Community College for one
semester.
Brown originally went to the community college because he was "fed up with school." At Juco, he said he found a problem in the structure of classes was much easier.
He came back to KU because he "felt like I stepped back into high school. It insulted my intelligence."
"It was like they expected high school work, not college," he said.
Brown said that the community college didn't offer the campus life that was available at KU. He said he knew that they had a basketball team and cheerleaders, but that students were too only if they had a friend to team.
BARB SMITH, public information director at Johnson County Community College, said she saw community college life differently from Brown. She said that the number of clubs and access to campus is vast amongst the students attending the school.
She said that after 60 hours or more of training, students receive an associate degree of arts. The credits cost $17.50 each and should transfer to universities if they are on the list agreed upon by the schools.
"We are in close contact with KU and K-State." Smith said.
She also said that more than half of the students who attend the community college have had experience at a four-year institution. The average age of students is 27 years, mainly those "wanting a sense of direction or knowing what they want to do," she said.
Of those students who are younger, Smith said that many of them were afraid or could not afford college at a four-year institution.
Esquire photos of '60s to be shown at museum
More than 100 photographs published during the 1960s in Esquire magazine will be displayed Jan. 17 to Feb. 28 in the White Gallery of the Spencer Museum of Art, according to Thomas Southall, curator of photography.
"The show ranges from Sharon Tate to John F. Kennedy the same way Esquire did, "Southall said yesterday.
Esquire did, "Southali said yesterday. The exhibit, called 'Esquire Photography'", includes portraits of Mihajlo, Richardixon and Andy Warhol.
The photographs reflect the humor and unrest of the decade in an unconventional fashion, Southall said.
Rather than depicting the race riots of the 60s with pictures of burning buildings and marches, the Esquire exhibit features photographs of black
civil rights leaders and the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr., Southall said.
The exhibit's photographers include Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, William Klein, Danny Lyon, Arnold Newman.
Southall's art history class,
"Esquire Photographers," help arrange the exhibit, he said.
The exhibit is faithful to the miscellaneous qualities of Esquine, Succor and other animals.
Southall presented 3,000 slides of Esquire photographs to the class and the 13 students identified, catalogued, and located the photographs in issues of the magazine. They also helped select and frame the photographs exhibited, and pulled quotes for the exhibit from the archives that the photographs illustrated.
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Baxter said an example of this belief would have been that anything with heart-shaped leaves was a remedy for a heart aliment.
based on the concept . . . that God created the world and he put everything on it for man's use," he said.
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By NEAL McCHRISTY Staff Reporter
"You just have to leave it to people's presumably good sense to avoid certain things." he said.
In spite of the advice of health food advocates, herbal teas can produce side effects that could be hazardous according to a KU professor of botany.
Some substances that have been used for centuries are only now becoming known as harmful. Baxter said that sassafar root, an ingredient of herbal teas and root beer, has recently been found to cause cancer.
Baxter said many of the herbal teas were not listed by the Food and Drug Administration as controlled products when consumed in large amounts.
"There is this tendency today, with reference to people returning to nature, to say, 'Well, anything that grows naturally in nature has got to be good for man.' Well, that just isn't so." Robert Baxter, professor of botany, said Monday. "A very high percentage of plants have certain parts that are very poisonous at certain stages of growth."
BAXTER SAID that potentially dangerous substances—such as apple seeds that contain cyanide and nutmeg, fatal in large amounts—could not realistically be regulated by the FDA.
BAXTER USED as an example Goto Kola, a herbal preparation that contains caffeine as well as a heart stimulant. He referred to an article in the Kansas City Times telling of all of this preparation's side effects.
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This belief—that the shape or location of a plant tells what that plant can be useful for—is called "doctrine of signature," an early religious concept, according to Baxter.
"The thing is that people will turn to this so-called health food drink and people will drink that," he said. "Somebody who wouldn't touch coffee or tea because they've been told it's unhealthy is pouring down this Goto Kola, and in that way, as the article points out, may be getting
the equivalent of 10 to 15 strong cups of coffee a day."
Another root, ginseng, has been used for centuries as an herbal tea preparation because the root was in the shape of a man.
"If you try enough things, eventually you're going to hit it right by trial and error." he said
"it's really foolish to go out and take the non-cultivated plants which are the things that man for over 10,000 years has undoubtedly experimented with and decided weren't all the good for him."
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