VOL.100, NO.39 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY OCT.19, 1989
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Haskell joins search for student
Disappearing act puzzles relatives
Kansan staff writer
By JENNIFER METZ
Last night, more than 100 faculty, staff and students from Haskell Indian Junior College continued the search for Cecil Dawes Jr., a former Haskell student and recently disenrolled KU student.
The group searched the banks of the Kaw River, railroad tracks and surrounding neighborhoods near the Los Amigos Saloon, 508 Locust, where Dawes was last seen early Sunday morning.
Dawes is a 21-year-old, 5" 11" male and weighs between 185 and 190 pounds. He has short black hair, brown eyes and has scars above his left eye and his right cheek, said Wylma Dawes, his mother.
Dawes when picked up a friend,
LeeAnne Nelson, 20, Claremore,
Okla., outside the bar and drove from
the bar.
Dawes' abandoned car was hit on train tracks at 225 N. Michigan St. nearly three hours later, Nelson said Dawes parked the car on the tracks, got out and told her to hide in the hubs. Dawes then disappeared.
Dawes' friends said he was involved
Wylma Dawes said she last saw her son Saturday afternoon at her home in Lawrence where Dawes came to work on his car.
Cecil Dawes, Lawrence, looks down the Kansas River.A search began for his son, Cecil Dawes Jr., yesterday evening.
She said that he seemed upset about something, but she assumed that it was because Dawes was frustrated about his car. She said he was in a generally good mood when he left their home later that afternoon.
"When he is upset, he doesn't stay
for fear of pain." Watson said.
Unfashionably fashionable: Punks conform to own style
By Derek Schmidt
Rusty Stokes wears a leather jacket, chalins, drab pants and heavy work boots every day.
Kansan staff writer
Wednesday, October 18, 1989 University Daily Kansan
"He's weird," said one of his friends.
"For me, it's a way of life," said Stokes, 16, a junior at Lawrence High School. "I try my best to be abnormal. Other people, they all look like clones. They're just like working ants. I don't want to be like that."
Stokes, whose fingernails are painted fluorescent green, is one of many people committed to alternative fashion. He said he did not own any traditional clothes. No one does, no Nikes, no argyle socks. He does own a quizzey shirt, but he said he had shredded it.
cried, cranked and wretched, said another. Stokes agrees.
"I fell into the mindless bog of looking different," said Stokes, who abandoned traditional clothing during seventh grade. "Now there no way of getting out."
Cody Ochs, KU senior from Lawrence, is a friend of Stokes. Ochs, who works at a record store downtown, said people chose alternative fashions for different reasons.
"I just dream this way because it's cheap," Ockis, who is studying Japanese can say. "Ockis, who is studying Japanese can say."
Stokes and Ochs said they met at the Outhouse, a club in a field east of Lawrence that featured alternative music and catered to people with alternative lifestyles
They described themselves as punks, but Ochs said he did not fit the standard punk mold.
"I've got long hair and you're not supposed to if you're a punk," Ochs said.
Stokes said other punks sometimes harassed Ochs because he did not fit the traditional stereotype of the non-traditional person.
But harassment from other punks is not a punk's biggest problem, Stokes said. Harassment from skinheads is. To the uninformed, skinheads and punks seem to fit into the same category, except skinheads generally shave their heads and punks cut off only part of their hair.
But Stokes bristled at the comparison.
"Skinhead dress somewhat nice." Stokes said. "Punk rockers dress scemmy."
Stokes said he spent his spare time fighting racism. Literally. He said he frequently scrapped with skinheads, who often are associated with white supremacy organizations like the Ku Klux Klan. Stokes said the heavy worker's boots he wore were effective for kicking people during fights.
"They give me kind of a sense of power," he said. "We beat up Nazis. I fight against whatever doesn't feel fair to me."
The police don't appreciate such tactics, and Stokes said he had been in trouble with the law several times for offenses including violating the city's 11 p.m. curfew and burning. Once, he said, his mother called the police when he spiled on his younger sister.
He said his mother was not fond of his attire, but he did not elaborate.
The punks hanging out with Stokes all dress differently. Some have more chains than others. The amount of unhaved hair they wear is much higher. A girl wears heavy makeup and a noon shirt.
But all wear leather.
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'if because we had to observe long
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Kansan's regular typesetter fails
About 1 p.m. yesterday, the Kanan's normal typesetting equipment rashed.
The reasons for the crash were unknown, and the system was not running in time for the Kansan's regular deadline last night.
The School of Journalism provided several Macintosh computers to produce this issue.
As of 2 a.m., today, it was not known if the system would be working in time for Friday's issue.