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Thursday, November 9, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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there. The passageway kept getting darker and I was afraid I would fail, so I went into a booth.
Inside, the only light came from a window in the wall where the projector was perched. The stall smelled of music and musk. I felt around for the coin sitting down on a hard bench, 1 inch in a quarter.
THE MOVIE lasted about two minutes, most of the time was spent leading up to the sexual event. At the climactic moment, the projector shut off. It takes about $2 to see an entire movie. I left the stall.
we went outside and headed for the police station. There, a policeman showed us the jail cells where people who will be there no longer than 24 hours are held. He said minorities make up 70 percent of those arrested in Kansas City. He also said police tended to harass minorities more than they do whites.
"They don't necessarily commit more crimes, but we are more likely to stop a minority to check him."
I walked into a cell and sat down on a metal bank as the policeman talked. I was tired. I laid back and stared at the graffit in my lounge. I could list on it the cop anymore, but the cop anymore wanted to hear. I didn't trust him. I
remembered Herman Brown's fear earlier that
running when the police car passed us.
This policeman's concerned and helpful manner didn't like the with Brown's fear. Had Brown been in a cell like this? How many of the people I saw that had brown hair listened to a lecture to, but waited for bail or a trial?
MY MIND went over all I had seen during the weekend. I felt very lonely. I wanted to go home. Suddenly, I didn't care what the problems of the inner city were, I just didn't want to be a part of them. I drifted into sleep. When I awoke, it was 11 a.m. The group was leaving.
We went back to the church and ate. I slept for a couple of hours. When I woke up I was no longer hungry or tired, but the loneliness I had begun to feel in the tail cell was gnawing at me.
I wanted to call my friends at home. I wanted to assure myself I could go back. But I had only $1.25. One call would clean me out. I needed to get some money.
Dutton and Spellman agreed to drop me off a
temperature at our downtown. On the way, we
had to cross the street.
In the waiting room there were about 25 women, each with two or three small children. No men. No women. No babies.
We walked to the counter and Dutton asked to see an application form. We wanted to see how long, in minutes, it would take.
of the women were overweight—often a sign of malnutrition.
THE WOMAN behind the counter made it plain she would rather not have us there. She was rude and would not let us see an application form. We finally decided to leave and the bitterness in the eyes of the women in the waiting.
We got to the labor office at 3:30 p.m. I noticed that the corn gave me was different from the one they were selling. They were playing. I asked why. The man behind the counter told me women usually get more skilled labor than men so they could work better.
"But I'm willing to do manual labor," I said.
"Okay, just fill out the form."
I filled it out, and he said I should come back Monday because the only jobs open Friday were for men to unload trucks. I said again that I could do that. He said we had a lot of men ahead of me so I didn't have a chance.
Spellman said she knew of a place where we could sell our blood, so we went there. The center was closed. We were told to come back at 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
FOR ABOUT five hours of time and one pint of blood, the center would give me $10. I wanted the blood for a person to be safe.
Knowing I would have $10 in my pocket tomorrow, I decided to spend the money I had left. After dinner at the mansion, I went back home and spelled out the Spellman, Kerry Barsotti, Leeward junior, and I went to the box, a transvex floor show on Wednesday.
Barsotti and I used fake IDs to get in. The woman at the door looked at them for a long time.
Our waitress was a tiny, blue-haired lady, 70 years old. She was wearing a blue dress, blue high heels, a pink scarf.
The Jewel Box floor show is run by Skip Arnold, the master of ceremonies.
"Welcome to fairyland," he said. "But don't worry, you're safe. We have an invisible bridge up here that you can see."
THE SHOW had a disco dancer and two singer-comedians. One of them, Sandy Kaye, did a stripease that could have put to shame some female stripepers we had seen the night before.
Kaye is a beautiful man who bears a striking resemblance to Anne Bancroft. He has a smooth, rounded face and an enchanting smile.
"My parents have been in the show. They come in and clap and bang on the table. After the first
tummy my father saw the show, and called, "I only have one question. Where do you put it all?" You know, because the G-string is so small and tight! I only ask about a jacket, or a wristband, when I make an atlift. But it was first quite painful."
HE SAID the worst parts of working at the jewel Box were size feet, shaving burns and itching from the skin.
he said he wasn't any different off the stage then on.
"I just don't wear the wear clothes," he said. "The job isn't strange or bizarre. It's just different. If you're a construction worker, when you get home you take off your work clothes and you're still the same."
During the second show, Kaye had been doing a stripease for five minutes when he kicked his leg toward a leisure-suited man. The man gasped, turned to his wife, and said, "That's a man!"
I was ready to go back to the church. I felt a little better. It was good to laugh. But I still was homeick for my friends. And I was still thinking about what I'd seen that day.
I got to bed early in night, about 12:30 a.m. I felt an anxiety immediately, thinking about what it do with 10 am. I woke up and did some stretching.
TOMORROW: Survival in the city.
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TODAY: AN EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE will be held all day in the Governor's Room of the Kansas Union. SOUTHERWESTERN PHILOSOPHY WILL meet at 1 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum Room, BILL FORM, will present an art Book on Art Lecture Demonstration meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art. GERMAN SINGING CLUB will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union. WILLIAM GASS, novelist-in-residence, will present an English Department Colloquium at Wessex Hall, WASHINGTON, and lower Room of the Union.
GENERAL NIGHT: STUDENT SENATE ACADEMIC AFPAIRS COMMITTEE MEETING will begin at 6:30 in the International Room of the Union PRE-DENTAL CLUB will begin at 7:15.
TOMORROW: KU FOLK DANCE CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. at 173 Robinson Health and Physical Education Building.
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Water . . .
From page one
plant, was passed unanimously at Tuesday's City Commission meeting.
at Lawrence Opera House—Fri., Nov. 10
Under the old rate, FO paid about $300,000 a year for the water. After the rate is increased, KU will be paying $63,000 more a year for the same amount of water.
Almost 200 million gallons are used annually by the housing department in Los Angeles.
Facilities Operations uses 300 million gallons of water annually on the KU campus at an industrial rate of $1 for every 1,000 gallons, Perkins said.
From page one
Panels . . .
KU is withholding final payment for the building because the work says, has not been completed.
staff have been meeting for months, considering options for correcting the panels.
However, the building has been open since last fall.
KU students who have classes in Green Hall have mixed reactions about the parallels between their own experiences and those of
"NO ONE IS scared about anything falling on them," Becky Shanks, Springfield, ILS, sophomore, said yesterday. "I haven't heard of anyone who is."
Jon Gate, Overland Park law student,
said, "Sure I'm concerned. I don't want to
Students said the hazard concerning the concrete panels was discussed in Monday
One student, however, was dismayed at the thought of a panel collapsing.
die, but I'm not terribly concerned about them."
Kurt Goring, Wichita law student, said, it's going to be said if somebody gets her
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, asked the problem more than once.
Wiechert said litigation against Casson Construction has not been ruled out if the case is pursued.
Earlier John Cason, an officer of the construction company, said he would correct the defective panels if he thought it as his responsibility to correct or correct the panels had not been decided.
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houses and scholarship halls, Wilson said.
HAID should have rates increase in residence hait rates because of the rate
"We think we have enough funds to cover it," he said. "We try to crystal-ball it to see what we can anticipate in the way of utility increases."
Wilson said his department knew of the planned increase and had budgeted to cover it when it went into effect at the end of this month.
Other University living groups will be affected by the rate increase. A check of eight KU sororites and fraternities showed an average of 10,400 gallons a month.
Under the present rate, they pay about
$25 a month, the new rate will boost the bill
by more than $23.
Students living in apartments and houses will not be greatly affected because the increase is staggered to benefit small users, who have no choice. The Lawrence city manager, said yesterday.
THE MONTHLY L minimum charge for the first 2,000 gallons will remain $2.30 for the average residence. The rate for the next month will rise from $1.10 to $1.40 per 1,000 gallons.
After the first 20,000 gallons, water will cost $.79 per 1,000 gallons, up from $.85.
Users of more than 500,000 gallons a month cost 20 cents or more per 1,000 gallons, up to $.61.
Fenced in
Staff photo by TRISH LEWIS
Blockades were taken down around a section of Green Hall yesterday, after a fence was set up. The fence is a safety precaution against faulty concrete panels, which an officer said was not in use at the time.
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