The University Daily
KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students at the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No.1 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday morning, August 22, 1984
Students bring business back to Lawrence
By JOIN EGAN Staff Feporter
For Jim Lewis, Country Club Week at the University of Kansas means keeping plenty of ice cube trays on hand.
"Everybody's always looking for ice cube trays," said Lewis, owner of Rusty's Food Center. 901 Iowa St. Students tend to throw such items away at the end of a school year, he said.
About the first week of August, Lewis and his sta f began "brainstorming" about key items that they thought would be big sellers, based on demands in the past.
Besides ice cube trays, Lewis said he expect d soda pop, beer and snack food to go
improve socks, always. "Everybody always wants to drink beer and eat junk food," he said. "This week will be a beer week. We'll sell a lot of beer and pop because this is the last week to shake your socks out."
"You're going out for their disposable income," he said, "and you're going out for as much of that as you can possibly get."
TO GEAR UP for the "immigrant explosion," as Lewis called it, he will keep extra employees on duty. He expects business to be up about 25 percent this week.
quickly. Discounts on the latter two should improve sales, as well, he said.
as much of that as you do.
That's the aim of many local merchants during Country Club Week, when thousands of students — ready to spend money on alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, food and more — return to Lawrence.
Country Club Week is a boon for the Coca-Cola Bottling Co., 646 Connecticut St., according to Mike O'Neal, branch manager. Sales generated spills into September, he said.
"These are our busiest two, three weeks of the year," O'Neal said. "This is like Christmas time for most Coca-Cola outlets." Sales increase about 30 percent during those few weeks, he said.
THE LOCAL COCA-COLA bottle supplies soft drinks to all of the KU sororites and fraternities and to KU concessions, he said. In addition, demand for Coca-Cola products increases at local grocery stores, O'Neal said.
Several more loads are brought in from the regional headquarters to handle the influx of students, he said. Normally, O'Neal said,
about 1,000 cases of Coca-Cola products are distributed to the KU campus every week. However, during the first few weeks of school that amount increases by about 600.
Relaxation will not be part of John Webb's vocabulary for the next few weeks.
"Needless to say, everybody's kind of glad when the first month of school's gone by and we can kind of relax a little bit. "O'Neal said. Relaxation was key in Webb's new book, the next few weeks.
"THESE'S MORE BUSINESS, so there's more work," said Webb, managing partner of Green's Fine Wines, 800 W. 23rd St. He expects sales to increase about 10 percent this week. And what will Webb stock up most on?
"A lot of cheap beer. That's what they drink." Webb said.
At Laphea Inc. 2711 Oregon St, the local
for Coors and Coors Light beer.
one onslaught of students translates into a "very hectic" pace, said Morris Davis, supervisor.
"I keeps us jumping," Davis said. With numerous parties taking place throughout the year by a booming tween, we taste taverns and private clubs. Lapeka must at least double its inventory of keg beer, Davis said. But the extra work load doesn't bother him.
"We're always ready to see them (the students) come back, I tell you," he said.
Jeff Morrow, owner of Yello Sub, 520 W
24d St, said he greciely greeted the
customer.
"TRUE TO FORM, billions of students have returned to their favorite meeting spot."
See RETURN, p. 6, col. 1
Legislator opposes hall guest policy
By JOHN REIMRINGER Staff Reporter
After *a* heated controversy last spring, the University of Kansas adopted a residence hall visitation policy this summer that both administration officials and students had agreed to.
But one legislative leader is not pleased. "I believe that it should not be the policy of the University to have overnight visitations by persons of the opposite sex in our state-owned, state-managed, state-secured dorms." Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka, said Monday.
"If two people want to have a relationship, that's the r business. The question is, in state dorms shuold we have overnight visitation? Does it ke ep the dorms secure? Does it make people uncomfortable?"
people in such an office.
Bunten chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has asked the Board of Regents I) review the policy.
David Bamber, vice chancellor for student affairs, and that he shared Buntens concerns about the security and atmosphere in residence halls, but was also trying to be realistic in terms of student lifetimes.
WENDIELL LADY, CHAIRMAN of the Board of Degrees, said the board was aware of the policy and that no action was needed. He said that if any action was taken, it would b to review the visitation policies at all state universities and not just KU.
to the next instruction.
AMBLEY, JEFFLEY AND Fred McElhene, director of the office of residential programs all said that the policy was not new — on y a tightened version of a policy that had a ready been in effect.
James Jeffrey, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said that a ban on visitation would violate Article 20 of the Code of Student Rights. Responsibilities and Conduct The code reads: "The institution is not her arbiter matter." The authority on campus, not in violation of law, is not disciplinary concern to the institution."
"Co-education and visitation have been around fc. 10, 12 years." McElhennie said. "Our general concern also was security and the rights of the roommate."
This pass spring, that concern led the office of residential programs, the office of student life and a housing office to submit a proposal (a overnight guests to the residence program) and a proposal (a submitted guests of the opposite sex) to stay overnight in residence hall rooms.
SAVE THE DATE TO AVE LINKS.
The policy at that time was to allow overnight guests with the consent of the roommate
JEFFLIY RESPONDED TO the proposal to ban visitation by placing a petition in the residence aids detailing the proposal and asking students to indicate whether they supported he proposal.
supposed he 2,129 total signatures collected in about a five-day period of time. Jeffley said "Of those, about 2,099 said, 'no they did not want that kind of a system.' It was in extremely strong reaction. Not that many people even vote in the (residence hall) elect."
Jeffley hen drafted a counterproposal which, after some modifications, was accep ted by he board in July.
The new policy tightens security by requiring residents to register their guests during security hours, and requiring both residents and their guests to leave some form of identification card at the security desk. In the past, Jeffieay said, residents had to register guests, but only the guest had to leave an JJ.
BECAUS® RESIDENTS ALSO must leave an ID at the security desk," they might be more pari tiar about who they allow to sign in as their "quest." McEhnie said.
The new policy also gives security monitors the power to deny entrance to rowdy or cooperative guests or to escort them out or the hall, Jeffrey said.
them out of the room. Resident also will be asked to sign a roommate agreement, which will allow roommates to set their own policy as to rooms, study hours, responsibilities and the use of personal property within the room, he said.
Lynette Woodard, former KU basketball star and captain of this House. Woodard is assistant coach of the KU women's basketball year's Olympic team, shown off her gold medal in Allen Field team.
Olympic party over for Woodard
By PHIL ELLENBECKER
Associate Sports Editor
It was business as usual for Lynette Woodard Monday morning. The Olympic gold medal winner and former KU basketball star was at her desk in Allie's Field House, deciphering a fall class schedule for an incoming freshman player.
The 1984 Olympic party was over.
"I was so tired I feel like I'm sleepwalking but it's nice to be back to the working life." said Woodard, captain of the U.S. Olympic women's basketball team, which won the gold medal at this year's Games in Los Angeles.
Algernon
For now, Woodard will do what she's done for the past two years. She'll assist Marian Washington, head coach for the women's basketball team, and provide academic counseling to players. She's insure whether she'll remain an amateur and try for the 1988 Olympics.
AT THE OLYMPIC trails in April,
Woodard started the trek tow her dream
of winning a gold medal in this year's Games. At age 24, she was one of the oldest players on the U.S. team. She had played competitively only during the past two summers.
"I proved you can sit out and be able to come back," she said. "That's a tribute to Coach Washington and the challenges she put before me. The Olympic coaches thought maybe I had lost the edge and wasn't quick enough, but that was no problem."
Woodard kept the edge the past two years by starting her days at 6 a.m. in Allen Field House. She would run around the track or up the stairs.
After a lunch break and practice with the KU team, she continued into the night with a flurry of pickup games, bicycling, swimming and weight lifting.
'SHE'S THE ONE with the body - 5'11", 155 pounds, the prototype women's basketball structure, muscles and curves perfectly coordinated.' Curry Kirpatrick wrote in a July issue of Sports Illustrated.
The results were clear after the trials, when she started playing on the U.S. team in exhibition games.
Woodard said she had no trouble regaining the feel of the game at the trials.
the tree on the game board. "It just comes naturally," she said. "I feel like as long as I'm running smoothly and I'm in good shape, I'm ready to play the game."
Woodard whipped her body into shape with an iron-willed resolve developed during a stay in Skio, Italy, where she played for one year after graduating from KU in 1981.
"I was snatched out of home and away from all the people that cared about me and I didn't know where to go."
"I DIDN'T HAVE anything I couldn't speak, I didn't know the language, no one there spoke English, no one loved me it, I just stood, just standing there with no one but myself!"
"I may have been afraid to try some things, to venture out and attack the impossible," Woodard said. "I have the confidence now."
She said she discovered some things about herself she might not have otherwise.
Woodard took that attitude into inter
See WOODARD, p. 6, col. 1
No change predicted in figures
KU official projects Lawrence enrollment will equal last fall's
By CHRIS LAZZARINO Staff Reporter
About as many students' will be enrolled on the Lawrence campus of the University of Kansas this fall as were enrolled last fall, the KU director of student records said Monday.
Director Gary Thompson made the projection for fall enrollment by comparing the number of admissions so far this year with admissions figures for the same time last
"There should be no changes for fall '84." Thompson said.
The number of students at the Lawrence campus last fall was 22,520, an increase of 149 students from the fall of 1982. But the total number of students taught by Lawrence campus faculty, which includes some off-campus classes, actually declined from 24,400 in 1962 to 24,219 in 1983.
IN MARCH 1974, dire predictions were made for KU's Lawrence enrollment. Archie Dykes, KU chancellor at that time, faced the possibility that a smaller pool of high school graduates prompted by lower birth rates would send KU's enrollment into a dangerous tailspin.
Early projections showed that KU's Lawrence enrollment could be as low as 12,000 students by 1984. In 1976, those figures were adjusted, and an enrollment of 19,000 students was then predicted for 1989.
The decline in the number of students taught by Lawrence faculty from fall 1982 to fall 1983 was only the second fall-semester enrollment decline in 10 years.
In 1974 KU's Lawrence enrollment was 20,395. Five years later, in 1979, KU's enrollment had increased to 24,125. Enrollment to date peaked in 1980 at 24,466.
1981, ENROLLMENT declined to 23,900. Enrollment increased to 24,400 in 1982, but fell again in 1983 to 24,219.
Thompson declined to predict future enrollment figures because no students have been admitted for any semester after this fall.
"we can make predictions for this fall because people have been admitted already," he said.
Federal law may force 21 drinking age
By JOHN HANNA
Staff Reporter
The 20-year-old Washing in, D.C., junior held a silver, half-empowered beer can between his legs — something he admired yesterday, but he wouldn't would not be able to do in the near future.
As he sat on the bar count or at the Wagon Wheel Cafe on 14th Street, Wesy Naylor watched several friends take turns at the pinball machine nearby.
have the loss of reeducation. State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R.Lawrence, predicted that the Kansas Legislature would raise the drinking age to 21 during its 1985 session, which begins in January.
In July, President Reag in signed legislation that would force every state to raise its legal drinking age to 21 by sept. 30, 1986, or face the loss of federal high vay funds.
Hailing the legal drinking age, he said, is becoming "a trregdy thing," or states to do
SUCH A LAW could take effect immediately or just before the fed-ral deadline, he said.
"It's tantamount to a national drinking age," he said of the legislat ion, supported by Reagan and both houses of Congress.
Under Kansas law, only persons 21 and older are allowed to buy and drink hard liquor. But persons 18 and older are allowed to buy and drink 3.2 percent beer.
Patrice Pomeroy, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Transportation, said the state would lose $5.5 million the first year and $11 million more the second year if it did not raise its legal drinking age to 21.
Any state that does not raise its legal drinking age to 21 by Sept. 30, 1986, would lose 5 percent of its federal highway funds. A state would lose 10 percent of its federal highway money if it did not comply by Sep. 30, 1987.
SEVERAL HIGHWAY projects now under construction would have to be delayed without these funds, she said.
nansas is just like any other state," she said
"The money is there and we don't want
it."
A bill that would have raised the drinking age for 3.2 beer to 19 died in the State Senate as time ran out on the 1984 Kansas Legislature.
Winter, who opposed the measure, said he thought a bill to raise Kansas' legal drinking age to 21 for all alcohol beverages would have failed in both the State House and Senate. But he predicted that support for a
higher drinking age would be present during the 1985 session.
"The battle is over," he said. "The Congress has brought the issue to an end in Kansas."
JEAN JONES, PRESIDENT of the Metropolitan Kansas City chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, said she and her organization were pleased with the federal action. MADD helped lead a national effort to make 21 the legal drinking age in all states.
"I'll be even more pleased when they raise the age in Kansas to 21," she said.
Jones said a higher legal drinking age would reduce both the number of drunken drivers and the deaths caused by them. She said MADD statistics showed that about 25,000 people died each year in alcohol-related accidents — 8,000 of them between the ages of 15 and 19.
the ages of 18 and older. MADD has a Topoka chapter and is forming chapters in Abilene and Manhattan. Jones said that the group would lobby the 1985 Legislature to raise the drinking age for all alcoholic beverages to 21.
BUT LAWRENCE TAVERN owners, through the Lawrence Tavern Owners Organization, also plan to lobby in the spring. Ken Wallace, a member of the group, said the tavern owners also would release a list of
endorsed candidates for the Legislature during this fall's campaign.
He said that 30 people
came from an 18 to 20-year-old crowd.
Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St. , said his bar and most traditional student "watering holes" would go out of business in time to replace it with that 20 percent of his business
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said a higher drinking age probably would hurt Lawrence economically more than any other city in the state because it was the home of the University of Kansas.
Solbach also said Kansas would lose tax revenues from sales of 3.2 beer if the drinking age was raised.
BARBARA CLARK, PUBLIC information officer for the Kansas Department of Revenue, estimated that the state received $21.4 million in revenues each year from the sale of 3.2 bee
early years. Wallace and the students at the Wheel said they thought a higher drinking age would cause more drunken driving. Naylor said underage drinkers would avoid bars and drink in their cars instead.
Ethan Glass, a 21-year-old Wichita junior, all adults should be allowed to drink
"We shouldn't have second-class adults,' he said.