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University Daily Kansan
Thursday Features
Thursday, Nov. 21, 1985
Reggae man Island music sets beat for Dread
By Lori Poison Special to the Kansan
His appearance may not be that of a typical college student, but then again, Jimmy Effiwatt is not typical.
Effiwitt, Calalare, Nigeria, sophomore, is better known by Lawrence reggae enthusiasts as "Jimmy Dread." He is the host for an hour of reggae videos from 11 p.m. to midnight every Sunday on TV-30. His show, "Reggae with Jimmy Dread," is just one of his involvements with the Jamaican-influenced music.
"Reggae is an expression of feeling," said Effiwatt. "Its meaning is based on righteous living and love for one another."
Eiffwatt also has a radio show,
"Dread at the Control," from noon
to 3 p.m. Sundays on KJHK-FM and
is a member of a local reggae band,
Common Ground.
Effiwatt is majoring in media arts. He came to the United States during the summer of 1983 after attending the American University in Athens, Greece, for two years. Effiwatt said he left Greece when the government threatened to close the university because it was competing with other Greek universities.
Effwatt decided to come to the United States after talking to U.S. sailors he met in Athens, he said. The sailors gave him the addresses of several universities in the United States, but the University of Kansas accepted him first.
"When I was in Greece, I studied business administration," he said. "But I changed when I got here. Business made me feel too greedy. I thought I'd better take life step by step instead."
Effiwatt said he was able to take only three hours this semester because of the time he spent working. When not playing in the band, o
'People react very weirdly to the way I look. They will come up and ask to touch my hair.I usually let them.'
working on his shows, Effiwatt finds time to work nine hours a week in the mailroom of Watson Library.
Calalare, Nigeria, sophomore
Jimmy Effiwatt
Effwatt is easily recognized by his mass of braided hair and his brightly colored, and often mismatched, clothing.
Effwatt said he liked his unusual appearance and the stares he sometimes gets.
"People react really weirdly to the way I look," he said. "They will come up and ask to touch my hair. I usually let them."
"I think he looks pretty neat," Crider said. "He's different."
Jarrel Crider, Wichita, junior,
lists to reggae music and occa-
sionally watches Effiwatt's show.
Effiwatt said that Rastafariism, like reggae, originated in Jamaica. Rastafarianism, based on scriptures found in the Old Testament, is more a religion than a culture, than a religion, Effiwatt said. Its followers worship the late Emperor Haile Selassie
Effwatt said he braided his hair two years ago when he became involved with the Rastafarian religion. The name for the style, and the source of his nickname, is dread locks. The term came from the Old Testament of the Bible.
"It's sort of like Christianity because you live it every day," he said. "There's one destiny and one aim, 'Let love be the guiding light,' and that's cool."
Effwatt she enjoys living in the United States and he especially
likes Lawrence. The diversity of the people he has met in Lawrence fascinates him, and he says that the town is a close-knit community that reminds him of his home in Nigeria.
"You can meet people of your own class or level here very easily." he said.
One of the things that Eiffwat admires most about the United States is its agricultural system. He said that this country's method of farming was more efficient and more extensive than the agricultural systems in some of the other countries he has seen.
“It’s great to realize that the wheat that makes bread here in Kansas feeds people in countries all over the world,” he said.
However, Effiwatt has run into a few problems since he has been in the United States.
"I's hard living here from a foreign country," he said. "There aren't many jobs to go around. The jobs are so competitive and they go to the people who were here first."
Effwatt said that after he earned his degree he would like to stay in the United States and work for about a year and then return to Nigeria. There are many opportunities for people interested in television and film in Nigeria, he said, since the industry is just starting to develop there.
"There is so much talent here already," he said. "I think there will be many more opportunities in Nigeria."
Store property often carted off
By Susie Bishop
Jimmy Effiwatt
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
But everyone knows that carts don't walk away by themselves, so store managers point the finger at the shoppers.
The anatomy of grocery carts has changed. In addition to four wheels, some shopping carts seem to have sprouted two legs and walked away, local grocery store managers said Monday.
"Usually people take them and leave them on a sidewalk or in Naismith Hall and then we have to come pick them up," said Al Long, manager of Kroger Super Store, at the intersection of 23rd Street and Naismith Drive. "That's why we don't like it. It would be different if they brought them back."
Long said students and others abandon the carts after getting their groceries home.
Jack Leatherman, manager of Food 4 Less, 2525 Iowa
St. said that only a few people took carts.
"Generally, people who do take carts are habitual offenders, and the carts end up in the same places," he said.
"Most people don't steal the carts. They're just too lazy to bring them back after using it to push their groceries home."
Leatherman said that shopkins who did not have cars or some form of transportation took the carts to help them get their purchases home. After arriving home, the shoppers sometimes discard the cart, but usually not in front of their own home.
Wayward carts usually end up on sidewalks outside apartment complexes, in alleys or the front yard of a home somewhere close to the store.
He said that someone called and reported the unusual location of the cart and that he never would have found it.
Sometimes carts travel farther from home. Leatherman said one of his store's carts was found in the middle of a field near Sixth Street and Dragstrip Road, approximately five miles from the store.
Usually the carts are found by a man who Leatherman has hired to search three times a week for the missing carts. The recovery mission brings in about 30 carts a week. Leatherman said.
The grocery carts at Food 4 Less cost $164 to replace, he said. If the carls are not returned, the store could lose almost $5,000 a week for the 30 carts.
If a person is caught stealing a cart, he or she can be prosecuted for a criminal offense, Leatherman said.
"Flat out, taking a cart is shoplifting," he said. "It is a criminal offense and punishable by law."
Leatherman said the first time the store caught someone walking away with a cart, they would not prosecute, but the police would be called in if a person was caught a second time.
Sgt. Don Dalquest, Lawrence Police Department, said he had not heard of anyone being prosecuted recently for the theft of a shopping cart.
He said that police officers often found grocery carts in alleys in Lawrence. If a cart is found, police notify the store so it can be picked up.
Dalquest said most carts have the store identification on the handle or plastic child seat, but those that did not were left where they were found because ownership could not be proven.
Carts turn into portable laundry baskets, trash cans, wheel barrels full of leaves or as a receptical for aluminum cans.
Local grocery stores often find the competition's shopping cart during a neighborhood prowl to recover their own. A quick call notifying the manager of the whereabouts of his cart promotes the cooperative effort to return carts to their proper residence.
Marvin Hauschild, manager of Rusty's Food Center, 2300 Louisiana St., said few shopping carts disappeared from his store. Rusty's policy of having employees help shoppers carry their groceries to the car reduces the number of carts leaving the store.
He said he trained his employees to return carts to the store quickly and to be aware of people leaving the store with them.
"On the average a cart is left in the parking lot fewer than five minutes." Hauschild said.
Tammy Stude/Special to the KANSAN
When the bad weather hits, Hauschild said he sometimes could be persuaded to allow shoppers to push their groceries home, provided they returned the cart immediately. He said he always took down the name of the person before he allowed them to take the shopping cart off the premises.
Six grocery carts were found abandoned recently in a vacant lot at the corner of 23rd and Iowa streets. Shopping carts range in value from $150 to $270 each.
180M
Smokeout to help puffers end habit
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Park your pack
That's the invitation being offered smokers today by the Douglas County unit of the American Cancer Society during the organization's ninth annual "Great American Smokeout."
Marian Montgomery, coordinator of Smokeout activities for the Douglas County unit, said Monday that 5,000 to 7,000 Americans nationwide would observe the day by giving up cigarettes for good.
Brenda Burnham, York, Neb., junior, said she approved of the Smokeout, although she said she might have difficulty going without cigarettes for 24 hours.
"It's a great idea for those who can do it," Burnham said. "Most likely, I'll have problems. I think I could quit if I really wanted to.
Balloons will be released to kick off the activities at 10 a.m. During the day, drama students from Lawrence High School will present skits with anti-smoking themes. A booth will provide information about nutrition to those smokers who are afraid they'll gain weight if they quit.
Smokeout activities aimed at motivating smokers to quit will take place from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. today at Southern Hills Shopping Center, 1601 W. 23rd St., Montgomery said.
No activities are planned for the KU campus, Montgomery said, although a "park your pack" box and anti-smoking literature will be available at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Americans kick the habit; smoking is less respectable
By Liz Maggard
Of the Kansan staff
Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.
That message, or one of several similar messages warning of specific health problems related to smoking, appears on every pack of cigarettes sold in the United States.
Despite the warnings, many Americans still light up. However, available data indicate that cigarette smoking is losing its social respectability.
The first. Surgeon General's report on the dangers of smoking was released on Jan. 11, 1964. In the 21 years since, surveys indicate, cigarette usage has declined steadily.
According to statistics from the Office on Smoking and Health, 52.1 percent of all men in the United States and 34.2 percent of all women smoked in 1965. In 1983, 34.8 percent of all men and 29.5 percent of all women smoked.
Janine Cox, assistant professor of health, physical education and recreation, said recently that the declining popularity of cigarettes was apparent in the attitudes of students in her health education classes.
"I can't see anything good or socially redeeming about smoking," she said. "I think a lot of students have reached the same conclusion."
cousin. Cox, who quit smoking in 1973 after teaching a health unit on cancer, said she thought smoking had lost its appeal as a symbol of acceptance.
"At one point, you were 'in' if you smoked," she said. "But I don't think smoking is cool anymore."
Tom R. Thomas, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, said he thought the changing attitudes toward smoking were linked with the fitness and exercise boom.
"It's very difficult to smoke and exercise," he said. "Students tell me getting into an exercise program is a pretty strong incentive for putting."
Cox said that some students told her they smoked because their parents did. However, she said,
other students told her they didn't smoke because of being around family members who did.
Diane Sharon, an assistant kindergarten teacher at Hilltop Child Development Center, said she came from a large family that was divided almost evenly between smokers and non-smokers.
"My dad doesn't smoke, but all three of my brothers do," she said.
"On the other hand, my mother does smoke, but my three sisters and I don't."
Nanette Rosen, Lawrence graduate student, said she thought she probably never began smoking because of the negative image she had gotten about it from her grandfather.
"He was a heavy smoker and later developed lung problems related to his smoking," she said.
Cox said there was one distressing exception to the downward trend in cigarette usage.
"The late teen-age category for women is still increasing," she said. "This is important because of the negative effect of smoking during pregnancy. These women, are in their prime child-bearing years."
John Darrow, Overland Park senior, said he began smoking when he was 21 because he wanted to, but at the same time set a date to quit.
"I knew it was bad for me when I started," he said. "I told myself I would stop smoking on my 25th birthday."
Darrow will be 25 on Dec. 5, and he said he still intends to stop smoking. He didn't think it would be difficult.
"I've quit before for about a month at a time," he said. "It's not hard. All you have to do is avoid substituting smoking with something else, because then you're not really giving up a habit."
For smokers who ignore the warnings on their cigarette packs, signs requesting them not to smoke may have little effect.
However, they might find the sign in Cox's office hard to overlook.
"No smoking," it says. "Anyone caught smoking on the premises will be hung by the toenails and pummeled into unconsciousness with an organic carrot."
On Tap
Nancy Haney
Peggy Helsel
CONCERTS:
PLAVS:
City Light Orchestra will perform at 9:30 p.m. today, tomorrow and Saturday at The Jazzhaus, 926% Massachusetts St. There will be a $3 cover charge.
SUA MOVIES;
"La Dolce Vita" will be shown at
University Theatre will present "Booth," a play that portrays John Wilker Booth in a sympathetic manner, at 8 p.m. Dec. 4-8 in the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall. General admission tickets for KU students are $1.50. Tickets for other students and senior citizens are $2 and are $3 for the public. All tickets are available at the Murphy Hall box office.
7:30 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium. Tickets are $1.50 and can be purchased at the Student Union Activities box office in the Kansas Union. "Ghostbusters" is scheduled to be shown at 3:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday in Woodruff Auditorium. Tickets are $1.50. The midnight movie for tomorrow and Saturday in Woodruff Auditorium will be "Strange Behavior."
Tickets are $2