6
Friday, Sept. 27, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
Sales show that students prefer beer to liquor
By Susie Bishop Of the Kansan staff
KU students buy and consume more beer than liquor, according to students, retailers and a professor.
"Generally, people drink more beer," Mike Conner, Overland Park senor, said yesterday. "I drink beer. I conquered a taste for it and it cheaper."
"If I drink liquor, I drink gin because it doesn't give me hangovers as bad."
Federal taxes on hard liquor, not beer or wine, will increase Tuesday
as a result of the 1984 Deficit Reduction Act. This translates into about a $2 increase in the price of a half-gallon of 80-proof liquor. The amount of the tax increase depends on the quantity and the proof of the liquor.
Jim Hale, an employee of Borgens' Liquor Store, 917 Iowa St., and Annapolis, Md., graduate student said. "Beer is the No. 1 seller.
"I think it sells well because it's cheap. Compare the price of a six-pack of beer to a four pack of wine coolers. I'm sure students like it, too."
Hale said that wine cooler sales ran a close second to beer sales. He said the liquor purchased most by college students was rum.
John Lastovicka, an associate professor of business who is conducting a study on drinking and driving, recently polled a sample of 18- to 24-year-old males in Kansas on their drinking habits.
Lastvicka said, "Of the people who drank, the overwhelming favorite is beer when they drink alcoholic beverages." Lastvicka said.
Generally, males who drink frequently and heavily and then drive a
David Van Buskirk, Wichita junior,
said, "I usually buy more beer. I like
it better. Otherwise, I usually drink
gin."
car have been drinking beer, he said.
Van Buskirk said he and his friends drank more beer than hard liquor. if they wanted liquor, they most often bought gin and bourbon.
Kelly Haun, Wichita junior, whose 21st birthday is Wednesday, said, "I'll drink just as much beer as before."
Haun said he thought college students preferred beer but also favored tequila and whiskey.
Brian Sieber, an employee of Meisner-Milstead Retail Liquor Store, 2104B W. 25th St., and Prairie Village senior, said, "Our beer sales are probably the largest. Not including beer, college students seem to buy vodka and gin."
Athena Onken, an employee of Christian Retail Liquor, 94 E. 23d St., said that change of season affected liquor purchases.
"Beer is really big in the summer, but in winter is it so cold that liquor sales increase," Okken said.
She said that the sale of snapps and whiskey increased in the winter.
"Wine sales also pick up in the winter," Onken said.
The Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control keeps track of the number of cases of liquor shipped into Kansas from out-of-state, said Dorothy Mobler, ABC chief of records and reports.
Between July 1984 and June 1985, out-of-state companies shipped 1.9 million cases of liquor into Kansas, Mohler said.
The amount of liquor shipped to Kansas decreased in 1984, Mohler said.
Writer says women's roles conflict
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist with the Boston Globe, said last night that women today wanted access to the best of the male role without losing the best of the female role.
Goodman was the keynote speaker at the KU Forum for Women, which started yesterday at the Kansas Union. The forum concludes tomorrow.
Speaking before about 800 people at the Kansas Union Ballroom, Goodman said the social change, when women moved into the work force, resulted in a new, ambivalent middle group of women.
The cause of this ambivalence was the conflict between the two extremes of a traditional family and no family, Goodman said.
"The choices are scary," she said
"But we can't have it all."
Goodman said the Supermom myth — the perfect mother — had been replaced by the Superwoman myth — the perfect mother and career woman.
"People are too hard on themselves," she said. "We have too high expectations to do it all. They should let themselves off the hook.
"My mother wasn't perfect, although she didn't work."
Goodman called herself an observer of social change. She said the so-called reaction in the 1980s to the women's movement was really a paralysis of ambivalence.
"People say on the one hand this, on the other hand that, and then clap their hands and pray." Goodman said.
Guilt is inevitable when women struggle with the conflicting roles, she said. Women stack one expectation on top of another and feel guilty, whether they are working or staying home.
She cited a friend who said it was slightly less acceptable in New York to be a transsexual than a homemaker.
Today, sex discrimination is not apparent at entry-level jobs, but she said women should expect to run into a ceiling in their late 20s. She said the situation was much better than
"It's easier to get into the male world than to change it," she said. "This has led to a crisis of values, and caretakers are needed. We run the risk of stopping in a lopsided position."
Goodman said young men and women needed to make decisions together to understand each other's expectations. More day care centers and flexible working hours would help working parents reconcile their careers with their families. She will be on a national tour to show that two-parent working families did not hurt the children.
when she started in 1963 at Newsweek, where men did the reporting and women researched.
Goodman started at the Boston Globe in 1967 and asked to become a columnist four years later.
She told a group of 100 journalism students yesterday at Stauffer-Flint Hall that she had not taken any journalism courses and suggested that aspiring journalists get a liberal education instead of majoring in journalism.
"You have the luxury to tell people what you think," she said.
"A friend of mine has described it as being married to a nymphomaniac. When you think you're through you have to start over again."
She said she did not think her columns produced any drastic change in society.
"Congress doesn't read it and say, 'My God, she's right,' and go to vote down "Star Wars,"" she said.
String quartet, opera star to perform
Members of the Guarnet String Quartet are Arnold Steinhardt, John Dalley, Michael Tree and David Soyer.
Chamber Music Series opens Thursday night
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
The sunny strains of Dvorak's quartet music, romantic melodies of Mendelssohn and the dissonant but lyrical harmonies of Schoenberg can be heard next week in the first volume of the 30th Chamber Music Series.
The Guarneri String Quartet will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday in Craft-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall, Metropolitan Opera soprano Benita Valente will be featured on the Schoenberg piece.
Jackie Davis, director of the Concert and Chamber Music series, said the Guar军er Quartet was one of the most popular ensembles to play at the University. This is the 11th consecutive year Guar军er has performed in the Chamber Music Series.
Reserved seat tickets for the concert are on sale at the Murphy Hall box office. Public tickets cost $11 and $9. Tickets for KU students and students in grade school through high school cost $10. Tickets for senior citizens and other students are $10 and $8. Reservations can be made by calling 843-3982.
"They have an exceptionally good reputation as world renowned artists," Davis said. "Because of the quality of their performance, they're frequently called the best string quartet in the world."
Davis said she expected 500 to 600 people to attend the concert.
The quartet comprises violinists Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley, violist Michael Tree and cellist David Sover.
Valente will be featured with the quartet for a performance of Schoenberg's Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor for voice and strings, opus No. 10. The work features texts by Stefan
George.
The rest of the program by Guarneri will feature Mendelssohn's Quartet in E-flat major, opus No. 44. No. 3 and Dvorak's Quartet in C major, opus No. 61.
Charles Hoag, professor of music theory and director of the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra, said the Dvorak and Meldselsson quartets were typical of the composers' bright, harmonic and melodic works.
The Schoenberg Quartet starts with the easy-listening style of Brahms, but develops in later movements into Schoenberg's distinctive style of formative and dissonant but lyrical music, Hoag said.
Raymond Stuhl, professor emeritus of fine arts-cello and former director of the Concert and Chamber Music Series, first invited the Guarneri Quartet to perform on campus in 1974 because of its outstanding prestige.
"They were fresh, alive and everything a person expected great players to be," Stuhl said. "They knew how to phrase and had impeccable playing techniques."
At that time, the quartet was playing three to four concerts each year to sold-out houses in New York, he said.
Last season, the quartet played more than 100 recitals, made its 19th tour of Europe and played a transcontinental tour of the United States and Canada. In 1982, Guarneri received the first "New York City Seal of Recognition" in honor of it.
Stuhl said he heard the quartet play in a private performance in Kansas City, Mo., in 1973 and immediately asked the group to come to campus. The quartet has performed every year since then.
musical achievements.
Members of the quartet are on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, and the University of Maryland.
This season's performance on campus will be the first to include a vocal soloist.
Valente became the soprano in residence at the Mariboro Festival in Vermont and in 1973 made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Pamina in Mozart's "The Magic Flute."
"We knew that the quartet had performed with a soloist at other concerts and thought the KU audience would be interested in hearing something similar," Davis said. "Guarneri is very flexible about their music selections and said they would perform with Valente."
Valente also has been a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Since then, she has performed regularly with that company and with opera companies in Boston; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Santa Fe, N.M.; Cincinnati; Detroit and Houston.
Howard Boyajian, professor of violin, said Valente would lend variety to the concert.
"It enlightens the audience because they get to hear pieces of music that they wouldn't hear in more traditional concerts," he said. "It also adds greater interest to the concert for the performers."
A preview of the quartet's sound can be heard on Al Johnson's classical music show on KANU-FM between 7:30 and 8 a.m. Saturday.
Johnson said he would play Alexander Borodin's String Quartet No. 2 as recorded by Guarneri.
Classification policy passes FacEx hurdle
Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, who is the chairman of the research department, said yesterday that extensive classification would allow the research sponsors to make use of research before it was made public.
She said that corporations and government agencies might require the temporary classification to reap the benefits of the research.
"Companies want to make use of the research results for product development before their competitors see the research," Horowitz said. "A lot of times one year isn't enough time to do this."
By David Silverman Of the Kansan staff
The Faculty Executive Committee yesterday afternoon unanimously approved a proposal that would allow the results of research by professors and graduate students to be classified for up to three years.
The proposal, submitted to FacEx by the Faculty Senate Research Committee earlier this month, will go to the Faculty Council for consideration at its meeting Tuesday.
Temporary classifications would protect from publication a substantial part of the research results, according to the proposal.
If adopted, the new policy would separate the classification of research into three categories: partial, temporary and total.
Partial classification would involve only "insubstantial portions of the research process," according to the proposal. This part of the research will not be related to the final results. In these cases the
classified material never would be published.
By a Kansan reporter
Conference to help women in medicine cope with life
Strategies that can help women in the medical profession cope with their jobs and personal lives will be discussed this weekend at the second Midwest Regional Conference on Women in Medicine.
The conference, titled "Working Together to Move Ahead," will be held today, tomorrow and Sunday at Meda Plaza Hotel in Kansas City. Mo.
"One of the major goals of the conference is to develop and learn strategies for men and women to work together for academic, professional, political and medical practice advancements," Billian G. Pardo, conference director, said recently.
The conference is sponsored by the
Ellen Shulman, a physician and astronaut, will discuss "Working Together in Space: The Sky is Not the Limit," at 10:15 a.m. in the International Ballroom of the hotel.
University of Kansas Medical Center and the University of Missouri Kansas City.
Shulman was a physician at the flight medicine clinic at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston and is now an astronaut candidate there.
Pardo, who also is an associate professor of pediatrics neurology at the Med Center, said the conference also was supported by the Jackson County Medical Society and the Wyandotte County Medical Society.
We meet every Monday, 7 p.m. in Parlor C in the Kansas Union. Come by and sign-up for our 1985-86 league. Experts and beginners welcome.
24