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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY. SEPT. 26, 1985. VOL. 96. NO. 24 (USPS 650-640)
POLICE DEFENSE
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Player, dean dropped
By Chris Lazzarino and Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
OLATHE — The KU dean of educational services and one football player are no longer involved in a suit that three KU football players filed Sept. 19 against the University of Kansas.
Gil Dyck, dean of educational services, and of fensive guard Doug Certain are no longer named in the suit, after action yesterday in Johnson County District Court with Judge Phillip L. Woodsworth presiding
Also, the trial date for the suit was postponed until both parties agreed on a date for the next meeting, said Edward G. Collier Jr., attorney for linebacker Dane Griffin.
Certain, a former plaintiff in the suit, is no longer a party to the players' suits, and Dyck, a former
defendant, was dropped from the suit, according to court documents.
J. Stewart McWilliams, attorney for tailback Lynn Williams, said, "It just didn't make a difference if he (Dyck) was listed. Initially, we had him on there to make sure that we included the certifying process in the suit."
Dyck said yesterday that he had no comment on the developments.
Concerning Certain, McWilliams said, "If, in fact, we win and succeed in gaining our remedies, he still wouldn't be eligible to play."
Certain could not be reached for comment
Judge Woodsworth in an order filed at 5:10 p.m. yesterday in the court said that Williams and Ficklin were eligible to play college football, subject to head football coach Mike Gottfried's discretion.
Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director for administration, said last night that he had not advised Gottfried on the situation because he had not seen the order.
from suit
Hunter said he planned to meet with Gottfried this morning.
Attorneys for both sides of the suit said they did not know when the trial would be rescheduled.
McWilliams said, "We will have our day in court."
"There are several procedures, including acquiring pre-trial depositions, to go through before both sides are ready." Collister said.
Concerning Williams, he said, "I wouldn't say it's a victory, but he's in better shape than he was this time last week.
"After last Friday, the University didn't have to play him. Now, it's up to the coach's discretion to play him."
Enrollment record set in fall semester
See PLAYERS, p. 5, col. 1
The University of Kansas set an enrolment record this fall with a total 20th-day headcount of 27,141, surpassing 1982's record enrollment by 383 students, the office of student records reported yesterday.
The announced enrollment includes figures from the Lawrence campus, the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and off-campus programs
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
The 20th-day combined total for the Lawrence campus and off-campus programs also set a record of 24,744, passing the previous record of 24,468 in 1980.
The total headcount increased 1.48 percent from last year's total of 26,744 students.
The figure rose 308 students or
1.26 percent from last year's 24.436
students in the Lawrence campus
and off-campus programs.
The KU Med Center posted an
Students to refuse financing
See ENROLL, p. 5, col. 1
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
The KU student population has 9,000 that fall from 5,300 in the KU housing officials made for residents to open their homes their brains for every possible War II housing shortage. Finn
but when the last of the tick home had fluttered to the grout to sleep.
Students working toward the goals can exchange ideas and port each other, she said. enables students to keep in touch with activism on other campuse
Yesterday afternoon, before Endowment Association knew of Committee's decision, Men would not comment about the committee's request.
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Students on the KU Committee South Africa recently reque university money for travel expenses to a convention in Nover but decided to refuse any money may receive because the Ka University Endowment Associt provides it.
It was the autumn of 1946.
Johnny had come marching to Mount Oread, ready to trade his of learning.
Gloria set to pound East Coast
The Progressive Student Net comprises groups of students at the country interested in progress and social issues, Ungerman say. The convention will inc speakers and workshops, she and the focus may be on S Africa.
Jane Ungerman, Lawrence sc and member of the Committee, yesterday that some members o Committee planned to attend Progressive Student Network vention in Chicago.
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Ungerman said she submitted quest to David Ambler, chancellor for student affairs, $300 about three weeks ago who leduced details of the trip and rea for financing.
"I found out that funds available for students to put to traveling expenses," Unger said.
Steve Menaugh, public rela-
director for the Endowment Assoi-
tion, said the money came from
the United States. A sociat-
ic unrestricted fund.
Ungerman said she had not b yet whether the University woul fer the students any money.
The group probably would have cepted money from other sou she said, but in this case it will for its own expenses. Aambler said yesterday that the dowment Association provided funds to help student groups special projects.
"The Endowment Association not willing to talk to us." Unger said. "We protested at their meeting, and we justify it money from them."
However, a few days after sutting the request, she said, the g discovered that the money for fund came from the Endown Association.
"The fund is used to enrich st activities," Ambler said.
Students can request money to tend academic conventions meetings, he said.
The Associated Press
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Bands
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1985
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decent P.A. system that night."
The one thing that Near Death Experience isn't, Lafferty wants to make perfectly clear, is a PARTY band. "There are so many PARTY bands in this town," he says, choking back his contempt "If anyone told me that people have a good time at it, shows I’d be seriously disappointed."
"I want them with their mouths hanging open and their hair turning gray."
Hirae, however, defends the band's diverse musical background. He has studied jazz for several years, and he is a member of tambone since about the fifth grade."
"You can go out and bang on your instrument and make noise, but I think we're really creating something." Hrabe said. "We're probably the fastest band in town, and I think we're also the loudest."
Lafferty just grins, running his hand through his hair for about the hundredth time during the interview. "And definitely the weirdest," he says.
THE BLINKIES: Brian English, vocals; Mika Janas, guitar, vocals; Chuck Mead, guitar, vocals; Dong Bass, bass, vocals; Guy Stephens, drum.
HOMESTEAD GREYS: Janas, guitar and vocals; Mead, guitar and vocals; Snodgrass, bass and vocals; David Edwardson, drums. Mead's
mother, Lois, sings three or four songs with the band each show.
POVERTY WANKS: Barry Barnes, percussion; Dave Greene, guitar, bass; Janas, bass; bass John Nevin, vocals; Mark Ramirez, vocals; Steve Riley, percussion; Barnes, trombone; Stephens, drums.
These three bands — which respectively specialize in pop-rock, old-time country-western and reggae — have a sort of mix-and-match relationship. They share equipment, musicians, practice places — and sometimes even share the stage with each other.
Guitarist Mike Jans affectionately refers to the musicians in the three bands as "The Family." But playing in more than one group — in addition to juggling jobs, school and sports — is a key factor in musical exhaustion he warns.
Bassist David Date of the Mortal Micronotz.
Listen to bassist Doug Snodgrass:
"Two days ago I had a rehearsal, but I couldn't remember for which band."
and drummer Guy Stephens." "You learn a lot about human relations. There are certain times when one of the drummers has been gigging too much."
For the most part, these guys keep their tempers, and egos, under control. Their enthusiasm for music seems to be surpassed only by their willingness to experiment with new genres.
Several band members also are involved in Rabbit Scat, the surf-punk band, and Janas they're looking to form in which which would play pre-Motown rhythm-and-bluce music - complete with a horn section.
"I'm attached to all the band's play in" Snogadress insists. "Because of the different types of music that surround it, it's not really ever a competition."
The Greys, for example, recently have stolen the spotlight from the RIKE battle in the REIK Battle of the Bands last spring, the Greys have been attract-
big big owl' crowds at country bars in places such as the Dew Drop Inn in DeSoto and the Fireside Inn in Holton.
The band's sound is rooted in the music of Ernest Tubb, Jenn Cash and Hank Williams. But the Greys also play a harder. "cow thrash" sound, Janas said.
"Mostly it's a rock 'n' roll band — and a money-maker, too," he says. "We've assembled enough songs for four-hour shows at country bars. We have to tone it down a little for some of those crowds, though."
The "grandfather" of this family of bands is The Blinkies, which got
together in early 1983. The band has opened local shows for Rank and File and Jason and Scorches, and its music is based on Jimi Hendrix for *Arril*¹ are KJHK favorites.
But The Blinkies squirm when people label them a "pop" band. When pressed for a more specific description, they turned the mike over to Poverty Wanks singer John Nevin.
"Highly original," Nevin says. "They play about 90 percent original material. It's more of a guitar band than it used to be, with more intricate overlays, tings of psychadelic. Just as they say they're like R.E.M. or the D&B."
The Blinkies recorded a demo tape in May at a studio in Schaumburg, III. They plan to send about 30 copies of their record companies and review reporters.
Poverty Wanks, by contrast, has been relatively quiet during the last few months because of the loss of two of its three horn players. The band's trumpet player moved to Boston to study film scoring at the Berklee College of Music; the sax player, who was from France, had to return home to serve his required stint in the military.
But the Wanks (who took their name from a phrase scrawled on a trash dumpster in Tennessee Street) now are auditioning for new horn players.
Don Mellenbruch Jr., parks his Harley-Davidson in the Outhouse.
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Tuned up; nowhere to go
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By Julie Comine Kansan Magazine writer
The Lawrence music scene lacks a crucial element: places to play. The bands are out there, all tuned in with nowhere to go.
There are rumors that one or two new clubs might open downtown during the next few months, area musicians say. But the deals are shaky, and no one wants to promise anything definite.
Music fans still reminisce about the days when local bands such as Get Smart!, the Embarrassment and Thumbs pulled off the Wall Hall, a dance club at 737 Hampshire St. that closed in December 1983. They remember when the Go-Gos, Ultraviolet, KTC, and the Boottown Rats headlined at the Lawrence Opera House, 623 Massachusetts St., long before they attracted national audiences.
The saving grace for many Lawrence hands, some say, sits in
But the Opera House has been closed for renovation for the last several months and isn't scheduled to re-open until winter. And the most likely places to hear local hands—parties —more often than not get shut down by the police before midnight.
"It seems like there are fewer parties now," says Bill Rich, local music promoter. "But I don't think the police are acting much different. I don't think there was over a time when Lawrence police would lot 300 people stand outside an apartment building. If it's changed, there are just larger crowds now."
the cornfields just east of town. It's a vacant cinder block building called The Guthouse, located four miles north of Massachusetts Street on 158th Street.
Donnellebruch Jr., 27, of 1130 New Jersey St., bought the 2,000-square-foot building in March and has rented it out for several parties and shows during the summer. The building is looking place, with a concrete floor and a couple of junked cars in the yard.
At first, folks dubbed the place Past the Pavement Hall, because of the gravel roads leading to its entrance. But after several successful shows, staff-members at campus radio station KJHK-FM chose the Opening Ceremony because of the location of its restrooms.
"It need to be a party place until the mid-1870s, then the owner used the building for storage, then he said it to someone with an upholstery business," Mellensbruch said. "All the townsmen used to call the place The Blackout. I guess they had some wild parties out there. They'd party all right, then wake up in the morning and there's'd be bodies all over the place."
Moultenbrick charges bands $30 a night play a $50 deposit to rent The Outhouse, and takes home one-third of the door receipt. "It's been full every weekend since the summer," he says. "But I still like to work on my cart and such during the day if nothing's going on. I like to keep the place sort of universal."