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FRIDAY. AUG. 30,1985.VOL.96.NO.6 (USPS 650-640)
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Drive-through windows at manv Lawrence restaurants stav open to satisfy the late-night and early-morning huners of students.
Late-night munchers get just deserts
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
After a long night of studying or bar hopping, students often come down with severe cases of the late-night munchies, and it's paying off for several Lawrence restaurants that stay open late.
Mark Hartford, the manager of Sub & Stuff Sandwich Shop, 1618 W. 23rd St., says it definitely pays to stay open late.
"We always find it busy in our drive-thru between 11:30 p.m. and close," he said. "Most of the people that come in late come from the bars. We call it our bar rush, and the cars are sometimes backed-up to the street."
The drive-thru at Sub & Stuff stays open until two 1 a.m. on Sunday through Thursday and three a.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Kris Kramer, manager of Checkers Pizza, 2214 Yale Road, said students supply most of his late-night business.
Checkers Pizza also delivers and receives many calls for late-night pizza deliveries to the residence halls and fraternity and sorority houses,
Students usually go to the restaurant because it's out of the way, and they often go there with friends.
Checkers Pizza is open until 2 a.m.
Sunday through Thursday and until 3
a.m. Friday and Saturday.
Perhaps the most famous late night hang-out for hungry students is Joe's Bakery, 616 West Ninth Street.
Jane Eisenbart, the day manager,
said that from 8 p.m. until the early
morning hours, "it seems as if all the
people come down to get hot doughnuts.
"A lot of times the line goes out the door and down the street."
Joe's Bakery is open until 3 a.m. he
is through Friday and 6 p.m. on
Saturday.
Another popular late-night night at Perkins Cake & Steak, 171 W. 23rd St.
Steve Richardson, assistant managers, said he saw mostly students who were tired of studying and those
who had been out drinking.
The big problem the business has right now is people who eat and then do not wash their hands.
"Dine and dash is really popular at the beginning of the year until people realize they can't get away with it. Our employees are pretty sharp, and we've already prosecuted a couple of people already."
Perkins is open 24 hours a day.
The late-night menu would not be complete without the average hamburgers, tacos, fries and soda.
Marisa Glanakk, manager of Burger King, 1301. W 23rd St., said most late-night business was in the cafeteria and she saw mostly students.
KU insurance carrier must pay claim
By Jill Waldman Of the Kansan staff
The University of Kansas lost an appeal in Douglas County District Court this month to forfeit responsibility for paying a $50,850 award to a university worker who was injured in May 1981.
KU lost the appeal when Judge Ralph M. King, Jr., determined Aug. 16 that the Kansas Workers' Compensation Fund had no liability in the case, and that the State Self-Insurance Fund, the insurance carrier for KU, would have to incur the full expense.
Ida Bledsee, a former cook at Joseph R. Pearson Hall, was injured when she slipped on gravel in the knee lot and injured her knee and back.
Bledsoe was not available to comment about the decision.
"I don't think Ms. Bledsoe wants to be bothered," Eugene C. Riling, her attorney, said. "She's not feeling well."
George Welch, the director of the Department of Administration's division of general services, which oversees the Self-insurance Fund, said, "It (the fund) could have been relieved of a portion of the responsibility if KU proved that they knowingly hired a disabled person and that it (her disability) contributed to her later injury." he said.
At a hearing last November, John B. Rathmel, Workers' Compensation director, determined that Bledsoe had had a previously existing arthritic condition and thus was only 80 percent disabled as a result of her injury, Derek J. Shafer, the attorney for the Workers' Compensation Fund, said yesterday.
"She had unrelated back difficulty that wasn't known by anyone until the hearing, and no doctor was there to say that it (her disability) was partly due to a previous injury," Shafer said. "If they didn't know about her previous injury, how can they expect the Workers' Compensation Fund to take on that burden?"
After an earlier hearing in September 1983, Judge Anne Oliver Hess, an administrative law judge with the Kansas Workers' Compensation Division, declared that Bledsoe was 100 percent disabled because of her injury and entitled to $75,000, Shafer said.
The judge made the decision after she saw medical depositions submitted after the hearing, but was denied by the Dhoe's previously existing arthritis.
ers' Compensation Fund was responsible for 33.3 percent of the award and the University's insurance carrier was responsible for the remainder of the award.
Shafer was unhappy with Hess' decision and asked for a review to be conducted by Rathmel.
Hess had declared that the Work-
Rathmil declared in June that the Workers' Compensation Fund had no liability in the case and would be awarded attorney's fees and that the full award would have to be paid by the State Self-Insurance Fund.
At KU's appeal hearing this month, Judge King also determined that the Workers' Compensation Fund had no liability and that the State Self-Insurance Fund would have to pay the award. However, he decided that no attorney's fees would be awarded to the Workers' Compensation Fund.
Harassing calls common in fall
By Mike Snider
Of the Kansan staff
The girl sat restlessly in her room at a desk studying. She glanced over her shoulder at the telephone. Though a valuable source of communication, it had become a source of terror.
"Anytime it rang we'd think 'Oh,
it's him,' "' said Stacy Wiegman,
Hays freshman. "You didn't know if
he was watching you or if he knew
who you were. It's pretty scary."
Judy Desch, Topeka sophomore, who lives in another room, said "We'd just cringe because you never knew if anyone was there."
KU police are ready for a rash of harassing and obscene phone calls during the first few weeks of school, said Lt. Jeanne Longaker of the KU police department. But young women who arrive at the University probably aren't prepared for the inconvenience of the calls.
Booth attendants get ears bent on tall tales
KU police have received 11 reports of harassing and obscene phone calls from KU students since Aug. 21, Longaker said.
At first, Wiegman and her roommate thought that the calls were just wrong numbers. The women, who live in Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall, began receiving calls on Aug. 21 and continued to receive them through Tuesday, Aug. 27, Wiegman said.
Many more obscure and harassing calls go unreported.
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Mina Bair, KU entrance booth attendant, has heard many of the best and worst excuses to drive on Fraser. Her most famous casey in Fraser was one of the best.
"My canary got loose in Fraser and I have to catch it."
Campus is closed to through traffic between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on weekdays when classes are in session.
People who receive harassing phone calls should not talk to the
"We'd pick up the phone, and there would be static," Wiegman said. "At first it was no big deal."
She said entrance booth attendants not only have to know information about KU, but they also need to know where the elevators and presses are and the surrounding highways.
booths every two weeks and always enter campus through their favorite attendant's booth.
"Don't give them the satisfaction of making you upset or angry," she said.
The both attendants have "followers," Bair said, which are people who know that the attendants rotate
The caller spoke to the girls on Monday night, she said.
Southwestern Bell advises victims to blow a loud whistle into the receiver, Longaker said.
"That is a record that can follow them the rest of their lives," Longaker said.
Victims who still receive phone calls after trying to deter the callers should file a complaint with the police. Longaker said. Victims living on campus should report the incident to KU police; those off campus should notify Lawrence police.
"It gets frustrating at times," said Bair, who worked 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in entrance bunks for eight years. "But it's also a rewarding job."
At this point, Southwestern Bell may set up a trap on the complainant's line, Longaker said. The complainant must log all calls for Southwestern Bell to pinpoint the exact time of the call. The company has a method to pick out the call and find where the call came from, she said.
Many times a student will say his runaway dog was seen on campus and he has to take it home, she said. "We don't let them go unless we've seen the dog go up the street ourselves." Bair said.
"My roommate answered the phone and he said, 'If you want me to stop,' in a whisper and she called the phone down," Wiegman said.
That night, the girls took the phone off the hook and put it in the refrigerator so they could get some sleep. They also reported the incident Tuesday morning, the girls filed a report with the KU police department.
Rita Jordan, another booth attendant, said her job is not dull because something different always comes up.
"Once a man pulled up with a styrofoam cooler next to him in the front seat," she said. "He told me, I have to take these snakes to the Museum of Natural History." He said he'd show me if I didn't believe him."
If the caller knows the victim's name, address and telephone number, it leads the victim to think that her life is threatened. Longaker said she could be construed as a terroristic charge, which has a felony charge.
"We are the first ones that anybody sees when they come on campus. The way we treat them will give them an impression of the University."
Once a student offered Jordan a plate of Christmas cookies in exchange for letting him drive on campus. She wouldn't let him go, but he gave her the cookies anyway.
Desch, who received harassing calls last fall, said she found the calls
While it may seem like an easy way to have fun or get revenge, callers don't realize the seriousness of being caught. Longaker said.
"Depending on what is said over the phone, the call can be interpreted as a terrorist threat," she said.
Peggy Offill, who has been an attendant for nine years, said state cars, delivery trucks, cars with on-campus parking permits that have blue stickers on their windshields. The drivers are always allowed on campus.
She said all the attendants can do is obey the rules and know how far to bend them in an emergency.
Calls that occur later in the semester or that persist are often caused by domestic problems be-ween individuals who have been using abc.da.
Jordan let him go through.
Most of the calls made the first few weeks of the semester are pranks, Longaker said. The callers that are caught and charged are usually caught.
People frequently ignore the booths and just drive through. Although the attendants can't give tickets, they do take license numbers of repeat offenders and report them to security, she said.
"They look at it as a source of entertainment." Longaker said.
"I had to tell my parents to call next door." she said.
Directing lost motorists is part of the job for Peggy Offill, one of the parking services employees who works in the traffic bochs at each entrance to campus.
to be troublesome. She took the phone off of the hook.
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansas staff
Alcohol law figures in Pladium closing
Some students expecting to return to their old watering hole were in for a surprise last week when they saw that the sign above the door of the Pladium Tavern no longer an attraction featured bands and drink specials.
Instead, the sign now reads: "For sale or lease."
One of the three owners of the bar, Dennis Glaser, from Wichita, said that the bar was put up for sale June 30 for several reasons.
He said that one of the other owners, who lived in Lawrence, became ill and was unable to run the bar. at 901 Mississippi St.
"It was just too difficult to be an absentee owner," Glaser said. "You can't run a bar in Lawrence from Wichita."
The owners, who were incorporated as Meadowlark Express Inc. of Wichita and who run the plant, are veterans, decided not to renew their lease.
Compton said he considered buying the business, but didn't because it was too expensive.
"Our lease was up," Glaser said. "Because of the new liquor laws, we eventually were going to have to turn it into a club or not renew our lease. Twenty percent of our customers might not qualify as legal under those laws. We decided to close the bar."
Glaser was referring to a law that took affect July 1 stating that a person must have been born on or before June 30, 1966 to drink beer with 3.2 percent alcohol content.
Repeated attempts to contact Joe Mandacina, Kansas City, Mo. businessman and three-year owner of the building, failed. Mandacina also owns the land around the building and the two-story house behind it.
Doug Compton, owner of Cogburn's, a tavern at 737 New Hampshire St.; Bullwinkles Pub, a tavern at 1434 Tennessee ST. and The Hampshire Store; a store at Hampshire St.; said he bought some of the office equipment, barrels, television and glassware from the Pladium for his bars. He also helped
strip the building of all the equipment, which was the property of the owners of the Pladium.
"They want $4,000 a month for rent," he said. "That is unheard of in Lawrence. The rent for the Pladium was comparable to a building in Wichita. You can't charge that and survive in a college town.
"The Pladium closed because they went out of business. They couldn't pay the rent. The overhead was way too high and it was killing them."
Compton said Mandacina would rather sell the property than lease it.
"If he leases the building, he would rather lease it for offices or something," Compton said. "He doesn't want to lease it as a club because he's tired of being a rent chaser."
Compton said that Mandacina would ask for four or five months rent in advance if he leased it as a club.
"Someone would have to be crazy to open a club there," Compton said. "It is too expensive, and I don't think Lawrence needs another night club."
Compton said it was too difficult for a club to be successful in a college town.
"I think that's been proven by all the clubs that have come and gone in the past few years," he said.
Larry Smith, realtor for McGrew Real Estate Inc., the company handling the sale or lease, said, "There have been several people looking, but no buyers yet."
Compton said the property, building and house were being sold for $450.000.
Christie Winterscheid, Paola junior, said she went to the Pladium almost every Friday last fall. She found out the tar was closed when she drove by last week.
"It was a good place to go with a group of friends and dance," she said. "There really isn't any place to dance now, since I'm not 21."