University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1985
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Students' return boosts business
By Kady McMaster
Staff Reporter
About 60 percent more beer than usual flows into the Lawrence area during country club week to meet demands of returning students, a local distributor said Monday.
Eldon Danenhauer, president of Lapeke Inc., the Coors distributor for an eight-county area that includes Lawrence, said his business picked up significantly as students arrived for the fall semester.
"The start of school is equivalent to Memorial Day, Labor Day and the Fourth of July when it comes to the amount of beer we order."丹enahuer said. "During country club week we deliver 60 percent more beer than the rest of the year to taverns, grocery stores, liquor stores and other places with a license in Lawrence."
Beer isn't the only product in great demand at the start of fall semester. Many businesses in Lawrence look forward to the increased activity that comes to town when the students arrive. Some even rely on it.
Bradley Hager, manager of Pyramid Pizza, 507 W. 14th St., said that both Pyramid Pizza shops in Lawrence were closed during the summer because there were not business openings to keep the businesses running.
"Students are our business,"
Hager said. "Students are 85 to 90 percent of our customers. Maybe even 95 percent."
Hager said that the shops reopened Aug. 15.
he had employees who needed jobs,
not because of the business.
Joe's Bakery, 616 W. 9th St., also closes every summer because it depends on student business and because employees need a break from working long hours during the school year, said Melody Smith, one of the bakery's owners.
I don't I will ever open them again during the summer." Compton said. "It was worth it. It didn't even break even."
Compton said he was excited about the return of students to Lawrence.
"I'm tickled to death," he said. "My business relies on it. I get mad at other businesses in Lawrence that pick on students. They don't realize
'The start of school is equivalent to Memorial Day, Labor Day and the Fourth of July when it comes to the amount of beer we order. During country club week we deliver 60 percent more beer than the rest of the year.'
Eldon Danenhauer Beer distributor
"When summer comes around the students are gone, and we are ready for a break." Smith said.
The bakerv reopened this week.
The library responded this week.
Two businesses that stayed open for the first time during the summer were Bowlwinkle's Pub, a tavern at 1344 Tennessee St., and The Mad Hat, a club at 700 New Hampshire St.
how much business the students bring to Lawrence. They would suffer without them. My business improves 100 percent when the students come back."
Doug Compton, owner of both bars, said he had both open during the weekends this summer because
Some businesses hire extra help to handle the rush during the few weeks at the beginning of the semester.
Dave Nichols, community relations manager for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., said repairmen and installers from other cities in Kansas
were hired for a few weeks to help with the rush in Lawrence.
Extra workers also were hired at Sunflower Cablevision, said Dave Clark, general manager of the company. He hired extra cable installers and one clerical worker to help handle the increased number of subscribers.
Debbie VanSaum, assistant director of finance for the City of Lawrence Water Department said she hired one clerical worker to help in the office during the first few weeks of school.
Officials at the cable, gas, water and electric companies all agreed that this time of the year was the busiest for them. VanSaun said the telephone company's business increased by five times in late July and August as students returned to Lawrence.
Lois Brubaker, office manager of Kansas Public Service, and T.A. Mindrup, district manager of KPL Gas Service, said extra help was not hired, but no one was allowed to go on vacation at the start of the fall semester.
Most of the businesses welcome the extra activity students bring despite the rush that occurs.
Appeals flood board after permits denied
By Jennifer Benjamin Staff Reporter
The Parking and Traffic Board has tightened the criteria for issuing blue parking stickers and, as a result, have been flooded with appeals from faculty and staff who have been denied stickers, the assistant director of parking said Monday.
At the board's Aug. 16 meeting, 47 people appealed denials of the blue stickers that would allow them to park in blue parking lots on and around campus, said Donna Hultine, the assistant director. Only 14 additional stickers were issued.
The board, made up of faculty, staff and students, had about 70 appeals at its first meeting.
To be eligible for a blue sticker, a person's age plus his years of service at KU must equal 56. But a lack of parking spaces has made it impossible to give a blue sticker to anyone who is eligible, Hutine said.
This year the parking board has oversold blue stickers by 15
percent, down from 34 percent last year.
Each year parking services oversells blue stickers, but this is not a problem because people who hold stickers are not all on campus at the same time, Hulline said. However, she said that if too many stickers were sold, Jayhawk Boulevard could become overcrowded.
Blue stickers, which can be used by faculty and staff, are assigned in May for the fall semester according to age and years of service at the University, she said.
After the 205 spaces between the traffic control booths at the north and west ends of Jayhawk Boulevard are filled, people are assigned blue stickers for lots on campus according to age and need, she said.
The demand for red and yellow stickers is not as high, she said, and they are not oversold. Full-time faculty and staff who take five or fewer hours can get red stickers, and students, faculty and staff can get yellow stickers.
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