University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 17, 1986
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Annual Baldwin festival features jazz and history
By a Kansan reporter
New attractions will headline the 29th annual Maple Leaf Festival this weekend in Baldwin City.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans will perform and the Kansas Chautauqua, celebrating the 125th birthday of Kansas, will appear.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in
On Campus
the Collins Sports Center, 6th and Fremont. The Kansas Chautauqua, a group that recalls exciting moments in Kansas' history, will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday in Rice Auditorium at Baker University.
One of the featured historical characters during the Chautauqua performance, will be John Brown, who was the hero of Osawatomy, the Battle of Black Jack and the martyr at Harper's Ferry.
- Koichi Sashiwaya, chief instructor of the Ki-Society, will demonstrate Ki-Aikido at 1:30 p.m. today in 102 Robinson Center.
The St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will sponsor a retreat at 7 p.m. today at the center, 1631 Crescent Road.
The KU International Folk
Dance Club will meet at 8 p.m. today in the gymnasium of St. John's school, 1208 Kentucky St.
Dyketones, a 1950s rock and comedy revue from San Francisco, will be featured at a dance sponsored by Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas at 9:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
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ISSUES IN WAR AND PEACE Week three at JRP.
Monday, Oct. 20th at 7:30 p.m.
Professor Richard Gorel (history) on "Historical Antecedents for US Policy in Central America."
Tuesday, Oct. 21st at 7:00p.m.
Professor Maynard Shelley (Psychology) on "The Psychology of Terrorism."
Thursday, Oct. 23rd at 6:15 p.m.
Professor Kay Laird (Political science) of "Soviet Internation Behavior from Lenin"
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boats on display at Burge Union (south side)
KU Entomology Professor
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Story by Kirk Kahler
Top right, David Dictor, lead singer for the group MDC, gets the crowd excited during a recent show. The group's songs are often politically motivated. Above, John Beacom, left, Lenexa freshman, and Andrea Maddox, Overland Park sophomore, wait for Unseen Force to take the stage.
A trip to the er.
Their heads were shaved — either partially or completely. They drank cheap beer and they wore clothes like "Suicidal Tendencies" concert T-shirts and jeans with large, purposefully placed holes. And lots of leather.
No, they are not the characters from a class "C" science fiction movie. They are patrons of the Outhouse.
The Outhouse, 3 miles east of Lawrence on East 15th Street, is the home of what might be called Lawrence's sub- or counter-culture community. After the $5 cover charge has been paid, the club, which once was a garage, overwhelms the senses upon entrance.
The walls, both inside and out, are covered with graffiti, some of it consisting of song lyrics from popular punk bands. Above the concrete floor, the ceiling insulation seems to be built with the slightest encouragement.
On the left side of the room is a brown vinyl couch. Four brown vinyl chairs sit on the other side of the room. The furniture looks like it might have been purchased at a bus station auction.
The sharp odor of Magic Marker stings the nose as new grifft is added to the walls, and the screams from the vocalists in the band instantly
The Outhouse has a faithful following from KU students.
from HA. He told Bernie Booth, Olathe freshman, who is also known as "Missile", said he went to the Outhouse often.
"I guess I kind of live here now," he said. "Mostly because I play in bands."
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He had been going to the club for
about a year, he said, and heard of
the place by word of mouth.
Booth said he played guitar for the bands Octeolod and Big Toe.
"I like this kind of music and the atmosphere is usually pretty good," be said.
John Beacom, Lenexa freshman,
said he started going to the Outhouse
when he came to school this year
"It differs in message and delivery," he said. "It's a lot harder and faster than the mainstream. A lot of it has a lot of meaning and some
Beacom, who wore a Charles Manson T-shirt, described the music as non-mainstream and non-conventional.
'It differs in
'it differs in message and delivery. It's a lot harder and faster than the mainstream. A lot of it has a lot of meaning and some of it has no meaning. There is no middle ground. The mainstream occupies the middle ground. Some people would call it hardcore.'
Lenexa freshman
- John Beacom
Lenexa freshman
of it has no meaning. There is no mid-ground ground. The mainstream occupies the middle ground. Some people would call it hardcore."
Mark Tweed, Lenexa freshman,
said even the attitude toward
the bands is different from mainstream
clubs.
"There's an equality between the bands and the people," he said "there are no screaming groups."
Even the style of dance at the Outhouse, slam dancing, is different from the mainstream.
Slam dancing, which takes place
abject to change