University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 15, 1986
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Youths lack places to go for fun
Troy Brown, left, Phil Borders and Pat Reading, Lawrence High School students, spent Saturday night in the parking lot of Taco John's, 1626 W. 23rd St. The three said there wasn't enough in Lawrence for teenagers.
By BILL RAYNOLDS
Lawrence High School students recently showed up in droves at "Lion's Leap," the first dance of the year and one of the few organized social activities for the local teenagers.
Staff writer
"They're having a good time," said Steve Sublett, a Lawrence High chemistry teacher and the student council faculty sponsor.
When high school students don't have dances to attend, however, they must come up with their own entertainment. Some school officials say that the community doesn't provide activities for the city's youth.
"They're all in there — from the captain of the football team, president of student council, cheerleaders, band members," he said. "It's just all walks, not any one group. They're just here having fun."
At the dance, students converged on the asphalt dance floor as Morris Day's "The Bird" blared from stereo speakers the size of Paul Bunny. Several students perched themselves on the shoulders of fellow classmates and flapped their arms to the funky rhythm at the outdoor party.
Three seniors clad in cowboy garb shook their heads and gazed blankly
"I can't dance to this music," said Galen Edmonds, one of the three. "But I do know how to two-step."
An obviously drunk student staggered into the school to look for a friend. Sublett turned him away and escorted him out the door.
at their classmates cavorting on the dance floor.
Sublett said. "These dances are an instrument of the public good."
Despite Sublett's positive assessment of the dances, many students and administrators agree that in Lawrence, a city that caters mainly to the college crowd, weekend activities for teenagers are difficult to find.
John Forbes, an assistant principal and director of activities at Lawrence High, said students under 21 needed more social activities.
"The kids need more structured activities that are free of alcohol, acceptable to the parents but still fun for the kids." he said.
Della Clayton, Lawrence High student, said, "I wish they would open a place like the old Pladium so we would have a place to hang out."
Another student, Jenny Haile, said,
"Some people go to the Outhouse
like the people who are punk and new
wave."
Amanda Clark, Lawrence High student, said, "Drinking isn't that important to me or my friends. We go to friends' houses, rent a VCR and have fun."
At 10 p.m. on the same Friday, the scene shifts from the high school to the downtown area on Massachusetts Street and a different kind of entertainment.
"We scow out the guys," said Kim Reed, who just graduated from Lawrence High. "We can have fun without drinking."
David Collins, a Lawrence High student, said cruising was a popular pastime. He said the cruising route ran from Ninth Street to Iowa Street, then to 23rd Street and to Massachusetts Street.
Two girls driving north on Massachusetts Street in a compact car yelled out David's name. A grin broke across his face as he waved back.
David Ambler, KU vice chancellor for student affairs, said he and his wife worked last year on the advisory board of the Young Adults Recreation Cooperative, a social group that was organized two years ago by parents of Lawrence High students. The group disbanded last year.
because of a lack of student support and that it relied too heavily on parental volunteer help.
Ambler said expenses led to the demise of the group.
Ambler said that the group failed
The group paid at least $1,000 a month to rent space for parties and dances in the Holiday Plaza shopping mall, 2449 Iowa St. Also, the group had to pay for utilities, disc jockeys and other expenses.
The cooperative received most of its money through a community development grant, Ambler said, and the rest of the group's money came from cover charges at some of the parties to defray the costs of disc jockeys and stereo equipment.
Despite the cooperative's failure, Ambler said a similar organization might be more feasible today because of the increase in the drinking age from 19 to 20. He said that the age increase made beer less accessible for high school students, and that such a group could provide alternative activities to drinking.
New yearbook will feature greeks
Ambler said other groups could provide more social activities as well.
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Kansas reporter Beth Copeland contributed information to this story.
KU sororities and fraternities soon will have their own yearbook, "Legacy," to highlight greek life at the University of Kansas.
Doug Schantze, a Lawrence resident and a 1986 University of Colorado graduate, proposed the yearbook to the KU Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council at the beginning of the semester.
Schantze said the councils discouraged the idea initially but now were leaving the idea up to the individual houses.
Erik Hanson, president of the Interfraternity Council, said he thought the yearbook would not be very successful.
"We told him that if he wanted to do it that it was OK, but we weren't going to get involved," Hanson
Sohantze said he started the yearbook last year
at Colorado, where he was a member of a fraternity, and got a positive response from the CU greek system.
"Legacy" won't be competing with "The Jayhawker," the KU yearbook, Schantze said.
Each KU house will be in the yearbook, and each already has a yearbook representative.
"It a separate book to elaborate on greek life," he said.
Carlin, Rev. Taylor debate liquor law
United Press International
BELOTT — In a backtrack to Kansas' Prohibitionist past, Gov. John Carlin and the Rev. Richard Taylor met yesterday under a tent to debate a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize sale of liquor by the drink
Carlin, who supports the amendment, fought to stick with economic issues tied to increased restaurant and convention business. But Taylor, president of the anti-liquor Kansans for Life at Its Best!, argued that public sale of liquor would lead to more alcoholism and death on the highways.
ing that the liquor-by-the-drink question was not one of morals, liquor consumption or highway safety, but that it was solely a question of economics.
Carlin opened the debate by declare.
"Liquor and the consumption of liquor are not immoral in and of themselves," he said. "It is the abuse of alcohol that creates problems, not the use."
Taylor argued that increased consumption would lead to increased abuse of alcohol.
Carlin said that liquor consumption did not increase when Kansas liberalized its private-club laws in 1979. Consumption went up slightly.
peaking in 1982, then declined since. He said other states that liberalized their liquor laws found that consumption steadily declined after a temporary minor increase.
Taylor then argued that the liquor industry would not be pushing for the amendment if it would not increase consumption.
He declared that anyone who voted "yes" on the liquor amendment would be accountable for every death and injury caused by drunken drivers who bought liquor by the drink
Carlin and Taylor spoke to about 1,200 people.
"Every person who votes 'yes' is voting for death," Taylor said.
Carlin argued that Kansas already had liquor by the drink through its private-club system. However he said, private clubs deny nonresidents the privilege to drink, which discourages tourism and conventions and stifles development.
Carlin said that restaurant chains were resistant to expand or locate in Kansas because they had to turn away non-member customers, hurting the image of their chains and of the state. He said one chain reported revenue lagging $600,000 a year because of Kansas liquor laws.
On campus
■ Harry, a company of dancers,
will present a master class and question
and answer session today. The event is sponsored by the department of music and dance. The company's lecture and demonstration will be at 12:30 p.m. in the Elizabeth Sheron Dance Theatre in Robinson Gymnasium and will cost $1. The free question and answer session will begin at 1:20 p.m. in the theatre, and a $5 master class on intermediate modern dance will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the theatre.
The KU Women's Soccer Club will practice at 5.45 p.m. today at the University soccer fields at 23rd and Iowa streets.
Academic Computing Services will sponsor a seminar titled "Introduction to Data Analysis" at 7 p.m. today in 121 Fraser Hall.
The Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction will meet at 8 p.m. today in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
The first session of the seminar
"Love, Values and Spiritual Growth," will be at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
The KU Soccer Club will practice at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at the University soccer fields at 23rd and Iowa streets.
MECHA will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union.
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Poll shows Hayden leading close race
The Associated Press
The difference is so narrow that the margin of error makes the race a virtual dead heat.
other 10 percent were undecided.
TOPEKA — Republican House Speaker Mike Hayden holds a slim lead over Democratic Lt. Gov. Tom Docking in their race for governor in a new poll.
Results of the survey, published in yesterday's Topeka Capital Journal, showed that 47 percent of those interviewed statewide preferred Hayden if the general election were held when the sample was taken, while 43 percent said they preferred Docking. The
Central Research Corp. of Topeka, which conducted the scientific survey for the newspaper, said the poll had a margin of error of 4.4 percent plus or minus.
Scientifically, that means the sample taken by Central Research could have Hayden ahead by as many as 12 percentage points, or Docking ahead by as many as 4.
Central Research interviewed 500 Kansas residents of voting age by telephone Sept. 5-9.
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