University Daily Kansan / Friday, August 29, 1986
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County will provide emergency services
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
Emergency medical services at certain KU athletic events will be provided by Douglas County because of an agreement reached yesterday between the county and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation.
The Douglas County Commission unanimously voted to sign the contract that calls for the county to supply ambulances, physicians, nurses and emergency technicians to be stationed at the events.
The events served will be football, men's basketball and the KU Relays. The county also will provide service for the Kansas Shrine Bowl and any state high school playoff game. The Shrine Bowl is an all-star game for high school players.
The county will begin providing the service at KU's first home football game Sept. 13.
Ted McFarlane, director of the county Department of Emergency Services and Emergency Preparedness, said the contract would benefit both the county and the University.
McFarlane said the county would benefit because KU partially would finance the purchase of new emergency equipment, which the county could use in areas other
than KU sporting events, such as disaster readiness.
The University will pay about $18,000 a year for equipment and personnel costs for three years.
McFarlane said the new program would allow the emergency staff to perform their duties better because they would be working with familiar personnel.
In the past, he said, the staff worked with doctors who were attending the events. Many times these people were not familiar with emergency situations, he said.
Mefarlane said the new staff would specialize in diagnosing and treating internal injuries using emergency room nurses who were used to working with one another.
Student Health Service at Watkins Memorial Hospital, which formerly provided the service, decided not to because of insurance and personnel shortages, said Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director.
Hunter said he agreed that the University would benefit from the service because the county was in a position to provide comprehensive care for fans.
Included in the list of necessary equipment are two heart monitors and five paramedic kits.
Staff Writer Although students might not notice significant changes in the green and white buses rumbling through campus, the Lawrence Bus Company's office and garages stirred with their usual activity this summer.
Duane Ogle, president and general manager of the company, 841 Pennsylvania St., said about eight new drivers would be shuttling students and Lawrence residents this fall.
He said the employee turnover rate was routine. "We lose from five to eight employees every year," Ogle said. "With the short work year, drivers find steadier work, and they leave."
The buses do not run during the summer.
Buses change to fulfill new needs
A second change may be noticed on the buses themselves. Of the 21 operating buses, most have been painted and have had minor repairs done to them.
Finally, although no new routes have been added, an existing route was extended so that students and faculty of Haskell Indian Junior College could have access to bus service.
With a $160,000 price tag for a new bus, Ogle said, it pays to keep the existing buses in top condition. He estimated that total maintenance costs averaged $80,000 a year.
Ogle said that the cost of adding new routes would make bus service unaffordable to most student passengers.
By BETH COPELAND
"our ridership is about 93 percent students and
faculty, and they can't afford to spend $60 for a bus pass," he said.
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Last year, about 6,000 students bought bus passes during the fall semester. The cost is deferred by the Student Senate, which allotted $277,980 this year for the service, according to Charles Bryan, KU on Wheels coordinator.
The University has contracted bus service from the company since the early 1970s. Before that the company served Lawrence and the campus independently.
It was a financial crunch in the late '60s, prompted by student unrest and refusal to ride buses, that threatened the company with bankruptcy. Ogle has been the owner since the company began in 1954.
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Dave Taylor and Jeffrey Drake performed at Cogburn's on Aug. 22. The Answer is a Lawrence band that has toured in the United States and Canada.
High energy, originality is the Answer
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
By TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
As the hum transformed into "A Hard Day's Night," people began to surround the stage.
A heavy fog and hundreds of bubbles flowed over the darkened stage. Through the sounds of conversations could be heard, a humming could be heard.
The band members, all of Lawrence, are mark Trail, Jeffrey Drake and Dave Taylor. They began working together in January, and
High energy and motivation are the ingredients a band should use to gain exposure and a career from its endeavors — at least that's the Answer's answer to the question of success.
'They are ready to devote their whole lives to this band. They have as good a shot as anybody. If their success relies on their aggressiveness, they are going to be around for a while.'
— John Triggs Answer's agent
already their work has taken them to Canada, Texas, Florida and Indiana.
"Right now, we try to play as much as we can until we get a break," she said last week between the games of Cogburn's, 737 New Hampshire St.
The band played at Cogburn's on
appropriate nights for nights about
300 people each night.
"We're getting some of our demos together. And with luck, we'll get some record companies attracted to us," he said.
Getting attraction is the key to success, said Taylor, the band's lead vocalist and guitarist. But the key to attraction is not only the right type of songs but also the right amount of original material.
Although the Answer does perform their own material, Taylor said, they enjoy playing other performers' music. Their song list is composed of about 70 to 80 percent cover tunes and 20 to 30 percent original pieces.
"We play anything that we feel will get a large crowd together." he said.
In one of their Friday night sets, the band emphasized fast-paced dance music.
"What we play are high energy tunes," said Trail, the band's drummer.
"For a band playing full time, it's best to play popular material as well as original tunes."
Taylor added that a pop emphasis and high energy were especially important for bands in the Midwest market.
Although the band has been playing together for a short time, the members have had prior musical experience.
Taylor said his musical career began at the age of four, when his mother, a classical pianist, persuaded him to take violin lessons. Eventually he switched from the viola to the piano and took up the piano and then the guitar.
"Mark has been playing for about 12 years," Taylor said. "He was in another local band when we met."
playing as And/Or, another local trio act, when Drake, the vocalist and bass player for the band, went out to see them play in November, said Wade Paschall, a readie for the Answer.
Paschall said the band's sound was different from what could be heard on the radio.
Both Trail and Taylor had been
"What they play is not typically top 40, not Bryan Adams or ZZ Top," he said. "It's new, and it's fresh. It's not something you hear a lot."
Tammy Hill. East junior, said she enjoyed the Answer's sound.
"It's not like rock and roll. It has more use of the synthesizer," she said. "I think they play real well. It's real danceable music."
The Answer now is recording a demo tape of four of its 18 original pieces. The tape will be distributed next month to several record companies for a possible label contract, said John Triggs, the band's agent.
"They are ready to devote their whole lives to this band. They have as many friends and colleagues as they can, cost relies on their aggressiveness, they are going to be around for a
while," Triggs said.
Taylor said the band had the motivation to become successful with its recordings.
"It's like any other job, you have to put out all the time to make it," he said.
Recently, the Answer concluded a two-month tour of Canada, which included dates in Ontario and Quebec.
"We really love doing what we're doing. It's fun because you're your own boss. You make or break your happenings in this business," said Taylor.
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