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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 102, NO. 64
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1992
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*Juice Jerk* Pete Laufer pours a fresh blended Evis Parsley, a mix of carrot, spinach and other vegetable juices, in the kitchen of Herbier's Bar and Deli in downtown Lawrence. Open for only two months, Herbieroves offers a menu of vegetarian dishes and drinks.
Juice bar squeezes business out of vegetarian market
By Delin Cormeny
Kansan staff writer
The employees of Herbivores Juice Bar and Deli joked that they would do their best to accommodate customers.
But co-owner Angela Nascimento said Lawrence's only juice bar was not part of a national trend that mixed juice and topless dancers.
"Maybe if we get desperate..." she joked. The vegetarian deli and fruit and vegetable juice bar at 9 E. Eighth St. has been open only two months, and business is booming, Nascimento said.
She said she and her partner, Kat Arnold, — neither of whom are vegetarians — used to stock a deli case in the Community Mercantile Co-op and discovered that there was a hungry market for vegetarian food in Lawrence.
"There wasn't much variety for vegetarians," she said. "And no one had a juice bar."
So they ordered a professional juice
maker from The Juice Man, of late-night TV fame, and put the two together.
They worked all summer preparing for the grand opening on Sept. 17.
Besides juices and vegetarian plates, Herbivores also serve bagels, yogurt and strong organic coffee. Most of the food products are grown locally or at least in Kansas, Nasciamento said.
have liquor licenses. That means there are no license regulations to abide by, and there is nothing to suspend or revoke.
"But guess what — this is a dressed juice bar!" she reiterated.
Juice bars can stay open all night, nudity is permitted and dancers can mingle with customers.
On the West Coast and in Kansas City and now Coffeyville, juice bars have added a different punch: nude dancers.
Strip joints serving alcohol must close at a certain hour depending on state and county laws. In most counties dancers must conceal certain parts of their bodies, at least partially, and are prohibited from touching or mingling.
It is an alternative for the under-21 crowd, who cannot legally enter alcohol-serving strip joints. Because juice bars do not serve liquor, they are not required to
The Coffeyville juice bar, Entertainment Outlet, is a private club and requires customers to purchase memberships. It opened earlier this month.
"The people that come in are mostly people that have had heart attacks or health problems," she said, estimating that students make up about 30 percent of the store's customers. "The students are just now finding out about us.
Rob Leichter, Nasciamento's husband, said there had been no requests for nude or topless dancers at Herbivores.
Bazaooka Showgirls, the Kansas City, Mo. juice bar, opened in September inside the X-rated Dove Theater near 34th and Main streets.
Not yet, anyway.
Program review questions remain
KU's restructuring proposals may alter academic diversity
By KC Trauer
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas restructuring plan released yesterday provides a glimpse into the future of the University, but many of the details of the plan's impact on the University academic offerings remain unresolved.
What is not so clear, for example, is how the number, diversity and integrity of class offerings will change.
One degree recommended for deletion is the bachelor's in Italian, which is a program of Italian literature also containing Italian language classes. The program review recommendations propose retaining the language courses as an emphasis in the French degree.
Kozma said that the courses within the Italian degree also provided a service to the approximately 240 students from other majors taking those classes as requirements for their degrees.
Jan Kozma, head of the French and Italian department, said that she expected the Italian literature courses to be dropped if the proposal was implemented.
That would be like writing off the accomplishments of Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Petrarch and Boccaccio, she said.
"It will depend on what kind of student demand there will without the B.A.," he said
"It's not just Italian that will suffer," she said. "It's architecture, fine arts, music and business that will be affected as well. We support an awful lot of other prograns."
But James Muyksen, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that it was not safe to assume that those courses would be eliminated.
Without Italian graduates, the department could not teach as many classes as it does now,
Kozma, the only full-time faculty member in Italian, said that graduate teaching assistants with Italian degrees had taken most of the class load when the language classes swelled over the years.
"Our GTAs come from our B.A. program," Kozma said. "Without a B.A. program, we'll have no GTAs. I'm trying to imagine who is going to teach people in architecture and fine arts. I can't imagine how we're going to produce the GTAs to teach the classes if we don't have a degree program."
The program review report also recommends that the comparative literature and humanities degrees be deleted and that a concentration of their classes be absorbed by English and class
RESTRUCTURING the UNIVERSITY
For the past nine months, University faculty, students, staff and administrators have examined KU's academic and non-academic programs. The goal was to determine how the University could strengthen those programs and become more cost-effective.
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"It's not just Italian that will suffer...We support an awful lot of other programs."
Jan Kozma
Associate professor of French and Italian
Jan Kozma
sics respectively
These programs are different, said Elizabeth Schultz, head of both programs. Humanities studies past and present cultures existing throughout the world, though classics studies have been more focused.
Humanities courses could whither away under an unrelated program, she said.
"For example, how can a course in Arabic culture be offered in the classics department?" Schultz said.
Muyksens said that the implications of these proposals and others would be looked at in the coming months as the recommendations moved through faculty review committees.
Only then will the University better know the effects of the restructuring plan, he said.
"It's a little hard at this point to know how it's going to affect each program," Muskskens said.
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Kansan staff report
Police apprehend robbery suspects at McCollum Hall
KU and Lawrence police apprehended two robbery suspects at McCollum Hall at about 1 this morning.
Officers trailed the suspects to McCollim after an attempted armed robbery at a convenience store at Ninth and Ohio streets, said Lawrence police Lt. Charles Greer.
The men were taken to the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center to be booked in the jail. Charges are expected to be filed today, he said.
The suspects had a handgun in their possession, Greer said.
Senate resolution demands higher status for University's Office of Minority Affairs
By Stacy Morford
Student Senate passed a resolution last night demanding that the University give the Office of Minority Affairs a higher status in the administration, and the status that senators say it deserves.
Kansanstaffwriter
"This is inflammatory, but I contend that it has to be," said John Shoelmair, student rights co-chairperson. "Racism has happened in this administration, and there's not time to be nice about it. It has to be dealt with immediately."
Student body vice president Lance Wright and senator Peter Braithwaite listed three actions in the resolution. Senate
1. Change the name Office of Minority Affairs to Office of Multicultural Affairs.
"Technically the name change is not going to change how to deal with institution," said James Baucm. Black Student Union president. "But the name sets the tone."
2. Move the office up in the administration's hierarchy, so instead of answering to the dean of student life, who answers to the vice chancellor for student affairs, who answers to the vice chancellor, the office instead would answer directly to the executive vice chancellor
"We want to take something that's buried
agreed that each needed immediate attention.
and move it to the top," explained Dave Gawell, graduate senator. "Instead of weaving their way all through the bureaucracy, they can act in the best interest of students and be heard."
3. Change the title of the director of the Office of Minority Affairs to assistant or associate executive vice chancellor.
"We want some structural change in how things are dealt with at this University," Baumco said. "We have a patriarchal society, and what happens know what's best for the students all the time."
"This is not something new. It's been brought up in several reports and nothing further."
The recent study of treatment of minorities by the administration was done by the african-American Student Concerns Task Force. Its report was presented to executive vice chancellor Ed Meyen, David Ambler, vice chancellor for academic affairs and Caryl Smith, dean of student life.
Smith told Senate last night that the task force's report and Senate's passion for the bill had grabbed the administration's attention, and she assured the senators that the University was taking the proposal seriously. But she did not promise that any action would be taken on Senate's demands.
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Presidential summit
A State Department investigation concludes that officials who snooded in Clinton's passport files had been tried to help Bush win re-election, but had not done so at the bidding of the White House.
President-elect Clinton and President Bush meet for 45 minutes to discuss the issues for the new administration.
Sevier family files suit in shooting death of their son
By Joe Harder
Kansan staffwriter
The parents of a 22-year-old Lawrence man killed by Lawrence police officers nearly 19 months ago filed suit yesterday in Topeka's federal district court against the City of Lawrence, Lawrence police chief Ron Olin, officers Ted Bordman and James Phillips and Sgt. George Wheeler.
Lance Burr, a Lawrence attorney representing Willie and Orene Sevier, said last night that the suit was filed at 3 p.m. yesterday. Currently, the Severs are claiming at least $50,000 in actual and punitive damages, he said.
"At a later date, we will be defining the exact damages." he said.
Gregg Sevier's parents allege that the shooting of their son violated a 1983 federal civil rights act and was a wrongful death under a state statute, Burr said.
"Basically, they're saying that the manner in which he was killed violated the civil law."
He said the five defendants named in the complaint were included in one suit with five separate counts.
Gerald Cooley, Lawrence city attorney, said he had not seen the complaint and was unable to comment in regard to its allegations.
"We'll take it and deal with it like we all other cases," he said.
Sevier was killed in the early morning of April 21, 1991, after police responded to a domestic-disturbance call at the Sevier's east Lawrence home.
Lawrence police answered a 911 call from Orene Sevier, who called after her son entered his bedroom with a butcher knife after drinking several beers. According to a transcript of the 911 call, Orene
Sevier asked for "someone to go in and check him out."
Bordman and Phillips responded to the call and entered the house. After picking the lock on Gregg Slevier's bedroom door, he grabbed a knife. He knifed Wheeler at the house later.
The two officers who fired the shots were placed on paid administrative leave immediately following the shooting but were reinstated after the coroner's inquest.
The coroner's inquest, which took place one week after the shooting, determined that the officers were justified in using deadly force.
The officers said at a coroner's inquest that at that point, Gregg Sevier ran toward them with a knife. But Willie Sevier said that he did not see his son lunge toward the officers. Bordman and Phillips fired six shots, killing Gregg Sevier instantly.
Sevier timeline
April 21, 1991 — Gregg Sevier shot and killed by two Lawrence police officers.
May 1, 1991 — A two-day coroner's inquiry finds that the officers were justified in using force; jury members question police procedures.
May 2, 1991 — District Attorney Jim Flory announces that he will not file charges against the officers
May 21, 1991 — Flory resigns his position to take a job as assistant U.S. attorney in Kansas City.
June 1991 — The Lawrence City Commission establishes a citizen's panel to review Lawrence police procedures
August 1993 — Jerry Thomas begins research for his book "Hitchitall The Documented Story of the Gregg Sevier Homicide."
February 1992 — "Hitchit!" book is released to Lawrence books店.