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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 20, 1987
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Students buy convenience
Quick-stop stores cater to last-minute, late-night needs
Ry JULIE McMAHON
Richard McCarton of Lawrence fills a cup with ice at the soda fountain at the Kwik Shop. 1846 Massachusetts St. The refillable cup is one of many reasons people shop convenience stores in Lawrence.
Staff writer
James Larson/KANSAN
When dry mouth hits late at night or the laundry detergent runs out with two loads to go, students cramming for a test may not want to waste time canvassing a grocery store for a bottle of soda pop or a box of soap.
A big thirst can be quenched and junkfood cravings can be satisfied even at 2 a.m. with a short stop at one store of Lawrence's convenient stores.
Their popularity is demonstrated by students all over campus who are reaching for another sip from their classic cottles filled with pop, tea or slush.
"Eighteen customers that come to get pop have an old refillable cup," said Jane Morphy, manager of the Kwik Shop at 845 Mississippi St.
Stacey Warner, Lawrence sophomore, said, "They have the cheapest drinks in town. They're close to me and they can buy the grocery store, I can go to a convenience store even though it is more expensive."
Convenience stores are like grocery stores with less variety. Morphy said. The convenience stores have only the basic ones, but often they offer only one brand.
Convenience stores offer a wide range of products. They have video rentals, soda pop fountains, self-serve food, snacks and household items that will hold shopkins until the next trip to the grocery store.
Morphy said 'Kiwi Shop's sales increased when they started offering self-serve food. Convenience stores often have deli food in microwaves. Other self-serve food includes hot dogs and nachos with melted cheese.
As an experiment, the Kwik Shop at 845 Mississippi St. started selling pizza about a month ago. The pizza is
Convenient Food Mart, 701 W. 9th St., has delit meats and cheeses, party trays, a rotisserie, fresh produce and many other features. The store sometimes cheaper than a grocery store, said Kristy Sramke, an employee at the store.
made in the store in recently installed ovens. Customers can walk in and buy a whole pizza or a slice. They can also call and order.
Despite many robberies in convenience stores throughout the country, employees of the Lawrence stores said they hadn't had many problems.
Customers can rent videotapes and VCRs at convenience stores such as 7-Eleven, 2500 Iowa St., Convenient
Food Mart and other stores. Morphy said that Kwik Shops would rent movies again soon.
One employee said that having police as regular customers made her feel safer.
Many convenience store employees said that college students were their biggest customers.
Winners at KU film festival get 'Ozzi' award for efforts
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
Staff writer
Hollywood has the Oscars, and Kansas has it's own award — the "OZzi," which is given to the winners of the Kansas Film and Video Festi-
The festival awards ceremony, sponsored by the Kansas Film Institute, took place Sunday evening in Dyche Hall after four days of competition. Winners in nine categories were announced.
Roger Holden, president of the Kansas Film Institute, said the fifth annual competition attracted about three times more than twice as many as last year.
"There is just a blossoming of interest in film and video production in Kansas," Holden said. "It gets bigger and bigger each year."
The award is named "Ozzi" after "The Wizard of Oz," the famous Judy Garland film set in Kansas.
bigger and bigger company Winners were both amateurs and professionals, he said.
John Cary, Wichita junior, won in the short narrative video category with a theater and media arts class project. Cary said his video portrayed the seduction of a young woman by a priest during confession.
He said he wasn't present for the judging and hadn't been aware of his award until he was contacted yesterday.
"I wasn't expecting to win at all, but evidently it was good enough," Cary said.
David Yonally, Overland Park junior, won in the long narrative film category with a production he had spent a year working on.
"Until they actually read my name, I was very, very nervous," he said. "Just ask anyone who was to keep me in me in place last night."
Mark Syverson, executive secretary for the Kansas Film Institute, said judges were instructed to consider the type of equipment used in the production and the creativity of
one piece, a process that put amateurs on equal footing with professionals.
"We try to make it possible for a non-professional to compete with a professional." Syverson said.
Other winners were Joe Schwind and Martin Olson, Lawrence resident, who won for their music video, "Laundry Workers Jig"; Jose A. Colomer, Lawrence residents, who won for his experimental film and video, "We Can't Live! At Least All of Us Can Not"; Jim Jewell, Lawrence resident, who won for his long nonfiction film, "Safe Play Club Video", and the short nonfiction film, "Menkender/Hunt Band"; First Generation Video Marketing, Inc. of Hutchinson, which won for his short nonfiction film and video, "Kansas Moments"; Michael Wunsch, of Munsch, who won for his promotional film, "Paso De Los Toros"; and Kurt Meininger, of Prairie Village, who won for his short narrative film, "The Note".
Life defined by TV, expert says
By REBECCA J. CISEK
Special to the Kansan
tuted "American Movies: We've Been Framed."
The central experience of the 19th century was the moving frontier, while the central experience of the 20th century is the moving image, an expert on motion pictures said last night.
Since the invention of television, Americans have become captive to a medium that has made politics, economics, and shows the stuff of high drama, he said.
Richard Dyer MacCann, professor emeritus of motion picture history at the University of Iowa and former KU professor of film, spoke to an audience of about 60 people in Woodruff Auditorium. It was the first Jule Stough Memorial Lecture and waa
"We've been framed within the tube; our lives are there," MacCann said. "What's on the tube is what's going on."
He cited as evidence research that shows that many U.S. families watch television six to seven hours a day
subject for nostalgia, MacCann said. He gave the example of Arch Bunker's chair from the television show "The Sixth Seven," placed in the Smithsonian Institution.
MacCann also noted the film industry's strong tendency toward violence in movies.
the screen itself has become the
The difference between a U.S. film and a European film about clouds would be that the American film would include an airplane that blew up, MacCann said.
MacCann received some positive reactions from students.
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