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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday August 27,1987 Vol.98,No.5
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Gammons opens doors to all KU students
By MICHAEL HORAK
Staff writer
Shane Lee knows he is walking a thin line as far as the law is concerned, but that hasn't deterred him from opening the doors of his Lawrence nightclub to underage KU students.
Steve Randall, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, enjoys the at- mosphere at Gammons while his friend, Boss Bob, Newtown, local club that allows underage patrons through the doors.
"Basically, I am a college nightclub; and being that, I wanted to be able to open my doors to all KU students," Lee said. "With the money in under 21, we had to offer them an appointment."
Lee, the learner of Gammons, 1601 W. 23rd St., has been allowed to 75 to 100 minors a license with valid KUIDs and driver's licenses to enter his bar, provided they wear a plastic bracelet, mark both hands with large Xs and agree not to drink.
Neither state laws nor city regulations prohibit establishments such as Gammons from allowing minors inside.
Tom Hanna, director of the Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control office in Topeka, said the state was not necessarily concerned with where students socialized.
"It's only the consumption of alcoholic beverages that we worry about." he said.
A Lawrence ordinance minors in entering after 8 p m. taverns that sell 32 lb beers
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said the ordinance did not apply to private clubs or drinking establishments that did not sell 3.2 beer. Drinking establishments must receive 30 percent of their business from food sales and do not sell 3.2 beer.
Gammons gave up its city-issued 3.2 cereal-malt license Aug. 1 so it could allow minors in after 8 p.m., Lee said. The club still requires that patrons both over and under 21 have a club card.
Lee said his policy of allowing some minors into Gammons had been fairly well-accepted by his patrons.
Minors who have gone into Gammons since the new policy began three weeks ago have had to sign a form stating they agree not to drink liquor. Their cover charge on weeknights is $3, and the weekend cover charge is $5. Gammons club members pay $1, and guests over 21 pay $2.
Lee said he had to raise the cover charge or minors to offset the costs he incurred in his training.
"At first, my regular customers thought the bar might turn into a teeny-bopper place," he said. Establishing a policy that minors had to be KU students reassured most customers.
"The bracelets alone cost me over $1,000," he said.
Gammons does not allow minors inside Tuesday and Thursday nights because of drink and entertainment specials.
Llee hired ten more employees to make sure minors did not drink liquor. On weekends, as many as six of those employees keep their eyes on customers.
"It's a thin line that we are walking, as far as the law goes," Lee said. "I've got to be strict to make sure we stay under the guise of the law."
Consumption of alcohol in Kansas by a minor is a misdemeanor. A bar owner can have his business closed for one day and face a minimum fee of $100 if a minor is caught
Problems with a system that allows minors into bars in Manhattan have caused at least one bar owner in the Aggieville district to consider discontinuing the practice.
Eldon Clark, manager of the Dark Horse Tavern, said about half of the Aggieville bars have allowed minors inside since 1985. At that time, the legal drinking age in Kansas increased from 18 to 21. A grandfather clause allowed people born before July 1, 1966 to continue to purchase beer.
"We've had a lot of problems with friends buying their underage friends beer," he said. "It's been such a problem that we are thinking of not letting minors in at all."
Students over 21 are stamped when they
enter the Dark Horse and can buy beer only if they can show that stamp at the bar.
Clark said it was almost impossible on a busy night to look for stamps on everyone who drinks.
"We can't afford to have the number of employees we would need to watch all the
teens." he said.
Agglievite bars use only the stamp system, Clark said. He said many of them are thinking about using some kind of bracelet similar to the one used at Gammons.
One Lawrence bar manager said yesterday that the hassle of making sure minors
didn't drink or buy alcohol was not worth the business those minors might generate.
Roxane Medlen, manager of Johnny's Up and Under, 401 N. Second St., said she doubted her bar would ever allow minors inside.
"It's too much trouble," she said.
Policy support Lobbyists defend open admissions to legislators
By AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
"Our official position is that we support the in-state policy of having open access to state schools," Craig the author of political action for KNFA said.
TOPEKA — Kansas universities should retain their open admissions policies, a Kansas National Education Association spokesman told state legislators here yesterday.
Kansas Board of Regents institutions have an open admissions policy, which means they must admit all Kansas high school graduates. The Regents govern the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
If the open admissions policy is changed, each Regents school should have the same admissions standards, Grant said.
Grant, along with spokesmen from other organizations, spoke before the Legislative Educational Planning Committee meeting. The committee
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meets between sessions of the Kansas Legislature to study educational issues.
Some high schools
Some high schools don't offer some of the core curricu lum classes, like foreign languages and some of the science."
— Craig Grant director of political action for KNEA
One reason the committee began studying Kansas' open admissions policy was because of increasing enrollment at the University of Kan-
Mark Tallman, director of legislative affairs for the Associated Stu
dents of Kansas, agreed that if the Regents set admissions requirements, they should be the same at all school states.
Tallman said ASK would not take a stand on the open admissions policy until more research was done.
"Before we change our policy, let's look at all of the changes." Tallman said.
Grant said, "Some high schools don't offer some of the core curriculum classes, like foreign languages and some of the science."
Grant also said completion of certain requirements did not always
One option before the committee is to require students to take a core curriculum in high school before being admitted to public institutions.
The Regents recommended a high school core curriculum that consisted of four years of English, three years of college-preparatory math, three years of social studies, three years of science and two years of foreign language.
reflect how much students learned.
"Therefore, encouraging a core curriculum is far better than rank in class as an admission standard," he
David DePue, spokesman for the State Council on Vocational Education, said a required core curriculum could exclude students who decided to go to college after they had been out of high school a few years.
"Students who follow vocational paths may be restricted if they decide late to seek a degree," DePue said.
we strongly believe that any change in admissions policy should have the objective of improving students' readiness and chances of success at the university, not simply weeding out students who are currently under-prepared," Tallman said.
However, Tallman said ASK thought a core curriculum might decrease the college drop-out rate and better prepare students for college.
said.
Grant said the Regents could accommodate large increases in enrollment by giving in-state students priority in admissions over out-of-state students.
If the open admissions policy does not change, out-of-state students may suffer at KU, because admission would be higher, and probably would increase. Tallman said.
According to a 1986 report sponsored by several organizations, including the American College Testing program, the number of public universities nationwide with open admissions policies is decreasing. In 1979, 20 percent of the 1,463 institutions that responded had open admissions policies. By 1986, the percentage had fallen to 15 percent.
State Rep, Denise Apt, R-Iola, chairman of the educational planning committee, said the committee planned to make a recommendation about open admissions by the end of the year.
West German leader offers to destroy missiles
He accused the Soviet Union of making the U.S.-built Pershing 1A rockets, whose warheads are under U.S. control, an artificial barrier to the conclusion of an agreement at the U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva.
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany — West Germany will destroy 72 aging missiles that have become a superpower stumbling block when Washington and Moscow scrap all their intermediate-range nuclear weapons, Chancellor Helmut Kohl said yesterday.
President Reagan praised Kohl's offer and challenged the Soviets to "meet our proposals constructively rather than erect additional barriers to agreement."
A dispatch from Bonn by the official Soviet news agency, Tass, said Kohl was trying to shift the blame for slow progress in the arms negotiations onto the Soviet Union.
Reagan praises Kohl, challenges Soviets
In a speech prepared for the Town Hall of California, a civic organization, Reagan also challenged the Soviet Union to bring a spirit of "glasnost" or openness to its military affairs and said past U.S.-Soviet armies pacts had been too often violated by the Soviet Union.
The Kremlin has demanded the Pershing 1As be destroyed, counting them as U.S. weapons because the United States controls the warheads. Kohl's coalition government has insisted on keeping the missiles and reserved the right to modernize them.
LOS ANGELES — President Reagan yesterday applauded West Germany's willingness to destroy its Pershing 1-A missiles and declared that the Soviet Union must not erect additional barriers to a superpower agreement on the global elimination of intermediate-range missiles.
The Soviet Union has said it would not sign a disarmament agreement unless it included the 72 Pershing 1-A missiles, which are owned by West Germany but have nuclear warheads controlled by the United States.
The Associated Press
But the president, without mentioning the name of his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, demanded that the Kremlin ease its terms of an arms accord.
He said the United States had repeatedly pointed out that the last-minute demand by the Soviets concerning West German Pershing 1-A missiles was without foundation.
Washington's position has been that the United States does not nego-
The address, billed in advance by White House officials as a major assessment of U.S.-Soviet relations, came as Chancellor Helmut Kohl said in Bonn that West Germany would destroy rather than modernize its Pershing missiles if the superpowers scrapped all their medium- and shorter-range missiles in the Intermediate Nuclear force, or INF, class.
on intermediate-range nuclear missiles promptly," Reagan said. "There are still issues to be worked out."
tiate over third-party weapons, and that the Pershings are part of an agreement that existed before the Geneva talks began.
West German officials said they were worried that the weapons would become the only remaining barrier to an agreement by the superpowers to destroy all their intermediate-range missiles.
"We can wrap up an agreement
Kohl made his proposal contingent on a fully signed and completed arms agreement including a timetable for removal of U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range weapons throughout the world.
Such missiles have ranges of 300- 3,000 miles. The Pershing 1As are at the lower end of the range.
when all Soviet and American missiles are finally scrapped, then the Pershing 1A missiles will not be modernized, but rather destroyed."
He said he discussed the idea at length with White House officials and other U.S. representatives during the past two days.
"I am prepared to say today that
The conservative chancellor said
He would be the first West German nominated for the alliance's top civil job. Lord Carrington of Britain is leaving the post next year.
"It is important that an agreement is reached in this year," he said. "Time is running out."
During the hour-long press conference, Kohl also said he would nominate Defense Minister Manfred Woerner as secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The Soviet Union did not mention the Pershing 1As for nearly two years at Geneva, but it said earlier this year it would not sign an intermediate-range missile agreement that did not include the Pershing missiles. The missiles had been scheduled to be scrapped or modernized in 1992.
Kohl said West Germans were main actors in the alliance and there was no reason for them to excuse themselves from proposing a candi-
he was trying to help the superpowers reach agreement on intermediate-range missiles in 1987, before the U.S. presidential campaign and other factors caused further delays.
Poll says top grads stay here
Staff writer
By AMBER STENGER
TOPEKA- Kansas" brain drain" s slowing to a trickle, according to a survey compiled by the state Legislative Research Department.
The University of Kansas attracted 93 of those surveyed, and Kansas State University attracted 104.
Gove. Mike Hayden has voiced concern that Kansas' best and brightest students are leaving the state after high school. But according to a survey presented to the Legislative Educational Planning Committee yesterday, 70 percent of the top high school graduates who responded said they planned to attend Kansas colleges and universities.
"Of the 507 respondents, 355 will stay in Kansas this fall for their postsecondary education, and 152 will leave the state to attend school," the survey said.
The surveyed group included 119 of this year's National Merit semifinalists, 570 governor's scholars and 43 students who were in both groups. Governor's scholars are students in the top 1 percent of their graduating classes.
The quality of academic programs and financial concerns were students' main criteria for choosing a college or university.
"Financial aid appears to be a more important factor in choosing an in-state school," said Julian Efird, principal analyst for the legislative research department.
Eighty percent of the respondents said the quality of education was the most important factor in selecting a school. Finances concerned 48 percent of the students, and 41 percent said the programs in their selected fields were an important criterion.
About 81 percent of the students planning to stay in Kansas said financial aid was either a decisive factor or important in their decision. Only 44 percent of those leaving the state said aid was either decisive or important.
"Of the 191 students who will attend an in-state institution offering the best financial aid, slightly over 24 percent or 61 chose Kansas State University," the survey said. "The university of Kansas attracted the next-highest number of students with 36 or slightly more than 14 percent of the 191 students going to Kansas institutions."
The survey results were current as of Aug. 21, but Eifrid said students in the program were not ready.