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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday August 26,1987 Vol.98,No.4
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Drinking laws haven't deterred minors enough, director says
By MICHAEL HORAK
Staff writer
The recent arrests in Lawrence of several minors who tried to buy alcohol indicates that the new drinking laws aren't deterring enough minors, the director of the Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control office said yesterday.
Sales of alcohol to minors have become a bigger problem this fall because no student under the age of 21 can legally purchase 3.2 beer or liquor, Hanna said.
"We sent two pair of agents to Manhattan and Lawrence last weekend, and they made 50 arrests. That indicates to me that there is a problem." director Tom Hanna said.
Since the drinking age became 21, many bar owners report a sharp increase in the use of fake I.D.'s — one estimating an increase of 500 percent and liqueur stores report an increase in kegged-beer sales.
In 1985 the Legislature raised the state's drinking age from 18 to 21. Through a grandfather clause, it allowed people born before July 1, 1966, to continue to buy 3.2 beer. That clause expired earlier this summer.
Local tavern and liquor store owners confirmed that plainclothes ABC agents had been in their businesses checking for sales to minors.
Hanna said the recent arrests were not a crackdown, but that the liquor laws would
continue to be enforced as long as minors continued to try to purchase liquor. "All we're are trying to do is satisfy the Legislature that we are doing a good job," he said.
He said ABC agents worked in Lawrence an average of three to four nights a week. The ABC has 35 agents statewide.
"A lot of times people think we are just a bunch of old men, but we have some young agents in their early 20s who can blend right into a college crowd," he said.
Hanna said Lawrence bars and liquor stores were doing a good job by demanding identification before making a sale.
More underage people are realizing that fake L.D.'s don't work, he said.
ABC officials can close a liquor store, tavern or club for one day and fee it $100 each time it sells alcohol to a minor. The minor can be charged with a misdemeanor. Hanna said. First offenders often are given a penalty and rest offenders are fined $50.
Hanna said it was up to the county attorney to decide how to prosecute the case.
for many Lawrence liquor stores, the threat of a closed business has made them particularly leery of young customers.
John Webb, managing partner of Green's Fine Wines, 800 W. 23rd St., said, "When a person comes into our store, we scrubinize their LD, to see the validity of the document. After we make sure it's not fake, we look to see if they are old enough."
Webb keeps a notebook full of photographs of out-of-state licenses so he can double-check the authenticity of any I.D.
Dale Heckerson, a sales clerk at Myers Retail Liquor, 902 W. 23rd St., and a doorman at Gammons, 1601 W. 23rd St., said he had seen a 500 percent increase over the last year in the attempted use of fake I.D.'s.
"its amazing." he said. "You wouldn't believe the number of them that I am seeing. It's getting to the point that there are some
teary gloomy.
Mona Tipton, co-owner of the Bottleneck,
737 New Hampshire St., agreed that fake
L.D.s were becoming more sophisticated.
really good ones out there."
"The older the students get, the more they know about making good fake licenses. It's tough for us see some of them," she said.
Curtis Baxter, sales clerk at Patterson Liquor, 846 Illinois St., said, "I've seen a whole sleek of fake I.D.'s. Fake I.D.'s are extremely easy to spot, especially if they're doctored-up."
Bar and liquor store owners can be fine for allowing a minor to buy liquor even if the minor uses an authentic-looking I.D., bar owners said.
Liquor store owners also report that sales of keeged beer have increased since the drinking age went up. They said many campus organizations seemed to be having more private parties instead of going into bars.
Hanna said ABC agents would go into a private party if they suspected alcohol was being served to a minor, but he said it was an uncommon practice.
A new Kansas law requires any organization that is serving liquor or beer to buy a $25 one-day liquor license, Hanna said.
Someone from the sponsor organization has to take legal responsibility for the party in case minors are served, he said. Licenses can be purchased through the ABC's Topeka office.
Tipton said, "Our kids in Kansas are used to having their social events planned around beer joints . . . They're going to have to accept the fact that they have to go places that don't serve alcohol."
Hanna agreed. He said campus organizations are going to have to take the lead by not giving alcohol to all their activities.
Paul Davis, Lawrence High School student, practices his bicycle tricks. Davis and a friend were perfecting their cycling skills last night in front of Wescoe Hall.
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
No hands
Learning to fight the menace of AIDS
Beginning of mandatory education at high school level prompts new class
Staff writer
By BRIAN BARESCH
The fear of acquired immune deficiency syndrome has prompted mandary AIDS education for Kansas high school students next year, and this year KU is addressing the problem with a new course about AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
The course, "Educational Conference in AIDS and Other STDs," will be taught this semester by Phil Huntingster, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation. Graduates and undergraduates may enroll for one, two or three credit hours, depending how many weeks they plan to stay in the course.
The first class meets from 4:15
p.m. to p.m. tomorrow in 150
room 327.
Other Regents schools also are initiating AIDS classes similar to KU's, Hunttsinger said. Wichita State University taught one this summer with help from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, he said.
Huntsinger, who has taught a health and human sexuality course for 13 years, taught a version of the AIDS course this summer at the Regents Center in Kansas City, Kan., to about 20 students, mostly nurses and teachers. As he did in that course, Huntsinger plans this semester to bring in guest speakers who are infected with the AIDS virus.
"We brought some people in who had AIDS, and I tell you, it was one of the most moving courses I've ever taught," he said. "We had one person who had full-blown AIDS, who had a
matter or weeks to live, apparently, and another person who had the virus but looked terribly healthy.
"And that's the whole gamut,
that's the way it goes; there are
people who have the virus and show
no symptoms, and there are other
people with whom it's terminal."
Huntingster said he also planned to bring in a speaker from the Centers for Disease Control who works on the Governor's Task Force on AIDS. Also, he said, he will ask Watkins Hospital to help out through its health education department.
The AIDS course, which is offered under the school of education, is important because the Kansas Department of Education will require AIDS education in public high schools beginning next year, said Wayne Osness, chairman of the
department of health, physical education and recreation. He said the course would serve both to educate students and to prepare future educators for next year's course requirements.
Huntings is organizing the AIDS course in three parts; students may stop after the first or second part depending on how many credit hours they are enrolled in. The first part is a general overview of sexually transmitted diseases, concentrating on AIDS.
"We see that as kind of a service course for anyone who would want to take it just to learn about the area," he said.
Colony Woods parking scarce
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
Staff writer
Because of an overflow in parking, the Lawrence police department issued signs like this one to the Colony Woods apartment complex. Lawrence police Officer Vince O'Neill said that the signs were placed to leave space for emergency vehicles.
The recently completed Colony Woods Apartments, 1301 W. 24th St., are home to almost 900 KU students — and their cars.
In fact, the cars are crowding the parking areas so much that parking spaces will be added, apartment manager Gerald Burkhart said Monday.
"We figured we had enough (parking spaces), but realized Sunday and Monday that we would need more," Burkham said.
Dawn Page, Leavenworth sophomore and a Colony Woods resident, said, "People who live here can't park."
were getting hit.
Another resident, Andrea Broers,
Merriam junior, said Tuesday that
some people had been forced to park
on the grass and in the bus lane
because of the parking crunch.
She said the parking problem was worst in the evenings when students were getting home.
Burkhart originally said Colony Woods planned to add 100 spaces on the east side of the complex this weekend.
But on Tuesday, David Gunter, a city planner, informed Burkart that
The minimum parking requirements were based on the number and size of the dwelling units, Gunter said. For each two-bedroom or smaller apartment, $1\frac{1}{2}$ parking spaces are required.
the addition would require approval by the city planning commission, a process that would take about two weeks.
Colony Woods has only one- and two-bedroom apartments.
Burkhard said that tenants registered their cars when they filled out a
lease application. He estimated that 800 vehicles were registered.
The original Colony Woods site plan provided for only 598 parking spaces, Gunter said.
But not all of the cars in the lot belonged to Colony Woods residents, Burkhard said. "We get 30 to 40 cars from Eddingham," he said, referring to Eddingham Place Apartments, 1501 Eddingham Drive.
Burkhart said that of the 372 apartments, only two were not rented.
Monitoring parking of unauthorized cars would be difficult unless parking stickers were required to be on the cars of every tenant and guest, Burkhard said.
See PARKING, p. 6, col. 4
Doug Hawley, manager for Eddingham Place, said his complex had adequate parking space.
he said Eddingham Place added eight spaces since last year and had fewer cars this year because it had limited tenants to two cars for each apartment.
Faculty will decide unionization issue
Staff writer
By MARK TILFORD
KU faculty will vote on the issue of unionization Nov. 17 and 18, officials announced yesterday.
The secret-ballot vote will allow faculty members to decide whether they want a union to represent them in collective bargaining activities.
Paul K. Dickhoff Jr., senior labor
coniligator for the Kansas Public
Employee Relations Board, said the
company set at a meeting yesterday,
morning.
A vote for no representation also will be on the ballot.
Dickhoff met with representatives from the Kansas Board of Regents, the University, and from the Kansas National Education Association and the American Association of University Professors, the two unions vying to represent the KU faculty.
Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days, and the results probably will be announced the evening of Nov. 18. said KNEA representative
Tom Madden.
"Everything was established through agreement of the parties," Dickhoff said.
Polling places will be Lindley Hall,
Haworth Hall and Strong Hall.
An election was made possible after KNEA was able to collect more than the required 30 percent of faculty signatures on a petition.
AAUP also turned in a petition last spring that met the requirement.
Madden said KNEA probably would campaign with direct mailings, faculty forums with National Education Association members from large universities across the country and a possible visit by NEA president Mary Hatwood-Futrell.
Robert Hohn, who heads the AAUP's collective bargaining committee at KU, said details of his organization's campaign would be developed soon.
Dickhoff said the Public Employee Relations Board would oversee the election.
Tight fit
Overcrowding in KU residence halls requires unusual temporary quarters
Staff writer
Noon Monday was the last day for students who had contracted to live in a residence hall to check into their rooms. Unclaimed rooms will be assigned to students now living in temporary housing, said Fred McEllenhe, director of residential programs.
For 118 students in residence halls this year, the rooms they're living in are only temporary.
By KIRK M. ADAMS
A temporary room can be anything from a storage room to a library or computer room or a recreation room.
Until yesterday, 176 students had been living in temporary rooms. Yesterday 58 of them were told they could move into permanent rooms, said Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
Students who are given temporary housing usually were placed lower on the priority list for rooms because they had either missed a contract payment or were late in returning their residence hall contracts.
Alan Wendell, resident director of Oliver Hall, said he could not say how many students were still in temporary housing at Oliver because they were still in a period of transition.
Edwin Vargas, Kansas City, Kan.,
"I was out of the country and I was a little late sending my contract back." he said.
sophomore, has a temporary housing assignment at Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Vargas' room is one of the better temporary rooms. He is living in the library on the sixth floor.
His room has two bunk beds, but he only has one roommate. They don't have a phone, but they have a lot of space.
"We don't think it's that bad," he said.
He said he had been told by the resident assistant on his floor that he might still get a permanent room at JRP.
Eight men living in Oliver Hall were not so lucky. For the last week they have shared the study room on the basement floor — their temporary room.
"This resembles, exactly, the Johnson County Jail," Mike Wiltanger, Olathe senior, said. "Oh, but the Johnson County Jail doesn't give you nillows."
All but one of the men received their permanent assignments yesterday. Yet they seemed almost reluce
See ROOMS, p. 6, col. 3