University Daily Kansan, October 18, 1982
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Fans use the hill for bleachers
By JEANNE FOY Staff Reporter
As people began to fill the bleachers in Memorial Stadium to watch Saturday's football game, another group of fans arrived. They pointed to the grassy slope below the Campanile.
Students basked in the autumn sun with their friends and drank beer.
The hill resembled a huge picnic area as families and students spread out multi-colored blankets and turned on radios. Styrofoam coolers dotted the hill, and a few people even brought charcoal grills and kegs of beer.
with their friends and drank beer.
A regular feature on the hill during a home football game is John Schneider,
also known as the Tan Man, wheeling his blue bike over the hill and pausing to talk to friends.
I LIKE TO sit on the hill and get some beer and some sun." Schneider said. "You get sun here and can take your shirt off here."
Another KU football fan also said he
on the hill because he liked the alma
"You can sit on the hill and do whatever you want, as long as you don't break your leg."
you," said Ronnie Kelly, Kansas City, Kan.
"You couldn't cook a hamburger in the stadium," said Kelly as he plopped another hamburger patty onto his barbecue grill.
Facilities operations employees ask at every home game that all those with barbecue grills please dump the coals in a barrel near the Campanile.
GENE KNOX and his family came from Hutchinson to go to the Baldwin Maple Leaf Festival and then decided to stay in New York, come from the grassy comfort of the hill.
"It's a traditional thing, sitting on the hill," Knox said.
"And you don't have to pay, especially on a day like this," he said, pointing to the blue sky, bright sun and the brilliant foliage of the trees.
Stuart DeSelms, a Tulsa, Okla., sophomore, said he sat on the hill for every home game and said he was attracted by the drinks.
"I've been in the stadium. It's really crowded and you can't have a drink. If they sold beer, I'd probably buy a ticket," he said.
RICHARD KONZEM, assistant Williams Fund director, would like to see DeSalms and others like him inside Memorial Stadium.
"As long as the stadium isn't full, we want them inside the stadium, but we can't do anything about it," he said.
Sitting on the hill is a long-standing tradition, he said, and even if KU's football team became very successful and people filled the stadium, the overflow crowd would still be sitting on the
Konzem said that during a Kansas State University or Nebraska game, the crowd on the hill grew even larger but not enough tickets were available.
For Jon Lanaghan, a Belleville, Ill., freshman, watching the game from the sidelines.
SITTING IN a director's chair next to a keg of beer, Lanaghan said his brother brought him to watch games and he was amazed at how and he was continuing that tradition.
"I just come up and sit down.
Everyone around is friendly. I meet a
boy in the garden."
People do not hesitate to come over to someone with a radio to ask what the score of the game is, and the hill they are standing on will stretch out and take a man if they want.
Penny Doranski, whose husband attended his high school she said appreciated that emphasis.
Many fans choose to watch football games from the hill below the Campanile, where they can bring their own food and drink, instead of from the stadium.
Alcohol education aim of new KU group
By KIESA ASCUE
Staff Reporter
A new group at the University of Kansas wants to eliminate student ignorance about alcohol, its consultant said yesterday.
BACCHUS, an acronym for Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students, sponsored a workshop for KU students yesterday. About 35 people attended the series of discussions.
"We are not anti-alcohol. People are going to drink on campus whether they're of age or not," said Beverly Hale, chapter consultant for BACCHUS Inc. "We are concerned with creating a safe environment of alcohol on the mind and body."
THE ORGANIZATION, which has 71
chapters nationwide, was started at KU this semester to provide facts about drinking to students.
Leroy McDermott, director of the Douglas County Drug Abuse Council, said a recent survey of 96 students by the University of Oregon were ignorant of the effects of alcohol.
"We don't believe in introducing Drinking 101 as a class for freshmen, but information should be available." Hale said.
Of the students polled, 60 percent did not know that the limit of alcohol allowed in the bloodstream before a breath is legally intoxicated is 1. percent.
MdCermott said 75 percent of the students were unable to say how many drinks they could guzzle in an hour before their bloodstream contained .1
percent alcohol. For most students, one drink would do it.
STUDENTS ARE ignorant of the penalties for drunkenness, too, McDermott said. Seventy percent of them did not know that they could face two charges against their blood alcohol content exceeded the legal limit when they were driving.
Each year, 1,000 KU students need treatment for alcoholism. DermCderm
BACCHUS began at the University of Florida in 1976 to reach students before they developed heavy drinking habits. Hale said.
BARB TIMMONS, representative from Shawnee Mission Alcohol Education, said, "It's really ironic to do philanthropies by getting the KU population drunk, but that's what they do — drink and maybe have a band."
Local bars sometimes perpetuate alcohol use and abuse by offering no food or non-alcoholic beverages. Teresa Hoff, member of BACCHUS, said.
Hale said, "We want to give people a choice. Given the choice, people who haven't learned to like the taste of beer will choose a soft drink."
HOFF SURVEYED four local bars with other members of BACHUJ recently, and only one bar consistently checked identification cards. There were in view at many of the bars so patrons could not time their drinking, she said.
Students have been known to exert pressure on friends to persuade them to drink. Hale said. The same type of influence could be used by members of a club, for example, people that they do not have to drink to enjoy social activities, she said.
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