THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 2011
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SEE POWER FROM 1
we switched while she showered. And this was right after we watched American Horror Story."
Anita Eichmann, a junior from Essen, Germany, was practicing the piano when the lights went out.
"I was really shocked," she said.
"I used my phone to light my way upstairs."
In Templin Hall, Lewis Hall, Hashinger Hall, Ellsworth Hall and McCollum Hall, students gathered in hallways and stairwells, where emergency lights were still on. They swapped stories and played cards, wondering about the cause of the power outage. Some students in Hashinger took their musical instruments to the lobby for an acoustic jam session.
"I was studying in the Templin study room and the lights
flickered and I was like "I don't like this,"" Dante Mesa, a freshman from Darden City, said, as friends laughed around him.
"I played a prank on Dante," Lia Palazzo, a freshman from Denver, said. "It was the perfect
"I was studying in the Templin study room and the lights flickered and I was like, I don't like this.'"
DANTE MESA
A freshman from Garden City
time. I got down on the floor and the second I see his ankles I grab them and he screamed and jumped three feet in the air."
While some students made a social event of the outage, it was inconvenient for others.
Macy Colson, a sophomore from Wichita, saw her homework go up in digital smoke.
"I was working on two excel spreadsheets for my 9 a.m. accounting class when the power went out and I didn't save them," Colson said. "Now I have to go to the library tomorrow morning because I'll still need to print it."
Lauren Brown, a junior from Lenexa, was visiting a friend at Chi Omega Wednesday evening. She went home after the outage.
"Now I'm back at Gamma Phi Beta and we're all sitting here, still trying to decide what to do," Brown said. "Which will most likely be Taco Bell."
As of press time, 12:45 a.m. power was still in the process of being restored to the residence halls and West Campus Road.
Jessie Blakeborough and Claire McInerny contributed reporting.
CAMPUS
KU recycling sorts all bins regardless of bin labeling
BRITTANY CLAMPITT bclampitt@kansan.com
The various bins dotting campus contain the usual recyclables: office pak, cardboard, newspaper, aluminum and plastic. Even if these materials are sorted and separated into their designated receptacles, a considerable amount of waste still needs disposal and could be recycled.
KU Recycling, which is responsible for the bins on campus, will accept different recyclable items in those bins in addition to those for which the bins are labeled.
"We sort everything as it is. It makes our lives easier if stuff is presorted," said Aileen Dingus, the program coordinator for the Environmental Stewardship Program, in a phone interview. "But if you have something kind of random, like bubble wrap, you can put it in the office pack — a
regular paper bin — we will pull that out anwav."
In addition to bubble wrap, Dingus said packing peanuts, hard and soft covered books, magazines, spiral bound notebooks and ink cartridges are acceptable receivables.
According to the KU Recycling website, the program has set up bins topped with green lids for used cartridges and toner in the on-campus residence and university buildings. In a partnership with Cartridge King of Kansas, which handles the used cartridges, KU Recycling is working to make this type of recycling more accessible to students.
Students who live off campus have recycling options through the University as well. A recycling trailer is available at the west Park and Ride Lot off Clinton Parkway and Crestline Drive. The trailer accepts the same items as the on-
campus bins.
For items that need special disposal, but cannot be thrown in the trash or easily recycled, the City of Lawrence Waste Reduction and Recycling offers waste disposal. These include everything from rechargeable batteries, household chemicals and fluorescent light bulbs.
Tom Hogan, waste reduction and recycling specialist for Lawrence Public Works said the recycling services are available to all Douglas County residents. Disposal is arranged by calling the Waste Reduction and Recycling Division at 785-832-3030. The address for the drop-off location is given upon appointment.
For more information about University and the city of Lawrence recycling programs, go to www.recycle.ku.edu and www.lawrenceks.com/wrr.
- Edited by Mike Lavieri
MUSIC
Nirvana 'live' (in 1991)
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
Kurt Cobain walks up to the microphone, mumbles a few words and then begins playing a cover of a Vaselines song. Drummer Dave Grohl beats on the drums and whips his hair while bassist Krist Novoselic jumps around the stage barefoot. The crowd screams for Nirvana, which had recently released Nevermind and started its journey toward stardom.
It's a scene from the opening of the concert film "Nirvana: Live at the Paramount," screened last night at the Kansas Union, but it probably bears a striking resemblance to the performance the band gave in the Kansas Union Ballroom on Oct. 17, 1991, less than two weeks before the film was shot.
Brad Roosa, a KU alumnus and the Student Union Activities live music chair in 1991, heard an advanced copy of Nirvana's breakout album, Vermerkm, on a trip to Los Angeles and became obsessed with bringing the band to the University of Kansas.
SUA handed out a commemorative Nirvana poster made to look like the original promotional poster from 1991.
"There was no basis and logic for booking them at the ballroom and spending this money," Roosa said, but he eventually convinced both SUA and the band's manager that the show was a good idea.
CONTRIBUTED BY SUA
At the time, Nirvana was still a fledgling alternative band touring in a beat-up van, but that was about to change with the release of Nevermind.
"Everything was changing in music," Roosa said. "They were literally rewiring history books with this record."
"I remember they got up there and the place just went nuts," he said. "You could feel the floor giving, moving from people poguing just jumping up and down," he added.
Nirvana's sudden popularity coincided with their gig at the Union. Roosa recalls people trying to sneak backstage and into the sold-out show through hallways and road cases. The show itself was low key with very little banter or production; Cobain and company simply played song after song for 65 to 75 minutes, Roosa said.
More than 20 years later, Nirvana still has a big following at the University, even if not all the fans were born when the band played.
"I really love Nirvana and the grunge music scene," said Nathankiel Abeita, a freshman from Hiawata who wasn't born until 1992. Abeita said that he couldn't believe the iconic band had played at the Union and wondered if his dad, the person who introduced him to Nirvana's music, saw them play at that show.
Nirvana also played at the Bottleneck and the Outhouse before it became a strip club.
Andrea Acosta, a sophomore
from Paraguay, South America, was drawn to the screening primarily to get one of the commemorative posters that SUA handed out, which were made to look like the 1991 posters used to promote the show. But seeing one of her favorite bands play on a big screen was also appealing.
"This is like a dream come true. It's the closest to an actual concert of Nirvana." Acosta said.
But for Roosa, nothing can match the experience of seeing the band at such a pivotal point in its career.
"It was lightning in a bottle," he said.
- Edited by Sarah McCabe