8A the university daily kansan
tuesday, september 16, 2003
Night employees juggle jobs, books
By Steve Schmidt
sschmidt@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Every Tuesday night Buffalo Wild Wings, 1012 Massachusetts St., employees leave for home after working during the restaurant's popular "Wing Night" from 6 p.m. to a little after 2 a.m.
Clark Wildenradt, Wild Wings employee, hates Wednesday mornings.
He gets home only to work two more hours on school projects that are due for his industrial design class at 8:30 a.m., giving him about three hours of sleep if he is lucky.
"That's a rough morning," the Chicago senior said.
Wildenradt is a full-time student at the University of Kansas, constantly juggling school, studying and late-night jobs while trying to find room for sleep.
Wildenreich started working at the restaurant in June 2002. He's taking 12 hours this semester and averaging 25 hours at work with about six hours per day of studio time.
"Everything's just way more organized and less spontaneous," he said. "But you get used to it after doing it for so long."
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Jamie Simpson, Columbus senior, carried drinks to a waiting customer at The Wheel, 507 W.14th, last week. Simpson, who usually works two days a week from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., said that work did not conflict with school.
Wildenradt said he considered work an undesirable necessity for school.
"They kind of play off each other I guess, because work is paying for school," Wildenradt said. "School will hopefully get me out of the job I'm in now."
Kevin Roche, Chicago senior works about 20 hours a week as a bartender and bouncer at It's Brother's Bar and Grill, 1105 Massachusetts St., while taking 12 hours this semester.
hours this scooler.
His shift ends about 4 a.m.
His shift ends about 4 a.m.
Roche said the trick to working late night was working on school assignments at least two day ahead of time and scheduling later classes when possible. Last year, he had a 9:30 a.m. discussion class on Fridays.
"I had to set three alarms around my room in 20-minute intervals just to get up." Roche said.
Frank DeSalvo, director of KU counseling and psychological services, recommended that students get at least six to eight hours a night to function.
"It's certainly best to get it all in one chunk." DeSalvo said.
DeSalvo said the body could learn to adjust to different sleep cycles within weeks as long as it gets sleep.
Chris Scolari, Boulder, Colo., senior, has worked at Jack Flanigan's Bar and Grill, 806 W. 24th St., since February 2001. Hetakes 16 credit hours of class. Scolari's Thursday-night shift ends about 3 a.m.
"I can't take class on Friday." Scolari said. "I won't make it there."
While the nocturnal workers are glad to receive their pay-checks, they said it came at a price.
"Working two days on the weekend," Scolari said. "Your social life suffers. You have to be ready for a lot less time, but it's the best way to make money."
—Edited by Joey Berlin
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Lawrence resident Scott Edwards, Jesse Nelson, Eric Johnson and St. Thomas Virgin Island resident Aaron Hensley enjoyed beers out on the front porch of Free State Brewing Company last night. The front porch of is a popular meeting place for friends to congregate.
Boos for new price of brews
Students, Lawrence residents upset over Free State's Monday price increase
By Kevin Kampwirth
Kansan staff writer
Fifty cents.
Quarters, dimes, nickels or pennies, no matter how it's broken up, it's still just 50 cents. And it has many people upset.
Free State Brewing Company 636 Massachusetts St, has been a popular Monday night hangout for many Lawrence residents and University of Kansas students for close to seven years because of its $1.25 beer special.
Free State raised the Monday special price to $1.75 about a month ago, which angered many of Free State's Monday regulars.
to Mondays because you could come here and get pretty drunk for $10," said Luke Ditto, Harrington junior. "That's not the case anymore."
"I used to really look forward
Chuck Magerl, Free State owner since 1988, said the brewing company started the Monday beer special as a tie-in with Monday Night Football.
"Right after we began the special, it started to become apparent that people were coming for the beer and not for football," Magerl said. "So we just kind of phased that part of it out."
As popularity increased, so did costs. Magerl said that production and brewing costs of the beer increased by as much as 60 percent over the course of a few years, so prices went up.
Weekends have always been crowded with people out of town, so the Monday special became a way to thank all of the Free State regulars, Magerl said.
David Hotchkiss, Prairie Village senior, and Noah Rodenbeek, Lawrence resident, said they went at least one Monday a month to Free State for the special.
"I guess they did what they had to do," Hotchkiss said. "But we're probably not going to stick around as long as we used to. There's places in town with better deals now."
Although there was some customer backlash at first, Mageri said people seemed to adjust to the new prices, and Monday
business has not been affected.
"We still maintain a very popular Monday night event here," Magerl said. "The fact hasn't changed that we still sell a really good product for a really good price."
Free State now offers four out of its seven microbrews for $1.75 on Monday nights.
Despite Ditto's dismay over the increase in prices, he said he will continue to go to Free State on Mondays.
"It's great with the porch and all the people and it has great beer," Ditto said. "The atmosphere is probably the best in town."
—Edited by Scott Christie
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