THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
A LITTLE WARMER
KANSAN
Campus whistle a 64-year blast
Vol.87 No.42
The University of Kansas----Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, October 20, 1976
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New flood report causes tax loss
By CAROL LUMAN
Staff Writer
A good portion of nearly $140,000 in delinquent taxes went down the drain this week when the city received revised flood warnings. The United States Geological Survey (USGS)
The survey substantially decreased the number of developable lots in the Fourth Edition.
Assembly gets by-law revision
A recommendation for the formation of a new College Assembly Committee to discuss policies and educational ideas was made by the Assembly at its monthly meeting, yesterday.
The proposal was part of a report of an ad bac committee on revision of Assemblie by梁惠英.
The new committee, the Committee on Policies and Educational Goals (CPEG), would be an "ideas" committee, Andrew a Professor of Spanish and Porterbones, spiid.
THE COMMITTEE would hold meetings in policy matters that would be open to all members.
"The committee can't pass legislation," Debiki said. "All it can really do is pick up ideas and take them along to the Assembly."
The College Assembly is the governing body of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It comprises all faculty members who attend about 600—and 145 student representatives.
The new committee is designed to be a lesson between the Assembly and the department.
CPEG would meet with the five other committees of the College Assembly at least
THE COMMITTEE'S membership would include nine faculty members serving three-year terms, two graduate students and three undergraduates serving two-year terms, and one representative of each of the other College committees.
A motion to vote on the by-law revisions will probably be made at next month's Assembly meeting, Debicki said. He said a motion might be made for a ballot by mail.
A change in the College by-laws requires a two-thirds majority of those voting.
No recommendations for changes were made by the ad hoc committee on student voting on promotions and tenure recommendations. Now, the by-laws state that student representatives may not vote on promotion and tenure matters.
Debick said that because of a split opinion concerning the committee, the matter would be considered later as a separate item.
Before the new USS information was received, developers of Four Seasons were willing to pay all the delinquent taxes on the undeveloped lots in the PUD.
However, because the number of developable lots was reduced from 135 to 38, the developers told city commissioners last night that they couldn't promise to pay back taxes on any of the lots. They did agree to pay taxes on the choice lots of the 38 remaining, but aren't yet sure of the amount.
DICK ZINN, attorney for the Four Seasons developers, told city commissioners last night that financing was the problem inaving the back taxes.
He said that last week the developers had backers who were willing to pay the delinquent taxes. But their willingness was negative, condition that all 135 lots could be developed.
Because of the reduction in the number of developable lots, that financial backlog has been reduced.
To confuse the issue even more, the commission was told that the information provided by the USGS wasn't final, and the information provided by the geology department fluctuates by as much as 50 feet, either way.
The flood current plain was based on studies made by the USGS that show where waters from Quail Creek might flow if it floods.
A PORTION of the flood plain is considered flood danger area. No structures can be built in that area. However, extending from the flood danger area is a wider plain where flood waters might go. This condition is introduced. That area is called the flood plain.
Structures can be built on the flood plain, but they must be raised to a safe level from water spots. This would mean that land would have to be built up by an average of 10 feet. That would require a Clanathan, director of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department, said. That would also mean that base levels could be built under houses on flood plains.
In addition, filling the land would represent a substantial investment on the part of the developer.
ANOTHER PROBLEM is that, if the land was filled, developers would have to prove to the city that the filling wouldn't endanger nearby property.
Despite all those problems, Four Seasons developers asked that the final plat be approved because it would divide the large development into smaller and more developable lots.
The smaller lots would be better for the developers and the city, Zinn said. Small lots would be easier for the developers to build upon or sell and would also be more desirable when the remaining lots go to the tax sale in January, he said. The city may
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Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Working his first day at the Sanctuary, Kenny Fitzgerald, 1031 Mississippi St., finds out what it's like being on the other side of the bar.
Pushin' drinks
Bartending hurts feet and tests composure
By CHRIS COTTRELL
Patience and durable feet.
Those are two of the most important attributes of any bartender, says Jennifer Bolt, 407 W. 12th St., who tends bar at Herbie's, 708 Massachusetts St.
Apparently, other Lawrence bartenders agree.
A bartender's lot is easily misunderstood; tending bar isn't all fun and games.
"At times it can be very trying," Bolt said recently.
Working in a bar provides an atmosphere different from most jobs, but that doesn't mean you're not going to love it.
"It's a lot more tedious. Bolt said, "But other that that, it's just like any other bed."
Mark Buhler, Lawrence senior and bartender at the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th St., agrees that bartending isn't all it is cracked up to be.
"IT'S A JOB for me, and I take pride in it," bulb her. "Too many people think that working in a bar is just a great time. It's not, believe me."
"I don't think a lot of people respect the fact that it's a job."
And bartending gets tougher as the bar gets busier, Bulber said.
"Just selling beer is the easiest money in the world," he said. "But when this place gets busy, I don't get any."
It's kind of a helpless feeling when there
is 1,500 people in the bar and you've got 10
friends.
BUT BUHLER said that bartending had its advantages. He said that he liked the bar's atmosphere and that it was a good place to meet people.
Mike Seregi, Overland Park senior, bartends at the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St. He's one of the hearty souls who has to dance with the huge crowds that frequent the Hawk.
Sergeli doesn't 'cherish the experience. "I don't like crowds," Sergeli said. "I like to be around a couple of people at once. Being around 200 screaming people doesn't thrill me.
"It isn't something that turns me on, but I can put up with it. I didn't enjoy it, I'd find it uncomfortable."
Seregi, too, emphasized the word "work."
"There are times when you really work with people," he said. "It's not that much different from what we do."
Bruce Collins, Lawrence Stewart, is a bartender at the Brockins. 1401 W. 9th St.
Collins is married, has four children and works during the day as a bookkeeper. His job at the Sanctuary gives him a chance to earn some extra money, be said.
HE SAID that he wanted a part-time job that wouldn't cause him to be away from his family too much, and that weekend bartending filled the bill.
"It gives me about $60 more every two weeks to pay for incident bills and things that are not worth it."
Collins spoke of misconceptions of the typical bartender.
"I always thought it was a really romanticized job," he said. "But 'It's a lot more work than people think. If you're a teacher, you look at are glasses, booze and money."
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"It's like any other job. Sometimes it
fun, though I'm working harder here than
you."
Human guinea pigs paid to try out new drugs
Staff Writer
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
The KU Medical Center recruits human volunteers for a drug study program that tests both marketed drugs and new drugs previously tested only in animals.
The drug study program, about 10 years old, advertises for healthy volunteers who are paid to take drugs as part of research program. These patients also can attend but aren't paid.
A recent advertisement in the Kansan offered $3 a day for males 18 to 45 years old who would volunteer for more than a week of drug experimentation. The drug now being tested is used in foreign countries to treat high blood pressure and heart rhythm approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the United States.
ALL THE openings in that experiment
filled in and a waiting list has been
supplied, but not yet completed.
Daniel Azarnoff, director of clinical
pharmacology and toxicology, said recently that drugs were studied to determine dosage amounts, the added effects of other drugs or the effect of a new drug on humans.
"Nearly all new experimental drugs are tested first in males," Azarnoff said. "We don't want to expose potentially fertile women to a new drug until we have more information on it because of the effect it may have on the fetus."
He said that as far as he knew the experiments didn't affect male virility.
PEOPLE SIMETIMES get sick to the stomach or develop skin rashes, he said, but so far there have been no serious drug effects on volunteers.
Healthy volunteers would never be used to test a new cancer drug, Azarinoff said.
All volunteers are examined before they are approved for the program. The drugs they are given depend on the nature of the experiment.
cancer are given to Med Center patients, be said.
Before they participate, volunteers sign informed consent forms, which explain
"ANYTIME YOU take a drug, there's some risk involved," he said. "All drugs are toxic, or they wouldn't be useful. You just have to weigh the benefits with the risks."
New drugs must be tried out before they can be approved and marketed, he said.
Some of the people volunteer because of the money, Azarnoff said.
Names of volunteers are confidential.
"But we're very determined not to make the money so big that people will do it because we want to. We hope people would do it because we think it's something important for society."
More than 200 people, all more than 18 years old because of legal requirements, participate every year. In some experiments, healthy volunteers stay in a
clinical research center at the Med Center where they can be observed.
EXPERIMENTATION with new drugs often is funded by pharmaceutical companies. Other research funding comes from the National Institutes of Health, such as the National Institutes of Health.
Results of the experiments are published in medical literature and are used by the FDA to determine whether to approve a new drug.
All experiments using nonmarketed drugs are supervised by the FDA. All human experimentation at the Med Center is approved by the Human Ethics Com-
Robert Bolinger, chairman of the committee, said the experiments were reviewed by medical doctors, priests, consumer representatives and psychologists.
"The main idea is to be sure that an experimenter doesn't get carried away with the idea of his experiment. It's just for the protection of his patients," he said.
One time holv roller, addict, now a jazz musician
By GREG BASHAW
Staff Writer
Joe Uterback's winding road through Christianity, a junk habit and a European tour with his jazz trio led to
Just after he'd moved into his small studio on the top noir, he sat wearing shorts and a T-shirt at the Baldwin winery. He laughed as he did.
When Uterback finished, he found "a formal, middle-
aged member of the music faculty" waiting outside his
"Do you really feel that you should be playing that kind of music here?" the white-haired, man asked.
"Well, I play Mozart and other things too," Utterback said in working towards my doctorate in performance, pay me.
Uttackb, a 32-year-old assistant instructor of music, whose boyish, blondish hair and innocent-looking brown eyes belie a life overflowing with experience, is more firmly entrenched in his studio these days.
He sits at the grand piano now topped with a budding plant, empty bottles of Black Tower wine and a Sarah Vaughn album, and offers fruit-flavored Certs and cold coffee from a Snoopy thermos. His knit shirt with a red heart stitched on it is open almost to his belly and a ring of keys, as big as any janitor's, dangles from his belt.
"I CAN'T HELP it if your musical ignorance gets in your way of appreciating fine music," Utterback said, and sauntered off down the hall.
"CLASSICAL MUSICIANS are opening up; they're not as closed as they used to be," he said. "And jazz players have a broader range to work from. They're getting a more sophisticated from the fusion of classical and jazz."
After jamming ice cold for a summer with Ginny Lou, who slyly shipped him beers because he was only 17, Uttback was hooked on night life and tinkered on pianos for as many as 10 hours a day.
From his first humble gigs backing a blues singer named Ginny Loo in Wichita's Gold Chance Saloon, Utterback has developed into a keyboard virtuoso whose artistry is a unique hybrid of classical and jazz styles.
"AT THE SAME time, I was playing for a holler renecked church where I would improvise these soullful songs."
to realize I had extraordinary limitations by not knowing the techniques and styles of classical music."
After he flunked out of a fundamentals of music class at Waltham State, he hitchhiked throughout the country and "whipped" into a band.
"I'm one of those people who has to try everything," he said, so spent much of my timed shedding my early conditioning.
"I went through my trip of wanting to be a star, but soon realized that being famous is completely different from being good."
THE ROAD HAS led him through a broken marriage, a religion and philosophy degree from WSU, a stay in a Zen temple in San Francisco, a stint as host of a Christian TV show, and a study in a witchcraft in a witchcraft conspiracy and an addiction to heroin.
"I kicked drugs three years ago after I dried out in a sanitarium, he said." Besides the hard drugs, I'd done
What remains with Utterback is more than 2,000 books on religion and philosophy stacked in his apartment and
"I STUDED almost every religion of the world and found religion is largely an emotional trip," he said. "You always run into strict dogs, into orthodoxy. I'm more Christian than most geek philosophy, their ideas of universal, brotherly love."
Uttberback had a radio show in Iowa City, Iowa, and a TV show in Wichita. He took his trio to Europe in '68 and '74 and played on the Mike Douglas Show, a gig he now snickers about.
"I went through my trip of wanting to be a star, but soon realized that being famous is completely different from being a philosopher."
He now teaches KU's first jazz piano class, gives private lessons, practices several hours a day, watches orchestral works regularly, and great audiobility of Raymond Bubnack and has a stifling gg Friday night at Paul Gray's Jazz Place.
AT A GIG at Gray's last month, the dark jazz club filled early for Uttacker's performance. Mary Jernigan, Little Rock junior who works at the club, tried to collect the cover choree at the door.
"Half the people who come here say they're Joe's guests," Jermigan said. "I ask everybody for the $1.50 cover and they just say, 'But dear, Joe invited me.' Quite a few of them are eccentric looking middle-aged women."
By 10 p.m., a veil of smoke hung above the full tables; Utermback asked a stout woman singer to the stage and sang her own verse.
"I'll tell you, Joe's got more pare technique than anyone else I've seen," he says. Fujione player for the Cajun City Jazz band, and
MARK PURVIS, bartender and manager of the jazz club, said, "Yeah, and Joe's the best cook in town, too. I had a pile of roast beef at his place that fell apart like a piece of cake when I cut into it with a fork."
On stage, Uttback has turned a soft, flowing solo into a dynamic burst of runs up and down the keyboard that his teacher, Sequencia Costa, classical pianist, nodding his head at a table near the bar.
"Joe has such imagination and fantasy, and such superb fingerprint in the phrasing of lines," Costa said. "Everything comes so naturally and spontaneously for him. He picked up very quickly on all the moods and changes in the woman's song too. A wonderful accompaniment."
ONE OF LAWRENCE's better known jazzmen, Dick Wright, shared Costa's enthusiasm.
Back in his studio in Murphy, Utterback sets up half a roll of Certs as he considers the jazz and classical syn-
"Joe is a very, very fine player who patterners himself a lot after Bill Evans," Wright said. "He's one of those rare individuals who can play jazz without being restricted by his classical training, without being stuff."
"Classical and jazz music are already as unified as they can be without losing their separate identities," he said. "But I do think we are headed fast toward a new musical romanticism. Formalized music is on its way out, part of the move away from technology and all its objectivity. People will hear music and feel it rather than analyze it so much. I can sense it and feel it when I get out and play."
HIS MUSCULAR arms reach down to the keyboard and his fingers roll lightly over keys to demonstrate.
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Joe Utterback staff photo by JAY KOEBZERR