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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, August 24, 1998
Entrance policy requires KUID
By Augustus Anthony Plozza
Koanan抄 writer
Bleachers will be presenting an intoxicating week of entertainment beginning today, but because of an entrance policy used by the bar, some non-University of Kansas students may not be able to take part in the festivities.
Kansan staff writer
The purpose of the event, called "Around The World Week," is to welcome back KU students and to promote the grand opening of Tailgaters, the new restaurant located in the same building as Bleachers, 804 W. 24th St. Each night has a theme based on a different part of the world.
The night club will continue to use a bar policy that went into effect last January, which requires students between the ages of 18 and 23 to present a KUID at the door or be the guest of a friend who has a KUID. Other college IDs are accepted only on game days from the school Kansas is playing. The policy is only for the night club and not for the new restaurant.
"We are the students' bar, voted best night club in town last year, so we want to keep it the students' bar," said Dannie Thompson, owner of Bleachers and Tailgaters.
Thompson said that he had learned from many years of being in the bar business that many people who cause trouble at bars are from out of
"When you're from out of town, you think you can get away with anything you want," he said. "Most KU students who come to the bar respect the bar because they know that it is the place they will come to week after week."
town.
Thompson also said that the policy would be used to verify a persons driver's license by double checking it with the KUD.
The policy excludes any Haskell Indian Nations University students who want to go to the bar but do not have a friend who has a KUID.
Some students from Haskell said they thought that they were being discriminated against after they learned about the policy.
"I think it's a bunch of B.S." Jayson Pinn, Haskell student said. "Why are they letting KU people in and not Haskell? We're all the same people."
Other Haskell students said they did not care about the policy because Bleachers is a bar that they seldom visit.
Jimmy Mitchell, Haskell student, said that he was not old enough to consume alcohol, but if he found out that it was a fun bar he would like to have the opportunity to go.
Those who have access to a KUID will be privileged to a week's worth of nighttime entertainment consisting of music, food and drink specials, and prizes that follow each nightly theme.
Around the World Week
When: Aug. 24th thru 29th
Where: Bleachers, 804 W.
24th St.
Thompson said he wanted to keep many of the games and prizes a secret because he wanted the students to be surprised.
Thompson said he intended to start a tradition and have this event each year during the first full week of school.
"People will go to class, but won't have as much studying to do," he said. "We think people will come out every night."
Check forgeries increasing this year
By Keith Burner Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Every year, KU students give banks headaches by misusing their checking accounts. But this year, it's not just college students who are causing the problems.
Forgers are getting better and more successful at what they do, said area bank executives.
That, coupled with a recent forgery scam that caused the Douglas County Bank to lose thousands of dollars, has prompted bank officials to look into thumb printing of noncustomers and other safety measures that could prevent such losses.
Between July 4 and Aug. 14 an unknown person wrote six checks, totaling $7,897, drawing from the
checking account of the Lawrence business Camera America, said Lawrence Police Sgt. George Wheeler.
The checks were forgeries that police and bank officials said they thought were made using a photocopier or computer.
"The sophistication is out there to produce good images of checks, and I think the time has come to maybe look into thumb printing." said Patrick Slabaugh, Douglas County Bank executive vice-president.
The procedure requires noncustomers to give their thumb prints when cashing a check, so that if the check turns out to be stolen or fraudulent, authorities will have positive identification of the person who presented it to the bank.
And thumb printing works, said Tricia Boyd, employee of Mercantile Bank, one of the few Lawrence banks to implement thumb printing.
"Basically, thumb prints are unique
to you," Boyd said. "They're nearly impossible to falsify, and we hope to deter people from even trying."
The yearly loss to forgery for Douglas County Bank has been fairly insignificant, Slabaugh said, but there has been an increase in forgeries this year.
Since it implemented thumb printing on June 8 of this year, Mercantile Bank has seen less forgery attempts, Bovd said.
Douglas County Bank is currently setting up a task force to see what can be done to reduce the amount of successful forgeries, Slabaugh said.
Slabaugh said that some of the things the task force would be looking into were ncn-customer check-cashing procedures, different training techniques for tellers, and more stringent identification requirements.
Thumb prints and multiple forms of identification may soon be required to cash a check at the Douglas County
Bank. Slabaugh said.
Although thumb printing does make identification easier, it does have some disadvantages.
One disadvantage is the cost of implementation, Boyd said.
Even though check forgery keeps getting easier, bank executives said it was still far more simple for a thief to steal valid checks and use those.
Early this month 24 checks were stolen from The Yellow House Variety Store, 1904 Massachusetts St., Lawrence police said.
Those checks were written for several thousand dollars at local businesses on Massachusetts Street, police said.
In this case there are two suspects both former female employees, police said.
Local banks warn customers to take care of their checks and bank receipts. All a forger needs is your account number and a good computer to steal your money, police said.
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6:30-8:30 p.m.
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Cost is $10 per person and free for children under 12 years.A t-shirt and refreshments will be provided.
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