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Thursday, August 29, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Late-night eateries draw student crowds
By Erin Rooney Kansan staff writer
The moon is high and darkness has covered the land. Most of the city is asleep, but a voice penetrates into the night, "Welcome to Taco Bell. May I take your order?"
Several KU students go to late night restaurants after the bars have closed, kegs have run dry at parties or studying has led them into a hunter frenzy.
"You don't want your last memory of the night to be being kicked out of a bar at last call," said Chelsea Kapfer, Lawrence sophomore.
The trend of late-night eating has taken the fast out of fast food.
Lawrence late-night eats
Burrito King, 900 Illinois St., open until 3 a.m.
Java Break, 17 E. 7th St., open 24
Pizza Shuttle, 1601 W. 23rd St.,
*Perkins, 1711 W. 23rd St., open 24 hours.*
Pizza Shuttle, 1601 W. 23rd St., open weeknights until 2 a.m. and weekends until 3 a.m.
Taco Bell, 1408 W. 23rd St., open weeknights until 3 a.m. and weekends until 4 a.m.
Vehicles have to wait in for an hour at drive-thru while waiting lists form at sit-down restaurants.
Burrito King, 900 Illinois St.; Perkins, 1711 W. 23rd St. and Total Mart, 501 W. 9th St., are Kapfer's favorite late-night stops.
Taco Bell, 1220 W. 6th St., open weeknights until 3 a.m. and weekends until 4 a.m.
"It's always fun to sneak airplane-sized bottles of liquor into Perkins," she said. "So as you'e eating your biscuits and gravvy you can also have a little rum and Coke."
Village Inn, 821 Iowa St., open 24 hours
The Taco Bells which are located at 1408 W. 23rd and 1220 W. 6th St, which is open until 4 a.m. on weekends and 3 a.m. during the week are favorite stops for many students. Masoud Jalali, a Taco Bell manager, said that sometimes things became a little crazy during the wee hours of the morning. "Our main problem seems to be when customers place their order," he said. "If they've had a few drinks it's hard to understand them and what they order isn't really what they wanted."
But incorrect orders aren't the only thing late-night Taco Bell employees have had to deal with.
A few months ago a small fight broke out in the Taco Bell parking lot on 23rd Street. A police officer stopped. The fight wasn't enough for the officer to take any action, but he did scare a driver in the drive-thru, Jalali said.
The driver has ordered his food and was pretty close to the pick-up window when, after spotting the police officer, he got out of his car and just walked off.
Jalali said he had not found out what happened to the driver but assumed the driver was afraid of getting a ticket for drunk driving.
Nadine Peaches, a manager at Perkins, said that she had seen her share of drunk customers.
"Once there was a guy who was so drunk he sat at the wrong table and ate with the wrong people." she said.
Peaches said drunk customers became a problem when they tried to sneak out without paying their bills. Perkins now prosecutes every violator because of this problem.
Jeremy Jersvig gives a customer his order at Taco Bell, 1408 23rd Street. Taco Bell is open until 4 a.m. on weekends.
Task force highlights problem of worn out, mutilated library books
By Kimberly Crabtree
Kansan staff writer
Highlighting in a library book may make studying easier for students, but it makes keeping library collections in usable condition more difficult for library staff.
A study by the Preservation Task Force found that nearly half of the books in the KU libraries that have been circulated six or more times in the last 10 years have been mutilated in some way. The study, released this summer, identified pencil, ink and highlighter marks, as well as remaining paper clips, bookmarks and dog-eared pages as forms of damage.
The task force recommended educating staff and patrons about the problem.
members and patrons about the problem.
"That's the most important thing we can do."
said Bair Bian, preservation librarian and chairman of the task force.
A display in Watson Library illustrates the problem, and pamphlets and fliers that offer tips for using materials are available.
"I think it's just a long, gradual process." Baird said.
A coordinating committee of faculty members plans to discuss the problem soon to decide how to educate staff members and library users, he said.
The task force also recommended hiring a conservator and building a conservation laboratory to help restore old materials. Baird said he expected a full-time conservator to be hired by mid-September and the lab to be built within six months.
Laboratory drawings are completed. Baird
"I've had books that are trashed. Sometimes they're very highlighted."
Nathan Richardson
Nathan Richardson
Fountain Valley, Calif., graduate student
said, and staff members are working on getting a contractor bid to build it, which is planned to be housed in Watson.
The task force also suggested increasing preservation financing from $318,000 to $530,000 a year. Preservation financing includes repairing damaged books, binding books and reformatting materials.
Baird said outside fundraising would likely
be a source for the additional money.
But librarians must preserve the collection while still keeping it accessible to users, he said.
William Crowe, vice chancellor for information services and dean of libraries, agreed.
"We want all comers to have maximum access to information, so what you read today will be open and interpretable 50 years from now when
it's the only conv." Crowe said.
Students, however, usually aren't surprised to find pencil or ink markings in library books.
Nathan Richardson, Fountain Valley, Calif. graduate student, said most library books he found were marked in.
"I'm reading one right now," Richardson said. "I've had books that are trashed. Sometimes they're very highlighted."
Shannon Adamson, Bonner Springs senior, said damaged library books bothered her.
"It's very distracting trying to read a book that has blue and pink highlighter or pen marks all over it," she said. "Books are expensive, and it's not fair to other users."
Although many materials were mutilated, Baird said he did not believe much of the damage was malicious.
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