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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Brown Bear wakes from hibernation
City Commission grants new license
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By Katie Hollar
sy Katie Hollar
Kansan staff writer
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The Brown Bear is back.
The Brown Bear is a bear.
After three weeks of negotiations and paltry peanut policies, the Brown Bear Brewing Co., 729 Massachusetts St., has been cleared to reopen. Last night, the Lawrence City Commission voted 5-0 to reinstate the brewery's license.
The license expired Aug. 20 and was not renewed when it was discovered that the brewery was not in compliance with the city's C-3 zoning regulation.
The regulation, passed by the commission in 1994, mandates that new drinking establishments in the downtown area make at least 55 percent of their gross receipts from food sales. The brewery is one of 11 businesses under the jurisdiction of the ordinance;
previously established businesses are exempt from this requirement.
The commission heard from a representative of the brewery and from several Brown Bear supporters.
Daniel D. Covington, attorney for the Brown Bear, presented the commission with a four-page business strategy to comply with the code.
three main initiatives are discussed in the plan: adjusting the menu, expanding kitchen hours and targeting food sales in advertising. In addition, the Brown Bear owners will track food and beverage sales monthly, retain a professional consultant and present Mike Wildgen, city manager, with quarterly progress reports.
Covington acknowledged that the brewery owners had made rookie mistakes.
"I don't think we've shown proper respect to the city and their ordinances," he said.
Timothy Burger, vice-chair of KU College Republicans, presented the commission with a petition backing the Brown Bear. KU College Republicans
collected 727 signatures in front of Wescow Hall last week.
"We should all work toward making sure this place stays in business," Burger said.
Michelle Miller, a Lawrence resident and regular patron of the Brown Bear, also spoke on the brewery's behalf.
"The Brown Bear is an up-and-coming establishment that should be supported by the city, rather than to be forced out of business by the application of a vague and questionable city ordinance." Miller said.
A short-lived and discarded plan to sell peanuts with every beer was not discussed. Owners had planned to claim that 55 cents of every dollar went toward the peanuts—thus, 55 percent in food sales.
"I'm really glad the word 'peanuts' has not come up," said Commissioner David Dunfield.
Commissioner Marty Kennedy motioned to renew the brewery's license. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Jim Henry and was accepted in an unanimous vote.
Before the vote, Mayor Erv Hodges issued a warning to the Brown Bear's proprietors.
"You are a brewery, but you have to be an eating establishment, too." Hodges said. "If you don't meet that, you will fail."
Although the liquor license was reinstated, another obstacle remains. In order to retain its sidewalk dining license, the Brown Bear must make 70 percent of its receipts from food sales: a formidable task when 55 percent was not met.
"We're fully capable of meeting 55 percent," Covington said. "We're actually going to be shooting for 70 percent."
A hearing on the revocation of the sidewalk dining license will occur at the Sept. 14 commission meeting.
Brown Bear co-owners Shawn Schlegel and Ryan Rodenburg said they were relieved at the Commission's decision, but a lot of work was still ahead.
"We can't be shut for 21 days and just come back," Schlegel said.
come back, Schinger said.
Rodenburg was more optimistic.
"We'll be open Thursday," he said. "I'm confident of that."
Gifted and talented
(left) Reverend Cheese, also known as Barry Barnes, Lawrence, preaches to the crowd during E.M.U. Theatre's (No-) Talent Anniversary Show at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. (top) Kari Jackson, St. Louis, Mo., senior, and Amy McCarville, Hutchinson senior, perform as part of the country-western group "The Roundups." E.M.U. Theatre group, whose initials stand for nothing in particular but merely reflect the groups irreverent outlook, began in the summer of 1998 and produce work by local writers and actors. Photos by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Scholarship Hall parking in Blake lot revoked
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By Michael Terry
By Michael Terry
Watkins and Miller Scholarship Halls were notified yesterday in a meeting with the KU Department of Student Housing that the Blake Hall parking permits they received at the start of the year would have to be returned.
would have to Nicole Kirby, Lansing senior and Watkins proctor, said she learned at 4 p.m. Tuesday that the 12 parking permits sold to both scholarship halls would be revoked. She said Zora Mulligan, Watkins Hall director and West Plains, Mo., graduate student had informed hall residents in a letter after attending the meeting.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services, said that the problems started when the department received a call Friday from a professor at Blake Hall who said he was upset with the parking situation in KU lot 15 behind the building.
"Don Kearns, the parking director, has been looking into the situation all day, but as far as I know no decision has been made on what to do," Hultine said. "Originally, we thought allotment of the 12 spaces to the two scholarship halls
"Neither the parking or housing departments told us that they had any plans to take away our permits," Kirby said. "We paid $150 for each parking permit, and we don't think it's right for them to try to take them away."
wouldn't be a problem, but Blake Hall's construction has put an added pressure on the parking lot."
Kirby said that last semester some students who lived at Miller Scholarship Hall kept a daily journal of how many parking spaces were empty. After they gathered the information, they presented it to the parking department. After gathering its own numbers, the department concluded that giving the 12 spaces to the scholarship halls was a good idea, she said.
Hultine said the intent behind the 12 parking spaces was good and was meant to help out the scholarship hall students, and that the problems the parking lot was facing now were unforeseen.
"It's not just like we're losing a closer
place to park, but it is also safety issue," Kirby said. "A lot of the residents don't like to walk up from the scholarship hall parking lots because they don't feel safe, and now we won't have a choice."
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said that he was not aware of the scholarship halls having to give up their parking spaces, but he said he would look into the matter.
Kirby said no date had been specified by the housing department for when the parking permits would have to be returned.
"I'm not really sure what our next move is going to be, but I think were planning to visit the legal aid services at KU and see if they can really take away permits that we already own," Kirby said.
By Chris Borniger
Dole Institute examines NATO in conferences
By Chris Borniger
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Kansas' role in international politics and economics will be one of many topics of discussion this weekend at the latest symposium sponsored by the Dole Institute.
Burdett Loomis, interim director of the Dole Institute and professor of political science, said the primary goal of the conference was to address NATO's history and development.
NATO: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," a three-day conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, will feature present and former NATO administrators, business representatives as well as professors from universities around the nation.
"Although we're marking the 50th anniversary, in many ways we're looking forward to NATO's role in the future and how we, in the middle of the country, can relate to that development," he said.
The symposium will end Saturday at Johnson County Community College.
On Friday the conference will be at the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The topic will be "NATO: Security and the New Europe."
one conference, organized at a cost of $45,000 from various academic departments at the University of Kansas, convenes tomorrow at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. The focus will be Ukraine's relationship with NATO.
"We obviously live in an integrated global economy, and it's important to understand the challenges we face and the opportunities that exist." Ranson said. "Hopefully we can come away realizing that whether you're in Kansas or Kiev, there are goals we share."
Charles Ranson is president of Kansas Inc., a Topeka-based economic research institution, which is co-sponsoring the conference. He said he supported the conference because of international factors that affected Kansas economics.
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scott Valler, technology coordinator for the Kansan, said the power outage initially affected a small number of computers used to produce the newspaper. A University facilities and operations crew, concerned about overloading the building's other transformers, shut off all power shortly after 5:30 p.m.
A broken transformer in the basement of Stauffer-Flint Hall plunged the University Daily Kansan newsroom and the entire building into darkness for nearly three hours Tuesday night.
"The question is because there's some damage, can we turn it on without doing any more damage?" Valler said.
Darkness doesn't stop newspaper's daily production
By Clay McCuistion writer @kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The power was partially restored at 8:20 p.m.
The power was partially restored at 8:20 p.m. "They are going out of their way to help us get the newspaper out," said Tom Eblen, general manager of the Kansan.
The staff was given about four hours to complete work on today's Kansan. During that time, the facilities and operations crew, led by Randy Samuels, worked on moving a new transformer into Stauffer-Flint.
"I have complete faith in our staff working through this adversity," said Kansan editor Julie Wood.
The transformer couldn't be hooked up until work on the paper finished in the early morning hours.
"The building's probably going to be dead at 7 a.m." Valler said. "Even if people come in for classes, there won't be air conditioning."
Valler predicted power could be returned by 10 a.m.
Gary Weishaar, assistant director of engineering for facilities and operations, said the six transformers in the Stauffer-Flint basement were probably installed in the early 1960s.
Wishhaar said the nearly 40-year-old single-phase transformer most likely blew because of its age.
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