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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 12, 1995
Lawrence churches help homeless
Edmee Rodriguez / KANSAN
Sen. Sandy Preager, R-Lawrence, spoke to 10 people last night at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center about helping the homeless in Lawrence.
By Hannah Naughton
Kansan staff writer
An effort to raise money for the expansion of a Lawrence homeless drop-in center began last night at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center.
State Sen. Sandy Praeger, R-Lawrence, spoke to 10 people last night at the Catholic center, 1631 Crescent Rd., about the difficulties of caring for the homeless in Lawrence. She said the city needed to work on several areas to improve the availability of resources to homeless individuals, including affordable housing and health care.
Lani Oglesby, director of the drop-in center, said the board of advisers for the homeless center needed to raise $20,000 before it could install men's and women's shower facilities and laundry facilities.
"People want to be clean," Ogliesby said. "It's necessary if you want to apply for a job and for your health and self-esteem."
This was the first of three scheduled speakers intended to raise donations for the center at Second Christian Church, 1245 Connecticut St. Tickets were given to 11 Lawrence churches to sell to members of their congregations for $10 donations. Ozlesbv said.
"It was started as a community effort," said Patk Eklund, drop-in center volunteer. "There has been help
from several churches."
Audience members heard about the benefit through these churches, said Jenny Bagby, outreach minister for the Catholic center.
She said the Catholic center was involved because it was part of the community and was interested in helping.
"Hopefully, once the drop-in center is finished, we'll be able to provide student volunteers through our Human Services committee," Bagby said.
The drop-in center opened last March and is open from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday. The drop-in center provides food, telephone services for people who need to give a phone number when applying for a job and free counseling by Forrest Swall, a retired psychology professor.
The opening of the center hinges on the fund raising, Eklund said. Lawrence community churches that helped establish the drop-in center organized the three speaker programs to raise donations.
"We're aiming to open the new shower and laundry facilities by Thanksgiving," she said.
State Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, is scheduled to speak Monday at the Catholic center, and Swall is scheduled to speak Sept. 25.
Electricity on campus to be shut off
Kansan staff report
Facilities operations will shut off electrical power in about 35 academic buildings at the University of Kansas starting at 11:59 tonight.
All campus buildings east of, and including, Malott, Wescoe and Strong halls, will have power individually shut off until 6 a.m. tomorrow. Only the older section of Haworth Hall will have its electricity shut off. The power outage will not affect buildings on Sunnyside Avenue.
The power shutdown is part of a multi-month effort by Facilities Operations to improve electrical connections on campus and repair damage, said Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations.
He said the first problem was Haworth's broken transformer — a device that transfers electricity from one circuit to another. The transformer had been broken since mid-July, and the cause of the damage never was discovered, Richardson said. In turn, the broken transformer related power to a capacitor bank — a device that stores power to even out the University's power usage — and broke the device as well.
The transformer has been replaced, and power needs to be shut down to complete repairs on the capacitor.
Anyone possessing computers should turn off and unplug them in case the outage causes a power surge, said Bob Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance for facilities operations. Other electrical devices should be turned off also.
Clothing will be only option starting Thursday at NiteOwls
Club may feature lingerie, nudity nights for couples to attract different crowd
By Scott Worthington Kansan staff writer
NiteOwls, Lawrence's first clothing-optional establishment, is making patrons put their clothes back on.
Jeff Wallace, NiteOwls owner, said yesterday that he had decided to make the club clothing-mandatory because he was not pleased with the type of crowd the club had attracted. The new policy will begin Thursday at 1 a.m.
"It didn't turn out as I envisioned it," Wallace said. "There were a lot of sick people in there."
Wallace said he disapproved of only 5 percent of his patrons, but said they ruined it for everyone.
"A lot of people were coming in to be exhibitionists, scaring off the decent person," Wallace said. "We started attracting an underground crowd from Kansas City, a lot of nerves."
Wallace said many of the patrons were at least 40 years old and male.
"A lot of people were coming in to be exhibitionists, scaring off the decent people."
Jeff Wallace
Owner, NiteOwls
landlord, Plaza Properties, Ltd.
the lawsuit allege that Wallace owes $2,000 rent and has breached the lease by making the club clothing-optional and not providing proof of liability insurance.
"They would sit on bar stools with their legs spread so everyone had to see them," Wallace said.
"I'm not anti-gay," Wallace said.
"But we had a few gays, and that's not the type of business I wanted to run."
He said the bar also had begun to attract homosexuals.
Wallace said the suits did not contribute to the change and that the claims were erroneous.
Rex Redlingshafer, attorney for Plaza Properties, Ltd., said he had not been informed of the change. He said he could not speculate whether the change would have any bearing on the suit.
The future of the club has been in question recently because of two lawsuits filed by Wallace's
Wallace said the club had been popular but was not sure how a nudity ban would affect business.
"I may go out of business because of it, but I'd rather close than go on with clothing-optional," Wallace said.
The club may experiment with some softer sexual themes, such as lingerie night or a couples nudity night, he said.
Wallace said he didn't foresee a return to clothing-optional in the near future.
"Maybe when people grow up someday, a club like this can exist," he said.
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