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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2006
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"Would you help me open a bar?" he asked.
Woodring doesn't have any regrets. He thinks he made the right choice because he doesn't dread going to work. If Woodring didn't own The Bull, hed be selling cars for his dad, he said.
"I'm not that good a salesman," he said. "I can sell beer. That's not hard. Everyone wants to drink beer. Not everyone wants to buy a car."
"It's nice being your own boss. You don't have to answer to anybody." Jon said. "It's a dream job in itself."
Jon said he, Paul and Peck were having fun owning the Pita Pit.
Kansan staff writer Jack Weinstein can be contacted at jwainstein@kansan.com.
Edited by Derek Korte
Rvan McGeenev/KANSAN
Michael Woodring. recent University of Kansas graduate and owner of The Bull, a local bar popular with KU students stands behind the bar.
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Tribal casino opening put on hold after Justice Department appeal
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal judge's ruling that appeared to allow a tribal casino to reopen in downtown Kansas City, Kan., is heading back to court.
The Justice Department said Tuesday it will appeal U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson's decision last month that the National Indian Gaming Commission erred when it determined the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma had no legal right to operate the tiny casino in trailers attached to an old Masonic lodge.
The commissioners determined that the half-acre tract, purchased in 1996, was not qualified for a casino under federal rules prohibiting tribal casinos on land purchased after 1988.
Robinson said the casino fit through a loophole in those rules because the tribe had bought the land with money it received through an Indian claims court proceeding.
State authorities shut down the 7th Street Casino in 2004 following the commission's decision, carting off more than 150 gambling machines and $500,000 in cash. The tribe hauled off the deteriorated trailers last year, leaving an asphalt pad.
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, city officials and other tribes with Kansas casinos have appealed other rulings connected to the case, such as Robinson's decision upholding the federal government's land-trust action.
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson must pay $60,000 in attorney fees for his ex-wife as she pursues a custody case against the pop superstar, a judge ordered Wednesday.
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Jackson involved in child custody case
Superior Court Judge Robert A. Schindler gave the entertainer until Sept. 28 to meet the order. He did not rule on whether to grant Dabore Brow visitation rights to the couple's children, Prince Michael and Paris.
Rowe had sought $195,000 toward her attorney fees but Schnider declined to award it, noting that she had received an $8 million divorce settlement.
In February, a state appeals court ruled that her parental rights had not been properly relinquished under the law.
Rowe, said after court that Jackson stopped making the annual payments in the divorce settlement in 2003. He also sued Rowe in 2004 for allegedly breaching a confidentiality agreement.
Rowe, a former nurse for Jackson's dermatologist, married him in 1996 but filed for divorce in 1999 and later gave up custody rights. She asked a judge to reinstate them in 2003 after Jackson had been arrested on child molestation charges. He was acquitted last year and now lives in Bahrain.
Marta Almli, an attorney for
Jackson also has a third child, Prince Michael II. The boy's mother has not been identified.
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"Don't get The Crossing in trouble," he said before the band started up another song. "We need it here."
Despite murky claims from several Crossing employees, no one under 21 can purchase any type of alcohol in Kansas, according to Kansas state law and Alcoholic Beverage Control director Tom Groneman.
Other bars in Lawrence have also struggled with underage drinking. The Hawk, 1430 Ohio St., was cited for 43 MIPs from 2003 to 2005. Quintons, 615 Massachusetts St., was cited for 10 MIPs from 2004 to 2005 and paid $10,000 in fines.
Groneman said the Board paid close attention to Lawrence bars because of the large population of underage drinkers who came to the University each year.
Kyle, a 19-year-old sophomore, said the majority of underage KU students he knew drank regularly. The best ways to get away with it are to go to bars with lax ID checks or to hit them at busy times, he said.
Kyle paid $472 for a diversion to get an MIP removed from his permanent record after getting caught at a house party that Lawrence police broke up last year. His friend David, sophomore, got the same citation and paid the same fee.
Kyle, David and their friend Zak said they thought that alcohol was just a part of college life.
Zak and David said they enjoyed going out to a place where they could relax, drink and scope out girls. They said alcohol laws simply weren't fair.
"I'm old enough to die for our country, but I'm not old enough to drink, with Uncle Sam," David said.
Kansan staff writer David Linhardt can be contacted at dlinhardt@kansan.com.