University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 5, 1989
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Beer market has hot sales in dry trend
by Steven Wolcott Kansan staff writer
More Americans are going dry when they want something cold and wet to quench their thirst, prompting breweries to enter the dry beer market.
On Monday, the nation's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch, announced it would begin test-marketing Bud and promoteersion of its flagship brand BurgerWives.
"This new beer is being tested due to the overwhelming acceptance of Michelod Dry," said Michael Roarty, executive director of marketing for Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis. "People responded so favorably to this new product, they quite literally drank us dry."
Jeff Davis, Anheuser-Busch spokesman, said Bed Dry would be test marketed in Texas, California, Minnesota and Washington.
Michelob Dry was the first dry beer brewed in the United States. It was introduced to a limited market in 1988 and went national in November.
"That's a very short time to test market," Davis said. "Sales were so phenomenal (that) we went national early."
He said Michelob Dry was so popular that the brewery experienced shortages in January and had to increase production.
Anheuser-Busch sells about 40 percent of the beer sold in the United States.
Greg McDonald, vice president of the local Anheuser-Busch distributor, McDonald Beverage, Inc. 801 E Nith S., said Michelob Dry was m o r e
successful than he thought it would be.
John Webb, owner of Webb's Fine Wines, 80 W. 23rd St., said dry beans seemed to be selling well.
"It's doing very well," McDonald said. "It's as much as 7 percent of our total sales, which is exceptional for a new introduction."
"It's kind of caught the imagination of everybody." Webb said. "I think a lot of people enjoy it with food because it cleanses the palate."
"It doesn't have an aftertaste like other beers." Soposki said. "It was really smooth and dry, ergo the name."
McDonald said the beer was mad dry through the brewing process.
“It’s brewed longer; it takes 64 days to brew.” McDonald said. “More of the fermentable sugars are in the beer,” she adds, “and dioxide, making the beer less sweet.”
He said the longer brewing process also made the beer a lighter calorie beer, with one-third fewer calories than regular Michelob.
G. Heileman Brewing Co. in Chicago, Anh-user-Busch's only competition in the domestic dry beer market, announced yesterday that it also would release a new version of dry beer. Colt. 45 Dry.
This would be the first dry malt liquor in the United States and will be market tested in New York, Philadelphia, Illinois, Norfolk and Richmond, Va.
Bill Eiler, public affairs director for Heilman, said the new malt liquor would be released in May.
"The idea of dry beers came from Japan," Eiler said. "They're incredibly popular. In 1987 they accounted for about $3 billion in sales in the Japanese beer market."
Heileman also brews Old Style Special Dry, Rainier Special Dry and I.C. Special Dry.
Assembly lacks quorum for roll call
by Brett Brenner Kansan staff writer
The College Assembly met yesterday but adjourned early because it lacked a quorum.
According to its rules, the assembly can operate without a quorum. If a member calls for a quorum, though, and less than 10 percent of the body's 750 members are present, the assembly will be adjourned. There were fewer than 30 present at yesterday's meeting.
The assembly did complete some business before it adjourned, including curricular changes in the graduate and undergraduate programs and some policy changes.
The assembly unanimously voted to change the policy for the transfer of credit effective Jan. 1. Grades below a C will no longer be required and grades above A were allowed. Previously, grades of D had been allowed.
Philip Montgomery, chairman of the assembly's Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, said after the meeting that some students would be affected.
William Bayne, Lawrence sophomore, said he had the University's standards in mind. "I felt like I was going to get better," he said.
"When a D grade is coming from a school with lower standards, it's not fair to the KU students they are competing against," he said. 2.0 count towards graduation anyway.
An increase in the number of credits given
to army military science classes was also
discussed.
The motion was tabled because of concern that the classes might not be open to all University students because of prerequisites which included the consent of the department
"Any student should be allowed to take any class, provided he has completed the prerequisites," said John Davidson, chairman of physics and astronomy.
chairman.
He said he was bothered that the consent was given by the chairman, not the instructor.
David Katzman, professor of history, said he thought there should be a limit on the number of military science classes the college would allow to graduation.
The college now allows students to take 25 hours of military science for credit.
"I sensed that they felt the classes were closed because of some of the wording (of the motion)," said Robert Kuben, professor of English. "I will fix the wording. It's not a closed program."
A similar situation arose with debate on the
addition of credit allowed toward graduation for two Air Force ROTC classes.
The aerospace studies classes had no prerequisites listed because they were 100 level
Katzman said he called the Air Force ROTC office Monday and the was him that non-military students had to receive permission of the department chairman to enroll.
The need for permission is not listed in the Undergraduate Catalog.
Other graduate catalog.
"They say they have never required it, and that may be true," he said. "But they still have the power to shut it off."
Bren Grarner, assistant professor of military science in Air Force ROTC, said it was the general policy of his department to allow any student to enroll in the classes.
Environs sponsors three-day Awareness Fair
by Max Evans Kansan staff writer
A live opossum, vegetarians and a Styrofoam monster all will meet one more time today for the last day of the Environmental Awareness.
The three-day event, in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall, began Monday and ends today. The fair is sponsored by Environs, a campus environmental awareness organization.
Diana Dickerson, Lawrence graduate student and member of Environs, said the fair was designed to raise student consciousness of environmental issues.
The fair includes information tables representing various environmental groups and campus organizations. Students also signed petitions against such topics as commercial whaling and the use of chlorofluorocarbons, synthetic chemicals used in the making of plastics, plastic foam that is harmful to the ozone layer.
ment.
As part of the fair, Dickerson said Environs had requested that students discard polystyrene materials at its table, where it would then be packed and shipped to companies such as McDonald's. Dickerson said fast-food chains were major users of the plastic foam material that the group said posed a danger to the environ-
So dangerous is the plastic foam to the environment. Environs members said that they constructed a two-foot high "Styrofoam monster" out of about 50 cuns from the Kansas Union.
"It symbolized what Styrofoam is to the environment — a monster, said Dierdre Goldfarb, MD," he said. "Jenkins and Enviros member."
Environs was collecting signatures on a petition that will be taken to an April 22 protest at the American Chemical Society, Inc., a chemical plant in Wichita.
Racon is one of five major CFC producers in the United States.
Racon protest is scheduled to coincide with similar protests worldwide demanding that CFC producers cease production within the country.
Goldfarb said the fair had been successful. More than 200 people visited the information tables Monday.
"People have been coming up to the table and saying, 'I'm a vegetarian and I didn't know there was a vegetarian organization.' " He said.
One of the busier tables yesterday was the Campus Vegetarian Society, Jessica Walter, Lawrence response at the table is excellent.
Another attraction was a live
At the Environmental Awareness Fair in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall, Amy Garwood, Lincoln, Neb. senior, reaches for information beneath the "Styrofoam monster."
oppossum, part of an exhibit sponsored by WildCare, a campus organization that cares for injured
vild animals
or orphaned wild animals. Others included in the fair were Greeneapothe, the Audubon Society,
the World Wildlife Fund, the Kansas Biological Survey and representatives from KU museums.
Safety and cooperation are coalition's goals
Kansan staff write
bv Stan Diel
A safer University and campus cooperation are the main themes for the student coalition Common Cause, said B. Jake White and Jeff Morris, the coalition's candidates for student body president and vice president.
Programs advocated by the coalition include a service to escort students on campus late at night, a new orientation program, and a program called "First Contact Office," where students could come to a Senate office and receive help from peers in filing grievances with University departments, said Morris, Salina unior.
"We did a survey of about 100 students and found out that not many of them knew about the grievance procedures," Morris said.
Student body presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the Common Cause coalition are, left, B. Jake White, North Platte, Neb., junior, and Jeff Morris, Salina junior.
"Quite a few of them had complaints they wanted to file, but they didn't do it because they didn't understand what to do. Students have a lot of procedures and rights they don't know about."
White, North Platte, Neb., junior,
said Common Cause also advocated
establishing a campus escort program. Similar services have been offered in the past, White said.
"In the past, several pledge classes (in fraternities) have tried to start this and so have some scholarship
halls, but they just didn't have the resources available," White said.
hall system, the independent system and the greek system and tase all those volunteers."
Morris also voiced concern about the adequacy of the University's orientation program. He said Common Cause advocated helping the University design a program called "University 101."
"We could tap into the scholarship
"It's awesome." Morris said. "Basically, it's a freshman orientation class — an elective for one hour of credit."
The orientation program is composed of one day in the summer and "Hawk Day," Morris said. He said the new university, similar to those offered at other universities, would allow students to take the elective for credit and learn what classes the university offers and how to improve study skills.
Common Cause was the first coalition to file, and it is the largest.
"We have 18 senators running with us. They have already had Senate experience," Morris said. "We have a very important role with us in that combination of experience and new people is very important to look at in the campaign."
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