FEATURE
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With a bit of luck: Charlie's Eastside Bar, located at 9th and Pennsylvania, has been open for 20 years. You be lucky to show up when it's open — as it doesn't have regular hours — and indulge in 3.2 beer and tasty grilled food.
CHARLIE'S EASTSIDE BAR
This bar has been around for 20 years and part of its charm is its difficulty getting in. No, it doesn't have tough bouncers or a long line at the door. The owner, Charlie Del Campo, who was unavailable to comment, seems to only have it open when he wants. Four attempts at visiting Charlie's only resulted in banging on locked doors and peeking in windows at the tiny bar located in an old stone building at the corner of 9th and Pennsylvania. If you are lucky enough to stop by when it's open, it serves 3.2 percent beer and grilled food.
SLOW RIDE ROADHOUSE
This self-proclaimed biker bar opened in 2005 and rarely sees a student crowd. Kelli Durkin, bartender and assistant manager, says she thinks the location, 1350 N. Third St., is a part of that reason. Rachelle Remboldt, a Houston sophomore and waitress, says that the bar draws a regular group of customers and that the crowd is "fun and hilarious." The bar has pool tables and Remboldt says live bands perform every weekend.
RICK'S PLACE
Rick's has been in Lawrence for 20 years and the owner, Rick Younger, says he has customers that range from blue collar workers to professors. He says he also sees a lot of students come in despite the fact that the location, 846 Illinois St., is off Massachusetts street.
Rick Newell, Leawood senior, says going to Rick's is a different experience than going to most bars in Lawrence. Underage students beware, Younger says he is a "ball-buster" when it comes to fake IDs. JP
Younger, who wears Hawaiian-themed shirts on a regular basis, says the fact that he's the "prettiest man in Lawrence" is what draws customers in but if that isn't enough, the bar also has shuffle board, pool tables and daily drink specials. Younger has also been making his own secret (and delicious) Bloody Mary mix for the past 20 years and the only hint he would give was that he doesn't use tomato juice as the base.
TONIGHT'S SPECIALS
WILLIE'S:
$3 Import Bottles and $3 Margaritas
CRIMSON & BREWS:
SLOW RIDE ROADHOUSE:
$12 domestic buckets, $15 Corona buckets
RICK'S PLACE:
$4 beer pong pitcher, $2 domestic pints, $3
Three Olive drinks
$4 double Captains, $3.35 premium pints
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To better promote this initiative, the group designed a year-long program with monthly themes to teach third- and fourth-graders at the school how to become healthier, both mentally and physically. This month's theme is teamwork. The children played games where they
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The activity was part of a program that the on-campus group GROW started this year. Erica Bennett, a junior from Emporia and co-coordinator of GROW, said the club is an initiative to promote healthy habits.
Monica Powers, left, and Erica Bennett, are co-coordinators of GROW, an on-campus group that promotes healthy habits for children.
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ADMINISTRATION
Audit finds School of Business to be mostly consistent in course fee usage
The report addresses concerns from several MBA students who lodged complaints with the Kansas Board of Regents this summer. The findings are from an audit by BKD LLC, the same accounting firm that investigated the Athletics Department ticket scandal.
The report "confirms that we have used those funds for the benefit of our students and the advancement of the programs in our school," said William Fuerst, dean of the School of Business.
BY GARTH SEARS gsears@kansan.com
Some of the MBA students also called for Fuerst to be fired. He announced Sept. 22 that he would step down after the academic year, but a school spokesperson told The University Daily Kansan that his
Of the $30 million the School of Business has raised since 2004 from course fees, a third-party accounting firm reported that the school spent 99.8 percent appropriately.
The proposal established a student advisory committee, responsible for overseeing how the course fees were spent. But the committee was disbanded by 2006, perhaps the students' biggest complaint.
Provost Jeffrey Vitter called dis-
resignation wasn't related to those demands.
BKD LLC's audit found that 0.2 percent, or about $60,000, of the $30 million in spending was inconsistent with the original fee proposal. BKD reported that almost $28,000 in payroll to some professors over the summer of 2005 was inconsistent with the fee proposal. The audit also found that the school used more than $24,000 of course fees inappropriately to pay for fees related to accreditation and membership in the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Course fees, also called differential tuition rates, represent about 40 percent of the school's budget. On top of normal tuition, business students paid an extra $102 per credit hour in course fees this semester, and master's business students paid an extra $187 per hour.
The school instituted the course fees in 2004, and the tuition proposal for it specified where the money could be used.
The provost's office contracted BKD to perform the audit, which cost an estimated $50,000 and was overseen by a committee of students, faculty and staff. The provost's office paid for the audit with private donations.
Although BKD found that the school spent nearly all of the fee money appropriately, the report also said the fee proposal was vague in places and that "there could be differences of opinion" about whether an expenditure conflicted with the fee proposal.
The committee was re-established Oct. 21 and agreed to meet again to discuss the findings of this review.
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Vitter said the committee will receive reports on expenditures and planned expenditures in the future.
banding the committee "an oversight," and said that keeping the committee might have prevented conflict.
"If this doesn't answer the issues of critics, then that's their issue," Vitter said. "I don't think anything
"Could we have avoided the controversy by having a mechanism in place?" Vitter said. "I think the answer is yes."
In a response letter at the end of the report, Fuerst said the school will review what BKD identified as inappropriate spending with the student advisory committee.
will ever answer their issue."
kansas receives higher grade in sustainability, but isn't perfect
The University's new paintball club is starting practices for competitive and recreational players alike. The members hope to compete against other schools later in the year as well.
Columnist Kate Larrabee explains how the University scored a higher grade this year, but still needs more student involvement and leadership in sustainability. Kansas received a 'B,' just behind Texas and Colorado.
CLUBS|6A
Resurrected club lets the paint fly in growing sport
Classifieds...2B
Crossword...4A
Cryptoquips...4A
Opinion...5A
Sports...1B
Sudoku...4A
WEATHER
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