lifestyles
Dave Eakor, Corvallis, Oregon,
senior, runs off copies during his night
shift at Copy Co., 23rd and
Naismith streets.
Jav Thomton/ KANSAN
They only come out at NIGHT
Jay Thomton / KANSAN
Some people start their days after the sun goes down
By James Grau Special to the Kansan
It's 9 p.m., and Scott Dalton turns off his alarm and slowly sits up on the edge of his bed.
He yawns, stretches out his arms and exhales. He rubs his eyes, blinks a couple of times and gets up to take a shower.
While getting dressed, he walks to the kitchen, opens the refrigerator and scans the leftovers.
"Yeechc," he says, and pushes the refrigerator door shut with a soft whump sound.
Scott Dalton is getting ready for work, when most people are getting ready for bed.
Whitney Black, Lawrence sophomore, makes a beverage at the Java Break, 7th and Massachusetts streets.
Dalton, 26, is one of the many night people in Lawrence who work while the city sleeps. These people lead a lifestyle that is unique and affects both their lives and those of others. Without them, many services available 24 hours a day wouldn't exist.
Dalton, who works at Kinko's Copy Center, 911 Massachusetts St., said he could tell the people who worked nights from those who worked days. Night people are a bit nicer and understanding, he said.
"People during the day make their own friends and stuff like that, but when the night comes again there's a whole different community," Dalton said. "To me, it's like a community inside a community."
He said he liked working at Kinko's because of its policy of giving nightshift workers $1 more an hour and four consecutive days off between their four-day periods.
Despite these benefits, working rights has its down side. Because he is a morning person, Dalton often has trouble getting to sleep after work and sometimes gets only two hours of sleep before he goes back to work.
But Dalton believes that working at night also has positive aspects.
"At work, I'll go outside and think, 'Wow, it's a pretty day out here,' Dalton said. "The moon just shines on everything, and the trees up and down Massachusetts are really pretty in the moonlight."
"There are things that you think and things that you see that you really wouldn't notice during the day. Your mind plays little tricks on you. A lot more things are funny; you see a different point of view."
He laughed when talking about drunk students who
come into the store.
"I was sitting there working in the production area, and I looked over and there's some guy with his pants around his knees making copies of his butt," Dalton said. "I didn't clean the glass that day."
Megan Arnaud, manager of The Java Break, Seventh and New Hampshire streets, said her body had adjusted to her night schedule. But the Lawrence senior still has trouble sleeping during the day.
"I prefer to sleep till two, but that rarely happens," Arnaud said.
After drinking coffee all night, sleeping in the morning can be a challenge.
"I try to blow coffee fumes in my husband's face in hopes of igniting in him some of his spill-over energy," Arnau said. "He usually sleeps until sunrise, though."
The combination of working nights, studying and being the editor of Mass Magazine can be stressful, she said.
"I guess I'm living on the brink of insanity," she said. "I don't have any time to get my head together."
Pam Brown has to balance working at night with family life. The 29-year-old is married and has a 5-
month-old daughter, Erica. She supports her family working as a nighttime desk clerk at the Bismarck Inn at the East Lawrence Kansas Tumpike exit. Her husband, Eric, decided to quit working so he could stay home and take care of their daughter.
"When the baby cries at night, I'm not there to calm her." Brown said. "He gets to do that."
Brown has worked nights for eight years.
"I haven't had any health problems, but some of the people we hire to work this shift just can't do it," she said. "They can't adjust to it, and they make them-selsick."
Paul Loney, emergency department physician at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, agreed that the ability to adapt to a night schedule varied from person to person.
"There are night呼声, and there are daytime people," Loney said. "Some people handle it better than others, and others can get really stressed out by working the night shift. You can't generalize on any specific health problems."
Amber Robillard, Wichita senior, knows what working nights can do to a person's body. She is the Saturday night DJ for campus radio station KANU 91.5's Jazz Overnight.
Working at night just once a week wreaks havoc on Robillard's body cycles, she said.
"I feel like I'm recuperating all week long," she said. Even with the odd hours, Robiland enjoys the work.
"You just have to pay your dues," she said. "If you're going to make this a career, you have to start with the not-so-desirable shifts before you have the opportunity to move up."
Robillard said nights could be lonely, especially when no one was calling the station.
"Call-ins just make my day," she said. "I don't care if they're drunk, stoned or whatever. I just want some feedback from my audience."
David Haney is a KU police officer who has worked the night patrol for two years. He said he liked working nights because it was the time when more interesting things went on.
"When you're out in a dark car, it's dark all night long; you might get tired." Haney said. "But when something goes down, your body perks up immediately — an adrenaline rush."
Haney said he thought he could offer more to the public by being on campus at night when the majority of campus incidents happen.
"You get a few bad apples out there, and you got people racing down the streets, hanging out the windows, throwing beer bottles out, breaking glass, this and that," he said. "But the majority of the people up here at night are decent."
Grassroots vs. Lollapalooza on the RECORD
By Robert Moczydlowsky
Kansan staff writer
Sadly, most of you will miss out, opting instead to waste your time, money and ears on the Lollapalooa Music Festival. You will fight crowds, parking jams and bathroom lines, all the while ignoring the other local shows that will offer superior musical performances for a fraction of the cost.
For the next three weeks, Lawrence and Kansas City will offer some of the highestquality modern rock concerts around.
Well, let's take a second to talk about what makes a concert great. For me, it's bands that can perform, not just play.
"But what about all the great bands on the Lollapaloza bill?" you ask.
On the Lollapalooaza stage, those acts will be few and far between. As a matter of fact, the Lollapalooaza bill is full of bands that have a reputation for lousy live shows.
The prime example is Hole, a band that is inconsistent at best on stage. After a recent concert in Washington, D.C., Courtney Love admitted that only recently had her band learned to play together, in tune, on every song.
Singer/songwriter Beck has a style that is dependent upon multi-layered studio tracks and samples. That means he'll either play tape-aided or stripped down versions of his songs. Either way, I get the feeling that his studio-crafted sound doesn't play well in a 20,000-seat amphitheater.
Sinead O'Conner can definitely put on a good show, but more than likely she'll stop her set after three songs to preach to the audience about Northern Ireland or Bosnia or the Save the Whales Foundation. Why she can't let her music do the talking is beyond me.
And what of those art-rock album gods Sonic Youth? The popular word on the street after their R.E.M. opening set was not exactly flattering. To be completely honest, I heard they sucked.
On the main stage, we've got The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jesus Lizard, Pavement and Cypress Hill. On the second stage are The Poster Children and Coollo. Those are six excellent acts, all with crowd-whippin' potential. But do you really want to be dancing in the back row while the Bosstones or Cypress Hill are playing 200 vards away?
So where does that leave us?
These are the kind of bands you go to see in sweaty clubs, not stadiums. Wait until
these bands come to the Bottleneck or Liberty Hall. That way you can see them, not just hear them over the p.a.
Sell them. Then take your 60 bucks and buy four tickets to the Grassroots 3 concert Saturday at Worlds of Fun. For half of what it costs to Lollapalooza, you get an excellent lineup that features Juliana Hatfield, Gwen Mars, Triple-fast Action, Rusty and Hum.
Also scheduled to appear are local favorites L.A. Ramblers and Kill Creek, two bands that are on the verge of some hard-earned national attention. Kicking off the day is Frogpond, an all-girl local band that really impressed me when they opened for the Poster Children two weeks ago.
"So what should I do with my two general admission tickets?" you ask.
The Grassroots lineup has bands that, to use a popular sports cliche, are "just happy to be here." That sentiment will no doubt carry over into their live shows, making the small Worlds of Fun amphitheater an ideal place to catch some of the best up-and-coming modern rock in the Midwest.
Tripping Daisy, Bad Brains, Radiohead, Collective Soul and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult will play in Lawrence in late July. Tickets to these shows will sell fast, so start making your concert plans now. That is, if you have any money left after Lollapalooa?
If festival-style shows are your thing, don't fret. There are plenty of topnotch shows in and around town in the next
The Samples, Widespread Panic and Mango Jam will all play in Lawrence in the next week and a half, offering melodious rock fans a full plate of tasty concert choices.
Tonight, performance-rock fans can hit the Bottleneck to check out Ex-Cops, featuring members of the guts and gore band GWAR and Brutal Juice, the band that has all of Austin, Texas, talking about their one-of-a-kind live show.
three weeks.
Call the Bottleneck and the Granada Theater for ticket information.
And finally, the continuing saga of Vitreous Humor.
Every week I've written that an interview and discussion of their new disc was forthcoming.
To date, there is none.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Next week: Alterno-country with the Jayhawks, and — keep your fingers crossed — Vitreous Humor. Stay tuned.
SECTION B
JULY 5,1995
KU Life
BOX OFFICE BILLBOARD
LOS ANGELES — "Apollo 13" opened in the No.1 spot at North American theaters during the Independence Day weekend with $26 million in ticket sales, according to industry estimates.
Other movies made their debut during the weekend: "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie," which came in at No. 4 with $14.3 million; and Sylvester Stallone's "Judge Dredd," which earned $12.5 million for fifth place.
The film about the ill-fated 1970 space mission surpassed "Pocahontas" which took in $16.7 million for second place, industry sources estimated Sunday.
4. "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie" $14.3 million
The following is the list of top 10 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters, based on estimated ticket sales Friday through Sunday:
1. "Apollo 13"
$26 million
2. "Pocahontas"
$16.7 million
5. "Judge Dredd" $12.5 million
3. "Batman Forever" $15.7 million
6. "Congo"
$4.85 million
7. "The Bridges of Madison County"
$4.3 million
8. "Casper"
$2.51 million
9. "Braveheart" $2.45 million
10. "Die Hard With a Vengeance"
$2 million