University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 3, 1979
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Student spring exodus felt by merchants
BY LORI LINENBERGER
Staff Renorter
When KU students leave this summer for home and vacation, they will take off with more than just books and furniture. In addition, they will also take away much of the business local merchants receive from student customers.
Lawrence bars, discs and nightclubs
enjoy a constant flow of business from KU
students, especially on Wednesday through
Saturday nights. But that business will drop
the moment the new club is Aaron,
the owner of the Jayhawk and tavern.
1340 Ohio St. said, yesterday.
Jayhawk Cafe, better known as the Hawk, usually suits its doors to business.
"All of our business comes from KU freshmen and sophomores," he said. "When they go home, we don't have enough business to stay open."
THIS SUMMER, however, the 'Hawk will remain open on a two-week trial basis in an attempt to nurture a summer clientele. This may be accomplished by drawing a large summer crowd were slim.
STEVE COMEAU, the manager of Bowlkine's, 806 W. 24th St., said that he expected his business to decrease slightly after the contract expiration that Profits would not drop significantly.
"I have found that when the students are definitely known to be out of town, my business sometimes picks up," he said. "It's like local people don't want to come here when they know it's going to be really crowded with KU people."
Comeau said that about 60 percent of his business came from local customers, while about 40 percent came from KU students. He said he thought his Wednesday-through-Saturday night business would suffer the most.
"BUT I THINK a healthy summer school enrollment is going to help us out," he said.
Enrollment on the Lawrence campus this spring is 22,228. The University expects a full class of students, Kelly, associate dean of admissions and records, said. He said he had no way of determining how many KU students would be enrolled the summer who did not attend classes.
Local clothing stores also must contend with a loss of business when KU students
Tom Black, owner of the Royal College Shop, 83 Massachusetts St., said his store tried to compensate by having sales during the summer. He also said the store concentrated on preparing for the return of KU students in the fall.
students come back in the fall," he said. "We get a little play off high school students and summer school, but the biggest part of it comes during the regular school year."
Jim Schubert, co-owner of the Jay Shoppie, 835 Massachusetts, said he could not rely on KU summer school students to teach him about it when KU students left at the end of May.
"Summer students are not the social people that the regular students are," he said. "They're more preoccupied with their own needs than not as much in the market for new clothes."
He said that the store experienced a noticeable increase in sales in May right before students left, but that the sales dropped significantly in June.
"IT REALLY hurts business profits," Schubert said. "But when country club week hits Lawrence, everything changes. All the students come back and there's a difference in the whole downtown area. Everything picks up."
Fast-food restaurants often are a blessing to many college students, but college students are just as much a blessing to fast-food restaurants and other eating establishments.
Grieg Biberstein, manager of McDonald's,
901 W. 23rd St., the exodus of students
affected his business quite a bit. He said that the restaurant had to adjust to the loss of KU students every summer, but that profits did not drop significantly.
Susie Hanna, campus representative for the Consumer Affairs Association, 819 Vermont, said yesterday that information compiled from the housing survey administered by the association at enrollment was available to students as raw data only.
"we have tabulated a running total on comments made, but no formal results have been provided."
"The whole town goes dead pretty much when school closes. I know it cut down on people, but I'm not going to do that."
But Mark Williams, supervisor of the New Yorker restaurant, 1021 Massachusetts, said he thought business profits there would decrease substantially.
"WELL PROBABLY have to change our hours and close earlier," he said. "We'll all get sick."
And Mark Arndt, manager of Border Bandido, W128. W 23rd St., said the effect of KU students leaving during the summer used to be "a horrendous thing."
and the tabulation sheets were divided by apartment complexes or areas of the city.
Arndt said he had recently remodeled the restaurant, however, and was now attracting a family as well as a student clientele.
"We're wanting to rewrite and readminister the survey next fall to get a more complete understanding of it."
"What's available for students to look at are the questionnaires filled out by students who participated in our study."
Liquor store owners in Lawrence say they know they can depend on KU students to boost sales and profits. And when students go home, retailers feel it.
Housing survey results available
Burns estimated that 56 percent of his business came from KU students.
"OH, IT HURTS." Curtis Burns, owner of Burns Retail Liquor, 1917 W. 24th st., said. "It takes a good clunk out of sales when they open. It takes no effort, people out of town without bad side effects."
used to," he said, "but business is still the best for us when the fall semester starts."
"We don't feel the pinch anymore like we
The housing survey was given to KU students at enrollment in January to obtain information about rental housing in Lawrence. Information on is on file at the offices of airline.
"I'm right in the Hillcrest shopping center, so it doesn't affect me much," he said. "I feel like I'm going to a place."
The owner of another liquor store, however, said he was barely touched by the man who owned Borgens' Liquor Store, 1917 Iowa St., said most of his business came from a former warehouse.
little bit, I'm always surprised by the resurgence in the fall."
But Schubert said he did not think many Lawrence merchants depended too heavily on the company.
Hanna said the housing questionnaires
"We will welcome next year's students back with open arms," he said. "It be a relief to ask them what they are."
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