University Daily Kansan / Friday. February 20, 1987
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Local Briefs
Stanton says he will decide crew bill today
Brady Stanton, student body president, said yesterday that he would decide today whether to veto a crew bill.
The bill, which passed the Student Senate by a 41-13 roll call vote Feb. 11, would give the KU Crew team $24,800 to purchase two new "racing boats, or shells."
According to Senate rules, Stanton has 10 days after a bill is approved to veto it or sign it.
"The hard thing about it is that "it's an emotional issue." Stanton says, "People are thinking with their hearts instead of their heads."
Stanton said he had talked with Monte Johnson, athletic director; Scott Long, Kingwood, Texas, junior, and crew team captain; David Ambrie, vice chancellor for student affairs, and other senators to get as many viewpoints on the issue as possible.
"It's the kind of thing I'm not going to make a snap decision on," he said.
He said he wanted to wait as long as possible before making his final decision, in case there were any new developments.
Stanton's veto could be overturned by a two-thirds vote of the full Senate.
New speaker set for Anne Frank talk
Tom Osborne, U.S. director of the Anne Frank Center in New York, will speak on "Democracy and Its Defense" at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Osborne will replace scheduled speaker Bauco van der Wal, international director and secretary of the Anne Frank Foundation of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Van der Wal took a leave of absence Wednesday from the foundation. KU's Hillel adviser Daveen Litwin said
The lecture, sponsored by Hillel and the KU Museum of Anthropology, is part of the "Anne Frank and Her Diary" exhibit showing at the museum through Feb. 28.
Top debate teams to compete at KU
Thirteen top-ranked national debate teams will compete in the 31st annual Heart of America intercollegiate debate tournament this weekend at the University of Kansas.
Two KU teams will compete against teams ranked in the country's top 16. The teams will debate whether "one or more presently existing restrictions on First Amendment freedoms of press" should be curtailed, or one or more federal court decisions should be curaled or prohibited."
Debates will begin at 8:15 a.m. tomorrow and 8:30 a.m. Sunday in 3090 Wescoe hall.
Correction
Because of an editor's error, discussion at a Student Senate Elections Committee meeting was reported incorrectly in the Feb. 13 Kansan. The committee discussed establishing a consultation salary for the current student body president and vice president but did not propose a bill.
Because of a reporter's error,
Mary Frances Budig's name was
misspelled in yesterday's Kansas.
She is the daughter of Chancellor
Gene A. Budig.
From staff and wire reports.
Campus and Area
Markup repeal may hurt, stores say
By IOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
High liquor prices and small liquor stores will be among the casualties of a Lawrence price war if the state ends its minimum markup for liquor, local retailers said yesterday.
John Webb, managing partner of Green's Fine Wines, 800 W. 23rd St., said that if the state stopped setting minimum prices for liquor, smaller liquor stores could be forced out of business.
"There will be a lot more competition," he said. "It's going to be good for the consumer. It's going to be good for the state."
Also yesterday, the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee of the Kansas Legislature voted to submit a memorandum would repeal the minimum markup.
"It's really going to put a lot of people out of business," said Betty
Hurreblrre, assistant manager of Christian Retail Liquor, 945 E. 23rd St. "It might run everybody out that have lots of money behind them."
Pat Dieckhaus, manager of Bahnmaier Retail Liquor, 900 New Hampshire, said that although her store was small, it still could survive without the minimum markup.
Lawrence's price war already has begun. Webb said. Green's lowered some liquor prices last Monday more than 10 percent below the state's present legal prices.
But, she said, "It will definitely hurt the smaller liquor stores."
The lower prices have helped business. Webb said.
Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan said at a press conference Wednesday in Topoca that liquor was being sold to the minimum markup, although he
Gov. Mike Hayden has said that the law should be enforced until the state changes it or the courts determine that it is illegal.
wouldn't prosecute any owners that did lower their prices.
John Lamb, director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control, said yesterday that the ABC would investigate violations of the law. But he didn't know whether the agency would prosecute any violations.
"It's caused some confusion." he said.
Stephan had said last week that the minimum markup was illegal because it violated the Sherman Act.
The attorney general's office may file a suit in Topeka today to test the legality of minimum markup, said Mr. German. Stephan's special assistant
"It's important to get this matter
decided by a court," he said.
Barrand Barrand Liquor, 2004 W 23rd St., won't lower its prices until the arguing over minimum markup the store's Shirley Barrand, the store's owner
Neither Christian Liquor nor Bahnmaier will lower prices until the repeal of the markup is official.
Barrand said repealing the minimum markup of liquor prices would help customers.
"I think it it's definitely the way to go," she said. "Competition is always better for the consumer."
But she said her store would survive regardless of what changes were made in the law.
"We'll just live with it any way they do it," she said.
Kansan reporter Todd Cohen contributed information to this story.
Student musician looking to Top 40
Brad Murphy, owner of the Lawrence Recording Studio, 920 Oak St.
shows off his sound mixer. Murphy can record and mix eight studio
By JERRI NIEBAUM
Demo tapes may create rock stars
The walls are cluttered with concert posters. A poster-sized frame displays ticket stubs from concerts past. An empty wine glass rests on a desk in the corner of the room, and a dented, tarnished trumpet hangs on the wall between two stereo speakers.
"That was my dad's. I don't know if he ever played it. I thought it would add to the ambiance of my recording pit," said Brad Murphy, owner of the Lawrence Recording Studio, 920 Alabama St.
Murphy, a 25-year-old Lawrence junior, started a recording studio in Topeka in 1983 when he received financial backing from Tarlton Morrow, a retired child psychiatrist. His studio was in Morrow's home, where Murphy lived after Morrow's wife died.
"He was really interested in music and creativity." Murphy said of Morrow. "I paid him back over a period of time."
Morrow's house was sold after his death in November, so Murphy brought his equipment and his collection of concert paraphernalia to Lawrence. He plans to use his new studio, a room in his house, to make demonstration tapes for musical groups who want material to submit to record companies.
Murphy's other company, Red House Audio, rents equipment to groups for parties and to other bands.
On the wall with the trumpet is a mirror with a "Seatcatz" logo on it. The same logo is on several posters scattered across the wall.
Murphy played guitar for the Scatatz in Topeka for two years, but he and keyboard player Daryl Williams quit the band last year. Murphy started managing Williams, and the two went to Los Angeles to put together a demonstration tape to play for record companies.
music similar to that of the groups U2 and REM.
"Brad's earned my respect, which is pretty difficult to get." said Pat Wempe, Sons of Liberty bass player
Murphy also manages the Sons of Liberty, a Topeka group that plays
Wempe said his group hired Murphy about a month ago because it needed a manager who could talk to the big record companies. The companies wouldn't talk to the band members.
"He's got a good ability to influence people," said Steve Sitzs, also a Sons of Liberty member and a past member of Murphy's first band.
Wempe said, "He doesn't have a lot of scruples. He can play hardball with the best of them."
Murphy wants to play in a band again, but in the meantime, he's managing other groups to make connections in the recording industry. Murphy said many companies wouldn't listen to a new band if they had not heard of its members.
"It's a strange business. A lot of it involves who you know," Murphy said. "There are a lot of terrible bands out there making a lot of money."
Murphy plays lead guitar, bass guitar and keyboard, and he's learning to sing.
"I bought my first guitar when I was in 10th grade. I always dreamed about having music as a career, but I never really decided 'this is what I'm going to do' until 1982." Murphy said.
Murphy quit school at the University of Kansas in 1982 when he joined his first band, but now he's back and working on his theater and media arts degree. He wants to be a musician, but he said he wants to be able to support himself if he doesn't make the Top 40.
Murphy works for a produce company in North Lawrence.
"I want to get my audio going, so I don't have to spend so much time hauling vegetables around. It's not bad work, but I'd rather be working on music projects," Murphy said.
Foster program aids kids
By JENNIFER WYRICK
Staff writer
Sometimes the stress of daily business overshadows the importance of families. But the Therapeutic Foster Care Program of Topeka makes families its daily business.
TFC is a foster parent program that is attempting to recruit people to be foster parents for emotionally troubled youths.
The youths, 8 to 17 years old, need therapy and professional support. Robert Heckler, program coordinator, said such help was most useful when it was combined with a stable family environment.
Heckler said the program looked for people, couples or singles, to deal with troubled youths unable to return to their homes or to live successfully in regular foster or group homes.
The youths have been in state hospitals and benefited from that Heckler said, but the state's Social and Rehabilitation Services would prefer to place them in foster homes.
Rick Sapo, associate professor of social welfare, has worked in foster care for 22 years and is a consultant to TFC. He said the service's goal was to make the youths able to someday return to their own homes.
"We try to place kids in family-like situations because they couldn't survive under the conditions of their own families," he said. "TFC foster parents have had training in dealing with these kids' specific problems."
Spano said that some of the youths had psychiatric problems and that others were on probation or serving parole sentences.
Most of them have difficulty in any kind of relationship, are behind in school and don't have job skills, he said.
Spano said the foster care program taught survival skills to the youths because they would someday venture out into the community.
Heckler said most youths now in the program had progressed because of their foster home experience.
Prospective foster parents undergo 12 hours of intensive training geared toward discouraging those who don't fully understand the realities of foster parenting, he said.
TFC foster parents receive training in human sexuality, among other things. Spano said he conducted 11 hours of training with foster parents on human sexuality.
He said the youths had special problems with human sexuality because many of them had been sexually abused.
In addition, Heekler said the foster parents had to make a commitment to foster parenting, meet state licensing requirements, have a basic knowledge of the stages of child development and parenting skills, and be able to participate in the program as team members.
Students good credit risks, some bankers say
Staff writer
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
Because college students are working toward degrees that may enable them to make big bucks, many banks and credit card companies, such as Citibank of South Dakota, want to hook these future consumers.
The yuppies of tomorrow are the good credit risks of today, according to bankers and credit counselors.
seem too good to be true, they are deliberate marketing efforts on the part of credit card companies.
They do so by offering free credit cards with few requirements. Although the free cards may
"They're fishing." said Jerry W. Lewis, executive director of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Kansas City, Inc. "They're throwing out bait, and most of the fish are good."
The service, which is a non-profit charity,
counsels people who have money management
problems. Lewis said most credit problems
started after graduation when people earning
real money for the first time discover they've charged too much.
Hugh Hannagan, vice president of Commerce Bank of Topeka, said his bank didn't give cards as easily as Citibank and others. Commerce Bank does not give credit cards to people with no income.
"Most college students have the sense not to go charge $500," he said.
But for bigger banks, the college market is worth the risk.
A representative from the College Credit
Card Corporation of New Jersey stationed himself in the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, two weeks ago with credit card application forms.
Any junior, senior or graduate student was eligible for the Citibank Mastercard or Visa for being just that — a student working toward a degree. Students didn't need to have any income or any co-signer.
David Tumphrey, the representative, said his company accepted 95 percent of students' credit applications.
There is now a Typing Room available in Watson Library
This is a new service provided by Student Senate.
- The typing room will be open during regular library hours, and is free with a KUID.
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