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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 20,1995
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Bartenders go back to school
Alcohol awareness the focus of session
By Tara Trenary
Kansan staff writer
Edmee Rodriguez / KANSAN
It was bartending school, but mixing drinks was not in the curriculum.
Janine Gracy, coordinator of health promotion and education at Watkins Memorial Health Center, talks about the dangers of alcohol during the Continuing Alcohol Responsibility Education program. C.A.R.E. was organized in 1992 to help hars and bartenders serve alcohol responsibly and deal with people who have had too much to drink.
Bartenders from eight local bars got together Saturday to learn about alcohol awareness and how to deal with customers who have had too much to drink.
“It's phenomenal to get so many businesses in the same industry to get bonded,” said Rita Conroy, owner of the Sandbar and founder of Continuing Alcohol Responsibility Education. “I was really impressed with the willingness for them to do it.”
C. A.R.E. — organized by Conroy in 1992 as an attempt to educate owners of bars and bartenders on how to serve responsibly — was held at the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union. The program featured speakers from Promote Alcohol Responsibility Through You, Watkins Memorial Health Center, Saferide, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Alcohol Beverage Control and the Lawrence Police Department.
C. A.R.E. was sponsored by DCCCA, an alcohol and drug abuse counseling center located at 3312 Clinton Parkwav.
"We all are partners in this," said Bernie Norwood, director of Alcohol Beverage Control.
Norwood said that he felt the majority of Kansans believed the consumption of alcohol was OK and
that teaching alcohol responsibility to adults and children was a step in the right direction.
Terry Stewart, Lawrence graduate student, spoke to the group about an experience she had nine months ago.
"You always hear it's not going to happen to me," she said.
But it did. Stewart's husband Rick was killed on March 3 by a drunk driver.
"He never knew he hit us," she said. "He didn't know he had killed someone until the next day."
Janine Gracy, Watkins Health Center coordinator of health promotion and education, said that people drank for a lot of different reasons but mainly just to feel differently than they usually did.
"We need an attitude adjustment on how we deal with social problems," she said.
Gracy presented statistics on blood-alcohol levels and effects of alcohol on the body before and after the fact in an attempt to give bartenders information they could use.
Lawrence police officer James Miller demonstrated the process of testing drivers for intoxication on Pattie Noonan, St. Louis senior and Teller's waitress, who had four and a half drinks in the two hours before the demonstration.
"The things I look for are the things you can see," he said.
Miller said that he pulls people over for doing such things as making wide turns, straddling lanes, swerving and following too close. After pulling a person over, Miller smells, listens, watches, asks questions and
wonders how the person would act in a normal setting before giving an actual sorbidity test.
Russ Kriev, Teller's bartender, said that a lot of this information was repetitious for bartenders and that the most important thing was to have someone there when trying to
cut someone off who has had too much to drink.
it's a matter of bartenders declining what to do," he said. "A lot of it also has to be the responsibility of the customer."
shire St.; Don's Steak House, 2176 E. 23rd St.; The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St.; Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St.; Louise's West, 1307 W. Seventh St.; The Sandbar, 117 E. Eighth St.; Teller's, 746 Massachusetts St.; and The Wheel, 507 W. 14th St.
Participating establishments were The Bottleneck, 737 New Hamp-
Area barn dancers kick up their heels
Folks drawn to Lawrence for city's largest hootenanny
By Bronden Sager
Kansan staff writer
People were swingin' their partners 'round and round at the Pinkney Elementary School all weekend.
The Lawrence Barn Dance Association sponsored a weekend barn dance event at locations throughout Lawrence. The festivities began at Pinkney Elementary School, 810 W. Sixth St.
Laurie Ward, director of the University of Kansas Endowment Association, said she felt like she was stepping 100 years back in time. She is one of the members of the association that planned the barn dance.
Barn dancing is a style of dance based on traditional folk dances of England and Scotland, Ward said. It was Americanized in New England and has been part of our national heritage ever since.
"There's a whole new generation that has taken
off with this," she said. "You can get yourself in real estatic state."
But Dale Nimz, Lawrence graduate student, said it was a chance to relax and to forget about studying for a while. Nimz said that he has been a member of the association for 12 years.
Nimz said that college students often attended the events but came sporadically. The crowd changes with each dance. The association holds a dance each month. But this weekend's dance was the largest ever held in Lawrence, Ward said.
The association applied for a grant from the Lawrence Art Commission to have the weekend event. They received $250, which helped to pay for the best barn dance callers and bands in the nation.
James Sigler, Missouri Southern State College senior, said he came from Joplin, Mo., with his fiancee, Kimra Ross, to attend the dance.
Ross said she had gone to a folk festival in Augusta, W. Va., where she heard about a Kansas City barn dancing society. She said that they told her the Lawrence barn dances were better.
Pam Dishman / KANBAN
"We both like dancing and meeting other people." Sigler said.
Members of the Lawrence Barn Dance Association scoot their boots at Pinkney Elementary School. They held their once-a-month community barn dance Saturday evening. This month's activities lasted all weekend.
Clark: Hector Clark appealing the 'Hector Clark Rule'
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old rule by making one of the penalties suspension of the right to file grievances. Clark called the rule the Hector Clark Rule.
many grievances is too many
"I have written the chairperson of the judicial board a letter asking him how many grievances I have filed since Aug. 7, 1995, after the rule went into effect," he said. "He hasn't replied. He refuses to reply. And the reason is because the answer is zero."
Clark said the rule was being applied retroactively.
Clark said he was pessimistic that his appeal would succeed but hoped it would bring attention to what he said was an ethical problem on campus.
Clark said grievances filed before that time were irrelevant because they happened before the rule was in place.
One reason the rule had been enacted was to keep the board from being bogged down by grievances, Shulen-burger said. The University decides how
"If after this is over, the University gives a better response to questions of integrity, then I'll know I have won," he
said.
Clark was concerned that faculty were not held to the same levels of integrity that students were.
Two of his complaints against professors have been deemed legitimate by the judicial board. In both cases, two engineering professors were found to have falsified publication claims but neither was punished, he said.
Shutdown keeps aid from being doled out
By Novelda Sommers
Kansan staff writer
The partial government shutdown that began last week and ends today will affect students applying for federal financial aid, contrary to initial reports.
Chris Johnson, assistant director of financial aid, said that a crucial step in the application process could not be completed because of the partial government shutdown that began Nov. 13. He said that about 50 KU students applied for federal aid each week, and only new applicants would be affected.
Diane Del Buono, director of financial aid, said that at the beginning of the partial government shutdown, Department of Education officials told her that colleges would not be affected. Del Buono learned about the delays in the application process on Friday, four days after the shutdown began.
"This is probably the least busy time in financial aid nationally." Del Buono said. "Hopefully, there won't be a significant impact."
When students apply for financial aid, they mail their applications to a processing center where staff determine how much money students' families can contribute.
"At that step, the process grinds to a halt," Johnson said. "The government is not providing data base access."
Staff at the center check a government data base to see that the students are registered with the selective service and Social Security and are U.S. citizens. They also check applicants' drug records. These checks could not be completed during the partial shutdown.
The checks will resume when federal workers return to their jobs this week.
Del Buono said that although the application process was at a standstill, KU students who wished to apply for financial aid still should do so.
Johnson said that the government shutdown should not significantly delay aid to students. But even with the dispute settled, a backlog of unprocessed federal student aid applications could cause some delays between the time students apply for aid and when they receive their aid reports.
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