UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 17, 1993
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Vista serves Rush on radio with its burgers and fries
By Traci Carl
Kansan staff writer
With his pressed white shirt, tie, wire-rimmed glasses and neatly combed hair, Shawn Stewart, 27, sat down during his lunch hour yesterday to listen to Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
Vista's conference room became Lawrence's first Rush Room yesterday. Like many other restaurants around the country, the fast-food restaurant broadcasts the show from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for their lunch hour customers.
Stewart said he came for the atmosphere more than the food.
"I listen to National Public Radio, which is ungodly liberal, and then I listen to this to get the other side," he said.
Stewart, who works at Holz Office Systems in Lawrence, was not always a conservative, he said.
"When I was in college I got some crazy ideas in my head," Stewart said. "At first I was somewhat liberal."
But when he heard Limbaugh, Stewart said, he realized he agreed with more conservative views.
"i sort of rediscovered myself," Stewart said. "It brought Rush to say 'Yea, that's what I think.'
Until two months ago, Stewart was
"I was preaching conservative messages from the microphone for the last year and a half," Stewart said. "If people had realized it they would have probably had a connition."
Brad Street, owner of Vista restaurants, wore a five-dollar bill folded and pinned to his shirt to celebrate the first broadcast. He said it was his "budget deficit reduction ribbon." The ribbon idea started as a joke on Limbaugh's show.
Street started the room after a few customers asked for it and was pleased with the number of people who showed up, he said.
But Joleen Robison, Lawrence resident, said she did not like Rush or his room in Vista.
"I have eaten onion rings and pineapple shakes there for 20 years, and I'll never go back again," she said.
Allan Cigler, professor of government, said he thought Limbaugh's humorous style and clever terminology, like his famous feminazi references, attracted his audience. Limbaugh appeals to people who feel alienated by politics, Cigler said.
"Ilisten to National Public Radio,which is ungodly liberal and then I listen to this to get the other
side."
Shawn Stewart Vista customer
"There's a widespread feeling that both parties are serving themselves and Washington is out of touch with the people," he said. "I think he probably picks up on that."
Elaine Labach, Overland Parkfreshman, said Limbaugh was too critical for her taste.
"I've listened to him for a minute or two and he insulted women, animals rights and liberals all in the same sentence," she said.
Labach's reaction is common, Stewart said. Listeners needed to understand Limbaugh's sarcastic style.
"He's bombastic and he does overstate things, but you just have to take him for what he is," he said.
Bandwagon growing for Band Day
Kansan staff writer
Lori Miller, Great Bend senior, remembers the first time she stepped into Memorial Stadium as an Ellinwood High School freshman playing alto saxophone during Band Day 1986.
"It was really exciting seeing the campus, the football team and all the people," she said. "I grew up in a KState community and I had never been to KU before."
By Shan Schwartz
Ninety bands consisting of more than 6,000 musicians are expected to parade down Massachusetts Street in the morning and then come together
ranged in size from 20 to more than 200 members. The bands are from as far away as Quinter, Kan., and Tarkio, Mo.
Thousands of high school and junior high band members will experience the same thing tomorrow as the University hosts the 46th annual Band Day.
at Memorial Stadium for a mammoth halftime performance tomorrow afternoon.
Stidham said the visiting bands
The biggest thrill of band day, Stidham said, probably was for band members from the smaller schools.
Tom Stidham, assistant director of bands, said this year's band day would be bigger than it has been in 17 years.
The size of this year's event, Stidham said, was attributable to several things, including the recent success of the KU football team and a later date, which gave the smaller bands more time to rehearse and didn't conflict with Kansas State's band day. K-State hosted its band day last weekend.
The parade will begin at 8:30 a.m. one-half hour earlier than originally planned, so the parade will finish in time to get everyone to the stadium for a pre-game rehearsal.
"I suspect it's pretty awesome to come from a place where there's only 20 in your band and then step on the field with 6,000 others," Stidham said.
This will be Miller's sixth Band Day and some of the excitement of Band Day for her has faded. She said this Band Day would not be as thrilling as her first.
"It's still exciting, but nowadays, for me, it's just another performance," she said. "But it's fun to see the excitement of all the younger kids. You can see it in their faces when they march onto the field."
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