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Neighborhood not fond of renters
Centennial residents seeking city's help
By Erinn R. Barcomb
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Ethel DeGraff has seen changes in the Centennial neighborhood in the 40 years she has lived there, and not all of the changes have been good.
DeGraff and other neighbors are concerned about the amount of rental property that has sprung up in the neighborhood, which is bordered by 19th and 23rd streets, and Massachusetts Street and Naismith Drive.
Mark Lehmann, owner of L&S Management Services LLC, said the neighborhood was about 50 percent single-family and about 50 percent rental.
"It's not the most favored location for students," Lehmann said. Even though students like living close to campus, they would rather live in the so-called student ghetto on
Parking has become a problem near DeGraff's home, she said. She sees one particular house with six cars parked in front every morning.
Tennessee and Kentucky streets,
Lehmann said. Older students often
liked the neighborhood because it
was quieter, he said.
Residents of Centennial neighborhood aren't happy about the number of houses for rent in the area. Kansan photo.
Dana Hazels, Leavenworth senior, said she hadn't planned on living in the Centennial neighborhood, but she loved her house at 19th and Massachusetts streets.
"I like it because it's close to downtown and close to campus," Hazels said. "It's not where a lot of students are. With me, the apartment thing didn't do it."
"Lawrence has a great bunker of transient people who don't want to purchase a house because of the University," Lehmann said. He said families might rent because a family member might only need to spend one or two years at the University to finish getting a degree.
borhood that families did.
"You can drive down the street and tell which ones are rental, usually because of the cars and trash," Blank said.
Bob Blank, who built his house in the neighborhood in 1953, said having too much rental property was bad for the neighborhood. He said he was not against rental property or students, but students didn't take the same interest in the neigh-
Of the neighborhood's 625 houses, more than 200 are rental property, Blank said.
Not all of the properties are rented out to traditional students. Some are rented out to families with children.
Rental property also raised taxes in the neighborhood, Blank said, because once a single-family house was made into a multi-person rental property it tended to be overvalued.
To keep large numbers of renters out of the Centennial neighborhood, Blank is working on a petition that will ask the city to make an ordinance that would only allow two unrelated people to live together.
"Since 1946 I've seen what's happened," Blank said. "There used to beautiful homes on Ohio, Louisiana. . . they're practically all gone. They're apartments or parking lots."
Provost boasts of national scholarship winners
Ryan Devlin
Kansan staff writer
writer@kansan.com
As the semester drew to a close, Provost David Shulenburger answered questions regarding his thoughts on the University's accomplishments this semester and what the future holds. The following is a transcript from that interview.
Q: What have been the University's biggest accomplishments this semester?
legislature?
Shulenburger: I believe that the many national scholarships and awards won by students this year is the biggest accomplishment. Obtaining funding for a 5.9 percent merit salary increase was also very important.
Q: How satisfied were you with your efforts and the efforts of others representing KU in the State
Shulenburger: The Regents, the Governor and a bipartisan coalition of legislators generated a significantly higher salary increase
for faculty than for other state employees. I believe that our persistent effort to put before these bodies an accurate picture of our very large salary deficit helped in the case. Over time, the passage of the
Shulenburger:
proud of scholarship winners
Faculty of Distinction bill will be seen as monumental in importance. This bill provides an earnings-equivalent match for endowment gifts of $500,000 or more if the purpose of the gift is to support faculty. The bill clearly increases resources available to recruit and retain faculty, but it also provides a significant incentive for donors to make such endowment gifts.
Q: The University was involved in two trials this semester involving tenure and discrimination. Is this a growing problem at KU?
Shulenburger: I do not believe unlawful discrimination in the promotion and tenure process has occurred at KU. In one case, we were found not to have discriminated, and in the other, the discrimination charge was dismissed by the judge. I am concerned that any faculty member might feel that discrimination is a problem in the promotion and tenure process at KU. Since all the procedure
involved in the promotion and tenure process is a product of faculty deliberation, I would ask that faculty governance consider whether the process might be changed such that the opportunity for individuals to perceive that discrimination is a problem would be minimized. Clearly, we have to have a process for making promotion and tenure decisions that is both fair and is perceived as fair.
Q: What are some of your goals for the future?
Shulenburger; A major goal over the next several years will be to obtain legislative appropriations to continue significant salary increases for faculty such that we catch up to the level of our funding peers. Salaries of both classified and unclassified staff are a significant problem that also must be addressed.
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