Tuesday, January 25, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Students to pay for tuition, fee hikes
By Doug Pacey
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Four separate increases in tuition and campus fees, with a possible fifth, for next fall will drain students' wallets.
A full-time, undergraduate student enrolled in 15 hours and paying in-state tuition will hand over an additional $104.10 next fall, an 8.3 percent increase including campus fees. Out-of-state students will pay an additional $171.60, an increase of 3.8 percent.
Tuition increases as of July 1,2000
The Board of Regents approved a 2.5 percent tuition increase last spring to offset inflationary costs and another $3.20 per credit hour increase in December when it became apparent that it was not going to get all of the money it requested from Gov. Graves' budget for the fiscal year of 2001, which begins July 1, 2000.
The Regents also suffered a 1 percent cut from their budget for the 2000 fiscal year.
"The Board of Regents said we can't afford this 1 percent cut that would cost $5.4 million out of our budget for the future," said Kim Wilcox, Regents executive director. "We increased tuition next fall to generate $5.4 million."
current rate/hour new rate/hour percent increase
$69.65 $75.59 8.5%
$289.75 $301.19 3.9%
current rate/12 hours new rate/12 hours percent increase
$1,258.75 $1,362.85 8.3%*
out-of-state $4,560.25 $4,731.85 3.8%*
The third increase is the library fee that charges students $1 per credit hour. The fee will go to increase the number of employees at the libraries and to update online materials. There is a catch, though. The state originally promised to match every dollar that students paid with a dollar of its own, but Gov. Graves did not say that he would match the dollar in his budget for the next fiscal year.
Maggie Curry/KANSAN
Korb Maxwell, student body president, said that if the fee was not matched — and it appears that it won't be — he would push for the Regents to repeal the fee increase.
In a tight budget year, however, it is unlikely the Regents would approve such a move, no matter how much support it generated from the students, said Lindy
Eakin. associate provost.
Students will begin paying for the new recreation center next fall, too. Of the $214 campus fee that full-time students pay each semester, $13 of that is a student recreation fee to pay for the use of Robinson Center. That fee will increase to $28 next fall, making the campus fee $229.
This fee increase was supported
by 70 percent of the students who voted in a referendum last spring.
The fee for Watkins Memorial Health Center also may increase next fall.
Jim Boyle, associate director for Watkins, said there was a possibility that the fee might increase. He said a feasibility study would be done this summer.
Students pay $85.65 in health fees each semester for Watkins as part of the $214 campus fee.
New lights are installed in 'rape lot'
By Sara Shepherd writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Facilities Operations workers installed lights during winter break in the previously dark lot.
After several months of concerns, lights finally are shining in parking lot 60, near Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall.
Nicknamed the "rape lot," the area west of Indiana Street between 10th and 11th streets has been last-resort parking for residents of the all-women halls.
"Yeah, it's called the rape lot, and you just don't park down there if you're by yourself," said Jessica Butler, Albuquerque, N.M., freshman and GSP resident.
No raps have been reported in or near the lot, but Butler said that cars parked there frequently were broken into and vandalized and that she had heard rumors of women being harassed.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said she thought plans had been in the works since the fall to install lights in lot 60. Upgrading the lighting should help residents of the halls feel safer walking home, she said.
Randy Samuels, Facilities Operations assistant director of electrical and heating, venting and air conditioning, said the multi-stage project took about three weeks. Workers completed the installation on Jan. 12.
"I have heard women complain that it was dark on that side of the parking lot." Hultine said. "So I am really glad the lights have been installed."
Butler said she thought the new lights would help residents feel more comfortable in the parking lot itself.
"Yeah, it's called the rape lot, and you just don't park down there if you're by yourself,"
Jessica Butler
GSP resident
but the two-block walk along Indiana Street and 11th Street to the residence balls would still be dark — and scary. Well, said it was essential that the
Hultine said it was essential that the lots were acceptable for residents to use.
"The GSP and Corbin parking lots are so crowded." Hutine said. "They need to be able to use everything they have over there."
Butler agreed that there weren't always other parking options.
"There's not even close to enough parking," she said.
Hultine said that when concerns about lighting in parking lots were voiced, they were referred to a campus lightning committee. Hultine said that the Parking Department paid for lights in parking lots and that funding for other campus lightning came from student fees.
In March 1999, the campus safety advisory board allocated $25,000 to light the lot, which it perceived as a campus safety priority.
Residents at Gortrude Sellards Person-
Corbin Hall avoided parking in lot 60,
nicknamed the "rape Lot". The Parking
Department installed lights during winter
break. Photo by Sarah Shade / KANSAN
City may put bike lanes on three major roads
by john Audelhelm
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students may be two steps away from having bike lanes on parts of three major streets: Naismith Drive, from Irving Hill Road to 23rd Street, and 15th and 19th streets, from Connecticut Street to the eastern city limits.
Aaron Bartlett, transportation coordinator for the city, said that if the Lawrence City Commission passed the proposed bike lanes and that if the city received grants from the Kansas Department of Transportation, the three stretches of road could have bike lanes by Fall 2000. The city will find out if it gets the grants in April.
Last Tuesday, the city commission received recommendations to put bike lanes on Naismith Drive and 19th Street and to hold off putting a lane on Vermont Street. It was the first set of recommendations from the Traffic Safety Commission.
Rail Griffin, Lawrence senior and cyclist, said the routes would be useful to those students whose main form of transportation was cycling
"It if we get the funding, then it will certainly happen this year." Bartlett said.
Bartlett said that in 1998 the city's Bicycle Advisory Committee asked the city commission for bike lanes on 11 streets.
The city hired TranSystems, a Kansas City, Mo., traffic consulting company, to review the requests. TranSystems recommended bike lanes on Naismith Drive and 15th, 19th, Connecticut and Vermont streets, Bartlett said.
Parking is an obstacle on some of the other six streets such as Ninth Street, he said.
TranSystems said that parking would have to be removed on both sides of the street.
Neighbors also were opposed to bike lines on Connecticut Street, Bartlett said.
"Not all homes have driveways," he said. "The only way for them to put it in is through no parking."
Bartlett said that because some of the proposed bike lanes would require removal
BIKE LANES
Bike lanes are being consered for various portions the following streets:
■ Naismith Drive
■ 15th Street
■ Vermont Street
■ 19th Street
■ Connecticut Street
■ Ninth Street
■ 11th Street
■ Tennessee Street
■ Kentucky Street
■ Sixth Street
■ Louisiana Street
source: city officials
"If we get the funding, then it will certainly happen this year."
Aaron Bartlet
Lawrence transportation coordinator
of parking, TranSystems' report went to the Traffic Safety Commission.
At the traffic commission's December meeting, it voted to recommend building bike lanes on Naismith Drive and 15th Street and to hold on bike lanes on Vermont Street until new parking was completed downtown. The city commission received the recommendations at last Tuesday's meeting.
David Woosley, city traffic engineer, said the traffic commission, at its January meeting, had recommended building on 19th Street but not on Connecticut Street because of its parking problem. These recommendations might be on the city commission's agenda in two weeks, he said.
Woosley said the traffic commission would look at Sixth, Ninth, 11th, Tennessee and Kentucky streets at its February meeting.
Bartlett also said the city would receive a traffic calming on Louisiana Street, another street the city is considering for bike lanes.
Mayor Erv Hodges said that he did not know how the city commission would vote, but that because the traffic commission had given some of the streets positive recommendations, the city commission would consider them seriously.
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