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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 115 ISSUE 121
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30.2005
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PARKING
Permits and fees of parking to rise
BY JOSHUA BICKEL
jbickel@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
The Parking Commission voted yesterday to raise all parking permit prices a total of 40 percent during the next two years.
If Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Provost David Shulenburger approve the plan, prices will increase 20 percent next fall, followed by another 20 percent for the 2006-2007 academic year.
"We want to get these rates set so that people can see what it's going to cost," Donna Hultine, director of the Parking Department, said.
Tom Mulinazzi, chairman of the Parking Commission, said that the chancellor and provost will likely approve the commission's plan.
An increase in parking meter fines and event parking was also suggested during yesterday's meeting. The commission plans to raise meter fines from $5 to $10.
Increased revenue for parking per
mits will help fund a new 1,500-space Park and Ride lot and maintenance costs of existing parking lots.
A Park and Ride lot, which the location of has not yet been decided, will cost about $7 million to build and the Parking Department has about $700,000 in maintenance costs per year.
Maintenance work may begin as early as this summer.
"If we are allowed to develop a list of lots that need improvement, people will begin to see them being improved." Hultine said.
The Parking Commission considered different options, including raising the rates 40 percent in one year. Some members of the commission expressed concern that lower-income staff would not be able to afford an increase all at once.
"I think what they decided was the most conscientious for the people buying the permits," Hultine said.
But not all members of the commission agreed with the decision
Mulinazzi said he rather the
increase come together because the plan could be thrown out by next year's commission members. The present commission has no control about what the next Parking Commission will decide to do in the future, he said.
Another increase in permit rates is likely if the University decides to develop a campus transit system in the next two or three years, Mulnazzi said. Right now, transit isn't a main concern for the Parking Department, Hultine said.
Jeff Dunlap, student body vice president, was concerned about the lack of an adequate transportation system, especially for the new Park and Ride lot. The student transportation fee will have to increase in order to cover expenses for the new lot. Dunlap said.
"I think students are getting the short end of the sick out of this," he said. "Not only will they pay for an increase in permits, but also for an increase in the fee."
— Edited by Nikola Rowe
Projected parking permit rate increases
- Park and Ride pass price may increase because of the fact that bus pass prices are not controlled by the Parking Department.
Graphic by Cameron Monken
Source: KU Parking Department
SPEAKER
A group of protesters hold up a quote by Ann Coulter outside the Lied Center last night before she spoke as part of the Vickers Memorial Lecture Series. The controversial conservative criticized Democrats and liberals, but spoke most of the evening amidst yelling from a crowd of about 1,800.
Kelly Hutsell/KANSAN
A bashing good time
Controversial speaker criticizes liberals amidst yelling from Lied Center crowd
BY JASON SHAAD
jshaad@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
After several people continued to haggle her during her speech last night in the Lied Center, Ann Coulter made a call for help.
"I'm not going to keep talking if people keep yelling," said Coulter, a conservative political commentator and best-selling author. "If you see someone yelling, I want the College Republicans to get up and kick them out."
A crowd of people in the front rows got up, walked up the aisles, and tried to get a few of the people yelling to leave.
Lied Center personnel and security stepped in and told the students who were yelling that they needed to leave or quietly wait until the end of the speech to ask questions.
About 1,800 people attended Coulter's speech, which was part of the Vickers Memorial Lecture Series.
Coulter criticized Democrats and liberals throughout her speech, joking that Democrats exaggerated trivial matters.
"I think the Democrats should make SpongeBob the mascot of their party," Coulter said. "They were offended that a cartoon character was being slandered, while Bush was being criticized about the war."
Coulter said Democrats complained too much about the presidential election, the war in Iraq and 9/11.
"Liberals are always complaining about being repressed," Coulter said.
One woman kept shouting questions from the back of the auditorium. After refusing to be quiet, a crowd official removed the person. The audience burst into applause at her removal.
Sometimes the yells were stifled by applause from other members of the audience. Other times Coulter just spoke over the hagglers.
"I say let's do it. Let's repress them. We can burn their books and repress their ideas and damage the ozone at the same time." she ioked.
Students had mixed responses to Coulter's speech.
All night Coulter spoke over muffled yells from the audience.
Stephanie Farlev/KANSAN
Ann Coulter, right-wing commentator, gestures during her speech last night at the Lied Center. Coulter spoke to a crowd of almost 2,000 people about "the world according to Ann Coulter." At one point during her speech she threatened to stop because the crowd was out of control.
"I thought she was catty and nitpicky," said Marta Buechler, St. Louis sophomore. "And that is what she accuses liberals of doing anyway."
SEE BASHING ON PAGE 4A
MOVIES
Courtesy 'CSA' Web site
Screening of 'CSA' tonight
By Stephen Shupe
By Stephen Shupe The Student Union Activities Committee is sponsoring a special advanced screening of "CSA: The Confederate States of America" at 7 tonight in the Kansas Union. The movie was written and directed by Kevin Willmott, assistant professor of theater and film
Kevin Willmott, assistant professor of theater and film, opens "CSA: The Confederate States of America" with a quote from playwright George Bernard Shaw: "If you're going to tell the people the truth, you better make them laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you."
The writer and director then pulls the audience into a wickedly satirical alternate reality in which the South won the Civil War. Imagine that the miniseries "Roots" was directed by Michael Moore and you'll have a good idea of what Willmott's film looks like.
Using the style developed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, Willmott, who also provides the voice of Frederick
Douglass, assembles archival photographs, live cinematography and interviews with historians to construct a dizzying collage of revisionist history.
"CSA" purports to be a British documentary airing on Confederate television, complete with commercial interruptions. It takes us right up to the present day, when slavery still exists in America. We see how Gen. Robert E. Lee won the War Between the States, how Confederate President Jefferson Davis took over the White House and how "Dishonest Abe" fled only to be caught later and convicted of war crimes.
SEE CSA ON PAGE 4A
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Gone fishin'
'Kansan' sponsors crossword puzzle contest Opportunities to win movie passes and gift certificates were incentives for students to compete in the Kansan's crossword competition yesterday. PAGE 2A
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