University Daily Kansan, March 24, 1981
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Safety of proposed parking lot questioned On the Record
By DALE WETZEL
Staff Reporter
Well before the wrecking ball's first swing last January, Bryan Anderson's toy factory at 600 Massachusetts St. had been a cause celebre for Lawrence residents opposing the city's plan to pave the site for a parking lot.
The aging building's ruins are long gone but the issue refuses to go away.
A North Second Street billboard, sponsored by Anderson's whimsical "Committee to Save Lawrence From Itself," still stands as a reminder. Stark black-and-white signs reading, "Remember 600 Mass, on April 27." The billboard among flashier placards of Lawrence's six City Commission candidates.
MEWHILE, ANDERSON and A Wright, who argued at last week's City Commission meeting for the city to defer letting bids on the project, are
"We're working on that now," Wright, "1123 New Jersey St., said last night. "It's possible to file an injunction against us if you want a project, but to me that's unliked, no
one really has the time to press the issue like that.
"We probably won't even address the Commission tomorrow night, at least not directly. We'll probably prepare a press release instead."
The Commission voted 4-1 March 17 to go ahead with letting bids for the project, which will be received this morning at City Hall.
"It isn't an easy lot to use." Richardson said. "It's not convenient, and it exits the auto in such a manner that forces it to cross traffic lanes."
WRIGHT CONTENDS that the lot's location is unsafe, and Gaylord Richardson, KU associate professor of architecture and Urban design, agrees
Richardson, who previously had served as Anderson's consultant on the lot's design, later appeared before the court and was accused of a taxpaper "to criticize the lot."
"There is no demonstrated need for a in that location." he said later. "In deliberately pursuing this location, the city is causing a higher cost per car."
RICHARDSON SAID that northbound one-way traffic on New Hampshire
KJHK, KU's student-run radio station, has delayed its power boost a month because of equipment problems.
KJHK power boost delayed
Because an amplifier had to be returned to its manufacturer, the power cannot be increased until April, Irwin station manager, said yesterday.
Brown said the amplifier was new and under warranty so there would be no additional cost to the station because of the problem.
May 5. Brown said that there would be bands and beer, Free KJH bumper stickers and T-shirts also will be distributed.
Student Senate funding and income from underwriting sponsors will pay for the events.
The station is planning several promotional events to recognize the power increase. An open house and a party at Potter's Pavilion will be held
The College Media Journal, a trade magazine, recently named KJHK one of the top seven college radio stations in the country.
The magazine polled 1,500 sub-
serving stations that send copies of
their programming schedules and lists
of top recordings to the weekly
magazine.
About 80 women from sororities and scholarship halls will trade beds, meals and social events today through Friday in the Canellinne Association 'Live In-Childcare'.
Program to unite women's living groups
Begin last semester, the program was expanded to include scholarship hats to mix Greek and non-Greek students. He also took vice president for campus affairs, said.
"The idea is to get to know people in other living groups." she said.
Five women from each of the four women's scholarship halls and 13 sororites will participate.
The residence halls were not included
because of the large number of women who live there, Hanson said.
Nancy Kelly, Overland Park sophomore, who lives in Sellars Hall, said the live-in would help relations between sorcerers and scholarship halles.
"I don't know anything about sororites," she said. "It will be interesting to see how the other half lives, so to sneak."
Street would approach the lot's exit at the point where the street curves west, and that the sight lines out of the lot's exit would be obscured.
Susan Newton, Fairway senior, who lives in Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, said the exchange was designed to give women a different perspective.
"Should someone come out of that lot, there is not enough time for traffic to stop to avoid hitting the car coming out," Richardson said.
George Williams, city public works director, conceeded that, per space, the lot was the city's most expensive yet. It will cost $150,000 for a 32-space lot, or $8,000 per space.
However, Williams said, the expense included better quality asphalt than the city has used for past lots, along with landscaping and other improvements.
CITY ENGINEER Leonard Hoover, one of the lot's designers, also said he had "no problems" with the lot.
"Mr. Richardson and Mr. Morris (John Morris, KU assistant professor of architecture and urban design) suggested some changes on the lot, but they're really quite minor," he said. "There's not all that much to designing a parking lot, as long as you adhere to the standards."
Hoover conceded that the city did not often design parking lots. He said that consultants were usually employed to do the job, but that the low cost and small scope of the project made it more practical for the city to handle.
"I think that any problems that the lot might have can be handled easily by the average driver." Flower said.
WRIGHT, HOWEVER, is worried
about possible legal ramifications of design-related accidents.
Wright and Lawrence Mayor Elder Carter and Commissioner Barkley Clark had accused Anderson's supporters of stalling for the April 7 election, but that all they wanted was an independent study of the lot.
"That lot was ordered by the city and designed by the city to city specifications," Wright said. "If there's a serious accident there that can be improved to improper design or location, the city is setting itself up for a hell of a lawsuit."
"It's like triple jeopardy for the taxpayers. The city is paying an outrageous sum for the lot, it's unsafe to use, and the taxpayers will carry the liability if the city gets slapped with a suit."
"We're not trying to raise unnecessary hell." Wright said.
Anderson, meanwhile, plans to try to change the situation through the ballot box.
"The present City Commission has basically said it doesn't care, that they're going to build it," he said. "It doesn't matter what the pros and cons are. They don't need an engineering department, or a law enforcement officer, and they'ren't about to provide one."
"I'll just go for the election, Nancy Shontz and Tormee Glossave have maintained a pretty consistent stand about that they don't like what's going on."
Women's health conference set
The River City Women's Health Collective, a group that collects and distributes information on women's health at the River City Women's health conference April 4.
The conference will be held throughout the day at the Community Building, 115 W. 11th St.
The conference will include a series of workshops and lectures dealing with health issues, a spokesman for the group said yesterday.
"A lot of women's health problems are not adequately researched by the medical community," Gall Boaz, Prairie Village junior and one of the founders of the collective, said. "Problems like proper nutritional care and information training have itself breast examinations, are readily available."
the collective also plans to sponsor a
"The purpose of the conference is to better educate women about their bodies. Knowing about your body gives you better health, as well as a feeling of power when you know that you're in control of your body."
continuing series of workshops and information pamphlets concerning women's health problems, another member of the collective said.
"There used to be an attitude among women that the doctor knows best." Jana Svoboda, Lawrence junior, said. "We used to find out that it unnecessarily so."
The collective will publish pamphlets on everything from self-breast examinations to herbal remedies, Swoboda said. Since February, the collective has distributed information concerning toxic shock syndrome, fibrocystic breast disease and use of the Pill.
The collective also hopes to provide a telephone line and a non-lending library to serve as a resource center for the campus and the community, Svoboda
"We've received $750 in Student Senate funding, which will help the collective a lot," Svoboda said.
A STEREO SYSTEM, valued at $75, was taken from a residence in the 1100 block of Tennessee Street, police said. The car, curred between Thursday and Sunday.
A lone gunman painted a cocked revolver at a clerk and took about $50 from Town and Country, 901 Ohio State, on early morning, Lawrence police said.
A BURGLAR took $1,600 in cash from a residence in the 2000 block of Ohio Street. police said. The burglary occurred between March 10 and Sunday.
A BURGLAR SLIPPED the lock of a residence in the 2300 block of Haskell Street between Saturday and Sunday and took a pair of skis, valued at $73, a pair of bindings, valued at $75, and a stereo system, valued at $675.
Many KU students returned from spring break to find that their apartments had been burglared.
The man was wearing a blue ski mask and a red stocking cap.
He took the money from the cash
machine and sold out of the store.
VANDALS DAMAGED some foot-path lights east of the Campanile for the second time in a month, KU police said.
Police are still investigating the robbery.
KU police Captain John Mullens said seven lights were damaged and eight were stolen. Police estimated damage to the lights at $3,000.
KU students lose law match
Two KU law students were stopped in the first round of the second annual National Trial Admission Day last weekend in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Kimberley K. Wetzel and Thomas L. Byers, second-year law students, represented KU in the regional competition.
The competition is sponsored by the association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), which plans the national mock trial problem.
This year's problem involved a maid practice case. A man sued his lawyer after an unsuccessful attempt to sue a fabric manufacturer. The man's wife was killed when her dress caught fire.
Each of the seven competing schools was represented by teams of two students. They were evaluated
by three judges on the basis of opening and closing statements, examination of witnesses and prepared briefs.
The briefs were due in January and accounted for 25 percent of the teams' total scores. KU's briefs placed second in the competition.
There were three rounds of competition, but KU did not advance from the first round, in which they competed with Willamette College of Law. Willamette placed second, and University of Wyoming won the contest
This was KU's first year in the competition. The KU team was chosen in January, when the local ATLA held a competition using the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association funded the trip to Salt Lake City.
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