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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 25, 1992
Housing answers gripe
Officials explain plans for parking
By Erik Bauer Kansan staff writer
Sara Kraus still is afraid to walk from her car to Douthart Scholarship Hall at night.
But after a meeting at the women's hall with two student housing officials, Kraus, Waukesha, Wis., senior, said she thought that future scholarship hall residents would not have to worry as much about safety.
Kraus and other scholarship hall women residents wrote a letter to student housing and University officials more than a week ago. The letter addressed the problems of parking, lighting and safety in scholarship hall areas.
Jim Wilkins, assistant director of student housing, and Dennis Enslinger, program assistant for student housing, spoke to more than half the residents in Douthart Hall on Thursday evening about plans for
improving lighting and parking.
Wilkins said part of the problem was a lack of communication between the housing department and scholarship hall residents.
He said student housing concerned itself with such issues every day, but it often did not communicate its efforts to the students.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said plans to improve lighting and parking already existed and were not a result of the letter sent by Kraus and the Douthart residents.
"I think that it came as a surprise to them," he said. "We need to be more diligent in the communication of going to be happening in the future."
Stoner said student housing was working with facilities planning and other University officials to provide the scholarship hall area with more lighting and parking.
The construction of Amini Hall has forced University officials to zone new parking spaces for scholarship hall residents. Residents recently contended that the number of spaces was inadequate.
The lighting project, which will cost
37 spaces:
Scholarship hall parking
27 spaces:
lost due to Amini construction.
Located in alley between Ohio and the Hudson River from 13th to 14th streets.
Source: Kansan Research
zoned during construction.
Located on Louisiana street between 12th and 13th streets.
20 spaces:
about $140,000, will provide the area with at least 21 new street lights, four of which will be on Louisiana Street, he said.
Stoner said a new gravel parking lot at 13th and Louisiana streets also would be completed in the fall.
Almee Brainard, Daily Kansan
arship hall residents had been added in the last two years.
"It's never enough," he said. "It'll be a better ratio than what they have now."
He said 54 parking spaces for schol-
He said 54 percent of scholarship hall residents applied for parking permits this school year.
The Associated Press
General Motors announcement of plant closings stuns workers
YPSILANTI, Mich. — The mood at General Motors' Willow Run assembly plant was light as workers gathered yesterday to hear whether they, or workers at a rival plant, would keep their jobs.
But joking and laughter turned to shock and apprehension when GM Chairman Robert Stempel announced plans to close the plant in this suburb west of Detroit and move production to Arlington, Texas.
Stempel said in December that one of the two plants would be closed, but Willow Run workers thought they had the upper hand as Stempel began his announcement on closed-circuit television.
Many workers walked out while Stempel was still outlining GM's plans.
"They're hurt. They're shocked.
They can't believe they lost it," said22
year worker Leo Laurin. "Most of us got kids in school. You don't know where you'll be next year."
"Why are we turning Michigan into a ghost town?" asked James Bell of Detroit, who has worked at Willow Run for 16 years.
Willow Run workers said they were disappointed that the company apparently overlooked changes they had made to cut costs and increase efficiency.
"They dangled the cheese in front of us and when we reached out for it, they yanked it away," Laurin said.
A GM representation also announced they would close their minivan in North Tarrytown, dealing a blow to 3,500 workers there.
"I'm devastated, I can't believe it," said Donald Martino, president of the United Auto Workers Local 664. "Once they close here, this town will become a ghost town."
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