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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
VOL.101.NO.145
MONDAY.AUGUST 23,1993
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Hang tags replace sticker parking permits
Passes can be shared used on different cars
By Shan Schwartz
Kansan staff writer
Students peeling and scraping off old parking permits may be happy when they get their new ones. The annual razor blade ritual has been pre-empted.
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This year, the Parking Department has replaced the adhesive parking stickers with small, plastic, movable hang tags that hook onto a rear view mirror.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of the
parking Department, said that hang tags had been considered for a few years.
had been considered for him. "People wanted to bring a different car, or they had trouble with their normal vehicle at seven in the morning," she said. "Some mornings, we'd have a big line of people waiting to get courtesy passes."
A parking permit is registered to the person who purchased it. The permit owner could use it on any vehicle or even loan it to a friend. However, the permit owner still is responsible for any tickets issued to the permit.
The Parking Department is issuing three grace passes that will excuse a permit owner when ticketed for not displaying a tag. Huline said the passes could be used
only if the car was otherwise legally parked.
Huline said that if a permit was stolen or lost, the owner should notify the Parking Department immediately.
Parking officers periodically will scan the lots on campus to locate stolen permits. A vehicle displaying a stolen or lost permit will be towed and a $25 fine will be assessed in addition to the cost of the tow.
How you can buy a parking permit
Chi Duong, Tulsa, Okla, sophomore, said she was concerned about forgetting to put her permit back up if she removed it when she parked off campus.
she parked onChapter 1
"Before, I could slap it on at the beginning of the year and forget about it," she said.
Annual fees are $53 for yellow permits
for students, $35 for university housing
permits, $70 for red permits and $85 for
blue permits.
Permits can be bought from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays at the Parking Department office in the Parking Facility.
- Permits will be required in yellow zones and all University housing zones beginning Sept. 7.
Source: Parking Department KANSAN
Deanne Fischer, Lawrence graduate student, waits in a fee payment line with her sons, Adam, sitting, and Alan. It was her a second trip to the Kansas Union on Thursday afternoon because the lines were too long in the morning.
Crowded lines swamp fee payment
Loan-check rush creates gridlock
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
It all came down to time and money
It anecdote.
Depending on what time they arrived to pay, either they had to pick up a bank check, many students encountered long-hours in several long lines Thursday and Friday at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Those students able to pay off their remaining fee balance by personal check or credit, encountered few, if any, crowds. Those who waited until late afternoon of either day also saw shorter lines.
but students saw gridlock during Thursday morning initial distribution of loan checks and the subsequent line for refunds. The refound line snaked back and forth across the south half of the ballroom while the north half swarmed with students jostling to pick up their financial-loan checks from the seven alphabetically arranged stations.
"Every year they say it's going to get better, but it never does." Dunn said. "I have nothing nice to say about financial aid at this point. This is the worst it's ever been."
Among them was Ed Dum, Kansas City, Kan., who had been waiting in line for more than an hour to pick up his Stafford loan check.
wife, Michelle, inched their son Ryan's stroller along as they waited for Gibbs' financial-aid check late Thursday morning.
some students anticipated the wait and took the long lines in stride, including Jeff Gibbs, Overland Park junior. He and his
Pat Lashier, assistant compterler, said that though the lines were long on Thursday morning, the size of the crowds had decreased greatly from past years by allowing students to pay their fees by mail, an option initiated last year.
"Considering the amount of people who are here, it's not too bad," Gibbs said. "It was about 20 to 25 minutes before I got here to the front of the line."
Contributing to the sea of students Thursday morning and early afternoon was the decision by many of them to pick up their loan checks at the same time,
"Three years ago, the crowds were much heavier." LaShir said. "The whole ballroom would be filled."
"Everybody's trying to get here early to receive their loans, and this is the result." Shunhua said, indicating the long lines around the ballroom. "We're trying to get students in and out of here as quickly as possible."
sad Kathe Munz Shinham, University comprotiler.
"For some lines, people were facing one way and then facing the other way," said Rita Byrd, Shawnee senior. "There seemed to be a lot of confusion."
Adding to the burden of the increased rush of students were the problems caused by setup of the loan disbural stations. Some students said they were not sure which line they were in.
Fee payment officials continually are trying to improve the payment process, Shinham said.
Law dean resigns from post
Jerry will leave position next June to write, teach
By Christoph Fuhrmans
By Christopher
Kansan staff writer
Robert Jerry, KU dean of law, announced Friday his plans to resign next year.
After Jerry's resignation takes place will take a year off and return to teach full-time in Fall 1995.
Jerry said that he wanted time to finish the second edition of his book, "Understanding Insurance Law," originally published in 1987.
He said he resigned because he wanted to spend more time with his wife, Lisa, and their three children, John, 4, Jim, 2, and Beth, 6 months.
"My kids will never be this age again," said Jerry, who joined the law school in 1981. "This is the time in my life to spend time with my children."
Robert Jerry
Jerry said he decided to announce his resignation Friday to get the university enough time to find his replacement.
Jerry said he needed to give the University enough time to find his replacement. David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said he would meet with law school faculty members and solicit nominations for a committee to find a new dean in a few weeks.
Jerry's resignation follows a difficult year for the law school. In February, Jerry drew criticism after his private memo to del Brinkman, then vice chancellor for academic affairs, was leaked to the media. In the memo, Jerry called Washburn University a "low-quality school."
In July, a university committee voted to uphold Chancellor Gene Budig's recommendation that law professor Emil Tappichkova has dismissed on charges of moral tupile.
The investigation and hearing, which lasted about two years, put a continued negative spotlight on the law school.
so she said. Jerry said he would have resigned regardless of the attention drawn by the Tonkovich trial and the leaked memo,
The follow-matter is relevant only to my decision in that it is one of the reasons why I didn't have enough time to finish my book and spend time with my kids," he said.
to finish my book and spend it. "I made a mistake in a couple sentences that I put in that private advocacy document. I took responsibility for that mistake. I apologized to the people that I offended. Most of those people accepted that apology graciously. For most people now, the memo is old history."
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, said Jerry's announcement after last year's problems would not affect the law school.
"I don't believe for a moment that it will reflect negatively on the law school for the University of Kansas," he said. "Across the country, the tenure of deans is becoming shorter."
Shuleburger said that dears spent an average of three years at their posts. Jerry has been dean since 1980.
Despite the negative public attention the law school received, Jerry is positive about the state of the school. Since he has been dean, the law school's private funding has increased, he said.
has increased
Law School Admissions Test scale, KU's median score is in the 80th percentile nationally.
This year's incoming class is one of the most diverse ever, with 44 percent women, and for the first time, three consecutive incoming classes have been more than 10 percent minority students.
cent minority students.
"I've accomplished the important things I've set out to do," Jerry said. "I'm young enough to be a dean again, and I probably will be."
Even though Jerry's resignation does not take effect until next year, he said that he was looking forward to his last year as dean.
year as dean. He said wants to maintain and expand the funding programs, improve the curriculum and improve job placement for graduating students.
ment for graduating students,
"Positive items are premature," he said. "We've got a lot of work to do."
Convocation Chorus
uncancellor Gene Budig peppered his praise for the University with a few criticisms yesterday at the official opening of the school year at Lied Center.
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Bv Tracl Carl
Kansan staff writer
The most memorable was the guy dressed in a tuxedo sitting in a recliner in the back of a pick-up truck, smoking a pipe and reading a book.
After 14 years, Bob Flowers can pick out students when they pull up to the tollbooth.
it was pouring now I ran.
As the first people to see KU students arrive and the last to see them go each year, Kansas Turnpike toll collectors at the West Lawrence exit have seen a lot of strange things.
things John Britt, who has been a toll collector for more than two years, said students keen the job lively.
It was pouring down rain.
"When they are with a group they get a lot braver." Britt said. "They get kinda ornery."
Flowers said students also will try to come up with creative ways to pay the toll. One group tried to give him a ripped-up dollar bill. Flowers told them they'd have to either pay with undamaged money or wait for the state trooper to deal with it.
for the sake troops
"All of the sudden these dollar bills came
flying out of there," Flowers said. "So they ruined a dollar bill for nothing."
rumbles oasis but for a few years ago, some students took mannequins out on the pavement and pretended to beat them up on the side of the road. Flowers said. People arriving at the tollbooths would report it but the students usually would be gone by the time the state trooper arrived.
trooper arrives.
First and Sunday nights, holiday weekends and the beginning and end of semesters are the busiest times for toll collectors. Flowers said.
Britt said he could spot returning students by the way they packed their cars.
"Lots of times they don't have any room except to steer," Brit said.
except to steer," Brit said. And the news students are easy to spot.
"A lot of the new students, especially the girls, have teddy bears with them," he said.
Kansas Turnpike Authority employee John Britt hands a ticket to a customer. Britt said traffic through the turnpike increased at the beginning of each semester.