Not enough areas
Case may alter parking
A case now pending in the Student Court could change the existing system of restricted campus parking areas.
Contingent to the case is the question of the extent of the Student Court's jurisdiction. If the court finds that the regulations governing permit parking are unlawful, then the court would be ruling against a state law.
Robert Jenks, professor of geography and chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board of the University Senate, said that the power to set parking and traffic policies is delegated to his committee through a complex system that starts in the state legislature and is channeled through the Board of Regents and the Chancellor.
"These parking and traffic regulations are not just arbitrarily set up by the committee," Jenks said. They come in part from the legislature, and are laws of the state of Kansas."
Bill Weber, Wichita junior and chief justice of the Student Court said the question of the court's authority will not be decided until after Christmas because the court is still deliberating the verdict. He said there may be precedent in the general statutes of Kansas to support the issue of whether or not the Student Court can overrule a state law.
The case arose this summer when a student en route to Watson Library parked in T zone. When he returned to his car he found a ticket for parking in a restricted permit zone.
The student appealed the case on the grounds that the restricted parking system was inconsistent with the general policy of the Parking and Traffic Regulations, said Steve Joseph, Wichita law student.
The case was tried two weeks before Thanksgiving break and the appellant won. A week after the original complaint was heard, another complaint was filed on similar grounds. Ray Lancaster, Lawrence law student, lost this case. Because of the similarities in the two cases, it was decided that they should be combined
Heider gets grant
A National Institute of Mental Health grant of $11,062 will allow Fritz Heider, University professor emeritus of psychology, to continue his conceptual research in interpersonal relations.
Heider's last book, "Psychology of Interpersonal Relations," won him a distinguished scientist award from the American Psychological Association in 1965.
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and presented together for an appeal before the entire court.
During the proceedings, the counsel for the appellants maintained that the University does not provide a maximum of convenient parking space as the General Policy say it should in Section A.
Lancaster and Joseph also contended that the University does not utilize its facilities to maximum efficiency which they claim is also contrary to Section A of the General Policy that states that use of parking lots is designed for the best interest of the total university.
The counsel for the appellants attempted to show that many of the restricted zones are not used to their capacity.
should be completed by January. Jenks said there are not enough spaces to accommodate the number of cars that students and faculty have brought to Lawrence.
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