CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 4, 1984
Page 6
Weather delays permanent road repairs
By TODD NELSON
Staff Reporter
The roads on the KU campus, tortured by a brutally cold winter, are strewn with potholes that probably won't be filled until the weather turns warm, a facilities operations official said recently.
Robert Porter, associate director of physical plant maintenance for facilities, operations, said that workers would use temporary coal patches to repair the roads until the weather improves.
Porter said that pothes were a serious problem on Naismith Drive between 15th and 16th streets; Irving Hill Road; Sunflower Road; Jayhawk Boulevard near 13th Street; and the entrance road to Watkins Hospital.
Chipp Nelson, Lenexa freshman,
knows firsthand about potholes on
Irving Hill Road behind Hashinger
Hall.
Nelson said that he had been splashed with muddy water from a pothole three miles away.
p. "Everytime somebody hits a chuck-
peck," be said, "they call in."
"The reason why I was concerned about this," Nelson said, "is that it was dangerous to pedestrians, motorcycle
Porter said he was aware of the problem.
and moped riders."
hole. Expansion joints in the roads help protect the roads during temperature fluctuations. But when those fluctuations are too great, the expansion joints break, and cracks form in the road's surfaces. Water from snow or rain works into cracks, causing further deterioration and eventually a pothole.
The wet, cool winter has made patching difficult, Forter said, because permanent asphalt patches require
warmer weather than Lawrence has been receiving recently.
Surplus water from the rock lee behind Hashinger Hall has aggravated the potholes along Irving Hill Road, Porter said.
Porter said that facilities operations workers had put eight to ten temporary coal patches in the first Irving Hill fire to force one forerunner for more than a few days.
The original patches did not hold because water below the rog surface had worked into them and popped them out, Porter said.
TOPEKA — Republicans yesterday unveiled a plan to authorize the governor to respond to prison overcrowding emergencies by releasing inmates from prison for Gov. John Carlin called the proposal irresponsible.
"It's an abdication of their responsibility," press secretary Michael Swenson said after House Majority Leader Joe Hoagland, R-Overland Park, presented the plan to the House Ways and Means Committee.
GOP unveils plan to combat crowded prisons
Bv United Press International
The bill would allow the secretary of corrections to ask the governor to declare a state of emergency when
If the governor agreed an emergency existed, the parole eligibility of all inmates sentenced for class D was rescinded.
The House committee, however, agreed to introduce two measures encompassing four parts of Carlin's package. The first measure calls for a constitutional amendment that would fund fed by permanent, property tax moll levy.
still would have to go before the parole board to be released.
released.
Hoagland called the bill the Republican's alternative to Carlin's five-part prison overcrowding plan, unveiled last Friday.
The second bill would provide $633,600 to add 192 beds to the penal system through renovation at Kansas State Penitentiary and Kansas State Industrial Reformatory; $175,000 to plan the construction of a new 300-bed women's prison in 2000 to study how best to accommodate an existing state hospital, such as Larned State Hospital, to a prison.
At the same time, the Senate Judiciary Committee
Republican leaders do not like the Band-Aid approach taken to solve prison overcrowding in the past several years, said Hoagland, who further remarked that Kansas has half the number of prison beds as do other states with a comparable population and crime rate.
approved and sent to the full Senate the fifth part of Carlin's plan to reduce minimum prison sentences for class D and E felonies. The measure would return the maximum sentence length they were before the 1982 law that increased them.
Hoagland told the committee that 15 other states have granted emergency prison release authority to their governors.
But Swenson said Carlin's program was a long-term response to prison overcrowding, and the one-item GOP proposal does not address the problem.
HOW GAMMONS LIFTED ME UP, UP AND AWAY.
And even though the big man wasn't there,
Being the only woman reporter on the Lawrence Daily Planet has its drawbacks. Like the fact that nobody takes me seriously. But I was going to prove 'em all wrong by bringing in a really big story. A personal, in-depth interview with the Man of Steel.
My sources told me he hung out at Gammons. So here I was, waiting for him to show up. And let me tell you, there aren't any better places to spend your time. At Gammons, the service is faster than a speeding bullet. The music, more powerful than a locomotive. And the video entertainment technology is right out of a science fiction comic book.
But as I was walking out, my darned heel broke. I was just about to kiss the concrete when guess who finally shows up?
You got it. Just in the nick of time, the Man of Steel comes out of nowhere and sweeps me off my feet. Literally! And as we were flying away, I looked around. That coward Kent was
there were plenty of other cute guys who looked like they could leap a few tall buildings in a single bound themselves.
I tended up spending the entire evening at Gammons!
Until that snivelling drip Kent strolled in, that is. That was my cue to leave.
nowhere to be seen. That light.
But boy, did I get a story.
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