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University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1983
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'Double event' snarls traffic Move to Daisy Hill is slow
By GINA K. THORNBURG ANDMICHAEL PAUL
Staff Handwritten
Staff Reporters
For the first time in KU history, students had to move into residence halls and weave through long enrollment lines on the same day.
Fred McElhenean, director of the office of residential programs, said that this year's traffic was more congested than in the past.
The double event, along with blistering heat, created traffic problems on Daisy Hill, where five of the eight residence halls are located.
"It looked a little more severe than before," he said. "Around noon there was a backup. It doesn't seem like it is going to happen, anyone wants to arrive the first day."
McEhlene says that because of pre-enrollment, students should not have to arrive on campus sooner than the day for paying fees.
"Since the majority would have pre-employed," he said, "we couldn't figure out what would be served best if they had come in a day earlier."
HIGH UTILITY bills were a key reason that halls were opened later this year than in previous years, he said.
"We're fighting 100-degree weather and the utility costs in the halls are incredibly high," he said. "You'll be passed along to the students."
Even though the late opening would save students money in the long run, it created problems for some students.
Molly Ream, Evergreen, Colo,
freshman, moved into Hassinger
Hall on Wednesday. Moving in was
she said, because she arrived early
"I think I would have hated it if had been here later." Ream said. "They really need a system with the parking especially in this heat. It
tends to get the older people aggravated and irritated.
"If my father had been here, he wouldn't have survived it."
ROSALIE KOZAK, Skokie, Ill., whose son moved into Eldsworth Hall, said the late opening made it possible to move her son's belongings.
"It was like a triple move," she said. "We had to spend one night in a hotel, so we moved everything in there, you couldn't leave it in your car."
Lois Klein, Skokie, Ill., also spent the hot day moving her son into Ellsworth Hall.
"Anyone who lives more than 200 miles away will probably need to spend a night in a hotel room if they want to get to the residence hall early the first morning," she said. "In view of that, it is a double move."
"Why didn't they stagger the check-in to the dorms? Why not desinate times to sign in?"
HOWEVER, MCCELIENIE said, an alphabetical system of moving into the residence halls would not be feasible.
"Perhaps it would be impossible for people to make it into town on their assigned date," he said.
David A. Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that a system for staggering the check-in at residence halls was not a good solution
"The problem with a system like that," he said, "is that many students have a compulsion to get here, to get going. They're anxious to meet their roommate; they don't want to meet them; that might happen before school begins.
McElhenie said, "The day we're open, boom, we're swamped."
front of McColum and Ellsworth halls, which share a parking lot.
The parking lots were definitely swamped Wednesday, especially in
Small lots a problem
"Usually the traffic is heavy when the residence halls open," Longaker said. "But this year the congestion is worse because the halls opened the same day when students were to register and pay fees."
HAROLD LONGAKER was among the members of the KU Parking Services directing traffic late Wednesday afternoon at Irving Hill and Engel roads, the intersection between Hashinger and Ellsworth halls.
Replicate this payoff and Ellsworth halles were designed at a time when most students did not have cars. McElwethie said.
"When those halls were built, it was not overly common for all those students to have cars," he said. "There is no space to build more parking."
McElhennie compared the parking problem at KU to that of a large city.
"When you go downstream of any large city there's no more parking," he said.
"Usually, a parking permit is a hunting license for a place to park."
AMBLER SUGGESTED a way to alleviate the parking problem.
"I'd prefer to open the residence halls on a weekend and begin classes on a Wednesday or a Thursday," he said. "I like to make it more convenient for the parents."
"There is not as much traffic in Lawrence on the weekends and on Sunday the offices of the University are closed."
Ambler said this system had not been put into effect because the Board of Regents sets the day when classes are to begin. The Regents preferred to begin classes on Monday rather than in the middle of the week, he said.
"I suspect that the school calendar set by the Board of Regents is a compromise in the interests of the needs of six state universities," Amber said.
"I don't know whether a midweek start has ever been proposed," he said. "That's something we're looking at."
Envoy assures Israeli pullback
Cairo, Egypt — U.S. presidential envoy Robert McFarlane met yesterday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and assured him that Israel would welcome all of its troops from Lebanon and would not partition the country.
By United Press International
In Damascus, warring factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization reached provisional agreement for a ceasefire and an end to mutual attacks in their internal conflict, state Syrian radio said yesterday.
After a 75-minute meeting with Mubarak at the Kubba presidential palace in Cairo, McMarla said the United States was convinced that Israel had done its best to Lebanon and that its 30,000-man army would eventually leave the country.
"The partition is out of the question," he said. "It will not happen."
STATE SYRIAN radio monitored in Biketure yesterday reported a provisional agreement for a ceasefire before the warring factions of the PLO.
"The delegation from the PLO Central Council now in Damascus presented a memorandum to all parties concerned that included the basic principles agreed on for a cease-fire between the brothers in arms, and for an end to propaganda attacks."
It said the memorandum contained the PLO mediation delegation's suggestions for the restoration of unity in the ranks of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah guerrilla group.
The Syrian and Libyan-backed revolt against Arafat's leadership of Fatah and the PLO as a whole began three months ago, although fighting two sides in Lebanon's eastern Bekan Valley died down two weeks ago.
This is the first time the Syrian media have reported a ceasefire.
IN TEL AVIV, the military command said yesterday Israeli soldiers shot and killed a guerrilla in a clash with the coastal road in south Lebanon.
The incident occurred north of the port city of Tyre, well inside the Israeli army's planned redeployment line in south Lebanon.
The announcement said "a terrorist was killed in the encounter" and that "no injuries were sustained by Israeli forces."
"This evening, two bazooka rockets were launched in the direction of an Israeli Army patrol that was moving along the coastal road," the command said. "The soldiers returned fire in the direction of the (attack)."
In Lebanon, President Amin Gemayel, who dispatched an envoy to Saudi Arabia Saturday, met with opposition leaders in efforts to find a national reconciliation before the planned partial Israeli withdrawal.
Recession worsens in Latin America
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Latin America is in the third year of a severe recession that has about 30 percent of the region's labor force unemployed or underemployed, the Inter-American Development Bank said yesterday.
Unemployment, stagnating economies, deteriorating living conditions and government austerity programs could bring "an escalation of social and political tension," the bank said.
In its 1983 report on economic and social progress in Latin America, the bank noted that about 30 percent of unemployed were unemployed or underemployed.
Jorge Ruz Lara, deputy manager of the 43-nation regional development bank, said the decline might be even worse if he were to have a partnership with possible improvement in 1984.
On a per capita basis, the picture is worse. For all of Latin America, the report said, the per capita gross domestic product dropped 1 percent in 1961 and fell more than 3 percent in 1982.
"Thus, by the beginning of 1983, the gains made in 1979 and 1980 in raising standards of living had been wiped out," the report said.
THE LATIN AMERICAN economy, which had grown at real annual rates of 5 and 6 percent for two decades, grew at a rate of 12 percent and declined 1.2 percent in 1982.
The individual hardships of the recession are compounded by painful economic reforms being made by many Latin American nations to deal with debt crises. Reforms include sharp cuts in public spending, elimination of production subsidies and slowing pay raises.
The report urged governments to more equitably distribute the cost of economic reforms.
The value of imports by Latin American nations dropped 19.4 percent in 1982 as the region sought to bring international debts into balance. At the same time, Latin American exports declined 9.8 percent, largely because of falling commodity prices caused by the world recession.
SUCH REFORMS recently caused riots in Paulo, Brazil.
The economic slowdown in Latin America has been most severe in manufacturing, which declined 2.6 percent and 2.7 percent in 1982, the report said.
Although protectionism in industrial countries was one factor hurting Latin American industry, the report said, America is turning more protectionist.
Ruiz said Latin America had the potential to pull out of its recession.
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