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Parking Big KU Problem
University Daily Kansan
By MARTHA CHAMBERS
Campus parking is a problem, as any one of the University's more than 3,500 car-owning students will readily admit. Another 1,000 cars owned by faculty and staff further aggravate the situation
It appears to one casually driving through the campus that there are many parking places, but trying to see where they are, one of them is next to impossible.
Why are parking places and permits so scarce? The best answer is that there are only 2,000 some parking places for the 4,500 cars. According to a state-owned mechanical checking device, an average day brings 2,227 additional visiting cars through the campus. Many visitors undoubtedly would like a parking place, too.
Quite naturally the problem of who should receive priority in obtaining permits has arisen. After much deliberation, the University traffic committee arrived at a system dividing the lots between students and staff members.
Priority is given to students who live more than one mile from campus or who commute from other cities, while faculty members who are administrative heads of departments are given preference and in turn designate the members of their staff who most need parking space.
In addition, a limited number of parking spaces are available in each parking lot for students who need medicapped or who have been injured.
More than 50 per cent of the 1421 parking permits available have been issued to students. This leaves close to 400 spots which are free of any time limit or are limited to 30 minutes or one hour for the benefit of visitors. One might argue that the faculty and staff members occupy too many parking places, but do they really? Less than one-half of them have been given permits.
One solution often proposed is construction of more parking lots on the Hill. However, such a solution would destroy much of the natural beauty of the campus.
As the University expands, more parking lots are being made available near the new buildings. The situation can be greatly alleviated by the co-operation of students and faculty members alike in driving on the campus only when necessary.
Friday, Nov. 5, 1954.
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Rock Chalk Cairn Survives Vandals,Workmen,Weather
By MARILYN GERMAN
"Dedicated to the founders of the University of Kansas and to the people who helped faithfully to realize that vision," the inscription on the Rock Chalk cairn, which stands high above Memorial stadium near the campanile, reads.
Built in 1926 by Sachem, senior men's honor society, and the Men's Student council, the monument has had an exciting history.
Just as Harvard has its famous yard, Yale its fence, Oxford its martyr monument, and California its rock "C," so has KU its cairn, symbolizing the ideals and achievements of the University.
The rock chalk pile was first constructed in a "K" shape from
stones of the old North College building and from native Mt. Oread rock chalk.
Later, when workmen were hunting rocks to build Corbin, they saw the stones and, not realizing their significance, destroyed the monument. The cairn was rebuilt with some of the original stones. In 1928 the bronze plate was stolen from street path of a house on Indiana street. It was returned later.
Vandals destroyed the cairn in 1933, leaving no clues except footprints in the soft dirt and the letters "QED" scrawled on one of the rocks.
The call has been moved twice once in 1941, and to its present location in 1952 to make room for the campanile.