University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 6, 1988
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chairman says
By Mark Fagan
By Mark Pagan Kansan staff writer
At the University Senate Executive Committee meeting Sept. 16, Morris Faiam, chairman of the parking board, prepared to give his report.
The committee erupted in laughter before Faiman could finish. his thought.
"I'd like to thank SenXef for appointing me to this job," Faiman said. "But the job I really wanted was a job on the bank on the Empire State Building."
... in a hurricane.
It brought on more laughs, but none were from Faiman.
Being a member of the parking board is not an easy task, he said. Faiman is in his second year of a college term and his first as chairman.
"We don't get combat pay," he said. "You're in a no-win situation. Everyone has their own opinion and you must park there. Everyone hates you."
"Sometimes I come out looking terrific. Sometimes I come out looking like something else."
Faiman, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, said he spent four to six hours a day on parking issues.
In getting bounded, the "saa-s" after a time, just get him down "after a time," and commitment. Everything having to do with parking come through me."
So what could possibly motivate a man to take on such a thankless job that offers no financial compensation?
"I don't know why I took it," he said. "I was asked to chair the committee. As a member of the committee, I have a responsibility to maintain responsibility. Every time Ive
been asked to do something, I've tried to do it.
Parking responsibilities have had a definite effect on Fainman's department, but no one else has drugs. The drugs, he said, are designed to prevent people from driving.
“Besides, somebody’s got to do it. I think you have to repay the system. The University has given me a lot.”
"They cause you to get sick if you take a drink," Faiman said. "Headaches, Dizziness and Nausea."
But Faima doesn't need the ant-alcohol drugs to make him sick. He's got parking.
"I probably feel just like that when I get home," he said. "I'm worn to a frazzle, right to the bone."
Faiman hasn't been able to devote the same amount of time to his research since becoming chairman.
"I'm so wiped out mentally," he said. "You don't have time to sit back and think about what you are doing."
Instead, he sits at his desk that once was clean and watches it become a growing mount of parking correspondence.
Steven McCabe, assistant professor of civil engineering, is a new member in the group last year. He took the assignment after two faculty members left the board.
"I actually volunteered," he said. Although he just joined the board, one thing his for certain: McCabe has no desire for Faian's job.
"No, I would not be like to chairman," he said. "Morris is well qualified and well adept at managing things.
"Being a window washer is what it may feel like to him, but he'll do a good job."
Cars line bumper to bumper daily along Ohio Street between 13th and 14th streets.
Students aren't alone in complaining about space shortages
Fighting the crowd
Bv Cindv Harger
Kansan staff writer
Such complaints are symptoms of parking woes that Morris Faiman, Uni-Dekker, Raven abhorrent.
Students are mad because they can't find parking and don't want to can't park where they want. And community members complain that the streets are being used as overflow
versity of Kansas Parking Board chairman,
a number of number of slots for an unlimited number of cars.
Many students, whether they live on campus or commute from another town, voice their complaints about the shortage of student parking. Most students are able to purchase white- or black curtains that provide them have found, to their dismay, that having a permit does not guarantee them a parking place.
Colette Dudley, junior, bought a yellow-zone parking permit for the year, but wishes she
"I unwittingly bought a parking permit only to find that I usually had to park at a motor," said manhua.
Dudley said she parks at lot 90, south of the airport. The parking lots were usually full. According to Dudley's figures, she will end up paying about $90 this year in parking meter fees on top of the $40 she already paid for her own parking.
Scholarship hall residents have also complained that there are not enough parking places.
Bill Moshee, a Lawrence sophomore who lives at Battelfield Hall and is a member of the KU Parking Board, said scholarship hall residents will be involved in a parkallegation on the street or in alleyes.
Mosesley said scholarship hall zones are over-16.2 percent, which is low compared to other campus zones, but it is not low enough. he students need 0 percent oversell.
Students aren't the only ones irked by the shortage of parking on campus. Some faculty and staff members have also voiced their complaints.
Moseley said the problem is aggrivated on weekends when area bar patrons use the park-bars.
"We're a group of students who are really come to campus, so we don't move our cars at the same time. We drive in and parking spot, people will park illegally and literally watch out their windows and move their cars."
Research assistants at Carrubb O'Leary Hall recently sent a letter to the parking board, stating the nearby lots didn't contain enough yellow-permit parking spots. The letter, which was signed by 18 research assistants and 26 graduate students, stated that because the nearest parking lot is occupied they should have more parking privileges than they should have more parking privileges than靠近 nearby J.R. Pearson Hall.
Katie Strutridge, one of the research assistants, said they usually have to park at the yellow-zone at the stadium and walk up the hill by Potter Lake to get to work.
"There are no sidewalls, so in the winter and in the morning with the dew, I have to tread across the wet or icy turf in heels to get to work," Sturditride said.
She said about ½ of lot 50 was changed last year from yellow-zone parking to white-zone residence hall parking, but the white-zone spaces often remained empty.
Handicapped places on campaise are also scarce and sometimes inconvenient, say
Peter Nely, associate professor of systema-
tics and computer science at the Uni-
ercapolis space by Snow Hall, where
office is located. The closest spot to his office is in front of Strong Hall, which is a long walk on
Neely said he hadn't tried to park in many other areas on campus, but he said he thought the whole camps could use more handicap facilities. He said the campus permits and permits are issued through the state.
Some other complaints come from professors and faculty who aren't able to get the parking
Last year, Henry Buck, a physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center, received both a blue permit and a campus permit, but this year he didn't get either one.
Red and blue permit applicants must meet specific requirements. To receive a blue permit, the applicant must have a 60-year total of age plus University service. To qualify for a red permit the applicant must have a total of 25 years. Anyone who doesn't qualify for these permits, but has a need for them, may submit a special application to the Parking Board.
Buck's age plus years at KU does not qualify him for a blue permit. To give one year last he, hat to appeal to the Parking Board. This year he is going to be a chancellor and chancellor's office, and is awaiting the decision.
"The hardest thing for me to figure out is why I had last it year, and it was very useful and helped me to do everything to need it to do, and I can't get it this year," Buck said. "It doesn't
make sense."
Buck said he often had to drive on campus to participate in seminars. He usually carried boxes of pamphlets to hand out, so if it wasn't clear that he needed to find someone with a permit to take him.
Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department gave a day in the year the department gives out an average of 10 parking tickets a day in the neighborhoods that had the tickets he thought many of the tickets were given to.
The parking dilemma at KU not only affects students, and faculty, but the surrounding community.
"It generally tapes off after a few months," Wheeler said. "After a couple of tickets, they seem to resolve the problem by walking, parking and dropping their belongings or finding some other way to get to campus."
Some residents are annoyed by students parking in their neighborhood.
For the past month, Gregg Smith, 134 Strong and his wife Katrina, 126 Strong, have his street to use an evidence of repeated parapolice violations. He said the cars apparently belong to students who live at fraternities and sororites in the city.
"I really strongly object to the use of the street as a parking lot." Smith said. "As it is, the property is private."
Smith hopes to change the zoning of his street so people could no longer park there around the clock. Smith said people often abuse the 48-hour parking limit in that area by moving the cars inside and said he has even switched someone wash up the police officer's white chalk mark off the tire.
Smith said if the city traffic safety commission were to change the zoning to day parking only, students who commute could still park in front of buildings would no longer be used as parking lots.
George Ryan, 1323 Spencer Drive, said his street is often filled with cars, but that it usually didn't bother him. Ryan has lived at his home located just west of campus for 26 years.
"My only complaint is when they leave their cars there from Sunday through the next Saturday, and they make a parking lot out of it," Ryan said.
Ryan said he had occasionally stopped police officers from ticketing cars that were parked too close to his driveway. However, he has only seen two of them and was apt to pathetic to students who needed places to park.
"The last week he was here at KU, a boy thanked me for providing parking here."
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