Tuesday, October 11. 1977
University Daily Kansan
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City commission considers trucking route ordinance
By SCOTT MORGAN and MARY-ANNE OLIVAR
Staff Writers
If the Lawrence City Commission accepts an ordinance to regulate truck traffic in the city tonight, truckers will know which streets they are allowed to use and police will have guidelines for enforcing traffic laws.
The current ordinance, which does not clearly specify what trucks can pass where, was confusing both police and truckers, and there were concerns of the traffic commission, said yesterday.
The first reading of the new ordinance will be tonight at the city commission meeting and includes a provision that specifies that truckers should use to reach their destination.
FOR TRAFFIC REGULATION purposes, trucks are defined either as delivery trucks or as through-trucks. Akagi said. Delivery trucks can be up to kind of merchandise in the city.
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Through-trucks are those that pass through Lawrence to go from one city to another but that do not pick up or deliver any merchandise in town.
The new ordinance, besides specifying routes for delivery trucks, allows through-trucks to pass through only the main arteries of the city, Akagi said.
The main arteries of the city would be: U.S. S. 9, U.S. 40, K-10 and the Kansas Turnpike access roads in east and west areas. Street areas affected by the highway designation include 23rd Street, Sixth Street, Iowa Street and North Third Street.
LEONARD HOOVER, city engineer, said last week that the designation of routes for through-trucks would keep them out of residential areas they had used in the past.
Charles Dunbar, president of W. A. Dunbar & Sons Trucking & Excavating, said Friday that because the current ordinance was not as specific as the new one, truckers
DUNBAR SAID, "The old ordinance didn't read very clearly, and the main thing before was the definition of through-trucks and local trucks."
were mixed up about what streets they could use.
Police ticketed his delivery trucks, Dunbar said, when they passed through areas delivery truckers thought were forbidden only to through-trucks. One of these areas was on Kasal Street, from Sixth to Eighth Avenue, where there are "no through-truck" signs, he said.
However, Major Darrel Stephens of the Lawrence police, said yesterday that those signs meant the roads were forbidden to all trucks.
"All trucks had to pass through the truck routes, and if delivery trucks had to leave these routes to deliver or pick up merchandise, they had to leave the routes from the closest points to their destination," he said.
DUNBAR ADDED, "After our trucks were told they couldn't pass through that
area, police made them go from 13th and 10th, Iowa, which also had the same sign on it and which was the same distance to their destination."
According to Akagi, traffic citations received by the trucking industry were one of the contributing factors for representatives of the trucking industry and the truckers to meet with city officials last fall and set up an outline for changes.
The specifications of the new ordinance apparently will resolve the trucking industry's problems, which started about one or two years ago. Dumbar said.
"There was a general confusion," she said yesterday.
With the new ordinance, delivery trucks would stay on the main trafficways, Akagi airport.
"AND WHEN THEY need to make a delivery they want get off the trafficways using the safest and shortest routes to and from delivery points," she said.
THE PROGRAM IS OFFERED to students who have not had basic courses in anatomy and who ordinarily may not be able to pass a medical school anatomy course. Minority students are also offered no cost, Gelbbach said, for the same reason.
Some students had said that several minority students were allowed to take half of the four-segment anatomy class in the summer and half in the fall with incoming
The enrichment program came under attack by students in the Med Center recently because it was offered this summer as part of the regular anatomy class.
THEY SAID THIS was an unfair advantage to minority students, allowing them to break up a difficult course into more manageable parts and possibly enabling them to pass the course more easily than they had who to take the class in a single block.
"disadvantage of their socio-economic cultural backgrounds."
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Instead of taking a four-week preparatory course, which the enrichment program usually is, the students were put in last week to learn about the use of space and faculty limitations. If the students did well, they were allowed to quiz out and advance to the second half of the course. If they did not do well, they were required to take the class with incoming students in the fall.
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The situation was unusual, Lowman said, because of the recent switch from a three-year medical degree program to a four-year degree program. Part of the incoming class of first-year students was required to begin taking classes in the remainder姑要 begin class in September.
Georgia disagreed that minority students were given advantages in getting through school.
HE SAID A LARGE number of non-minority students were failing his physiology course before an adjustment at grades made.
"If all the students who were failing after
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the first tabulation of grades had been minority students," he said, "they wouldn't have shown the same compassion in changing the grade scale."
Even after the pass/fail line was dropped to pass more students, most of whom were white, Gregory still was below the lowest of the passing grades in psychology.
"I MAINTAIN THEY did not give me the same opportunity to pass these exams as I had in college."
He said he possibly could have reached the final cut-off point if he had been allowed to retake two physiology exams, which two white students were allowed to retake.
Lowman replied, "Either other students were in better academic standing, or they had not taken the course before, as Mr. Gregory had."
Lowman, one of the administrators Gregory spoke to, said, "Students with unsatisfactory grades in a course do not rectify the grade by retaking the exams.
"He was allowed every option that was reasonable at a standard. Gregard had gone to the school and met with his classmates
"Nobody here wants to flunk out a medical student."
Steve Glass, a member of the twound industry and vice president of LRM Industries Inc., also seemed satisfied with the advice he received which he called a reasonable compromise.
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