University Daily Kansan, August 24, 1981
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Commission studies downtown development
By MIKE ROBINSON Staff Reporter
The summer months may have been a vacation for some, but the issue of downtown development kept the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission busy conducting study sessions and surveys.
Beside the study sessions, the Planning Commission prepared three surveys on business, parking and preservation in downtown Lawrence.
The City Commission will review a final draft of the plan in the next several weeks after suggested changes have been made.
In its second session with the Lawrence City Commission, the Planning Commission Thursday unveiled the early drafts of a comprehensive downtown development plan.
The plan is being prepared by the Planning Commission and Robert B.
Teska Associates, Inc., an Evanston,
Ill. planning consultant.
It calls for the establishment of eight downtown development districts from the Kansas River south to South Park, and from the island Street west to Tennessee Street.
THE DRAFT ALSO included plans for expanded downtown parks, better access to downtown for pedestrians and a downtown hotel.
"Virtually anybody who uses downs the will benefit," said City Commissioner Barkley Clark. he said development would result in a wider range of jobs, including more patrons for businesses and better goods and services for shopmers.
If the final draft is approved by the Planning Commission and the City Commission, a public hearing will be held late in September, according to Dean Palos of the Planning Commission.
"I think the plan will be received very well," Clark said. "It should sail through the Planning Commission."
The final plan will be the culmination of four goals, including the three Planning Commission studies.
the operating hours of most businesses, how long those businesses had been in operation, and what image store owns in the general public had of downtown.
THE FIRST STUDY prepared in Downtown Survey of Business gathered.
In the survey, businessmen and the
general public agreed that downtown development, especially in the form of new high-rise housing.
The second Planning Commission study, the Downtown Parking Survey, analyzed parking patterns.
parking and pinpointed overused and underused parking facilities.
Palos said that the city would soon know what direction the development plans would take.
School of Business stiffens admission standards
By LILLIAN DAVIS Staff Reporter
Students already admitted to the School of Business, relax. Those who are not, however, might stay working a day or two if they require requirements are taking effect this fall.
Before admission to the school can be granted, a student must now complete 60 hours of college credit, have at least a 2.0 grade point average and have successfully completed certain designated courses.
Last year, only 50 hours of completed
work were required. 2.0 GPA were
required for admission.
Peter Lorenzi, last year's director of the undergraduate program, said the
THE NEW REQUIREMENTS, which include completion of Business 240 and 241; Economics 140, Math 113, 115 or 121, and 121, 114 or 122; Psychology 104 and 260, and Computer Science 200 were required by the School of undergraduate affairs committee, said John Tolefson, dean of the School of Business.
With the old system, if a student were admitted to the school without having completed any of the courses now required, it could have taken him another four years to graduate, Lorenzi said.
new admission requirements gave "explicit, direct advice to students as to what to wear and them" and more adequately prepared them for their junior and senior years.
Students were coming up short at
stay another semester or two, be said.
"Any student could tell you what things had to be accomplished to graduate," Loreni said. "By changing the requirements, we are merely mandating what had usually been done in the past."
WHILE THIS FALL the GPA admission requirement will be 2.0, next fall it will jump to 2.2 and then to 2.5 in 1983.
Lorenzi explained that the higher GPA was instituted to keep pace with the quality of graduates from other schools.
The student's GPA is just as big a
percentage as he would have if he
be has taken. When students begin
coming in with GPAs of 2.5 in 1983, they will have a lot more room for one bad semester without the fear of flunking out, Lorenzii said.
Because the school had to communicate to such a large number of freshmen and sophomores, making sure they came in prepared was essential. The requirements assured that they would. Lorenzi said.
He said that there might be a few problems with the requirements that the school had not yet anticipated, but in the end, they would be corrected.
"The committee spent more time in three separate meetings this past year on this undergraduate program than in any other." All the problems will be taken care of.
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