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Thursday, August 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
CPA Names Full Time Director
The Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) has a full-time role for the first time in 2016 and will resume last month.
Linda Triplett was chosen to fill the position by the CPA Board of Directors from among 35 applicants. She began work Aug. 15.
A graduate of the University of Nebraska with a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin, Triplet taught mathematics last year at the University of Kansas.
Her experience in the consumer field came from work she did for the house majority leader of the Hawaii State Legislature. She dealt with citizens' organizations, prospective legislation and wrote speeches and press releases.
The CPAs immediate goals are expansion of services into the Lawrence
community," and Triplet. "For this we
need financial sources and more
market work."
The CPA, funded by the Student Senate, was established to deal with the University community's consumer complaints. Two years later, the University Berlern, resumed the end of May.
Triplet said she planned to further develop CPA educational services.
"We hope to build up our effort to translate information from research and complaint cases into educational material. Education is the preventive to problems we face in schools." And locally we hope to eradicate landform problems and auto repair complaints."
She cited Riddle Apartments as an example. Because of CPA action, Triplet
said, security deposits that weren't refunded to former Ridglea residents are collectible through Bill Ward of the Kansas office, consumer protection division.
Other program has been made through a consumerism course that will be offered in the fall.
"We also are considering a state consumer agency, consolidating the Lawrence and Manhattan CPAs with others around the state," she said.
Leng-range plans for the CPA include lobbying for legislative action on consumer protection.
"It's listed on the LA&S courses and will be taught by Pat Weiss (educational and research director of the CPA)," said Triplette.
Parking Lot Color Code New Fine System Ready
Color-coded parking lots and a reorganized system of fines will be the major changes in the University of Kansas' parking lot system this coming semester.
Drivers will no longer be restricted to parking in one lot, but instead may park in any lot labeled with the color of their parking sticker.
KU Space Building Named for Nichols
If you're one of those students who doesn't yet know what or where the Space Technology Building is, and somebody asks you where Nichols Hall is, don't think you've got another new building to find. They're one and the same.
Raymond Nichols Hall is the new official name of KU's space technology center, located in the West Campus area across Iowa Street west of Daisy Hill. The building, opened in 1971, was renamed May 20 to honor the former KU chancellor.
Nichols, now Chancellor Emeritus in an advisory capacity to Chancellor Archie R. Hunt, who retired from the position he returned the next year for a master's degree and then in 1929 was hired as executive secretary to Chancellor Ernest B. Mays with the University continuously since then.
The day after the building was renamed for him, Nichols used part of his namesake to honor another distinguished KU graduate. Nichols announced that the building would be named the Ron Evans Apollo Room in honor of the Apollo 17 command module pilot.
Evans was a special guest at the annual luncheon for graduating seniors and their parents at which the renaming was announced.
Cost of annual parking stickers will rise from $25 to $75.00 for all zones except the north end.
Semester parking passes, which haven't been offered in previous semesters, will be available for $10 for residence hall zones and $15 for all other zones.
The new system involves four categories of violations. Group one includes nonzallacious violations—parking in a row or parking too long and so forth. Fee will be $2.
Group two comprises smaller violations, such as display of a damaged sticker or an improperly affixed sticker. If the offense is corrected within seven days, no fee will be charged. After seven days, the fee will be $5.
Group three, or hazardous violations, includes blocking a drive or roadway, restricting the normal flow of traffic, parking in a designated fire lane, and so forth. Cars in such situations will be towed or compounded immediately. The fee will be $10.
Group four includes just one violation: display of forged or altered parking stickers. Care displaying such stickers will be awarded a compound immediately. The fee will be $25.
Fines in all categories must be paid within 14 days, or an additional $4 fine will
Students who haven't paid violation fees by the end of the semester won't be allowed to re-enroll or transfer or graduate. Faculty or staff members with unpaid fines will lose parking privileges until their fees are paid. Vistors won't be excused from paying fine violations but will be subject to the same rules as students, faculty and staff.
Both the color-coded system and the new
system of fines will go into effect Aug. 27.
ENROLLMENT in "easy access" courses will begin at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 26 in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. KU has scheduled 165 fall semester courses at unconventional times: Saturday, late afternoons and evenings. Cost of the courses will be $2.12 per credit hour for Kansas and $4.24 per credit hour for non-residents.
BIKE TOURS to Viland and various 19th century homes in Lawrence will be sponsored Saturday by the parks and bicycle Club. The Bicycle Club, Both tours will leave from South Park, the Viland tour at 9 a.m. Saturday and the homes tour at 1 p.m. Saturday.
A WORKSHOP on teaching effectiveness for KU faculty and staff will begin at a 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. The purpose of the workshop is to acquaint participants with a variety of approaches to instructional improvement.
ANNOUNCING
EVOLUTION S&E 608 formerly 154
About the course: Evolution is the one unifying principle in all Life Sciences. This course will cover all aspects of Evolutionary Biology in an introductory manner. Emphasis will be placed on the study of the interaction between variation and environmental pressures. The philosophical implications of the Darwinian Method will be extensively discussed.
There will be three lectures a week with two midterm and one final examinations. A short paper will be required on any selected aspect of evolutionary biology from the molecular to the social level.
Prerequisite: Biology 108 (old 2) is required. Genetics (Biology 304—old 51) is also required but may be taken concurrently or waived with consent of the instructors.
Time and Place: 9:30-10:20 a.m. in 222 Snow Hall Mon.-Wed.-Fri.
CONTACT: Richard Johnston 713B Dyche UN 4-3926 Richard Wassersug 410 Dyche UN 4-4417 For More Information.
The Kansan's ad number is 864-4358.