University Daily Karsan / Wednesday, September 19. 1990
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Scholarship hall parking becomes more restricted
By Mike Brassfield Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Students in the KU scholarship halls have had trouble parking in their lots for years. On weekends, it is too early to park; students could park in their lots except them.
But this year, things are different. The Alumni Place parking lots, used by scholarship hall students, have been designated as tow-away zones.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said parking lots 100 and 121 had been tow-away zones since Aug. 1.
"We have received complaints about parking from students in the scholarship halls for a long time now," she said. "There are a lot of apartments and drinking establishments on campus, so people park in those lots illegally."
Matt All, resident of Pearson Scholarship Hall, 1425 Alumni Place, said the parking situation had improved.
"Last year, it was especially bad on Thursday and Friday nights when people would park here to go to the concert. I never saw him, so could almost never find a space here."
"We're not against people who go to bars," he said. "They just want to have fun. But they have to realize that we don't want anyone else to go."
Eric Patterson, resident of Stephenson Scholarship Hall, 1440 Alumni Plaza, that last year he was named around 12th and Tennessee streets.
"I probably parked there more consistently than I parked here," he said. "One time I came home from a late movie with some friends and we said, 'Let's count the illegal cars.' We were 19."
Scholarship hall parking permits cost $33 a year or $20 a semester.
Jeff Hatfield, manager of the Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th St., said he did not agree with the policy of towing cars out of the lots.
"I think they should warn people, or at least post bigger signs," he said. "I didn't even know it was posted that the lot was a tow-away zone. I guess people will have to park on Tennessee Street or just start walking here. That's probably safer anyway."
Hultine said that few cars were
"We've been pulling a lot of cars out of there on Friday nights," she said. "But cars can be towed any time we find out someone is parking illegally, and we've been getting a lot of calls from scholarship hall people who say they can't find a space in their lots."
towed out of the lot on weeknights but that many were towed on weekends.
Hultine said cars were towed off campus by Lawrence Dealer Services
If a car's wheels are locked or if it is backed into a stall, it must be lifted onto the four extra wheels with which it can be driven. The cost an additional $13, be said.
Les Hutchinson, owner of Lawrence Dealer Services, said his company had a contract to tow cars from campus beginning Aug. 1. People whose cars are towed must pay a fee and that must be dollied to be towed, he said.
Although Hutchinson had no figures on how many cars had been towed out of the Alumi Place lot, he noted that he had to campus lots during September.
to reduce demand
By Tatsuya Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
Drugs too pervasive, prof says
Although the United States is trying to solve drug problems by sending Drug Enforcement Administration agents to Latin American countries, we are afraid of U.S. military intervention, a KU professor said yesterday.
Robert Tomasek, professor of political science, said Latin American countries did not want U.S. troops intervening
Tomasek urges U.S.
Tomasek spoke to about 30 people at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union about Latin American drug barons.
Last October, at the urging of Sen. Jesse Helms, R.N.C., Congress voted to prohibit the NEA from spending
'Drug cultivation continues as long as the U.S. demand continues.'
— Robert Tomasek professor of political science.
NEA chief applauds arts bill
Frohmayer refused, however, to scrap a much-criticized requirement that NEA grant recipients sign an application. Some of them could receive federal money.
He said he would delay a decision on eliminating the pledge until Congress decided whether to impose new anti-obstice restrictions on the endowment and until a federal court ruled that the constitutionality of the pledge.
At a news conference Monday at
The 12-member independent study commission created by Congress urged Frohmayer last week to scrap the pledge. A similar plea was issued recently by the presidentally appointed advisory body, the National Council on the Arts.
NEA chairperson John E. Frohnayer said the Senate measure and a report by a bipartisan commission last week gave him hope that the crisis over federal support for controversial art would soon pass.
WASHINGTON — The chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts is applauding a Senate bill that would give the courts, not the NEA, the burden of deciding whether some or all subsidized works of art are obscene.
The Associated Press
Frohmayer said this provision "puts the determination of obscenity in the courts, where it should be."
The anti-obscence pledge stirred widespread protests in the arts community. A dozen grant recipients refused to sign it and forfeited their grants. Three federal lawsuits filed in York and Los Angeles charged that the pledge violated First Amendment guarantee of free expression.
Last week, the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee approved a bipartisan compromise bill extending the NEA for five years beyond Sept. 30, when its statutory authority expires. The bill would extend the NEA's benefits from grant recipients who were convicted of violating obscenity laws.
the National Press Club. Frohnmayer said there was no truth to the rumors that he would resign soon.
The NEA is an independent, $171 million federal agency that supports a wide variety of artists and arts organizations. It has been the target of heavy criticism for the past 18 years. The NEA represents researchers and religious fundamentalists who accuse the NEA of subsidizing obscene and sacrilegious works.
The lecture, titled "The Drug Problem in Colombia, Bolivia and Peru," was the fourth lecture of the Latin American Lecture Series. The Hispanic American Leadership Organization and the Center of Latin America co-sponsoring the series in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Tomasek said Latin American leaders wanted United States officials to understand that drug barons just a Latin American problem
A month later, Frohmayer began requiring grant recipients to sign a pledge that they would not use fedEx or other workworks that might be deemed obscene.
Latin American leaders are encouraging the United States to decrease the demand for drugs, he said.
Cocaine is shipped to U.S. and Western European markets through a complicated distribution network.
The drug bars pick up the raw material in small airplanes and carry it to processing laboratories in Colombia, Tomasek said.
"Drug cultivation continues as long as the U.S. demand continues," Tomasek said.
Latin American leaders also want the United States to regulate the sale of firearms, he said. Firearms used by the drug barons often come from Mexico.
Robert Tomasek talks about the drug problems of Latin America.
Coca leaves, from which cocaine is made, are planted mainly by Indians and peasants in Bolivia and Peru, he said.
Tomasek said that Colombian drug barons were so powerful that they formed a state within a state.
President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia declared war against the drug cartels in August 1989. Tomasek said.
The government has sequestered several drug barons' property and destroyed processing laboratories.
Colombia also declared a state of siege last year, and a dozen drug dealers were extradited to the United States sentenced from 20 to 30 years in jail.
Tomasek said retaliation by the drug barons had been severe. They bombed and killed more than 1,000 citizens, including hundreds of police officers and judges, in an effort to force the government to negotiate.
In Bolivia, cultivation of coca has an important role in the economy Tomasek said. Sixty thousand peas艺nt grow it, and 400,000 people prosper because of it. Coca leaves contain 50 percent of Bolivia total exports.
Dora Gloottmann, Bogota, Colombia, freshman, who attended the speech, said the United States should not condemn the failure before condemnation Latin America.
"Young people in the United States can change the world," she said.
She said young people in the United States were the most important part of the drug war because they created the demand
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