Thursday, August 24. 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Student's car, KU bus collide
Bus attempted to run light student says
By Lauren Brandenburg
By Lauren Brandenbent
writer @kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A trip home from an ice cream run Monday night turned into an ambulance ride to the hospital for Claire Binci.
Binci, Wichita junior, planned to
attend classes in a wheelchair today after she suffered a broken ankle, a sprained wrist and severe bruising and scrapes in Monday night's accident. Her Honda Civic ran into a KU on Wheels bus that was crossing Iowa Street on 25th Street.
Lawrence Police Detective M.T. Brown said the bus failed to yield the right of way. No citations have been issued, but the investigating officers are still reviewing the accident report. It has not yet been determined who was at fault.
Binci had a flashing yellow light, and the bus had a flashing red
light. Neither vehicle was carrying passengers.
"As I approached the intersection and was probably 20 feet from it, a KU bus ped into the intersection from the east," Binei said. "I couldn't go to the right and couldn't go to the left because there was a bus on both sides. I didn't have time to even push on my brakes. The moment I had time to hit my brakes was practically the moment I hit the middle of the bus."
Bincl's right leg was pinned, and emergency crews had to cut the driver's side door off of her car and expand the car to get her out. She is not sure why the bus was in the
intersection.
into section.
"It seems to me they thought they could race through the intersection and beat me or that they just didn't see me," she said. "But they continued on through the intersection pretty quickly, so it makes me wonder how much they stopped. I would think the bus would need time to accelerate."
Holly Krebs, KU on Wheels transportation coordinator, confirmed the bus was a KU on Wheels bus driven by a KU on Wheels bus driver.
The Lawrence Bus Company did not return calls yesterday.
— cured by Chris Boringer
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KANSAN
Watkins women wage culinary war
By BriAnne Hess
writer@kansan.com
Kansan senior staff writer
Armed with canned peas, ground beef and other foodstuffs, the Watkins Scholarship Hall women set out to beat the Iron Chef at his own game yesterday.
Selena Nelson, Linwood junior and kitchen manager at Watkins, started the competition, which mirrored the Food Network's syndicated cooking show from Japan called Iron Chef.
Nelson's goal was for the women in the hall to get to know one another and feel more comfortable in their kitchens, where they will
On the show, Japanese cooks compete against three master chefs called Iron Chefs. This was the first year for the competition.
be cooking for the remainder of the semester
"My mother came up with the idea," Nelson said. "She got the idea from cooking contests and volunteered to put together the sacks so I could participate."
The women were divided up into six kitchens, given grocery sacks and were to prepare as many courses as they could in 90 minutes.
Watkins residents are required to sign up to be in one of three types of kitchens in their hall: a regular kitchen, which eats together four times a week, semi-independent, which eats together twice a week; or independent, which eats together once a week.
All women cook at least seven times in the regular kitchens that have themes, such as gourmet vegetarian and low-fat gourmet.
Gourmand judges (L to R) Eric Overstreet, Maize junior, Aaron Profit, Overland Park senior, and Zora Mulligan, West Plains, Missouri, Watkins Scholarship Hall director, sample and evaluate the meals. Five teams competed for top honors at yesterday's iron Chef competition at Watkins Scholarship Hall.
The winners of the contest overall were the cooks in kitchen one — the low-fat gourmet kitchen — who prepared a noodle knug, made of corkscrew pasta, walnuts, milk, brown sugar, applesauce and raisins; cornbread from a mix with canned corn and green chiles; breadsticks twisted out from canned muffins; and quesadillas.
Kitchen three, the gourmet vegetarian kitchen, won the award for best use of an unusual ingredient by using canned peas to make mock guacamole. They also won best salad with a dressing made of applesauce, vinegar and cinnamon.
The lone chef in kitchen six won several awards: most surprising
ingredient for jalapenos in the lettuce salad; messiest kitchen; and the fire marshal award because she almost set off the fire alarm after burning most of the flour tortillas.
The women said the competition was a success.
"I'm so glad I'm with you guys because I have no idea how to cook," said Stephanie Bohling, Byron, Neb. freshman, from kitchen one. "I had no idea where everything was — herbs, spices, pots and pans."
"We're figuring it out — what everybody knows how to do and how creative everyone is," said Katie Pretz, Osawatomie freshman. "Everything's working out. It's a bonding experience."
New service forwards e-mail to alumni
J. D. McKee
writer@kansan.com
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas graduates soon will be able to keep a KU e-mail address long after they leave Lawrence.
The University of Kansas Alumni Association has worked with Academic Computing Services to create an e-mail address that will never change and will forward messages to a graduate's current e-mail address.
"It's a wonderful service to provide for alums," said Cathy Smith, assistant vice chancellor for information services. "It's a virtual community
for alumni, and we have the unique ability to provide it."
"We're winding down testing but we haven't decided when to expand," said Michael Wellman, director of special projects at the Alumni Association.
The free service will eventually be offered to all KU alumni, but it is currently only available to a sample group that consists of the class of 2000.
And the response has been positive.
"The thing I hear from everybody is it will be a useful tool for them," Wellman said. "We're pleased to have the opportunity to work with computer services to implement this kind of service to alumn."
Wellman said he had been working with Smith: to set up an infrastructure that would be capable of handling the address for the more than 160,000 graduates of KU.
The alumni association is constantly looking for ideas that would benefit KU alumni, Wellman said.
"We had heard other schools doing this and we approached computing services about doing it," he said. "We've been really lucky to work with them on this."
The service will be available to all future graduates at the alumni Web site at http://www.kualumnl.org.
- Edited by Kimberly Thompson
NEW TRAFFIC FEES FOR VIOLATIONS
Earlier this year, the city commission revived and determined that in order to prevent major disruptions were needed. Fees for tickets and court costs have increased.
SPEED LIMIT 15
over the limit $87.50 $77.50
SPEED LIMIT 20
over the limit $72.50 $97.50
NO PARKING
no parking to corner $10.00 $20.00
violation of signals $87.50 $77.50
OTHER RISES TO FINES AND FEES:
DEFECTIVE EQUIPMENT
DRIVERS' LICENSE REINSTATEMENT PROCESSING FEED
The ordinance would raise the fine for these offenses from the current amount of $15.00 to $20.00.
All other traffic violations would be raised to a fine of $50.00.
DIVERSION APPLICATION FEE
DRIVERS LICENSE REINSTATEMENT PROCESSING FEE The ordinance includes a provision establishing a driver's license reinstatement processing fee of $25.00. This City fee would be in addition to fees collected by the state. City court personal have several processing responsibilities for DL reinstatements, and a local fee is appropriate.
While not included in the ordinance, this application fee would increase to $30.00 from the current $25.00 fee, effective Oct.
Source: Memo from David Corliss, Assistant City Manager
Melissa Carr/KANSAN
City increases fines for parking, speeding other traffic violations
By Matt Merkel-Hess and Rob Pazell writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writers
Lead-footed drivers should pay more beginning Oct. 1 after the city commission raised fines and court costs for speeding, parking and other traffic violations at Tuesday's meeting.
The raise in fines, the first since the late 1980s, put Lawrence on a level comparable to other cities in the area. Included are violating a traffic control signal and speeding 15 miles per hour above the speed limit, raised from $57.50 to $77.50, speeding 20 miles per hour above the speed limit, raised from $72.50 to $97.50, and posted no parking to corner, raised from $10 to $20.
All other traffic violations will be raised to $50. Also raised were the defective equipment fee from $15 to $20 and diversion application fee from $25 to $30.
Downtown parking violations will remain $2.
Fines for speeding on campus are the same as fines off campus. Jurisdiction of University of Kansas police officers extends from all KU property plus all streets connected to KU property, according to the KU Public Safety Office. But KU Police always have the power to enforce laws even if the offense occurs off campus.
Dave Corliss, assistant city manager, said the fines were raised to the median of similar cities.
"We don't want to do this too often." he said.
Mayor Jim Henry said increasing the fines was a good thing because of problems with speeding and traffic violations in Lawrence.
VARIOUS CAMPUS FINES
Moving Violations:
- Running a stop sign: $35 plus
  $22.50 court costs
Broken headlight, turn signal:
$15.00 plus $22.50 court cost
Parking
Unpaid parking meter: $5
Parking in an invalid lot: $20
In other action:
"There is far too much red light running," Henry said. "And it seems that the yellow light is a signal to step on the gas."
- The commission approved the distribution of alcohol tax money. The state imposes a 10 percent tax on alcohol sales, of which the city receives 70 percent. Last year, Lawrence received $1,104,590 from alcohol taxes.
The money was divided up among 14 different organizations with 60 percent going toward prevention, 20 percent to treatment, 10 percent to intervention and 10 percent to coordination. The University received $20,000 for organizations and activities.
The commission approved a $725,000 increase in the budget for the new Lawrence Arts Center, raising the city commitment to $4.35 million.
Members also authorized an expenditure of $790,000 for land purchase and exchange of city land to create the site for the center on the 900 block of New Hampshire St. The land exchange should be completed soon and digging could begin in three weeks.
There will be no commission meeting next Tuesday because it is the fifth Tuesday of the month.
Edited by Kimberly Thompson
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