Monday, August 21, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
OTHER NEW PARKING DEVELOPMENTS
Two hundred thirty-one meters were removed in four parking lots next to Memorial Stadium. These spots will be open to yellow permits only.
- The parking department is selling parking cards for the new garage. The strip cards can hold up to $50 and can be reloaded at any of the stations in the garage.
The Alumni Center allocated a new parking lot between 12th and 13th streets and Louisiana Street. This lot, designated the A.P. lot, will be available for scholarship hall students and Alumni Center staff. 864-8995 by 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
Whitney Pepper and Jennifer Holland, Prairie Village sophomores, try to figure out how to use the prepay machine at the new parking garage Saturday afternoon. The parking department will be holding a drawing for the garage's spaces on Sept. 1. Photo by Christina Neff/KANSAN
New garage lottery to select spots
Bv Rob Pazell
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The fate of some University of Kansas students' parking will be decided by a draw from a hat.
The new parking garage east of Memorial Stadium opened 818 new spaces Aug. 7 for faculty, visitors and the luckiest of students who apply.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services, said a lottery system would decide which 200 students would get a permit to park in the new garage, which is located at 13th and Mississippi streets to the west and Oread Avenue to the east. One hundred and one spaces have been allotted to faculty on a first-come-first-serve basis. Five hundred spaces are open to anyone on a pay-by-the-hour system.
Hultine said the garage would benefit students who sometimes have trouble finding spots in the lower lots by the stadium.
"Normally departments have visitors come in and buy user passes, which takes away parking spots from the students," she said. "We think this garage will get the visitors out of permit lots."
Off-campus and scholarship hall students can apply for garage permits at the parking department until the end of business hours Friday, Sept. 1. The lottery will take place after close that
"Normally, departments have visitors come in and buy user passes, which takes away parking spots from the students. We think this garage will get the visitors out of permit lots."
permit lots."
Donna Hultine assistant director of parking services
day and the selected students will be notified Tuesday, Sept. 5. Once the 200 are drawn, a lottery will continue for the remaining applicants to compile a waiting list. Students are encouraged to buy supplemental permits until after the lottery because ticketing will start on the first day of classes.
Students who get garage permits will be able to park in the new garage or the garage north of Allen Fieldhouse. The permits will cost $80 for students and $110 or $115 for faculty, depending on whether they purchase red or blue permits.
where they could park. Garage permits will make it illegal to park in other lots on the north end of campus, including scholarship hall spaces.
Scholarship hall students say they might not try for the chance to park in the garage because it would limit
"It discourages us from applying," said Scott Chapman, Amini Scholarship Hall resident and Shawnee junior.
Visitors can park in the new garage for $1 an hour with the new "pay-on-foot" system. After visitors park, they'll proceed on foot to one of eight computerized stations where they'll enter the number of their parking spot and enough money to park for the amount of time they'll be there. Pay stations and change machines are located in the south stair tower and the Oread pedestrian entrance.
Doug Westerhouse, Olathe resident and visitor at the University, said the location of the garage was good but that he had some doubts about its userfriendiness.
"They need to make it so it's more convenient," he said.
Students living in residence halls are not eligible to buy garage permits. Hultine said the department had oversold residence hall permits and that those students might have difficulty finding parking. She encouraged students to decide whether they needed a car on campus.
- Edited by Kimberly Thompson
Coke costs creep up to $1
By Karen Lucas
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
It's smart to use a smart card when buying soft drinks in campus vending machines.
While the price of a 20-ounce bottle for those paying with cash rose from 85 cents to $1 on Aug. 1, it's still 85 cents for those paying with a KUID. Soft drinks sold in cans continue to sell at 60 cents.
"It gives the students, faculty and staff an incentive to use the smart card," said Theresa Klinkenberg, University director of administration.
Yet as of now, the vending machines list only the cash price.
Kathy Williams, district manager, for Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Lenexa, said consumers soon would find more price information on the machines.
"We are having some stickers created to put on the vending machines to indicate the reduced vend rate for smart card users," she said.
Students had mixed reactions to the cash price increase for the 20-ounce bottles.
Harsh Singh, New Delhi, India, junior, said it wasn't a big deal.
"Somebody who spends like 85 cents can also spend a dollar," he said.
Henry Jackson, Wichita graduate student, said he would buy Coke in bulk to avoid the high vending machines prices.
"Obviously, 85 cents is ridiculous, but a dollar is even more ridiculous," he said.
Klinkenberg said the decision to raise the cash price of the 20-ounce bottles was made earlier in the summer by about 10 representatives from the University of Kansas, Coca-Cola and Treat America, a vending company in Overland Park.
Matt Neufeld, St. Louis freshman, buys a coke in Hashinger Residence Hall. Coke prices have been raised to $1 in cash; however, if purchased with a smart card, the price is still 85 cents. Photo illustration by Justin Smidkill/KANSAN
Toney Anaya, public affairs director for the Mid-America Division of Coca-Cola Enterprises in Albuquerque, N. M., said for the majority of vendors in the area, the $1 price for a 20-ounce bottle was standard.
Anaya also said the price increase would be beneficial.
"We see it as more money to the University and more money to the students," he said. "The University under the contract receives a commission from the sale of each product, and so when we go from 85 cents to a dollar, the commission will be higher."
received $7 million up front in the 10-year exclusive beverage agreement it made with Coca-Cola in 1997. The total estimated amount the University will receive for the 10-year period is $21 million.
Klinkenberg said KU
While the contract revenue mainly supports scholarships, some of it also goes to campus recycling, student programming and to reimburse the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation and the Kansas and Burge unions for costs incurred or money lost because of the contract, Klinkenberg said.
- Edited by Clay McCusition