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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1985
Hall residents call parking spaces scarce
By Sandra Crider Special to the Kansan
The student drives into the parking lot next to her residence hall late at night and discovers there are no parking places to be found. She must decide whether to park in a loading or fire zone — and chance getting a ticket — or risk the long walk from an overflow lot.
Students living on campus have been confronted this semester with the problems that result from too many cars and not enough close parking, residence and scholarship hall residents said yesterday.
Theresa Black, Liberty senior, who works at the front desk at McCollum Hall, said, "It seems to be worse than usual to try to find a parking place this year.
"I'm paranoid when I come in late at night and have to park in one of the overflow lots. You never know who is going to hassle you.
"It's also easy to lose track of your car. Anything could happen to it when it's sitting way out in the East Topeka lot."
The East Topeka lot is across the bridge over Iowa Street on West Campus.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said there had been an increase in the past two weeks in auto burglaries and attempted auto burglaries, particularly in the overflow lots.
Tim Fields, Lenexa sophomore and Elsworth Hall resident, expressed concern about the thefts in the East Topeka lot.
"I've had to park in East Topeka
for the past few weeks because I get home late," he said. "We need a bigger parking lot."
Donna Hultine, assistant director of Parking Services, said there seemed to be more cars on campus this fall. As a result, Parking Services has been giving out more tickets.
Ralph Elchami, a Beirut, Lebanon, graduate student who lives in McCollum, waved around a yellow ticket as proof that Parking Services meant business.
"I couldn't find a place to park Saturday, so I put my car in the loading zone and got a ticket," he said.
Part of the problem, Hultine said, may be that visitors can have their parking tickets canceled by having their hosts take them to the front.
"What I would suggest for the residence halls is to go through their governance systems and have their visitors park in the extension lots," she said.
'It's also easy to lose track of your car. Anything could happen to it when it's sitting way out in the East Topeka lot.'
—Theresa Black, Liberty senior
John Young, Oliver Hall resident director, said the hall had more trouble with people parking illegally than
with complaints of insufficient space.
"We've been having more of a problem in having people pull in front and in the fire lanes," Young said, "especially on the weekends when they unload their cars.
"We've also had some accidents from cars parked in the fire lanes being hit by other cars driving out of the lot."
Tammy Jones, resident director for Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall, said that a lot of residents had been parking illegally and that the parking shortage was to be expected. She said that a representative of Parking Services
had talked to residents at the hall about parking.
She also said the hall's staff encouraged the women to form car pools.
Scholarship hall residents also have noticed a shortage in close parking.
Joan Kendall, Wichita sophomore and president of Douthart Scholarship Hall, said she was concerned about residents parking in the extension lot at 12th and Louisiana streets.
"If you're a girl," she said, "it's dangerous with all the trees and bushes around for attackers to hide in."
Patrons of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., and the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th St., often take parking places allotted to scholarship hall residents, Kendall said.
Workmen vacuum campus
Paul GoodnianKANSAN
Roy Hyoung, a facilities operations worker, sucked up leaves yesterday with a huge vacuum as part of the annual fall cleanup of leaves that fell from campus trees.
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
You wouldn't want to run one over an antique Persian rug, but the machines used to remove leaves from campus lawns are much like household vacuum cleaners.
"It's just a big propeller, like a fan blade that sucks the leaves right through it," said Jim Mathes, assistant director of landscaping. "We have some smaller ones that are like lawn mowers."
Work is piling up as trees continue to drop their burdens on campus lawns. Mathes said collection of the annual harvest was just beginning, and ten of 27 employees on the landscaping crew were busy collecting leaves.
"They blow around, so you keep cleaning out hedges all winter long," he said. "That's where they move to and finally stop."
The wizened leaves of the eim tree are the easiest for workers to collect. However, sycamore leaves, some of which are as broad as the hands of a professional basketball player, are bothersome.
"The sycamores are the worst because they're so big," he said.
Some trees simply refuse to surrender their foliage, prolonging the leaf collection season.
Mathes said the leaves would return to campus as compost three or four years from now to fertilize another generation of campus vegetation.
"We just used them 25 loads of it, dump truck-sized loads, on the play field between Robinson Gym and the computer center," he said.
LET THE Romantics
"The oaks will hold their leaves sometimes till spring before they drop." he said.
After collection is completed, the once-delicate, green buds of spring, end their brief lives as fodder for the compost heap on West Campus.
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