University Daily Kansan, October 3, 1980
Page 7
Hall parking space battle continues
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
Students trying to find empty parking spaces in KU residence hall parking lots may be in for a long search again this year.
There are simply more perms than there
are packages, and the number of Packages
Set>Set>and last week.
According to Fenstemaker, Parking Services does not limit the number of permits issued for each parking lot. Instead, the extra cars are accommodated in alternative areas—under-used portions of other lots on campus where particular residence ball permits are accepted.
The alternative parking area for Daisy Hill is the extension lot across Iowa Street on West Campus. The alternative area for Oliver Hall is the southwest corner of the O-zone parking lot across Naismith Drive.
SOME OLIVER HALL residents have started parking on the wrong side of the islands in the hall's parking lot. Other students are parking along the sides of the lot, a situation of concern to Parking Services.
"We always have a big problem when students park cars where they shouldn't," Fenstemaker said. "Especially when the cars prevent emergency vehicles from getting through."
But the major problem, according to Foensteinmaker, is that many students learn best through direct instruction.
"It a student gets a ticket for parking illegally because a particular lot is full, we tend to be lenient the first time and explain the alternative areas."
However, in an attempt to find a permanent solution to the parking problem, some students have taken matters into their own hands.
president, said the hall's residents were trying to get a hearing before the Parking Services Board.
Curt Reynolds, Oliver Hall vice-
"One suggestion I have is to have more of the spaces reserved for compact cars, which would mean repainting the lines in the lot." Reynolds said. "By making more of the spaces smaller we could get more cars into our lot."
ACCORDING TO REYNOLDS,
however, it could be several weeks
before a hearing is held because hall
residents must go through the KU
office in person. If you have a
volves a residence hall parking lot
rather than an individual complaint.
Parking Services is not planning to do anything to alleviate the problem permanently, according to Fenstemaker. He said a shortage of parking spaces was a big problem at the beginning of every year but was usually alleviated by the students themselves.
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-The number of fatalities in motorcycle accidents has tripped since the 1975 repeal of the Kansas law requiring motorcyclists to wear protective headgear, according to a study by the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Cycle deaths tripled, study says
By LINDA ROSEWICZ Staff Reporter
Results from the four-year study indicated that 333 percent more motorcycleists died in accidents than those who were headwear.
survived an accident without a helmet.
Hospital costs for those who survived helmet-less crashes averaged $18,000–triple the costs of helmed riders injured in accidental collisions that disabled head injuries were most common among those who
The study was directed by Michael Lummis, an instructor at the Med Center's School of Allied Health. Two part-time research assistants from the Med Center helped him with the project.
The research team analyzed hospital records and accident statistics in Johnson, Wyandotte, Douglas and Shawne counties to compare the periods when the helmets were mandatory and after the law was repealed. Information from the annual August accidents in 1975, which was before the repeal, and the three following years.
ACCORDING TO NATIONAL estimates from law enforcement officials, the lawsuits complied with the helmet law before it repeal. After helmets
became optional, less than half of the riders wore them.
After Lummis released preliminary data from his study in 1970, the Kansas Legislature redefined the helm law for all riders under 18.
The re-enactment was not widely publicized and probably was enforced even less, according to Lummis. The Kansas Highway Patrol is asking Kansas law enforcing agency to enforce the ruling, he said.
THE PRELIMINARY figures were published in the August 1980 issue of the Augustion of the medical journal, *Bacteriology*, Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Armed with the results of his research, Lummis said a battle to repeal the helmet legislation would be easy.
But he will not lead such a move
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