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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.2
MONDAY, AUGUST 24,1992
(USPS 650-640)
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Andrew to carve swath through Florida
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Hurricane Andrew surged relentlessly toward southern Florida yesterday, and forecasters warned it would be the most powerful storm to hit the United States in decades. More than 1 million residents were told to flee.
The hurricane ripped into the Bahamas yesterday with 120 mph winds, heavy rain and surging tide. The outlying eastern islands of Abaco and Eleuthera were hit first. There were four reported deaths.
At 1 a.m. the center of the hurricane was about 60 miles east of Miami.
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near 25.4 north latitude and 79.3 west longitude.
"It's on a dead course for South Florida. Hoped I would never experience this," said Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in suburban Coral Gables. "We've not seen anything like this in the past few decades."
Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles issued a state of emergency and activated National Guard forces as Andrew grew to a Category 4 storm, the same as Hurricane Hugo in 1989, with winds of 150 mph.
Forecasters expected it to reach Category 5—the worst category with
Only two known Category 5 hurricanes have hit the United States. Hurricane Camille, which devastated the Mississippi coast in 1969, killing 256 people, and the 1935 Labor Day hurricane that hit the Florida Keys and killed 405 people.
winds topping 155 mph — as it crosses the Gulf Stream to Florida
The governor's emergency declaration allowed the mandatory evacuation of more than 1 million people and put the National Guard and other emergency state agencies on alert.
damage as it swept through the Caribbean and into the Carolinas, electrified an already tense atmosphere in the densely populated strip from Miami to Palm Beach County.
Residents rushed to secure their homes, hammering up makeshift plywood shutters if they did not have hurricane awnings, moving boats out of the Miami River or pulling them out of the water.
Panic buying his grocery and home-supply stores, money machines were emptied and motorists lined up for gas and headed inland.
Warnings that Andrew could be stronger than Hurricane Huto, which hit the U.S. coast on May 27.
Hurricane Andrew
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Fee payment system hits snags
Unexpected lines greet financial aid recipients
Fall 1992 schedule
K.C. 101...Intro to Kansas City
Fountains 120...City of fountains
Dining 240 ...Eating in style
Travel 103...KU to K.C.
Part of Kansas City's charm lies in its beauty. The city boasts more fountains than any city except Rome and more boulevard miles than Paris. The City of Fountains Foundation, which promotes the development of building and maintenance of more than 200 Kansas City fountains, is the only organization of its kind in the country. Top and middle : Fountains at Crown Center and on Ward Parkway.
Left: The Classic Cup Sidewalk Cafe is a shopper's reprieve. It offers worldwide coffees and teas at two locations: Plaza, 301 W. 47th and in Westport at 4130 Pennsylvania.
Above: Shoppers get a chance to relax as they ride the trolley past Kelly's. The trolley travels between Westport, the Plaza and Crown Center.
Bicycle parking difficult Union renovation relocates racks
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
KU students wanting to park their bikes at the Kansas Union may be wondering where the bike racks are.
Some students are not happy with the way the racks are situated.
Renovation of the building temporarily has removed one set of macks and relocated the other to the north side lawn of the Union, just off Jayhawk Boulevard.
"The way they have them here is like they stacked them to be out of the way," said Carla Dykeman-Berkich, Wellington graduate student.
She said some of the racks were
is closely together and were sensible because of a pine tree'sng branches.
uld have very easily just put ter down on the grass," she
o-Berkich said the type of made the parking situation e.
just not very heavy-duty
"she said. "It's not a real
look on your bike."
tire designed for the front between two metal bars, e bicyclist to fasten the tire with a lock.
arking the bike that way, oweal steel the bike frame dykeman-Berkish said her kin bridge to the gup three to four other estimated that the bike immulated 12 bikes when lv.
manager of building seer Kansas and Burge Urions. ie racks currently at the mmodated about 50 bikes intended way and that the never full. Lack of adge space for bikes is not a the union he said.
expect lack of parking to in with the new racks thatided when renovation is he said. They should ate about 60 bikes and are iee racks that have been at
racks, popular at other cross campus, consist of that stand 30 to 32 inches long, be said. Abicyc a bikie on either side of a rock or one and one or the rack.
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handrails at the building's
Beard said.
y policy states that no y obstruct access to a face signs at the handrails d instructing people to bikes at the temporary areas have been using the 1aid.
racks, accommodating 30 be available when stage je II is completed, proba-Oct. 1, Beard said. The e at the southeast corner Another set of racks will e in May of 1993 at the r.
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KC 101 An Advertising Supplement • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN • August 19, 1992