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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday October 5,1987 Vol. 98, No.31
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Scott Carpenter/KANSAN
Running to daylight
Kansas tailback Darryl Terrell hurdles a Southern Illinois player as Saluki Jayhawks' 16-15 victory Saturday at Memorial Stadium. defender Joel Dickerson (93) gives chase. Terrell earned 66 yards in the See story on page 8.
Aggieville set for riot, part III
By MICHAEL HORAK
Staff writer
MANHATTAN — Jim Burnett leaned over a video game in the back of hisAggievile bar and said he didn't want to talk about the possibility of another riot after the KU and K-State football game Nov. 7.
"It made us look bad, real bad," said Burnett, the manager of the Last Chance Saloon. "But there won't be a riot this year. We've made sure of it. Last year the cops didn't do anything. This year, they won't put up with it."
But across the street, Russ Bunken, manager of Woody's men's store, stood over a case filled with silk ties and predicted the worst.
"There's going to be a confrontation, you can almost bet on it," he said in a voice low enough so customers would not overhear. "I don't think there is anything they can do to keep it from happening."
Most merchants in Aggieville, a shopping district near the Kansas State University campus and home to 18 bars, don't know what to expect when students and football fans gather in Aggieville for traditional post-game celebrations next month.
The last two times the schools played football in Manhattan, in 1984 and 1986, crowds have congregated in Aggieville after the game and attacked police officers, thrown bottles through windows and looted the building. The crowd turned over a car and set it on fire in the middle of a street.
Damage to businesses and property in the area last year was almost $100,000, said the manager. Twenty-two students were arrested during the riot
on charges ranging from property damage to burglary.
Even though the game is still a month away, Aggieville merchants, members of the Riley County Police Department and local businesses planned a gaming plans designed during the last year aimed at curbing post-game violence.
Plans call for Aggeville streets to be closed to all vehicular traffic on game day. Snow fences, stacked one mile apart, limit pedestrian access to the area.
No one will be allowed to carry bottles or cans in Agggieville, nor will they be able to enter the area if they are inside. The car will allow anyone under 21, inside.
If the area becomes crowded, security guards at the five entrance points will let people into the area on a one-in, one-out basis.
Police officers from Wichita, Junction City, Lawrence and Kansas City, and state Alcohol Beverage Control agents have tentatively agreed to be in Agiggillev. They have been instructed to arrest any student carrying an open container of an alcoholic beverage on the street.
Charlie Beckon, K-State police chief said, "We are not going to be in the position of having our backs to the worst and bane (or the best)."
Beckon said he didn't like to talk about the possibility of a third riot, but acknowledged that there were no plans to deal with any type of situation.
'We want people to understand that we have to enforce the law. On the same token, we want everyone to
See RIOT, p. 6, col. 4
Show is best place for horsing around
Staff writer
Bv BEN IOHNSTON
Monday Morning
TOPEKA — It was a day of competition for 54 people wearing blue velvet jackets, knee-length black boots and round black hats with a strap across the chin and riding elegant horses of every size and color.
The event was a horse show sponsored by the Northeast Kansas Hunter Association on Saturday at the Kansas Exocentre in Topeka.
The association is an organization of about 200 horse riders that sponsors 11 horse shows from April through November in Manhattan, Topeka and Fort Leavenworth.
On Saturday the riders, who were mostly women age 7 to 55, jumped horses over wood fences that were 18 inches to 3 feet high, and trolled their horses around a flat dirt area. This part of the competition is called the flat course.
Lisa Jones/KANSAN
"The origin of this type of horse show is fox hunting." O'Donnell said. "In fox hunting the horse may be out
Carol O'Donnell, president of the association, said the flat course competition was judged on ability to control the horse. In the jumping competition the contestants were judged on their ability to get the horse to kick six aix to six in ten feet while putting at little strain on the horse as possible.
See HORSE, p. 6, col. 1
TOPEKA — Diane Taylor, Manhattan resident, takes her horse, Good Bros Endure, through a series of practice jumps to prepare for competition. Taylor participated in the Northeast Kansas Hunter Association Sunflower Horse Show at the Topeka Excentropre on Sunday.
PARKING CRUNCH
KU tackles parking problem
Bv NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
Parking can be one of the most frustrating things at the University of Kansas, says the chairman of the board that decides who parks where. There never seems to be a space where you need it, when you need it.
That's because the central area of KU's main campus contains 88 percent of people's destinations, but only 10 percent of the available parking spaces, according to a study commissioned by the KU Parking Board last year.
And although KU Parking Services did its best last summer to squeeze in about 400 new parking spaces, Ray Moore, chairman of the KU Parking Board, says it's hard to ease the parking crunch when KU's enrollment keeps growing.
Enrollment on the Lawrence campus this fall increased 574 students from last fall. Parking oversell — the number of parking permits sold compared with the number of parking spaces on the Lawrence campus — ranges this fall from 11 percent to 32 percent.
Many of KU's current parking problems evolved because the University traditionally adds more parking, adding more parking, Moore said.
firm, Barton-Aschman Associates Inc. of Evanston, Ill., to study campus parking and design a 10-year plan.
"We may have done nothing more than kept even," Moore said recently.
Last fall, KU hired a consulting
The consultant recommended
four approaches;
- Redesigning existing parking lots to add about 400 new spaces.
- Installing lights and sidewalks to encourage drivers to use outer
New yellow zone meters aimed at campus visitors
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
The 235 coin-eating meters soon to be installed in Lot 91 are designed only to replace the two toll booths taken into this year, the KU Parking Board chairman said last week.
In addition, the new meters and higher prices will increase KU Parking Services revenues from meters this fiscal year by 85 percent, according to the Parking Services budget.
But the removal of the booths and an accompanying increase in meter costs may end up charging visitors more money. Students from zone permits also may suffer from a decreased number of meters on campus.
Ray Moore, chairman of the parking board and associate professor of civil engineering, said the board voted last year to install meters in Lot 91, a yellow zone southeast of Memorial Stadium, and in Lot 16, a blue zone across
the street from the Kansas Union, to make visitors pay for parking and to raise money.
Moore said that students with yellow permits could park at the new meters, but that they would have to pay the meter fee.
The meters are supposed to make money for Parking Services by charging visitors, not by charging students with yellow permits twice for the same parking space, he said.
"My thought is that if the meters don't do what they are supposed to, the board will re-evaluate its decision," he said.
Scott Harrington, Lawrence senior, did not buy a yellow zone permit and parks at meters near Robinson Center.
"If they had more yellow spaces and the prices weren't so steep, I'd probably buy a yellow permit." Harrington said.
"I think if I had a yellow sticker
See METER, p. 12, col. 1
lots
Building a three- to four-story parking garage.
To pay for improvements, the consultant recommended bonds and increased parking permit 'ees.
So far, Parking Services has acted on the first two recommendations. This summer, Parking Services redesigned four lots — the lot south of Robinson tennis courts, the lot east of the football stadium and the lot east of the Burge Union — to add about 400 new yellow-zone spaces. Widths of individual stalls were narrowed.
Moving state-owned vehicles to West Campus.
Students park in yellow zones. Faculty and staff park mostly in red and blue zones and sometimes in yellow zones.
Also, Parking Services had a lighted sidewalk built from Memorial Drive to the lot west of the football stadium. Donna Hultine, assistant director of Parking Services, said that lot was a little more crowded than the main campus but the more popular lots south of camus, she said.
KU also followed the consultant's recommendation by increasing parking permit costs, although not as much as had been recommended. In addition, KU increased the cost of parking violation fines and is converting about
See PARKING, p. 12, col. 1
Union renovation groups food on level 3
By JORN E. KAALSTAD
Staff writer
The Kansas Union is about halfway through a $ 5.1 million renovation that will place food services and bookstores on separate floors.
Despite a strike by sheet metal workers this summer, which delayed the work for 20 days, the first stage will be finished in January, Long said. That part of the renovation will group all food services, which used to be spread over three floors, on level three, he said.
The renovation, which started in February, will be completed in three stages. The final stage is scheduled to be finished in January 1989, said James Long, director of the Kansas and Burge unions.
Windowless and dungeon-like eating facilities will be dark history when the new 900 seating capacity dining area opens, Long said.
The dining areas will face some of the most picturesque parts of campus. Long said. Newly-installed windows to the west provide guests with an excellent view of the park, Campanile* and stadium.
"We wanted to open up, let light in," he said. "It'll let people see around and to be seen."
Stephanie Quincy, student body vice president, has seen the construction area and she said she ws excited about the opening in January.
"It appears to have a much more pleasant atmosphere," she said.
Hawk's Bed cafe and Prairie Room restaurant. now on level two,
The River City Deli, which was on level three before the renovation, will reopen as the Union Square. It will be a food mart with different stations, including hot and cold dishes, pastries and ice cream, Long said.
will move up one flight to rooms with more light and space, he said.
While dining units are moving up,
books are moving down to the second
floor.
Quincy said she was glad the
Student Senate offices will be moved from the Burge Union to level four of the Kansas Union, where Oread Bookstore is. he said.
The Oread Bookshop will move in where the Prairie Room is, and textbooks, which now are below the Hawk, will be in the Hawk's Nest. Long said,
Senate would move in to the Kansas Union because Burge was "off the student path."
She said, "A lot of students are in the Kansas Union every day, and we can have better contact with them by being there."
The renovation will be a continuation of the original design of the building, which is one of the oldest student unions in the nation, Long said.
The interior will be an subdued version of the University's crimson and blue, he said.
B. A. Green Construction Company Inc. of Lawrence and Shaughnessy, Flicker And Scott Architects Inc. of Lawrence, Kansas Union renovation contracts.