Wednesday, November 11, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
Intersection to be examined
By Seth Jones
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Students who live on Daisy Hill know how dangerous the intersection of 15th Street and Engel Road can be.
Danger Zone
Tonight, Student Senate committees will hear a resolution to improve the intersection that is just north of where many students live.
Kvie Ramsey/KANSAN
Tom Moore, campus director of the student legislative awareness board, said that 29 accidents were reported from Jan. 1, 1994 to May 14, 1997, making it the most dangerous intersection on campus.
Aravind Muthukrishnan, Nunemaker senator, has been meeting with people to discuss the problem.
"I've talked to the Chancellor, I've met with people down at City Hall and people in Senate," he said. "So far the only consensus is that there really is a tough problem at that intersection, and it won't have an easy solution."
David Woosley, city transportation traffic engineer, the intersection is under the jurisdiction of the University of Kansas and the city of Lawrence.
"Everything is preliminary right now," he said. "City support and school support will determine what is done at the intersection, if anything."
In the meantime, students crossing the intersection will have to be careful of traffic.
Shelby Hancock, Salina freshman, has lived at Hashinger Hall for a year and a half and would like to see something done at the intersection.
"There definitely needs to be a four-way stop there," she said. "The intersection is horrible. I've heard that a traffic light would back up traffic too much, but something needs to be done."
J. D. Jenkins, Shawnee sophmore, has lived at Templin Hall for two years had has to contend with with the busy intersection.
"I just want the University to recognize that it is a dangerous intersection," he said. "Cars come over the hill pretty fast, and in the
mornings it takes a long time just to cross because it's so busy. It's too dangerous to cross when it's dark out."
Jenkins is concerned with the safety of students who walk to class each day.
"It's like they've been dragging their feet on getting something done there." he said "I just want to see something done before someone gets hurt."
Roughly 200 students cross the intersection daily. Moore said.
"The traffic has been a problem there for years," he said. "I imagine it will be six to eight months before they decide what can be done."
By Chris Fickett Kanson staff writer
City Commission approves cable plan for Internet access
Cable customers in Lawrence will be able to watch more than 70 channels and wander the Internet at high speeds in August.
The World Company, owners of Sunflower Cablevision and Datavision, will be required to upgrade its system if the Lawrence City Commission approves a new cable television ordinance.
The commission received a draft of the ordinance last night and made a unanimous motion to place the ordinance on next week's agenda.
Rod Bremby, assistant city manager, said the existing agreement with the World Company, which expires in April, was fifteen years old. He said upgrades were required in the agreement in order to keep Sunflower viable in the cable television market.
The upgrade includes adding strands of fiber to more than 400 miles of cable throughout the Lawrence area that will allow for more channels on Sunflower Cablevision and high speed Internet access through Sunflower Datavision.
City officials were concerned Sunflower Datavision Internet service accounts would reduce the bandwidth on cable lines and produce
poorer quality cable television.
The new fifteen-year agreement would require the World Company to upgrade its cable lines by the end of 2001.
Dan McGough, manager for the World Company, said that the upgrades would exceed the standards set in the agreement and that the upgrades would be in place by August.
"We've compressed a two-year upgrade to 10 months," McGough said. "When we're done with this cable system upgrade in August, it will have the capacities and capabilities par excellence to any cable TV company in the nation."
Bremby said that competitors from direct satellite broadcasting were eating into the cable television market and that the upgrade would allow Sunflower Cablevision to continue to provide excellent service.
The upgrades would allow Sunflower Cablevision customers to subscribe to more packages of premium channels.
"It's still one of the premiere franchise cable companies in the nation."Bremby said.
McGough said Sunflower Cablevision rates would not be affected by the system upgrades. The World Company has received between $8 and $9 million in private investments for upgrades, McGough said.
In other news, the Lawrence City Commission:
CITY COMMISSION
Approved the purchase of
APPLIQUE, the burger chain,
750 700, from Prototype Inc.
for management of the Central Maintenance Garage vehicle fleet.
Adapted Resolution No. 6020 ordering the construction of sidewalk improvements along W. Sirth Street.
Received an amendment to the Capital Improvement Plan for 1999-2004 that will include the indoor aquatic center proposed for west of Free State High School.
Awarded a bid to Burney Van Stone Design Consultants for $52,677.78 for City Commission Room furniture improvements.
The franchise agreement also will provide the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University with one non-commercial channel each by 2000. The City of Lawrence and the Lawrence School District will continue to receive public access channels at no cost.
The franchise fee that the World Company pays to the City of Lawrence will remain at 3.25 percent of gross receipts but will be paid monthly instead of quarterly.
Not yet ready for prime time
Managers for the Kansas football team play football in an empty Memorial Stadium after setting up the field for yesterday's practice. The football team's final game of the season is Nov. 21 at Iowa State.Photo by Graham K. Johnson/KANSAN
Sniper fatally shot at downtown crime scene after killing St. Joseph officer
The Associated Press
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — A gunman opened fire near a busy intersection of old downtown last night, killing a police officer and wounding at least three others before authorities fatally shot him.
Witnesses told police the man began firing as he walked up the street, shooting randomly at people until he reached the Calvary Baptist Church. Lt. Jim Connors said.
The first officer to respond to the scene was shot as he stepped out of his patrol car, authorities said.
The officer was pronounced dead soon after he arrived at Heartland Regional Medical Center, hospital representative Kelly Stuck said. One bystander was in stable condition and another was in surgery Tuesday night, Stuck said. Fire Captain Ed Wildberger said a firefighter also was shot but his wounds were not considered serious.
Their names were not being released pending the notification of relatives.
The man was shot and killed by police at the
scene after he continued firing at them. Connors said. Police had not determined his identity.
Michael Boone, a grocery store night manager, said he saw the gunman walking toward his store.
"We just heard all kinds of gunfire and people were running inside the store for cover." Boone said. "We tried to move them all into the back where there could be safe, but people we're really scared.
"There were a lot of bodies lying in the street." he said.
When police pulled up across the street, "he turned and started shaking his rifle, and he was velling some antics, like 'na na,'" she said.
Connie Cox, 38, heard the gunfire from her home behind the church. When she looked out her door, she said, she saw a man in camouflage pants standing on a lower roof of the church and waving what looked like a rifle.
was yelling some antics, like na ha, she said. She said he fired at the officers, jumped off the roof and ran behind a tree on the church property. When he stepped out, he was shot by the officers, she said.
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