Wednesday, September 30, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
Bookstores remind students to purchase fall texts early
By Carolyn Mollett Kansan staff writer
The safe window for buying textbooks this fall is sliding shut.
Bookstores will begin returning texts to distributors within the next few weeks, and managers said students should hurry to buy this semester's materials.
"If you wait until late to buy books, you run into problems," said Bill Getz, assistant manager of Kansas and Burge unions. Getz is responsible for ordering texts for the Kansas Union Bookstore, the Burge Union Bookstore and Edwards Campus.
The bookstores have to begin returning texts to make space for
next semester's books and to earn financial credit for new orders, Getz said.
Keith Kielman, textbook manager at Jayhawk Bookstore, said many distributors had return deadlines, but the store held on to the books as long as possible.
"We will keep getting requisitions for this semester pretty much through December." Kielman said.
Bookstores have received their late-book shipments in recent weeks, and students should be able to find previously unavailable books.
Last year, bookstores had problems getting books in on time because of the United Parcel Service strike. But the bookstore managers said this year's problems were no worse than normal.
TEXTBOOK PURCHASING
Back-ordered textbooks should be available at the Burge Union Bookstore, the Kansas Union Bookstore, Jayhawk Bookstore and University Book Shop. Upon student request, the stores can order most books that are not available.
"The biggest problem is late orders received from instructors," said Mike Lammers, manager of University Book Shop.
When there aren't enough textbooks available and professors have to change books, it is usually because the books are no longer in
print. Lammers said.
Kielman said distributors recently had begun bundling textbooks into packages, which could delay shipping. Sometimes professors had requested only one of the books in the package, but the distributor will send both for the same price.
"So, a book is not showing up because they're putting a bundle together that nobody asked for," Kielman said.
The managers said they were not aware of any KU classes still experiencing problems finding textbooks.
Bookstores will order texts for those who can't find them on the shelves. But Kielman said students need to check all the bookstores before taking that step.
ACLU chapter fights for funds from Senate
By Seth Jones
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is enraged that they did not receive funds from Student Senate, and they are not going to go away, said Buddy Lloyd, ACLU president.
During committee meetings two weeks ago, a bill for $307 to fund the ACLU failed. The reason for the failure was what Lloyd called a blatant attack on the ACLU and on the question of partisanship.
"We're a watchdog for the Bill of Rights. We don't run candidates, we've never endorsed candidates," said Lloyd. "We educate about civil rights."
Julie Numrich SenEx chair, said ACLU could approach the committees again.
Lloyd said this time the group would try to better educate Senate about ACLU's function.
"They don't have to change the bill or anything. They can just re-present the one that got denied back to committees." she said.
"We didn't get the money because of a lack of knowledge," he said. "That is partially our fault. This time we'll tell Senate exactly what we do."
Lloyd said ACLU watches to make sure the rights of students are not violated.
"We were quite concerned during the anti-abortion display," he said. "Some people wanted to ban the display, but we were out there telling people they had freedom of speech."
Without money from Senate, Lloyd said ACLU already had seen a loss because it could not promote events as much as the organization would have liked.
Board discusses parking
Goal of 2,000 new spots to be completed by 2000; 830 spaces already done
By Seth Jones Kansan staff writer
The Parking Board looked yesterday to see where it was on its plan to have 2,000 new parking spaces by the year 2000 at its first meeting of the year.
A plan proposed by Chancellor Robert Hemenway early in 1997 set the goal for the 2,000 spaces. Since then, the parking department has added 830 spots.
Of the remaining spaces needed to complete the goal, 1,000 are to be created with the construction of a parking garage north of the Kansas Union.
Don Kearns, director of parking, said he was confident that the goal would be reached on time.
The remaining spaces are being created by reconfiguring existing lots. The addition of 224 spaces at Oliver Hall has been the biggest gain in parking so far.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said that with the addition of the parking garage, students would see relief in other lots.
spots for students in those lots. Visitors who park at those meters will then be expected to park in the new garage."
"We're going to remove the parking meters from lots 91 to 94, the lots behind the Union," she said. "And that will add 231
The parking board also addressed the use of stickers as parking permits in place of hang tags.
Hultine said that complaints about the stickers were that some people didn't want to put stickers on their car, some were afraid that their sticker would be stolen and their car scratched in the process, or that they had more than one car that they drove to campus.
"We like the stickers; I wish everyone one had them," Hultine said. "People just need to get used to them. The stickers worked successfully for 20 years before we
GOALS
The goal is to add 2,000 spots by the year 2000.
■ 830 new spaces have been created.
■ 1,170 spaces are left to be created to meet the goal.
■ 1,000 spaces are targeted to be created with the construction of a new parking garage north of the Kansas Union
At least 170 new spaces are targeted to be created from the reconfiguration of existing lots.
went to the five-year hang tag experiment." Hultine said that if a person drove more than one car to campus, they would give them a car tag to move from car to car.
Hultine also said that theft was less likely to occur with the stickers.
"We'd have some students not even realize that their hang tag was stolen until they got a ticket," she said.
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