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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Monday
October 18, 1999
Section:
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Vol. 110 • No. 42
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The basketball season is officially under way after Friday's Late Night with Roy Williams.
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Students face parking fines for spaces near classes
(USPS 650-640)
By Michael Terry writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
As of Friday, the KU Parking Department had issued 70,370 tickets this calendar year to KU students, faculty and staff throughout the University's 118 parking lots.
A hot pink envelope on the windshield of a vehicle parked in any lot at the University of Kansas can mean only one thing: The KU parking department has struck again.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of the KU Parking Department, said the distribution of tickets issued throughout the campus's 118 lots were fairly equal.
"Only a few lots have received a higher number of tickets compared with the rest," Hultine said.
The most heavily ticketed area on campus was lot 8 located on Sunnyside Avenue, where 7,109, or about 10 percent, of tickets have been issued this year, Hultine said.
Lot 8 is a blue zone where only faculty and staff members whose age plus years of service equals at least 60 are allowed to park.
This is a surprisingly high number considering how few spaces are located on Sunnyside Avenue, she said.
Chad Allen, Norton junior, said he constantly parked in zones that were not designated for students.
"I think it's a convenience issue with a lot of the people who decide to illegally park in lot 8." Hultine said. "It's close to a lot of buildings that students and faculty frequently use, and some are just willing to take the risk."
"I'm always in a hurry, and the most
The parking department has issued 70,370 tickets this calendar year. Above is a list of the most common places tickets were received.
Source: KU Parking Department
Parking Department
Rachel Kesselman/KANSAN
"I'm always in a hurry, and the most convenient place to park is in either a blue or red zone. I've only been caught a couple of times, so I'm willing to face the consequences of my actions."
"The number of tickets in some lots, especially lots 90 and 91 are a little deceptive," Hultine said. "There are hundreds of more spaces in these two lots than in others around campus, and this leads to higher numbers of vehicles that can be ticketed."
convenient place to park is in either a blue or red zone," Allen said. "I've only been caught a couple of times, so I'm willing to face the consequences of my actions."
Norton junior
A combined 16,245, or 23 percent of tickets issued this year, have been in those four lots.
Other heavily ticketed areas on campus include lot 90 behind Robinson Center, lot 111 near Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall, lot 91 southeast of Memorial Stadium and lot 72 near the Burge Union.
The fine for parking illegally in any of the designated colored zones on campus is $20. When a person has accumulated three unpaid traffic violations, his or her vehicle will be towed at a cost of the unpaid parking fines and the price of the tow.
Hultine said that anyone who parks illegally should be aware that those five lots were patrolled heavier than some of the others.
—Edited by Kelly Clasen
Sheri Martin,
Topeka junior,
protests the
takeover of downtown
by national chains.
Martin
was part of the
15th Annual
World Anti-
McDonald's day in
downtown
Lawrence
Saturday afternoon.
Photo by Roger
Nomer/KANSAN
Chain stores draw ire of KU Environs
Protesters choose local store as focus
By Derek Prater
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
KU students demonstrated Saturday afternoon in the 900 block of Massachusetts Street, encouraging shoppers to eschew national chains in favor of locally owned businesses.
More than 20 students passed out
fliers with information about downtown chains and held signs with slogans such as, "BREAK THE CHAINS."
The demonstration, organized by KU Environs, coincided with the 15th Annual World Anti-McDonald's day and was centered in front of Chipotle Mexican Grill, 911 Massachusetts St., which has business ties to McDonald's.
Shannon Martin, Topeka senior and KU Environs coordinator, said demonstrators wanted to dispel the perception that students were the ones who supported national chains, such as The Gap and Abercrombie & Fitch.
"Chain stores target the student consumer group," Martin said. "I think it's important that students come out and show that they want local businesses to thrive and downtown to remain strong."
Matt Chapman, Wayne, Neb., senior and KU Environers member, said chain stores, motivated by profit, drained local culture.
"Corporate chain businesses affect the community and have the capacity to strangle life out of local businesses," Chanman said.
Martin said this year's demonstration was different than ones in the past
because rather than just protesting certain businesses, the goal was to show support for local business.
However, demonstrators still wanted to bring attention to Chippeau because of its ties to McDonald's and because of the protesters' concern about McDonald's business practices, Martin said.
Matt Easley. Chipotle store manager, said he was concerned that demonstrators were misinforming the public.
Student's company taking off
See STORE on page 3A
Kansas junior is making accessing the Internet easy
By Todd Halstead
writer@kansan.com
Kansas writer
Corey Carson, a computer engineering student, has been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug.
Last summer, Carson, Ft. Collins, Colo., junior, employed his computer skills to create KansasNet Communications, an Internet service provider.
"I've always been interested in computers, and I felt like there was a future in the Internet, so I wanted to get in on that," said Carson, who took a computer course at Colorado State University as a sophomore in high school. "My family helped out, and I gave the bank a proposal. They liked the idea so they gave me some money for it, and I started it up at the end of the summer."
KansasNet provides domain name hosting and Web hosting for those who desire their own Web site. Users of the company can pay the promotional price of $10 a month to ensure an address on the Internet.
KansasNet has 30 customers, consisting of Carson's friends and residents in the Lawrence community. Carson also has two fellow computer engineering students helping him run the company.
"If they wanted to sell something, my company provides the domain." Carson said. "E-commerce is going to be big someday."
E-commerce uses electronic information technology to conduct business
transactions among customers, sellers and other trading partners.
KansasNet offers Integrated Service Digital Network access, frame relay and 56K dial-up access, in addition to Web and domain hosting. These options vary in price in relation to the quality of service they provide and to what KansasNet's competitors charge.
The 56K dial-up access is the best connection on the market, Carson said. Users of his company could access the 56K modem even if their modems were not that powerful.
"They dial into my computer, and it authenticates them," he said. "Then they get access to my network, which then gives them access to the Internet because my network is on the Internet."
Customers can use the ISDN service, which offers the same access as the 56K modem, but with speeds up to 128K and with additional online space. Carson said phone companies would probably upgrade their systems from ISDN to Digital Subscriber Lines within the next six months.
While cable modems use cable lines to provide Internet access, DSL uses existing phone lines with a box installed between the computer and the phone.
"It has speeds comparable to cable modem, some say faster, and you will still be able to use your phone." Carson said.
Customers also can utilize frame relay, which allows them to connect to the Internet through KansasNet via T1 at a discounted rate. A T1 provides a faster connection to the Internet.
Susan Gauch, associate professor of electrical engineering
See STUDENT on page 5A
The evidence gathered in the case was submitted to the Douglas County District Attorney's Office on Friday for a determination of charges.
By Michael Terry
New harassing calls spark an inquiry
Kansan staff writer
An investigation into eight harassing phone calls received by six female students on Thursday has led the KU Public Safety Office to two male University of Kansas students.
Sgt. Troy Mailen, of the KU Public Safety Office, said all eight calls between 11:30 a.m. and 11:13 p.m. Thursday were to female students living at Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall.
In at least two of the calls, the two males represented themselves as pizza delivery drivers to get the six victims to talk, Ma llen said.
Lt. Schuyler Bailey, of the KU Public Safety Office, said after the incidents were reported, the office was able to identify, locate and interview the suspects through the course of its investigation.
"The calls were harassing, but I would not describe them as threatening or lewd and lascivious," Mailen said. Mailen said most of the incidents consisted of heavy breathing or calling and hanging up.
"Our office will not go into any specific details at this time to preserve any ongoing or future investigations," Bailey said.
"We would not send the evidence before the district attorney's office if we did not believe we had a strong case." Mailen said.
He said the identity of the two male students would not be released until either a notice to appear or a warrant for arrest was issued by the district attorney's office.
Bailey said the office was able to exclude the two suspects from responsibility for the original 14 harassing phone calls placed on Oct. 4. Fourteen female students reported harassing and threatening phone calls that day from various locations around campus.
Mailen said the two suspects were playing off the hype of the original calls placed 10 days before.
The investigation continues into the threatening and harassing phone calls placed prior to Thursday, Bailey said.
Anyone who has received a harassing phone call or has any information about possible suspects is encouraged to call the KU Public Safety Office, he said.
- Edited by Katie Hollar
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