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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 22,1995
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PARKING
Parking on game day could be costly
Department reserves access to lots for those who are willing to pay
Game-Time Parking Perks
The Williams Educational Fund reserves certain parking lots exclusively for donors The donors do not earn the passes by virtue of their donations; rather, they earn the privilege of buying the passes through their contributions. Each season pass is $18
By Hannah Naughton Kansan staff writer
It's fall football season again, so watch out and keep those tow trucks away.
When game time rolls around, the everyday rules for parking change to a new code of parking eligibility. The parking department refers to this as "pre-empting a lot."
On a game day, the lots on Memorial Drive behind Carruth-Orléary and Joseph R. Pearson halls and surrounding Memorial Stadium are pre-empted.
This means that parking passes bought through the parking department no longer allow access to those areas, said Donna Hultine, assistant director of the parking department.
"We post in advance," Hultine said. "We tell people when they are reserved and when to move their cars."
People are more aware of the preemptions during basketball season because games occur on weeknights more often, she said.
On football game days, the lots on Memorial Drive, which runs behind the Campanile, and the lots behind Carruth-O'Leary and JRP are open to anyone who will pay the $3 toll. Hutine said.
Usually, this does not affect too many people because it occurs on a Saturday, she said. However, last week's game occurred on Thursday.
"For a football game, it catches people off guard," Hultine said. "It doesn't happen very often."
The lots surrounding the stadium are rented out to the Williams Educational Fund, the annual fund-raising program of the University of Kansas Athletic Department. she said.
Anyone who donates $250 or more to the Williams fund gains the privilege to purchase parking permits for both football and basketball games, said Becca Green, administrative assistant for the
Williams Educational Fund.
Long-time or more generous donors can buy passes for lots 59,60 and 94.all of which are adjacent to the stadium.
Football passes cost $18 and basketball passes cost $32 — or about $3 a game for both sports.
"Parking services controls the lots, but we distribute all the passes," Green said. "We work with them, and they work with us."
Sporting events are not the only times when lots are pre-empted, Hultine said. For example, lots near the chancellor's
home were open only to special guests at a reception there last week.
Permission to pre-empt a lot for a special occasion other than a football game only can be granted by the chancellor, through his office or by the chancellor's designee, Hultine said.
Parking board weighs adding 1,000-space lot
By Sarah Wiese
Kansan staff writer
If a proposal to eliminate parking on Jayhawk Boulevard becomes reality, at least 120 faculty and staff members would have to park elsewhere.
At the parking board meeting yesterday, Tom Waechter, planning coordinator for capital programs, discussed the University's 20-year master plan with board members. The comprehensive plan outlines campus renewal for the first time since 1973.
The plan would eliminate about 120 parking spaces on the boulevard itself, Waechter said, but it would provide additional parking, including a 1,000-car parking garage.
"There is really only one viable spot on the Hill for a parking deck, and that is north of the Kansas Union." Waechter said.
However, it isn't clear if the closing of the boulevard and the completion of additional parking options would coincide.
Don Kearns, director of parking, said closing the boulevard to private vehicles also would landlock close to 130 additional spots located behind Strong. Bailley and Fraser halls.
Waechter said that although the plan didn't directly address those spots, there were ways to reroute access to the lots.
And that's what worries Kearns. The people who once parked on the boulevard would have to park in other lots and would add to an already-taxed parking system.
"My biggest concern is once they remove the parking spaces, where these customers will be forced to go." Kearns said.
Kearns said cost was the main obstacle to both parking proposals. The garage would be a one-time $10 million investment. The shuttle system would cost between $1 million and $1.5 million to run every year, excluding large start-up costs.
Those costs would eventually trickle down to the user in the form of higher permit prices, Kearns said.
Car plows into cyclist in robbery attempt
By Scott Worthington Kansan staff writer
Two Lawrence men and two Lawrence youths were charged yesterday with aggravated battery and attempted robbery of a KU student.
Three suspects — Daniel Higgins, 19, Sheldon Flowers, 18, and Jeremy Kriner, 17 — were charged at an arraignment yesterday with aggravated battery, attempted aggravated robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery.
A fourth suspect, also a 17-year-old boy, was sent to a juvenile detention center.
Police said the victim, Scott Dusenberry, St. Louis freshman, was riding his bike at about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 1600 block of New Hampshire Street when the four suspects intentionally hit him with their car in an attempt to subdue him for a robbery.
But the suspects struck Dusenberry too hard, dragging him along with the car briefly before he rolled onto an adjacent lawn.
The car then struck a lamppost, and the suspects ran away.
Dusenberry was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he received stitches in his head, nose and mouth.
His $500 mountain bike was destroyed.
Dusenberry said yesterday that he felt OK aside from the cuts and a sore neck.
"I guess I'm pretty lucky," he said.
Bond for Kriner and Higgins was set at $45,000. Flowers' bond was set at $30,000. A preliminary hearing for the suspects was set for Oct. 3.
Investigators believe the suspects to be responsible for another robbery in Lawrence, police said. That investigation continues.
Environmental conference to be held at KU
Regional coalition's meeting to involve many student groups
By Joann Birk
By Joann Birk
Kansan staff writer
This weekend, Lawrence will play host to a myriad of students who will come to discuss environmental and social issues.
The University of Kansas is sponsoring the sixth annual regional conference of the Student Environmental Action Coalition tomorrow and Sunday in Smith Hall.
Coalition members and other students from Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas are gathering to discuss a range of issues that include, but do not exclusively address, the environment.
The coalition was established in 1988 after students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill placed an advertisement in Greenpeace magazine calling for a national student network.
This will be the first time the conference has been held at the University. KU coalition members have planned workshops and discussions on topics ranging from regional environmental issues to accessing
Conference schedule
The Student Environmental Action Coalition's sixth annual regional conference schedule:
Todav
4 to 9 p.m. — registration in the Kansas Union
9 to 10 a.m. informal discussions.
Saturday
Topics include NAFTA revisited, regional issues and nuclear testing.
10 a.m to 2 p.m. — workshops (lunch provided)
2 to 5 p.m. — caucuses
Sundav
11 a.m. - regional and national business
The coaltion has grown from 30 groups in 1989 to more than 2,000 groups in 1995.
Membership in KU's chapter is small — four members. But they say many other student groups, including KU Environs,
are involved with the coalition's causes.
Terry Huerter, Lake Quivira sophomore and regional coordinator for the conference, said the reason so many other organizations would be involved is that the coalition was not the typical environmental group. In its seven years of existence, the coalition has addressed issues ranging from racism to endangered species.
"With SEAC, using knowledge gained from the civil rights movement and the women's movement, we are able to look at the big picture," Huerter said. "If we just concentrate on the environment, then we are going to leave other things out."
Gurpal Hundal, Olathe junior and member of the coalition and KU Environs, said that locally, the coalition had worked on several issues, including the fight to preserve the wetlands near Lawrence.
"It is an environmental issue, but in the end it is a social issue." Hundal said.
Registration for the conference will be from 4 to 9 p.m. today in the Kansas Union. Huerter said all students were welcome to attend the conference.
A national conference will be held in Chapel Hill October 13-15.
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