UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 16, 1995
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Greek houses enjoy high rush turnout
By Sarah Wiese
Kansan staff writer
Fall formal rush numbers are up this year, with 819 women and 115 men participating in rush activities this week.
The purpose of rush week is to give students interested in joining a fraternity or sorority an opportunity to become familiar with the participating Greek houses and to decide which ones they are interested in. It also allows Greek houses to meet potential members and decide which students they want to invite to join.
Aggressive outreach and better publications are at least part of the reason for the increase, said Bill Nelson, coordinator for greek programs.
The number of women rushing for sororities is up 7 percent from last year, Nelson said.
Leaders of the KU Panhellenic Association are excited about the increase, said Amy Mein, vice president for the association's membership.
"I think people are realizing that the greek community has a lot to offer students." Mein said.
Rush week for sororities, Aug. 13-19, has undergone scheduling changes intended to help women adjust to the college experience as a whole, Mein said. The association added a parent orientation session and expanded involvement in Hawk Week activities.
"We're trying to help acclimate the incoming women to KU as well as greek life," Mein said.
Fraternities are enjoying an increase of about 47 percent from last year, when only 78 men were involved in formal rush, Nelson said.
Traditionally, about 90 to 95 percent of men enter the Greek system
through informal rush in the spring, said Joel Wright, vice president for the Interfraternity Council's membership.
"We start recruiting men during their senior year in high school by inviting them to rush activities," Wright said.
Consequently, many fraternities have all the men they need by the end of May. Formal rush caters to out-of-state men and those who weren't interested in fraternities while in high school, Wright said.
Nineteen of the 23 fraternities are participating in formal rush, Aug. 15-19, a significant increase from recent years, Wright said. The council's goal is to get all the fraternities to participate, even if they only need a few men, he said.
"I think we're moving in a positive direction and establishing new norms in getting chapters involved," he said.
Formal rush
The following are the numbers of participants in fall formal rush for sororities in the past few years;
790
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Towers' residents parking farther from home
By Sarah Wiese
Kansan staff writer
Students living at Jayhawker Towers might have to walk a little farther to park this year.
The KU parking department closed sections of the towers' two parking garages late last month after a structural engineer's recommendation, said James Modig, design and construction management director.
Parking in the west garage has been limited to level 1. Levels 1 and 3 of the east garage will remain open. The closings cut the garages' capacity from 500 to 215 spaces.
"We're going to have to find places to put 285 cars," Modig said.
The conversion of two existing lots, the creation of a new temporary lot and the use of extra parking spaces on Daisy Hill all are expected to provide the necessary parking.
Lot 123, on the south side of Irving Hill Road and west of the Burge Union, has been converted from meter, yellow and overflow parking, to tower parking. Lot
109, just south of Tower A, has been changed from staff and towers parking to strictly student parking.
A temporary gravel lot will be constructed southwest of the
towers and east of Nunemaker Hall and will be accessible from Engel Road, Modig said.
Towers residents also can park in the Templin Hall parking lot.
Construction of the 50-car lot should begin in two or three weeks.
Al though these four lots
won't always be able to find a spot." she said.
The Templin and Lewis lots have about 80-100 openings a day combined, Hultine said.
Students will be ticketed if they
are expected to be adequate, students living in the towers have another option, said Donna Hultine, assistant director of the parking department.
park in undesignated lots or neglect parking meter payment, Hultine said.
Donn y
Hawkins,
Wichita law
student, lives
in the towers.
The parking
situation is
inconvenient,
but students
will have to
adjust, he said.
"It's something
everyone
"We will honor their parking passes in any of the Daisy Hill lots because we realize everyone
here has to live with." Hawkins said. "It's not like we've got to walk a mile or something."
The temporary parking solution is a costly one. Between building the new lot and making safety modifications to the garages themselves, cost estimates
approach $90,000. Modig said.
Last January, Student Senate proposed building a new towers garage and a garage north of the Kansas Union, to be paid for by increased parking permit fees. The University Senate Executive Committee rejected the fee increase, opting instead for further study of the problem and possible solutions.
The firm was called in to reevaluate the situation this summer, and its mid-July findings revealed more serious structural problems, Modig said. Engineers recommended that the garages be demolished. They estimated that a new garage with 415 parking spaces would cost $4.9 million.
The fate of the garages has yet to be decided. A permanent fix for the problem is two to three years away, Modig said. Until the problem is solved, the towers parking lots will remain closed.
Recent problems with towers parking began two years ago, when the engineering firm Barton-Aschman Inc. evaluated the garages, found problems with the parking surfaces and recommended repairs.
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