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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 28, 1994
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Cul-de-sacs may not be answer to traffic problems
By Carlos Tejada Kansan staff writer
A neighborhood in northwest Lawrence will have to endure the city's growing pains for a little while longer.
Last night, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-0 to deny a request to close off traffic through Arrowhead Drive at its intersection with Peterson Road. Residents had said future traffic from a new housing development north of Peterson Road would use Arrowhead Drive — which is directly south of the development — as a main thoroughfare to Iowa Street.
But the issue the city addressed last night is larger: With so much development on the west side of town, where will all the traffic go?
Linda Finger, city planning director, said studies of older neighborhoods in the city had shown blocking off streets and creating cul-de-sacs — as Arrowhead Drive residents wanted — did little to help the problem.
"What we have to look at, from a community standpoint, is the impact of cul-de-sacing." Finger told the commission.
"We assumed it was a residential street," Mark Warren, an Arrowhead Drive resident, told the commission. "But as the development moved in, people said, 'Well, that's going to be a main街.'"
The plans for the development north of Peterson Road consists of four cul-de-sacs and only one exit, a street that would empty right into Peterson Drive.
But, Finger said blocking off Arrowhead Drive and creating yet another cul-de-sac would only route traffic through other neighborhoods. No matter what happens, she said, neighborhood would get more traffic and children still would be endangered by passing cars.
In rejecting the motion from the Arrowhead Drive residents, commissioners said that they would look at the traffic situation along Peterson Road and discuss how the new housing development would affect it.
"We should look at this in the whole big scheme of things," said Bob Moody, city commissioner.
Bob Schulte, city commissioner, said creating a cul-de-sac out of one street would simply increase traffic in all surrounding neighborhoods. Planning is a better option, he said.
"If you shut off one street, you'll have to shut off others," Schulte said. "Then, everybody's got child safety problems."
In other actions, the commission:
approved an ordinance making Alumni Place south of Stephenson Scholarship Hall a
one-way street. Dave Corliss, assistant to the city manager, said the street already was oneway, but the ordinance provided that a oneway sign be placed there. The street is the main thoroughfare for four scholarship halls and Sprague Apartments.
sent a proposal to annex about 18 acres of land on the corner of Clinton Parkway and Wakarusa Drive to a planning committee. Tim Herndon of Landplan Engineering told the commission that the engineering company, which owned the land, hoped eventually to build a commercial strip mall on the spot.
The land must be rezoned by the commission before the strip mall can be built.
Brian Vandervliet / KANSAN
Practice makes perfect
Zeke Tolar, Lawrence freshman, attempts to perfect his tennis serve by using a high toss. Tolar was practicing at the courts outside Robinson Center on Monday.
AREA BRIEF
Lawrence police report rape of Haskell student
Kansan staff report
A Haskell Indian Nations University student was raped at a house in the 1800 or 1900 block of Tennessee Street early Sunday morning, Lawrence police reported.
night. At about 3 a.m. Sunday, Nickell said, a 27-year-old Lawrence resident at the party invited her into his room to talk. He then closed the door and raped her, police said.
Sgt. Richard Nickell of the Lawrence police said the 19-year-old student was at a party in the house with some friends Saturday night and decided to stay the
Attempts to contact the suspect in the case had not been successful yesterday, Nickell said. He also said the student could not remember the exact address of the house where the rape occurred.
Alternative media publications seek Student Senate funds
By James Evans
Kansan staff writer
Three alternative media publications are looking for financing from Student Senate to get their publications to the presses.
Who'sinations, Kiosk and Pinch magazines will seek funding in the next two weeks from Senate.
Stephanie Moore, co-president of Pinch, said alternative publications helped provide different perspectives to the campus community. She said Pinch and other alternative media provided a creative outlet for students to explore topics that were not usually seen in conventional campus media.
"A university with only one journalism publication, such as the Kansan, is very limited." Moore said.
Moore said Pinch focused on being a satirical and humorous magazine. She said that in a typical issue, about 25 submitted articles and photographs were printed. The magazine usually is published twice a year.
She said the publication had a policy against advertising. She said she feared advertisers would try to control the magazine's content by pulling advertisements if they did not agree with the magazine's content.
Moore said that the staff was asking for $4,700 to fund the magazine. The magazine's financing only came from Student Senate.
"We consider advertising a possible infringement on the articles we print and a possible source of censorship," Moore said.
Who'sinations, a magazine that offers independent perspectives on intellectual and cultural expression, also is looking for financing.
David Stevens, student senator and sponsor of the Who'sinations bill, said the magazine was asking for $7,625 to print six issues. Each printing would be 32 pages long, and 10,000 copies would printed, Stevens said.
He said the publication provided a service to the University. He said it also gave students a chance to receive hands-on experience.
"Ithink they offer an opportunity to work on a publication," Stevens said. Stevens said Who'sinations' financing was cut last February because students working for the magazine were gaining school credit for their work. Under its guidelines,
Senate cannot finance organizations in which students involved get credit. He said Who'sinations was no longer giving school credit to its staff.
Kiosk, a student literary magazine, also is looking for financing. The publication is asking for $5,581 for two issues.
Holly Naifeh, student senator and sponsor of the Kiosk bill, said the publication, which is oriented to students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, expressed different literary viewpoints.
"It's a very respectable magazine," she said.
Sherman Reeves, student body president, said that the funding the alternative media received from Senate was central to its existence.
"If they didn't get funded, they wouldn't be able to print" he said.
The Senate finance committee will vote tonight on whether to recommend funding for Who'sinations and Kiosk. If the two bills are approved, the full Senate will vote on them at next week's meeting. Pinch magazine's bill already has been approved by the finance committee, and the full Senate also will vote on it next week.
Companies come to find employees
Students find good career opportunities at engineering fair
By Julie Howe Special to the Kansan
University of Kansas students had a chance to gather information about job opportunities yesterday at the 16th annual Engineering and Computer Science Career Fair at the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
About 50 employers attended the fair to provide general information about career options to potential employees, according to Julie Cunningham, director of career services for the School of Engineering. She said about 800 students were expected to attend the fair, which was sponsored by the School of Engineering Career Services Center.
Long Chien, Lawrence junior, said attending the fair to find information about internships for next summer was a good experience.
"I just got here and I already talked to three or four companies," he said.
"I just came to see what I could find out. It's pretty interesting."
Evan Murray, Topeka junior, said that although he was not currently looking for a job, the event was a positive way to get an idea of what opportunities might be in the future. "I think it's good that KU sponsors a thing like this to help the students find out about jobs," he said.
Dawn Ludwick,corporate technical recruiter from DST Systems, Inc. in Kansas City, Mo., agreed that the fair was beneficial to students and employers. She said the company, which develops computer software for mutual funds record keeping, attended about 20 employment fairs per year and hired about 60 people as a direct result. This is the first year the company was represented at the fair in Lawrence, she said.
"We have not hired people from KU in the past, because what was taught at KU did not match what we needed," she said. "But our technologies are changing, so we hope to find some potential employees today."
Kara Kelly, Lawrence junior, said this was the first career fair she had attended.
"It's kind of overwhelming with so many companies," she said. "But the
Edmee Rodriguez / SPECIAL TO THE KANSAN
Eulene Horniguez / SPECIAL TITLE
Engineering students were able to contact prospective employers yesterday at the 16th annual Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Career fair.
people are a lot more friendly than I was expecting."
Kelly said she was looking for a summer internship in civil engineering.
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