THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011
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LOCAL BRIEFS
PARKING
Fines for violations to increase in August
Students beware — parking fines are set to increase this-coming fall.
Starting Aug. 1, all fines will increase by at least $5. Fines that will increase by $5 include expired meters, wrong zone tickets and no valid permit. Fines for other offenses will increase more.
Tickets that warrant a greater fine will have a greater increase, said Margretta de Vries, parking commission's secretary. The ticket for blocking a fire lane will increase by $35. The ticket for wrongfully parking in a handicapped spot will increase by $50. Forged, altered or stolen parking permits will receive the most severe increase. Starting next year the cost of the permit that was forged, altered or stolen will be added to the $100 fine. This will make the fine for a forged gold permit $385, $100 for the fine and $285 for the cost of the gold permit. Since August, the department issued 20 tickets for forged tickets, de Vries said.
The additional money will go into the regular parking budget that pays for a variety of things from wages to snow removal in parking lots. The increase will help mend the gap in the parking department's decreasing revenue.
The last across-the-board increase was in 1997 when parking increased all fines by $5, de Vries said.
Christy Nutt
CRIME
Few changes following shots fired near campus
Staff at the Oread, 1200 Oread Ave., and Lawrence Police Department have kept security much the same after gunshots were fired outside the hotel's Cave nightclub earlier this month.
"We feel like we are doing a good job with security," Nancy Longhurst, general manager for the Oread, said.
There are cameras inside the nightclub and five security guards on duty whenever the Cave is open, Longhurst said.
Lawrence police have not added additional patrol officers to the area, Sgt. Matt Sarna, a spokesman for the Lawrence police, said.
"We don't put additional officers at a location just because of one incident," Sarna said.
The shots were fired outside of the Cave nightclub near 12th and Indiana streets around 2:15 a.m. June 5. No one was injured. No suspects have been linked to the shots. Lawrence police are still investigating.
"Be careful when you are out drinking. Always know your surrounding and who you are with," Sarna said.
Christy Nutt
FUNDING
Med Center wins grant for new drug research
The University of Kansas Medical Center is one of five medical schools from around the country to receive a nearly $20 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The Medical Center found out today that over the next five years it will receive a $19.8 million grant that will help drug research throughout the region. The grant is a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the NIH.
Richard Barohn, chairman of the KUMC department of neurology, and Lauren Aaronson, professor in the KU School of Nursing and department of health policy and management, were the lead investigators for the grant.
The application process was open
to all 120 medical schools around the country and it was narrowed down to 60 until today when the University of Kansas found out they would be one of five recipients of the grant.
"We knew the medical schools like Harvard and Yale had good track records, so we had to prove to the NIH that we also have a good track record." Barohn said. "We knew we were a bit of an underdog, but at the end of the day we were one of the five schools."
The research will be open to researchers from the Lawrence campus, Wichita, and surrounding region schools, Barohn said.
The NIH developed the program in 2006. Every five years the University of Kansas Medical School will be eligible to reapply for the infrastructure grant.
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