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University parking permits and ticket fees under discussion
BY LAURA NIGHTENGALE
Inightengale@kansan.com
When the Parking and Transit Department announced a possible raise in parking permit prices, no one was more upset than University workers who maintain campus lots. Hourly parking rates could be raised from $1 per hour to $1.50, and the fees for parking tickets could also see an increase.
"I can't see having to pay more, not a nickel," facilities worker Sam Bailey said.
When the parking department held an open forum April 14, Bailey and several other staff members voiced their concerns about the price of parking.
Many University employees haven't seen a raise in three years. Increased
costs of insurance and parking threaten to reduce their paychecks. The parking department sent three proposals to the provost, one of which included a parking permit increase.
Because an increase is unpopular, Donna Hultine, director of parking and transit, said it was unlikely. Instead she expects another proposal that would increase the costs of hourly parking, events parking, and certain permit categories such as moped permits.
"Just because of the sensitivity, especially for faculty and staff with no raises for maybe a third year in a row, there's not a lot of support for raising permit parking prices." Hultine said.
The increase in event and hourly parking shifts the burden of cost from everyday users, such as staff and students, to campus visitors.
two bucks for parking I don't think is going to bother them, but it might save a bunch of us," Bailey said. "What we're trying to do is let everybody know, I don't know how we can afford any more."
The parking department will begin work this summer to reconfigure parking at the Mississippi Street garage, adding gates and a fee system similar to the one used in the Allen Fieldhouse parking garage. Instead of prepaying, the system would allow users to pay an hourly fee when leaving the garage.
Hultine said she expected the provost to decide which of these changes would be made to campus parking policies today.
Edited by Becca Harsch
Ashleigh Lee/KANSAN
Blue lot parking permits on campus are one of the options that faculty and staff can buy. The Parking and Transit department is talking about raising its rates.
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Professor emerita dies in her home
Edwyna Gilbert, profesor emerita of English, died unexpectedly in her home last week, according to a media release from the University of Kansas Friday. She was 74 years old.
Gilbert retired in 1993 after 26 years of teaching. She began her career in the School of Education, where she lobbied for greater language arts requirements when the school overhauled its circum in the 1980s. She became an associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1985. For many years after, Gilbert was the only professor teaching children's literature.
After her retirement from teaching, she served on several advisory boards to University departments including the libraries, the Endacott Society and the Hall Center for the Humanities.
"Despite her humble demeanor, her ardent passion for the people and programs she believed in led her to willingly embrace not only the role of an educator, but that of an advocate," Lorriane Haricombe, dean of libraries, wrote in the release. "Her contributions and spirit of enthusiasm will have a lasting and positive impact at KU and beyond."
No funeral details have been released.
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Gas prices fall after bin Laden's death
In London, Brent crude for June delivery was down 98 cents to $124.91 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
Obama said bin Laden was killed Sunday by American special forces in Pakistan. Traders said the death of bin Laden could weaken al-Qaida's ability to carry out attacks and destabilize the oil-rich Middle East.
However, al-Qaida operatives could also seek revenge for their leader's death, and political uprisings this year throughout the Middle East and North Africa that have threatened to disrupt crude supplies were not related to al-Qaida.
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Benchmark crude for June delivery was down $1.23 at $112.70 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The contract rose $1.07 to settle at $113.93 on Friday and reached $114.18 during in the session,the highest since September 2008.
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