University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 17, 1964
Football Parking
Garage Proposed
A year ago certain members of the Class of'64 in charge of the class funds perceived a need for a $1,500 speaker system for the stadium, a system that gets used at most 15 times a year. In spring semester Vox Populi won a majority of the political offices on the hill on a platform which had as one of its firmest planks the realization of a need for stadium expansion and a pledge to arrange for another new deck of seats, on the students' side this time.
As it is now, persons who live in J. R. Pearson and Carruth-O'Leary Halls, who have had to pay the same $4 (this year $10) every other dorm dweller has had to pay to park his car in the lot adjacent to his dorm, have had dreadful inconvenience—if not injustice—foisted off on them every football day.
Being as concerned for the good of the stadium as any other bright-witted undergraduate, I sense still another need: Where will all our good students, alums and drunkards park their conveyances with all those additional people?
That is, if they are not back in Zone A with their cars before 10 a.m. they have to pay a dollar to park there, just like the rest of the football crowd.
I propose we look into the construction of a parking garage on a site near the stadium, perhaps where Oread Hall now stands, so we would have a clear excuse to get rid of that flimsy old rat trap at the same time. What could be closer than that? Or perhaps at one end of Zone X.
With cars banned from the campus during the day this year and even during most of the night beginning this year, the convenience and value of such a garage is obvious. It could be used all year. Perhaps the students could finance it, or the alums, or the state, or a combination of these. Surely it would not be much more expensive than another deck of seats for the stadium.
A parking station could allow the campus police to close Zone A to public parking entirely, as it should be if dorm residents have already paid to park there.
A parking station could be operated by the university, perhaps through aids and awards as
another source of student employment. The fees charged to park there could be arranged with that idea in mind: that the revenue would go toward maintenance of the establishment and the payment of its student employees.
The structure could be a multiple-storied affair (say five or six) with ramps—or better, elevators to take care of the customers more quickly, similar to the ones you have seen in Kansas City and other large cities. Or it could be an underground thing such as Kansas City has under its municipal auditorium and music hall.
The multiple-story above-ground building is a better idea because it could be planned for the addition of more levels later on without taking more ground space. Expansion for an underground garage would be much more involved, would it not?
Unsightliness could not be a valid objection to a multiple-stored garage. It would be no uglier than that massive, drab monolithic wall that makes up the most recent addition to the stadium. If sightliness is to be a consideration, why not turn some student architects here loose on the problem—and offer a prize or a scholarship for the winning design?
Unquestionably there is need for such a parking garage near the campus. The one serious problem I see immediately is that the streets leading to the stadium are narrow and not good.
Well, that's nothing new. It has been pandemonium on game days and the roads impassable as long as I can remember.
There has been talk in the master plan of the university about tunnels between two or three buildings. How feasible would a tunnel be if it went under, say, Maine Street from Ninth Street to the stadium?
Whatever other disparaging remarks could be aimed at a parking station such as I propose, uselessness for most of the year would not be one of them.
The powers-that-bel or the senior gift committees of the next class or two should look seriously into the matter. — Tom Winston
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