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VOL. 116 ISSUE 30
PARKING DEPARTMENT
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Empty fields northwest of Shenk Sports Complex at 23rd and Iowa St. are under consideration as a location for a new student parking lot. The lot would accommodate about 1,500 spaces and would replace the Lied Center as the Park and Ride Lot.
A 'lot' of new parking coming to West Campus
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ksANAN STAFF WRITER
Students vexed with on-campus parking could have 1,500 new spaces to choose from as early as next August, with the construction of a Park and Ride lot on West Campus.
The ground-level, uncovered lot will be located northwest of the Shenk Recreational Sports Complex, at the corner of 23rd and Iowa streets. The lot will cost an estimated $10.4 million, which includes the cost of lighting and other necessities for the lot.
The Kansas Development Finance Authority, a committee that funds state-run institutions, approved the financing of the lot yesterday, said Todd Cohen, associate director of University Relations. The lot will be funded by revenue bonds issued by the state, which the Parking Department will pay back through parking fees.
"We'll all be paying for it." Cohen said.
Once the new lot is built, the Lied Center will no longer be a Park and Ride lot, although 200 to 250 spaces will still be available at the Lied Center for overflow from
the Daisy Hill lots. Also, the bus system will be expanded to account for the longer routes.
The new lot will solve two problems. First, the current Park and Ride lot at the Lied Center wasn't built to handle the amount of bus traffic it has gotten, and the material was deteriorating, said Tom Mulinazzi, chairman of the Parking Commission.
Secondly, the University of Kansas faces a parking shortage of as much as 3,000 spaces in the next few years, according to a study by the consulting firm Chance Management Advisors. The Parking Department hired the firm to study the University's parking situation and suggest solutions.
Donna Hultine, director of the Parking Department, said there were only two options to ease parking problems on campus: the Parking Department could either build a garage or another lot on West Campus.
SK Design Group, a civil engineering firm from Overland Park, has been hired to design the lot. Hultine said she hoped construction models and plans would be ready for review in December.
- Edited by Becca Evanhoe
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2005
SAFETY
Let there be light
New lights to help secure paths home
BY LOUIS MORA
lmora@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
The Department of Student Housing has installed 12 lights in the area that will light the north half of the 1300 block of Ohio Street. The security lighting will brighten up the area for residents who walk back and forth to the Kansas Union parking garage.
The pathway home to Rieger Scholarship Hall will be a little brighter with the addition of security lighting.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the lights would be turned on next week when the power will be hooked up.
He said the addition of lights would provide a noticeable change to an area that previously had little lighting.
Quincy Nicole Jones, Wichita freshman, said the new lights would help her walk back from campus because walking around the area at night was frightening.
She currently takes shortcuts to areas where there is adequate lighting to get home safely.
"It's kind of dangerous," she said. "Especially if you're walking by yourself."
A proposal to have the women of Rieger Hall park in the Alumni Place lots — located next to Rieger Hall — and sell the allotted 32 Union garage passes available to all scholarship hall residents was rejected by the University, said Jason Boots, Plano, Texas, senior, and member of the parking commission.
Jeff Weinberg, assistant to the chancellor, said the proposal was not accepted because the University and Community Advisory Committee had already reached
Rejection of the proposal resulted in Rieger Hall residents parking in the Union garage.
an agreement and did not want to break that commitment.
Britta Tobias, Osage City
freshman, has to make the walk and said lighting in the area was needed but she still did not feel safe parking in the Union garage.
Kim Andrews/KANSAN
She said that the men living in Grace Pearson and K.K. Amini
Steve Alvarez (left) and Aaron Kaser (right), F& O Electric Shop employees, aim to finish the lightening near Rieger Scholarship Hall, which is located between 13th and 14th streets off Ohio. The new lighting should ensure better safety for residents in the vicinity.
Scholarship Hall has offered to switch parking permits with the women of Rieger Hall but the Parking Department said that was not possible.
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FACULTY
International instructors break barriers
BY MALINDA OSBORNE
mosborne@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Brennan Metzler arrived on the third floor of Strong Hall for calculus on his first day of class freshman year. He remembered being taken aback when he saw students packed in one corner of the classroom and a group of girls in another complaining about the teacher, whom Metzler could not understand.
Metzler's experience is not an uncommon one for a number of students on campus. The University has 197 international graduate teaching assistants, almost 21 percent of all GTAs on the Lawrence
"I just walked in, took a look around, and walked right back out." Metzler, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said.
If the challenges of teaching for the first time aren't daunting enough, doing so in a second or third language poses even greater difficulties.
and Edwards campuses. But while students may find them hard to understand, the instructors face more obstacles than students know.
Hilla Rantala, Helsinki, Finland. GTA in the School of Business, came to the United States because the University of Southern Alabama recruited her to play soccer. Rantala attended Southern Alabama for two years before coming to the University.
She said since she first arrived in
By the time she started graduate school, Rantala had a great deal of experience in English and economics. Nonetheless, she became extremely nervous when she had to teach for the first time in her life.
the United States, she had worked hard to get rid of her accent and acclimate to her surroundings. She now considers herself an Americanized foreigner.
She said her anxiety dissipated after a week teaching. Rantala continues to teach and is considering working as a professor when she receives her Ph.D. in Spring 2007.
"I wrote three pages of notes just to introduce myself," Rantala said. "This was in April, and class didn't start until August."
"I know how to tap a keg and all of that stuff." Rantala said.
If the challenges of teaching for the first time aren't daunting
"The first words I said in English were to the stewardess on the plane," he said.
enough, doing so in a second or third language poses even greater difficulties. Sumanta Mukherjee is a graduate research assistant from New Delhi in the Policy Research Institute. Mukherjee came to the United States in 2002 to obtain his doctorate.
Unlike Rantala, Mukherjee did not have the advantage of living in the United States before working as a GTA. But he refused to let teaching in English hinder his students from learning. He said he made it a point in every class he taught to announce to everyone that he may stumble on words, but to bear with him and ask questions.
"My thinking is that I am
Nicoletta Niosi/KANSAN
Sumanta Mukherjee has been a graduate teaching assistant at the University for one year. "The students have apprehensions about their international TAs, and the TAs have apprehensions about their American undergraduates," he said.
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KU professor's research helps stroke victims Kansas School of Medicine professor Randolph Nudo received a $3.9 million grant to perform research that will aid stroke victims. PAGE 2A
Happy Birthday, Western Civ: KU class turns 60 Though the course has changed, students have enrolled in the University of Kansas' Western Civilization classes for the last sixty years. PAGE 6A
Defensive threat The Kansas secondary wants to cool down a hot Texas Tech offense Saturday in Lubbock, Texas. The Raiders have scored 199 points in their first three games of the season. PAGE 1B
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