2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,2005
Ken Stoner
Director of Student Housing
What is a typical day like for you?
KS: It varies from day to day. I meet with student groups, have other meetings, tour facilities and construction projects. It really kind of depends on the day.
What changes or improvements will we be seeing in student housing this year or in the coming years?
KS: Of course this year you'll see that we'll open Rieger Hall. The dedication of it is September 24. Hashinger is currently shut down and undergoing renovation so it will open next fall, so that is probably two of the bigger changes.
What improvements are being made with Hashing Hall?
KS: Well, we are generating some more public room space down there. Student rooms won't be a lot different from what they are now, but the theater will get more space and there will be more music practice room
space, dance, workout room areas,
just additional public room space.
Each wing will get a small study
room. Increased emphasis on public
room space.
What is the biggest housing complaint received each year?
KS: Well, I suppose when it changes from fall to winter or winter to spring. The air conditioning system we have is a two pipe system, so you're either putting cold water through the pipes or hot water through the pipes, one day when the weather is making up its mind whether it's really going to be spring or summer, there are days that are cool and others that are hot. On cool days, of course they want the heat on, and on hot days they want the air conditioner on
and we're in that in-between time.
How long have you been in charge of student housing?
KS: I'm in my 20th year now.
KS: I have been at four different institutions before coming to KU. I was at
State and did my bachelors there, Iowa State and did my master's there. I worked a couple years at the University of South Florida, and then I was at Tennessee where I did my doctorate and then I got
back to Kansas in 1985. One of the major differences that we see in housing from when I was a student to now, a lot of the amenities have gravitated to the student room. We used to have a TV lounge, well now the TV is in the room. We used to have a cook area where most of the suites now have a zap station with microwave and refrigerator, that's in the student room. Computers and bathrooms are the same way.
What advice do you have for in-
coming students living in housing?
KS: Take advantage of all the resources that there are. We provide a very educational supportive and enriching environment. Students that live in housing tend to graduate sooner and on schedule compared to those that don't. There's academic resource centers, RA's, cable and data connections, in addition to all the other activities on campus.
HURRICANE KATRINA
Tulane transfer students go greek
Erin Brush, sophmore Tulane transfer and Chi Omega affiliate, is welcomed to Lawrence by her new sorority sisters with gifts. They have all made her transfer to KU an easy and welcoming as possible.
BY LOUIS MORA
lmora@kansan.com
KANSA STaff WRITER
Kim Andrews/KANSAN
Erin Henry and Erin Brush were scheduled two weeks ago to start school and rejoin their sororities at Tulane University in New Orleans. Then Hurricane Katrina hit. Now, while their sorority houses sit underwater, they embrace two University of Kansas sororities.
"This is a new experience to have all these girls around all
Henry and Brush are the only two greek students to transfer to the University from Tulane, where Brush was a member of Chi Omega and Henry was a member of Pi Beta Phi. The two women have been accepted into the respective chapters at the University. Though they continue to adjust, Greek life made the transition easier.
"It was an immediate group of friends. It was really comforting to know that people out there cared about me," said Brush, Edmond, Okla., second-year architecture student and newest member of Chi Omega.
- Edited by Kellis Robinett
Henry, Prairie Village junior, moved into the Pi Beta Phi sorority house. Sorority members at Tulane do not live in the house. Henry said living with 91 other women was a completely different atmosphere.
The sorority immediately accepted her, said Katy Ibsen, Boulder, Colo., senior and Pi Beta Phi president.
"We're really caring for each other, and that means all Pi Phi's and not just Kansas Pi Phi's." Ibsen said. "Nobody even questioned our transfer coming in here."
Although Brush moved in
with students from the School of Architecture, Chi Omega members say Brush's arrival has strengthened their house, too.
"Now that we have the opportunity to help one girl, it brings it all closer to home," said Kelly Kate Waldron, Aspen, Colo., senior and Chi Omega president. "Everyone has been so willing and so receptive; it really has been a bonding thing for our house."
Although Tulane-based communication isn't vet functioning, Brush and Henry contact their Tulane sorority sisters through facebook.com and blogs.
"I have to count my blessings that everyone I know is safe and sound," Henry said.
Brush said the past two weeks had been stressful, but her life was settling down.
"I don't know what I would have done without them," she said.
Edited by Becca Evanhoe
LAWRENCE
Parking tickets affect downtown living
BY STEVE LYNN
slynn@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITE
Carolyn Tharp paid $192 for a parking permit in a lot located a few blocks from her downtown residence, only to accumulate about $500 in parking fines over two years.
Tharp has owned a car two out of the three years she has lived in an apartment at Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
"After two years, parking was such a pain in the ass I got rid of my car."
Carolyn Tharp
"After two years, parking was such a pain in the ass I got rid of my car," Tharp, Lawrence senior, said.
Lawrence senior
Tharp had so many unpaid parking tickets that two warrants were out for her arrest.
City officials said that parking fines could accumulate quickly and could result in large fines. Students who live downtown and those who frequent the area can attest to large fines that always begin with a $2 ticket.
Vicki Stanwix, court administrator at Lawrence Municipal Court, said an average of 800 to 900 notices per month were sent to people who owe at least $20. She also said that out-of-state vehicles were harder to track down because court clerks had to gather information from other state's databases.
four tickets because of expired meters on Massachusetts Street after hearing nothing from the city for two years.
Erin Bodzin, Dallas senior,
said her friends told her that
she didn't have to pay parking
tickets in Downtown Lawrence
because the city didn't keep
track of fines. She paid $40 for
Seven months after Erin received her last ticket, her mother in Texas received a notice in the mail stating that she had to pay the fines or a warrant could be issued for her arrest because the car was registered in the mother's name.
"I learned a lesson," Bodzin said. "If I ever get one again, I'll pay it right away."
Jerry Little, city prosecutor, said people who receive five or more tickets in 30 days were charged $50 in addition to already accumulated fines.
Those who refuse to pay fines can be arrested and jailed. The judge usually sets the bond so that it equals the total fine. Most people post the bond instead of going to trial. Little said.
Tharp's roommate, Jake
lones, Stillwater, Minn., senior.
said he struggled to avoid parking tickets downtown.
Sometimes, Jones doesn't park in the lot on 10th and Vermont streets, where he spent a couple hundred dollars on a parking permit. Instead, he goes grocery shopping and parks in the two-hour lot adjacent to his apartment, he said.
When he doesn't want to move his car from its location to his apartment, he erases the chalk from his car tire that parking attendants apply to keep track of how long a car has been parked in a space.
"The cons of parking are outweighed by how fun it is to live downtown," Jones said.
For Tharp, the expense of parking downtown has inconvenienced her. She spends much of her time downtown, but without a car traveling to see her parents has been difficult.
Edited by Kellis Robinett
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