B & G gets the gate
Students break gates daily
The maintenance men working for the Buildings and Grounds Department can mend a broken arm for $7.50.
The mended arms belong to the gates of the X zone parking lot and the parking lot east of the Kansas Union. They are broken off 10 to 15 times a day, Harry Buchholz, director of the physical plant, said Monday.
Buchholz said the problem stems from "the number of kids that show up without a dime."
Anti draft board demonstrations begin Thursday
Demonstrations against draft boards in more than 70 cities, including Lawrence, will be staged Thursday as part of the Anti-Draft Week being sponsored by the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
Local Anti-Draft week activities began Sunday when 12 members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom demonstrated at the entrance of the Sunflower Ordinance Plant east of Eudora. A spokesman for the group said the demonstrations will continue for several more weeks.
At 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sam Brown, Coordinator of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, will speak at the University of Missouri—Kansas City in Pearson Hall.
Lewis Hall and Templin Hall are offering draft counseling during the week. Counseling in Lewis Hall will continue through Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m. and in Templin Hall from 5:30 to 7 p.m. through Wednesday.
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He also said many times the arms were broken off by students who had bought their entrance pass card but had left them at home and prefer to break the arm rather than pay.
"I have seen up to 10 arms broken off in an hour in one lot," Buchholz said.
The arms are bolted onto the gate but are constructed with two pieces butted together with glue and wooden dowels. The construction helps to preserve the gate mechanism when the arms are broken off.
Last summer new machines replaced the older gates because the Building and Grounds Dept. could not buy parts for them anymore, he said.
Buchholz said the maintenance men who regularly service the gates keep a supply of arms in their trucks.
During the fall semester, he said, there was a man to watch the gates during certain times which stopped some of the breakage. He said that even when people can be observed, as in the parking lot east of the Union, they still break the arms.
Buchholz said the result was a loss of revenue and the lot maintenance depended on the revenue collected. He said the money collected from 75 cars would be needed to replace the loss of one arm but not enough cars use the lots to make up the difference.
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