University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, July 19, 1989
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Fact to fantasy, booth workers hear everything
by Heather L. Anderson Kansan staff writer
People say the darndest things to get permission to drive on campus during the day.
Last week, two women drove up to the parking booth on the north side of campus and told the attendant that they were coming to get on campus because they had ticks.
The attendant, thinking it was a joke, asked what they meant and one of the women held up an envelope with the word ticks written in large letters. She told the attendant that she had to take the ticks in the envelope to Snow Hall to have them checked for Lyme disease.
Traffic booths are located at all entrances to the main campus.
Tracy, the booth attendant, said that she let them on campus, but she had trouble keeping a straight face
while listening to their story
"I guess they were serious," she said. "One of them said, 'Well, I hope I'm not going to die.'"
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services, said that several years ago, a booth attendant had refused to let someone on campus and found out her name and started calling her at home and threatening her.
Because of the incident, booth attendants now identify themselves only by their first names, she said.
Some stories are true, but the average working day of a campus parking booth attendant is a mixture of fiction and fantasy.
The only cars allowed on campus during the day are those with campus or department passes and visitors
that have business with the University.
Cars with faculty, staff or student passes must park in designated areas. These areas generally are not on campus.
For those people without passes, the most common excuses used to get on campus are inclement weather,
the passenger has a broken leg or sprained ankle or a student is late for a test.
She said that students usually were good natured when they were refused access to campus, but some people got upset.
Marietta, an attendant on the south side of campus, said that she had
dealt with her share of lost truck drivers and people running the booth.
Running the booth is when a car drives by without stopping for permission to drive on campus.
"they sit at the stop sign and watch you until you look down or look away, and they drive by as fast as they can," she said. "One girl last
year tried to run the booth, but she was going too fast, and she hit the booth and wrecked her car. She was so embarrassed she just walked away and left her car there. The funny thing about it was that the booth was closed. She could have driven on campus."
Recovered bikes waiting for new owners
by Susan Newburger
By Susan Newburger Kansan staff writer
They wait patiently for their owners outside the library, the Kansas Union and classrooms. Sometimes they cluster in packs. Others are solitary figures. These loyal bicycles wait for their owners to pedal them across campus or through downtown streets.
But even though the owners carefully chain or disable their bikes while they are in class or shop downtown, most do not take the time to fully protect them from theft.
The Lawrence Police Department requires bicycle owners to register their bikes yearly.
"I'ts our quarter plan," said Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, "students, as instructed in the note, to register their bicycles with us."
Photo illustration by Tomas Stargardter/KANSAN
For 25 cents the department will record the serial number and a brief description of the bike in a computer data base. If the bike has a serial number, the police can engrave the bike with a unique number.
Then, if the bike is stolen and recovered, police can return the bike to its owner.
"We have 300 to 400 bicycles sold each year in public auction,"said
Mike Brothers, Lawrence, police lieutenant. "And those are just the ones that we cannot track down to their original owners."
Because of the increasing volume of stolen bicycles, the department instituted the bicycle
registration program several years ago. However, the program appears to have been largely ignored.
"Too many kids think it won't happen to them." Brothers said.
Although Tim Mohn, Lawrence
freshman, has had one bike stolen, his current transportation is not registered.
"I only paid $100 for this one," he said.
John Fawcett, Neodesha senior pedaled down Jayhawk Boulevard
on his unregistered bicycle
"I can't afford to register," he said in jest. More seriously, he said it wasn't worth his time to register his bike.
But registering a bicycle does not take much time, Brothers said. Owners may register at the Lawrence Police Station, 111 E. 11th St. The owner should bring the bike and have a complete description of the bike, including serial number, brand, make, model and style.
KU students also can register at the KU police department, 302 Carruth-O'Leary.
"We set up tables at Wescoe during fee payment time," said Jeanne Longaker, KU police lieutenant. "Then periodically during the year we set up a table in the Union."
The registration program is only part of the Pedal Plan, a formal transportation plan accepted into the city code during the late 1970s, said Linda Finger. Lawrence city planner. Under the plan, the city supports bike trails, routes and parking.
EPA releases Farmland industries pollutant report
Kansan staff writer
by Charles Higginson
The Farmland Industries plant east of Lawrence on Highway 10 may have released more than 3.8 million pounds of pollutants into the environment in 1988, according to documents submitted last month by Farmland to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The reported releases included 2,897,200 pounds of ammonia, 492,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, 411,000 pounds of methanol, 12,240 pounds of dithanolamine and small amounts of several other pollutants.
The releases were reported to the
EPA in compliance with provisions of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1966. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment provided copies of the June 26 reports.
Dave Pellett, KDHI environmental technician, said the Farmland plant was in compliance with pertinent regulations. He said the plant, which already existed when most environmental regulations went into effect in 1971, had to meet less stringent pollution control requirements than more modern facilities. The plant opened in 1964.
The Laurence plant makes ammonia from natural gas and then makes ammonium nitrate, granular urea and urea ammonium nitrate solutions from the ammonia. The end products are used almost exclusively
as agricultural fertilizers
The plant's EPA reports listed releases of almost 2.8 million pounds of ammonia into the air through stacks, almost 92,000 pounds into the air by other routes, and 7,000 pounds into streams or bodies of water. The river Basin is also River Basin, an unnamed tributary, as a receiving body of water.
That amount* represents about one third of 1 percent of the plant's total annual ammonia production, according to Kevan Vick. Farmland technician Vick said the reported total was based on published standard release rates established for plants like the Farmland facility.
"These figures may not represent actual losses to the environment," he said.
Vick said most actual releases of ammonia occurred at very low concentrations in steam exhausted from the plant. He said the plant attempted to minimize loss of ammonia.
"Wherever we can, we recover ammonia from steam," he said. "We could sell it, after all."
Vick said any dry air streams that might contain ammonia were passed through flares to burn the chemical before it reached the atmosphere.
The EPA reports list a loss of 492,500 pounds of ammonium nitrate solution into the river. Vick said this amount was an estimate of the ammonium nitrate that formed in the water from its basic chemicals.
All the methanol, commonly known as wood alcohol, was released into the atmosphere through stacks. Vick
said it was predominately released in low concentrations in steam.
The plant released 3,640 pounds of diethanolamine, or DEA, into the atmosphere and 8,600 pounds into the river. Vick said the chemical was processed to remove carbon dioxide during the production of ammonia.
"We don't detect DEA in the water," he said. "We know, theoretically, some of it must be lost."
John Flint, KDHE spokesman, said DEA was not particularly toxic.
Richard Lind, Farmland plant manager, said ammonia was a common product and not dangerous in concentrations released by the plant.
"It's not harmful, and we do watch what we do." he said.
Broken pipe causes outage for two hours
by Angela Howell
The break was caused by the slippage or breakage of an eight-inch steel bandage that was used to repair a crack several years ago, Porter said.
Robert Porter, associate director of facilities operations, said water pressure to the entire campus was dropped to 20 minutes or so when water were made.
The break was caused by the slippage or breakage of an eight-inch steel bandage that was used to repair a crack several years ago. Porter said it was replaced with workers turned off the water and dug up the pipe.
The leak was discovered early Sunday morning by a worker who noticed water had seeped down the wall and through the floor of the power plant. The water could have leaked for a few days, Porter said.
Kansan staff writer
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said the break had caused some inconvenience.
"There was no drinking water and the toilets did not operate." Ranz said. "If the library staff members or staff were in bathroom, they had to go next door."
Edith Black, assistant dean of social welfare, said office workers in Twente Hall had been warned that there might not be water or air-conditioning on Tuesday. They came to work with water logs. Black said.
"We're congratulating facilities operations for getting it done so fast." Black said.
People make the difference at Fifi's Nabil's Restaurant.
Water and air-conditioning in three campus buildings were cut off for two hours yesterday morning while facil-
ties of the workers repaired a break in a water pipe.
Thank you for your support during our recent remodeling. We invite you to come in and see our new look.
The break was east of the power plant behind Stauffer-Flint Hall. Water to Watson Library, Twente Hall and the Hall Center for the Humanities was disconnected from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
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