Ticket evasion tactics try KU parking code
Re TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Reporter
Parking tickets. Sonner or later, almost every day in the University of Kansas ones one
The daily scene at the Parking Services collection window is proof.
Double lines form and the guilty, some patiently,
others not so patiently, wait their turn to step up to
the door.
As the lines inch forward, the requests "May I have your last name and student number," and "I need your signature and driver's license, please." drone from behind the cabseh's cage.
Occasionally, this refrain is broken by an indignant outburst.
"Look, I was parked in front of Murphy for only two minutes. I had to take a book back to my professor. My car was running—How can you give me a ticket?"
OTHERS TRY a more timeworn excuse.
"I don't even own a car. It was my Dad's—bonesthief. He was up here visiting."
Usually, these pleas are not successful. Students and faculty are encouraged to appeal their tickets to the traffic board if they think they have been wronged, but appellants are seldom excused.
However, some members of the University community are successfully evading tickets.
According to figures compiled by the office of
parking services. KU faculty members currently owe $40,760 in unpaid payments. At $50 a loan, that is
What the faculty owes, however, is minimal compared to what students owe. Although they can set no specific figure, parking officials say that KU's student body owns the '6,000 faculty members in unpaid tickets
AND, ALTHOUGH Don Kearns, director of Parking Services said his department could "put the finger" on every person who was issued a ticket for parking violations, services said they had discovered ways to beat the system.
"I've gotten out of more than 20 tickets," said one Overland Park freshman. "I've gotten out of tickets I got for being in fire lanes, handicapped zones and lots of parking." It's easy. All you have to do is find the right method.
Finding that method, he said, often depends on who you know and how far you are willing to go.
For instance, getting out of a ticket issued for parking in a fire lane required some work, he said.
"What I do is go to a service station where a friend of mine works and have him write me a fake credit card. I will be there for the people at Parking Services and tell them I was parked where I was, where I was because my car was broken."
TO PARK in zones where he has no sticker, he has developed an equally complex scheme.
"What I did was get a courtesy pass that had been filled out in penicill and erase it. I took it to a copying service and it had copied on blue paper. Now, I went to park in a campus lot, I just write myself a nausea."
As a last resort, he said, he sometimes tried pleading with cashiers at Parking Services.
"If worse comes to worst, I go in and try to whine a little," he said. "I say my car ran out of gas or my parents were up here and I was driving them around. I've never had to pay one yet."
Other students told about equally devious but less elaborate ways of getting around *Parking Services*.
"To avoid getting tickets all I did was never register my car with the University," said one Wichita junior. "Since my freshman year, I've accumulated about 10 tickets. Some of them finally caught up with me but not until last semester—two years later."
A PRAIRIE VILLAGE senior explained how she avoided tickets and cut parking costs at the same time.
"I live off campus and like to drive to school," she said. "But stickers cost $33 and if you park anywhere else, you run the risk of getting a ticket. So what I did was just a pickup for a residence hall for $18. Now, I drive one of the halls and park every day and then take the bus to class. It's really convenient."
The list goes on. Students and they threw the tickets away and then and the wind blew them away a bit. The students wrote to the University saying they received the ticket instead of the student and others have friends to go.
wise and soon would be cracking down on ticket evaders.
"A lot of people have the idea that parking should be free," he said. "What they don't realize is that people who want to buy a car for improvement we make, we pay for ourselves. It becomes very costly when people don't pay their rent."
ONE PROBLEM with catching up this year is a new computer program that is being used by Parking
"All the bugs aren't out of it yet," he said. "It's keeping us from being as efficient as we might be before I get sick."
The tow list is made up of persons with five outstanding tickets. If their cars are found on campus after the fifth ticket is issued, it is impounded until all the fines are paid.
Because it is connected with all 50 states, the new program also will aid in tracing cars not registered to it.
"For every ticket written, we'll be able to match a check and see who the car is registered to," he said. "Once we know that, all we have to do is match a driver's name and address to a student registered at KU."
Kearns said he hoped that absences of the residence hall lots would stop next year when students will be enrolled.
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Prosecution to finish in Hunter trial today
Bv CAROL REIER
Staff Reporter
After calling 18 witnesses yesterday, prosecutors in the trial of Charles C. Hunter, a 16-year-old charged with 14 counts of sexual assault and burglary, said the trial was over.
A KU student was among the witnesses for the state. She was the victim of one of a series of alleged rape and burglaries during December. Other witnesses included another alleged rape victim, two victims of rape and rapes and two victims of alleged burglaries.
Both Shepherd and Mike Malone, district attorney, said that they were not aware of any subpoena issued by the defense counsel.
Jean Shepherd, assistant district attorney, said after the close of yesterday's testimony that she would call 11 more witnesses for the prosecution.
"It's a lot of pieces to fit together."
Shepherd said. "Our part will end tomorrow."
Wesley Norwood, Hunter's court-appointed attorney, declined to comment on
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Hunter is charged with four counts of rape, two counts of attempted rape and two counts of assault.
On Tuesday Paddock ruled that Hunter was competent to stand trial after hearing testimony from Hunter and a Lawrence psychiatrist.
The maximum penalty for a rape conviction in Kansas is life imprisonment; for aggravated burglary, 20 years; and for attempted rape, five years. Shepherd said.
Yesterday's early testimony described four incidents that occurred during the early morning hours of Dec. 22. One woman said that she was watching television in her living room when a person came through her kitchen and assaulted her.
The woman said that her dog attacked the person and that he fleed through the back door. She said she was "absolutely positive" that the person was Hunter.
Hunter was arrested Dec. 22, and his juvenile status was officially waived in January. That waiver is now under appeal. However, District Court Judge James W. Paddock yesterday denied a defense motion that he had been made aware of the decision had been made on the appeal.
Hunter testified on the competency hearing that he had heard voices that
A registered nurse at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Terri Thomas, testified that she had seen a man who was on Dec. 21. She also identified a coat and hat on as that hunter was wearing when she shot him.
She also identified a finger brace that was later admitted into evidence by the judge. The brace, she said, was found on the floor of her living room after the alleged assault.
The coat that she identified was picked up as evidence in an alleged burglary that occurred Dec. 22, a few minutes after the attempted raped in the same neighborhood.
"I screamed my head off," she said. "He hit me in the mouth and started choking
Vol. 89. No.134
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Graduate senator quits at hearings
Bv CAITLIN GOODWIN
Staff Reporter
The resignation of a student senator marked the end of the Student Senate budget hearings last night, as the separation between the graduate senators and the undergraduate senators seemed to arrow.
Ron McDowell, graduate senator, submitted a prepared letter of resignation when the Senate decided not to give the Senate authority to elect a president.
The Senate had approved a GSC allocation of 41 cents a student, or $1.018, according to the Senate revenue code.
McDowell said in his letter that he thought there were a few senators "tailorled" legislation through the Senate.
"I do not intend to waste my time and the time of the Senate in a power struggle with those senators who are so 'sheep-like' that they are willing to pass legislation in the interest of unity rather than debate it," he wrote.
HE ALSO said that he thought it would not benefit the graduate students to try to work within the Senate.
"The only way that graduate students will receive adequate representation in student government is by offering them leadership roles."
autonomy to deal directly with issues affecting graduate students," he said in the letter.
He said he thought more graduate senators would follow him in resuming.
Margaret Berlin, student body president, said that she was disappointed that McBwllen resigned but that his performance was satisfactory.
"I really wish the graduate student senators would bring their complaints in the form of legislation, resolutions and amendments," he said.
"NOT ALL the graduate student seminars are like that. A few are very active and I commend them. I'd say five are
Some of the graduate senators said they were particularly upset because they had thought there would be enough money for their additional requests in the unallocated fund, which is money left over from previous campaigns.
However, Keith Maib, student senate treasurer, told the Senate that there was only $8.70 of unallocated money left. According to the revenue code, there must always be at least $3,500 in this fund to be used for emergency situations.
Berlin said that when she had talked to Mark Mikkelsen
BERLAIN SLD the Student Senate Executive Committee originally had placed the GSC bill toward the end so that it could benefit from any money that might have remained with the students of Kansas, a student lobby group, not been funded.
executive coordinator of the GSC, there was more than $14,000 in the unallocated fund. However, that money had dwindled as it was doled out to other organizations during the budget hearings.
McDowell said the agenda was changed so that the bill for the additional GSC funding came at the end of the hearings.
Mikkelsen said he wondered whether the Senate had any intention of allocating the additional money.
Staff Reporter
"We're facing a possibility of $2,000 in supplemental tumps," Mab said. "If you pass this bill we'll cutting the tax."
Gerrymandering argued in court
The Senators who opposed the GSC bill said they thought that by taking the money out of the unallocated fund, they would be able to provide better services.
Rv PATRICIA MANSON
HOWEVER, TOM Green, an assistant
"They in effect gerrymandered an incumbent legislator."
TOPEKA—House Republicans attempted to weaken the political power of KU students and Democratic State Rep. Mike Glover of Lawrence when they drew up the new bill, a Democratic party official told the Kansas Supreme Court yesterday.
"It was a deliberate attempt to split an identifiable voting group, i.e. students, and it was done for political purposes," David McGarry said in a Democratic Central Committee, said "It was done to defeat Mr. Glover by putting him in a heavily Republican district. Not only are the students heavy Democratic voters, they are probably Glover's strongest."
"Every attempt was made to recognize existing city boundaries as well as county boundaries."
attorney general, said he had seen little evidence that the districts were affected.
THE ONE-MAN-ONE-VOTE principle
The bill would create a new district in Lawrence. The 43rd District, represented by Republican John Vogel, would be moved to the south; the 42nd would be moved to the west, and a new district, the 46th, would be created in East Lawrence. The new district would extend across Massachusetts Street to include the city's neighborhoods, areas that had been in the 44th District.
The reappointment bill has been opposed by the Democratic Party and a group of KU students, who say it violates the institutional principle of one man, one vote.
requires that one person's vote counts as much as any other person's vote. The U.S. Supreme Court and the Kansas Supreme Court have ruled that splitting the vote of a ethnic or religious group through gerrymandering is a violation of this principle.
Green, however, said there was no legal precedent to consider students as an
"I FOUND NO cases that ruled students to be a group to be discriminated against,"<sup>1</sup>.
After the hearing, State Rep John Solbach, D-Lawrence, who spoke against the bill, said he hoped the Court would set a precedent and apply the one-man-one-vote rule.
"The arguments that the principle would apply to students would be the same arguments used for race," Solbach said. "We can show by analogy that students,
because of age, income, intelligence, family background and status in the community, are an identifiable group. A young person's own count as much as an older person's vote."
Splitting the student vote would hurt the political power of Glover, who has represented the students in the Legislature, Sobach said.
"I think the reaportionment was unfair to Glover," Solbach said. "When you try to pull a Democratic incumbent into a heavily Republican district, that's unfair, especially when the way you do it is by drawing some very strange-looking lines."
SOLBACH SAID that differences in the number of people in each district was additional evidence that the districts had been made more diverse, and that percent more people than the ideal number set by the Legislature, thus diluting the political strength of that district's voters, he
Staged illness used to protest conformity
By DOUG HITCHCOCK
Staff Reporter
The fast-food machinery hummed along, momentarily undisturbed. The dinner-time crowd stood in short lines.
Nothing interrupted the murmuring crowd, the cash registers, or the sizeing burgers, until a customer in the kitchen heard a voice.
The other customers, waiting to order, fell silent. The fast-food machine slowed for a moment and the employees peered out from the kitchen to see what had happened.
He stopped part way and started throwing up convulsively.
An instant of silence, broken only by the sound of the vomiting, passed, then two more people jumped up and
They skirted their vomiting companion and brushed past an employee who was trying to take control of the
"HEY, WHAT'S going on?" he asked. "Why are you throwing up on my floor?"
The customer looked up and said, "Your food made me puke. I was just sitting there eating and it made me
Then he turned back and punctuated his statement with another heav.
The employee jerked his head away, closed his eyes and walked back to the kitchen.
The customers who had witnessed the scene had already turned their attention to the two who had made it
In the parking lot, they, too, were throwing up.
Their companion ran out to join them.
When they had emptied their stomachs, they hopped into a car and screeched away.
All of their vomiting had been voluntarily induced by injecting mild renal agents.
Although incidents like these may raise some eyebrows, the perpetrators, who call themselves the Earthworm Men, are well-known.
THEY HAVE NEVER been parsed or apprehended.
They refused to give their names but offered character names from a short story as their Earth Terrorist names.
Bozz, the 'Shroom Lord, and Sisля Org. the Last Human Detective, founded their group after Bozz wrote a short story about a terrific group destroying industries and businesses for polluting the environment and marketing climate change.
Although they do not destroy industries or businesses, the terrorists do attack local night spots and fast food
They call their methods of attack "subtle violence."
"THERE'S TOO MUCH conformity, although it's not really conformity, more like mass misguidance."
Boaz said, "Subtle violence is designed to give onlookers a psychological jail. It's meant to affect them."
To combat conformity, the terrorists have declared a war of sublethal violence on 'fast food, plasticity and
They use "bio-bombs" constructed from rotten fruit and
Besides vomiting in fast food outlets and hanging figures such as Ronald McDonald in effigy, the terrorists have been accused of stalking and assaulting
an occassional pump to register their displeasure with discordium. They bombard the dance palaces with the
But the terrorists' personal philosophy represents more than random acts of petty violence.
"We want to know why it happened. Were we in succeededanimation?"
Boaz said, "Everyone in this country seems to have been unepoched, and we missed out.
Org said, "We have a lot of statements to make but we also have a lot of questions, because somehow we think we missed out on the mass processing that everyone in this country has undergone."
The terrorists said that the clothes, dances and relentless pounding which they said accompanies disco, along with the mass-produced fare of fast-food restaurants, had never pleased them.
BUT, IT took the mass acceptance of disco and the success of fast-food chains to drive them to action.
Boaz is the creator of the earth-terrorism concept and of the names, but Org is responsible for the artwork.
Boz said, "Slas and I are the active contingent. He's the sigh lobe, and I'm the left lobe."
The silk-screened 1-shirts that are a part of their uniforms bear their logo: a dark skull floating on the face of a shadow planet with Earth Terrorists written across the ton.
The their uniforms also include a bodgepede of military surplus garb; bright-blue leather face masks and socks.
The uniforms are designed to shock and surprise onlookers.
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