University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. April 22,1987
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Area hotels full for graduation
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
Staff writer
One of the first challenges the class of 1987 will face may be finding accommodations for relatives and friends coming to Lawrence for commencement.
Every hotel, motel, inn, and bed and breakfast establishment in Lawrence is booked for the weekend of graduation. May 15-17, and waiting lists are long. Hotel managers and desk clerks are recommending Topeka and Kansas City area hotels to people still seeking accommodations.
"I wish I had 100 more rooms." said Inesa Leha, manager of the witchcraft school.
Chalmers, the lawmaker.
Lehew, who doesn't expect many cancellations, said that people usually didn't cancel their reservations, they just didn't show up by 6 p.m., the deadline for reservation guarantees.
Many local hotel managers and desk clerks said their hotels had been booked since January.
The Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 McDonald Drive, is full for graduation weekend and has a waiting list of 30 to 40 names. Cynthia Glenn, reservationist at the Holidome, said a few cancellations might occur.
Dennis Shaffer, manager of the Econo Lodge, 297 W. Sixth St., said he was suggesting Topeka to customers.
He said that Econo Lodge employees weren't keeping a waiting list and
that they would offer the canceled
reservations on a first-come, first-
serve basis. The Econo Lodge has been booked for that weekend for four months, he said.
Jacqui Ainlay, Kailua, Hawaii,
senior, she said she up looked up
November for a Lawrence hotel
room for her father. Ainlay said she
checked three hotels and found each
one completely booked. She said her
father, who is coming from Hawaii,
probably would stay in Kansas City.
Laurie Kahrs, desk clerk at the Eldridge House, said the few cancellations the hotel had were filled immediately by names on a waiting list.
The Eldridge House, Seventh and Massachusetts streets, and Halcyon House Bed and Breakfast, 1000 Ohio St.. also are full for the weekend.
Esther Wolfe, co-owner of Halcyon House, said her establishment was booked for graduation through 1990. She said that although she kept a waiting list, she doubted she would have any cancellations.
Peter Johanson, manager of the Holiday Inn West in Topeka, said excess out-of-town guests in Lawrence definitely would filter over to Topeka.
"It will be a better weekend than we'd normally experience," Johanson said.
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Student engineers win honors
Two KU engineering students recently won honors in a student paper contest sponsored by the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Eric Evans, Plains senior in petroleum engineering, placed third out of eight in the undergraduate competition. His work included "Computer Aided Design of Fracture Treatments in Gas Reservoirs."
Shahab Hejri, Rafsanjan, Iran, graduate student, placed third out of eight in the graduate division. Hejri's paper was titled "Development of Correlations to Predict Flocon 4800 Biopolymer Mobility in Porous Media."
The contest took place April 10 at the University of Kansas and was open to all schools in the Rocky Mountain-Mid-Countinent region. Schools in the region include the universities of Oklahoma, Wyoming, Missouri-Rolla and Tulsa, and Montana Tech and Oklahoma State.
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