University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 15, 1988
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Socialist party candidate sets goals for the U.S. and world
By Jeff Pitcher
Kansan staff writer
The Socialist Workers Party isn't trying to win an election. It just wants people to understand what's really happening in the world, Kathleen Mickells told an audience of nine people yesterday in the Gallery West of the Kansas Union.
Mickels, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice president, was in Lawrence yesterday to explain her party's platform.
Mickells advocated support for Nicaragua and the full support of unions as an alternative to capitalism.
"Capitalism is a system that is crumbling and coming apart at its very seams," Mickells said. "There is going to be a virtual explosion of joblessness and homelessness."
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Capitalism is a system that is crumbling and coming apart at its very seams. There is going to be a virtual explosion of joblessness and homelessness.'
Kathleen Mickels—vice presidential candidate, socialist workers party
Mickells, 37, was born in Omaha, Neb., and attended the University of Nebraska. She also has worked as a coal miner and a political organizer. In 1986, she was a candidate for the House of Representatives in West Virginia.
Mickells said that the capitalist system was on the way out and that the only way to prevent complete economic collapse was for all the workers of the world to unite.
"Workers around the world are the same as you and me," she said.
day-care centers for anyone If women are going to be equal to men, the day care has to be free, she said.
same as you do. Mickells advocated a shorter work week with the same pay and free day-care centers for anyone in need.
After her speech, Mickellis answered questions from the audience and distributed literature from the Socialist Workers Party.
"It's not a campaign to win an election," she said. "It's a campaign to tell the truth."
Holders of KU parking permits can soon park closer to campus
Drivers with KU parking permits now will be able to park closer to campus in the lot behind the Kansas Union.
By a Kansan reporter
The work for the project, which cost $3,276, took place in early May.
One hundred twenty-four parking meters were removed from the middle of lot 91, directly behind the Union. They were reinstalled in lots 92, 93 and 94, north of lot 91 and just east of Memorial Stadium, said Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services. The spaces from where the meters were removed now will be for cars with yellow zone parking permits.
In April, the parking board decided to move the meters because of complaints by students and staffs. They were forced to park in slots much farther away from the visitors' parking zone. Hultine said.
"The thing that most people were mad about was that when they parked their cars in the permit zone, they had to walk by all these open parking spaces that were a lot closer than where they had to park," she
Leaks cripple new meters
By a Kansan reporter
Despite all their advantages, the recently-installed electronic parking meters on campus have a significant defect: they leak.
The 427 meters, which are being sent back in groups to the manufacturer, will have improved water seals within several months, said Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services.
The electronic meters, which the University bought at a cost of $101,727, contain only five moving parts and are easier to maintain than the mechanical meters which are more likely to malfunction , said Edwin Fenstemaker, maintenance technician for parking.
Another advantage, he said, is
Also, the electronic meters operate on $6 batteries that need replacing once a year.
that electronic meters can be programmed to take any kind of coin, even tokens. Some of the older meters only take one type of coin, he said.
replacing once a year
The 600 mechanical parking meters on campus may be replaced if maintaining them becomes more expensive than replacing them, Hultine said.
said
Fenstemaker said he was not surprised that the electronic meters had to be returned.
"These meters had only been tested in a laboratory before they came to us," he said. "Mother Nature is a lot different than a laboratory."
Most of the complaints were from staff members, but there are, however, two sides to the argument, she said.
The people at the Union and the
museum want their visitors to be able to park close also," she said. "I don't think we'll hear many complaints about the change until next fall, because there is not as much on in the summer."
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