University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 5, 1988
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Senate may help pay forum security bill
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate might hear debate tomorrow night on a bill that would use student money to pay for the college. The senate could free speech, forum bird, a month ago.
Slightly Older Americans for Freedom, the group that sponsored the forum that Ku Klux Klan members used to attack them, released a $320.06 security bill after the event.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said that $3,109.59 was for officer/personnel overtime costs or for lieutenant or officer overtime costs.
Longaker said that the actual costs for the event ran more than $15,000 but that under the original agreement with the group, it would have to pay only $450 an hour for the length of time KU police security was needed. Other law-enforcement agencies that participate will have to cover their
own costs, she said.
The bill was sponsored by Jason Krakow, student body president, and 12 senators. The proposal, which would pay for the group's entire security fee, passes Senate Committee testimony before it reaches the full Senate.
Michael Foubert, the group's director, said that the group did not have funds to pay the security bill but that because the security was for KU students or Students had some responsibility to help pay for the security costs.
Foubert said that he did not expect the Senate Finance committee to be influenced by the support the bill had from senators but that he remained hopeful it would make its way to Senate.
"I'm just hoping that in retrospect they can review the event on its merits and not the emotions," Foubert said. "I'm relieved the bill is
going through the process, but it's got a long way to go."
Krakow said he thought Senate should lend its support for the bill.
"It was a very important activity that night for KU students that created a security risk," Krakow said. "KU students got a valuable lesson that night, and thank God security was there."
Michael Diggs, off-campus senator, said he planned to propose an amendment to the bill, which would require the group to pay half the security costs, and then billy, make it to the whole evening was about compromise, Senate should compromise with the group.
"For Student Senate to fund the whole thing would be unfair to the student body." Diggs said. "You can't make people financially responsible for expressing freedom of opinion."
Telephone service on hold Students still annoyed by dialing processes
Bv Kim Lightle
Kansan staff writer
Although students were told in a letter sent last summer that they would be able to make direct-dial long distance phones calls in the residence and scholarship halls by January, the service is still unavailable.
And Jan Weller, who has been acting director of telecommunications for the past month, said hall residents probably would have to wait until August to get direct-dial service.
Until then, students must continue to use calling cards, call collect or bill calls to a third party if they want to make long-distance calls.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said he knew in July about the letters sent by the telecommunications department, but didn't know why the service was not yet available.
Weller said the service was
M,
We just don't have the staff to receive collections and follow up on the billings. '
Jan Weller
acting director of telecommunications
delayed because of problems with the new computer system's software and a lack of staff.
Because of a flaw in its computer software, the department was unable to pull data from the computer to credit phone calls to students' rooms. The software was replaced by ATR's two weeks ago, so the terminal and computer now has the capability to attribute calls to individual rooms, she said.
But Weller said staffing shortages prevented the department from being able to provide direct-dial service.
"We just don't have the staff to receive collections and follow up on the billings," she said.
The department will have to pick such carriers as AT&T or Sprint to offer the service and bill students, she said.
Weller said she hoped the bidding process would make telephone companies offer more competitive rates, and she expects higher rates inistance rates for students next year.
Steve Mether, St. Louis freshman, said he was tired of going through operators and using his roommate's calling card to call friends.
Meanwhile, students living in the residence and scholarship halls say they are tired of being put on hold.
Chad Whiteman, Wichita freshman, who lives in Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall, said that he was bothered by the inconvenience and higher cost of being unable to dial direct.
"If you don't have a calling card, it's a real pain." Whiten said.
Janine Swiatkowski/KANSAN
Balloons awav
About 50 students launch 500 balloons in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall. Yesterday's event was sponsored by Delta Sigma Pi as a contribution to the KU's War on Hunger Week.
KANU sets $100,000 goal for 2nd fund mini-drive
Bv Iulie Adam
Kansan staff writer
KANU may call the experiment a mini-drive, but its goal is to raise maximum money.
KANU, a public radio station,
will conduct the second of its three
mini-drives to raise $100,000 this
weekend.
The three mini-drives, if successful, will replace KANU's traditional eight-day spring fundraiser, said Al Berman, director of development at KANU. The station is trying to reach a goal of $100,000 from listener donations by the end of the third drive in May.
"This is an attempt to change the contribution method and make it as palatable as possible for those listening." he said.
Berman said that KANU had received complaints about the eight-day fund-raising drive in the past and that the station tried the experiment of breaking the fundraiser into three mini-drives because of listener complaints and to benefit the staff at KANU.
He said that the listener benefited by not having eight straight days of periodical interruptions, and that by separating the fundraiser from other staff didn't have to work double or triple shifts for eight days in a row.
In the first mini-drive, the station raised $36,840, which came from phone-in and mail-in pledges.
If a player hits the ball, Berman said that as soon as the $100,000 goal was met, the on-the-air pledging would stop.
If the station does not reach its goal, Berman said that it would try other fund-raising ideas. The last resort, if money could not be raised, would be to cancel some programming.
The mini-drive will run Saturday, Sunday and Monday until noon.
Temporary parking spaces proposed
By Donna Stokes
Kansan staff writer
A temporary parking lot may be placed between the Computer Center and Robinson Center to provide 150 parking spaces while a multi-level parking garage north of Allen Field House is under construction.
However, that space now is used for the health, physical education and recreation department and might not be given up without a fight.
"There is no question that it would hamper our academic program," said Wayne Osness, HPER chairman.
"There are 30 classes that use that space. It would affect upward to 1,000 students. I believe an alternative site will be found."
Ossness said he called Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, to express his concern about the space now used for the HPER department.
Ramaley said that the University of Kansas was working with the problem but that no solution had been found.
"Mr. Osness is working with facilities planning to come up with a
Planned lot near Robinson Center would displace some HPER classes
solution," she said. "To have a recreation facility, you have to have playing field space. At the same time, you have to provide adequate space for parking."
"Two projects, the construction of a human development center and a parking garage, will be underway at the same time and will take about 200 spaces out of service.
"We have to come up with a solution that would provide enough parking on the hill, as well as space needed for recreation."
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said that the location for the temporary lot was not final but that there were no alternative sites at this time.
Ray Moore, chairman of the parking board, said that if plans for the lot were made final, the lot would wrap around the north and east sides of Watkins Hospital, providing 100 red zone spaces and 50 yellow zone
spaces.
The two yellow-zone lots north of the field house provide 141 parking spaces.
Donald Kearns, director of parking, said that to save costs, facilities operations may do the grading and also prepare the lot for the sealant. A contractor would then be hired to complete the lot.
"Facilities operations has done it for us before, and they have done excellent work." Kearns said.
But James Modig, campus director of facilities planning, said that there was some discussion that facilities operations would help prepare for the temporary lot but that nothing had been finalized.
Moore said the temporary lot would not be made of concrete. A single-surface asphalt treatment is one alternative the parking board may consider.
Moore said he wasn't sure that the lot would be torn up when the garage was built.
"It's hard to say, some of the temporary lots are still around," he said.
The temporary lot between the Computer Center and Robinson may become permanent and serve a new education building that still is in the planning, Kearns said.
"Construction equipment for the education building can destroy or damage black-top," he said. If the all-wather lot is damaged, constructing a permanent concrete lot would only have to be done once.
Modig said, "There is no time set yet for construction to begin. We hope to do it this summer. It depends on how we decide to go about it.
"Right now we're about two to four weeks off from any firm statements or commitments on it. The intent is that the temporary lot will be ready for use when construction on the garage begins."
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