University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 21, 1988
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KU to increase parking space
Regents approve plan for multi-level garage
By Joel Zeff
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents Thursday unanimously approved preliminary plans for a multi-level parking garage to be built just north of Allen Field House.
The garage, estimated to cost about $5 million, is expected to contain about 650 parking spaces. The garage would be built over two current parking lots.
Allen Wiechert, University of Kansas director of facilities planning, said the location was chosen because of the growth on the southern part of campus.
"This facility will help the daytime needs during classes and the nighttime parking needs for the activities in the area. With Allen Field House, the activities at Murphy Hall and the law building, there became a deficit of parking." Wiechert said.
Wiechtert said that the distribution of the parking spaces between parking passes and visitor passes hadn't been decided. The new parking garage will be paid for through state bonds.
The plans for the garage will now be sent to the state architect's office for review. The process should take two to three months.
The architectural firm of Kiene and Bradley Design Group in Topeka will prepare construction blueprints and documents for the building, Wiechert said.
Wiechert said that bids probably would be accepted this summer. The project is expected to take a year to complete.
A KU evaluation report was presented to the Regents. The Regents
asked for evaluations from all Regents institutions after accepting mission, role and scope statements from them in the fall of 1986.
According to the report, KU has continued to maintain its mission as the state's primary learning institution.
KU's primary mission, the preservation and enhancement of research and graduate programs, includes closer coordination between the office of academic affairs and the office of research, graduate studies and public service in allocating faculty positions.
The report states that closer cooperation between the academic and research areas would strengthen the University.
The report also states that the increase in graduate teaching stipends and target investments in certain graduate programs were essential in the enhancement of KU graduate programs.
The report mentions several areas that should be emphasized to strengthen KU's graduate program. Those areas include gerontology, biological sciences, geohydrology, pharmacology and toxicology.
The Regents also approved a policy change in the teacher education program. Applicants for teacher education programs at Regents institutions now must have a 2.5 grade point average in 50 credit hours of liberal arts education. Under the old policy, applicants were required to have a 2.5 GPA specifically in their first 50 credit hours.
Martine Hammond, Regents director of academic affairs, said that the policy change would provide flexibility in admission to the program.
Luck of the Irish
Dale Fulkerson/KANSAN
About 1,500 people turned out last week for the "First Ever Lawrence Saint Patrick's Day Parade" despite cold weather and snow. About 500 people participated in the parade, said Mike Wilson, chairman of the Lawrence Saint Patrick's Day parade committee. The parade, which had 54 entries, started at the Flamingo Club, 501 N. Ninth St., and traveled across the river to the Jet Lag Lounge, 610 Florida St. Funds left from parade entry fees will be donated to a charity chosen by the local chapter of the
Fraternal Order of Police.
An upper level low pressure system dumped about three inches of snow on Thursday. The system kept high temperatures in the upper 30s and lower 40s last week. As the low moves to the East Coast, it is giving way to mild Pacific air that will keep high temperatures in the mid- to upper-Pacific through Wednesday. There is a chance of thunderstorms near the end of the week as temperatures move back into the 50s, which is normal for this time of the year.
Regents budget is sent to Senate
By lill less
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents budget is on its way to the state Senate Ways and Means Committee after the House of Representatives approved Thursday a $788 million budget for fiscal 1989.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said yesterday that the money the House had allotted included the faculty salary portion of the Margin of Excellence plan, but
Solbach, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, said he was disappointed but not surprised that the mission enhancements were not added to the bill passed by the House.
not $4.5 million for mission-related enhancements.
"I did not expect the House of Representatives to put more Margin money in" he said.
added an amendment presented by Gov. Mike Hayden to the Regents budget earlier this year, giving $1.7 million more to the Regents schools for non-taught faculty salaries.
However, Solbach said there were plenty of other opportunities for the mission enhancements money to be added as the bill moved along its legislative path.
The appropriations committee had
The bill will go to the Ways and Means Committee and then to the
senate floor. If changes are made in the Senate, the bill would return to the House floor or a House conference committee.
"We will know more about what expenditures have been made and what has happened with the tax windfall." he said.
Hayden said, "I said that I didn't expect the House to add more money. That doesn't mean I don't expect the Senate to."
Landscape crews repair damage from crowd at free-speech forum
Kansan staff writer
By Donna Stokes
Spring and the attention of KU landscape crews are putting some life into a bed of 1,600 tulips that was damaged during the Ku Klux Klan's visit to campus.
The tulips were damaged by people who gathered outside a free speech forum at Hoch which was attended by the Klan.
Landscape crews have been sprucing up campus recently by reseeding grass, repairing damaged hedges and flowers in a tulip bed outside Hoch Auditorium and transplanting trees from the site of a planned parking garage.
attended by the Kani David Leach, grounds maintenance supervisor; said that it was doubtful whether the tulips would bloom again.
"The ground was really compacted," he said.
Mike Richardson, associate director of landscape and vehicle maintenance, said, "We're not sure about the extent of the damage to them yet. I hope we still have a good bloom.
"There was quite a bit of damage outside of Hoch Auditorium. We had to replace 40 feet of hedge, and there was damage to the corners of the tulip bed," he said.
To match plant material, the hedge was replaced with a plant from another place on campus, and that hedge was replaced with plants from north of Allen Field House, Richardson said.
Leach said that two evergreen shrubs from inside the planter box also had to be replaced and that a sprinkler head in the planter was broken.
"We had everything in stock, so I couldn't state an amount of damage," Richardson said. "We're pretty
lucky actually. With the number of people that were out front, the damage could have been a lot worse."
Crews are also trying to save plants at the proposed site of a University of Kansas parking garage.
of a driveway.
Jim Mathes, assistant director of landscape maintenance, said, "The biggest effort we're working on is moving some of the larger plants from the area north of Allen Field House, since it will most likely be the site for the parking garage."
Mathes said the sycamores, redbuds and pines would be dispersed throughout the campus to save them from being uprooted during construction.
"If there is any chance of them surviving, we'll move them," Mathes said. "We lose very few by transferring them, especially if they are moved at this time of year, when they are supposed to be moved."
of year, when they are up to it.
"It won't cost near as much to move them as it would to buy more trees. Especially since these have six to nine years of growth on them."
male year or gourd. A lot of time and money each year also is spent on the reseeding of grass and the maintenance flowers on campus.
Mathes said that about $600 a year was spent on flower bulbs and perennials, and that $1500 a year was spent on annuals.
"Any place that has a lot of student activity needs reseeding, sometimes even twice a year," Mathes said. "The areas in front of the field house and the patches in front of Fraser and Strong Hall get a lot of play."
Maintenance crews also have been working on reseeding grass on campus. The University spends about $3,500 a year on grass seed.
RAs struggle with disputes Solving roommate troubles not always easy
By Kim Lightle
Kansan staff writer
Although resident assistants at the eight KU residence halls receive a week of training and are required to take a counseling course, acting as a mediator in roommate disputes isn't always easy.
None of the halls have formalized procedures for dealing with roommate conflicts, but most Ras safe schools do not offer them by trying to open up communications.
RAs agree that they are often put in uncomfortable positions.
"It's always uncomfortable to be the outsider," said Caryl Triola, an RA at Oliver Hall. "I am just here to listen. I can't solve the problem for them."
Triola said she tried to hear both sides of the argument and tried to give objective advice.
Ben Custer, an RA at McCollium Hall, said that sometimes he too was uncomfortable handling disputes.
Custer said that it was hard to be objective when he knew one of the roommates better than the other.
George Robinson, an RA at Templin Hall, said that he felt prepared to handle disputes because of role-playing exercises he participated in his counseling class.
None of the halls have formalized procedures for dealing with roommate conflicts, but most RAs say they try to deal with disputes by attempting to open up communications.
"They give you as much help as they can," he said. "It's a short period of time to cover a broad range of problems. They can't cover every problem."
Sonya Clark, Ellsworth Hall director, said, "They're as prepared as they can be. Obviously, they will get better with experience."
Clark said that she had been uncomfortable dealing with disputes when she was an RA at Indiana University in 1982 but that the problems became less difficult to handle.
Lori Reesor, Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall director, said that there was no set policy for handling disputes but that in most situations the RAs would try to talk to both roommates and then get them to discuss their problems.
In many halles, if disputes continue after the RA discusses the problems, each roommate will be asked to fill in an agreement form that sets rules both agree to abide by.
The agreement covers such things as when guests are allowed in the room, when the television can be used, and what items can be borrowed.
"The RAs know the residents much better than I do." Reeser said. "They usually have the best perspective on how to handle it."
Randi Schneider, Lewis Hall director, said that the RAs were trained to handle most situations and to know when to go to someone else for help.
Schneider said that the hall directors met on a regular basis with the RAS, and they discussed any conflicts and what action should be taken.
Schneider said that the meetings not only gave RAs guidance but also were a safeguard to keep a problem from escalating.
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