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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
January 27, 2004 IN ITS 100TH YEAR AS THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol.114 Issue No.79
City meter fees increase
By Laura Pate
lpate@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
It's 1 p.m. and cars are moving at a snail's pace down Massachusetts Street to find a parking spot. No vacant spots exist within a four-block radius. And what's worse, those with only a quarter to spare can no longer park for more than an hour without risk of getting a ticket.
The Lawrence City Commission increased parking meter fees from 25 cents for 90 minutes to 25 cents for an hour as of Jan.1.
Also, the fee for habitual offenders, or people who have received five overtime parking fees within a period of 30 days,
has jumped from $15 to $50.
In the spring and summer of 2003, as a part of a discussion about creating the 2004 city budget, the city began to look at increasing parking meter fees.
This fee increase will help to fund beautification efforts, such as landscaping for Massachusetts Street. The increase in fees will also fund the parking system downtown. The downtown parking system is an enterprise fund, which means that parking lots are maintained and policed solely from revenue generated by the fines in meter payments.
Lawrence's meter costs are relatively low compared to other communities, said Dave Corliss, assistant city manager and legal adviser.
"It takes money to maintain the parking spaces and to police the parking spaces," Corliss said. "Meters are a necessary evil of a scarce commodity."
As for the number of parking spots available on Massachusetts Street, Sue Hack, city commissioner said people often hold inflated expectations about parking on Massachusetts Street. Sue Hack said people would go to a mall or to Target and would walk further.
"People have a mental image of parking in a small downtown area and want to be able to park right at the store, within 50 feet." she said.
Chuck Magerl, proprietor of Free State Brewing Co., 636 Massachusetts St., said the commissioners' raise of parking meter
fees was, haphazard and was a "Band-Aid approach to increase revenue." He said although downtown was more of a pedestrian location than other shop areas in Lawrence, customers could stay away from downtown because of the extra money required to park.
Jessica Elythe, general manager of Urban Outfitters, 1013 Massachusetts St., said she doubted the raise in parking meter fees would keep people away from Massachusetts Street.
"I don't see any difference," Elythe said. "I don't think it's going to deter people or bring anyone down, so it really not that big of a difference."
Walking in a winter wonderland
Jeff Brandsted/Kansan
Students walked near Memorial Drive as snow fell yesterday afternoon. Today's forecast shows a high of 26 degrees with sunny skies.
Roach motel on campus
— Edited by Louise Stauffer
By Becca Evanhoe
bevanhoe@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
When graduate student Andrew Dzialowski bought his $150 printer, he had no idea he was also buying a condo for a swarm of creepy officemates in Haworth Hall.
But about a year after he set the printer up in his office, he smelled something funny. As Dzialowski printed off pages, insect limbs and roach poop littered the pages. Eventually, when the printer jammed, he discovered about 50 roaches had made his printer their home. The printer now sits on its office floor. It still smells, and is completely ruined.
Specimens of roaches sat in test tubes on display. The roaches were found in Haworth Hall where they travel the hallways and classrooms freely.
Photo Illustration by Kit Leffler/Kansan
Dzialowski, an ecology Ph.D. candidate, isn't the only one bothered by roaches. Biology students and professors who spend time in Haworth echo Dzialowski's horror stories. Students and faculty with offices in Haworth have found roaches in their backpacks, in their desk drawers, in their water bottles, in their books — even in their lunches.
Haworth Hall is infamous as the campus's biggest roach motel. At least three species of cockroaches lurk in its cracks and corners. As well as being a nuisance, the roaches could pose health problems for those who work and study there. What's worse, Haworth will probably never be rid of these pests. Effective pest control remains out of reach. The building houses living cells, mice and plants that would be wiped out by spraying insecticides.
According to Byron Young, KU-hired pest control technician with Ozark Pest Management, the most common cockroach in Haworth is the brown-banded cockroach.
Ginger Miller, entomology graduate student, said the roaches were an office or industrial-type roach.
Because American cockroaches, another species found in Haworth, like wetter climates, they tend to live in the
"It makes it an unpleasant place to be sometimes," Dzialowski said. "It's just pretty gross."
Tim Dickson ecology Ph.D. candidate
"If you go in there at night after the lights have been off for a few hours, you're almost guaranteed to find one or two really big roaches in there,"
"We probably have several species running around Haworth Hall now because
building's bathrooms and drains, Miller said. "They're more of a dorm-room roach. They like to be in places where people like to be," she explained.
But other cockroach types could also be in Haworth in small numbers, said Deborah Smith, associate professor of ecology. Smith has seen German roaches on the third floor, where she has her office.
of the number of people who've worked on roaches over the years," she said.
The irony of Haworth's problem is that much of it is home-grown. Scientists through the years have bred and kept cockroaches for experiments.
However many species make up Haworth's roach army, they make quite a few appearances. A popular place is in the bathrooms. Tim Dickson, ecology Ph.D. candidate, sees the roaches there often.
"If you go in there at night after the lights have been off for a few hours, you're almost guaranteed to find one or two really big roaches in there," he said. "You have to kind of watch them, to make sure they stay in their corners."
Dzialowski, who has kept an office in the building for six years, once had a roach fall on his head and crawl down his shirt while walking down a hallway on the sixth floor.
"I ran to the bathroom and took off my shirt, and there was a roach about that big" – he spread his fingers apart three inches – "that had fallen onto my head and crawled into my shirt." Dzialowski said.
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Professor lived by Russian traditions
By Neoley J, Spellmeier
nspellmeier@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Recruited to build a Slavic department at the University of Kansas, he was appointed associate professor and
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Joseph L. Conrad was a pioneer in Russian and Slavic studies who began his career at the University in 1966.
Before teaching at the University, Conrad was a student at the
chairman. Best known for his Slavic folklore class, Conrad taught until he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died four months later on Dec. 21. 2003.
Conrad
University of Kansas. He graduated in 1955 and received a Fulbright award. He studied in Frankfurt, Germany, then attended graduate school at the
University of Texas before returning to Kansas as associate professor and chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literatures.
MEMORIAL SERVICES
Con r ad helped to create the current
Memorial services for Joseph Conrad will be at 6 p.m.
Thursday at Danforth Chapel.
department, said Stephen Parker, professor of Slavic languages and literature, and his legacy continues within it. It is a top-10 institution, and one of the few departments that grant doctorate degrees in the field, he said.
"In the office, he was quiet and lowkey. But he was very animated with students, making literature come alive," said Marc Greenberg, professor and chairman of Slavic languages and literatures. "He was very engaging when he talked, which led to his popularity as a teacher."
His family also remembers him for his stories. His daughter, Belinda Schuman, said that at the end of every semester, Conrad encouraged his students to write their own folklore, and he later acted the stories out at the dinner table.
His interest in Russia began with the language but eventually moved toward literature. He was considered one of the top researchers in the world on author Anton Chekhov. Conrad's work in the Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s was important because it was keeping legends alive that were not being taught within the country, said his wife, Galina Conrad. Galina was raised in the Soviet Union and did not come to the United States until 10 years ago. Soon after moving, she met and married Joseph. It was only then that she learned about some of her own cultural traditions.
Schuman said that Joseph's time in the
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