Wednesday, February 21, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Bathroom target of vandals' wrath
Vandals attacked Ellsworth Hall's sixth-floor men's restroom leaving residents with one usable shower. Other problems reported were urinals stopped up with beer cans, beer bottles cluttering the showers, and a missing soap dispenser. Photo illustration by J.E. Wilson/KANSAN
By Sarah Warren
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
As far as Richard Stephens is concerned, the men's bathroom on Ellsworth Hall's sixth floor is a pit.
"It was what you would consider a bathroom when we first got here, but it's slowly become more of an animal pen," the Sterling sophomore said. "It got to the point that some of us wouldn't have minded if our bathroom was locked up and condemned."
According to Stephens, the bathroom has undergone numerous attacks of vandalism during the course of the year, making it barely usable.
He said the vandalism started simply enough, with a tee-peeling of the facility one night. But soon after, beer bottles began to clutter the showers and beer cans stopped up the urinals. A soap dispenser was ripped out of the wall, and bathroom stall doors were ripped from their hinges. However, all these events were just minor annoyances compared to the bath-
"Three of the showers had their rods ripped down." Stephens said. "So we were down to just one shower with a curtain."
room's most recent injustice.
The floor received new shower rods last Friday and curtains on Monday, which, so far, are still intact.
But even before the sacking of the shower rods and curtains, the sixth-floor men had showering difficulties. Stephens said some mornings the shower heads would be smeared with heavy layers of soap so no water would come out of them.
"People started going to other bathrooms," Stephens said. "I only used other floors if necessary, instead I'd purposely wake up early so I knew I'd get to use the one shower."
Phil Garito, associate director for maintenance, said while the events on the sixth floor Ellsworth weren't the norm, vandalism was something to be expected while using community facilities.
"In the time I've been here, we've had bathrooms vandalized," Garito
said. "But I don't think this is any different than what we've seen in the past."
Garito said maintenance would fix the problem as soon as they were able, but sometimes, as in the case of the shower rods, residents could be left with damaged equipment for extended periods because of supply problems.
"It can take some time to get the parts if they are not readily available," Garito said. "But we fix it as soon as possible, if not for the students then because if you get that rundown look, then it kind of feeds on it and it gets worse."
And while the bathroom on the sixth floor of Ellsworth was intact yesterday, Stephens said he and the 30 men on his floor still had a bone to pick with the vandals.
"We think it's people from another floor and people who don't live here anymore." Stephens said. "They destroy it because it's not theirs and they should pay for it because the general consensus was that it really sucked having no bathroom."
Edited by Jay Pilgreen
Policy makes exceptions
New admission guidelines can be disregarded for some
By Cassio Furtado
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
While the University's qualified admissions policy has many high-school seniors worried, it will be waived for some.
The Kansas Board of Regents allows the University to admit as many as 10 percent of students who don't meet any of the three new criteria, which take effect in the Fall 2001 semester.
Under the new policy, prospective students are required to have a 2.0 grade point average, graduate in the top third of their high school class, or score a 21 on their ACT to be admitted to the University.
Lisa Pinamonti, associate director for recruitment who has been recruiting students for next year's freshman class since June, said the University looked to students' applications on a case-by-case basis and would decide whether to admit the full 10 percent.
The University is also allowed to admit students on a conditional basis after their applications have been reviewed by a board.
Alan Cerveny, director of admissions, said the new policy caused many questions from high school students and counselors.
Those students need to complete 24 hours with a 2.0 grade point average in their first school year to unconditionally admitted to the University.
"It has added some impact in the recruiting program," he said. "But I think we have done a good job in Kansas on how to prepare for KU."
David Burge, assistant director of admissions, said the new admissions policy would help students to plan strategically and to prepare for the University.
Burge said the University encouraged incoming students to retake tests, to use online exams and to start coursework at community colleges.
"We are really pushing the options," Burge said.
Cerveny said the new admissions policy also would boost students' grade point averages and overall quality because of the higher standards.
But he added even with the institution of the new admission standards, the University was still less stringent than other institutions.
"Kansas was the last state to move away from open admissions," he said.
Out-of-state students have always had qualified admission standards.
Joyce Hall, a counselor at F.L. Schlagle High School in Kansas City, Kan., said some of the school's students got scared when they learned about the new admissions policy.
Hall said about 10 students from Schiagle usually enrolled at the University every year and she didn't think that would change.
They've still applying. Cerveny said the University admitted 80 percent of the students who applied last year; 40 percent of them enrolled.
Edited by Melinda Weaver
Housing limit approved more regulations discussed
By Erin Adamson
By Erin Adamson
writer@kanser.com
Kanser staff writer
Future regulations for rental housing in single family neighborhoods are still up in the air in Lawrence.
The City Commission began discussion of two new housing ordinances last night that would require landlords to license their properties and have no more than three unrelated people per residence renting from them at the end of a three-year period.
Two weeks ago the commission voted to adopt a three-person limit for unrelated people living in residences in neighborhoods zoned for single families.
The commission voted last night for the second and final time to adopt the three-person limit and require landlords to register renters in those neighborhoods by Friday, June 1 2001. By state law, commissioners must vote on an ordinance twice before it becomes law to allow time
for public comment.
David Corliss, assistant city manager, said discussion of the newest ordinances was difficult because the commission had to decide what type of inspections should be required of rental properties, and whether only single-family neighborhoods should be inspected.
Currently, rental properties are only inspected if someone complains to the building inspector. All the commissioners agreed any new licensing ordinance should require all rentals to be inspected periodically, possibly once every three years.
Commissioner Marty Kennedy said he would not be comfortable moving forward with a licensing ordinance until city staff could show the city could afford the cost of more inspectors and additional administrative costs.
The commission will look at these two ordinances again on Tuesday, March 13.
- Edited by Matt Daugherty
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