Thursday, February 1, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
City awaiting new parking garage
By Erin Adamson
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
As part of the Downtown 2000 improvement plan, the entire 900 block of New Hampshire Street is scheduled for a renovation that includes a new 500-space parking garage.
New design guidelines the city has adopted will also encourage property owners to not have parking lots facing Massachusetts Street.
Mike Wilden, city manager, said the construction of the parking garage was on schedule and should be completed at the beginning of September.
When the four-story garage opens, downtown will gain 400 new parking spaces.
Dave Corliss, assistant city manager, said the parking garage would include 400 new parking spaces in addition to the 100 parking spaces in the previous parking lot.
Justin Montag, Olathe senior,
said he usually drove downtown
and had a hard time finding parking there.
"It's impossible to find a spot," he said. "Especially when students come back."
He said although the 900 block of New Hampshire Street was currently closed, the new parking garage would be helpful to the parking situation.
"The construction hasn't really been a problem," Montag said.
Corsliss said the new garage was oriented to pedestrian use and on a scale that would not be overwhelming from the street.
"In our new garage we're building, we'll have offices on the ground floor," Corliss said. "It softens the structure."
Corliss said the majority of spaces in the new parking garage would be open to the public but some would be reserved for bank customers, whose lot had been torn up by the construction, and for other downtown employees.
The street level of the garage would have free, two-hour parking and the upper levels would have long-term paid parking, Corliss said.
Handicapped parking would also be available in the garage.
Anne-Wesley Roberts Washington, D.C., senior, said the city needed to include more handicapped parking.
"I've had handicapped friends who opt not to go to certain places downtown because there are no spots near them," Roberts said.
New parking garage
A new parking garage will be built on the 900 block of New Hampshire Street. The garage will be complete by September.
Office/retail space
Kyle Ramsey/KANSAI
The new construction on New Hampshire Street is part of the city's Downtown 2000 project aimed at revitalizing the city center.
Wildgen said on the west side of New Hampshire Street, the four-story parking garage was being constructed in the middle of the block. A privately owned, three-story corner building to house either commercial spaces or a hotel would be north of the garage.
A four-story building containing retail shops on the ground level and 24 loft apartments will be to the south of the garage, across the alley from Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St.
On the east side of New Hampshire Street the new
Lawrence Arts Center will take up the majority of the block.
Wildgen said the city didn't own the lot at 11th and Massachusetts Streets, but based on the new design guidelines it would be appropriate to get rid of the parking lot.
"We would encourage development for any lot facing Massachusetts Street," Wildgen said. "The goal ultimately would be to not have parking on Massachusetts Street."
The city does not have plans for any additional parking garages downtown, but Wildgen said if a garage was built in the future an appropriate place might be on the 700 block of Vermont Street.
Edited by Brandy Straw
Students seek cures for hangovers
By Livi Regenbaum
writer@kansan.com
Wicker staff writer
Taylor Duncan has a plan for preventing hangovers.
"Drinking Gatorade quenches my thirst and helps me feel better the day of a hangover," said Duncan, Winfield sophomore.
Hangover remedies are in constant debate. Some people claim anything helps, while others offer remedies they claim work miracles.
The latest remedy, according to The National Headache Foundation, is honey with crackers before or after heavy drinking.
Bill Smith, health educator at Watkins Health Center, said the only thing that could really relieve hangover symptoms was time.
"No folk remedy can cure a hangover," he said.
Laurell Matthews, Fayetteville, Ark., senior, said she usually drank a lot of water — at least one glass for every beer — before going out.
"This helps me to avoid the major
side effects of a hormone," he added.
"This neps me to avoid the major side effects of a hangover," she said. Randall Rock, physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said he was not aware of any way to prevent the effects of a hangover. He also said it was not uncommon to see students come into Watkins feeling the negative effects of drinking too much.
Rock said eating could slow the flow of alcohol into the bloodstream, which could help prevent a hangover.
HANGIN' HARD
Students have different methods to recover from hangovers. Some are:
- Drink plenty of fluids
- Rest
- Water
- Aspirin
- Honey and crackers
"When one has a hangover, it is important to drink fluids and get plenty of rest," he said.
— Edited by Jason McKee
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