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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, December 1, 1993
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Game routes seal halls' lots
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan staff writer
With the excitement of the KU basketball season comes heavy traffic and unhappy residence hall students.
Tonight after the basketball game against Temple, about 14,000 fans will need to find a direct route off campus, and KU police will provide the most direct routes available for KU basketball fans.
But students in the residence halls are complaining that the routes are anything but direct.
"It's ridiculous to get up onto the hill after the game. It's absolutely insane," said Timothy Joyce, Oak Park, Ill., junior and Hashinger resident.
Joyce said he realized there was a problem routing traffic after games but blocking off access to the parking lots of the halls was not the solution.
"They allow the traffic to flow but they inhibit people from getting into their homes," he said. "We're denied
access to our homes, our jobs and our cars."
The problem lies with Endel Road
The problem lies with Engel Road. KU police have Engel Road barricaded at 15th Street, by Templin and Lewis halls and at Irving Hill Road between Hashinger and Ellsworth Halls after men's basketball games at Allen Field House.
The barricades allow traffic to proceed uninterrupted onto Iowa Street.
Sgt. Rose Rozmiarek of KU police said there were no alternative routes for students to take to get into the residence hall parking lots.
"After games the flow of traffic has to go in one direction, otherwise there will be a jam," she said. "Engel Road is the road that gets people to the residence halls, and we understand that. But we can't have through traffic. We have to keep the vehicles moving in the same direction."
Rozmiarek said traffic was always a problem at the start of the football and basketball seasons until people adjusted to the routes.
It takes about 30 minutes to relieve the traffic now, she said, but later in the season it might take longer.
"With conference play coming up, we're looking at a little heavier traffic."
Residence hall parking disorder
Residence hall residents are able to leave their parking lots at any time during KU basketball games, but cannot enter the lots right after the games. The 30- to 45-minute delays are caused by one-way traffic leaving the Allen Field House area.
Daisy Hill residence hall Police or roadblock
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Source: Sgt. Rose Rozmlarek, KU Police
So that might make it a longer wait," she said.
Monday night Erin O'Donnell, Derby sophomore, said she waited 15 minutes before she got into her lot.
"It's just really annoying and an inconvenience," she said. "I don't know what the cure is but surely they could figure out a way to make an entrance for us."
"When ball games are over, the traffic does cause some problems, and I don't know if there's an answer for it," he said. "Everyone is traveling in one direction. It's like a fish going upstream."
The traffic problem after games has been a concern for many years, said Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
Super conductor
John Gamble / KANSAN
Thomas Stidham, University Band conductor, leads the band during the School of Fine Arts music and dance concert series. Stidham conducted the band last night at the Lied Center.
Speaker warns of forest decline
By Kathleen Stolle
Kansan staff writer
Against a backdrop of stuffed North American mountain goats, deer and bobcats, Edgard Vascones introduced a small audience to monkeys, birds and snakes from his native Peru.
Vascones, an eight-year tour guide of Peru's Amazonian rain forests, gave a slide presentation last night to about 70 people gathered in the rotunda of the Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall.
Vascones is visiting schools throughout the United States for three weeks, speaking about Peru, the Amazon River and rain forests. He was invited to Kansas by state schoolteachers, and the KU museum
requested a special stop-off while he was in the area, said Kathryn Wiese Morton, the museum's coordinator of public relations.
Earlier in the day, Vascones met with local media and spoke about the endangerment of the forests. He said logging, farming and the country's increasing population were taxing the forests. He said there was a growing movement in Peru to preserve sections of forests and its inhabitants, such as the macaw, a bird which is endangered.
Although billed as a discussion about the deforestation of Peruvian rain forests, the presentation featured the flora and fauna of the Amazon Basin, and information on the tour company for which Vascones works.
As a guide, Vascones said he saw about 3,500 tourists last year and expected that
number to increase to about 5,000 this year.
"This year was great, but it's going to better the next few years," he said.
He said that the influx of tourism dollars boosted the Peruvian economy and that concerns about exploitation from tourism were unfounded because the forests in which the tours were given were within reserved areas.
The toughest part of his job is the large amount of time he spends away from his wife and two daughters, who live about 50 miles away in the city of Iquitos, Vascones said.
Although this is Vascones' first visit to the United States, viciously he has learned a lot about the country and its citizens, he said.
"We are learning every day from tourists, sharing experiences," he said.
ON CAMPUS
Rock Chalk Revue will hold auditions for in-between acts today at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Sign-up sheets for audition times will be at the Organizations and Activities Center in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Scott McPhail at 832-8274 or 864-4033.
OAKS — Non-Traditional Students Organization will have a brown bag lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Alcove G in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Gerry Vernon at 864-7317.
MBA will sponsor a lecture, "Why Communism Failed," by Professor Svetozar Stojanovic at noon today in 427 Summerfield. For more information, call Paul Melland at 841-4657.
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a lunch and forum, "Impact of TV on Society," from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the Center, 1204 Oread Ave. For more information, call Thad Holcombe at 843-4933.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate Mass at 12:30 p.m. today in Danforth Chapel.
The department of fine arts will sponsor a student art exhibit from 1 to 7 p.m. today on the fifth floor of the Art, and Design building.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will sponsor a Catholic student discussion group at 1:10 p.m. today (following 12:30 Mass) at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. For more information, call 843-0357.
The Office of Study Abroad will sponsor an informational meeting for students interested in studying in Great Britain at 4 p.m. today in 2015 Lippincott Hall. For more information, call Nancy Mitchell at 864-3742.
KU Gamers and Roleplayers will meet at
5:30 p.m. today on the third floor in the Burge Union. For more information, call 864-7316.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics will meet at 6 p.m. today in 2002 Learned Hall.
KU Kempo will meet at 6 p.m. today in 130 Robinson Center. For more information, call Mandana Ershadi at 842-4713.
KU Environers will meet at 6 p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Amy Trainer at 841-4484.
KU Tae Kwon Do Club will meet at 6 p.m. today in 207 Robinson Center. For more information, call Jacob Wright at 749-2084 or Jason Anishansilh at 843-3099.
Literary Club will meet at 6 p.m. today at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Julie Munjak at 864-2582.
Students Tutoring for Literacy will meet at 7 tonight at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call 864-3660.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will have a House/Hall Contacts meeting at 6:30 p.m. today at the Center, 1631 Crescent Road. For more information, call 843-0357.
KU chapter of Habitat for Humanity will meet at 7:30 tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. For more information, call 832-0777.
KU Sailing Club will meet at 7:30 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
**Watkins Memorial Health Center will sponsor an eating disorders support group from 7:30 to 8:30 tonight at the second floor conference room in Watkins. For more information, call Sarah Kirk at 864-4121.**
CAMPUS BRIEFS
February trial set for running back in shoplifting case
Kansan staff report
A trial has been scheduled for Kansas running back June Henley in February. Henley is accused of attempting to shoplift at the 1/2 Price Store, 2727 Iowa St.
Halley Kampschroeder, Henley's lawyer, appeared in court on Nov. 24 on behalf of Henley.
Henley was stopped by a security guard after attempting to leave the store with a leather coat and a pair of shoes, according to police reports. The value of the items was estimated at $141.
If convicted on the misdemeanor charge,
Henley faces up to a year in jail and a fine of
up to $500.
Henley's trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 11.
Forum to look at TV violence
Kansan staff report
Two KU professors will examine television's role in society today in a University Forum speech.
Aletha Huston and John Wright, professors of human development and family life, will present a speech, "Impact of TV on Society," at noon in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Building, 1204 Oread.
Wright said he and Huston would examine two conflicts in the television industry: First Amendment rights of television producers and excessive television violence.
"It's a very difficult issue," he said. "Censorship or the lack of censorship — neither are acceptable solutions."
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