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Traffic committee gets estimates for redesign
Bv Pam Sollner
Kansan staff writer
The Campus Transportation Committee on Friday received cost estimates in its continuing study of traffic improvements for Jayhawk Boulevard.
Tom Mulinazzi, chairman of the committee, said that at its next meeting, the committee would evaluate all data available and better define the options. It may also take a vote to eliminate some of the options.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, appointed the committee last fall because of frequent traffic congestion on the boulevard.
One option would keep the boulevard open but reduce its visual appearance as a major street. Landscaping would change the street to a pedestrian plaza walkway, slowing down traffic.
The minimum cost for transforming the boulevard to a park-like street would be $350,000, said Greg Wade, landscape architect for the Office of Facilities Planning.
If this option is chosen, Wade said the traffic booths should restrict traffic more, making buses the main vehicles.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, presented figures about staffing the four information booths. The booths, which operate from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., will be open 207 days this academic year.
It costs the University $16 an hour to run the four boots, she said. If the boots were open until 5 p.m. during wear, it would cost an additional $3,312.
Hultine also figured the cost of staffing the booths until 6 p.m., 7:15 p.m. and 10 p.m. Each additional hour would cost $3,312 for the entire academic year.
A second option would close Jayhawk Boulevard from Poplar Lane, next to Snow Hall, to Sunflower Road, next to Bailey Hall. An alternate road would be built behind Strong Hall.
In this plan, landscaping would replace the street that cuts through the main campus.
Wade said closing the boulevard would cost at least $50,000 for landscaping, utility adjustments, replacing and cutting out pavement and adding trees and soil.
Wade did not include the costs of improving Memorial Drive, where the traffic would be rerouted. Mulinazzi and Joe Lee, director of the Transportation Center, are expected to study those costs and other affected adjacent streets.
Another option is to change nothing. Mulinazzi said that would contradict the purpose of the committee.
A final option would consolidate the boulevard's six bus stops into four.
Charles Bryan, director of KU on Wheels, has been asked to develop a plan that expands the bus stops, including shelters for inclement weather.
To allow buses to pull up close to the curb, Bryan said, parking spaces would have to be removed. He said major crosswalks also would need to be painted.
Restaurant roasted by fire
A Friday morning fire at Arby's Roast Beef Restaurant, 1533 W. 23rd Street, caused $35,000 in damages, said Larry Stimmerman, a Lawrence fire investigator.
(Right) The interior of the restaurant shows signs of the damage after firefighters had extinguished the blaze.
(Above) Lawrence firefighters discuss the clean-up efforts through the drive-up window of the restaurant.
Stimmerman said three pumper trucks and a ladder truck responded after receiving a call that flames had been spotted in a rear storage room on the northeast side of the restaurant. An electrical short in a neon sign reportedly caused the fire.
Matt Robinson, the store's manager, said the restaurant probably would be closed for about two weeks while repairs were made.
Transplant patient released
Bv Steve Ballev
Kansan staff writer
An Olathe woman who received the state's first liver transplant was released Friday afternoon from the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Kristine Poe, 38, who received the transplant February 27, said she felt as if she had been given a new lease on life.
Poe said she was excited to be going home.
"I feel fabulous," she said. "Better than I can remember feeling 10 years ago before I was diagnosed. My color is great, and physically I feel stronger than ever. I feel like I am alive."
return to work for a while."
"I'm going to do a lot of things just for me and for my family," she said. "I'm going to keep myself busy, but I am not going to
Poe said she wanted to do some gardening, go camping, shoot pool and other physical activities she had not been able to do for some time.
'It has been a long time since I have seen her like this.'
Barbara Poe daughter of patient
"I want to learn how to tap dance," she said. "That's the main thing right now."
Barbara Poe, 19, said she was thrilled to see her mother in such good spirits.
"It has been a long time since I have seen her like this," she said. "I'm glad to have my mother back."
Poe was taken out of the intensive care unit March 5 and has been recovering at the Med Center. She suffered from Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, a rare inherited condition that was responsible for the destruction of her liver.
The seven-hour transplant pro cedure was performed by Jameson Forster, director of the liver transplant program at the Med Center.
CENTER.
Poe said she had expected to remain in the hospital for about six weeks, but that time was shortened because her recovery progressed so rapidly.
one will remain on anti-rejection medication for the rest of her life, but barring further complications, will be able to resume a normal life, Forster said.
Staff eligibility for blue stickers may be cut
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
A subcommittee of the KU Parking Board recommended Friday that fewer faculty and staff members be automatically eligible for blue parking stickers.
Alan Black, appeals subcommittee chairman, recommended that 35 people be removed from the 195-member automatic blue list. Key faculty and staff members who need access to campus qualify for the list.
need access to campus quality facilities. Black said persons removed from the list would include associate and assistant deans, associate and assistant directors of administrative units, and directors and department chairmen who do not have offices on Jayhawk Boulevard.
Jayhawk Boulevard.
Black said there was concern about traffic on Jayhawk Boulevard and about a lack of blue spaces available on campus.
Morris Faiman, board chairman, said the board would wait until next month's meeting to make a decision about reducing the list.
"We have to determine if there is a problem and see how it can be best resolved." Faiman said. "We really need to look at this carefully because it's a sensitive issue."
Of the 195 people who qualify for the automatic blue
list, 152 hold blue permits.
People also can qualify for a blue sticker if their combined age and total years with the University equal at least 60.
Donna Hultine, assistant parking director, said there were 903 blue stickers issued for the campus' 658 blue spaces during the 1988-89 school year. Figures for 1989-90 are not available.
Kearns said 103 people on the automatic blue list also met the age and service requirement.
Don Kearnes, parking director, he opposed altering the list. In a study conducted last summer, it was found that 65 percent of automatic blue list members did not park on campus, he said.
Carol Nalbandian, director of business management programs, said she would lose her blue sticker if the recommended changes were made by the board. Her position is on the recommended reduction list, and her office is not on Jayhawk Boulevard.
Nalbandian said she often used her blue sticker status to drive through campus between her full-time office in Summerfield Hall on Sunnyside Avenue and a temporary office in the Kansas Union.
YOU coalition candidates hope to bring experience to Student Senate race
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
year's Student. Mike Schreiner, presidential candidate, and Aimee Hall, vice president candidate, said they were members of several Senate committees, University Council, University Senate Executive Committee and policy board for Associated Students of Kansas. Both are now serving as Nuneman senators.
The presidential and vice presidential candidates for the YOU coalition said Friday that they had more experience in student, University and state government than any other coalition in this year's Student Senate race.
Both candidates said YOU would take students' concerns to the three levels of government. They said their coalition's name stood exactly for what it said — you, the students.
Schreiner, Wakeeney junior, said that they had built a good rapport with faculty and administrators and that they had testified before several state legislative committees.
said — you, the students.
Hall, manhattan sophomore, said, "None of our
issues are that difficult. They've just never been done."
- Communication. YOU would create a liaison program to help explain the financing process to student organizations. It occasionally would hold Senate meetings in living groups and would place suggestion boxes on campus for students' ideas.
The coalition has six main campaign issues:
Campus climate. The coalition would like to see increased minority enrollment, which they referred to as campus climate improvements. They said culturally diverse students improved the campus climate because other students learned from them.
"We try to stay away from the term minority because it implies a hierarchy of being." Hall said
YOU also advocated hiring a coordinator to direct a plan for minority issues and proposed increasing funds for scholarships for Blacks.
- Environment. YOU wants improve conservation and expansion in recycling programs.
Academic calendar. Beginning in 1992, the school year may be lengthened, the final exam period shortened and stop days eliminated, they said. YOU proposed fee payment by mail, a one day break in October and continuation of stop days. Schreiner said the University administration favored fee payment by mail.
■ Textbooks. Every semester students lose money when selling books, YOU candidates said. A data base could be set up in the Kansas Union that would match compatible buyers and sellers who would negotiate their own prices. Schreiner said students could save $10-$15 per textbook exchange with a data base system.
- The University Daily Kansan. The coalition proposed setting aside $2 from the student activity fee to provide long-term stability for the Kansan. They said this would avoid raising more student fees.
"This separates media from government, allows the Kansan a long-term budget plan and insures the students that they have a quality student publication," Schreiner said.
Aimee Hall and Mike Schreiner
The Chancellor's Student Awards Committee is accepting nominations for the following awards:
The Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award
The Agnes Wright Strickland Award
The Donald K. Alderson Memorial Award
The Class of 1913 Award
Nomination forms are available in the Organizations & Activities Center, 400 Kansas Union Nomination Deadline, Monday, April 2, 1990
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