University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 26, 1990
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Watkins to get metered spaces
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
Twelve parking spaces near Watkins Memorial Health Center will be metered this semester for outpatient KU Parking Board decided Friday.
The spaces, in the northeast corner of Lot 90 and parallel to Missouri Street, will have a two-hour limit, said Don Kearns, parking director. The meters will be installed by the end of spring break.
The spots are zoned yellow.
A shortage of parking near Watkins for students without yellow stickers prompted the Board and Watkins officials to meet and discuss the problem, said Morris Faiman, board chairman.
The Board approved the proposal unanimously.
Since last summer, 375 meters have been removed from the lot to create more spaces for people with yellow stickers, Kearns said.
Thirty-eight metered spaces remain, nine of which are near Watkins' south entrance.
One reason the meters were removed was because of a petition signed by at least 300 students requesting the change, Kearns said.
Also, metered spaces in Lot 90 had been used primarily for University visitor parking, Kearns said. The Parking Facility on Irvine Hill Road, which opened Oct. 23, is now the primary source of visitor parking.
Jim Strobi, director of student health services at Watkins, said the number of new meters and their two-hour limits should serve the needs of Watkins outpatients.
He said Watkins and parking services would evaluate the new system to see if the spaces were sufficient.
Fainam said he was concerned about whether people other than Watkins patients would park in the metered spaces.
Kearns said, "There might be one or two people. But the average person, when they see the spaces are for outpatients, won't park there. I trust people."
Until about three years ago, outpatients were allowed to park in spots near Watkins and get tickets validated in the health center, Strobi said. The system was too time consuming for Watkins and parking services employees, and it was eliminated.
Six SenEx senators will be replaced
By Matt Taylor
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Absenteeism brings suspension for members
Six senators have been suspended from Student Senate because they have missed too many meetings this year. The committee chairman said Friday.
Senate will vote Wednesday on replacements for the suspended senators. The meeting will be at 7 a.m. Eight Room in the Kansas Union.
William Sanders, SenEx chairman,
said six senators; had missed too
many meetings and would be
replaced: Lisa Frick, Liberal Arts
and Sciences; Carol Drees and Kyle
Herren, Nunemaker; Rick Piper,
Graduate; Brett Round, Business;
and Brad Hanna. Journalism
attend all meetings. If senators are unable to attend a meeting, they must notify the executive secretary prior to the meeting. Sanders said senators could be excused without giving a reason.
.
Missing either the beginning or the ending roll call is counted as one-half absence. Senators who receive two unexcused absences or a total of four absences of any kind are immediately suspended.
Piper said he had not attended any Senate meetings this semester because he had too many other events that conflicted with Senate meetings. He also had problems corresponding with Senate.
Piper said he sent Senate a letter at the beginning of the semester stating he could not fulfill his Senate duties. He said he never received a response.
Drees said some family crises kept her from the Senate meetings.
"I didn't have the time or the emotional strengths to attend the meetings." Drees said.
Drees said she understood Senate's action to remove her from office and did not have any bad feelings about the decision.
Eleanor Macnish, Senate's Election Committee chairman, said the committee reviewed applications for replacement senators and interviewed selected applicants last week. The nominees will appear at the Wednesday meeting to answer questions and be considered for approval.
"I've never heard of an objection to Senate. Macmish said of the nomination."
Sanders said Senate usually confirmed the nominees.
Each nominee must receive a majority vote to gain a replacement seat. If nominees are approved, they then take their seats at the meeting.
James, Baucom, Nunemaker; and Scott Schuetz, Business. No replacements have been identified for the journalism or graduate seats.
Sanders said six students had been interviewed for replacement seats: Pam Jefferson, Social Welfare; Mike Thomas and Greg Hughes, Liberal Arts and Sciences; Alan Lowden and
Jefferson said she volunteered to be a senator for the School of Social Welfare.
Cassandra Turner, Senate executive secretary, said a senator from Social Welfare resigned last semester and his seat could be filled by Jefferson.
"It's time for me to become more involved with the University," she said.
Sanders said that the turnover of senators was fairly low compared to other years.
Turrer said she did not know how the turnover compared to past years.
Contestant outmuscles competition.wins Mr. Lawrence
Special to the Kansan
By Rob Wheat
Special to the Kansar
Endurance Onori took a deep breath, fought back his nervousness and strode onto the stage to present for the title of Mr. Lawrence.
The pose down was about to begin.
An adrenaline rush pushed aside all his earlier apprehensions and filled him with self confidence — confidence to lift him to victory.
Onori, 165 pounds, defeated six men in his bantamweight class and then won a pose down with four other weight-class winners.
Onori, 21, Emporia State University junior, was named champion of the Mr. Lawrence body-building contest Saturday night, winning the overall Mr. Lawrence title and the award for most muscular.
"In the pose down, the other guys kept trying to jump in front of me, getting in my way," said Onori. "I felt if the competition was coming to me, I must have some kind of edge."
Although the pose down decided the final overall titles, the five class winners were determined mostly during prejudging, which took place the morning of the contest, said Ernie Hodison, current Mr. Kansas, who was one of the four judges.
"We look at muscle size, symmetry and definition and decided the weight class winners based on the fundamentals," said Hodison, Lawrence resident. "Endurance just had a good total package."
Onori, a native of Nigeria, said
he planned to attend the University of Kansas in the near future.
Rick Sells, owner of Junkyard's Jym and Nautilus Center, 535 Gateway Drive, which sponsored the competition, said that this was the first show for a lot of the participants. Sells wanted them to have fun and learn the rigors of body building.
Sells said that lack of participation caused last year's show to be canceled and that this was the first year he opened it to outside competition. He sent fliers in December to gyms in cities such as Bonner Springs and Kansas City, Kan.
"I think we had a great show, and the guys learned a lot," Sells said. "People think they just go up in pressure, but I just training and dieting is hard work."
Scott Meschke, Hutchinson junior, said he had been training since last April for the contest. He spent an average of two to four hours exercising each day, six days a week.
"I never thought doing a show was that hard before, but the dieting and posing is brutal." Meschek said. "The first thing I'm going to do now that it's over is order a large pizza with pepperoni and pineapple."
Competitors said that they endured months of self-denial, not eating any fried foods or foods with milk. They said that they mostly eat chicken, tuna and a lot of fruit. One competitor said he ate nothing but baby food for a week because of the high protein and low fat content.
Endurance Onori, Emporia State University junior, poses after being crowned Mr. Lawrence.
Gretchen Pippenger/KANSAN
Pell cut reduces student grants
By Chris Siron
Kansan staff writer
Recent cuts in Pell grant financing could affect 3.3 million U.S. college student recipients, including KU students.
Phillip Cauthen, spokesman for post-secondary education in the U.S. Education Department, said $67 million was cut from the 1991 pell program in an effort to reduce federal budget deficits. He said a $4.8 billion program to help needy students pay college expenses.
Cauthen said that in 1989, 3.2 million students received Pell grants and that 3.3 million students expected to apply for grants in 1990.
Jerry Rogers, KU financial aid director, said that more than 3,000 KU students received Pell grants this year but that it was not yet possible to estimate the number of students affected by the Poll budget cuts.
He said that the eligibility requirements for Pell grants would be the same as last year and that the neediest students usually had to pay a lower income recipients usually beat the brunt of student-aid cuts.
"It's not a heavier percentage cut, unless you're one of them affected. It seems so remote, unless you're one of the students," Rogers said.
He said Pell cuts usually were compensated for with guaranteed student loans sponsored by the federal government.
Cauthen said the average cut in Pell grants was expected to be $39. The average payment for the 1990 school year was $1,482. The estimated average payment for 1991 is $1,443.
However, some previously qualified students may not receive any Pell money in 1991, he said. Students who received grants of less than $250 for 1990 expenses probably will not receive an award in 1991.
He said students who received grants in the $250 to $2,100 range were likely to see some cuts next year.
Cauthen said the neediest students, who received the maximum grant of £2,300, would not face cuts unless the number of requests for Pell grants was higher than expected.
"The volume is determined, and then the individual amounts are set as equitably as possible." Cauthen said. "Since the volume increases every year, it's possible demands could exceed our funding expectations. The greater the volume, the greater the cuts."
Cauthen said the Pell budget cuts were finalized by Congress and President Bush in appropriations bills for the 1990 fiscal year.
He said the cuts were made as part of compliance with the Gramm-Rudman Bill, which required the federal government to cut its spending each year to reduce budget deficits.
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