University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 13, 1990
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SenEx spurns a new review of Parking Board's changes
Bv Pam Sollner
Kansan staff writer
The University Senate Executive Committee yesterday listened to the Parking Board's rationale for rule changes but refused to re-examine the changes they had already reviewed in November.
"I don't see the necessity to do it all over again," said Mike Schreiner, SenEx student representative.
Ray Moore, chairman of University Council and presiding officer of SenEx, said Council should be informed that the recommendation was being forwarded to the executive vice chancellor. Council does not need to review the rules again.
William Scott, SenEx chairman, said he would inform Council members of their right to contact the candidate and canciller individually on the issue.
Morris Faiman, chairman of the Parking Board, said the review procedures were changed last year to gather more input from various University groups.
"I think the system works very well, but I'm not sure of my role when it goes back to SenEx and Council again." Faiman said.
Scott said the process was time-consuming but important because parking concerned all University groups.
tops:
In November 1989, the Parking
Board approved rule-change proposals from its rules and budget subcommittees.
These changes were:
These changes:
■ to change eight meter parking
■ to move southwest corner of lot
91, behind the Kansas Union, to red
zone stalls. The meters will be moved
to lot 53, along Mississippi Street,
which is now a yellow zone.
- To tow vehicles without permits or parked in the wrong zone in lots 100 and 121 Alumni Place.
to convert meter stalls to a no parking/towaway zone in lot 129, along the east side of Learned Hall.
To extend blue permit parking only for faculty and staff from 5 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. in lot 41, along the west side of Learned Hall.
To extend faculty and staff parking only until 8:30 p.m. in lot 35, next to the Military Science building, and to open 7, next to Summerfield night.
To allow full-time staff to get a permit regardless of the number of class hours they are enrolled in.
In late November, the lengthy process for reviewing Parking Board decisions began when SenEx approved the changes.
On Dec. 7, Council approved all but two of the changes and proposed budget amendments to raise residence hall permits to $30 and to raise from $2 to $4 the parking during
basketball games in the Parking Facility.
In mid-December, Judith Ramley, executive vice chancellor, forwarded the Parking Board's recommendations and the Council's amendments to the Unclassified Professional Staff Association, the Classified Senate and the Student Executive Committee.
Classified Senate and UPSA informed Ramaley of their approval of the changes.
On Jan. 18, Parking Board reviewed responses from all University groups. The board retained its original proposals and agreed to amend a residence hall parking permit from $23 to $33.
This week the decision was forwarded to SenEx and Council for approval before going to the chancellor and the Board of Regents for finalization.
In other action, SenEx:
In order to meet the needs of the organization, Sent a draft of policies and procedures for monitoring and reporting scientific and scholarly misconduct to the task force on grievance procedures.
- Sent a draft of policies on racial harassment and grievance procedures to the University Senate Committee on Human Relations.
Residence hall governments to pay for equipment repairs, officials say
By Christine Reinolds
Kansan staff writer
KU residence hall presidents met last night to express their discontent about a recent housing decision requiring hall governments to pay for the maintenance of hall typewriters and computers.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said housing would not pay for typewriter and computer repairs because it had no control of who used the computers or how they were treated by residents.
"The disk could pick up viruses because students trade disks," Stoner said. A virus is a program that destroys other programs within a computer.
other programs within a computer. Stoner said that if hall governments were responsible for their own computers, students would take better care of them.
of their computers. Isen-hour, president of Hashinger Hall, said the computers were offered and advertised in the student housing contract by student housing, and therefore, it was housing's responsibility to pay for repairs.
"The weight is being thrown on hall government," Isenhour said. "They take a risk on anything they buy for the halls."
Isenhour said all the halls except Hashinger and Templin had paid for their own repairs until now. Hashinger is the only hall that did not buy the computers with hall government money.
Cotter Brown, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said Stoner told him that if the computers were moved to McCollum Hall and monitored 24 hours a day, then housing could control use and would pay for them.
Brown said that a central computer center in McColum would create a problem for those residents in Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin, Joseph R. Pearson and Oliver halls because of the distance between the residences.
The presidents plan to meet with Stoner to resolve the problem within the next two weeks.
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