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Tuesday, December 5, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
E. Joseph Zurga/KANSAN
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A student passes by the Christmas tree that stands in the rotunda of Strong Hall. The tree is on display each year In celebration of the holiday season.
Scarce parking in Lawrence
By Dave Wakefield
Kansan staff writer
Always in short supply, parking downtown becomes a scarcity during the peak-shopping days of Christmas, downtown merchants said.
Downtown merchants, employees cope in Christmas season
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And for employees downtown, finding parking spaces becomes more difficult than ever.
Marilyn Laws-Porter, an employee at Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood Inc., 647 Massachusetts St., said parking had been a problem for employees during the 18 years she had worked downtown.
"In some ways, it is better today," she said. "We have gotten a few four-hour meters behind the store and across the street (behind the store)."
But the long-term meters fill up early in the morning, leaving employees who start work late or who must run errands during the day in a fix, she said.
"It is truly a struggle each day," she said.
It is truly a struggle because usually require their employees to avoid certain lots, but enforcement is difficult, said Lawrence Mayor Bob Schumm, who owns Buffalo Bob's Smokehouse, 719 Massachusetts St.
"I have employees sign a statement that says they will not park in designated areas," he said.
Areas off-limits to employees are along Massachusetts Street and in the two-hour lots behind the stores, he said.
Kim Dycus, an employee at the Fields Store, 712 Massachusetts St. said there were two spaces behind the
store reserved for employees, but that they were usually full. Most employees park in the two-hour lot behind the store and move their cars every two hours or erase the chalk marks from their tires, she said.
Parking patrol officers use chalk marks to locate cars that have been parked more than two hours in restricted lots.
As has been done for the past few Christmas seasons,
merchants have paid the city $2,000 to hood meters
downtown. Parking will be free for shoppers from Dec. 6
to Dec. 28.
One reason offered by the association for the change was abuse of the hooded meters by employees and residents.
This year, the Downtown Lawrence Association had proposed not hooding the meters. Instead, the merchants would give shoppers dimes to pay the meters.
But downtown merchants said they did not think employee parking at the hooded meters was a problem.
Kathy McClung, manager at Maurice's, 708 Massachusetts St., said the hooded meters did not tempt employees because of the two-hour time limit.
Schumm said the city was trying to increase the available parking downtown.
"The city continues to use meter revenues to purchase land for new parking," he said.
He cited a new lot recently opened in the 800 block of New Hampshire as an example.
Soviet speaks of ending Cold War
By Bryan Swan Kansan staff writer
Soviet professor Robert Ivanov said that only the people of the superpowers, not their leaders, could bring an end to the Cold War and that the reunification of Germany would be the first important test of those governments' abilities to work together.
Ivanov, Soviet professor of history at the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in Moscow, said yesterday during a lecture in the Kansas Union that there was no viable alternative to Mikhail Gorbachev and his policies, only the possibility of a renewed dictatorship. Ivanov, a visiting professor, will return in January to the Soviet Union.
After 70 years of state economy, to just turn to a free economy is not so easy. Perestroika, even the best plan, will not give you billions and billions of rubles tomorrow.'
"After 70 years of state economy, to just turn to a free economy is not so easy," he said, referring to his countrymen's impatience with the pace of reform. "Perestroika, even the best plan, will not give you billions and billions of rubles tomorrow."
— Robert Ivanov Soviet professor
THE PHILZONE
Ivanoan said Gorbachev's plan to reduce state ownership of the economy from 85 percent to 30 percent would give people a great incentive to work and would not cause the kind of political instability being experienced by people in East Germany.
Norman Saul, professor of history, said Ivanov had been to Kansas several times before he came to KU to teach. He said Ivanov's latest book, about organized crime, would be out soon. The book will compare the rise of organized crime activity tied to illegal distribution of alcohol
in the Soviet Union with the history of organized crime activities in the United States during Prohibition.
"Not everything depends on your country or my country," he said. "It also depends on the German people. In a week there will probably be an election, and they might put forward the question of reunification of the country."
after East German Communist leader Egon Krenz and his entire government resigned Sunday. They were replaced with a 25-member panel of reformers.
Ivanov said that a reunified, economically powerful Germany would not be allowed to belong to either the Warsaw Pact or NATO but that great powers had historically never been neutral.
Ivanov said one of the reasons Mikhail Gorbachev had proposed a second Helsinki Security Conference during the recent Malta Summit was because of Soviet concerns about a reunified Germany.
The subject of German reunification received renewed emphasis
"East Germany is not as important to the Warsaw Pact as West Germany is to NATO," he said. "West Germany has three times as much territory, has 60 million people to East Germany's 16 million and is more powerful from an industrial point of view."
Ivanov, who fought in World War II, said he had mixed feelings about German reunification. He said his brother and almost all of his friends from school were killed in the war, although he realized that the people in today's Germans were not responsible for the deaths.
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