UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 12, 1997
Parking changes discussed
Parking board examines options
By Kevin Bates
Kansan staff writer
Parking at the University of Kansas is being pushed to the max, and the problem is not going away. But some don't see it that way.
During yesterday's KU Parking board of directors meeting, Morris Faiman, board member and professor of pharmacology, said he didn't see the University as having a parking problem now or in the future.
"We're making a mountain out of a molehill. Falman said. "The numbers of overself for students is only 10 to 12 percent. That's not
a lot. The big overset is in the blue — about 24 percent."
Faiman said congestion was more a problem of when students arrived on campus, instead of their numbers.
"We're beating a dead horse," Faiman said. "Some students just don't want to walk."
Yet Tom Waechter, design and construction management planning coordinator, told the board that he saw the trend moving toward a higher density of people and automobiles on campus.
"I don't know if we can support the increased movement in the core of the campus," he said.
Waechter presented a proposal for improvements in parking, campus access and safety along Jayhawk Boulevard. The major changes Waechter outlined included creating about 2,000 new spaces in existing lots on campus
by restriping or expanding lots.
The proposal also included a shuttle system to move people from the two main lots, behind Robinson Center and near Memorial Stadium, to the center of campus.
Additionally, the proposal calls for gates at the entrances of many of the blue lots near the center of campus to guarantee faculty and staff parking spaces.
The most expensive part of the proposal, a multi-level parking garage, would be located north of the Kansas Union, costing more than $10 million. The other proposed improvements would cost more than $1 million.
Parking permits would inevitably cost more to finance the proposal, Waechter said. Gated lot permits for faculty would cost $360, and an evening permit would cost $100, but
student permits could range from $60 to $100.
That's too much to pay on top of the permit students already purchase, said Andy Mathews, Greenwood, Ind., freshman.
He said that the current system of distributing blue permits, based on age and years of service, was one the University should not abandon.
"The solution is not to gate the lots and raise the prices to $360," Collins said.
Joe Collins, board member and herpetologist at the natural history museum, said the existing system was the most effective one the University has had. He said he was vehemently opposed to price increases to pay for gated lots.
"We're assuming that the administration has another plan for the gated lots," Collins said. "I'll fight that tooth and nail while I'm here."
Templin renovations attracting interest
Residence hall tours provide sneak preview
By Harumi Kogarimal
Kansan staff writer
A sneak preview of Templin residence hall has left many students eager to take up residence in the renovated living quarters.
Since the beginning of the spring semester, more than seven groups of students have requested to see Templin, said Kenneth Stoner, director of the housing department.
"In fact, since the demolition in summer, some people have taken tours to Templin, but there were few involving students last year," Stoner said. "In the past couple of weeks, many students have requested tours."
Among the students involved in the tours were resident assistants and students of the Experience Excellence in Ellsworth program, Stoner said. Resident assistants came to see Templin during their training session on Jan. 10.
Residents from Elsworth Hall joined four tours in the past few weeks, said Lee Gholson, LaCrosse, Wyo., freshman, who attended two of them.
The number of student tours has increased recently because now they can see three styles of rooms on the seventh floor that had been built at the end of last year, Stoner said.
Walls on the seventh floor are painted and students can see the basic structure of each room.
The three styles of rooms include a regular two-person suite, a larger two-person suite and a four-person
suite. The regular two-person suite is 1.5 times larger than the old rooms in Templin, the large two-person suite is twice as large, and the four-person suite is three times larger, said Phil Garito, associate director of the housing department.
Each room includes one or two private bedrooms, one or two bathrooms, one living room, and large, walk-in closet.
"It is a bit of a move-up from Ellsworth," said Keith Hagen, Oklahoma City freshman. "I think Templin is very beautiful. The windows are especially nice."
Students on the tour were fascinated by the wide, slide windows and individual bathrooms.
For Gholison, the windows weren't the biggest selling point.
"I can't tell you how nice it is to have individual bathrooms," he said. "It is worth paying $4,700 a
year."
But Chris Pettigrew, Shawnee freshman, said he felt the rooms were too small compared to Ellsworth.
"It is great if two students can use a four-person suite," Pettigrew said. "Otherwise, I think the rooms are too small."
The renovations, which began last year, are on schedule and will be finished by August. Garito said.
Plumbing and heating systems are already installed on the top five floors.
In spite of growing interest in Templin, Stoner said he does not know if students will rush to live there.
it is really early to tell if we will have more applications," said Stoner. "I don't know if it is going to be difficult to get a room in Templin."
Templin Hall to become coed in the fall
Last all-male residence hall will open its suites to women
By Harumi Kogarimal
Kansan staff writer
Templin Hall is becoming coed, eliminating the only all-male residence hall on the University of Kansas campus.
When Templin Hall reopens in fall 1997, it will accommodate 290 residents, and men and women will be separated either by floor or wing, according to the Student Housing Department.
Randy Timm, the department's assistant director, said that the department officials decided to make Templin Hall coed partly because the retention rate was lower in Templin than in coed residence halls.
"People may think that Templin was full,
but when we closed Templin, only a half to less than half was occupied," Timm said. "There was a lot of space in that building."
Four female wings in McCollum Hall were changed to male wings after Templin Hall was closed in May 1996. Those rooms were enough to accommodate former Templin residents, Timm said. The 40 female residents whose rooms were taken by the switch were moved to Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall.
Timm said that the housing department consulted with the Association of University Residence Halls before reaching the final decision to make Templin coed.
In addition to the low retention rate, Greenwood said that excluding female students
Rich Greenwood, vice president of AURH, said 40 to 70-residence hall students and AURH executives decided that Templin Hall should be coed at the AURH general assembly last April.
from Templin was unfair because they might want to live in suites, and also because Templin puts emphasis on educational activities.
"Templin is going to be educational-based building, and we thought it should be open to everybody." Greenwood said.
Andreas Andreou, Nicosia, Cyprus, graduate student, said that most former Templein residents who liked the hall's quiet atmosphere moved to quiet floors in McCollum Hall.
"There were many graduate students, and we were a very quiet hall," said Coates. "There were not as many parties. Freshmen may not like it."
Matt Coates, Mt. Sunflower senior and former Templin Hall resident, said he understood why the hall was not as popular among students.
"I don't have a problem with the fact that Templin is becoming coed," Andreou said. "Tenth floor in McCollum Hall is also quiet."
Final Four trip includes lottery for students
By Jamie Knodel
Kansan Correspondent
Some KU students are hoping that getting a pair of tickets to the NCAA basketball tournament will provide them with a destination of Indianapolis for the Final Four.
Fans hoping to follow the Jayhawks to a national title must begin their journey by applying for a ticket lottery at the Allen Field House Ticket Office.
Tickets are available to both the Big 12 Conference Tournament and the NCAA Tournament. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Friday.
Students do not win tickets in the lottery — they win the chance to purchase tickets.
If students do not get tickets for the Big 12 Tournament, their names will remain in the lottery and they will have a chance to win ticket purchasing rights for the NCAA Tournament games.
Each game the Jayhawks play in the post season will offer more tickets for students, and students who left their names in the lottery still will have a chance to get tickets. For example, if someone does not get tickets to the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament, they still are eligible to get tickets to the third and fourth rounds when more tickets become available.
The student price for Big 12 Tournament tickets is $180. This fee includes admission to all rounds of the event, which is from March 6 to March 9.
the location of the Jayhawks' first- and second-round sites of the NCAA Tournament will not be announced until March 9.
Tickets for the preliminary rounds from March 13 to March 16 cost $120.
Tickets for the regional finals, from March 20 to March 23, will cost fans $60 to $90 depending on the game site.
The location of the qualifying rounds are still a mystery, but students who plan to travel to Indianapolis are urged to reserve hotel accommodations soon.
"There are still some rooms available, but they are filling up quickly," said Tricia Boeken, a travel agent with Destinations Unlimited, 7 W.11th St.
Walt Houk, a travel agent with Travellers Inc., 831 Massachusetts St. urged students to plan to drive to Indianapolis.
Because the Jayhawks are not guaranteed a position in the Final Four, purchasing nonrefundable plane tickets would not be a good idea, Houk said.
For die-hard basketball fans, there is one way to guarantee tickets to the game regardless of which teams make it. There are agencies that make travel packages strictly for sporting events. However, Boeken warned that these high-quality trips could be expensive.
But some KU students are content to stay in Lawrence to take in the March Madness.
"I want to be in Lawrence if they win it all," said Jason Roth, Shawnee senior. "The stories from the '88 championship sound too good to miss."
Tournament Tickets
Student tickets for the post season tournaments are available through a lottery at Allen Field House. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Friday.
Big 12 Tournament tickets cost $180. The fee includes admission to all rounds of the event, which is from March 6 to March 9.
If students win the chance to purchase tickets for the first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament, the cost is $120 for the games. This includes admission to 24 total games.
■ Tickets to the regional finals, from March 20 to March 23, will cost fans $60 to $90 depending on the game site.
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Video lottery, slot machines could hit Kansas racetracks
TOPEKA — A coalition of anti-gambling groups accused a pari-mutual racing organization yesterday of deception about a bill to permit lottery games at the state's racetracks.
The Associated Press
Glenn Thompson, coordinator for Kansas Coalition Against Gambling
The bill would allow racetracks to have video lottery machines but would specifically outlaw slot machines, supporters say.
Or would it?
If the video gambling machine is hooked to a centralized computer elsewhere on the premises, then it would be legal, Thompson said. Such machines would be allowed in bars, convenience and grocery stores, he said.
Expansion, said it actually would allow slot machines — just not those that have internal computers.
Lobbyists for the gambling industry said they would not introduce legislation this session to legalize slot machines because of legislative resistance.
"We're trying to do what is politically real here," said Doug Lawrence, a former House member from Burlington who is lobbyist for a new group, Kansas for Racetracks, Agriculture, Charities and Employment.
Lawrence said the Kansas Lottery already could operate games envisioned in the bill but did not.
"It allows new games at the racetrack," Lawrence said. "It's more along the lines of Club Keno. Are we expanding something that we
Kansas has three major racetracks. The Woodlands, a park with separate horse and dog tracks in Kansas City, Kan., and Camptown Greyhound Park in Frontenac have gone into bankruptcy. Wichita Greyhound Park has reported declining attendance.
Slot machines already are available at the two Indian casinos now operating in northeast Kansas, and in Kansas City, Mo., riverboats' slot machines are a major draw.
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