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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
- Tuesday, January 21, 1996
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Students search for parking
Daisy Hill lots often found full
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
It's late, cold and dark. Teresa Culpepper, Olathe freshman, drives around the lots on Daisy Hill looking for a place to park. After searching every lot, she gives up and parks across the bridge at the Lied Center.
Culpepper, a McColum Hall resident, now must walk across the bridge and past cars of people who had better luck in the nightly parking game.
"I paid about $60 to park near my dorm, and now I have to park at the Lied Center," she said.
The parking problem on Daisy Hill has many residents upset. But
Donna Hultine, assistant director of the parking department, said that the problem was not a lack of parking spaces but that residents were unwilling to walk long distances to their residence halls.
"I would encourage people to look in front of Templin Hall if they don't want to park at the Lied Center," she said.
Hultine said the parking department oversold parking spaces. Last year 1,751 permits were sold for 1,514 parking spaces in residence hall lots. Daisy Hill has 906 parking spaces. Hultine said it was impossible to tell how many permits were bought by Daisy Hill residents.
Crumbling parking garages and a lack of spaces at Jayhawker Towers forces some of its residents to park on Daisy Hill, adding to the problem, she said.
To make up for the parking problem, Hultine said that lights had
been added to the parking lots and sidewalks on Daisy Hill in the last few years to make residents feel safer when walking long distances at night.
But some residents still feel unsafe.
"The lighting is not too good. I don't feel too safe. If they don't provide more parking spaces for us, I at least think they could make it safe to walk to our dorms," said Kristen Abell, Overland Park sophomore and McCollum Hall resident.
Abell said that almost every time she tried to find a parking space, she was forced to park far away from McCollum Hall or at the center.
was trying to look for solutions. A few years ago, the spaces were narrowed to increase parking capacity, she said.
Hutline said the parking department was aware of the problem and
The best time to find a parking place is on Saturday night when everyone goes out, she said.
The department also has talked about implementing a diagonal parking plan. Under such a plan, driving lanes would be narrowed and only one-way traffic through the lots would be allowed. Parking spaces would be slanted, creating more spaces.
One Daisy Hill resident saw another possible solution.
"I know the grass is nice, but you could fit a lot of cars in those areas," said Aaron Cheney, Bucklin freshman and Ellsworth Hall resident.
Other residents just want the problem solved soon.
"Pretty much every time I try to find a space I have problems," Abell said. "For us to have to park at the Lied Center is ridiculous."
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Members of the Kansas City East Magnet Drill Team turn eyes right as they pass in front of the U.S. flag. The school was one of 1.3 participating in the 15th annual JROTC Jayhawk Invitational Drill Meet on Saturday in Robinson Center. The meet was the largest the KU ROTC program ever, drawing schools from northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri.
Alcohol policy cracks down on greek drinking
By Harumi Kogarimai
Kansan staff writer
The beginning of a semester is a time for parties. But with recent changes in the alcohol policy, KU sororities and fraternities may not be able to drink as many bottles of beer. At the end of October, the executive members of the Interfraternity
Council and the Panhellenic Association voted on amendments intended to make alcohol-related Greek parties safer.
Under the new policy, members 21 and older must purchase drinks individually from a cash bar served by catering companies at events co-sponsored by a KU fraternity and sorority. This is a change from the
"Members were taking advantage of the old policy. They will still purchase alcoholic beverages under the new policy, but it is not going to be as many," said Matthew Tessier, Greek programs alcohol and risk management educator.
pull-tab system, where members would pay $5 at the entrance and get unlimited alcohol.
In another sweeping change, the new policy allows only two chapters at each function. A function is a party co-sponsored by both a fraternity and a sorority. Executive members and delegates from each chapter judged that parties involving four chapters had more potential risk because of the increased number of people.
By Harumi Kogarimal
Kansan staff writer
Worker shortage raises paper use
A lack of student employees at the Ekdahl Dining Commons is requiring KU students to use paper products instead of the usual chinaware and silverware, and the cost to provide student meals is rising.
Last week alone, more than 1,300 students used paper plates, cups, plastic knives and forks at the cafeteria at least three times.
"Ihate it," said Charles Drucker, Chicago freshman. "I am paying money for three meals a day, and I think they are irresponsible for using paper products."
Barbara Quintero, assistant director for the department of student housing, said that paper products cost about $400 a day and that the cost could have been more than $1,200 for the first week of classes.
"The more paper products we use, the more they cost students, but we don't have enough number of student employees," Quintero said.
She said that about 30 students are employed by the cafeteria, but 80 students are needed to serve food and wash dishes.
"It has been hurting us. We usually don't have enough students at the beginning and the end of each semester, but now we never have enough," Quintero said. "There were many students who worked 20 hours a week several years ago, but they are willing to work less recently. We don't know why. Are they becoming richer, or is the school getting more difficult?"
Many students work just eight or nine hours a week but could work a maximum of 20 hours, Quintero said.
She said the difficulty of the job and low wages could be reasons
for the lack of interested students.
Pauleen Teoh, Johor, Malaysia, sophomore, said she quit her job in the cafeteria because she got tired of washing a large number of dishes.
"Iwas very tired after the work," Teeh said. "Sometimes there were not enough workers, and I had to wash more dishes."
Teoh also said she did not like to stay in one job for a long time. As an international student, she said she wanted to experience working with a cross-section of Americans, and after two semesters in the cafeteria, she wanted to move on to a new job.
Mei Lee, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, sophomore, agreed that her job often had been difficult, but she said she had enjoyed the full-time workers as well as the student employees.
"People were so nice," Lee said. "I miss them a lot. I was so sad when I left there."
Quintero said that the department of student housing had increased the percentage of fulltime workers as a result of the lack of students. Now, only 20 percent of the labor comes from students, as compared to 30 percent eight years ago.
Quintero said that the department had to pay more to employ full-time workers, but she thought it was more beneficial in the long run because such workers did not leave the job as often.
She said paper products were the only option the department had under the circumstances.
But now there are not even enough full-time employees at the cafeteria, Quintero said.
"We can either cut back the menu and the hours of service or use paper products," Quintero said. "We decided to use paper products for students."
Stephanie McDuf
Kansan staff writer
Police homepage serves, protects
In the fast-paced world of the information superhighway, it seems that almost everyone has a homepage, including the KU police.
The web page allows students to find out more about crimes reported at specific locations on campus and ask officers questions.
"I think it's a good idea, I just don't know how many people would use it," said Scott Watson, Emporia senior.
Watson also said that although he thought that a police web page would be helpful for students, he doubted that many knew about the web site.
"The students don't know about it.
"That's the problem," said Sgt. Chris Keary. "This is just another way to get information out to students so that they can better protect themselves."
One way that the site can help students do that is with its crime map, Keary said. This fairly new feature allows students to find out about crimes reported at a particular building or in a specific parking lot on campus.
A new feature of the site is called Ask a Cop. In this section, students can type questions anonymously. Within a couple of days, answers to the questions are posted online so that students can access the response.
The address for the KU police home page is: www.ukans.edu/~kucops/
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