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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Parking proposal inches closer
Violators beware: Ticket prices could increase
By Sarah Wiese
Kansan staff writer
People who park at the University of Kansas could be paying more for violations if a parking board's rule changes and a budget proposal are approved by six decision-making entities.
The proposal now is a third of the way there.
The parking board approved it last Wednesday, and the University Senate Executive Committee approved it unanimously yesterday.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said she wasn't surprised by SenEx's quick decision.
"I think everything we asked for was really very reasonable," she said.
from $50 to $100, mainly to deter a growing number of violators, Hultine said. The number of offenders
As part of the proposal, late fees for tickets would be eliminated, but ticket prices in each category would
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increase by the amount of what the late fee had been. For example, parking in the wrong color zone, which used to be a $10 ticket, would cost $15.
Hultine said that the increase wouldn't be much of a change for most people. About 70 percent of people getting meter tickets and about 55 percent of people getting tickets in all other categories were already paying the late fee anyway, she said. Another rules change would increase the fine for illegally parking in a handicapped parking spot
Possible parking changes
What has happened?
A parking board proposal could make parking tickets more expensive.
What is ahead?
The proposal has passed through two of the six decision-making bodies necessary to make the proposal a reality.
What does it mean?
What does it mean?
The late fee for ticket payback would be eliminated, but the overall ticket prices would increase.
jumped from 209 in fiscal year 1993 to 416 in fiscal year 1995.
On the budget side, changes in University housing parking permit prices would increase from $35 to $50. The money would be used to repair residence hall parking lots, install and repair lighting systems and offset the future demolition cost of the Jayhawk Towers parking garages.
Ward Cook, Mission Hills sophomore and parking board vice chairman, said that residence hall students he had talked to were willing
to pay a little more to improve the situation on Daisy Hill.
"Students are going to see immediate action, and that's what they have been desperately wanting," Cook said.
Wednesday, November 29, 1995
Don Kearns, director of parking, said that if the proposal got final approval, improvements to Ellsworth Hall's parking lot could begin as soon as July.
Events parking fees also would increase under the proposal. Football parking would increase from $3 to $5. Basketball parking would jump from $2 to $5. Cook said he thought the increases were warranted.
"We felt it was only fair that the patrons pay for the cleanup and maintenance of the lot." Cook said.
The next stop for the proposal is University Council tomorrow afternoon.
The changes will go into effect next fall if the Board of Regents gives the sixth and final approval to the proposal.
Visions of sugar plums in his head
shaun Stoker, Olathe freshman, enjoys a quick nap in the Kansas Union before class.
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Panel helps Star raise children
KU professors and Kansas City locals helped pick values
By Novelda Sommers
Kansan staff writer
A psychiatrist, a Baptist, a rabbi and some professors — sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.
But it's not. It describes part of a 13-member panel the Kansas City Star assembled last year to determine the values that the panelists deemed important to instill in children. Edward Canda, associate professor of social welfare and Robert Minor, professor of religious studies, were on the panel.
The panelists' assignment was to
brainstorm a list of 12 values that would be highlighted in the Star each month for the Star's Raising Kansas City project. The project began in December 1994 and will end this month.
The panelists, who were not paid, met twice to determine the values for the project. Members were chosen by staff members at the Star and ranged from the conservative right to left wing liberals.
Minor said that although the group was diverse, choosing the children's values was relatively easy.
Some of the values were the subject of much discussion before they made the list. Minor and Canda said putting "faith" on the list was not
"It never became a fight," Minor said. "It was almost too easy."
easy.
"Faith could mean many different things to many different people," Canda said. "Maybe some people wouldn't be comfortable with it."
one newspaper for preaching, but that the general response had been good. The project has a mailing list of about 5,000 people who have requested supplementary materials.
He said the group also determined other values to be important. For example, a person with compassion also would be honest and have integrity.
He said the staff was prepared to receive critical letters and phone calls from angry readers. A few letters and phone calls came, but not as many as Weaver expected.
Doug Weaver, assistant managing editor for business at the Star, and coordinating editor for the project, said that some people had criticized
Weaver said that the reason for having a panel of experts determine values instead of newspaper staff was to eliminate the chance that the public might perceive the project as the Star trying to impress its values on the public.
"Whether we have affected any change, I don't know how you could measure that." Weaver said.
"How do you get people with diverse spiritual perspectives to come to a consensus?" he said. "You don't get many opportunities to have people from different spiritual paths find mutual understanding and common ground."
But the project met its objective, he said.
Canda said the diversity of the group made the project enjoyable.
"We wanted to get some sort of discussion going," he said.
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