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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 3, 1989
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Believe it or not, more parking coming
Board hopes to alleviate hassles by changing zones
by Thom Clark Kansan staff writer
The parking board last night proposed several changes for inclusion in its final report to the University Senate Executive Committee on Feb. 16.
John Schott, assistant director of institutional research and member of the board, said changing the lot's color designation would relieve the lot jamming in the lot for red permit markers.
The board decided to change 25 yellow spaces to red in lot 50, behind Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Yellow permits are reserved for student parking. These allow students whose age plus years of service equal at least 25.
The board also voted to remove parking meters from lot 91, north of the Spencer Museum of Art, to accommodate the addition of 57 red buildings and blue spaces to the southeast aperture of the lot.
The board also recommended that retiring faculty be given the option to purchase a blue parking permit for $35 a year or receive a red parking permit for $100 a year. The grandfather clause on the recommendation that
would allow all faculty retiring before July 1 to be included in the current policy.
The current policy provides all retiring faculty the option to request a blue parking permit at no charge.
Morris Faiman, professor of pharmacology and toxicology and chairman of the board, stood behind the board's record of disagreeing with the board's reasoning at the time.
the board's reasoning about it.
"The faculty are part of a long established tradition at the University," Faiman said. "I think we have done the wrong thing."
The board also voted to include in their report that the chancellor, executive vice chancellor and three university reserves have the option to charge a 24-hour reserved parking spaces for $200.
The board also recommended that the $25 and $30 fees be increased to $50 and $60. The fines are for several offenses: blocking a designated fire lane or fire hydrant, illegally parking in a space designated for the handicapped, or blocking a drive, roadway or legally parked vehicle.
The board's report will be forwarded to SenEx on Feb. 16 and then University Council on Feb. 23
About half of the spaces in the parking garage under construction north of Allen Field House will be allocated to faculty, staff and students, a parking board member said last night.
Spaces behind field house to be allocated by permits
have to buy a garage permit, and you must purchase a garage permit," Level said.
The price of the 376 garage permits has not been determined. Level said.
by a Kansan reporter
The $5.3 million garage should be finished this summer, said Jim Mim, campus director of the library.
Kurt Level, Topeka senior and student member of the parking board, said the remainder of the 776-stall structure would be allocated for visitor parking. Visitors will be charged 30 cents
The board's space allocation proposal must pass the University Senate Executive Committee, University Council, Chancellor Gene A. Budig and the Board of Regents.
For student (faculty and staff) parking you
Battling below-zero temperatures, workmen from Dahlstrom & Ferrell Construction Co. Inc., of Topeka, work on the new parking garage north of Allen Field House. The parking board last night recommended a plan for allocation of the garage's 776 spaces.
Summer students might study in England, Italy
The office of study abroad has added two summer programs to its list of offerings.
Mary Elizabeth Debicki, director of study abroad, said that one of the additions was an intensive 10-day program in Bath, England, for students in art and design.
by Kathy Walsh
Kansan staff writer
Tom Allen, Hallmark professor of design, said the program would focus on photography, illustration, graphic design and print-making. He said it would feature guest speakers of international stature.
Allen said the program was not designed for beginners.
"This is a very intensive kind of experience." he said.
Matthew Gaynor, assistant professor of design, will accompany the students on the course.
The second addition to the study abroad summer institute is in Snappocchia, Italy.
Debeck said the four-week program, open to everyone, would focus on the excavation of
Al Johnson, director of the Museum of
Anthropology, said the excavation of the state-owned castle would be supervised by Mark Baumler and his wife. Ellen Baumer works for the Montana State Historic Preservation Office and has a doctorate degree in anthropology.
Johnson said the program was a result of a small-scale excavation last year that proved successful.
Johnson said Harris Stone, associate professor of architecture and urban design, helped to develop the program.
last seven years as director of summer architecture programs and has developed relations with Count Ferdinand Ciniello, owner of the castle to be excavated.
Stone has been going to Spannochia for the
Although the castle is owned by the Italian government, Stone said Cinelli had the archeological rights.
The program's cost to students is $1,300, including room and board, tuition and administrative fees. Transportation costs are not included. Students will live in a restored medieval castle.
KU Soviet program declares pre-crisis
by Michele Logan Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
"The administration has been resting on its bueurls as far as getting more funds to help on the ground."
Roy Laird, professor of Soviet and East European Studies, said the program was in a pre-crisis state and would deteriorate unless the University and the state of Kansas recognized the danger and increased monetary support.
Despite regaining full federal funding from the U.S. Department of Education, KU's Soviet and East European Studies program has become in financial danger within the next three years.
The additional income would be used to hire three to six new faculty members, Fletcher said. An expanded faculty is necessary to accommodate increased enrollment in the program and to account for attrition of qualified staff.
In about 1975, Roger Kanet left the program to teach at the University of Arizona. Kanet was professor of Soviet Foreign Affairs.
Instead of replacing Kanet with another Soviet foreign affairs specialist, a professor of public administration was moved into the position much to his dismay, Laird said.
Despite the lack of faculty, courses have become increasingly popular. Enrollment has more than doubled in the last few years, he said.
Laird attributed the increased enrollment to "student awareness of the importance of the Soviet Union as a superpower in an interdependent world and a recognition of the quality of the program despite lack of (bunds)."
Several years ago, department faculty members were wondering whether federal funding would be restored.
Every three years, the U.S. Department of Education holds a national competition to determine which programs will be funded. The winners are divided into each of the world areas they teach.
In 1985 the program lost part of the competition, and the national resource center fund was revoked.
In the 1988 competition, KU's program was ranked ninth nationwide, allowing full reuni-
Laird said that if KU's lack of support continued, the program would not be able to develop and could lose its present ranking in the 1991 national competition.
Eudora man offers K-10 parkway idea
Task force plans to review design proposal by March 9
by Steven Wolcott Kansan staff writer
A Eudora resident's inspiration might save some perspiration in the development of a parkway that will connect downtown Lawrence to Kansas Highway 10 by way of East Seventh Street.
Kurt von Achen, Rt. 2 Eudora,
presented his idea Tuesday at
a meeting of the Eastern Parkway
Task Force.
The task force considered a design proposal by the Lawrence Motor Carriers Association to examine a consultant's traffic volume project.
tions for the parkway.
William Penny, a member of the task force and the motor carriers association, said that the task force had not met for nine months. He explained how the Riverfront Mall proposal would affect Seventh Street.
Task force members from the motor carriers association and from the East Lawrence Improvement District on the design for part of the parkway.
The Eastern Parkway task force has not met for nine months because members were waiting to see how the Riverfront Mall proposal would affect Seventh Street.
nectic street: two westbound lanes, one eastbound lane and a left turn lane.
Richard Kershenbaum, task force and improvement association member, said that the improvement association had voted to compromise with the parkway as long as the width of the road did not exceed 38 feet.
"The LMCA plan had the road near Rhode Island Street wider than 38 feet," Kersenbaum said. "This would not allow for adequate green space between the road and the houses."
"What we want is a four-lane road." Penny said.
von Achen's idea reconciles the group's differences.
von Achen's suggestion allows five lanes of traffic in the block between Rhode Island and New Hampshire. The road is a four-lane eastbound lanes and a left turn lane.
That design retains the motor carriers association's request for two
His plan calls for the parkway to be four feet narrower on the south side next to houses between Connecticut and Rhode Island streets, then widened again on the north side as it goes past New York Street.
This section of East Seventh Street, between New Hampshire and New York streets, has been proposed to be widened to four lanes; two westbound lanes, one eastbound lane, and a lefthand turn lane. The planned widening of the street will help relieve the traffic flow around downtown Lawrence
westbound lanes on Seventh Street near New Hampshire Street. Nearments of tom Achen's plan are
being prepared and will be given to task force members before their next meeting on March 9.
Blueprints of von Achen's plan are
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