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The lied and Black. Wednesday, April I, 197:1
PHIL KENT
Parking solution
Anyone who tries to drive to
class between 9 a m and 2 p.m.
is aware that there is a
substantial parking problem on
this campus. In fact, probably
even people who don’t drive to
class during these peak hours
know about the parking problem,
since if has been a favorite topic
of discussion and complaint
around here for some time.
And as long as the majority of
students try to schedule their
classes during these hours, the
problem will continue, according
to Traffic Safety Director
Marvin Van Vleck. “What people
don’t realize is that we’ve got
20,000 cars and only 10,000
parking spaces on campus,” he
said. “Until somebody does
something about scheduling,
there’s nothing we can do.”
Things are so bad that there’s
really even little the traffic
safety department can do about
cars improperly parked within
lots, which often reduce traffic
flow to only one lane around the
lot and make parking even more
difficult. The campus police
generally don’t even ticket
improperly parked cars unless
they are either blocking someone
in or are in the wrong zone, Van
Vleck said. “The situation (with
improperly parked cars in
overcrowed lots) is just as bad in
all the lots — we can’t send a
B-zone car to X-zone just
because they’d have to park
improperly in B-zone, since X-zo
is just as full in the early
morning hours,” he added.
When the lots aren’t terrifical
ly overcrowded, he said, people
don’t park improperly anyway.
All of which amounts to a
large-scale problem for people
whose major interest is just to
get into a lot somewhere and
park so they can get to class on
time. Building new lots or adding
extra decks to existing ones will
take time and money, besides
involving further destruction of
the natural beauty around
campus
A solution is needed now, and
we believe Coalition has come up
with a good one. They have
proposed creation of a special
zone, preferably in one of the
central parking lots, for car-pool
cars. There would be a special
sticker for car-pool cars, cars
that bring three or more persons
to campus each day, and they
would be allotted preferential
parking spaces, as an incentive
to students not to drive in to
campus alone.
Coalition is also supporting
efforts to set up a bus system for
Athens and to expand the bus
service on campus, both of which
are also good ideas and which
would if implemented help lessen
the traffic problems by giving
some students an alternative to
driving to class. We support
these efforts, too, but we see the
car-pool program as particularly
valuable because it could be
brought into effect immediately
and at no cost, if students would
just decide that’s what they want
to do.
Driving in car pools is a
sensible and valuable idea. If
students would begin riding to
campus together instead of each
in his own individual car, the
number of cars on campus would
be reduced (obviously). If we
had fewer cars, the existing
parking lots would come closer
to accomodating all of them. The
traffic situation on and around
campus would improve, with
fewer cars on the road. This
could conceivably improve the
functioning of the campus bus
system, since it would hopefully
lessen the problem of the buses
getting caught in the traffic
around the library and Park Hall
between classes.
Not to mention that bringing in
fewer cars would lessen the air
pollution resulting from exhaust
emissions, or the noise pollution
from all the traffic. We might
even do our bit to alleviate the
energy crisis by using less gas to
transport the same number of
people to campus — the
possibilities are downright limit
less.
All this program needs to
succeed is the cooperation of the
student body. It could even work
if for some reason the creation of
a separate zone or parking lot
for car-pool drivers were im
practical. Just think for a
minute, if you live in an
apartment complex, or a frater
nity or sorority house, or even a
student-dominated neighborhood,
how many of your neighbors
leave for campus at the same
time you do each morning. Think
how many fewer cars there
would be if you got together with
them and only took one or two
cars instead of one for each
person.
If you live in a dorm, think
about how much easier it might
be for you to get a parking
sticker that would let you park
near your dorm if there weren’t
all this pressure to accomodate
thousands of commuter cars
each morning.
And faculty members and
administrators, this goes for you,
too — especially for you, since so
many of you have very similar
hours, and live as neighbors in
the various subdivisions around
town. If you drove in car pools
the competition for faculty
spaces near the class buildings
might not be so tough, and
wouldn’t that be nice?
Obviously this is going to take
some adjustment. It will involve
some accomodation to other
people — maybe even an hour or
two in the Bulldog room or the
library, or just sitting around
outside waiting for the other
folks you ride with to get ready
to go. But that’s not really so
bad now. is it? It might give you
a chance to get more involved in
the campus and the things going
on here that you miss by just
driving in to class and rushing
back out again.
And it certainly would be
better than having your schedule
assigned on a quota system
according to which periods had
available parking spaces.
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NSA dominated by leftists
Coalition bosses never stop pushing for
their latest "hip" cause, and if one gets
stalled, it is pushed even more
vigorously. Upon reading the Coalition
platform, I saw the same old promise;
"Coalition strongly
endorses the affilia
tion of the SGA with
the National Student
Association..." Last
year's Coalition pre
sidential hopeful had
tried to sell NSA
(among other
things) — and fail- __ ,
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thrust of the Coalition platform deserves
a column in itself, the general outlook of
the Coalition campaign can be focused on
by examining their love for the
controversial National Student Associa
tion.
The NSA. formed in 1947 as a student
servicing group and as “a voice for
American students," has been constantly
in the news with its controversial annual
conventions and lobbying efforts. Stu
dents ranging the political spectrum from
liberal to conservative have increasingly
been levelling sharp criticisms at the
NSA. The University of Georgia,
originally a member of the NSA,
withdrew five years ago because NSA
consistantly refused to recognize any
student viewpoints other than left-wing
opinions. (Oh yes, NSA does not have
individual members — the whole school
is a member by virtue of the SGA paying
for membership acceptance.)
Political ideologies and opinions are
individualistic endeavors and no one
group has the right to speak for any
group of students with diverse view
points. This is why groups like the Young
Democrats, YAF, Young Republicans,
and the SDS exist. But groups such as
NSA. supposedly designed to represent
students in their capacity as students,
misrepresent and ignore a large part ot
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their constituency when they are
controlled by a dominant group.
To underline the radical domination of
NSA, let’s take a look at some of its
resolutions and statements of various
leaders In September, 1971, syndicated
columnist Ralph de Toledano reported
that “a group of radical leaders,"
including NSA president David Ifshin,
met to initiate "a national campaign built
around the demand that by July 4, 1976,
all of the prisoners in all U.S. prisons be
released and the prisons abolished."
If that seemed “tame," consider the
statements of Mark Wefers, official NSA
delegate who went to Hanoi to initiate a
so-called "People's Peace Treaty.”
Wefes declared over Radio Hanoi in
December, 1971. that U.S. POWs in North
Vietnam were "pirates and murderers."
To top it off, get a load of the NSA
"speaker's bureau" which is available to
member schools. It includes convicted
felon and one of the "Chicago 7," David
Dellinger. Communist Angela Davis,
SDS-er Carl Davidson, and Dr. Benjamin
Spock. among others. Surely just the
group which encourages all points of
view on a campus.
The main way that NSA dupes
"moderate" student government associa
tions into joining is with varied promises
of "Benefits" and "services." Last year,
Coalition's David Alonson tried to claim
great benefits from NSA with regard to
travel and job placements. The truth is,
though, that students can fly for half fare
on seven major airlines — without NSA.
Student discount rates on magazines and
records can be easily obtained from
Records Unlimited. Inc. and Educational
Services, Inc. — without NSA. Student
tours and travel can be worked through
Student Travel, Inc. of New York City.
Who needs NSA"benefits?"
While moderates and independents
have been dissatisfied with NSA, Greeks
have been viciously attacked in recent
years as a prime target. The 1965 NSA
convention even went so far as to
demand Federal supervision of fraterni
ties and sororities. At that time, Richard
R Fletcher, executive secretary of the
Sigma Nu fraternity, staled that "we
have long regarded NSA as an enemy of
fraternities." More recently, Julia Fuqua
Ober. past national president of Kappa
Delta, said: "NSA appears constantly to
agitate for interference in the affairs of
other student organizations. This has
been particularly true with regard to
American fraternities and sororities,
whose freedom of membership selection
has been constantly under attack by
NSA."
Coalition’s Steve Patrick and his
cohorts either 1) know the true nature of
NSA and are in favor of it, or 2) they
have been duped by NSA propaganda
auHUSias'
Coalition speaks to South Campus'
TO THE EDITOR:
The attached Coalition paper is provide
in response to charges by PSA’s Bobby
Tankersley against Coalition candidates
and platform
We also wish to take this opportunity to
register our strongest objections to
so-called "endorsements" from groups
who are unwilling to permit both sides of
students issues to be heard. A sense of
decency and fair play would dictate that
at least such groups allow some
representation from opposing candidates
before they blindly endorse one party or
another.
"Coalition has repeatedly failed to meet
the needs of the South Campus
community."
Bobby Tankersley
PSA Candidate
That statement was made on March
28th before several AG Hill student clubs
by PSA's executive vice-presidential
candidate. Bobby Tankersley. The
following night. Tankersley appeared
before the Ag Hill Council, of which he is
president, and obtained the Ag Hill
Council's endorsement of PSA party At
none of these meetings were Coalition's
South Campus senatorial candidates
invited, nor wer Steve Patrick. David
Bell, or Susan Fansler — Coalition's
executive candidates — asked to appear
So. to present a balanced view and to set
the record straight as to what has
actually been done for South Campus
students. Coalition makes the following
points:
The day care center might never have
become a reality if not for the constant
efforts of Steve Patrick, who guided it
through its formative stages and assured
funding by the Senate Patrick's efforts
to expand the services of the center w ere
blocked by last year's Action Union
Senate, which voted to cut the day care
center allocation Voting against the day
care center were Bobby Tankersley and
Danny Hughes, both members of Action
Union party mow called PSA).
The proposal to provide a minimum of
two Senate seats for smaller schools —
for which Bobby Tankersley claims
credit — was actually initiated by
Coalition Senators David Alonso and
Sieve Letzsch It was jointly introduced
by Letzsch and Tankersley and it passed
with the strong support of Coalition
senators
Coalition was the first campus political
party to propose expanded health
services for wives and children of
students — a definite benefit for the
many married students on South
Campus Now. PSA has picked up that
proposal and included it in their
platform Yet, during the year that their
party was in control of Student
Government, Action Union senators
Danny Hughes and Bobby Tankersley did
nothing to help make dependent health
services a reality.
Coalition was the first campus political
party to call for changes in the payment
of out-of-state tuition, which penalizes
students who come from other states,
become Georgia residents for all intents
and purposes, and enroll in the
University of Georgia This out-of-state
tuition payment is particularly burden
some to the many agriculture and
forestry students who come here because
of the educational quality of those
schools Last year, Coalition pledged to
take the issue to court, if necessary.
Currently, a case is being decided which
may invalidate the out-of-state tuition
requirement. If not, Coalition will
continue to work through other channels
to make the residency requirements for
in-state tuition the same as residency
requirements for voting.
Coalition will work for expanded
student facilities, including construction
of a new multi-purpose auditorium,
renovation of Memorial Hall, and
placement of additional snack bars,
meeting rooms, and recreational facili
ties on South Campus We will also work
to lift the restriction on the sale of
alcoholic beverages on campus, to
provide a valuable source of revenue to
help finance such facilities
Last year. Coalition pledged to seek
legislation to provide tuition assistance to
campus veterans. Through the efforts of
Coalition members, such legislation was
introduced in the Georgia General
Assembly The Action Union — controlled
Sluden Government failed to provide the
kind of support needed to assure passage
of the bill, and it failed in the final days
of the legislative session This year, the
full force of Student Government will be
marshalled for this needed legislation.
Coalition still advocates a minimum
decent living wage of $2 50 per hour for
all University employes, including
students This would assist not only the
many students who must work to stay in
school, but would help married students
whose wives are employed by the
University.
Coalition is the only campus political
group expressing concern for the
environment, and specifically advocating
University-wide waste disposal and
recvcling programs We will push for a
commitment from the University to
purchase only recycled paper (one ton of
recycled paper saves 17 trees), thus
setting a standard for the state in sound
ecological practices
It is clear from the record that
Coalition has initiated sound, reasonable
proposals to improve University life for
all students - including South Campus
students Unlike some other groups and
individuals, we refuse to deal in
allegations designed to discredit the
constructive efforts of concerned students
who want to see improvements in every
area of the University community.
Attempts to divide students into "North
Campus" and "South Campus" factions
simply hinder progressive student
efforts, and Coalition will not engage in
such tactics. We stand on our platform,
our record, and the capabilities of our
executive candidates — Steve Patrick,
David Bell, and Susan Fansler — and the
capabilities of our Senate candidates, and
we offer the kind of dedication and
responsiveness so long lacking in Student
Government.
Wihout question, this is the year for
Coalition: "For What Needs To Be
Done..."
DAYII) BEI.I.
Why bus students
to bridal fair ?
TO THE EDITOR:
How come public school students in this
state (Greene County) are shipped to the
Bridal Fair but not to the Women's
Symposium' 1 Is the pots and pans
industry in jeopardy 1 ) Or IS a woman's
place barefoot, pregnant, and in the
kitchen’
REI.LE MII.O
Don't promote
special people'
TO THE EDITOR;
I have quietly listened as long as
possible to the Chuck Searcy type
whining over not getting a free handout
for noble or ignoble service in the Armed
Forces
His brazen attempt to cause all
students to identify with the poor veteran
ts without foundation and phony The
legislative scramble Searcy tearfully
describes was nothing more or less than
a power struggle between two special
interest groups His gang lost, so now he
comes telling us how nasty the other
gang was, seeking our support tn > truth ,
all students would not be benefited or
affected Only a special few would
benefit, a few already-over-pampered
special people
All students already receive $55,000,000
annually from Georgia's "inept" legisla
ture This money is provided fairly and
justly for equal use by all. Veterans
already receive more benefits from the
Federal Government for being "stu
dents" than many people whom I know
who work hard every day of their lives
Student concern should be concentrated
on fairness and justice for all, not
benefits for special people
Beer, unresponsive legislature, student
needs? These arc mere dust devils of no
substance quickly dissipating. The nub of
the issue is should a few individuals have
special privileges merely because they
served in an American uniform?
If it is both beautiful and just to die for
one's country, let the dead be beautiful
Remember their justice. If it is honorable
to fight and live, let honor reward the
brave.
The unbrave draftees were forced to
give two years of their valuable life to
their country? Isn’t life itself a series of
forced ventures from one forced turning
point to another? The undereducated
Black from the urban or rustic slum was
forced to fail admission tests for the
Army (and University). The person with
scarred kneecaps was forced not to serve
even though he was a competent civilian
pilot who wanted to join the Air Force.
These people are not special people
Did those who went give something of
value’ My life is valuable because I am,
I act, I think. I give value each moment
of my life and everyone else does; lhe
fleeing moment itself is value given. But
for most thinking, acting people there's a
quid pro quo In return there is a gift of
beauty glimpsed, a gift of love, a gift of
insight, a gift indefeasibly vested within
the soul. Every new situation is
education Every new acquaintance is
valuable, he is my teacher in that he can
teach me something that he knows which
I do not know
We are all forced to give. The only
relevant question is what did the
veterans receive in return? They
received only so much of value as they
wanted, they were limited only by their
inner resources and counsel. All received
money. Some were given wounds, some
sorrow, some hate, some death. We pay
for the wounded and mentally disturbed,
society pays for hate; there is no pay for
death For the others, the healthy, if they
were so slovenly with their lives as to
return valueless, I have no sympathy. If
they returned greatly enriched, why
should we give more? All have their just
deserts
It is abundantly clear that they are, in
seeking such privileges as the education
al pork barrel would have provided,
doing nothing more honorable nor worthy
than seeking a gratis dole. They are
playing the lowly game of gimmy,
gimmy. gimmy, with taxpayer's money
the bonus. The only thing these loud,
rasping gimmies deserve is a resounding
no Let us work toward ending, not
promoting, "Special People ”
JAMES W. SMITH