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The Krd and IHack. Tuesday. February 21. lt7H
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LETTERS
‘Program not adequate’
TO THE EDITOR:
BARRY IRWIN
Parking problems—again
Parking at the University
has been a problem for several
years and the situation isn't
getting any better. All students
pay a parking and transpor
tation fee every quarter, yet
some are denied the privilege
of parking their cars on
campus.
Students living in brumby,
Russell and Creswell halls find
it hard to park their cars and
some are paying for spaces at
commercial parking lots.
Thirty-nine students now pay
$25 a quarter to park their
automobiles at the Chevron
Food Mart at Baxter and
Finley Streets.
Ivey and Co. realty, recog
nizing a fast buck, now
threatens to tow away any cars
parked in the two lots at
Baxter and Church across
from Brumby. I don’t think
any student has been desperate
enough to pay the fifteen
dollars a month (emphasis
mine), but I have noted
several cars with messages on
the windshield threatening a
tow-job This is certainly
highway robbery
I shoplifting
On top of all this, transpor
tation fees will have to be
raised next year to cover the
rising costs of inflation con
nected with operation of the
campus bus system. It's a good
thing the bus system can tap
into the funds generated by
parking fines. Those seem to
be increasing all the time.
Traffic Safety Manager
Marvin Van Vleck estimates
200 tickets are issued for
parking violations on campus
every school day This figure
jumps to 300 on rainy days.
Why do all these students
Harry Irwin it minister to
transportation and public safe
ty in the Student Government
Association
violate the parking regula
tions? Well, it’s a long story.
One reason students try to
beat the system is because
everyone else seems to be
doing it. Students sec so many
cars with tickets on the
windshield that it ceases to be
a threat If all of those other
people get tickets there must
be some way to beat the rap,
or so they think until grades
are frozen the next quarter
Or, because a student paid
the fee which included a
parking sticker for a certain
zone, why shouldn’t he be able
to park there? Who cares
whether or not there is an
empty space-the fee was paid.
When the student learns that
Traffic Safety and the Student
Judiciary really do care, then
it’s too late. The ticket has
already been received
Why shouldn't the University
provide us with parking? Or at
least give us half a chance to
compete with other students
who also come to class at 10
a m. But no, when we arrive at
9:47, we find that the best
places are taken by staff
people who arrived at 8:05.
Now we're really mad. Just for
that and the fact that all of the
other spaces are taken, we’ll
park on the grass or sneak into
a key-card lot. Turn about is
fair play, you know
Getting back to the original
subject, why should the stu
dents provide faculty and staff
with parking and transpor
tation when those people don't
pay a dime for the privilege?
Here at the University the only
non-students who have to pay
for parking stickers are those
who have a reserved parking
space like President Davison
and the Deans, those with
key-cards, and those who park
in reserved tow-away zones
such as the one behind Baldwin
Hall. At rates like $1.00 and
$150 per month, those with
reserved spaces are paying
much less than every student
who merely pays the transpor
tation fee, forgetting those who
are now paying for commer
cial parking.
Something needs to be done
before the students are
pumped dry from fees and
fines If most faculty and staff
aren't paying anything now,
who thinks they will volunteer
to pay for a space in a
high-rise facility just to help
students out? I certainly don't!
This message was brought as a
courtesy of your Student
Government Association Just
keep those problems coming,
we'll keep commenting about
them. Thanks for listening.
Where is my money going 9
This is a question I have asked
myself for the last four years
concerning the intramural
sports program here at the
University. I have visited
many campuses, such as. Ohio
State. West Georgia, and even
Georgia Tech and seen suc
cessful programs Why must
the University fall so short of a
good program?
The intramural department
has been declining since I have
been here and now has hit rock
bottom. Not only are we
paying for the program
through our tuition but now a
$25 entry fee has been imposed
to play football, basketball,
soccer, and softball. What
upsets me is that the program
is not better, if not worse. The
$25, I am told, is supposed to
be used for officiating. Each
team plays either five or six
games a year in each sport,
which means we pay four to
five dollars per game So when
two teams meet we are paying
eight to ten dollars per game
Why then do we often have
only one official, who receives
three dollars per game, when
there should be at least two
There is a problem with
getting volunteers I know but I
ask this question: why didn't
the pay for referees go up
when we began paying the
additional money 9 The added
cost to the students playing
should be used to benefit the
students officiating, not some
one else.
One might wonder if the
money is being used on
equipment. I doubt it! The
equipment provided is in poor
condition and often times we
have to supply our own, such
as, tennis balls, softballs, and
we must pay green fees for
golf and pay to bowl. The price
we are paying to play
intramural sports is very high
relative to the benefits re
ceived. I also wonder why
teams that win each individual
sport no longer receive tro
phies, which was policy a few
years ago
I propose that the problem
lies either in a misallocation of
the funds received from our
tuition or with the intramural
director. Sarah Stanley The
program is not adequate for
the 20.000 students that it is
suppose to benefit The funds
are either being misused or
are being wasted because of
poor administration I am
leaving this year and 1 hope
my younger brother will be
able to participate in a better
intramural program than 1
have.
I know that I am not the only
student that feels we are being
raked over the coals by this
department and I urge others
to voice their opinions so that
something might be done to
correct this problem
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‘Be thankful
for buses’
TO THE EDITOR:
BLIII1IP!! If people think
riding a University bus grates
on the nerves and manners, try
a cattle car in Rome. Italy
The Eternal City flounders
with rude and impolite bus
riders, but all is fair when a
person mounts or steps off the
bus. No rules hold fast for
boarding, unloading, or sitting
“Little porkers." feet stomp-
ers, and boney elbows insis
tently attack from all theaters.
Other obscenities also take
place in the close confinements
of an Italian bus
The University does not have
the population of bus riders
that Rome has. but a bus is a
bus Be thankful for the
University buses, the Russell
Hall route, and the inconsider
ate users Skillful bus riding
takes practice and patience.
The savage acts committed on
the campus buses serve only to
train the passenger What
would mornings be without
thpm 9
A BUS RIDER ROME
‘Process
brings end’
A shock may occur at any
stage in a man's life, which
might make him feel that all
avenues in front of him are
blocked, that life itself is a
prison cell with a perpetually
locked door.
There is more than one key
to this door. First, a man
should clearly rerognize the
source of trouble: secondly, he
must have faith. Faith means
that a man should regard any
disaster simply as a fate-
determined blow which should
be endured. From this follows
a deliberate effort to fight
away its consequences. No
problem should ever be re
garded as insuperable. There
are always solutions to every
thing.
prf:sidf.nt anwar sadat
OF EGYPT
TO THE EDITOR:
The reasons fer war (among
nations or individuals) are
misinformation, lack of infor
mation, miscommunication,
lack of communication, mis
understanding or lack of
understanding.
If the two parties are far
apart in their viewi, they need
a decent negotiator to get the
peace process started.
Propaganda may help or
disturb the peace process
People get involved. some stay
out and watch: some take
sides; some change sides;
some are intimidated; some
worry; some inflame the
aparent more powerful party;
some find the process as a
means of taking their own
revenge through another
party, still others who see
their own situation jeopardized
threaten or carry threatening
messages But this whole pro
cess serves as a prerequisite
for confrontation • ultimate
war or bringing together of
hearts
At the end of the peace
process, the two parties at
war, the honest negotiators,
and the nonpartisan groups are
the real winners - and the rest
of the crowd remains awe
struck. wondering how this
whole "hem and haw" came to
an end!
MOHAMMAD K. (IRAJi
KII0DAD008T
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