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University of Georgia Friday, November 9, 1979 Volume 86, Number 31 Georgia's only collegiate dail\ newspaper News 941-3441 Advertising 941-3414
OFF EAST CAMPUS ROAD
Lot ready for paving
By PAM McDOUGALL
A new 825-space parking lot on Green
Street will be ready for paving next week,
according to Physical Plant Director Ken
Iordan, and the lot should be partially open
to students by the end of fall quarter.
Funding for the lot, off East Campus
Ro« d, was approved last May and initial
construction began this summer, but
several delays have hindered its construc
tion, Jordan said.
The new lot should partially alleviate the
shortage of parking spaces on campus, but
the problem may intensify again when
construction on three new campus build
ings begin later this year.
"Everything that affects the paving of
(he lot, including the curbing and the storm
drainage system, will be completed by next
week." Jordan said, adding paving should
begin in the next week to ten days.
"THE FIRST holdup occurred around
the beginning of September with a delay in
the delivery and receipt of the storm
drainage system." Jordan said. "The next
problem involved the hurricanes and the
rains of late September and early October.
We had rain for about a week."
The county had originally wanted to pave
the parking lot in late September, but
neither the paving crews nor the curbing
contractor could work because of the rain.
The optimum time for paving is late
summer.
When completed, the Green Street lot
will be "an excellent parking facility.'*
according to Jordan.
"The lot will be paved, will be well III
will receive frequent bus service and have
large bus shelters." he said. "Fifteen
buses an hour will travel through the lot.
and when they leave the lot. some will head
west while others will head north."
The Green Street facility will be used
primarily by the University's student
commuter population. It’s hoped the
additional parking will reduce campus
traffic.
"WE WANT to cut down the traffic on
the streets. Tnrough improved and fre
quent bus service, the lot should prove to
be the best parking alternative for
commuting students." Jordan said. "If
students use the lot. it will also help to
conserve energy."
When completed, the facility will hold
approximately 825 cars. Although it will
not be completely finished, the lot will
probably be ready for use before winter
quarter.
"The lot should be a functional,
serviceable lot by the end of this quarter,"
Jordan said.
The primary problem that prevents full
use of the lot as planned is the construction
of a railroad grade crossing. The grade
crossing would be built across from Carlton
Street to provide entry into the lot.
"We cannot complete the lot as
designed until we receive a right-of-way
easement." Jordan said. "It must be
agreed upon and approved by the state
attorney general and Southern Railway.
COUPLED WITH the need for a grade
crossing is a need for "an extensive traffic
signal system on East Campus Road" to
provide a safe and convenient entrance into
the lot. according to Jordan.
"The system would not be completed
before spring or summer of next year." he
said.
Jordan added if the lot proves a success
in terms of use. there is room for expansion
in the future.
Faculty members who park in the
Stcgeman lot now will have to park else
where. according to David A. Lundc.
associate director of campus planning.
"Faculty members will be reassigned to
park in lots such as the bookstore parking
lot while students will have to park further
out. in the Coliseum and Green Street lots,
for example." he said.
LUNDE SAID although phase one docs
not include the parking decks to be built
under the student center, it docs include
the structure for the decks since this
structure is the same one that will support
the building.
VGA Tod a
Check Your Mate
The Athens Chess Club invites you to the first annual chess club
championship to be held ai Days Inn on Atlanta Hwy. on Saturday. There will be
trophies io the first, second and third place winners. Registration begins at c )
and ends at 9:J0 Saturday morning The entrance fee is $5. For more
information call i-267-6736. P.S. Bring your own chessmen, boards, and clocks.
See Ya in Fla.
Now Georgia and Florida fans will
have the chance to party together and
hear the sounds of twp sensational
bands. "I li" and Bones. Holmes and
• Friends." and warm up with a little
discoing in the parking lot of the famous
Union Station. This big event will be
held from 8 to I a.nt. and the party is
f tusionc ot several events. Admission is
only SOccnt> lor college students and $2
for non students. The hands will each
put on two hour shows and beer, set-up.
% and refreshments will be sold in the
terminal. Come on down if you haven't
left already.
Don’t Miss the Fixx.
Tickets are now available for one of the University Union's coming programs
Jim Fixx will speak on Tuesday, the IJth at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall Ballroom.
Student tickets are free and available at the information booth. General
admission tickets are $1 and may be purchased in the business office.
Who’s the Turkey?~n
If you think you're the fastest gun in
the west, or at least in Athens, come on
down to the Athens Rifle Club. Turkey,
becaus - Saiurduv front 8 a.nt. till dark
the UGA Forestry Club is having its
Second Annual Turkey Shoot I he Rifle
Club is located on the Commerce
Highway just past the .1 \ .1 Center.
Gobble Gobble
Topper’s Tops
Now you see them, now you don't! >.
couple of good time ghosts—out to be
angels—have just 48 hours to turn a
hen pecked lawyer into a fun loving
guy. The re make of an old IV Mm s
played by Kate Jackvtn. Jack Warden,
and Andrew Stevens. Tunc in to ABC at
9:00 for Topper.
And Sue Ellen is at it again in Dallas.
Sue Ellen perks up for the first time
since the birth of her baby when she
meets an unattached cowboy at a local
rodec. Channel 13 at 10 p.m.
Ken Jordan
The student center will have three
parking decks w hich w ill hold bSO cars. I he
Stcgeman lot holds 635 cars.
Although the decks w ill not be construct
ed during phase one. Lunde said their
construction might be contracted before
phase one is completed.
Parking decks are expensive, he said.
While a 5000-car parking lot costs
5150.000. a 500-car parking deck costs
SI.500.000 or S3500 per car.
"But each of the student center decks
will cost only S500.000 or SI000 per car.
Lundc said "This is approximately a
reduction of one-third of the normal cost."
HE EXPLAINED the cost reduction will
occur because "we'll already have the
structure for the decks."
"If we were building the parking facility
from scratch, it would cost about
52.000. 000. But after phase one. all we'll
need are such things as the flooring, the
lights, and fire equipment." Lunde said.
"It's true that we're paving more in phase
one. but we'll be saving money in the
end."
Lunde added the parking decks will be
coin-operated so "visitors to the University
can park at the student center."
More parking problems may arise when
construction of the law library addition
begins. The groundbreaking ceremony is
scheduled for next week.
"The faculty members who park in the
Candler Hall parking lot will probably be
reassigned to the G-zonc lot. which means
that there will be less parking for students
in that lot." Lunde said. "They may have
to park in the Coliseum and Green Street
lots too." The G-zonc lot is next to the
Baptist Student Union.
Lunde added although the parking
situation on campus may be "hard to
swallow." students should remember
parking near the center of campus is a
convenience usually not enjoyed by
students on other university and college
campuses.
Regents to examine testing;
no action on Edwards case
By JUSTIN GII.LIS
Campus editor
The Board of Regents will consider a
proposal to lower the number of hours a
student may attain before passing the
regents exam at its November meeting
next week, scheduled Tuesday and Wed
nesday at the board offuc in Atlanta.
However, the regents are expected to
take no action on the firing <*f former
University Graduate Dean Hard\ Edwards,
who said earlier this week he was
considering an appeal to the board.
Edwards said iate Thursday he still had
not decided whether to appeal his firing,
and a regents spokesman in Atlanta said if
an appeal wore received Friday or * londay
the regents' staff would not have time to
prepare it for consideration.
The testing proposal, which originated
with University Svstent president, would
require students in stale colleges and
universities to pass the exam before
attaining 75 academic hours or else lake
remedial courses.
Under present policy, a student must
take the exam on completing 45 hours and
is expected to pass before attaining 75
hours, but the student can take courses up
to 105 hours before he is penalized.
Students who do not pass the exam by
105 hours arc restricted to remedial
courses.
The new proposal would lower the hour
limit to 75. hut it would also alter present
policy by requiring remedial courses only
in areas the s'tidcnt fails on the exam,
according to Dean of Students Dwighf
Douglas.
I he proposal. i1 passed, would also
establish an appeals system for students
who fail the test.
l or instance, il a student has passed all
his English classes, bui fails the essay
portion of the exam, he may have grounds
to jppe I." said Dr. Tom McDonald,
assistant ice chancellor for student
services.
Douglas emphasized even if the regents
adopt the proposal the \ may choose to alter
it. lie said a meeting of the regents' testing
coordinators had been scheduled for the
Monday following the board meeting.
' I assume the timing is in vmte way
related to the board meeting." Douglas
said.
I he policy on the regents' testing
ptogram has already been altered once in
the past year. I he Itoard last tall adopted
the current policy, which requires a
student pass the exam before attaining 105
hours.
This August, however, the hoard
delayed implementation of the policy to
Jan. I. I‘>80.
Edwards said Thursday he is still
considering an appeal to the regents,
adding lu might instead ask for an
audience with the board or write acting
Chancellor Vernon Crawford about the
University's Graduate School.
Edwards was fired last mouth by
University President Fred Davison and
reassigned to at teaching position in the
College of Agriculture.
Edwards said at the time he would
appeal his firing to the regents. He has
since w ritten a letter to C raw lord asking for
an audience, but lias not filed a formal
appeal.
Under regents’ policy, academic cleans
serve at the pleasure of the president of an
institution, but the regents have power to
review suen decisions.
We are not alone
What may appear to be some strangely-
shaped ring of white hovering in the
midst of a sea of black is actually
nothing more than a view from the base
of one of the lampposts on campus,
looking up toward the darkness of
evening. Bizarre-looking, eh?
Data-based system could centralize student records
By TOM LEE
Staff writer
A data-based system allowing the
University to centralize student records is
currently under development, and the first
part of the system should be in use at the
end of next summer, according to Dean of
Student Services Dwight Douglas.
"What will happen is well have a
student record that can be updated in one
central location." Douglas said, "instead
of information being kept in several places
all over campus."
Douglas added there was a problem with
University departments keeping the same
records needlcsslv. "It's a situation of
getting back to basics." he said How
manv times do we need to get the same-
informal i«»n about the same people Irom
the same sources?"
According to officials, the system will be
implemented in phases as different
departments of the University are "plug
ged in."
••This is the kind of program that must
be implemented in phases." said Dennis
( albos. administrative director of the office
of ' omputing services and the coordinator
for the svstem.
I*has< one is incorporating registration
into this Phase tw » would then involve
bringing in different parts of the test ot the
Uni v entity
"It’s sort of like building a housing
complex. I he registration department is
the first house." ( albos said.
"We anticipate having registration
Weekend weather
fans heading to Jacksonville this
weekend for "the world's largest out-
d«mr ccKktatl party" mav find their
plans all wet A National Weather
Service spokesman in Athens savs the
preliminary forecast for Saturday's
game calls tor cloudy skies with a 40
percent chance of rain Temperatures
in the Gator Bowl are expected to be in
the 7(K.
I >r those who can i make the trip, the
NV\s forecasts a chance of rain for the
Athens area this weekend as well. The
rain is expected to end in the area
Monday, with lows this weekend to be
tn tin mid 4(»s and highs in the mid 50s.
I be wet conditions should arise from a
frontal svstem expected to move into
this part of the nation early today.
J
people experimenting with the system next
summer." Douglas said. But in terms of
having the whole system ready, we are a
good ways away."
C albos agreed. "It could be two or three
years before the whole thing is ready." he
said.
"There are several stages involved with
implementing a system like this. There is
planning, analysis, design, programming,
testing, and operation," (albos said.
"Right now. we are into the final design
stages for putting this in the registration
office, and we've done some programming.
For the rest of the University, we’re still in
the analysis stage, however."
Once the system is completely imple
mented. officials in various University
depanments will he able to check certain
pans of a student's record by simply
bringing the information up on a computer
terminal located in that depanmenl’s
office.
"A depan mem will only be able to
obtain information from the pan of their
record that pertains to that department."
Dogulas said. You . must have a certain
degree of confidentiality."
The system is unique in Georgia,
according to University Registrar Bruce
Shutt. "We're gonna be first—with Ibis
kind of thing. And there arc very few
schools in the nation with it. It’s very
innovative."
Douglas feels the system will encourage
more accurate record keeping at the
University "Sav you want to update wme
information—• phone number, lor in
stance. You're more likely to do it if you
onlv have to go to one place to have it done,
rather than making phone calls all over
campus."
The cost of the data based system will be
S200.0U) to S250.000. according to Doug
las. "But incorporatid into that will also be
savings." he said. "Iliere won’t be as
much time spent on such things as
paperwork, time spent checking records,
etc.’*
The system will use IBM equipment.
Calbos said. "This is a system called IMS
(information management systems). It is a
data bawd facility for managing large
volumes of data such as you would have
here."
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