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V oter drive may not reach
But state officials approve
of Clarke Co. registration
B> GREG FREEMAN
KmI ,n. sun Writer
Clarke County will probably
not reach its goal of register
mg 2.500 new voters by Dec
31. according to Dot Barrett,
vice chairman of the Clarke
County Board of Elections
The goal is part of Georgia
Secretary of State Max
Cleland's statewide voter
registration drive, in which
officials hope to register
200,000 people, bringing the
total number of eligible
Georgia voters to 2.500.000
Clarke County's goal was set
at 2,500 to be reached by
Dec 31, but Barrett said the
actual number of voters
registered will be far
smaller
"We ll probably not reach
that number," she said
Thai s a lot of voters.”
Barrett added that the
goal of 2.500 was only a
number to try to reach, and
not an ultimatum set forth
by the secretary of state
Regular reports are sent to
Cleland’s office, she said,
and Clarke County's pro
gress has been met with ap
proval
"I think they're pleased
with it," she said We send
in our reports and they ap
prove "
Barrett said she expected
to have approximately 1,500
new voters registered by the
goal's deadline, a total she
said is “very good "
More than 900 new voters
have been registered in
Clarke County since the
statewide registration drive
began May I A total of 538
voters have been registered
in eight drives held since
May 1. in addition to 367
registered in the county
registrar's office between
May 1 and Sept 1 Figures
for those registered in the of
fice during September were
not available
Those registered in the
drives will be eligible to vote
in the 1984 presidential elec
lions, but must be registered
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coming city elections Voters
in Ward 1 and Ward 2 will
elect city council represen
tatives on Nov 8, but incum
bent Mayor (.auren Coile
received no opposition in his
bid for another terms,
thereby eliminating the need
for a mayoral race
Neither the statewide
registration drive nor the
local drive was aimed at any
particular group of citizens,
but Barrett said more blacks
are registering than in the
past
“I think we're registering
more blacks because that's
where there was a need,"
she said
Ed Turner, local chairman
of the National Association
for the Advancement of Col
ored People, said he agreed
with Barrett that the conti
nuing drive was "very suc
cessful "
"I think that some blacks
are getting registered.” he
said "A lot of drives in the
past have been concentrated
in areas where blacks
haven’t really shopped or
had access to ”
The locations of the ongo
ing voter registration drives
were submitted to the justice
department for approval
before any drives were held
Locations considered ac
cessible to most Clarke
County citizens were approv
ed for the 12 local drives
The four remaining drives
will complete the local drive
for registering new voters
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OpSTAR better,
but delays persist
Although the OpSTAR
computer completed
drop / add Monday with no
breakdowns, problems
with processing caused
delays in scheduling
The new computer equip
ment is "1000-percent bet
ter," University Registrar
Bruce Shut! said, but
breakdowns with the op
tical scan readers created
“big problems all through
drop/ add"
"We've had to have so
meone here all the time to
keep fixing them,” he said.
"The machines have been
rejecting forms and jamm
ing up. causing students to
get scheduling output on
more than one form As a
result we've been handling
about every other student
twice "
The problems are a sign
the four-year-old scanners
are wearing out. Shutt said
“We'll be lucky if they
make it through next sum
mer," he said "We should
have new equipment by fall
1984 "
The long line waiting to
enter the scheduling area
Monday was "typical",
Shutt said
“This isn’t unusual for
the last afternoon of the
last day,” he said.
"Everyone waits until the
last minute It's only about
a 10-minute wait for
students to get their
schedules once they enter
the door "
‘We’ll be lucky
if they make it
through next
summer’
—Bruce Shutt
Students agreed that the
drop / add process ran
more smoothly this fall
than before the upgrading
of the OpSTAR computer in
July
"I’ve been through
drop / add four times in the
past two days but it hasn't
been as bad this year,” Bob
Kaltenbach. a junior
chemistry major, said
"The computer seems to be
running right I was here
last year when it quit.”
—Stacey Lam
Drives will be held Oct 1 at
Rockspring Homes and Oct
8 at the courthouse and the
First American Methodist
Episcopal Church These
will be followed by drives at
the Willowood shopping
center Nov 19 and the final
drive Dec 3 at Georgia
Square All drives run from
10a m to3pm
Anyone wishing to register
must be at least 18 years old
or within six months of his
eighteenth birthday, must be
a resident of Clarke County
and have no criminal record
Downtown ’s parking problem
worsened by new businesses
correction
Due to incorrect information provided to a Red and Black
reporter, Thursday's edition slated Alpha Gamma Rho
fraternity was cited Sept 15 for a noise ordinance violation
The fraternity was not guilty of any violations
This newspaper's policy lo to correct all errors of fact ap
pearing in its news columns. Correction normally run on
page two
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Between The Hedges
By JANINE FALCHER
Rr4 and Rl.tb Suit Writes
With parking in downtown
Athens already limited, the
start of fall quarter classes
and the opening of
University Towers and The
Pavilion will make things
extremely uncomfortable
for shoppers and visitors,
officials said
"The downtown area is in
the position of having to
provide parking for the
University,” said Alan
Roddy, research planner (or
the Athens-Clarke County
Planning Commission
"Now it is going to be ex
tremely uncomfortable with
the start of classes and The
Pavilion and the University
Towers opening'
Benchmark/Atlantic Co,,
developers of the University
Towers complex, has leased
20 spaces in the At Lock and
Key lot on Pulaski Street and
30 spaces in the Park and
Shop lot on Dougherty Street
for the Towers tenants
"These two lots should
provide all the necessary
parking for the tenants."
said Tom Scott, vice
president of the company
The use ot these spaces
will not affect the overall
parking for downtown, but
will add to the congestion in
the city, said Joe Burnett,
director of Athens Down
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The opening of The
Pavilion "will add several
hundred cars a day to the
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But much of the congestion
could be avoided. Head said,
if University students would
not park downtown and go to
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"Between 7:20a m and 10
a m students park in most of
the metered spaces next to
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would help things. ” he said
Students, however, are not
the only culprits “There is
no visitors' parking on
campus, so anyone with
business on campus is likely
to park downtown." said
Dave Lunde. director of
campus planning
Also, many times a
University student, em
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customer. Lunde said. "I do
not know of any way to
distinguish among
customer, student, employee
or whatever to prevent
misuse of a space either," he
added
In an effort to provide
more north campus parking,
the University is negotiating
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Jackson Street
That project is “very
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