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The Red and Black • Thursday, July 12, 1990 • 3
Parking deck downtown built for shoppers
More parking spaces: Construction of city parking deck
scheduled for completion in February 1991.
By DOUGLAS S. WOOD
Staff Writer
Anyone who has ever looked for
a parking place downtown on a
Saturday afternoon knows the
meaning of the word frustration.
However, help is on the way in
the form of a new $3 million
parking deck under construction at
the corner of Washington Street
and College Avenue.
The six-level deck will be com
pleted in February 1991, said city
General Services Director Steve
Martin.
The deck will feature more than
250 spaces, which will be available
to all citizens.
Unlike the parking deck at the
Clarke County Courthouse, there
will be no reserved spaces for city
employees.
“Everyone is going to pay,”
Martin said.
Richard Bolin, Athens chief ad
ministration officer, said fees
haven’t been set for the new deck.
A projected $55 monthly fee was
included in the early plans, but
that was just for planning stages,
Bolin said.
The deck was financed through
20-year revenue bonds sold by the
Athens Downtown Development
Authority through brokerage
firms. The cost of the deck will be
paid through revenue from the
deck itself.
Martin said the design of the
deck on the College Avenue side
will resemble an office facade.
“We want to maintain a
relationship between the sidewalk
and retail shop look,” Martin said.
At street level, the new deck will
include some office space which
will be used by the deck manage-
The deck was financed
through 20-year
revenue bonds sold by
the Athens Downtown
Development
Authority. The cost of
the deck will be paid
through revenue.
ment. State law prevents office
space paid for by bonds from being
used by private firms, Martin said.
Officials haven’t determined
who will manage the deck.
“I think we need to go to a pro
fessional management company,”
Bolin said.
Another downtown parking deck
— the recently constructed court
house deck — is also open to the
public, but it hasn’t been used
much.
“People don’t know where it is,”
Martin said.
Henry Benner, Clarke County
project manager, said business has
increased since the deck opened in
January.
“It’s picked up, but it’s not
loaded," Benner said.
The five-level deck offers 520
spaces, 260 of which are taken up
by county employees. Rates are 50
cents for the first half-hour and 60
cents for each additional hour.
There is a $4 all-day charge.
The fifth floor has remained
empty, Benner said.
haven’t seen a car up there
yet, but it’s hot,” he said.
Royal family table talk stirs up controversy for Englishman
The Associated Press
LONDON — The code that gov
erns British treatment of royalty is
largely unwritten but always
strict, and novelist A.N. Wilson has
violated one of the sternest rules of
all.
His sin has been to report a
dinner-table chat with Her Maj
esty Queen Elizabeth The Queen
Mother.
That her remarks to Wilson
were fairly innocuous, and that the
conversation took place nearly a
decade ago, matters little. The af
fair has provoked some sharp lan
guage from London society.
"Scoundrel!” thundered Lord
Wyatt of Weeford.
“An intolerable betrayal!”
echoed Nicholas Soames, member
of Parliament and scion of the
Churchill family.
Wilson, 39, is a gifted novelist
and acute social commentator who
clearly knew he was courting
trouble when he published ‘The
Queen Mother’s table-talk" in the
weekly Spectator magazine two
weeks ago.
"It is probably the grossest im
propriety to embarrass her, or her
host, by repeating our conversa
tion,” he wrote.
"I do so, however, without very
much compunction, since she never
gives ‘interviews,’ and I can think
of no better person than Queen
Elizabeth with whom to start off an
occasional series of conversations
with men and women who have
lived through most of the years of
this century ... and whose mem
ories stretch back far.”
In the conversation, reproduced
in dialogue form, the mother of
Queen Elizabeth II and widow of
King George VI was said to have
revealed a fondness for detective
stories, and a problem with her
cash flow: "Had such an awful af
ternoon today with my bank man
ager, scolding me about my
overdraft."
After a few remarks about poli
tics came this gem of an account of
a poetry evening at Windsor Castle
during World War II, at which T.S.
Eliot recited ‘The Waste Land.”
Elizabeth: "We had this rather
lugubrious man in a suit, and he
read a poem.... I think it was called
The Desert.’ And first the girls got
the giggles, and then I did and then
even the King.”
Wilson: “The Desert,’ ma’am?
Are you sure it wasn’t called The
Waste Land?”*
Elizabeth: That’s it. I’m afraid
we all giggled. Such a gloomy man,
looked as though he worked in a
bank, and we didn’t understand a
word.”
Wilson: T believe he DID once
work in a bank.”
The article, published in the
midst of national celebrations of
the queen mother’s 90th birthday,
was thoughtful and affectionate.
FIRE HALL
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up,” Riley said. She said the design
should please Athenians.
Farmer said the design process
is still evolving, and that is where
the civic center design is now.
Ron Evans said the design
hadn’t changed much at all since
the last update two months ago,
and that the architect said the de
sign was “pretty close” to comple
tion.
“Buildings should evoke emotion
and the design leaves me flat,”
Evans said. This building is a
box.”
Other residents pleaded for time
to re-evaluate the center design.
Libby Morris said it’s appro
priate to slow down a bit. ‘Timeta
bles can be revised,” she said.
Dennis Greenia, publisher of
Flagpole magazine, referred to a
building designed in New York’s
Greenwich Village by the ar
chitects Jim Garrison and Gaston
Silva that was turned down by that
city’s planning commission three
times.
“In New York, if they can be that
particular, I see no reason why we
can’t be that particular down here
in Athens,” he said.
Commissioner John Jeffreys re
ferred the citizens to the Civic
Center Authority, which is holding
tonight’s meeting at the Court
house Annex in Courtroom No. 3 at
7:30 p.m.
John said citizens should give
the commissioners reason to recon
sider and not vague ideas about
saving the fire hall with no relation
to “the facts of life.”
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Commissioner George Bullock
said the commission had been in
volved in a long, tedious process for
more than three years.
Farmer asked the crowd to re
spect that “we have worked very,
very hard on this.”
The commissioners urged the
formation of a citizens group to
present ideas to the Civic Center
Authority, which in turn would
present the ideas to the commis
sion.
Farmer said she would consider
changes in the plans if that was the
advice of the Civic Center Au
thority.
“Buildings should
evoke emotion and the
design (of the proposed
civic center) leaves me
flat. This building is a
box”
— Ron Evans
“I still feel there is room for com
promise," she said.
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The Office of Judicial Programs has handed down the fol
lowing sentences since summer quarter began: One student
was found guilty of disorderly conduct, with both verbal and
physical abuse. He was sentenced to 25 hours of community
service.
Another student found guilty of disorderly conduct with
physical abuse was sentenced to 20 hours of community
service and ordered to undergo evaluation by University health
service personnel to determine if the student has an alcohol
problem.
Two students were found guilty of academic dishonesty
and suspended from the University for fall quarter.
Student Judiciary has received the following complaints
this quarter:
One student has been charged with underage posession
of alcohol. University police found the student unconscious in
a residence hall and took him to a local hospital. He was later
released with no complications.
Two students have been charged with driving under the in
fluence, and another student has been charged with driving
under the influence and disorderly conduct. A student who
failed to appear and testify in a case against someone else
was charged with failure to follow the instructions of the court.
One student was charged with three counts of disorderly
conduct stemming from two different incidents.
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the University allow only three sets of facts to be disclosed
about an individual involved in disciplinary proceedings:
charges filed, the verdict and the sentence. The University
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