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Parking Restrictions
A partially revised campus
traffic code will go into effect fall
quarter which will reflect a step
toward a change we think has
long been needed
The code, a rulebook for the
operator of vehicles on campus,
was revised by the Faculty
Senate to permit faculty and staff
mcmliers to park anywhere on
campus regardless of previous
/one restrictions.
We think the change was a good
one. Except for a few reserved
spaces for the handicapped and
those who use their cars directly
in their work, all parking spaces
should be on a first come, first
served basis.
Hut that should include
students, too. Other than lift
restrictions on faculty, staff, and
administrative parking, how
ever, the new code will entail no
other changes.
That means that students will
continue to pay $0 for permits to
park in specified zones while
faculty and staff will still pay $1
lor access to any zone.
It's long been a point of con
ention for students when they
can’t find parking space in the
allowed zones but see. nearby,
several unused spaces in a zone
not designated for them. We think
that complaints that arise
from situationslike that are very
valid
With the exceptions we noted,
it's a bit absurd to apply class
privilege to the use of a parking
space. We believe the practice
of putting a dole on parking ac
cess should stop; especially when
students pay more for the right to
use the available space.
We would like to think that it
was only an oversight of the
Faculty Senate when they ap
plied lifted zone restrictions only
to faculty, staff, and ad
ministrators. Next time around.
Charles Autrey
Two years ago many people
involved in state-supported
education speculated that
universities would have to post
dramatic tuition increases to
offset revenue losses incurred
when the 18 vear-old vote
amendment went into effect.
Since college-age students
could then establish their own
lesidences independent ot their
parents, administrators were
worried that students from other
states would flock to their
universities, crowding out their
uomegrown students. Happily,
neither the situation or its af
erinaih has occurred in Georgia,
yet.
Perhaps it is because the
University System of Georgia has
nothing really special to offer
students from out of state. Or
perhaps it is because the recent
nosedive in enrollment has made
we and like to see equal treatment
affected for the students.
Or is it, as some may suspect,
that when it comes to traffic
regulations around here, the
students are being taken for a
ride?
Dialogue
Needed
The issue of whether those
maligned outdoor concerts will
ever be reinstated remains
unresolved as the quarter ap
proaches its final weeks. It’s an
issue that’s apparently been
pushed to a back burner in the
administrative offices.
We were told by one campus
official this week that, any time
certain other administrators are
approached about the matter,
they usually become obstinate
and turn the heat, not up, but
down on the bubbling con
troversy.
We hope attitudes like that are
isolated in the administrative
ranks, especially with matters
involving dialogue between
students and administrators.
We think that a more open
dialogue between students and
college officials would go a long
way in satisfactorily resolving
issues such as the outdoor con
cert policy.
Along this line, one college
official suggested, and we
heartily endorse, an open
meeting tor administrators and
students to discuss the concert
ban. Let’s put this concert matter
on a front burner again, turn up
the heat, and get it over and done
with once and for all.
Is The State System Significant
administrators glad to see
anybody filling their classes, no
matter where they came from.
But the matter may come up
again and plans must be made to
prevent the cost and availability
of higher education from going
out of sight.
The basic idea behind changing
non-resident tuition is that the
surcharge could make up for the
tax revenues that the migrant
students had not paid.
However, it has always seemed
that non-resident tuition has had
more punitive than financial
intent. In North Carolina, for
example the non-resident tuition
is four and one half times the
resident rate, a figure that could
not possibly reflect lost revenues.
One must also realize that,
unless the prospective non
resident student were suddenly
hatched at precisely age eighteen
he, or his parents, would have
had to pay taxes to support
higher education in some state.
This would leave a vacancy for
Alien Gunter
The Pickhandle Politician
One of the more vivid recol
lections I have of Sunday after
noons during my earlier high
school years is going with my
family down to Hemphill Avenue
in Atlanta, close to the Tech
campus, bumping across the still
exposed street-car rails, and
turning in at the Pickrick
Restaurant for dinner. There, on
Sunday afternoons, Lester
Maddox, proprietor, served up
fried chicken for a buck and some
odd cents and did the floor show
for free.
Whether you used the front
door or the back, you were apt to
encounter, stacked by the gum
machine, handbills, pamphlets,
and “Pickrick Says” ad
vertisements which delivered
commentaries and observations
about the news of the state and
the state of the news.
Youth has its advantages, not
the least of which is a blissful
lack of political awareness, and
anything those handbills had to
say to those who picked them up
was completely lost on me.
Perhaps, looking back, I should
have paid more attention.
“Frankly Speaking” by Phil Frank
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another student from another
state. Should the parents of the
migrant student have to pay a
penalty for allowing someone to
take his child's place?
It would seem that the financial
gain realized by the state in not
having to put the emigrant
student through its university
system would put the state in a
position to deal more generously
with students from other states.
Since the resident student has to
pay the same taxes as anyone
else in 'he state, why shouldn’t he
be allowed to attend school on the
same basis as his peers?
Given the extreme mobility of
this society, state lines have little
real significance any more.
Colleges and universities are
facing serious enrollment and
financial problems these days.
The Southeast is particularly
hard-pressed because it is still
not as economically developed as
the North and West and has less
money to spare for higher
education.
On the inside, the Sunday
customer was likely to encounter
the balding, bespectacled man in
a grey or modest plaid suit who
moved from table to table and
said, “How you today—l’m fine,”
and then moved on before diners
were able to finish chewing.
“Who’s he?" I would ask, and
my father would say, “He owns
the joint, runs for mayor
sometimes and always has
something to say.” And that’s all
I knew about Lester Maddox at
the time except that he was the
same guy who would com
mandeer the PA system between
tunes on the player piano and
crack a joke about the Kennedys
or Martin Luther King or Lyndon
Johnson and make everybody
snicker into their iced tea.
It was a “polite" laugh, my
father told me. But I couldn’t help
but notice how some patrons
“politely" laughed until they
near choked on their chicken
Some of that free Maddox
philosophy became grave and
solemn when, a year or so later,
he and his Pickrick were splashed
Educators are going to have to
start making more efficient use
of their resources if the U.S. is to
keep up with its great idea of
providing good, low-cost
education to most of its citizens.
Centuries of international trade
has shown that punitive tarriffs
can do nothing but isolate the
trading nations and contribute to
inflation. Perhaps educators in
the Southeast can take a lesson
fronrthe success of the European
"Common market.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to
do away with non-resident tuition
altogether? The free exchange of
ideas, attitudes, and dollars
should hurt no state as long as all
continue to support higher
education. If it was done as a
cooperative effort among the
participating states there would
be no need of federal subsidy or
intervention. Perhaps it could be
the first step in a grander scheme
of educational co-operation
within the region.
Under this concept, regional
in the newspapers and across TV
screens all over the country. It
seems that the jovial, gregarious
man in the modest grey suit was
making a name for himself by
beating on the tops of
automobiles with pickhandles.
By that route, he eventually
earned acclaim of sorts and
gained a following when he
vowed to close his restaurant
rather than bow to the govern
ment.
That, and those handbills out
by the gum machine, must have
done the trick because a few
years later, Lester Maddox was
being elected governor. He got
there by the circuitous route of
the state legislature where votes
for him were couched in flowing
political oratory about the
“Great state of Georgia,” and
about the “Great statesman.
Lester.”
Watching those legitimate
votes go down the drain at the
state capitol, I thought about
those Sunday afternoons at
the Pickrick and wondered if
people were still laughing into
their iced tea.
Now the former restaurateur,
governor, lieutenant governor,
and entrepreneur of a curio shop
is back again looking for the
governor’s chair. Having
replaced the player piano with a
bicycle he rides backwards as a
prop. Maddox is still telling
people what they want to hear
and managing to leave them
laughing. At least some of the
people.
Others have quit laughing.
Perhaps it indicates a touching
naivete to think that Georgians
can do other than support a man
who made his living selling food
and his name espousing contempt
and racial division.
But perhaps enough people
have quit laughing and reviewed
the record.
It’s said that Mr. Maddox will
win the governor’s race “on his
record.” WTien I think back, I
can’t recall much about his term
as governor. But I remember h.m
in the restaurant business and I
wish he were still there. Things
then were a lot more fun.
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resources in such a specialized
discipline as cardio vascular
surgery, vetinary science,
humanist psychology, or
southern history, etc., could be
brought together on one campus
rather them dispersed about the
region. Since there would be no
tarriff complications, the special
resources would be available to a
greater number of students.
Enrollment to these programs
could then either be expanded or
made more competitive. Either
way would assure a more ef
fective utilization of scarce
resources.
When a man can cross the
country in a few hours, it just
doesn’t make sense to think of
higher education on a merely
statewide basis. In a time when
our economy is cooling off we are
going to have to make better use
of our facilities than every
before. A systematized attempt
at cooperation between state
colleges and universities would at
least be a step in the right
direction.
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