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VOLUME 47 - NUMBER 5
Zoned Parking Trial:
'A Chinese Fire Drill'
By ELLEN WILSON
Zoned Parking was passed by the
Faculty-Senate on May 15, 1981, when
President Maurice Townsend broke a
Senate voting deadlock saying, "We'll
try it for a year as an experiment, ”
The Zoned Parking plan was devised
to help control the parking situation,
especially around academic buildings,
without changing the landscape of the
school to accommodate expanded park
ing. Zoned Parking is supposed to en
courage people to park their cars in one
place all day and not drive down the
road just to park as close as possible to
their classes. It was decided that the
amount of parking available was not
the problem, but the way it was used
caused problems.
This quarter, the Zoned Parking "ex
periment” went into effect. "Right
now, it’s a disaster," said Chief William
Tuttle of Public Safety. “It’s like a
Chinese fire drill.” During the first
three days of classes, Tuttle explained,
students are issued only courtesy wam
, ing tickets and are not fined “We’ve
given hundreds of warning tickets ...
people are getting away with murder;
they know it and we know it. Next week
(September 28 through October 2),”
Tuttle said, '‘we'll get even ” What Tut
tle means is that there will be no more
warning tickets after September 28
“Right now there is no way to predict
what’s going to happen (with Zoned
Parking). In two weeks or so we will be
able to tell better,” Tuttle said. “We
have no thoughts so far of abandoning
the program; we will be trying to im
prove on what we have now. ”
“I haven’t had any feedback (on Zon
ed Parking) yet," Townsend said Fri
day. “I think that is because they are
not enforcing it yet.”
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It's been a while, but it's fun,” said President Maurice Townsend who leaves his
j presidential duties in Sanford Hall for an hour each day to teach an 8 a.m. political
science class this quarter.
7,000 See Braves Win as College Football Comes to Carrollton
BY JEFF STYLES
The crowd mills toward the stadium
like a living thing, drawn together in its
singleness of purpose. A thousand dif
ferent types of people with a thousand
different types of life-styles, but all with
one, dominant thought in their mind.
Everyone here is going to see West
Georgia s first football team in over 20
years and this night is going to be a
study of humanity.
The stadium slowly fills with bodies
and sounds. People from all the dif
ferent areas erf that geographic chunk
of terrain that is known as West
Georgia. Many who are undoubtedly
from somewhere else, are hauling their
bodies up the steps and into the stands
as they desperately try to find a
hospitable niche among the sea of
strange faces.
Even though this event is a debut of
its own kind, most of the participants
know how to react. It is, after all, just a
football game. And everyone knows
what to expect from a crowd of people
going to a football game.
Everyone knows that you have to
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According to Tuttle, Zoned Parking
cost an estimated $2,500 to implement.
This cost included all zone signs and
pasts and “several spare posts and
signs in case some of them disappear,”
Tuggle said. The signs are a special size
and replacements would have to be
ordered, he explained. Because it could
take a long time to get replacements,
spare signs and posts were included in
the original order.
“With the campus as crowded as it
is,” said Pam Steese, SGA Judiciary
Chairman,” (Zoned Parking) is pro
bably the best way to (handle the park
ing situation). I think it’s not so terrible
to walk from one side (of the campus)
to another; it’s a nice campus.”
Students had other comments about
the Zoned Parking system. Often their
comments depended on whether they
were new to the campus or not.
As Lynn Nordey, a junior who
transferred to West Georgia this fall,
said, “You mean it wasn’t this way last
year? Well, I would park by my dorm
anyway...”
“It’s confusing,” said freshman Lori
Brown, "I guess we’U get used to it. I
think it’ll work.”
“I don’t know it any other way,” said
freshman Angie Wood. “I think it’s
abide in close quarters for a while and
you should make the best of it by behav
ing in a friendly manner to those who
are around you. An occasional drunk or
some other kind of obnoxious individual
can make things quite comfortable for
everyone but then again, it adds color to
the situation and can be entertaining if
looked at in the right manner.
Everyone knows that popcorn smells
better than it tastes and that football
stadium cokes will rarely give you
more than two good swallows before
you find yourself sucking on ice. But
that doesn’t stop everyone from stan
ding in line to acquire such things.
Lines can turn out to be great meeting
places also. There’s no telling how
many wonderful marriages started out
in a refreshment-stand line at a football
game.
Its getting really crowded now. More
and more people are pouring through
the gates but nobody really notices
because the center of attention is down
on the field. The Carrollton High School
Marching Band is strutting proudly up
and down with horns blaring and flags
flying. This band is particularly good.
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pretty neat. It’s like having reserved
parking.”
Robin Jones, freshman said, "It’s
confusing. What curbs to park on ...
which is which ... I guess it will be bet
ter when every one learns ...”
Others did not have such a positive
outlook on the new parking situation.
“It’s irritating. 1 hate to look for a
certain area to park in, especially since
I don’t know them,” said freshman
Leslie Richardson.
Freshman Donna Heath said, “It’s
fine to keep other people off campus,
but it is irritating.”
“They should black top the back
parking lot, near the Humanities and
Social Sciences building. There’s just
not enough parking for students. Also,
someone should teach people how to
park. Some people park across three
spaces... I really don’t understand Zon
ed Parking ...” explained a junior who
calls himself "Wizard.”
“There are no parking spaces. It’s
awful. I’ve gotten two courtesy tickets
already said Hayley Gilleland,
freshman.
According to sophomore Mark
Poindexter, “It really sucks.”
Students Awaiting Textbook Shipment
If you’ve had trouble getting all of
your textbooks for classes, check the
bookstore again today. A rush shipment
is expected to arrive to replenish the
empty shelves.
The increase in student enrollment
coupled with the closing of the com
peting bookstore over the summer, are
attributed to the lack of books in the
campus store, according to the
manager Joan Pope
Students have been paying on the
average of $Wi to SBO for their books and
supplies and this apparently has some
of them upset “1 think they are higher
than they would be if there were
another bookstore around,” said senior
Bruce Atwater “I think they’ve gone
up because Braves (bookstore) went
out of business,” echoed Kathy Clute,
sophomore. However Pope isn’t taking
the responsibility for the price in
crease. "Book prices seem to go up
every quarter, I’ve seen them jump as
much as $2 in three weeks,” she said.
Pope blames the higher prices on
publishing companies. “We’re not mak
ing much (money). People think we are
making a killing, but we’re not,” she
Panel Studies Grading of Administrators
By DEBBIE GODBEE
West Georgia administrators may
have new report cards next year.
President Maurice Townsend has ap
pointed an ad hoc committee to study
available literature on ways and means
of evaluating administrators and pro
duce its own formal administrator
evaluation plan for his review.
“The major thrust of such a program
should be to improve the overall ad
ministration of the college, to provide
decision-makers with information
necessary to strengthen our academic
and administrative units, and to
strengthen the performance of each ad
ministrator,” said Townsend.
Its rather large and communicating
over their music can become quite a
chore since its size and enthusiasm
creates enough decibels to blow the
spectators in the back of the bleachers
right off into the night air. With a grand
patriotic ending (complete with a giant
flag and red, white and blue balloons)
the band wraps up its performance and
clears the field with an air of superiori
ty and accomplishment.
The place is really charged with elec
tricity now. The national anthem has
been played and there is no longer any
reason to be quiet and calm. The air is
sliced by various types of cheers: some
are organized and some are not. The
former usually comes from a section of
the crowd filled with short haired young
men in button down shirts and ties. The
latter just drifts from unspecified
points in the mass and floats down onto
the playing field where the teams are
beginning to file out, ready for the toss
and the trot through the cheerleaders
magnum-sized paper banner.
The spectators are fidgeting in their
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The Days of Grace Are Over
Public Safety will he out to "net even" this week as the ty officials wrote up a record number of “courtesy tickets."
crackdown on illegally parked cars begins. Last week, (Photo by David Edwards)
students ignored signs everywhere on campus as public safe-
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Empty shelves
said. “We have to go by wholesale buy
ing guides." According to Pope, only a
20 percent mark-up on the publisher's
list price is added but she says that’s
been a standard for the past two years.
Although some students have com
plained also about the amount of used
books available, Pope said, “We got all
Committee chairman Richard Folk
director of Instructional and Research
Services, said the program should in
clude an evaluation and a developmen
tal phase. The evaluation phase would
assess the administrator to identify his
strengths and weaknesses while the
developmental phase would aid the in
dividual in improving in his weaker
areas while maintaining his stronger
ones.
When the program is complete, which
should be after the first of the year, it
will also include how the administrator
will be evaluated, who will do the
evaluating, and what will be done with
the evaluations.
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The cheerleaders expressed their pre-game sentiments with this magnum sized poster on Saturday night.
the used books we could. We bought
more used books this quarter than we
ever have before.” She said they pur
chased used books from eight different
wholesalers.
Pope explained the reason why prices
are so high may he due to the fact that
when bookstores buy used books first,
Evaluations could be done through
faculty, other administrative peers,
students or self-reporters, depending on
the contact the administrator has with
the college population. For example,
Folk said students would have pro
blems evaluating his job as director of
Instructional and Research Services
because studenLs rarely see the iaside
of his office in Sanford Hall.
“There has been a constant concern
about evaluations, whether by students
or faculty. The idea is to strengthen
West Georgia in all facets of what we’re
here to do, which is to research, serve
the public and educate,” Folk said.
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publishing companies will either come
out with new editions or up the prices to
make up lor lost profits. “But, we are in
the business to help students, not rip
them off, “she said.
Pope also pointed out that profits
from the campus store go back into the
college, where as a privately owned
bookstore funds do not go to the school.
Wednesday, the first day of classes,
was the busiest day for store personnel.
"We've been working on re-orders all
day long. They're buying books, soft
goods, and supplies,” Pope said Friday.
Pope said prices seem to go up more
for the fall quarter and that publishers
are coming out with new editions more
frequently. “That hurts,” she says.
Used books are sometimes
significantly lower-priced and when the
bookstore buys them back, they pay
half-price regardless of whether it was
anew or used.
There has been discussion concerning
a student directed book exchange pro
gram sponsored by the Student Govern
ment However, according to recently
elected president, Michael Kay,
nothing has been decided yet.
“There’s always room to improve
and everyone wants to improve,” he
said.
Other committee members are: Dr.
Bruce Lyon, Dean of Student Services;
Dr. Frank Hunsicker, chairman of the
department of management and
marketing; Dr. Prentice Gott, Assis
tant Dean of the School of Education;
Dr. Donald Wells, chairman of the
political science department; Harris
Holmes, director of personnel; Lisa
I>edbetter, director of publications and
printing; Charles Wilson, chairman of
special studies; and Dr. Michael Mc-
Cord, associated director of In
structional and Research Services.