Point News, 1986 September 25

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Increased Enrollment Causes Parking Problems
By SETH BALSAM
To many students this
year, the parking situation
has been confusing. Both
full time and part-time
students have been baffled
by the lack of information
regarding parking permits.
Students last year
received i n f o rmation and
a p p l i c a t i o n s for parking
permits with college
'mailings. Students were
able to obtain stickers
before school started.
This was d i s c o n t i n u e d for
the 1986/87 school year
because of co m p l a i n t s of
lost stickers and
applications. Parking
permits this year are to be
purchased directly from the
business office.
With this y e a r’s
i n c r eased en r o l l m e n t came a
larger number of cars - a
fact for whi c h can be
attested by the commuters
forced to park on the grass
next to the Somerset lot.
In a major change from last
year, the Somerset lot has
become re g i s t e r e d parking
only .
A c c o rding to Jack
Krafft, D i rector of Public
Safety, Somerset was
changed to a re g i s t e r e d lot
for a variety of reasons.
Somerset had become long
term storage to some
students who left unused
cars there for long lengths
of time. With parking
space this year at a
premium, this is no longer
possible. Cars without
stickers that are left
u nmoved for ten days will
be declared a b a n doned and
towed. It is for this
reason that all students,
visitors, and members of
the community who use
college f a cilities and have
a car on campus are
required to get either a
parking sticker or
temporary pass.
Plans for a new lot
behind C a roline are being
formulated. With the
a d ditional dorm space
completed in time for Fall
of ’87 and enrollment
climbing even further, the
parking s i t u ation w i l l need
even more attention. The
a d ditional lot should
eliminate any p o s s ibility
of u n d e r c l a s s m e n not being
allowed to bring cars on
c a m p u s .
Parking along the
roadsides is illegal.
Parking on the shoulders of
Route 5 or Route 584(the
road which runs by Kent and
behind Anne Arrundel
Hal l s ) i s enforced by state
police, not by campus
security. Copies of the
new parking sticker
d e s i g n a t i o n s and of legal
parking areas are available
from the business office.
SGA Holds First Regular Meeting
By JEFF SWEREN
The Student Gover n m e n t
A s s o c i a t i o n met this
Tuesday for the first time
of the 1986-87 school year
in noisy lower Charles Hall
with Cecelia Stephens as
p r e s i d e n t .
After getting under
way ten m i n u t e s late, the
main order of business was
a ppointments. Among those
ap p ointed were: P a r l i a m e n ­tarian
- Stephanie Layton;
Public Affairs C o o r dinator
- Dennis James; Calvert
Up p e r c l a s s Senator - Tammy
Long; C aroline Upper c l a s s
Senator - Rich Miller; and
P.G. U p p e r c l a s s Senator -
Cindy Craytor. In a d d ­ition,
two a p p o i n t m e n t s
were made to the Finance
Board as well as several
a p o i n t m e n t s made to
s t u d e n t - f a c l u t y committees.
The most important
issues brought up later in
the meeting were about the
student on the Board of
Trustees and the cable
proposal, both issues
results of r esolutions
passed
SGA.
by last s p r i n g’s
In the June meeting of
the Board of Trustees, an
ad hoc committee was set up
to discuss the r e f e r r e n d u m
passed by the student body
c o n f i r m i n g their support by
a 97% margin. The c o m ­mittee
will give a report
this S a t u r d a y’s Board
meeting at 2:30 in the subject of a future
Bl a c k i s t o n e Room. The a r t i c l e .
meeting is open to the S t . The next SGA m e e ting
Mary ’ s c o m m u n i t y . The w i l l be held on T u e s d a y ,
cable proposal will be October 7 at 8 p.m. in
Charles Hall.
o tte r s fQl
The annual v a n d a l i s m and d e s t r u c t i o n of f a cilities
and e q u i pment in the areas behind Somerset Hall have
begun again during the last few weeks. We are less than
a month into the new a c ademic year and already
indic a t i o n s are that we w i l l see a record series of
soccer nets torn down, deep ruts dug into playing
surfaces of the varsity fields, scor e b o a d r s torn from
thier u p r i g h t s etc.
I walk out to our playing fields, p a r t i c u l a r l y on
Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays, feeling mixed anger and
d i s c o u r a g e m e n t as I survey dammage from the previous
n i g h t’s v e h icular ’’e n t e r t a i n m e n t”. I see the scant
remains of a new $90.00 soccer net t h r ough which a
C hev e t t e was driven and I try to rake smoth the ruts left
by jeeps and other R . V .’s (rec r e a t i o n a l ? ? vehicles) on
the varsity soccer fields. I t’s easy to sprain ankles
there. And we spend c o n s i d e r a b l e money on repair or
r e p l a c e m e n t rather than on new items.
Watch the p e r f o r m a n c e s of some of these vehicles on
campus in the daytime - c a n’t we make good guesses as to
who the n i g h t t i m e m a r a u d e r s are? O c c a s i o n a l l y someone is
caught in these m i n d l e s s acts of destruction, but the
field area is so large and the time needed to commit
v a n d a l i s m so brief that we h a v e n’t had m uch success in
prevention. I can only hope that students and others who
want to see the fields and facili t i e s remain available
and safe for our teams and many r e c r e a t i o n a l users wi l l
assist us. Any d e t errant inf l u e n c e you can exert or any
i n f o r m a t i o n conce r n i n g these w eekly incidents will
c e r t a i n l y be appreciated.
Dr . John Harvey
D ire c t o r of Athletics