1979_02 The Daily Collegian February 1979

              The Daily Collegian
Has your freedom of speech been pacified lately?
A perennial predicament
Photo By DAN FORBES
Professor protests parking problem
The perennial grumble heard from
both faculty and students concerning
the parking problem on the CSUF cam¬
pus became a formal protest recently
when anthropology professor Dirk van
der Elst refused to teach his classes if
'illegal occupancy" of parking spaces
Van der Elst made good his word to
the committee the day he wrote the
complaint when he missed a 10 a.m.
class because he was 'too furious to go
to class' after fighting for a place to
Van der Elst wrote a memorandum to
the campus Traffic Committee Jan. 29
complaining that students with "G*
(general) parking stickers were parking
in 'R' (restricted) spaces. In the letter,
he notified the committee that 'for rea¬
sons of health," he would "prudently
return home to bed" if he could not find
a parking spot in Lot L, the faculty/
student parking lot near the Social Sci¬
ence Buildina
Van der Elst said that he is on the
campus six days a week, usually until
6or6:30p.m., but is regularly forced to
park in Lots A and J behind the Joyal
Administration Building - and walk
three-fourths of a mile to his classes --
because students park In the restricted
parking lot nearest his office, Lot L.
He wrote that his formal complaint
was the result of 'daily doses of apo¬
plexy, " brought on by frustration at not
finding a parking place in Lot L and
■n having to walk
is campus to class.
legal access to my work because illegal
occupancy has not been halted, then
my work will have to be curtailed," said
van der Elst's complaint
Cordon Riddle, Associated Student
President, said it is hard for him to look
at the problem seriously.
"I don't view the parking situation
as one of our top priority problems,"
said Riddle "Especially in the day and
age of Prop 13."
"I don't really agree with preferen¬
tial parking for faculty," said Riddle.
"Our going to this school and attending
classes is just as important as a faculty
member getting to his office. I don't
consider the fact that a faculty member
can't get a preferential parking place
just as it is no excuse for students who
miss class because they can't find a
parking spot."
Van der Elst said he talked to Robert
Nash, Traffic Committee chairman
and CSUF Chief of Police William
Anderson about the situation, but has
received no solution to the problem.
Parking on the CSUF campus had
been a problem for a long time, said
Nash.
'This problem has existed for the 16
years I ve been on this campus I don't
see aiy real solution," Nash said
Van der Elst suggested two solutions
to the parking problem on campus:
gates which would not open unless they
were fed' special metal cards and
towing of illegally-parked cars
Anderson    said    both    suggestions
need a closer look before they can be
considered feasible solutions
"We don t have a towing ordinance for
illegal parking," ne said "If we use
gates, there's going to be some dam¬
age to them, but we need to look into
into the implications (of it) "
with using gates was not advantageous
because people drove down the gates
and a large amount of maintenance was
needed, Nash said
'All we know is that the experience
that we did have (with the use of gates)
cost ns money every month because
people keep breaking them " said
Nash
Anderson said he will be suggesting
that the Traffic Committee seriously
consider discount priced decals for car
pooling. He added that the discount
might be the incentive people need to
Anderson said that something has
been done about the parking problem
on campus, even though security has
been 'in a real bind' due to an insuffi¬
cient number of personnel who are able
to write tickets.
He said there are three student-help
positions, which provide approximately
30 hours of ticket-writing • week, and'
two day-time officers who write tickets
along with their other duties.
A combination of factors have made
for disastrous parking habits on the
part of the students last semester,
Anderson said. Students were allowed
lo park illegally for the first 12 weeks of
the semester because security did not
have ticket books.
The 12 week period crippled securi¬
ty, not only because students parked
illegally, he said, but because it
brought about a relaxed attitude on the
part of the students which has made
parking regulations harder to enforce
this semester.
The recent opening of Lot Q, east of
the Industrial Arts building, and the
establishment of 20 more restricted
parking spaces in Lot L (the lot closest
tovandei Elst's office) should ease the
situation somewhat, said Anderson,
although it will not alleviate the prob-
"The parking situation is not going to
improve because I firmly believe we
have more cars on campus due to part-
time students," said Anderson.
He explained that there could be an
increase in the actual number of stu¬
dents, but because parking lots are
built according to the total full-time
student enrollment, CSUF is not able to
build a new lot.
"People are going to have to take
some responsibility in parking where
they are supposed to,* Anderson
commented.
February 16,197»
The Dairy Collegian
Lecture
"The Consumer Price Index and
Its Recent Revision" will be the sub¬
ject of a special lecture next Wed¬
nesday, Feb. 21, at CSUF. The lec¬
ture is being sponsored by the San
Joaquin Valley Chapter of the
American Statistical Association,
and will be at 4 p.m. in the Phoebe
Conley Art Building, room 101.
The guest speaker will be Jerry
Faulkner, Chief of the Inquires and
Correspondence Branch of the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Open to the public free of charge,
the lecture is to be informative in
nature rather than mathematical or
statistical.
Dance
CONSORT DANCE THEATRE of
Berkeley will present an evening of
contemporary dance tomorrow Feb.
17 at 8 p.m. in room 134 (Dance
Studio) of the Women's Gym at
CSUF. Admission to the concert is
$2
In  addition  to the concert  this
group of five dancers will offer a
master class at 10 a.m. in the same .S
location on the 17th. The charge fo*%t
the class will be SI.
Consort Dance Theatre's perfor¬
mance is being sponsored by Port¬
able Dance Troupe, the umbrella
performing organization of the
Dance Section, Department of
Physical-Education, CSUF.
For further information, call 487-
2960/487-2016.
Tour
The Meux Home Museum is once
again open for public tours following a
month long closure.
Large groups are Invited to tour the
Home. Arrangements can be made by
phoning 488-1141. Small groups and
individuals may tour the Meux Home
without      appointment,      Thursday
shortshortshortshortshorfl
through Sunday, from 12 noon to
4 p.m.
Admission to the Home is $1 for
adults and 50 cents for children and
senior citizens.
Scholarship
Applications for the J600 Tokslon's
Ina Gregg Thomas Memorial Scholar¬
ship are now available.
Any undergraduate woman student
who has compiled 45 units of college
work, and who will be attending CSUF
full time for both semesters next year
is eligible for the grant.
Applications are available at the Su-
dent Activities Office or from Mrs. Mil-
licent J. Cromis (439-9135) and must be
returned to her at 2606 W Stuart,
Fresno, CA 93711 by March 5.
Proposition 13, the tenant,
and the landlord
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act as a mediation board to settle
tenant-landlord disputes (favored
by 75 percent of the respondants).
"Even though we gave them (the
tenants) definitions, they didn't know
what we meant" by some of the al¬
ternatives for action, Armstrong said,
which he believed may have affected
the percentage of respondants favor¬
ing/not favoring rent control, rollback
The Mood of the Tenants
Is there any way to  sum  up the
„'mood'   of   the  tenants   in   the  city
Armstrong and Thompson stated in
their report that renters, as a whole,
are satisfied with their rental agree-
'However," the report continued,
'there is evidence from our survey
that, with the passage of Proposition 13,
the renters' confidence in those
agreements (has) eroded. The result
is that while a majority of renters
still report a degree of satisfaction
with their rates and the maintenance
of their facilities, that same majority
is experiencing a loss of control which
stems from the growing conviction
that they are being exploited by those
setting rental rates.'
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