1987_09 The Daily Collegian September 1987

              The Daily Collegian
California State University, Fresno
Founded in 1922
Friday, September 4, 1987
Astone targets
goals for future
By Mike Butwell
Staff Writer
"Once a project has been evaluated and
found feasible, I promise I won't back out.
Til 8° !or 9, no matter what direction it
goes ^in£, said Associated Student
President Mark Astone. "I feel that is my
biggest strength as a leader."
Mt could be an eventful year for the
Associated Students if Astone is able to ac¬
complish all the goals he has set forth.
Astone plans to fill the numerous AS
committee positions. At the first AS meet¬
ing this semester, * Astone proposed two
candidates for two different posts. One of
them. Randy Guerra was unanimously
voted bit to the student position on the
Academic Policy and rTarmingCommittee.
Astone had recommended Laura Girard as
a candidate for the Arts and Humanities
senator's position, but the Senate deckled
to delay the vote by a week — a move
which Astone said he did not appreciate.
"I talked, to some of the senators
afterwards about it," Astone said. 'It's not
their decision to question who I choose.
After all it's up to the president to ap¬
point this position, and they just have to
make sure the person is not a friend or
unqualified."
Astone said he- had looked hard to find a
suitable person for that post and had
several candidates in mini, but said he
honestly felt that Girard was the best can¬
didate.
"I think once we get all the party
politics out of the way and the Senate
realizes that we're all working as one to
accomplish goals, everything will take its
shape," he said.
Although filling the' student committee
positions is his immediate priority.
Astone said, he has several other ideas he
would like to see developed. Among them
are:
—"Tipsy Taxi." This program would
enable students at public bars to ride home
in a taxi at no cost when they have had a
little too much to drink. All a student
would have to do is show his or her stu¬
dent ID to to the bar to get a special card
Seo ASTONE, poge 5
Bicycle thieves
are locked out
By Donna Reese
.Staff Writer
A bicycle lock rental program which
may prevent bicycle .thefts on campus will
be offered by Campus Police, according to
Campus     Police     investigator, Mike
O'Reilly.     •      "' r
$5
For $5 a year, phis
Campus Police will provide students with a
Kryptonite U-shape bike lock, a bicycle
license, registration and a secondary iden¬
tification number engraved on the bicycle,
according to C Reilly.
Deposits will be mailed to students at
the end of the year once the lock has been
returned to the department. Failure to re¬
turn the lock will result in a forfeiture of
the $5.00 deposit, said O'Reilly.
He added that a bicycle registered with
the campus police has a better chance of
being recovered.
Approximately     1,000    bicycles     have
been registered with the department in the '
last three  years,  he said.   Fifty-one  have
been registered this semester.
Of the 67 bicycles stolen last year,
only five were. found because the students
who reported the thefts had all the correct
information. O'Reilly said. Only two of
the five bicycles recovered had been,
registered with the Campus Police. < ■
"By encouraging students to. rent these
types of locks, we will reduce theft," said
O'Reilly.
And although, the Kennel Bookstore
sells' a variety of Master bicycle locks-
including a U-shape lock for $26.89- the
Campus Police recommend the Kryptonite
locks because they are hard for thieves to
destroy.
"We've done some tests on them with a
hacksaw and a bolt cutter and we have not
been able to penetrate them, "said O-
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Enrollment boost curbs parkers
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By Hanif Moo rod
Staff Writer
Parking has especially become a prob¬
lem at CSUF since bike lanes have been
put along Cedar Avenue—eliminating
parking against die curb.
"On Monday I was a Utile late to. school
so I couldn't find parking on campus and
went on Cedar to park," said CSUF student
Troy Frimger, who could not park on
Cedar because of the change. "I parked at
Brueners," he said.
Tins is the sad story about one pi the
many CSUF students who has paid $33.75
far a parking permit, bat cannot find a
space on campus because of the new rush
of enrolling students
Paul Bissormette, assistant • vice
president for fftTpiwiawrinw, said, "We
were consulted by the city and we en¬
couraged them to put m the bicycle lane."
He added that the
encourage   bike   riding  by
By allowing a bicycle lane to be built
on Shaw Avenue from Cedar to Chestnut,
CSUF wiH relieve the traffic along Shaw
near the norm end of ■ Maple Avenue, said
"Parking' is going to be scontinuing
concern on campus," Bissormette said.
"New students come in at the start of s
semester ... but later, students' schedules
settle down and there is enough parking
on campus.
Cope Virgil, adnunbtranon analyst for ?
the Campus Police, said that at the
moment the parking problem is. terrible
but it will ease up.
"For me first few weeks of every
semester, we have this big parking
problem," said Virgil. "A lot of
coma over to das campus with the
assumption that we (the police department)
do not enforce parking the first few
weeks, but mis is a fallacy."
Statistics   show   that   die   pofice   de¬
emed 2.435 tickets in February
of   this   year,   2,079   tickets   in   March,
1.640 tickets in April, and 1.114 tickets
m May Meet of these tickets, according
to Virgil were issued mostly for failure to
display a parking permit or for parking at
expired meters.
Connie Huter, a new graduate student,
said that when she arrives in die morning,
she drives around the parking lot to find
someone who is leaving and can give her
the parking space. She declared the park¬
ing situation to be a problem.
Dan Bustamante, an engineering
student, said that the prospect of buying s
parking permit isn't appealing to him. He
said he parks off-campus because the
permit "is too expensive and I can't find s
r my classes."
dd that the university is
die perking problem and has
plans to build a new tot just north of Shaw
and wast of Woodjtow. The tot would
provide 900 more parking spaces.
If das parking lot is constructed,
Bissormette said, k would be ready by the
FaB  1988 semester-    the same year the
new business building is expected to be
finished   This would distribute parking all
Virgil said the Campus Police is trying
to solve the parking problem by en¬
couraging student carpooling. Students
who would like to carpool give in¬
formation to the police department which
then matches up students for pooling.
Virgil said February statistics show that
die University has 4,231 general parking
spaces, 500 unmarked spaces, and 1340
restricted spaces for faculty and staff. The
restricted spaces become available / to
students after 3:30 pm m all tots except
for L, M and O. In addition, mere are 224
parking maters, 86 handicap parking
spaces, and 168 motorcycle spaces
But last' semester, CSUF issued 6415
general parking permits, 497 restricted
permits, 243 bicycle permits, and 79
hands*ap tanking permits, according to
Ruth MurrelL aocoiaiting supervisor for
CSUF. In addition, 14)00 to 1.100 dairy
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