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New attendant guards sanctity
of visitors-only parking area
By TOM FLUHARTY
Of the Emerald
‘ Ah Ha,” you say to yourself. “I'll just drive to
school early, spin into the visitors’ parking lot by the
EMU and no one will be the wiser.” As you beam with
pleasure at your sneakiness and turn into the lot, you
notice something new — a parking lot attendant
“I’m sorry. Students aren't permitted to park here,”
he says.
“I’m not a student,” you retort. “I'm just visiting."
“Then what are those textbooks in the backseat
for?"
As you drive away looking for a parking spot
somewhere near the North Forty, you wonder what
happened to your clever idea. Simple.
A joint experiment among University relations,
Campus Security and the Campus Transportation
Committee, went into effect this month in the west
end of the EMU parking lot. An attendent mans the lot
weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and allows only
visitors to park there.
The primary purpose of the experiment is to insure
guests central campus parking, explained Muriel
Jackson, University relations director. She said her
office has found that people don't like to come to the
University because of the parking problems.
Jackson explained the new procedure for arrang
ing visitor parking:
When guests are expected, a department should
notify Campus Security, which will then tell the lot
attendant that the visitor is coming. When the guest
arrives, the attendent that the visitor him fill out a
standard visitors’ parking permit, allowing him to park
in the lot free.
Copies of the permits will be kept to determine
parking lot use.
Don McCarty, campus transportation committee
chairer, said that departments can send permits to
visitors they are expecting ahead of time.
Jackson said the experiment is an attempt to meet
visitors' concerns that there is “no dependable place
to park' on campus.
She said observations so far show that the parking
slots are getting an expected high-turnover use
"It shows we re really meeting the needs of the
part-day visitor to campus, she said
Groups seek election rules change
ASUO election rules, including
one used Tuesday to convict a
presidential candidate of a cam
paign violation, are under attack
from various campus groups.
"The rules are totally inade
quate,” charges Kirby Garrett,
ASUO vice-president. "They’re
ambiguous, difficult to interpret
and often meaningless. They
need to be completely revised."
Mike Dotten, chairer of he
ASUO Elections Court agrees.
“The rules should have been re
promulgated before the
primaries,” Dotten says.
The rules in question comprise
a six-page document which gov
erns all ASUO elections to “pro
vide a framework for the fair, im
partial, and orderly conduct of
those elections.” Last revised on
March 30, the rules outline princi
ples and administration of the
elections, candidate qualifica
tions, election procedures, and
campaign rules, complaints and
violations.
But Garrett says the rules don't
accomplish their stated purpose.
He says many of them are am
biguous, redundant or meaning
less. The vice-president cites rule
5.6 as an example of a "poor rule. "
"Rule 5.6 is an absurd and
counter-productive regulation
which serves no one,” Garrett
charges. "It only serves to inhibit
communication with the stu
dents.” The vice-president also
says the rule is "too ambiguous
and subject to interpretation."
The regulation states only that
“campaign material may be
placed off campus in private build
ings only with the consent of the
owner or proprietor.” Garrett says
he interprets that to mean "im
plied” consent. In Tuesday's deci
sion the Elections Court inter
preted it to mean express, direct
prior consent.
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But even the court agrees that
rule 5.6 is a "bad rule." In an
nouncing its decision Tuesday it
stated that "5.6 is not a rule in the
best interests of the students of
this university. Stimulating in
terest in ASUO elections is an im
portant public policy."
Garrett plans to hold a public
hearing to solicit student input into
repromulgating the election rules
when the elections are over. "Es
sentially I want to just throw them
all out and start over." But he says
if there is "sufficient interest on the
part of all run-off candidates and
the student population," he will
consider eliminating rule 5.6 be
fore the run-offs begin.
Three of the four candidates in
volved in the run-off express sup
port for immediate removal of the
rule. Jim Davis and Jan Oliver,
contenders for the presidential
race both say the rule is "ridicu
lous" and should be removed.
David Tyler, candidate for IFC,
also feels the rule “should be done
away with. All it's done is screw
things up."
David Parr, Tyler's opponent,
agrees the rule is "bad" and
should be eliminated but feels it
would be "unprofessional" to do
so until after the elections.
ASUO presidential candidate
Davis feels his conviction based
on rule 5.6 was “unfair and un
founded He plans to appeal the
decision to the Constitutional
Committee.