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SUN A develops student parking plan By RICHARD SEVEN Of the Emerald The South University Neigh borhood Association (SUNA) has long complained about student parking invading its neighbor hoods. However, SUNA has worked out a six-month “Preferential Parking Zone" test with the Eugene Traffic Engineering Division,which would reduce stu dent parking in the area to two hours between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. The test is scheduled to start in Sep tember. The test will be the subject of a public hearing 7:30 tonight at Edi son School, 1328 E. 22nd Ave. The plan would provide only South University residents a chance to buy $5 parking permits, ensuring them unlimited parking in the area. Lesley Childress-Ullman, a member of SUNA, says her group has been seeking ways to ease the parking glut in that area for five years, and she says the test is the answer. “We (SUNA) think we’ve been very responsible in working out this plan with the traffic depart ment,” says Childress-Ullman. Two years ago, a similar test was made in the area, but it failed. The parking limit was set at one hour and was enforced on Saturdays, Childress-Ullman says. Don South, another member of SUNA, says most of the problem lies with the University. ‘‘The parking situation is the University’s," South says. “There is no reason we should have our streets cluttered. If any other bus iness has a parking problem, the city makes them take care ot it, but not the University." Jim Hanks, city traffic engineer, says the plan arose from “com munity concern" over the parking problems faced by residents in that area. Hanks says some details might change as a result of tonight’s Several universities consider South African stock divestment While the question of divest ment of higher education funds in South African-based corporations lingers on, other institutions around the country are making their own interpretations. About 50 Stanford University demonstrators camped outside Pres. Richard Lyman’s office for seven hours last week, protesting the retention of Texaco stocks be cause of its involvement in South Africa. Stanford’s Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to retain Texaco stocks, despite student support for divestment through a referendum. The Stanford Daily reported that 294 students were arrested last year protesting Stanford's ownership of South African stocks. One hundred students at the University of California-Berkeley recently marched into the Ber keley branch of the Bank of America demanding the bank stop its loans to corporations in South Africa, as well as dispose of its current investments there. Despite protest and campaigns demanding divestment, the California regents have unanim ously voted against divestment. The University of Washington Board of Regents voted April 14 to retain South African stock, but drew up a new policy in handling those corporations doing busi ness in the country. The resolution stated that the Board of Regents should seek, through proxy voting, ways to in fluence those corporations to seek equal opportunities for blacks. Student protestors at Wesleyan University occupied the university resident s office for more than 50 hours demanding divestment. The occupation came three days after the university adopted a new policy on South African invest ments. The policy directs the university to refuse funds to banks that con tinue to offer loans to corporations in South Africa and to consider selective divestment. At Yale University, a student faculty committee presented re commendations on investment policy to the trustees. Assembly to consider evaluation requirements Faculty course evaluations, a proposal for an advisory commit tee to the museum of art council and two joint education degrees will be considered for approval by the University Assembly today at 3:30 in Room 150 Science. The course evaluation motion would make evaluations a re quirement of all departments and schools. Present University legis lation does not specifically require evaluations, according to history Prof. Paul Holbo and English Prof. Stanley Greenfield. The University Senate voted to recommend the motion be refer red back to an ad hoc committee on course evaluations at last week’s meeting. The committee has been studying the effective ness of course evaluations for a year and will report to the assem bly in September. “The system has got to be im proved,” says Holbo. "On the fa culty personnel committee we've found that some units aren’t doing evaluations at ail.” The evaluations that are con ducted are expensive, costing the University an estimated $50,00-60,000 yearly. Reports to the deans and evaluative committees aren’t very precise, according to Holbo. What we think makes sense is to require that every department and school conduct evaluations of at least two representative clas ses per instructor each year,” he adds. The trustees accepted the re port, and said they considered apartheid “morally abhorrent.” Students at Princeton Univer sity recently occupied an adminis trative building for about 26 hours, urging the board of trustees to withdraw South African-based stocks. Bronson LaFollette,Wisconsin attorney general has ruled that a state statute prohibits the Univer sity of Wisconsin from retaining South African stocks. meeting. For example, if a major ity of students on a given "block face” don’t want to be included in the plan, their specific area won’t change. South University resi dents who don’t buy the $5 permit will be subject to the 2-hour regu lation. However, Hanks also sees the test as a possible way to encour age students to use alternative modes of transportation. He says the test wouldn’t change the number of spaces available, but it would eliminate some of the park ing congestion in the area. According to Hanks, the 32-block area bordering 18th and 22nd Avenues from Agate to Alder street included in the plan holds approximately 200 parking spots. The $5 fee paid by residents would be used to fund the two hour enforcement by the city's traffic department. So where will students park if they want to avoid the hassle of moving their cars every two hours? Campus security currently es timates it writes 300 tickets a day and about 4,000 to 5,000 a month, Tanner estimates. According to University Plan ner Dave Row, the western side of campus has an even more acute parking problem than the southern area. Richard Tanner of Campus Security says the University has 953 on-campus parking spots re served for students who purchase the $18 permits. So far this year, There are lots o£ ways to see the world. We’ll give you a way to understand it. 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A good place to begin. the University has sold 1,365 permits. “You have to take into consid eration that not all students are on campus at the same time,” says Tanner. “Also, the student parking lot over by Bean Complex has only been full twice — once for Elvis Presley and for the Olympic trials.” Rowe says his office will monitor the amount of permits Campus Security sells next year to see if additional parking lots need to be set up. But right now, he says his department is taking a “wait and see what happens at titude” toward the project. “There is a kind of balancing act between accommodating people who have to drive to campus and can’t ride a bike or ride the bus for some reason and encouraging people fo find alternative methods of transportation,” Rowe says. He also says the test may sim ply increase the traffic flow in the neighborhood by forcing students to continually move their cars from one spot to another. If the test goes well, residents in the West University district might also ask for city attention to their parking problems. Hanks says the South University plan will serve as a “pilot project.” ermabombecK ltlite isa bowl of cherries what ami doing • m the pits? ; For Mother’s Day (It’s only two weeks away, Sunday May 14.) Erma Bombeck’s New Book — If life is a bowl of cherries-what am I doing in the pits? only $7.95 Open: Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30 Sat 10:00-2:00 i A note from 345-8289 Bring this ad and get 33Vz% OFF LIST PRICE of any new GUITAR in our store when purchased with its case at the regular price. Limit one coupon per customer. No trades on this offer. Offer expires May 6, 1978
