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Comer GATEWAY & HARLOW RD. • 746-6747 Weekdays 9:30-6 Parking lotto limits night permits Projects on Moss and Columbia streets will help replace parking spaces lost to construction By Teri Meeuwsen Higher Education Reporter Some resident hall students have learned that finding a place to park their cars overnight is just the luck of the draw rather than a mat 1 ter of buying an overnight permit. I A lottery system was imple | mented this year to alleviate the | parking crunch created by con j struction on the William Knight j Law School. The new school, | which is being built on part of the j overnight parking lot near Bean | Complex, resulted in the loss of j 190 spaces, leaving about four j hundred spaces available for stu j dent housing residents. | In order to decide who would j get a parking spot, a lottery system | was implemented by the Resident j Hall Government Committee. Ac | cording to Kelly Matchett-Morris, j assistant director of resident life and a member of the committee, re ■j turning residents were the first to jj be offered a parking spot in the | overnight lot. For new residents, jj priority depended on when appli jj cations were sent and how soon [j they were processed. The applica | tions made it obvious that there jj was going to be a lottery for park jj ing, so timeliness was important, jj Matchett-Morris said. | Freshman Jessica Vaughan | parks her pickup on 19th Street be | cause she lost the lottery. She said | she believes the parking situation | could be improved. “I hate the whole idea,” she said. “I know smaller schools have enough parking to give all of the dorms a place to park. "I guess [the lottery] is fair, but they need to do something, like build a parking garage or add park ing somewhere.” Last year, around 650 overnight permits were sold to students at $25 each per term. This year, only 400 overnight permits were sold for the entire year at a cost of $75 each per term. Psychology major Andrea Butler won the lottery and said it was nice to have a place to park because finding one is difficult. However, the price of the permit was upset ting. Not only did students need to pay for an overnight permit, but they also had to pay for a day per mit as well. The combined permits cost $290 for the year. “I felt misled,” she said. “In the letter that told me I got a spot, they listed the prices for the day pass and the night pass separately. I thought they were two different passes. I didn’t think we had to pay both. So after standing in the long line, and finding out I didn’t have enough money, it made me mad.” According to Matchett-Morris, approximately 1,000 students re quested parking at the beginning of the year, but due to the restricted number of overnight permits, those students who did not receive permits were placed on a waiting list. Another factor in determining who received parking permits was the importance of having a vehicle on campus. Housing set aside 25 parking spaces for these students, Matchett-Morris said. “If they have viable reasons, like they have a disabled mother in Portland they take care of and need to get to them at a moment’s notice, or work at Gateway Mall and have to work after 10 o’clock and the buses stop running before then, then they are considered,” he said. English major Chris Barron re ceived a reserved spot for students who need a vehicle to get to and from work. “Concerning the lottery, it’s a pretty fair way of doing it,” he said. “First come, first serve just would n’t do it.” Those who opted not to be on the waiting list were referred to parking lots throughout the city. Diamond Parking Service, a major parking lot company in Eugene, is helping to relieve the parking crunch on campus. Larry Sum mer, the Oregon regional manager for Diamond, said students and their families filled their parking lots before mid-September. Par ents were calling from Maine, Texas and Louisiana to reserve spots, he said. Rand Stamm, program director for the University Office of Public Safety, said projects are being worked on along Columbia and Moss streets to help ease the park ing lot dilemma. Columbia Street, which current ly contains temporary spaces, will be widened, and 130 parking spaces will be created. At the end of Moss Street, a grav el parking lot will soon be open to students. Stamm said it is probable that the gravel parking lot will be come permanent in the future. \r.irirJrJnrJ Pathfinder unable to transmit data ranrHrarFJHHEnranrr^JrJr3nrnr^rr^JrJrJnlrJddr.[r3rJnrar If the spacecraft's battery is dead, scientists will have to use solar energy> to operate it in the future The Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. — The Mars Pathfinder is still operating, but NASA is struggling to find ways to communicate with the spaceship that has now out lived its original minimum design life by nearly two months. It is possible the battery is dead and solar en ergy will have to be used in the future, scientists said today. After three days of problems communicating with the spacecraft, controllers were able to reestablish enough contact with the lander through an auxiliary transmitter to determine if it is still operational, NASA said Wednesday. Another similar signal was received today, but again no data was transmitted, Project Manager Brian Muirhead said. Muirhead was more certain that the lander’s bat tery had finally died, which would mean that using the spacecraft would require devising new ways to control Pathfinder during periods when its solar pan els are generating enough power. “I’m confident that we’ll get to the bottom of it," he said. The brief communication session Tuesday night marked the first time the Pathfinder’s engineers and scientists heard from the spacecraft since download ing data in a session that ended early Saturday, the 83rd day of the mission. 10* OFF ALL REGULAR PRICED CLOTHING EVERY DAY We simply don’t expect our loyal customers to pay more for shopping at Berg's. / You can't beat Berg's for / service and selection! / Hours Mon-Sat 10-6 •Exdudins snowboard dothins. 13th & Lawrence • Eugene « 683-1300