Judge Stifles Parking Rate Increase Parking Probe May End Today
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Vol. LXV no. 49 UNIVERSlTY OF CINCINNA Tl Tuesday, May 23, 1978 UC employes win suit Judge stifles parking rate Increase• By Joe Awad does not plan to appeal the case but age deficit which will increase to "I don't know what the surcharge N R News Editor that he "will not give up that right" $272,000 by next year. wo~ld cover," he said. An injunction preventing the un until he examines Judge Bevens' Ullman said he did not know how U lim an said the money could also written decision. iversity from implementing an in much money would be lost because be extracted from the general funds crease in UC employes' annual park Ullman said all UC employes who •of the injunction. At the April 4 but he said that approach was "not ing rates was granted Friday by have already paid the increase, which Board of Trustees' meeting, Ullman desireable because it takesawayfrom Judge Myron Bevens, visiting Judge is deducted from salaries on a month said $18,000 would be lost by delay academic programs." of the Hamilton County Common ly basis, for May will be either reim ing the increase until the next Pleas court. bursed or granted credit for the ad Trustees' meeting which occured on The suit filed on April28 on behalf Based on the ruling, the ditional cost of the new rates which May 2. of 1500 to 2000 UC employes who applications signed by UC employes became effective this month. Ullman said UC employes could signed parking applications last year last summer and fall are binding con Maryann Roulier, director of expect a parking rate increase when claimed that the applications were tracts valid for a year after the parking and staff services said the all the current applications/ contracts contracts because all parking application was signed. employes who have already paid the expire. Expiration date varies depen facilities were offered on an annual basis even though they were paid for James Paradise, the attorney who additional amount will probably ding on when an employe signed the represented six UC employes who receive a refund check for the application. All applications were monthly. filed a class action suit seeking the in difference. signed by October 15, last year and The university said the junction, said the ruling defended the Total parking rate increases in all are valid for one year. applications were not binding con plantiffs conviction that the universi cluding a hike from $12 to $17 for Roulier said that applying the in tracts but only applications for park ty has a responsibility to live up to its student day lot decals and a jump creases in parking rates on an in ing 9ecals and authorization to contracts. "The university has an an from $18 to $24 for student 24 hour dividual basis as each deduct the monthly cost of the decals nual parking agreement with decals were expected to generate an application/ contract expires would from employes salaries. Chuck Sugarmanftht NewsRecord employes that is binding and can't be extended income of $1,612,765 . be "an administrative nightmare." "There was a principle involved," A new word processing unit, costing $50,000 to lease annually, is now in changed in midstream," said The parking rate increases were in Ullman said the money could be said Paradise. The administration ex operation in the Student Affairs Office. The system can operate 24 hours Paridise. stituted to help mitigate $66,000 obtained through other channels. He pects other UC employes to live up to continuously and perform correspondence duties for student and faculty Myron Ullman, vice president for parking budget deficit created said a surcharge might be im their contracts, "They should be organizations. business affairs said the university primarily by a $118,000 library gar- plemented to make up the difference. similarly bound," he said. Parking probe may end today By Ed Perlman Sources close to the investigation called the "rip-offs" a "very easy NR Editor said "at least" $30 per night was setup," said the parking attendants UC Campus Police today will con "ripped-off' by parking attendants irtvolved "tried to get me into their clude their investigation in•o.J the ac through a "scheme" in which they scheme but I decided not to." tivities of second shift parking atten resold used parking receipts. Another parking attendant claim dants, according to Police Chief Ed Drivers, who over a period of time ed ·. that on at least one occasion, Bridgeman. accumulated parking receipts on the "there were two (parking attendants) The three week investigation will dashboards in their cars, often gave who had $25 apiece in their pockets." end after three parking attendants the used receipts to the parking atten The parking attendant also said piz were fired and an undetermined dants who resold them, sources said. zas were delivered to parking booths amount of money was taken during Sources also said 35e parking and paid for with parking monies. the last four months. passes were sold for 60~~: at the park Bridgeman said he did not know Bridgeman said Campus Police ing booths in the fieldhouse lot (sta how many parking attendants were will determine whether there will be tion # five) and CCM driveway involved in the reported any criminal proceedings. "They're (station # one) without the irregularities. He also said he has not (detectives) still interviewing (park knowledge of parking officials. seen any figures on how much money ing attendants) right now," he said. One parking lot attendant who was taken by the parking attendants. Social Work funding increased By Patrick Maio Werner Boehm, professor of Social a special revie\Y of salary inequities Pat Ward/the NewsRecord N R University Editor Work at Rutger's University and Beautiful weather and the Campus Jam brought more than 15,000 people together Friday for an afternoon of and to upgrade, where necessary, A discussion of plans and com UC's Social Work Program ccmsul the status of vacant positions." evening and music, frisbee tossing and beer drinking. · mitments the university has made for tant, the university j administration McCall said new responsibilities of the Social Work Program and the initiated procedures to change tne the director and the Social Work procedural options for a show cause Social Work Program to the status of faculty will be handling budgets, per hearing scheduled in November was a school within the College of Com sonnel matters, and curriculum. Treaty dispute irks Indians examined on May II with the New munity Services. The graduate school of the CSWE York office of the Council on Social According to an open letter issued made consideration comrnit'i;nents By Julia Bernard "Most of the five thousand Indians The National Coordinator from Work Education (CSWE). by John McCall, senior vice presi to the establishment of a "direct ser The American Indians have allied there have a yearly income of $1 ,600," the Indian Chicano University in UC President Henry Winkler dent and provost, the ad vice concentration in Social Work in battle with the United States said Jeff Country, a resident of Davis, California, Frank Lee said, requested of the CSWE that the ministration will consider additional Administration" as pointed to in Mc Government · in a dispute over a Sisseton. "Sixty percent of the people "Jack Cunningham (D., Wash.), who appeal for the program be delayed changes in the program's organiza Call's letter. proposed House bill which would own their own homes though most of introduced the bill, is unfamiliar with until November when the program tion which may lead to the formation The undergraduate school of the terminate all treaties entered into this income is from welfare. Indian laws and the Indian People. could be more fully staffed and the of a separate Social Work School, Social Work Program would have between the United States and the In headed by its own dean, and be five new courses added to its "The houses we live in are built for He is supported by the fishing in search for program directors is dian Nations. The proposed bill proportionate in status to other curriculum beginning in 1978-1979 as us by the gover!lment. According to dustries, sporting clubs, and nuclear completed. The hearing is currently would abrogate all hunting and schools in the university. part of new comrnittrnents being Country, the houses cost $47,000 to industries." scheduled for next month. fishing rights and eliminate the reser Additional funds were made made by the program. In addition, to build and they pay $130 a month for According to Lee the fishing in vations. In preparation for the hearing in available for long distance telephone improve student/faculty rati~s. new them, but they are not getting much. dustries and hunters want the land to . To protest the proposed legisla November, Winkler said UC has calls, advertising, and extra support enrollments would be • partially He said they have either a three make money. The nuclear people tion, representatives of all tribes have committed about $50,000 to $65,000 providing library acquisitions to sup denominalized. bedroom or a five bedroom house, want the uranium on the reservations united to march from San Francisco to hire a new director of the Social port the search for curriculum coor Harten said positions for the but whatever house they choose they and this is where most of the uranium to Washington D.C. The march was Work Program and two curriculum dinators, a program director, and program director and the two are all 24 feet by 28 feet.