By College Gripe

11-12-74 'tudents Protest Parking Lot· ·ofDorm BY BARBARA- PERKINS Fifteen students tried unsuc rEarly One Foggy cessfully to stop construction of a parking lot adjacent . to ~the ·dorm- Morning ... itories. Students stood in front BY JOAl\J:\JE WASSERMAN of bulldozers as workers attempted to level the ground adjacent to the h'hen Bob the Contractor came to overcrowded Campus Center South work that morning-., the last thing _ lot. Contractors ·called the Har he expected to find in front of his! rison Police and the students were bulldozer was 20 kids. "I've got dispersed peacefully. a job to do. This parking lot is Student Denise Mozilo confront- - a favor. My crew is working on ed Ed Redkey, Dean of Students, the V.A. building and we're doing with the accusation that students this in addition. This is cost- are never cor,sul ted on matters ing somebody a lot of money." such as these: "How would you t _The lot was cleared of stu feel if you awoke to the sound of dents and the only people milling bulldozers fearing up your front around 1-1ere Bob and some llarr i_.;on lawn for a temporary parking lot?(!: Police. "Some girl didn'-t wal]t a said Mozilo. "I think of this parking lot bu iJ t," 'l cop shrug place as my home -- the students ged. A~oth e r turned to some girls don't matter?" Redkey replied that who were watching from a donn lvin the lot was not her front yard, dow and sa i.d, "You tell your but a part of the College. "We friends that if they try to stop appreciate your concern," he said. 1vork, we'll arrest them." _- "We are aware that some things are Bob was worried. "I call~d upsetting and we will try to con Harrison because this is their. sult you in the future. How can jurisdiction," he said. "TI10 sc _ we read your mind as to what par machines are dangerous. If soJ,Je ticular things are going to upset body gets hurt we're liable." He you?" - took a long look arow1d the cam . A delegation of students then pus. "I grew up around here and headed for the Administration used to come and play in the woods. Building in an attempt to speak ·I know how beautiful it was." with Norm Taylor, Director of Faci lities. Students demanded that they be allowed input when such of weeks ago. It was the best lo decisions are made. Redkey at cation _we could find." Lack of the par.king lot is~ intended to han mittee. The parking lot is now tended the meeting also and sug available parking spa~e on campus dle ,overflow from other campus completed; present plans call for gested that students try working compelled immediate action. M:mey lots, and that it was part of the it to remain as a gravel lot un through the President's Advisory for the project came from a cen "long-range plans" of the school til money can be found to black Corruni t tee . tral buildil).g fund. _ to build more parking areas. t''" it. Telephone poles will be Taylor said that the decision Robert Davies, Vice President Students are now working to erected soon to act as barri to build the lot was made "a couple for Administration,explained that wards setting up a Planning Com- ers for the parked cars. Fixed TicketsMayBeA·Problem want to quash any tickets." llc ccive copies of the sunnnonses wak BY ADAM NAGOURi'-JEY volunteered two of the letter:-; he ing it difficult for someone to had written. One involved a case Purchase faculty members and negate his ticket by simply pulling where the defendant insisted s he it out of a pile on the appropriate Administrators have apparently had parked illegally due to ignor been accumulating large numbers of secretary's desk. ance of parking regulations Sh~ All the Administrators in unpaid parking tickets and con pointed out in her letter that cern has been expressed that cer volved in the processing of park there are no signs posted desig ing tickets have strong feelings tain officials are trying to get nating where it is legal to park. tickets "fixed". Due to a back about any "fixing" that might be She claimed that it was impossible taking place. "We are determined iog in processing the summonses, to get to Purchase for a hearing the tickets were recently moved to ceal fa!ily with both faculty .:'-'~ '1; -~_>';;c:o_,_''"':''" "."'<"_...,..,_""': and would pose an unjust incon -o from the Security office _to the venience on her. Davies feels ::-., id students," said Davies, ex L1brary Director Robert Evans office of the Vice President of justifLed in writing a letter in plaining that he f~els it is un Administration. It was said that her case explaining that, "It's fair for a faculty member or an Administrator to be able to shirk Library to Stay - this might have been done to faci ·easier for me to say I can do litate the "fixing" of tickets. something about it. I don't think payment while students are left at Robert Davies, Vice President the ~ercy of campus parking regu Open Extra Hour bureaucrats should hide behind l_atlons. of Administration, ann Jerome Bar- their bureaucracy." With both Beginning this week the Library ry, Director of Security, both in will temain open an extra hour letters, he informed the Parking sist tPat no summonses are being Review Board of. his willingness to four nights a week. Robert Evans, quashed. Their secretaries both Director of the Library, has hired appear before the Board and argue corroborate the statement. Ac the case. Jim Coughlin, a Purchase graduate, cording to Barry, the move was say ~; to work weeknights from 6: 00 until Snyder - that -under very made because his secretary was be- special circumstances, he is wil 11:00 P.M. Coughlin will act as a hind in proccessing the tickets l~ng tp forgQ the required hearing supervisor at the circulation desk. and Davies' secretary volunteered There will be no reference service and will void the ticket in ques to help the Security office out. tion. Snyder was asked about oth after 10:00 P.M. Dave Snyder, Chairman 0f the Park Evans said that he is trying to er letters he had received. He ing Review Board, says that he has replied, "Quite frankly, I'm con arrange for a study lounge to be received letters from Administra- available 24 hours a day. There cerned with this. A man's posi tors asking him to "discard" cer tion should have no bearing on the has been a problem locking the tain tickets. He refused to name doors that lead into the main area case." When questioned about which Administrators have' written cases where tickets were quelched of the Library. ''We are working him; he says that he will refuse to on it," he said. during the paper work process, he comply with their requests. s:-tid, "I've rrever heard of it hap The lounge can hold approxi Davies says that he has, on pening. there's ~!lever even been mately 15 people. Evans is aware very rare occasions, written such that this may not be adequate. "I any mention of (anyone) ever be- letters, but insists that this has ing approached." _ think the College ~ad better find been done only linder extenuating some other solution ... ! don't know Barry and Davies pointed out circumstances. ~~"\'/e try to avoid ' ll go from here , " he that the Security Office, Business Two (?) students at the Third where we coing that," he said. "I don't said. Office, and Davies' off~ce all re- Annual Purchase Halloween Party . ·Commuters Form Servo Revamps Kitchen Staff Government BY BRUCE SALVO BY JOANNE WASSERMAN ation. There was a lot of under mi,ning going on." Servomation has gone through a Originally conceived as a resi major overhaul in its kitchen st-aff Bertrand's departure was also related to the upcoming renewal dential community, Purchase pres staff. Original supervisor Rick ently has a large commuter popula Bertrand left the company last period in the Servomation contract, said Burnell. Our first concern is tion. This group, consisting of week. Earlier this month, Alex the approximately 500 students, has chef and Bob "Phantom" Rhoades, student satisfaction with the food. You don't please the customer and formed the Commuters Government As Dining Room Manager, resigned their sociation whose purpose will be to positions. Greg Burnell, new Bini you don't have a customer." Servo has expressed an interest in busi voice complaints and initiate ac Dining Room Manager, explained that tion for resolving numerous prob "Bertrand's leaving was by mutual ness with other branches of SUNY. "We want more business. There are Rick Bertram _lerns comnuters encounter. agreement. Kdministrative jobs In interviewing a cross-section were not getting done and the com stockholders in this company." properly balanced. ·~e need a Burnell is a vegetarian and soillld program here." of 50 comnuting students, it was pany could not operate." Burnell discovered that nearly all of those would like to improve the food ser Burnell promised other ~hanges said that both Alex and Rhoades questioned live in Westchester and were not able to work under those vice. "People here are not as in in the dining room environment. formed about eating right as they "The quality of the.

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