University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (1990s) Student Newspapers 8-23-1993 Current, August 23, 1993 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: http://irl.umsl.edu/current1990s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, August 23, 1993" (1993). Current (1990s). 114. http://irl.umsl.edu/current1990s/114 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (1990s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Issue 764 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS August 23 t 1993 Metrolink Connects· Campus To Cen ..... 200,000 Ride MetroHnk During West d And Downtown St. Louis First Week Rail System May Cause by Clint Zweifel Campus Parking Problems news editor More than 200,000 prople tried withdrawn from their paycheck. In the . by Clint Zweifel the city's newest form oftranspor­ case of srudents, their transcripts or news ed~or tation, Metrolink., during its firs t report card could be held. full week in use. Many of them The situation is different for a Some users of the North Campus were trying to decide how visitor. Metrolink station have been parking in Metrolink could fit into their daily Debbie Lancaster, data entry clerk designated faculty and sbIdent lots, schedules. without recehjng tickets for their vio­ in the Cashiers Office, said a visitor iii St. Louis resident Willie who receives a ticket can have it an­ City lations. Miles and Areau Gartney came to nulled by sending it in to the cashiers Unlike the South Campus station, the grand opening celebration to office with the word visitor written the North Campus station, located be­ find out which bus routes tie in across the ticket The cashiers office hind the Blue Metal Office Building, with the Grand A venue stop. they will check to make sure the vehicle is does not provide parking for Metrolink will use Metrolink on a daily basis riders. not registered with UM-St Louis. If it : ~:~ them to their jobs in East St. UM-St. Louis Police Chief John isn't, the ticket is annulled. Pickens said he told all UM-St. Louis Reinhard Schuster, director of fa ­ police offi cers not to ticket the violators cjlities management, said there are other ••• out~:~~~~:~ I ~~ ~~o~~~~~ reasons why the university has not ;: ~ because it would be difficult to collect be prepared for the comi ng work enacted policy to deal with the violators. ticket revenue. w\X',k," said Gartney. He said the North Hanley Metrolink "There is a lack of a mechanism to "My blood pressure lowered enforce the fine,1> he said. parking lot is not finished and could be already just knowing I won 't hay causing overtlow onto the North and Photo: Dave Floyd Pickens said if an employee, faculty to dri VE; in traffic," said Tim South Campus lots. Linda Hancock, member or student receives a parking NOT CLOWNING AROUND: While this may not be the normal fare-paying customer of Metrolink, a clown Wilhite, a resident of Aorissant, ticket, there are several ways the fme communications official at Metrolink, greets train riders during the grand opening. Seen here is the Delmar station. who works in the Central West said ,weather permitting, the lot will be could be enforced. End. He will take the bus to UM­ But, if a visitor corrunits a parking completed August 31. to the public as a "good neighbor ges- from parking in the unauthorized Noel Bath, manager of campus St. Louis since his bus route is tied violation, the ticket may be annulled_ "Once the lot is finished it may no ture." spaces. construction and planning, said the For example, if a faculty member longer be a problem," Schuster said. Schuster said if an officer is tem­ "If that doesn't work," he said, "we university does not want to interfere f or emplo of the ooivexs:ity receiyes He said UM-St Louis is also racily station" :' the lut en North will have to banicsde 1\ eff and really wi th progress of Me alink, in e it See Riders, page 6 a parking ticket, the fine could be thinking of, "allotting 10 or 15 spaces campus, it could keep Metrolink riders enforce it" is still relatively new. McDonnell Douglas Donates .$300,000 Tim Hatfield: Man Of Honor And Flood Hero For Undergraduate Engineering Program I ' by Jeremy Rutherford neering courses at the university, and undergraduate engineering classes for associate news editor then transfer to a school with an un­ the fall semester. She plans to attain a dergraduate program in the field. bachelors degree in engineering in the A donation of $300,000 from the Classes will be held at Washington next two or three years. James S. McDonnell Foundation, an­ University. Part of the donation is be­ ''The summer program went real nounced by UM-St. Louis Chancellor ing used to update UM-St Louis with well," Heidenreich said. "I really en­ Blanche Touhill on May 26, has en­ a computer laboratory to support class­ joyed the classes and professors. The abled UM-St Louis to start an under­ room work. joint program merged the twouniversi­ graduate engineering program in con­ Bob Samples, director of UM-St ties together nicely." junction with Washington University. Louis communications , said he expects Students will pay UM-St. Louis In past years, a UM-St. Louis stu­ the laboratory to be completed in Sep­ tuition rates, but will receive a joint dent working toward a degree in engi­ tember. degree from both UM-St Louis and neering was forced to take pre-engi- "It will be the most sophisticated . Washington University. computer laboratory on the UM-St "The cooperative engineering Louis campus," Samples said. program provides placebound students The contribution will also increase from St Louis with the never-before scholarship funds and aid to students in opportuPjty to earn undergraduate en­ Inside the program and will help develop re­ gineering degrees through a public cruitment university," UM-St Louis Chancellor With only evening classes avail­ Blanche Touhill said. Bill Darby, of able, the program will be geared for the Washington University, is dean of th e non-traditional student, who works full­ undergraduate engineering program. time during the day. "We are delighted with the gener­ Photo : Aliie M. Ali Fifty-four students ha ve been ad­ ous do nation from McDonn ell Dou­ glas," Darby said. "The gi fl is very mitted to the program and 15 of those GOOD JOB President Bill Clinton congratualates Tim Hatfield, of St. Joseph, MO, August 12, during ha ve completed summer classes in the important to the start of the program. " his trip to St. Louis to talk about flood relief programs. Hatfield was one 0119 people honored for their program. These sbIdents will have a Officials from UM-St. Louis and efforts during the "Great Flood of 1993." Hatfield's home was swept away by the raging Missouri flood choice taking mechanical electrical Washington University believe no other of or waters, and he has been using his boat to take workers and equipment to the ciity's water plant, which engineering courses. such engineering program, which in­ had been shut down previous to his efforts. Rosemarie Heidenreich attended volves a public-private partners hip, the summer session and has enrolled in exists elsewhere in the country. President Clinton Signs Flood-Ai Bm first step toward reco ery, but, the ~oes tou~est part- -rebuilding-isstill ahead. by Clint ZWeifel Honors Flood He~ I 'The hard part comes when the news editor cameras are off and we're no longer in era! Emergency Management Agency on their insurance proceeds. water and inspiration to those w110 were the spotlight of the national news," he President Bill Clinton and con- (FEMA) to provide emergency cash President Clinton also honored holding back the deluge." said. Thompson came in place of her " gressmen from flood-effected areas mel for those who qualify. people who he said exhibited out­ in St. Louis August 12, to sign a relief M6ng with the flood aid bill, standing spirit in fighting the flood. mother, who preferred to stay out of the bill that will provide $5.7 billion to the President Clinton also signed the De­ Tim Hatfield of St. Joseph and spotlight areas affected in the Midwest pository InstibIte Relief Act. President Doris Emily Hoskins of Kimmswick Hatfield, Carnahan said, had al­ ::fEtloodFacts .. The flood-aid bill was signed at Clinton said the act will provide for a were two of the 19 people honored as ready lost his home to the flood when Henry VIII Hotel in North County, speedier recovery, lending banks more flood heros. They both reside in Mis­ officials called him for help. He used \~~ ;7 ' - · · · ~~. · ·~ssis SiPIli ·.rises· freedom to give credit to flood victims. souri Hoskins and her daughter, Doris his boat to take workers and equipment where 19 flood "heros" were honored, ~\Te flo9d leyel iIi St Louis : .. including two from Missouri. "We will allow local banks to make Thompson, helped those working at to the city's water plant, which was The bill will provide money for lost local decisions about how best to speed sandbag sites and pumping stations shut down. Although the water has crops, housing, clean-up costs, dam­ up aid and credit to those who need it," near the Mississippi- receded in St Joseph, Hatfield has . ··.·: ~~~~:~~:!f\ .•• aged public facilities such as bridges, President Clinton said. "Flood victims "Doris Hoskins and her daughter continued to work in other areas still •:.