November 22, 1977 Solutions Offered for Parking Problem
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MADISON MEMORIAL L'.3.7ARY Jomec Madison University- e cB&eze Harrioriurg, VA 22301 Tuesday November 22, 1*77 No. 23 Vol. LV James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia Commuters urge X lot division By MARK DAVISON A proposal allocating 199 spaces in X parking lot for commuter use was presented to the Parking Advisory Committee Nov. 15 by the Commuter Student Com- mittee Chairman. The proposal was based on the findings of a commuter student task force which studied the X lot parking patterns during a two-week period in October and November. After studying the findings of their survey, the commuter committee came to a "compromise" proposal, which they felt to be fair to both residents and com- muters, according to Wayne Baker, commuter committee chairman and a member of RESIDENT STUDENTS occupy the front spaces in X lot at approximately 11 p.m. Sunday night the parking committee. Photo by Mark Tbompaon The commuters propose Faculty praise, criticize: that "the first three fanes in X lot and the 21 spaces in the small lot just south of the main X lot, as well as the 13 Formation of new school questioned spaces along the road through X lot be designated for By THERESA BEALE state of the university's move—up to the ad- penses coming out of setting 'Commuter Use Only.'" Dividing the School of Arts development. ministration and Board of up an additional dean's office Also, the dommuter and Sciences into the College In an informal survey of Visitors." for the school. committee requested that of Letters and Sciences and faculty members, some said President Ronald Carrier The university is "already "the road behind the N- the School of Fine Arts and splitting the School of Arts and said he could not comment on overloaded, top heavy with complex dorms and the Communication has brought Sciences would direct more Funston's remarks because administrative officers," spaces along the road to the words of praise from attention to the departments the new school has been in the according to a biology tunnel under 1-81 should be re- department heads. in the new arts school and also planning stages for four professor. He said he thought designated as 'G' parking." to the remaining departments years. Studies and hearings the decision was "a litfle "G" is the designation However, some in the College of Letters and about the school have been premature" because JMU is given to the Godwin parking members of those Sciences. conducted and an intensive not "that big at this point." lot, which is used only by departments involved in the One faculty member feared study of the school was an- It will only add to the ad- commuters. transition are questioning the the fine arts school will take nounced last spring, ac- ministrative aspects," he (Continued on Page 19) feasibility of the action at this on a "vocational orientation," cording to Carrier. The said. "Many times we have while another said Dean John decision was "not made elaborated on administrative- Sweigart "will not have to precipitously," he said. "It offices and have let ef- worry about so many was done after careful study." ficiency." Gov. Godwin pardons departments" in the School of "There's always a problem He compared the univer- Arts and Sciences. "It doesn't of not having enough inside sity's administrative growth help us; it helps the ad- information to make a to bureaucracy in govern- ministration," she said. rational statement," ac- ment, saying that "many 1970 demonstrators A member of the cording to a member of the times rather than going A former professor and two refused to suspend or reduce philosophy departmet has geology department, but from through the procedures" of former students were par- their iury sentences. "mixed feelings" about the what he knows, he "had and acquiring something for the doned by Gov. Mills Godwin Robinson said it was "not change. "On one hand it is an still has severe questions department, "you just sort of Friday for their part in a 1970 the place of the court to rule administrative decision but it about the validity" of forming throw up your hands and do sit-in at Wilson Hall. on the right or wrong of a jury will have a positive effect" on the new school. The geology with what you have." Jay Rainey and James sentence" and that pardons the university, he said. professor said he sees ex- (Continued on Page 6) McClung, the former would upset the "integrity of During the faculty hearings professor, who were released the judicial process." conducted before the proposal from the Rockingham county At that time, defense at- was voted on by the Board of Student convicted jail Friday, had been on work torney John Lowe said the Visitors, the philosophy release since soon after they group planned to appeal to professor said, "everyone began serving their six-month Gov. Godwin for executive could see it was coming. The of disorderly conduct and nine-month sentences clemency. decision had more or less been Sept. 19. Stephen Rochelle Godwin, in his pardon made."' was released from the issued Friday, emphasized his "Some faculty are bitter A James Madison The charges were Arlington County jail where "complete concurrence" with about it," he said. "The ad- University freshman major violations which- he was serving a six-month Robinson's refusal to suspend ministration has grown in was found guilty of can carry a penalty of sentence. the sentences. letting us make decisions but destruction of property academic suspension. McClung is an information But, the governor's they could do a bit more." and disorderly conduct The Council's recom- specialist at the Library of statement continued, "I also Dr. Jay Funston, who by last week's open mendation to President Congress and was doing believe that the period previously reported in a hearing of the Ronald Carrier was that volunteer work at the already served suffices to Faculty Senate meeting that University Judicial Salmons be penalized Rockingham Public Library. vindicate the integrity of the the formation of the new Council. by paying all damages. Rainey had been commuting judicial process. School of Fine Arts and Felix Salmons was The council from the jail to his job as "Therefore, and in light of Communication was a "long accused of doing "ex- recommended that ways off," said he does not tensive damage to the Salmons be suspended employment relations the fact that all three have for one semester if supervisor at Dunham-Bush. become useful and respected know why the school was walls and ceiling" of approved so soon. From the Gifford's third floor and convicted of any ad- Rochelle was on work citizens in their community, ditional alcohol-related release and commuting from executive clemency is deemed information he had gathered, "damaging furniture the Arlington jail to his job to be appropriate." he con- Funston said, he thought the and equipment"- offenses during this school would not be formed in including a chair and academic year. with an engineering firm in cluded. Salmons said he was Bethesda, Maryland. Originally, 28 students and the near future. "Obviously I water fountain. The was wrong. It certainly came Office of Business Af- intoxicated when he did Seven years of appeals for two professors were arrested the damage to Gifford the trio ended Sept. 16 when jfter a sit-in protesting the as a surprise to me." Funston fairs estimated $245.50 Rockingham County Circuit college's dismissal of several said he believed the decision in damages. Hall. Court Judge Joshua Robinson (Continued on Page 5) was an "administrative J Page 2, THE BREEZE, Tuesday, November 22, 1977 Solutions offered for parking problem Commuters are mad as hell and they are not going to take it any longer. .... i One can hardly blame them. When administrators make promises and then refuse to carry them out, it is annoying and also discouraging • . Commuters-were promised spaces in X lot last year; however, because it appeared that they would use them, the promise was We see the parking problem at James Madison University as three-fold; , . \ First, there is the inherent need of commuters to drive their cars to class. Second, there is the excess of resident students' cars on campus and the lack of space in which to park them. And finally, there is the increasingly more apparent need for the university to make some realistic plans for additional parking facilities on this campus instead of wasting its and everyone's time and money employing remedial alternatives of limited ef- fectiveness which do nothing to alleviate the real problem. A recent study showed that resident students occupy all the spaces in the front of X parking lot and rarely move their cars Kritique during the week. The study also showed that many residents are parking in spaces marked "commuter students only" and are not being If I drink 800 cans a day • • • ticketed. The question at hand: "Is this fair?" We think not. The lack of fair treatment of commuters is demonstrated in a 'by Kris Carlson remark by Col. Adolph Phillips which questioned the need for priority parking for commuters. Health" magazine stated in published an article noting Such a statement is absurd at best and extremely narrow- If you drink 25 bottles of hair dye every day for the rest her support of accepting the that the FDA has found that minded at worst. controversial test data that sodium nitrate might be If commuters need not be given priority parking then why of your life, you might get cancer.