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Georgia Satellites What's cookin' at the grill? coming Sept. 23 Page B-1 Page B-5 c Vol. 66/No MWLaboratory Publication of the Department of Mass Communications 24 pages August 27. 1987 Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Ky. 40475 The Eastern Progress, 1966 Lancaster Lot leads changes in parking By MikeMaraee caster Avenue during periods of said. "Residents are static parkers. Editor heavy traffic. They'll park their car and leave it for The closing of the Lancaster Lot He said traffic studies had shown four days." to commuting students was at the that 2.000 vehicles entered Lan- Brenyo said additional lighting top of a list of numerous parking caster Lot on an average day, many and a telephone for use by females and traffic changes made since the of which carried more than one to contact the university shuttle ser- end of the summer session. student. vice are planned. University officials adopted the Each of those students had to Lindquist said the committee had changes after an extensive study, cross Lancaster Avenue at least requested that more parking conducted last year by a parking twice - once to go onto campus and facilities be built, but most were nqt committee comprised of represen- once to return to his car. included in the current budget. tatives of the Division of Public "That number could be cut by 80 . One lot, off Daniel Boone Drive Safety. Student Senate and the percent or more," Lindquist said. and behind a group of Brockton Residence Hall Association. "We really don't know yet. We'll apartments, was created for Tom Lindquist, director of the have to re-study traffic patterns' residence hall students. Division of Public Safety, said the again later to know." The 120-space lot waa built on the changes made did not come about Brenyo said the rezoning of Lan- site of a playground which Lind- overnight. caster Lot was a welcome change. quist said was seldom used. It ia not "We did extensive amounts of "You don't have that constant study into the structure of parking turnover coming in and out," he (See UNIVERSITY. Page A-6) throughout campus." he said. What the committee found was that 1,439 spaces were zoned for residence hall students and 573 Tuition hike spaces were zoned for commuters last year. As a result of zone changes, both those figures have increased. Residence hall students now have concerns Nusz exclusive access to 2436 spaces, By Donna Pace "If one university's tuition is in- while commuters have L607 spaces. News editor creased in January, then all of the The increase in both areas was A tuition increase, which could others will be raised also." Cox said. made possible by reassigning lots possibly be activated between the Nusz said he intends to stay on previously open for general parking fall and spring semesters, is the top of the issue and voice his con- to a particular zone. main concern of Student Senate cerns whenever possible ^_^ Dan firenyo, the student senator president David Nusz. "The students need to know the who helped form the parking com- According to Nusz. the Kentucky senate is working for them and with mittee after hearing complaints Council on Higher Education is con- them," Nusz said. from several students, said the sidering a tuition increase of seven Nusz, who waa elected senate changes 'had to come sooner or to 17 percent added to the spring president last spring, said he will later" and would help restore order semester billing. work hard to change the negative to campus parking. "The projected biennial budget attitude students have about the "Students were parking for the state was higher than ex- senate. everywhere." he said. "We ve got a pected so cutbacks were made in "In the past, issues and problems little more order than we did higher education." Nusz said. have been dictated. Senators make before." "Luckily. President Dr. H. Han too many decisions without seeking Lindquist said the committee's ly Funderburk set up a reserve fund, opinions," Nusz said. top priority was to reduce the or the cutbacks would have been (See NUSZ, Page A-6) number of students creasing Lan- very large and immediate." caster Avenie at the,Lancaster Lot, Tuitions for all Kentucky colleges where there is no crosswalk or traf- and universities are set by the Coun- fic signal. Progress photo/Rob Can- cil on Higher Education every two Inside "Potentially someone's going to years. Activities B-2-3 Identity crisis be seriounry injured there," Lind- Gary Cox, executive director of quist said. "We know that." the Council of Higher Education, Am 6-4-5 The wait often seemed endless last week for people who had to take care of business in the But that lot is open only to said a tuition increase is probable Campus living B-l Keen Johnson Building such as fee payment and picking up student ID cards. James Hardy, a freshman residence hall students, and Lind- with an "unlikely possibility'' of it News A-4-6 from Louisville, waited in vain outside the building Friday to pick up his card. quist said that change will reduce, ocurring in January. Opinion A-2-3 the number of people crossing Lan According to Cox, the increase is People poll A-3 necessary because of the difficult Police beat A-4 financial situation of higher Sports B-6-8 Changes ease financial aid woes education By Keith Howard Vescio said another change that Vescio said according to the old documented. Managing- editor makes a student independent, that process, more than 60 percent of the However, Vescio said, the majori- Changes in the Higher Educa- has never happened before, involves applicants had to have their records ty of these questions could be check- tional Amendments of 1986 have graduate professional students. verified to make sure the informa- ed fairly easy. made applying for financial aid tion they gave was correct. easier, according to Herb Vescio, They are automatically indepen- He said the question about a stu- director of Student Financial dent if their parents do not claim He said now they have reduced dent's age waa simple to check. He Assistance. them on their income tax returns in the verification to 30 percent and said all the financial aid office had 1987. added a new process called to do waa check old student records Vescio said these changes were documentation. or ask fora copy of the student's made in order to simplify the defini- Changes in the process have Vescio said all of the questions birth "cerU fi«te. tion of an independent student. simplified verification. asked on the form need, to be (See AID. Page A-5) In order to qualify for aid, students had to complete a number of forma to determine whether they are independent or dependent. Public Safety understaffed A student waa classified as an in- dependent if he waa not claimed by By Keith Howard placed with a field training officer. services. "Obviously people come to a parent as a dependent for the year - Managing edtor Lindquist said that because of the us for all lands of services - open- of the application and a year prior Due to a turnabout in employees training involved the trainee must ing doors, helping with information to the application. at the division of Public Safety, have about 20 weeks of spare time - you name it, we provide it," Lind- there has been a 60 percent decrease to prepare for his job. quist said. In addition, the student could not in manpower. He said this is simply because it have lived at home for more than six He said the employees will be Tom Lindquist, director of the is the only agency that is open then. weeks and could not have received available at the start of next Division of Public Safety, said it has semester. "What we're having to do right more than f 760 in support from a now is simply priortise a lot of those parent in those two years. had a number of people leave and Because of the employee shortage was in the process of replacing those the number of people that will be services," Lindquist said. Vescio said the forms now oak for individuals. patrolling at a given tine will be He said that public safety is hav- other criteria including student age. He said public safety has some reduced. Lindquist said ing to go more to the protective- to determine whether a student is people in training who will not be type services and emphasize them ready to start until the second He said this will mean more over- more than other service areas. independent time hours "Last week people in semester. "Some things that we were very They have to complete two basic this division worked 386 hours of Students born before January quick about before may take some training courses.