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Student Activities Center Approved Governors State University OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship Innovator Student Newspapers 3-11-1980 Innovator, 1980-03-11 Student Services Follow this and additional works at: http://opus.govst.edu/innovator Recommended Citation Governors State University Student Services, Innovator (1980, March 11). http://opus.govst.edu/innovator/170 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Innovator by an authorized administrator of OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ltlt Volume 7, �o. 3 Park Fo� South� IlL \lan·h I L I <JHO C,suA 5'lo-tf Student Activities Center approved By Tajudeen Bakenne Student Communication Media Board <SCMB); Cliff DiMascio, Oh, tweedle dee, oh, tweedle the Board of Governors {BOG) dum, let the good times roll! student representative; Cynthia Jack will be relieved from his Dillie, student member of the dullness. Why? And who is Student Advisory Committee to Jack? the Illinois Board of Higher Why? Because the proposal Education <IBHE> and Vaughn for the Student Activities Center Van Dolah, chairperson of the <SAC) sent to Dean of Student Program Advisory Committee. Affairs and Services, Frank Provost Curtis McCray and Borelli, for support has been Dr. Melvyn Freed, Vice approved. And the individual President in Administration student is Jack. How about have designated the Physical that? Planning Operation offices and University students shall be the adjoining storage area for grateful to Dean Borelli for his the SAC. Those who now occupy support. Tommy Dascenzo is the areas will be moved to other also very pleased He locations on campus. They have auspiciously acknowledges the no objection to being relocated moral support shownby various and applaud the idea of the new organizations. Some were SAC. highlighted in the last issue of It is hoped that by the end of the INNOVATOR. June, 1980, the SAC will occupy Letters of recommendation I the Planning OperationoffteeS - on the proposal came from the -- following people: Alma Martin, What a beautiful way to start president of the Student Senate; Director of Student Activities; Tommy summer relaxation! Judy Qudrat, chairperson of the Dascenzo RTA dedicates ''Jolly Trolley'' The servtce begins operating ween the ages of 7 and 11. at 9 a.m. during the weekand at Children under 7 accompanied 10 a. m. on Saturday. The last by an adult ride free. Senior return trip will leave from the citizens and handicapped Plaza at 3:30 p.m. Dial-a-ride persons who have a RTA buses, operated by Van Der Aa Special User Card can also bus lines, leave from Park travel for the 30 cent half fare. Forest Plaza's main bus tur­ Park For�t Plaza is a major naround on a return trip every transportation link to the South 30 minutes, also stopping at Suburban Cook County area. Jewel-Osco. Convenient connections can be For pick-up service, residents made to other RT A Routes should call 748-4433 and give the serving Park fo'orest and neigh­ dispatcher their name, .address, boring municipalities such as: number of people who will be Route 366 <Chicago Heights!. traveling, whether or not the lift providing weekday and will be needed, telephone Saturday service from Park number where they can be Forest Plaza to St. James reached and desired pick-up Hospital and 16th and Vin­ and delivery times. Requests cennes. On weekdays, alternate for service should be made 30 buses serve Prairie State minutes in advance. College; Route 367 <Park Forest Park Forest's dial-a-ride South J, providing weekday service is designed to meet the service from the Plaza to specific transportation needs of Governors State University and the community Dial-a-ride the Park Forest South Illinois service can benefit the entire Centeral Gulf CICG > station; family and is an incentive for Route 368 <Frankfort!, residents to use public trans­ provtding weekday and portationand leave their cars at Saturday service from Park home. Forest Plaza to the ICG station On Thursday, February 28, the and Gene Leonard, RTA Board RTA Paratransit vehicles. "Jolly Trolley" is the name of at 2llth Street, Lincoln Mall, Regional Transportation Member from Oak Forest, cut These vehicles are small 15 the dial-a-ride vehicle. The Frankfort Square and Frank­ Authority dedicated the Village the ribbon along with federal, passenger buses equipped with name was selected in a contest fort; and Route 371 <Richton of Park Forest's "Jolly state and local officials. a lift and two wheelchair tie­ held throughout the Village of Park l, providing weekday and Trolley" dial-a-ride service and Included in the RTA Service downs that provide curb-to-curb Park Forest. Saturday service from the its new RTA Paratransit Development-Demonstration transportatiOn from the One-way fare for the "Jolly Plaza to Richton Park ICG vehicles at Park Forest Plaza Grant Program with the Village resident's home to Park Forest Trolley" is 60 cents for adults station and Richton Park. RT A Chairman Lewis W. Hill of Park Forest are three new Plaza or Jewel-Osco. and 30 cents for children bet- I' I • Editoriala,commeata, c:artooaa, JDd eaptiCIIIII"ep"e'elettheopiDjoa fA tbe ecltorial board of Tile lllllfta&Gr and do DOt aeceuarily lS ..eleat the opinion ofstudent representatives, tbe student body Hooray for Hollywood (or what in the general, lldviler, faculty, or administr.tUm of Govemon &&ate Ullivenlty. Signed editorials are opinion of it& author. 11te • luon&or recopizes fairness-therefore welcomes rebuttaLs' commeDt&, or criticisms. boy from Country Clubs Hills Page 2 doing in a place like this?) Gnat us the wisdom tha$ we may leam to use oar kaowledge for a worthy ......,.e. By Peter Cooper offer of a possible writing job ever had an impact on the Innovator The credo. out in Hollywood. I've been here American entertain ment Hollywood. Who'd have thunk six weeks and we're still consciousness written into each it? Actually, I did, all along, but waiting to sign the contract, but square. Grouman's Chinese, it's not the kind of thing you then that's the way things are with the handprints, footprints, noseprints, and other -prints. : : : : : : : : : : : ::: : : : ::::: : ::: ::::: : :::::::::::::::::::;:::. think about out loud. People done out here . ..: ::::::::: ::::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:; ; ; ;:; ;:; ;:::: ; ; ; ;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:;:;:::::::::::::; ;:: : ; : : : : : : : think you're crazy. After Hollywood. How to describe <My favorite is George Burns' - leaving GSU and Chicago in it? A small town hooked his two footprints with. a January, I, Peter Cooper, alongside Los Angeles? Not Freudian cigar placed exactly <Marco, for those of you who bad. A town with strange between them. Come on, saw "A View from the Bridge") sidewalks- big stars with the George, let's be serious!) ·Letters to the Editor decided to take some friends' names of everyone who has Continued on page 4 One of the most distressing as we fumbled around with the things that can happen to you if negatives and the positives in you are a driver who is not also the rain and the dark was that a skilled auto mechanic is to batteries have been known to New directionsfor discover that the battery in your explode. car is completely dead when you are 20 miles from home-­ I can't believe that I am the and darkness is fast ap­ only person who has had this proaching. If you should be so experience. Why can't a public unfortunate as to find yourself institution miles away from in this predicament when your PlaCe'' civilization such as this offer ''The car is parked in one of the GSU something more than parking lots, it is a trauma tic castigation for your stupidity at experience. I know because it leaving your headlights on? happened to me. Why can't some effort be Instinctive ly your first made to track down the owner thought in such a situation of a car on which the headlights might be to turn to the police have been left on--before the <known at GSU as public damage is done? All of us know safety> for assistance. Forget Public Safety finds it easily it. The attitude of this office <not possible to trace owners of necessarily the officers vehicles in order to deliver themselves) is one of complete traffic citations {tickets). indifference. You are told that . Why you can borrow jumper cables is the motorist not advised of the existence <in exchange for your driver's of license) but from that point on service stations that might you are on your own. Officers respond to a call for help? are not allowed to help. Bat­ <Granted, I should have thought teries have been known to ex­ of this myself. In my state of plode. "Stop someone in the panic, I didn't.) parking lot," or "try the . And why can't there be a cafeteria," you are told. place somehwere in this Someone suggested Student <humane?) institution to which Services. I was gratified to a desperate employee or learn there that they are student can turn for help. Not working on a program-­ free, necessarily (anyone who eventually they will have would have stopped even to jumper cablesksinstructions offer advice last night could and face mas . <Batteries have named his own price). I have been known to explode.) guess what I mean is why can't When eventually I was able to there be someone somewhere in find a sympathetic friend this institution that cares. willing to help but as inexperienced as myself, the Helen M. Lipke, Secretary, CAS thought uppermost in our minds Student, BPA Cheri Clouse and Volmar <Chip) Franz, work hard to keep the paperwork to a sane level.
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