EDISON tmom L13MRV icmes Ma^on University "arr.sonburg, VA 22801 Vol. LV Friday, September 9. 1877 James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va. Too many permits cause overcrowding in X parking lot By MARK DAMSON chairman of the commuter utilization of that lot. A large number of student committee. A traffic light may be unregistered vehicles on "It's frustrating to drive 25 needed to insure no accidents campus and over-issuance of or 30 miles to school, and not occur under the highway, he parking permits has resulted be able to find a parking space added, because the tunnel in the overcrowded conditions and be late for class," Baker under 1-81 leading to the lot is in X parking lot, according to added. only wide enough to ac- William Wilberger, director of Last year the commuter comodate one lane of traffic. security and safety. student committee requested "We're doing the best we "Resident students have that 50 per cent of X lot be can with the space available," their father's, mothers', and reserved for commuter Mundy said.) uncles' cars on campus right parking. Baker said. The Campus police are "trying now. This happens every administration has approved to be lenient" to parking of- year,'' according to John 50 spaces to be reserved for fenders during the Mundy, director of ad- commuters, but that action "shakedown period" ministrative affairs and has not yet been taken, he Wilberger said. Cars without Chairman of the parking said. stickers are being ticketed, advisory committee. A graveled lot across In- he added. During most vehicle terstate 81. which was Parking permits are now registrations, a tally is kept to designed,, as an "over- being issued only to commuter insure that permits are not flow area in case too many students and faculty mem- over-issued, according to a cars were brought on campus bers. Vehicle registration for security spokesman. is not yet being used. Mundy resident students was cut off No tally was kept this year said, because administrators last week, according to because no problems ac- are working out a plan for Wilberger. comodating all who wanted to park on campus had arisen in past years, the spokesman said. New development director X parking lot was over- issued by "several hundred," according to Wilberger. to work in private giving All parking lots are over- issued because of the By TAMI RICHARDSON work. "migratory nature of the A new position has been The development Director commuter student," ac- approved by the James will work full-time on' cording to Col. Adolph Madison University Board of soliciting private gifts from Phillips, vice president for Visitors for a Development alumni, corporations, foun- business affairs. Director whose main dations, large donors and in EVEN THE SMALLEST OF VEHICLES can not seem to find a Wilberger declined to give responsibility will be to work (Continued on Page 7) legal parking space on campus. Ph0„ by M.n. Thompson the number of X-lot permits in the area of private giving, issued because "without an according to Dr. Ray Sonner, explanation, the number vice president of university would be misinterpreted." relations. The problem of over- The position still needs to '70 demonstrators face jailing issuing parking permits to be approved in Richmond, On September 16, the fates Rochelie, former students, their sentences be reduced or such an extent has never Sonner said, but he is not of a former Madison College were convicted of trespassing suspended. At that time happened before, according to expecting that to take long. professor and two former after a 1970 demonstration at Robinson set a Septl6 hearing the James Madison Univer- In a speech given to the Madison students will be Madison. They had appealed date and ordered the court's sity security office. faculty Aug. 26, President decided by Rockingham their convictions to the U.S. probation officer to prepare a Commuters are having a Ronald Carrier said the County Circuit Court Judge Supreme Court and lost, and report on whether any of the problem finding a parking university must expand its Joshua Robinson. on Aug. 15 were ordered to sentences should be reduced. space anywhere on campus efforts in the area of private James McClung, a former begin serving sentences. The trio is on bond. according to Wayne Baker, giving in order to "augment professor, Jay Garland They appeared before McClung was sentenced to what apparently will be Rainey and Steven B. Robinson Aug. 19 to ask that (Continued on Page 3) limited funds from public sources." Enrollment JMU never gets as much money as it needs from the JMU state. Sonner said, and state By TOM DULAN reaches funds can't be used for all amount," Stanton said, but added that the James Madison University will seek a "full-blown program" would cost "$175,000 a purposes. $175,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation Less than 40 per cent of year for two years." 7,800 this fall for the establishment of a Center for A consultant from the American Association JMU's operating budget Instructional and Professional Development, comes from state tax funds of State Colleges and Universities will be Preliminary enrollment according to Thomas Stanton, academic vice coming to JMU to aid in securing the grant, figures show that about 7.800 and the rest must come from president. according to Stanton. students have enrolled at non-state sources such as The chief goals of the center, as outlined by tuition, dormitory and dining JMU was denied a grant by the Department James Madison University in* the committee for the center, will be to of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), he the university's first regular hall fees, and private con- "establish and staff a facility which will help tributions, according to a said, because HEW is aiding institutions that session under its new name. faculty achieve greater depth and breadth of are not as financially and academically "well 1 ne 7,800 enrollment is the report by Alumni Services. knowledge and skill as teachers and scholars," off." highest in the university's 69- In 1969 the Madison College and to provide and coordinate "resources for year history, a JMU Foundation, now the creative faculty development." The Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations spokesman said Last year's University Foundation, was The committee was established in January also were contacted, but they are currently enrollment was 7,659. established to aid the im- by JMU President Ronald Carrier. Carrier, funding only private institutions, he said. Students registering late will provement of "life and according to Stanton, witnessed a "large Office space will be required but no new push the total enrollment up education" at JMU through number of changes in society, and deduced building will be constructed to facilitate the slightly. gifts of donors to the Foun- that changes would have to take place in center, Stanton said, suggesting that "possibly More than 80 per cent of dation. academia" as well. the third floor of Wilson Hall" could be used JMU's students are from The development of the Construction of such a facility is a "after the School of Education moves out." Virginia. The largest num- private gifts program, "resDonsibilitv to the facultv." Carrier said. This, he concurred, is contingent upon the bers come from the mentioned by Carrier in his Functions of the center will include bringing construction of a new School of Education Shenandoah Valley area and speech to the faculty, is "just" outside scholars to JMU for lectures, building which depends upon the passage of a Northern Virginia. an expansion of the Foun- seminars, etc., promoting faculty exchange $125 million bond referendum to be decided at About 46 per cent of JMU's dation's present work, Sonner programs, facilitating joint research between the polls in November. students are men and 54 per said. institutions and obtaining money and release Participation in the program will be "en- cent are women. There has never been a time for faculty to encourage involvement in tirely voluntary." Stanton said, "but, I don't JMU's enrollment has Development Director "per research. believe that the faculty has to be encouraged to doubled in the last six years, se." he said, adding that he. If the university could not secure the full participate They have the motivation and has, tripled ia the last ten. CarrierI " and t .,others Z each do— a irequested njuc.ncu amountauiuuiu fromlit/ill the Kellogg Foun- . ah-eady. What we have to do is provid __ le the J'I'I'J'J'I'I'I'I iV ''»» le of the fund raising . dation. it "would make use of the smaller'' ♦opportunity" '• • • • .... Page 2. THE BREEZE. Friday. September 9. 1977 Photo by Mark Thompson JMU parking: 'lack of convenient spaces *? 'The day there was no place to park9 By DWAYNE YANCEY With ail of the through X Lot. whose name I the grass and cars squeezed the same time I did, circled X It was bound to happen preliminaries taken care of, can never recall, I realized into places where no car had Lot and watched our gas eventually simply because no there was no need to arrive at that something was gone before. ' gauges drop, until we finally one ever believed it would. It school early so I carefully desperately wrong. X Lot was Maneuvering between the gave up and parked on the dirt was just a matter of time timed my departure from full . Let me repeat that for rows of cars was a tricky access road beneath 1-81. We before an administrator's home so I would park in X Lot those of you who did not proposition and was of no were not the first ones there.