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For more information, please contact [email protected]. wmm^mmm M Voluma 57, No. 15 Official Student Publication 14 January 11 1979 of Eattarn Kantucfcy Umviintv Winter ice storm blows snow removal plan into action By GINNY EAGER With the accumulation of one inch of Parking lots will be cleared next and Features Editor snow the removal begins Gabbard will as labor and equipment permits all use his judgment as to which equipment other college owned areas will be As of last weekend the University's will be used on different areas cleared. new Snow Removal Plan was enacted. Sweeping, sanding, plowing and the use Equipment available is a 1.5 ton If any areas become too dangerous for of Calcium Chloride will be used to truck, tractors with snow blades and safe travel and the snow cannot be remove the snow. blades to be affixed to University four- removed, the area will be posted, "With the fantastic amount of snow wheel drives. University farm equip- "Dangerous Walk Area. Use alternate these past two winters, the old plan had ment may also be used and in extreme route." to be revised," said Larry Westbrook, conditions outside contractors may be called in. A supply of snow shovels and ice assistant director of Safety. chippers will be kept at the Public According to Westbrook, the chair- The first areas to be cleared will be Safety Building for checkout by man of the Committee on Snow Removal, the committee revised the old the roadways, drives and intersections Brockton residents, faculty or staff who snow removal plan to fit the present such as University Drive. Kit Carson wish to clear individual areas. Drive and Model Lab Drive. needs. The Snow Removal Plan can be The associate director of Buildings The next areas to be cleared will be the sidewalks and entrances to suspended by the Emergency and Grounds, Raymond Gabbard. will Operations Center in the event of ex- be in charge of the new plan which buildings. This includes all handicapped tremely severe weather conditions such ramps and the Chapel of Meditation started last weekend with the first as a blizzard. snowfall of the season. plaza. Through stormy weather • The ticketman cometh Hy SARAH WARREN single factor" in the decrease of tickets, the withholding of one's packet. News Editor said Lindquist. "The fine ia a Complaints arose recently when deterrent." students claiming to have paid their Never let it be said that a little snow or tickets were penalized anyway, and Of the 9.000 tickets given. 4.000 were then asked to show a receipt to prove (Pnoto by JAMES KELLEY) rain or sleet or ice ever stopped the University's Department of Public given to unregistered vehicles, he said, payment. and of those 4.000, only 600 were paid. Safety. Lindquist said "because there are so Yes, even in this weather, one can get In roost cases those were visitors, said many tickets" one "must show a a parking ticket Lindquist, but "we're still trying to receipt." determine who they .are." If the student has lost the receipt. "We're trying to use as much Some of the tickets were probably Lindquist said the student can look discretion as possible." said Public given to "students trying to beat the through department records for a Safety Director Thomas Lindquist, but system one way or the other," he said. duplicate copy. cars will stil} be ticketed fox being out of Many of them were probably received The receipts are kept in order ac- zone. by Students before their care had been cording to the dale the ticket was given, More than Even though some of the painted registered and were therefore ignored, Lindquist said, so if one knows the date, curbs (indicating no-parking zones) he added. he can find his receipt and prove may be covered with snow, Lindquist Students who do receive tickets and payment wish to appeal them may do so after the said there are signs marking many of Frost fine has been paid. Linda Williams, transportation the red and yellow curbs and therefore A form from the Public Safety secretary at Campus Security, advises students may still be ticketed. Department must be completed by the students to keep track of their receipts Nine thousand tickets were given out Whose woods these are I think I know student and sent by the Department to that are issued after the student pays for last semester, according to Lindquist, His house is in the village though the Appeals Board. a University traffic violation. This but that was a mere third of the 27,000 prevents a student from having to pay He will not see me stopping here that were given out fall semester a year To watch his woods /ill up with snow. The student will then receive a notice for a ticket twice if security has ago in the mail from the Appeals Board misplaced their copy of the receipt. My little horse must think it queer There have been fewer violations regarding the decision and the money Students who pay for their tickets with under the new parking regulations, said will then be refunded if the Board a check should also write the number of To stop without a farmhouse near the citation on the check to show which Between the woods and frozen lake Lindquist. mainly because of the in- decides in the student's favor. crease in the ticket fine from last year's Unpaid tickets result in the citation is being paid for in caae a The darkest evening of the year. student should receive more than one $2 to the current $5. withholding of one's final grades or "I'd have to say that is the greatest transcript or during pro-registration, ticket during a semester. He gives his harness hells a shake I To ask ij there is some mistake The only other sounds the sweep Of easy wind and sowny flake. Lack of equipment t; The woods are. lovely dark and diep But 1 have promises to keep helps keep students on ice And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep By SARAH WARREN predicted, the area receives more snow. "everybody working together," because News Editor Lindquist said he believed any there isn't enough equipment or man- problems caused by the snow would.be power to do the job. Robert Frost Mother Nature complicated matters "When snow hits, there's not much for the University again this year "handled better" this year though, causing students to fare ice-covered because people are now more "ex- you can do in the lota," he said, and highways to return to school and tread perienced" in winter driving. "you can't touch this stuff ... it's frozen The University has also ordered new solid." . snow-packed sidewalks to register for In years past, the University relied on classes. snow removal equipment, he said, but it No major snow-related accidents probably won't arrive until mid- "melting" to handle the snow, Lindquist 8 have been reported on campus but January and won't be put into use until said. But the heavy snowfalls of the last Public Safety Director Thomas Lin- the first of February. two years forced the University's dquist said the problems may start As for the clearing of the parking lots, Department of Buildings and Grounds 1 to initiate a snow removal plan. today after the majority of the students Lindquist said it is going to take have returned, especially if as Regents approve I Religion degree, possible site for frat row B> MARK TURNER care was also approved at the Regents One calls for the creation of a Public A Freshman Record was approved. Editor meeting. Relations Committee and one increases The record would be a photo directory of This program would consist of 18 the number of members on each of the new students enrolled at the University A new Bachelor of Arts degree in hours of course work which is already standing committees. and would include a short biographical religion and a tentative site for being offered. The third revision states that all sketch of each new student. fraternity row were approved at the The minor would allow students to chairpersons of the standing com- The record would also include an Jan. 6 meeting of the Board of Regents qualify for ambulance service. mittees must be elected members of the introductory section about the There were also two" new minors Regents approved a Graduate Council Student Senate except where otherwise University and the program sponsor. approved at the regular Regent proposal of increasing the number of provided for in the constitution. The Student Association is sponsoring meeting graduate school hours which can be A petty cash fund of $150 will now be the record. *» The new degree in religion would transferred from six to nine. allowed for University Greek Dr. Kenneth Clawson, dean, for create seven new courses and would The tentative site of the proposed organizations.