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Ky. 4*475 New parking stickers issued Vietnam for faculty, staff native' By DEAN IIOI.T weight plastic construction and are system like the staffs would alleviate New* Editor very visible. the problem of commuters having to University faculty and staff per- Another change in staff registration pay full registration fees for more than sonnel are receiving somewhat dif- procedures also came about this year one automobile reminisces ferent parking stickers this year. Tom with mail registration of University Bv BRIAN BI.AIR Undquist. director of public safety personnel. For such a system for commuters to said. Staff Writer be placed into effect the students in- Many of those leaving were crying. All faculty and staff are being issued Registration cards were first mailed volved would possibly have to prepay to staff members and once the com- They would never see their country both parking zone decals for the fenders their parking fees before the beginning of their vehicles plus a plastic tag which pleted card was returned either by again They faced, in the main, very of the semester. Lindquist said. uncertain futures. And they were may be attached to the windshield person or by mail, the staff person's permit was mailed to them. leaving behind family or friends. The mirror. If the registration forms were to be leaving was voluntary, but heart- These mirror tags, because they may Lindquist pointed out that the acquisition of any staff parking tag by mailed to students, as they were to breaking Those who left were aware be removed from one vehicle's mirror faculty, both the mailing expenses and that for the rest of their lives they would and attached to another, allows anyone besides the assigned ■' staff the cost of manufactuWlg the mirror seldom eat their own food, rarely read University staff personnel to drive member is unlawful. If the parking tag tags would probably rasie the price of their own language and never return to different vehicles without having to is taken from a staff vehicle, it is the parking permit for students, he their own nation. - From the book. 55 purchase individual parking decals for considered a theft and treated as that, he said. added Days: The Fall of South Vietnam by each automobile. Provided that the system were to be Alan Dawson Two decals are attached to the Last year, there were cases in which used to register all students, regardless Hahn Do remembers. bumpers of each staff person's students stole faculty parking tags, placed them in their cars and at- of whether they required commuter or He remembers not only the scene automobiles but only the vehicle with mentioned above, but he remembers the plastic tag on the inside mirror may tempted to park in staff lots. residence hall parking, approximately 17.000 cards would need to be mailed his personal feelings as well on that day be parked legally in University staff Lindquist said that what the students apparently did not realize was that the out each year to students and in late April of 1975 in Vietnam when he lots and his family boarded a ship bound for Lindquist said that because of this, no faculty bumper stickers must also prospective students (hit of that total, only about 5.000 students would use the Guam -- and hound for an entirely new staff member may have more than one accompany the staff mirror tags for a cards, he predicted The expenses of existence. vehicle on University grounds at any car to be fully registered Those students with the mirror tags however, the other unused cards and postage "On that day when we were leaving, one time. somebody had a radio and we had all Lindquist said the registration either could not or did not acquire the would have to be included in the fees for gathered around to listen." he recalled System allowed the Office of Public bumper stickers along with the tags. those who needed stickers. By making the new sticker-tag "They said the Communists had Safety to "register people instead of According to Lindquist. the same system available just to commuters already taken over and were boasting cars." and that part of the problem type of parking stickers and tags are of victory It was really kind of strange associated with the previous system's alone would itself be advantageous he being considered for use by com- said as in the future "it seems like more to be hearing that." use of a square of thick, heavy plastic muters. and|more students coming to campus Do. a junior this fall at the Univer- for faculty windshields was eliminated. will be commuters" who must also sity, was born and raised in Saigon, The old plastic tags were placed onto "We would very much consider it for have their vehicles for jobs where his father had worked as a the windshield's mirror by a simple commuters if this system with faculty * This is also a reason why Lindquist congressman and later as a writer - hook and questions were raised as to meets our expectations." he said. said the University needs one more translator for a radio station. As far as the device's safety if it were to be Lindquist continued to say that com- parking expansion in the future so as to h» knows, he is the only Vietnamese on dislodged from the mirror, during an muters may often need to use another better accommodate commuters. campus vehicle besides the one they normally accident. The 20-year-old pre-engineering The new tags are wafer-thin, of light use and that a vehicle registration See DIRECTOR, page 14 student mentions such information Linquist receives compliments Sisterly love when aakod H« M not rau> to attach anv tremendous significance to ' (nose ■S\ Two new sorority sisters embraced Saturday morning as other Phi Mu's met their new sisters at the culmination of Rush week, signing bids, (photo by Brian matters. But the significance is cer- I NlltS I tainly there. Newstudent parking registration Because it was slightly more than five years ago that Do and his family r Periscope arrived in Bardstown - which became their new home - via Guam and Ft. initiated this semester Organizations Editor Mary Luersen Chaffe. Ark. Editorials,................2 reflects upon her summer of broken "We were lucky to get out." he said, Bv DEAN HOLT system - because it did not require semester will continue at Public Nc ws-Fealures...........3-S remembering the departure from South dishes and small tips as a waitress. News Editor students to actually drive their Safety's office in the Brewer Building Organizations, .6-7 Vietnam. "There were a lot of people The University's new parking automobiles to any one specific point to now. Her debut column appears on page Sporls ....8-9 who had to go through much more than registration system, which began last register - saved students both gasoline One disadvantage of the new system 3 as one of The Progrevs' alternating Arts 10-11 we did We knew that we would be is thai security personnel do not affix week during fall semester registration, and time. Also, he added that the new columns. See VIETNAM.page 3 has received very favorable comments method allowed security personnel to the decal to the automobile with thai from students, according to Tom spend more time explaining items of responsibility being left to the student. Lindquist. director of public safety. interest to students and answering Lindquist pointed out. University student injured Lindquist said that approximately questions. Hi' said that if the decals are not 3,500-4.000 cars were registered over More personnel were required for the placed properly, new decals must be the previous method of car registration. new system of registration but Lin- affixed and the other stickers must be Pick-up truck strikes bicyclist dquist said that he feels the advantages removed Under the new system, students first of the old system were outweighed by By DEAN HOLT The accident occurred al 2:39 p.m. satisfactory by the hospital on Wed Either the peeled-off sticker, or the completed class registration and fees the new system's. News Editor when Wolf apparently ran a red light at nesday. payment at Alumni Coliseum and then scrapings from the sticker, must be A University sophomore received the intersection of the roads, according Wolfe was charged by Richmond City proceeded to the Keen Johnson The registration process was laken to Public Safety's office for multiple abrasions Tuesday afternoon to Richmond Police Police with counts of public intoxication Building with their paid receipts. Once generally fast, with most students replacement. A replacement fee of when his bicycle was hit by a pick-up Kappes was taken to Pattie A Clay and operating a motor vehicle without a there, the student needed only to registering within a period of ap- $1.50 is charged for the new sticker truck al the intersection of Eastern By- Hospital and placed in the intensive license.