November 20, 1070
Vehicle Registration
Fees Discussed
by Skip Lewis
“Man, it’s an outrage! ! I blow a
ten-spot just to have the privilege of
owning a car. $7.50 is much too high
to pay for vehicle registration. Where
does all that money go? What does
it go for?”
Have a familiar ring? I’m sure
that if you own a car it does. At one
time or another we’ve all heard or
expounded ourselves on the “injus
tice” of paying such a high vehicle
registration. The questions “Why
$7.50?” and “Where does all that
money go?” have been around year
after year. Let’s see if we can put
them somewhat to rest.
SGA President Lee Levan wrote to
Director Colman Herpel asking the
wheres, whats, and whys. Herefrom
context is Mr. Herpels’s reply.
“All vehicle use fees paid by Cap
itol students are credited to this cam
pus for use when expansion, repair,
or replacement of parking spaces and
access roadways becomes necessary.
No construction at any other campus
is charged to Capitol. Should Capitol
require an expenditure for parking
improvements before its accumulated
fund is sufficient to cover the costs,
funds accumulated to the accounts of
other campuses would be borrowed to
finance Capitol. Currently Capitol’s
as yet unneeded funds are lent to
other campuses for their construc
tion. However, the accounting for
these funds separates them clearly by
source, and credits or debits each
campus as the situation requires.
Equitable treatment of present and
future students at Capitol (and at
the other University campuses) is
best served by a uniform fee struc
ture for vehicle use privileges (or for
tuition charges, for that matter). If
we should elect to change from the
uniform fee principle, we might have,
for example, Capitol with lower ve
hicle use charges and higher tuition
charges next year, and then perhaps
both higher vehicle use charges and
higher tuition charges in a later year
when parking facilities had to be im
proved.”
President Levan also asked Mr.
Herpel about the possibility of charg
ing two vehicle registration fees. One
fee for on-campus use arid another
for place of residence parking. This
would allow a student to bring a car
on campus and park it at his house
for a lesser fee; but he would not be
able to use it on campus. Mr. Herpel
remarked, “that this proposal could
be explored with the housing division
to determine the effects on rentals
and with the vehicle registrar to de
termine that administrative feasibili
ty”.
Over the summer, some new park
ing spaces were added to the already
large parking lot in the back of the
administration building. They were
constructed because they were need
ed ; and more spaces will be needed in
the near future to accommodate the
greater number of cars used by a
growing number of day and night
school students. Paving is costly;
and although Capitol is now in the
black as far as the credits and debits
are concerned, it will be in the red
for a much longer time.
THfc CAPITOLIST
SPOTLIGHT ON STUDENTS
Chandler Wolf
SGA Vice President
by Missy Rotondaro
Chandler Wolf, Vice President of
the Student Governinent Association,
is a man on the go.
Chandler, bom in North Philadel
phia, attended Northeastern Christ
ian Junior College in Villanova, Pa.,
where he received his Liberal Arts
degree. He is presently enrolled in
the Social Science curriculum taking
Secondary Education as his option.
As I have said, Chandler is a man
on the go. Most people probably do
not have this impression because
basically he is a very quiet, soft
spoken individual. But Chandler
does get things done. He ACTS, very
discreetly, very cautiously to accomp
lish his goal. And things do get
done.
Besides being Vice President of
SGA, he is also a member of the
Black Student Union, and is special
assistant to Mr. Slygh, Director of
Admissions. Also, last year, Chand
ler, along with Bill Jones, attended
the March Against Repression in At
lanta, Georgia, sponsored by the
Southern Christian Leadership Con
ference. When he finds the time,
Chandler enjoys writing poetry,
stamp and coin./ collecting, painting,
drawing, and sculpturing.
One of Chandler’s main interests
this year is his work at the Middle
town Community Action Center. His
particular function in the center is to
sponser and co-ordinate a black his
tory program. This resulted after 36
black history students petitioned the
school board of Middletown for black
history courses, but were denied.
Chandler then set up a discussion
group at the center which .meets
every Monday night from seven to
eight p.m. Parents may attend also,
provided there is sufficient room to
accommodate them at the center.
“Basically, the content of the pro-
There is a great deal of discussion
and time devoted on this campus to
the subject of apathy. Many people
contend, at the risk of sounding repi
titous, too many go home on week
ends, and cannot get involved in
political or social events.
On Wednesday, the 21st. of Octo
ber at three o’clock p.m. Mr. Norval
Reece came to speak at Capitol Cam
pus. With him was Mr. Jerry Leib
who is running for State Legislature
in the 106th District. Both of these
men have a special significance to the
students at Capitol. Attention also
should be paid to the fact that this
was a Wednesday, not a weekend.
Everybody was here, and aside from
the Engineers, most of us did not
have classes.
The problem I am concerning my
self with here is apathy, and what we
can do to control it. Why, two weeks
before the election in which we will
elect a new Governor, and an entire
state legislature were only fifteen
people interested enough to come and
hear two important political speak-
Chandler Wolf—sponsor and coordinator
of black studies program, in Middletown.
gram” as disclosed by Chandler,
deals with the social gut issues con
fronting the community. The center
provides a place where the youth and
the community can come together and
talk. In this setting group inter
action can take place. Working in
this way, he is trying to organize the
community in effectively bringing a
bout changes within their own areas.
Other discussions at the center in
clude black arts, poetry, African
dance, black economics, and music of
the black culture. Response on the
part of the community has been
favorable, Chandler stated.
Chandler has received some help
from people such as Carol Simns, a
student here at Capitol, who helped
out with the African daricing. Dr.
Lagrone has also contributed by lec
turing at the center. Other help is
needed and all volunteers are wel
come. Anyone interested can contact
Chandler either in the SGA office, at
home, or anywhere else you can find
this man on the go.
We Are The People!
by Richard Polun
The answer of course, is the fact
that most of the students couldn’t
care less about the upcoming elec
tion. It was raining Wednesday and
many people were too apathetic to
get out of bed.
It was embarrassing to those fif
teen people when the first thing that
Mr. Reece mentioned was in reference
to college apathy.
The unfortunate part of this whole
situation is the fact that most of us
I feel, see the need for change. Too
many of us however, are wholly ap
athetic to really do something about
altering the system. Whether the
means for that alteration is through
the political process, or other peace
organizations is not really the issue.
The issue is, will we get involved in
some means for change ? Many of us
may have started on October 31st,
and many on November 3rd. The
majority may not, but they will even
tually realize the system does not
change by itself, the people must
change it. We are the people.
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