2 The Highacres •
Collegian pin ions
Campus officials cope
with parking dilemma
Despite a shortage of approximately 316 parking
spaces on campus, administration and security of
ficials are handling the campus parking dilemma more
than adequately. The change over to the first-come,
first-serve parking system, much to the discontent of
some sophomores, has been a smooth and orderly tran
sition. Mr. Cerulla, Highacres Business Manager who
often oversees the direction of parking during the
busier days of the week, has been instrumental in help
ing to keep a serious parking problem under control.
Mike Ford, SGA president, acted sensibly and
reasonably to the change in parking policy, which
reached him by rumor before it did by University Park
consultation. Ford went to see Dr. David, Campus
Director, about the decision which had apparently
gone over Ford's head. Dr. David explained that the
decision was made at University Park and was out of
his hands. The one question that must be asked is why
wasn't SGA, which is supposed to be a consultative
body to University Park on campus issues, consulted
about these policy decisions? Also a question of con
cern is whether or not University Park took into con
sideration the welfare of the Highacres student body
when it decided to increase enrollment at Highacres,
despite the existence of an already critical parking
problem.
Although the parking situation, for the present,
seems under control, controlling the problem is not
solving it. The situation will gradually worsen during
winter term when the bad weather arrives. Even if the
student population drops by 100 students this winter, as
it did last year, we can still expect 1,013 students on
campus, more than any other winter term in previous
years. The obvious solution, of course, is a new parking
lot. Dr. David said University Park is working on the
plans for an additional lot, but he cannot say when such
a lot may be completed.
In the meantime, there are two temporary solu
tions increase the number of car pools, which now
only numbers eight and decrease enrollment, setting a
ceiling on the number of students that may be admitted
to Highacres. The former solution is being looked at
now by SGA. A proposed incentive to the students will
allow car poolers privileged parking in designated
areas at the top of the campus.
The latter solution combined with the above one
will significantly improve the parking problem on
campus. If University Park does not cut back admis
sions at Highacres or if additional lots are not built, the
campus parking crisis will persist.
From the Editor's Desk
As most of you know or should
know by now, each term every
student at Highacres is assigned
a mailbox. The mailboxes are on
the first floor of the Classroom
Building. Their main purpose is
to serve as a source of com
munication between individual
students, students and the ad
ministration, students and facul
ty, and students and clubs and
campus organizations. In addi
tion, it is one way of letting the
students know what's happening
on campus and what events are
taking place.
The mailboxes are a good com
munications system, but the
system will only work if you, the
students, make it work. Checking
your mailbox once each term or
even once each week is not suffi
cient. If someone leaves a
message on Monday and it is not
picked up until Friday, chances
are you've missed something im
portant.
It only takes a few minutes
each day you're on campus to
check your mailbox so please do
so! And remember not every
student gets mail every day, but
if you check your mailbox fre
quently, you will always receive
your messages on time.
Please keep in mind also that
mailbox numbers are changed at
the beginning of each term. Look
for your new number in
December and again in March.
The Executive Editors
and Comments
Weight room reserved for club members only
by Bill Shemin
Unlike last year, the weight
room, located on the lower floor
of the Physical Education
Building, is "off limits" to
anyone but weight club
members. The ten dollar initia
tion fee for entry into the club can
also be viewed as an obstruction.
Some students have questioned
the barring of this room, after all,
tuition paying students at
Highacres should not be denied
the opportunity to use campus
facilities. Why, then, have
students been deprived of
unrestricted admission into the
weight room ?
The answer for the closing can
be traced back to last year. The
weight room prior to the 1978-79
school year had been only open to
the weight club. It was decided to
open the room to the general stu
dent body two years ago. Last
year, however, the weight room
was victimized by vandalism,
disorder, and thefts.
Before closing, an alternative
attempt was made to curb the
misconduct. Students wishing to
use the weight room had to first
"sign out" the key, and thus, be
responsible for the actions in the
room. This procedure proved in
effective. The key was passed
from person to person without the
initial signature; also the door
was often left open.
Membership in the weight club,
which now stands at 30 to 35,
shows that there is a large
percentage of the student
populace that want to make use
of this room. The initiation fee of
ten dollars, however, to students
who are only interested in "pum
ping the iron" occasionally is a
high priced toll.
It is clearly an injustice when
the entire student body is depriv
ed of any opportunity to use a
campus facility because of the
Misdeeds of a small minority.
There seems to me to be no prac
tical solution to curb further acts
of vandalism and thefts which
could possibly lead to further
students' losses such as in the
weight room situation. Weight
clubs members cannot be
criticized for wanting to protect
what is, in fact, weight club pro
perty (all weights in the weight
room had originally been bought
by pervious weight clubs, not the
university). I, myself, feel
angered and cheated by acts of
vandalism and theft, as many
other students should also feel.
Vol. 16, No. 2
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Students fail to keep
up with news
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (CH)
Is Mike Wallace the son of Gov.
George Wallace? Does Bo Derek
play guard for the University of
Kentucky basketball team?
Apparently some Western Ken
tucky University students think
so, much to the dismay of their
English instructor, Robert
Wurster. He recently conducted a
survey, asking 60 of his students
to identify 50 people and
organizations of current
popularity. The average score
was 52 percent, leading Wurster
to conclude that his students
make little effort to keep up with
current events.
Wallace, a CBS newscaster,
was also identified as a car
dealer and actress Suzanne
Somers was described by one stu
dent as "an international
students' adviser."
The least known figure was
Bowling Green's mayor while
comedian Steve Martin lost a
close race for best known per
sonality to the Ayatollah Kho
meini, who was misidentified by
"only" six of the students.
HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
.Charlene M. Scheib
William H. Sheman
Kenneth J. Skuba
Christopher C. Taller
Kelly Yale
George P. Yanoshik, Jr.
Ron Mackunis
Lori Kunkel
Carol Meiser
Cindy Evancho
Eric Reidinger
Scott Hamm
Debbie Williams
Debbie Gorman
Michele Ritz
.Michael Lewis Brouse, Christine Labert,
Cheryl Shive, Chris Taylor, Scott Thomas
Brian Hagenbach, Bob Kiefer,
Tony Leshinskie, Christopher Nash,
Charles Orlofsky, Tom Topoleskie,
Catherine Vieira.
Jim Bagley, Tim Brown, Lisa Betley,
Chris Hausammann, Marie Klapac,
John V. Lewis, Finn Peterson, Carol
Pritulsky, Colleen Reese, Donna Rose
Roberts, Alita Rovito, Jay Serafin, Joe
Thear, Jerry Trently, Bill Warg, Pam
Weeks, Mary Beth Yemola, Enoch
Zelenski.
Oct. 30, 1980
Dr. Margaret Cote